Corey on the Linux Party Train

coreyd writes “hey, i am just saying hi from my newly installed Red Hat Linux 8.0, boo ya.

just thought i would say, its time for mike to set me up with a shell account.

:p”

Um, Core, I already gave ya a user/pw… amemba?

WELCOME TO LINUX, PLEASE FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS
AND KEEP YOUR HANDS INSIDE THE VEHICLE AT ALL TIMES.

Mamma Mia!

With Grammie visiting for the weekend, Andrea and I headed over to Charlotte on Saturday to see Mamma Mia, a musical jammed with two dozen Abba tunes. Rockin campy wild hilarious cheesy rowdy fun! We’re still not quite sure how they pulled it off, but they overlapped a great comedy with nonstop disco jams (yeah baby) and actually made it all come together. We were all jumping out of our seats by the end. To cap it off, we went to “the best vegetarian restaurant in Charlotte”, as voted by readers of Creative Loafing (flashback!), called Kelly’s Kitchen. Yum…

Dreamin’…

Got up this morning with Reiley and we went downstairs to have breakfast. While we were eating our Cheerios, I just happened to ask her if she had any dreams, expecting her to say no. She looked up at me with a crooked smile and emphatically said “Yes!” And it was a hilarious one. She was in the snow, and there were snow worms chasing her. She said they weren’t too big, and reminded her of icicles. She was outside and it was snowing, and saw something white with spots that was shaped like a jaguar. She saw giraffes as well. She ate some snow, “but it was WARM!” Then it seemed like she was inside, on a couch, and the snow worms were still following her, jumping onto a couch pillow she held. She said she wasn’t that scared of them, they couldn’t bite her, they just kept FOLLOWING her!

She asked me if I had had a dream. The only bit I could remember was Wren and Reiley playing on a dirty beach, and trying to get a bunch of people organized to get to the same place in three different cars, but no one was communicating so I knew we’d all get lost.

We concluded that brains sure get all kooky while you are sleeping. :P

Mah new computer!!!!!!

coreyd writes…

“guess what? this is the Mikes nephew, who goes by corey d.

and he just got his new computer!! yay. hooray for him.(isnt talking in 3rd person fun?)

anyways. it cost just under 700 bucks. want the specs? o so you dont, well you will get them anyway.

amd athlon xp 2000
512mb pc2700 ram(ddr of course)
gforce 4 ti 4200 128mb ddr, golden sample.
some case.
Gigabyte mobo with raid, onboard sound and i think network card maybe,its just a good mobo.
and 1 80 gig hd, 7200rpm. Probably getting a second here very shortly.

and i think thats all, i already had the cd drives and that stuff.

corey d”

Why is everyone so hostile?

The Ladies
OK, I was trying to be my usual goofball self but how could I predict such a severe backlash?! Top comments…

  • Andrea started the day off in the right direction with “By the way, that looks stuoooOOpid.”
  • Abhi only had two words for me all day: “French Painter!”
  • Chau was the first (but not last) to say “You missed a spot” and “Looks like you’ve got something on yer chin you forgot to wipe off…”
  • Mehdi was the most open-minded – “Looks playful, have fun with it!”
  • Then Mark grounded me again with “That’s f***ckin’ weird, dude”
  • Prashanth: “You look like Charlie Chaplin”
  • After I told Ginnie Beth what Andrea said, she immediately followed with “I agree with your wife” – thanks, GB – but then added “but it’s OK to look stupid”… very politic…
  • Zac: “I can’t even look at him”
  • William: “You and Doug will have to get together, you’re lookalikes!” Very funny William…
  • and the grand finale goes to Jason – “What the hell’s that?? Holy sh** you look like some old guy… What is that crap? You look really dumb.” followed shortly thereafter with “What’s up, Tom Selleck? You look like a 70’s porn star.”

    Don’t feel bad for me, though, I’m already plotting my revenge…

    Read on…

  • Annual ABB King’s Dominion Thingee!

    The family had a great time at King’s Dominion last weekend. The best part of the park is that there is a huge amount of stuff targeted towards younger kids. The Taxi rollercoaster is the perfect coaster to get kids started – so we went on it half a dozen times! There were dozens of other rides, too, that were just right for the kids. And the water park provided the perfect cooldown.

    At one point, we ventured out of Kidsville, as Reiley bravely agreed to try the log flume. She was quite scared as it approached the final peak… and then the ride broke down! She was so relieved. As a courtesy they gave us an “exit pass” that allows you to skip the line on a ride of your choice. So I got to use it on the “Volcano”, 30 seconds (if that!) of pure adrenaline surge. We finally made it home after midnight, exhausted!