This is my moms house.

Well... I am not sure how to start this entry. First off, I know it's been a while. Alot has happened. We went to Disney with Sawyer, had a blast. The Birthdays of Summer have passed by. We have been super busy at work. My turtle laid an egg!! {insert sound of record scratching here}

If you remember in a previous post. My wife and I took our turtle to the vet and the doc says, "He is going through puberty." The only thing he got right was the puberty part, he is a she. Really freaked me out, expecting her to be a him, when I saw the eggs in her tank. She has been out of control lately and this explains it.

I guess we will have to come up with a girls name. Something like Andy Evans would work.

Gone to Disney World to see, as Sawyer calls him, Icky. See you next week.

Went to Memphis this past weekend. Had a lot of fun and learned a lot about the true roots of rock, blues and soul. Took the corridor x from Birmingham to Memphis. It was a pretty quick drive, only took about 3 hours. We went to The Museum of Rock and Soul, this was pretty cool. I didn't know as much about the roots of rock and the blues as I thought. We also went to The Memphis Recording Studio/Sun Records. Now this was really cool. To stand in the same room where many legends and countless others recorded history, wow. Who knew the end result would be Marilyn Manson, just kidding. Angela and I went on this trip for our anniversary. We had a great time, even learned not ride a River Boat went the temperature is around 50 and the wind is whipping about. We froze our asses off.

On our way back I had yet another episode of "Stupid People That Work at McDonald's." I first tried to order 2 double cheeseburger combos and the girl couldn't even take my order right. When I got my food I only got one fry, and would get the other one when they were done cooking. I sat down and I had a triple hamburger. I went back, told them I had ordered a double cheeseburger, and asked the cooks to make me a double hamburger. As if I didn't even f%#$in just tell them double cheeseburger. So when they gave me the double hamburger, for the 6th time I said double cheeseburger. The red-neck backwards ass assistant manager said no problem we can fix it and had them add ONE slice of cheese. By this time I was up to my head is pure stoooopidity and a cold cheeseburger. WTF!!!! BTW I never got the second fry. Now as my wife pointed out, I just can not win with middle of no where McDonald's. So from now on, no more middle of nowhere red-neck McDonald's for me. Well unless Sawyer absolutely has too.

WTF!!

I have been working on this project for a little while. I thought I would be genius and add a little web 2.0 modal window to the web application. It was working great. Then I tested it in IE6. Believe it or not, it looked good as well. I went to scroll the form and the freakin' select menus dissapear.

@#$*$% ^@#$%^ $@@#$@# $*%^ @#$^%^%^!!!!

As a web developer I hate having to deal with browser issues. IE6 will soon fade out and our days will be better. Until then just beat your head against the desk or monitor, what ever suits you and move on.

This is f---in funny, if you have never seen this before, your welcome.

I have become the recent joke in the office. Not sure why, I guess they don't get it. I have this pet turtle named Yoda. Yes, I am a Star Wars nerd, but more on that later. Now Yoda has always been cool, he just hangs out, eats and poops, ahhhh, the good life. Well anyways, he turns orange, almost over night. I do not know what to do here. I looked online for "My turtle turned orange" and there were no results that helped me. Then I had to go to New York and when I got back he was even worse, almost red. Angela then called and took him too the vet. The vet said that he is going through puberty. Yes I did say the last sentence correctly. He (btw we did not know it was a boy, good call Angela!) is going through puberty. I typed puberty again, come on Google!! They turn colors to attract the opposite sex. He has none. =( Poor Yoda.

Here is where it gets interesting. I had to tell my boss that, "My turtle turned orange and I am not sure if he is sickly" and "I needed to leave early because I was going to the vet." Well as it adds up, the story is now: I left work early, to go with my wife, while Sawyer hangs out with a babysitter, and take my turtle the vet, and it was only puberty. I was also asked when I was going to give him, "The Talk." And now, for your viewing pleasure, here are some pictures of Yoda. Enjoy.

Yoda, December 2005

Yoda, March 2008

Ever since Bellsouth has slowly become AT&T my dsl is constantly acting up. It works one minute and not the next. I would switch to cable but Charter is another one I do not want to deal with any more than I already am. I could always, oh wait there is nothing else more reasonable to do except connect my cell phone to my laptop. Even though I seem to be complaining, this works fairly well. It has saved my ass a few times. Sprint has a pretty good data network. Better than using the old-school dial-up connection any day. Wonder how long before this is truly common? The cell phone could replace the home phone and internet connectivity. Sounds good to me.