finally, some action on the maribeth (our old house) house!

last week we got an offer that we bounced around all week and then decided it was too low and we were going to reject it.

then another came in this past monday that was better and we accepted the offer. the closing is set for next friday, dec. 28. talk about fast, wow.

so we are just keeping our fingers crossed that everything goes well and this thing closes ok.

yippie!

wow, mike huckabee is now tied with rudy guliani in nationwide polls!

i wonder if this was a direct result of my $10 contribution (my 2nd contribution)?

so if you have not checked out mike huckabee, please do so (click the link on my site).

oh, we all love to hate the cable company.

yup, time warner strikes again. a few weeks ago it rained and our internet service went "bye bye" until it had dried up again. came back. rained and "bye bye" again.

i spent 30 minutes on the phone (most of it waiting to get someone) with time warner. the only diagnostics they could do on the phone was "turn the modem and the router off, wait 2 minutes and plug everything back in". this is diagnostics?

needless to say, this solved nothing. so we scheduled for a guy (yes, the cable guy) to come out to see what is wrong.

he came, made us switch out a custom box my electrician had hooked up (cost us over $100 to get this box and have him install it) for some cheap time warner splitter. now, there is now way my box was causing any of this.

well, today it rained again and sure enough, time warner cable internet flaked out again. interestingly enough, this time, it came back after the rain stopped (without waiting for the yard to dry). an hour later it rained again and the time warner cable went out again during the rain. the tv works, but the cable internet does not.

infuriating!

seems like they need to check the outside lines, not the lines inside the house. idiots.

This is just a test post to see how it works. listen

this is a service where you call a number (from my cell) and you can post directly from the phone. you can also send an email or a text message from the phone as well. it worked perfectly!

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small update on my use with leopard on the mac os.

everything is working just fine. i only lost a few 3rd party small apps that i was not using anyways. the biggest casualty has been the loss of function of the photo booth software. it is an apple application that uses the built-in camera on the iMac to take odd photos you can distort like in the post new convert to skype.

i just need to find a copy to re-install and that should work again soon. otherwise, leopard is great!

oh yeah, i almost forgot...happy pearl harbor day!