May 13 2007
Megabyte and her cousins (Lizzy, Sadie, Savannah and Sydney) all went to the Kenton Paw Park today to play. It was a beautiful day, sunny but cool. The girls had a great time romping around with other dogs and making new friends. See pictures of their fun day below!
May 10 2007
Mirth, Musings, & More: Pass The Band Aids
As read on the above blog, OJ Simpson was in Louisville this past weekend for the Kentucky Derby. He and friends went to dinner at a Jeff Ruby’s restaurant. Jeff approached the table and told OJ that the restaurant would not serve him and asked him to leave, which they did.
As a side note, we had our rehearsal dinner at Mr. Ruby’s Waterfront South Beach Grill and Phil is his lawyer. Best steak and seafood you will ever have, and the service is great as well.
I found some more info on Cincinnati.com:
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070510/NEWS01/705100412
http://cin.planetdiscover.com/sp?keywords=Ruby&aff=100
May 07 2007
Put up a couple sets of pictures from the last few days…
First, the bunny hole. As described in the post below, here are some pictures of it after mowing and fur removal. There are a couple of cute pictures of Megabyte in there too 🙂 The lat picture is one of her tonight (5/7/07) sitting in the dark in the yard about 5 feet from the empty nest/hole, staring at it…just waiting for the bunnies to come back. Cute stuff.
Next, are pictures of Chip, just doing his thing. There are two pictures of him in his new favorite sleeping spot; in the recycling basket in the kitchen, and a few of him in a very dainty relaxation posture. 😉 Wierd cat.
And last but not least, some pictures of the day lilies that we transplanted from New York (at Emily’s dad’s) last summer and planted along the side of our house. We were worried that they wouldn’t take, with the differences in climate and soil, but they are up and growing strong. They haven’t bloomed yet, but it’s still early in the season. We can’t wait until then!
May 07 2007
Well, our family is shamed…we mowed our lawn for the first time yesterday and mowed right over a family of bunnies (they are all ok). They had a nest smack dab in the middle of our fenced in yard! All that time, and Megabyte never sniffed them out!ÂÂ
For years, Megabyte has been known as the devourer of stuffed animals, and a threat to the life of any little animal that dares to come in our yard. When we found a family of bunnies that has been living in the yard for weeks, we were shocked and amazed that Meg didn’t sniff them out.
We remember about a month ago, Megabyte spent hours running around the yard with her nose to the ground, apparently sniffing out something, but never found anything. I guess she was smelling the bunnies.
So, now she’s embarrassed and ashamed that she let 5 babies and a mommy bunny grow up in her yard without seeking them out and devouring them. Try not to make too much fun of her if you see her. 🙂
May 03 2007
Sorry for the delayed post, but we’ve had a lot going on this week. I took my independent licensure exam on Tuesday and passed!!! Woohoo! I’ve been studying for about 5 months. It’s a 170 question, 4 hour test. Bleh. Unlike my first licensure exam 3 years ago, this one consisted of case examples and “what to do with this client” questions, instead of definition questions like the first one. Made it a lot more complicated and tiring, since you had to read a paragraph “situation” for each question, times 170. *sigh*
But, I passed, and now I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. That means I can have my own private practice, contract my work out to other agencies and hospitals, etc. Paul wondered when I’d be making a $80-90,000 salary and I had to quickly remind him that my degree did include the words “social work,” which translates to “low pay.” 🙂
Now it’s Amberly’s turn! She’s starting the studying process…good luck!
Apr 30 2007
Last week, before I left for the IT 2007 show in Ft. Worth, Texas, I upgraded the headlights on the Durango to a set of projections lamps. If anyone has ever been in a 98-2003 Durango or 97-2001 Dakota, you probably know how poor the headlamps are. Here is a before and after pic:
 
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On another note…Motorcycle helmets. I will never understand why people don’t wear them. 1) it can save your life 2) Bugs. Riding around on the back roads of Kentucky can be a great time, except there are a lot of gnats, mosquitos, etc. Check out this pic from my ride home from work on Wednesday last week – this i just a 15 or so mile ride at 630pm!
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Apr 20 2007
This free tools does a number of jobs and does them very well. It reminds me of Norton Windoctor, but it is about a million times faster, and gives good detail. It cleans up registry issues, broken links, unused/missing dll’s, etc. I found this linked on an article from TheInquirer.net while I was looking for tools to clean up my XP install before I upgrade to Vista Ultimate.
Apr 19 2007
Happy Birthday to Megabyte!! Meg is 4 years old today! We can’t believe that time has gone so fast. We got Meg two days after coming back from our honeymoon; she was 8 pounds and teeny tiny! Now she’s all grown up, has a little brother (Chip) and is the best friend and daugger (like dog and daughter combined – that’s what Paul calls her) we could ask for. Happy 4th Meg!
Look how she’s grown!
Apr 17 2007
Emily’s brother Philip turned 16 today! He passed his written test and got his temps, actually had a pretty decent picture too! He even drove Diana to O’Charley’s for dinner! Eep! Everyone watch out, Philip is on the roads!! 🙂
