Dec 17 2006
Last night was Heather (my friend from work) and Tom’s wedding. It was a beautiful ceremony, and the reception was at The Madison in Covington. A lot of people from my work showed up, and we had a great time hanging out and dancing the night away. Check out pictures, below.
-ec
Dec 13 2006
Free Firewall, Anti Virus, File Backup, etc. Solutions
Comodo is a company that sells SSL certificates and they are trying to get their name out as a “security provider” company. Their techs put together some nice looking software packages – and they are free for personal and business use! They have antivirus, firewall, antispam, backup, and more…all free! I believe I read their firewall software won an award from PC magazine as an editor’s choice or something. I have it installed and so far I really like it. I’m going to try out their antispam and antivirus software next. I hate what Symantec has done to their Norton line of products, so I don’t even have it installed anymore. Won’t even consider it. I’ll keep you posted on what I think about Comodo’s other products.
-pc
Dec 10 2006
Saturday night was the Car-Part.com Christmas Party at the Drawbridge Inn. We had a great time – really good food this year, Jaime drove down from Pittsburgh and Molly and Andy showed up too. The highlight of the night was a Kareoke contest (The Car-Part Idol Show) where the winner would be awarded a $100 gift card to Best Buy! After much nagging encouragement from the group at my table, and Emily submitting my entry for me, I was 3rd to perform my rendition of Ice Ice Baby.  My performance was highlighted by the finale – I did the worm across the floor :) I got two 10’s and one 7 from the judges – the highest score of the night. The finals were between myself and Patty. The original plan for the finals had each contestant performing the other finalists song – so Patty would have had to do Ice Ice Baby and I was going to have to sing some country song (something about a County? Can’t recall). However, Jeff Schroder stepped up and mandated an executive order to allow the finalists to perform a song of their choosing. Sounded like a good idea to me – because while they were cueing up the song for me to sing, I had already performed part of Patty’s song, part of a Garth Brooks song, and one other!
I closed my performance with my all time favorite song for kareoke – Just a Giggalo! I had some dance steps (can you really call it that?) and a lot of liquid courage in my veins, but I put on a performance that would have made David Lee Roth proud! I think my final scores for that round were a 10, 10, 8. So,yes…I won 🙂
After the party ended at midnight, we went down to the Drawbridge’s night club, The Crossbow (which actually has a sign that says “Ft. Mitchell’s Number One Nightclub” or something like that!) and hung out with the work crew down there. That place is a riot though – its seems to be “the place” for the 40+ crowd to play hookup with people half their age ;) I was taking pictures of coworkers and was actually told by a bounce that we were not allowed to take them. Guess the married guys don’t want their wives to see their pictures popup on some website.
We’ll get the photos online tomorrow.
-pc
Dec 05 2006
We had a fun night for Paul’s birthday. I tricked him into taking his Durango to my mom’s house to ‘open presents’ before we went out to eat. We surprised him by telling him that the whole family was going out to eat with us at Carlo & Johnny, a Jeff Ruby restaurant in Montgomery. It was great, we all pretty much had our usual filets (you just can’t beat ’em), then Paul opened all his presents.
The funniest part of the night was the travel time. Paul’s Durango is supposed to seat 8, and it sure did. We packed ourselves in like sardines; 8 adults. It reminded me of a clown car, we were all sitting sideways and on top of eachother. It must have been a funny sight to see us all pile out of the car at the valet!
Dec 02 2006
Nov 25 2006
Chip is all settled in to our house. Megabyte is a tad jealous, but she’s getting used to the idea of having a furball running around. Meg follows him around everywhere making sure he’s not getting into anything he shouldn’t. Check out the new pictures below:
Nov 22 2006
We have a new addition to our family! A kitten was found at my work today and needed a home. It was a funny coincidence because Paul and I were talking just last night about the possiblity of getting a cat for Christmas. He saw Dr. Heekin today (our vet) and was given a round of meds and blood tests. He has a very very small heart murmer, but she said he should outgrow it and it’s not a big concern. He also has 6 toes on each front foot! Dr. Heekin said it’s common in the Northeast (my aunt has had cats with 6 toes), and it’s not a concern, just a little something extra!
We are very happy to have him! Megabyte is getting used to him; she’s been sniffing him out a lot. No disagreements yet, they seem to like eachother!
He’s very snuggly and we think he’s very happy to be home. We do need a name for him though! Danielle from my work suggested Pixel (to go with Megabyte’s computer-type name); we could call him Pix for short. Paul is iffy about the name since it sounds like Pixie, and he wants him to have a manly name.
Any suggestions for names??
Nov 15 2006
Nov 15 2006
We’ve had a crack in our basement (foundation) for quite awhile. We finally had the builder come out with a foundation repair guy to look at it / repair it. They had to take off the insulation that lines the basement walls, and fill the crack. It was a lot worse that I thought…but they said it’s not that bad and that their work is guaranteed for 20 years. Click HERE to see pictures of before and the process of filling it. They still need to come back, finish up, and re-apply the insulation.
