It’s raining, it’s pouring… my weblog is boring. I’ll have to work on that this weekend.

Well, obviously it started working again. I’ll quit complaining.

Great, Blogger is acting weird this morning and telling me it can’t find axodys.com. I of course have no problems going directly to axodys.com.

There’s quite a bit of snow dropping out of the sky this morning. And it hasn’t shown any signs of letting up yet either.

Happy Valentines Day Mary! I love you!

Hmm… so much for inline CSS. I wonder what I’m doing wrong? Ah ha! Fractured tags can kill you.

I don’t suppose anyone knows whether the built in modems on iMacs or Lombard model PowerBooks support Caller ID. Feel free to drop me an email if you do. It just occurred to me today that since I have Caller ID it would be fairly cool to whip up a little REALbasic program that announced who was calling. I suppose that even if those internal modems don’t support it I may have an old external that does.

I was surprised to wake up to a light skiff of snow this morning. Didn’t realize that was in the cards at all. Of course tonight we’re supposed to get a few inches of snow turning into freezing rain in the morning. With the steep hill outside my apartment that inevitably means I’m going to be hearing a lot of spinning tires tomorrow morning when I wake up.

Looks like I was born in the year of the sound bite.

This David K. Every column over at MacWeek has an interesting comparison of the value of Apple stock vs. Dell stock. 2000 is going to be a fascinating year for Apple with everything they’ve got in the works.

I’ve been working on Filemaker Pro here at work quite a bit in the last few months. Its simplicity and ease of use makes it well suited for various record keeping tasks we have here in the Gonzaga School of Education. There are definitely times when I wish working with it was a little bit more like traditional programming, but overall I’m quite satisfied with it.

It snowed just enough last night to make the morning drive to work a little bit dicey. Thankfully I only live 10 minutes away (under normal conditions of course). I decided to take the freeway thinking it might be a little more clear than the side streets, but the exit ramp ended up being a bigger mess than I anticipated.

Snow, Snow, Snow!! Looks like we’re supposed to get 1-3 inches tonight. That totally makes me think about going sledding. The downside to this activity of course being that you have to carry the sled all the way back up the hill.

I’m fighting the urge to visit the local CompUSSR. It’s pretty close to where I work and on the way home…

It’s the final countdown! Now if only I could get that old Europe song out of my head… Anyway I’m planning on staying home for the big change over myself. And with all the snow that we’re getting in Spokane right now, I’m betting more than a few people may change their minds about going out.

I’ve been going a little Python crazy lately. Last night while renting a few new years eve movies at the local Hastings I discovered they had a copy of Programming Python and snapped it up. I’ve pretty much decided to make Python my language of choice for right now. We’ll see how that goes.

Another day, another weblog entry…

My friend Steve is in town so it’s time for some network computer gaming! He’s been talking up the Mac release of Heroes of Might & Magic III and based on Inside Mac Gaming’s preview it looks fairly appealing to me.

Tycho and Gabriel, two fellow Spokane-ites best known for Penny-Arcade, have a new take on Dickens’ Christmas Carol over at Gamespy. Amusing reading for the computer inclined as usual!

It’s looking like we’re going to miss out on the classic white Christmas here in Spokane based on all the weather forecasts I’ve been hearing and seeing online. For some reason I was expecting quite a bit of snow this year during the winter months, but it certainly hasn’t happened yet.

One interesting thing I noticed about Mozilla Build 12 for the Macintosh yesterday is that it seems to render font point sizes at the same size most Windows machines see things. I’m not sure if that’s a bug or a feature. It does make reading a surprising number of sites easier, Eatonweb being the first that pops into my head.

It’s finally raining here in Spokane after a very dry September and October.

Image courtesy The Weather Channel.
Of course at work today I had to haul a printer all the way across campus and then back again in the rain. And it especially figures since I just washed my car for the first time in ages on Saturday. Ahh well. I love rain.

