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I just thought I should blog since Michael Jackson died.

So, today we got up at the crack of noon, and after breakfast decided to change the cabin air filter on bug. Al did most of it as I randomly took pictures, but couldn’t figure out how to get it out. So while he went to research it, I bent it and took it out. Then put the new one in the same way. I’m not sure he likes my methods of car repair. I also fixed the ignition yesterday. It wasn’t registering when the key was taken out, the radio would still be on. I poked it and now it works.

Then we went on a 7 hour test drive / adventure. We ended up going to the king’s mountain revolutionary battlesite park thing (Battle), on a bunch of backroads, and went through Grover and Bessemer city. We ended up going to a farm in Dallas (Farm) and picked 2 gallons of strawberries. I was thinking about making jam with them, and al has wanted to can his soup he makes, so we went and got canning stuff.

Pictures!

BTW, that windows 7 being free for a year for everyone is bullshit. My laptop came with vista, so either after a year I pay or I’m fucked. Fuck you bill gates. I’ll prolly stay with vista because change is the devil.

Random awsome video.

~Jenny

And another update... busy day at work yesterday being back from vacation and all. Nonstop..... then up much of the night. Finally got to sleep around 2am, then woken back up at 3. Back to sleep around 3:15. But I slept in.... got to work today around 11:30. Today was slightly less insane. Hooray! Good thing is that while I was working last night, I managed to get my wifi card working in Ubuntu 9.04. Hooray again!

I'm downloading Windows 7 RC now to install on my desktop PC. I'm already running the Windows 7 Beta, but unfortunately, I have to uninstall and reinstall. I can't just upgrade. It's free for a year for anyone who wants to "test".

I also saw that there's a free Linux Fest thing going on in June here in SC. It's about 2 hours away, in Clemson. I'm thinking about going just to see what it's like. Not sure though...

Vacation's over, gotta get some sleep. Back to work tomorrow, as much as I don't want it. I'm tired though, so I'd better go. I just thought I'd blog again on here.

I spent the day installing Ubuntu 9.04 on my Laptop, and then messing with the wifi card. It worked until I rebooted. I thought it was an update that might've messed it up, but apparently not because I've reinstalled countless times. It detects the card, but doesn't detect any wifi networks. Crazy stuff... I'll mess with it more tomorrow.

I've also begun work on my Twitter gadget for this Jaws CMS. I have basic functionality working, which probably would've been pretty easy for anyone else, but it took me a couple of hours to figure out how these files work with each other. It's kind of interesting.

Anyway, good night!

So, I spent some of my vacation creating a new sixy.com using the Jaws CMS. It's pretty neat, and provides a nice backend to update the site with. I'd like to be able to import my blog from blogger into this blogger, but that functionality doesn't exist (yet?). I would also like to integrate Picasa instead of using the built in photo gallery gadget, but that doesn't exist either. Perhaps I'll take that on as a project... who knows. Until I can import my old one, you can access the old blog here.

While on vacation, I went to Iowa (and Nebraska) to visit Jenny's family. We had a lot of fun, and I even remembered to take some pictures (mostly at the zoo). At one point, I tried to take pictures but I'd forgotten my memory card in my laptop at the hotel. D'oh. Jenny's sister is getting married in June, so we went out to visit so that Jenny could attend the bridal shower and I could meet everyone. They were all really nice, despite what I'd been warned. Maybe they were on good behavior. *shrug* It rained just about every day we were there, and it was quite cold, but the place was very pretty. It had more hills than I'd expected, and actually reminded me of West Virginia.

On a side note, on the airplane home, I was sitting next to someone reading PCWorld. I swear, I wasn't completely reading over his shoulder, but on one of the pages I saw an article about my Keyfinder software. It was a question about whether someone could use it to steal their key.

We're back home now... it's almost Sunday, and my vacation is coming to an end, unfortunately. We did go to the gym today since we couldn't all week.

Oh, and here's a link to the new RSS Feed for your favorite reader.