Field Trip over

Emma’s field trip to the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is over. The BMA was great, especially the paintings by Matisse and a from the Conecollection. The BSO was fun too, except for the kid kicking Robyn and my seats, and talking during the Hansel and Gretel Opera presentation. I’ll post post photos later here and facebook.

Field Trip to BSO & Baltimore Museum of Art

The BMA was pretty neat, many wonderful paintings ans sculptures. We are now going to the see the BSO.

Moving Day

I’m moving my personal blog to Word Press after google blocked my Studebaker Avanti Restoration blog as a spammer blog.

Updates

Well this week has been a wash, one co-worker is off for the birth of his third child, my supervisor has been in Nashville for most of the week for meetings, and that left me in charge for this whole week. It hasn’t been bad, just busy, with th administration part, traveling to Baltimore Police Department, Headquarters to check network connections, for one of the groups I support, that will be doing a temporary move for about a month or so.

Now for home, my parents went to Nashville for my cousin’s wedding Robyn and I were trying to go, but money was tight. My cousin’s soon to be wife is named Robin, so I really wanted Robyn Strauss to meet the new Robun Strauss. With that said I have to take care of my parents dog till late saturday. Also, Robyn is going to Massachuetts this weekend for her uncle’s memorial service. So far I haven’t even started my homework for college yet. It’s going to be a long weekend.

The rest of you have fun!!!

New Blog

My wife will kill me later on this one, but I started a blog for my future Studebaker Avanti restoration. Click here.

Twitter

I have started a Twitter account going to try it out to see if I like it better than Facebook.

Books and Movies 1

Books

The last great book I bought and read was John Adams, by David McCullough. It was an impulse buy since I was watching the HBO Mini Series, based on the book starring Paul Giamatti. After Reading the book and when I caught up to the mini series, I stopped watching the mini series after I noticed that it was condensed and ended up not following the book to a point.
Now, I purchased a new book that I wanted to read, when it was released in England last fall. On the Edge, My Story. By Richard Hammond of Top Gear, it’s an autobiography of sorts, but has a story of him rebuilding his life and world after an accident in a Jet Powered Dragster during a taping of a segment for Top Gear. Here is a link to Amazon UK, that has a video that he did about the book. Check it out http://www.amazon.co.uk/Edge-Richard-Hammond/dp/0297853279/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221354692&sr=8-2.

Movies

I haven’t been to the movies since the end of May when Robyn and I saw Iron Man, a great movie that is on my buy list for Sept. 30th. I have watch a few DVDs my current viewing is Barbie and the Diamond Castle, because it is on all of the time due to Molly loves it. Next is Batman: Gotham Knight, the animated DVD by prominent Anime directors. Batman is voiced by Kevin Conroy who did the voice of Batman in Batman the Animated Series, Justice League, and Bruce Wayne in Batman Beyond. It was visually stunning DVD, a must buy, since it happens right before Dark Knight.
Stargate Continuum was another great DVD, a must for fans of Stargate SG-1. Last is The Forbidden Kingdom, starring Jet Li and Jackie Chan, this was a great movie, I wished I saw in theaters back in April, but I waited for the DVD release this past week. The action scenes and cinematography was superbly done, and the old style wire tricks were great to see, like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

Saturday Night and stuck home

It’s Saturday night and I’m stuck home with the baby, who is sleeping at the moment. I have entered my class work for next week for my Systems Analysis and Design class. Tomorrow I’ll start Chapter 3′s classwork, and finish posting to the 1st week’s conference. The wife went to a dessert party over at her aunt’s house and took Emma and Molly, so I only had one kid to worry about. Which was nice of her.

I’m just about done installing Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows XP pro, in Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, so I can now run multiple operating systems virtually on my computer. Installing Linux in Microsoft’s Virtual PC is a pain but Virtual PC 2007, SP1 made it a little easier, but these two websites made it easier to install Ubuntu 8.04 as a virtual PC. http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/ and http://blogs.technet.com/seanearp/archive/2008/05/13/installing-ubuntu-8-04-hardy-heron-in-virtual-pc-2007.aspx.

Also, I’m messing around with Sysinternal’s new application called Desktops, which allows a window user to have up to 4 desktop running, like Gnome/KDE for Linux users, I’m coping files and working on my virtualised computers on one desktop, and typing this in another desktop. All I need to do is press Alt 1 through 4 to switch between them. Pretty neat I do say myself, check it out here, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc817881.aspx.

Rough couple of days

As the title suggests work has been a bear since yesterday aorund 11:00am, when my phone system at work went down again, and still acting up throughout today. that is the least of my worries, for most of the day I have been working at the Office of National Drug Control Policy, part of the Executive Office of the President, fixing and finishing computer issue that one of my old co-workers never completed, and told my supervisor and me that he completed the work orders. I’m basically done there, I just need to extend a network drop, and check a patch cable in the wiring closet.

As for school work, I’m trying to stay at least 2 weeks ahead and I’m starting to fall behind in submitting next weeks classwork. I really need to get this done due to my second class starts in 2 weeks, and it look like that class will be a bear.

The Start of School

Ah school has started, and Emma is now in the third grade, and Molly starts Pre-K. All this means is my wife gets a break from 2 kids three days a week, and I have to start up and take college classes again, already a week ahead in my Systems Analysis and Design class.

My Skins blew their season opener, with a loss to the Giants, but the Ravens won theirs so that balances things out. I haven’t had a chance to look at the World Cup Qualifiers from the weekend yet to check England, Germany, and USA scores, but I will later.

Today we had a birthday party for the daughter of one of our family friends, so that ate up most of the day besides going to BJ’s and Freshworld, in Pasadena.

Last bit of news is that I picked up Mario Kart Wii during Tropical Storm Hanna, and I love the game.