The Celebration

Today we had the Celebration of Lorraine’s Life. The food was prepared by Marie and Julie. A feast for sure. The guests numbered 50, just as we thought. I cleaned the yard and snapped a few pics before the guests arrived. Notably, Lorraine’s sister, Peachie, her son Steve from Seattle, and her daughter Vicki from Arizona were here. A lot of people from the Kitsap County Courthouse were in attendance. And lots of friends. I saw some I haven’t seen for decades. All in all a good night considering.

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Outdoors, Personal : Comments (0) : posted Jul 1st, 2008 by blaster

The Eagles Part 1

Here in Bremerton, we now have an abundance of resident Bald Eagles. This one frequents the Port Washington Narrows. I tool this pic at low tide, coming back from a haircut. This one is usually down on the waters edge, waiting for a nice juicy fish to happen by. The seagulls and crows are no match for the magnificent beast.

Personal : Comments (0) : posted Jul 1st, 2008 by blaster

more plugins

I have installed some plugins recommended by the Lockergnome himself Chris Pirillo.

Also needed for the WP Touch iPhone Theme are

The Admin Drop Down Menu combined with the latest Admin Management Xtended pluins make navigating the admin area of wordpress a joy instead of the click fest wordpress users have been forced to attend. We can now edit tags and categories from the miss named post or page “manage” page. Now that wordpress has the tags on a post or page basis, I need to go ALL the way back and tag ALL of the previous posts.

HOORAY!!!

General, Personal : Comments (0) : posted Jun 14th, 2008 by blaster

plugins update

I have the latest versions of the following plugins installed and working in WordPress 2.5.1:

The following are a fail:

Google Analytics for WordPress, doesn’t show the code. Probably theme related.
Anarchy Media Player (AMP), kills the “kitchen sink” button and it’s buttons don’t show in the Visual Editor.

No workie no linkie. That is all.

General, News : Comments (0) : posted Jun 6th, 2008 by blaster

The Brothers

The Olympic Mountains are formed on the Olympic Peninsula in Western Washington by the Cascadia Subduction Zone. On a clear day they dominate the western view from Seattle. Some days, like this one you can just reach out and touch them. They are all that stand between the Pacific Ocean storms and the Pugetropolis.

This picture was taken from a park on the Port Washington Narrows off of Tracyton Beach Road in East Bremerton.

Outdoors, Personal : Comments (0) : posted Jun 3rd, 2008 by blaster

Computex 2008

I’ve volunteered to cover AMD’s presense at Computex 2008 on behalf of the fine people over at Lockergnome.com. I will be interviewing the AMD spokesperson(s) over the next few days. Whenever we both have time.

I’ll be taking the exam on June 4 from 10:30am to 3:00pm pdt down in Puyallup.

News, Personal : Comments (0) : posted Jun 3rd, 2008 by blaster

put yourself first

This is perhaps the best thing anyone can do to increase their sense of wellbeing and to lift the spirit. I has become clear to me in the last month or so that people that don’t do this are stressed beyond belief. Stress causes horrible weight gain, sickness, and overall dysfunction in the family unit.

Is it selfish to put one’s self first? Absolutely not.

Selfishness is keeping your entire self to yourself and not ever giving of your time to anyone. This occurs especially with people with children that do everything for their children and nothing for themselves. It’s only natural to want to do everything for the children, but to sacrifice yourself doesn’t do anyone any good. And eventually the family unit will suffer.

1) Get your spiritual house in order, whatever that may be.

2) Be one with your family, resolve any differences with the ones you love or leave them behind. This is perhaps the hardest choice many have to make. It doesn’t do any good to have stress in the family unit as it only brings everybody down.

3) Do what you love to make money. Don’t keep working at a job that stresses you out. As this will only make everyone around you stressed. It takes courage to move. If you can’t move into a job, then consider a business. Find something that’s fun that you can do and eventually the dollars will come.

Personal : Comments (0) : posted Jun 2nd, 2008 by blaster

new theme, tags, and broken urls

With the release of wordpress 2.5.x, I needed to update my theme. As most of you can see, it has been. It’s the Techmania Theme from Themelab designed by Styleshout. I’ve made some adjustments to it, mainly changing from Strict to Transitional to validate the code from the Coppermine plugin. I might get to modifying the plugin, but not today. I also made some changes to the fonts and font colors to suit my tastes. The Kontera ads seem to be performing well and Adsense is still in the stages of parsing my content for relative relevant ads. Everyone had to verify their Adsense accounts which I did today.

I also noticed that I have to tag the entries that weren’t tagged in the previous version of wp, and I have some broken links to pictures in some earlier posts.

Blogs, Personal : Comments (0) : posted Jun 1st, 2008 by blaster

Teh Pheasant…

I’ve been trying to get an up close and personal photo of the resident male pheasant.

This is the best so far. He’s really skittish, I can hardly open the door without him running off.

Outdoors, Personal : Comments (0) : posted May 5th, 2008 by blaster

Peddling my ass around town…

A couple of weeks ago I started riding my bicycle daily for the first time in 17 years. At the advanced age of 48, I felt I needed to start working out again. My goal is to drop 30 pounds by the end of August. That’s two pounds a week. And with mom’s healthy cooking, that shouldn’t be too hard. Mom has dropped seven pounds in the last month. Hooray!!! The cardio workout of the bike has been rough to say the least. I will start some strength training in another week, as I need my cardio strengthened first so I can get the best effect of the strength training.

Of course the terrain around here is typical of Western Washington, up hill both ways, literally.

I am nearly at the point where I can keep riding without taking a breather on the hills. And there are hills everywhere. This particular neighborhood has concrete paving which is old and broken. This makes riding a bit of a challenge. Which is why I ride a mountain bike in the city. Twenty-one speeds of peddling goodness makes it easy to go up the hills. Well mostly.

I purchase this Peugot Hurricane Creek model in 1990 for $450 at the Alki Bike shop in Seattle. I needed some transportation at the time because I had just wrecked my 1976 280Z when a drunk driver pulled out in front of me. This was before the advent of suspension on mountain bikes. Suspension would be very nice around here to handle broken concrete.

Personal : Comments (0) : posted May 5th, 2008 by blaster

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