well i have spent some time deleting the oldest of my image archive files in order to save some space. it was kinda sad for me actually, to have to remove some of these old pics. i still have them of course, you just can't get there from here. i am sorta forced to create a new baseline, as it were, and start over from an earlier date which was unavoidable unfortunately. so..we'll pretend i started documenting the image gallery in the winter of 2000, which isn't too bad i guess.
another thing which i found extremely irritating, is i wanted to do some more things but had to quite for now, due to "exessive bandwidth consumption", which means i get hit with charged time even when i'm only updating my site. you see, i am only given a small anount of daily bandwidth (for free) which is why you may sometimes see the site temporarily inaccessible. in fact this post probably won't appear til several hours after i have posted it, which is a crock. you can't get the same amount of things for free on the internet, that you once could. i guess it's only going to get worse.
on other subjects, thanksgiving went well. it was good to see my sister's family from montana, eat a lot, watch some football, and generally kick back and chill.
the due date for the baby, which has been tentatively dubbed "baby 99%", which to explain is: the probability of it being a boy, is drawing ever near. there are some signs which may indicate that the due date may be a bit of a stretch and that the actual date may be sooner. but then again...one obviously cannot control such things. any news will no doubt be reported here, as soon as it is know.
for now, have an enjoyable weekend.

(excerpts from Adam Sandler's The Thanksgiving Song)

Love to eat turkey
'Cause it's good
Love to eat turkey
Like a good boy should

'Cause it's turkey to eat
So good...

Turkey for me
Turkey for you
Let's eat the turkey
In my big brown shoe

Love to eat the turkey
At the table
I once saw a movie
With Betty Grable

Eat that turkey
All night long
Fifty million Elvis fans
Can't be wrong

Turkey lurkey doo and
Turkey lurkey dap
I eat that turkey
Then I take a nap

Thanksgiving is a special night
Jimmy Walker used to say Dynomite
That's right
Turkey with gravy and cranberry
Can't believe the Mets traded Darryl Strawberry

Turkey and sweet potato pie
Sammy Davis Jr.
Only had one eye
Turkey for the girls and
Turkey for the boys
My favorite kind of pants
Are corduroys

Gobble gobble goo and
Gobble gobble gickel
I wish turkey
Only cost a nickel
Oh I love turkey on Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

wow, has it been a week already? had a couple of days off last week, in preperation of working all week this week (except for thanksgiving day itself, which i do have off).
took the kids to camp snoopy at the MOA. went to the "bose" store there and sat in a simulated living room, complete with leather loungers, digital flat display hi def tv, and bose sound system. had a brief glimpse of how the "well to do" must watch the evening news. got to scratch a very small number of christmas shopping items off the list, but i don't prefer to christmas shop there anyway.
my fantasy football team had a rare victory this weekend to improve to 3-8 overall. since winning any post season $$$ is mathematically impossible, my new role is that of a "spoiler", which is to attempt to knock as many teams out of playoff contention as possible.
i will attempt to "clean up" this site later in the week. i have decided that due to space limitations some changes must be made, and soon. i'm going to remove the oldest of images from this site and rename the archive folders and basically start over from a predetermined spot. the goal is to continue to add newer images to this site, as needed, say, when the new baby comes, and not really change the makeup or structure of this site overall. that's my intent as soon as time permits, hopefully friday? in the meantime, have a nice week!

well, as promised, i finally made the big jump to windows xp on my home pc. it took several hours to complete considereing i had to burn allof my old data to cd-r, format the drive, load xp, and then fidget with some of my devices to get them to work, reload all of my software, but it is 99% done. i am mostly satisfied with my results. no real major show-stoppers. my dvd rom drive does not play dvd's right now but i think i need to install another decoder. also my cd-burning software is not compatible with xp, but other than that i'm happy. my digital camera, printer, scanner, and mp3 player have all gotten along with xp fine. i also need to load a diffrent anti-virus software so i hope i don't contract any virus's in the meantime! i'm not too worried. all of the kids games seem to work too...i was afraid i'd have to tell them they couldn't play their games anymore because daddy had to upgrade to a better OS. i'm sure they would have understood? i copied all my IE favorites but forgot to backup all my cookies (doh!) but that's ok. time will tell, but so far i'm glad i did it. that's all folks, more later.
sorry mom, another "boring" post. hope you feel better! :-)

guess it's time i posted here again. it's been about a week now. fortunately or not, depending on your point of view, there's nothing too newsworthy to report. there's a lot going on in general and that will remain the case throughout the end of the year. i have a couple of days scheduled off next week, then thanksgiving day the week after that, and then the entire week of christmas off. suffice it to say, much to do in little time.
i ordered a 128 mb dimm for the home pc, still waiting on that. once it comes and i've had a chance to install, i'm gonna move forward with my plans to go xp at home.
6 shopping weeks 'til christmas! i finally started 'net shopping yesterday.
more later...

well, after some strong hints from someone very close to me, i decided to get busy and post the latest and greatest ultra sound pics.it's not that i didn't want to post them sooner, it was a time thing. what could be more important than posting pre-birth pictures of your 99% son you may ask? that's why i'm staying up late on a friday night to get it done. hope you enjoy. you may have to squint to make him out, but trust me it's him.

tech-talk:
with all this xp training i'm seriously considering installing it on the home pc (again). problem is, i have to make sure i'm well prepared ahead of time and there's a lot of work involved in that. i want to create a powerquest image of my current machine in case the unthinkable were to happen, download and burn to cd all of the xp complient drivers i would need for all my devices, and then probably have to work out any kinks with it once it's done. i'm also thinking of getting another 128 mb dimm to max me out at 384 mb of ram. there's no reason xp wouldn't run on a 700 mhz machine with 384 mb of ram and a 30 gig hard drive. hp won't gurantee it'll work since it was never "tested" on xp but i can't imagine i'd get catastrophic results. the worst thing that would happen is i'd be left with some incompatible driver issues. i think it's worth the risk, but it'll take some time to get there.
only 2 more days of class left!

it's been a busy and exhausting week, and it's only tuesday. i'm spending the first part of my days in windows xp training (8-12) & then back to my real job after that. course by the time i get back to work, i have 8 hours of work to do in half that time. however, we're managing the best we can.
today, november 5th, is election day and i exercised my constitutional right promptly at 7am, when the polls opened. i did NOT choose to wear my "I Voted" sticker however. It seems equivilant to a kindergartner getting rewarded with a sticker on a project well done. politics in minnesota is a crazy business these days and i will be definitely be glad when the campaigning ends.
signing out til next time?

halloween went off smoothly. we had the usual number of kids come by, maybe fewer than normal. the wind chill was in the 20's -may have had something to do with it. lainie and noelle went to a few houses in the 'hood and got the usual assortment of candy plus 2 cans of cherry coke(?). allison (and the girls) gutted the pumpkin and i got carving honors. nothing very fancy but it was a classic jackolantern (see images).
checking out for now...