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Memorable Monday

Jagmas — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:57:48 +0000

Monday will be a memorable day not only for all the well wishes on facebook but also for a minor (at the time major) scare we had with my mom. My mom came up to celebrate my BD at a birthday breakfast with my sister. During her preperation she inadvertantly took a knock on the back of her head before she left home. It was evident that something wasn’t quite right (slow speech, etc) and she suffered through a headache throughout the morning as well as being groggy. We’d hoped that it would have cleared up later in the day, but as the day went on she didn’t seem to be any better. Around 9:30 pm we convinced her that she should be checked out by a doctor. For one I was worried that she could have something more serious going on up to the possibility of going to sleep and not waking up. My sister and I met her at the hospital where she was given a catscan and it was determined that there was no internal bleeding and probably a mild concussion. She was told to stay home for the next 24-48 hours and be monitored throughout the day. I was just happy that it wasn’t anything major and that she was alright. So, definitely a memorable Monday in a few ways. Again, thank you for the well wishes throughout..

Facebooked

Jagmas — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:24:48 +0000

I joined Facebook. I dunno why, my sister kept telling me how great it was plus there were a lot of people I probably knew that had already joined. So I decided to check it out. I’m not sure what the fasination is just yet but it does seem to have flurries of activity all the time. We’ll see how it goes..

Lemons

Jagmas — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:18:22 +0000

I’m kinda lost at the moment trying to figure out what’s next. For now I’ve got a big bag of lemons and I don’t know if I’m up for lemonade. I mean, you have to go find sugar and some water. You can’t really have lemonade without ice and you really need a nice big glass cup to really enjoy it. Still, there’s nothing like a nice cool glass of lemonade to hit the spot sometimes huh?

So what’s next? First, let’s see what tommorow holds…

I Want To Believe

Jagmas — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:44:09 +0000

Walking into the office today my thoughts turned to the poster from the X-Files that basically outlined Mulder’s being on the show. I’m not sure why it came up or why it resonated with me at that moment but it did. I started thinking about all the things that I wanted to believe in then I got a little sad. I remembered back to all the things that were possible when I was a little kid, how everything still seemed within reach even when I got older.

I think we all have moments like this at some point and sometimes they hit home harder than at other times as well. For me, it was a momentary lapse that made me pause and think longer about it than maybe I should have….or maybe not.

Unboxing my Kindle

Jagmas — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:57:53 +0000

I got my Kindle today. It was sitting on the porch waiting for me to drive up and take it into the safety of it’s new home.

First thoughts that ran through my mind after opening the box was “Man, this is really nice packaging” because they packaged it to look like a book. Upon opening the “book” and looking at the contents inside I quickly went to work removing the Kindle itself. First thoughts I had once I had it in my hands was “Woah this is really freaking small” and yea, don’t go there. I’m still talking about the Kindle.

Anyway, I was immediately happy with my purchase within the first 5 minutes of unveiling. I hadn’t even plugged the damn thing in and I was grinning ear to ear. Contrary to some popular opinion (this means you Andrea) it looks very stylish up close and personal. It has some really cool features and even includes a screensaver that flashes different drawings while it waits for you to come back and read it.

I’ll let you know how its going later so for now check out my new Kindle as I unbox it!

Back at it

Jagmas — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:32:40 +0000

Man what a crappy weekend. Most of it was spent in bed both days as I was trying to catch up with all my sleeping issues from last week. I added some translation to the site but ran into a problem in getting all of them to work right. I currently have a help desk ticket open to check it out. In addition, I’ve turned off the twitter updates within the blog as they seemed to dominant it over the last few days. Kind of a lazy mans way to update. =)

I’m definitely looking forward to the game tonight. I have to pull for Kansas because I’m a fan of the Big 12 conference but I wouldn’t mind seeing Memphis win. They look really good. Other than that I’m gonna try to go to bed early (after the game) and get a workout in on Tuesday morning since I’m off on Friday!

Site upgraded!

Jagmas — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:06:28 +0000

It’s been a long weekend already but seeing that i’ve already made a number of changes to the site, it was only appropriate to finish it up with upgrading to the newly released WordPress 2.5.

The changes are many. First I tied in my little used Twitter account into the website and my new blackberry so that I can send up to the minute messages on what i’m doing to the site if I so choose. Next I added some social bookmarks for more visibility. I also added two or three additional pieces on the backend (stats, SEO package, etc) and finally I cleaned up some old stale links that no longer worked. Overall a very busy time for my little used blog. A few things aren’t working yet with the upgrade, most notably my quotes file. I hope to get it going again and add a few more additions. The main thing is to utilize it more which I often plan to do with high hopes. Anyway just glad that I got the upgrade done!

Prodigal son returns

Jagmas — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:14:30 +0000

So, I was staying up late just to see if USC would get beat by Fresno State. After an incredible run by Reggie Bush to make it 40-28 I know it ainâ€™t gonna happenâ€¦

This was the reason I had stayed up and decided to take a look around at a few sports game pages because I am anticipating the release of the new XBox 360 debuting on Tuesday. During my research I was checking out the really nice design of Calvert Games and even contemplated for 30 seconds how hard it would be to change over to that blogging system, which inevitably led me back here! What a long round about way of saying that Iâ€™d really like to change my design so I would be more motivated to blog. =)

Iâ€™ve even thought about getting a really nice camera so I can add pictures from time to time as well. Weâ€™ll see what the future holds as I start to research all the new additions to the PMachine engine. I hope theres so nice goodies!!

Happy Mothers Day Mom!

Jagmas — Mon, 09 May 2005 09:43:55 +0000

Well it looks like i’m relegated to posting only on major US holidays. Consider the trend currently ongoing as the last post was on Valentines Day. But I digress…

Mothers Day kind of sucked since I didnâ€™t get the chance to see mom or give her a card. The only saving grace was that I got to spend time with my parents on Friday choosing to spend the night and head back to Austin on Saturday. Still, I would have liked to have seen my mom today.

On an entirely different note I missed Enterprise on Friday but luckily one of my three tivos caught it. *laugh* There was a really good actress on the show named Johanna Watts and I found out that she actually lived in Austin for awhile doing local theatre etc. Itâ€™s really cool when you see good acting, it makes the really bad acting stand out. =) I shot her an email (ainâ€™t the net great!) telling her that I really liked her on the show etc. and made some suggestions about her site which included adding an area so she could blog and got a note back which I thought was really cool. Anyway i canâ€™t beleive I gave someone suggestions on blogging, considering my questionable blogging here. Anyway I may have to add some side links to actors/actresses I like. I do know that these colors on the site suck and if Iâ€™m gonna keep trying to use this as a personal diary something has to be done. But I digress. =)

Suffice it to say, cool chick (from what I could tell), really good actress. Makes me really want to check out the creative side of this town I live and work in and see if there are any other diamonds in the rough waiting to be discovered.

Musings..

Jagmas — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:59:55 +0000

Last night, in beween catching up on episodes of Deadwood and building a DVD bookshelf which I purchased at least 6 months ago and finally broke out to put together, I started thinkig about how all the undone, uncompleted tasks in and around my house had become a statement for what my life had become.

The sad (or funny, depending on our perspective) part was that I didnâ€™t care up until last night. I kep thinking about my room and how I needed to clean it up except I couldnâ€™t because it meant that I would actually have to start cleaning up everything else around the houseâ€¦ the kitchen, the living room the computer room, garage etc. All of them were areas of my life that I had made ecxuses for not doing something about.

Hopefully, I can continue to move forward, one small project at a time until everything is cleaned up or fixed and in the spot its supposed to be. I guess only time will tellâ€¦