Category: Personal

For some reason I am getting back into hockey.  I am not really sure why, i have never been much of a sports fan.  I mean, I like going to sporting events but was never what you would call a die hard fan, except for hockey, and specifically the Detroit Red Wings.

I am, after all, from Michigan and being a fan of the Wings is pretty much required by law.  But ever since moving to California I lost touch.  This year I have started to follow the scores and the playoffs and especially the Ducks/Wings series.  Tonight I watched my first game on TV in years and wow it was cool.  Great overtime win by the Wings and I am looking forward to Sunday’s game.

Well today is our first day on the big island of Hawaii.  It is beautiful here.  I am glad it is just Jenn and I but I do miss the kids already.

The resort is great, you can see the ocean from our room and the mountain or volcano lol.  We are going to check that out while we are here.  Not sure what else is on the schedule, we are going to figure that out at breakfast.  There is tons to do.  The volcano, the Mona loa nut facility, swimming with dolphins and
turtles, and of course food 🙂

Well it has been a great few months.  I finished school.  I will walk in April finally getting my bachelors degree in business.  It has been a great time but I am glad it is over.  Next year I will be going back to get my Masters, but until then I am taking a break.

I have been spending some time with my baby girl which has been great.  She is truly the most wonderful thing I have ever done.

I am also working on my home network and learning some coding in the process.  It has been really fun but also a challenge.  I want to clean up the server and get all my xbmc installations updated.  I also got a new tablet.  I got the Nexus 10 and am so glad I did.  This thing is awesome.  Super fast, awesome screen, and a sweet os.  I love android.

Well I am going to post some new movie reviews soon.  Bye for now

This past weekend we went camping in Julian.  My Mogher-in-law had made all the reservations and taken the kids out earlier in the day.  Now it is important to note that it is November, and this particular weekend pouring rain.  We did have “cabins” and I mean that in the loosest sense of the word.  The cabins are one room with 6 bunk beds and luckily a fireplace.  We were at least warm inside.  The cabins were right outside the playground which was grezt for the kids.  It really was a great time…  except sleeping with a 3 year old.  Now I love my daughter.  She is the light of my life. But man she did not sleep well.  She is still a little to young, but it was good to e pose her to the experiance.  She needs to learn to be comfortable in her surroundings. 

So I took the plunge today and upgraded to Windows 8.  Normally i wait on something like this but given the current price of only $39.00, I decided I would give it a shot.

I must say the installation was super easy and only took about 30 minutes.  getting to know the new interface is also not as difficult as you might think as long as you remember that the idea is to make windows a seamless transition between multiple devices.  Microsoft is taking the phone+tablet+PC idea and running with it.

I was worried that i would not like the tiles, but actually I do.  They are……  cleaner then Android widgets and much more interesting then iOS icons.  I love Android widgets but you have to admit there is very little uniformity and they can make a very messy screen.  Windows 8 start page is much cleaner but still give you the updates that a widget does.

The start screen is obviously made for a tablet but works very well on a laptop too.  The one issue that i have is that i cannot figure out how launch programs that are not on the start screen lol.  but I am sure I will figure it out.

Sorry……….that is not really true, although it is my first post on WordPress, and on my own blog.  I am not sure what I will end up doing here, but I think for now it will be a place for me to speak my mind and record my life events.  Most will probably find it pretty boring……but who cares it is my life.

So here is a really cute picture of my daughter Julianne.  We just had her birthday party this last Saturday.  It was a pretty big party for my wife Jennifer, and also my step-daughter Brianne.  We also rolled in Halloween too.

I dressed up as Mickey and Jenn and Julianne had matching outfits.  It was lots of fun.