I got to bed before midnight last night and ended up getting up before eight this morning feeling pretty well rested. It’s kind of nice that I got an early start in that I have plenty of laundry and picking up I can do before Mary comes over.

The weather today is kind of dreary and overcast. The doppler radar doesn’t show any precipitation on this side of the state although they are predicting some showers later.

Today is the day of Mary’s big presentation in Chicago.

Mary reports that her presentation went really well!

It’s kind of a weird hazy day in Spokane today. It’s definitely not as nice as it has been the last few days. It was still pretty sunny and warm on my bike ride home though.

Looks like I’m going to be headed out for a little lake action this weekend with Steve. Jet skis, computers, and friends- what more could you ask for in a weekend? Mary being back from Chicago of course! LOL

The weather has been great all weekend, but I’ve actually been staying indoors and doing other things for most of it. Hopefully the weather will continue through the rest of the month.

I ended up staying up really late working on a CD for Mary before she leaves for Chicago. I think it turned out really well though so it was worth it.

I’m doing pretty well on my Taco Bell Star Wars contests. I’m only one piece away from winning $10,000. Of course I’m sure the piece I don’t have is the hard one to get.

At lunchtime I got my first summer length haircut of the year. It’s going to be really nice not having to mess with it after I wear my bike helmet.
The weather tomorrow is actually supposed to be pretty good so riding to work shouldn’t be a problem.

I’ve been thinking about looking at bike computers for a while, but I haven’t done anything with that yet. I’m also thinking I should look into bike touring bags. My old backpack is working fine for now, but I think it’d be worthwhile to have some other options.

Nichole has her big race today. It should be interesting to see how she ends up doing.

Even though the weather didn’t really warrant it I decided to wear shorts today. Actually it wasn’t that cold this morning, but it was somewhat cloudy.

I didn’t ride to work today, but I did get in a pretty good ride after I got home. It made me realize that there’s a definite downside to living towards the bottom of the South Hill when you decide to ride up it and you’re out of shape.

Even though the weather has been weird and crappy in May so far I really think this is going to be a good summer overall. Chances are it will go by really quickly as well.

I should really get around to doing some of the site improvements I’ve been mulling over forever. Or I could just go to sleep now. I am kind of tired.

I have my bike. Time for a test ride now.

The weird weather continues. As I was coming out of the grocery store prior to picking up my new bike I had to contend with a sun/rain/snow mix.

It’s clear to me as I sit here looking out my office window that I was a little optimistic with my choice of clothing today. Still, I was tired of wearing pants… I guess that’s just the price you pay sometimes.

The Spokesman Review’s Bloomsday coverage is pretty cool this year. You can already look up the finishing time for everyone who ran the race and even find their finish line photo as well.

I should really make an effort to be in good shape for next year’s race. I think breaking 50 minutes would be a pretty good goal for me to shoot for.

Today was the first rainy Bloomsday in the history of the race. I’m glad I wasn’t running it today.

I hope my bike shows up soon.

All things considered, today was a very good day.

It’s Futurama time once again!

Futurama was definitely pretty funny tonight. Bender was more outrageous than ever.

I’m liking the sunny weather we’ve been having so far this week, but I wouldn’t mind a little rain again.

I finally figured out how to do extended server logs through Pair. It’s not like I’m getting a lot of hits at this point, but it should be both useful and interesting once I submit my site to the various search engines and or web rings. I’m not to the point yet where I want to do that however.

It’s early Saturday morning and it’s actually raining! At least it was after I left Steve’s parents house.

I’m hoping that Kristen and I can go to The Matrix this afternoon.

It snowed this morning. That’s fairly typical for spring weather in Spokane, but I thought that it was especially ironic since I took off my studded snow tires yesterday. It melted rapidly though and didn’t hinder my driving.

I finally saw the new Parent Trap this afternoon. It was a very cute movie. I liked it a lot.

This evening I saw The Mod Squad. There was a lot of walking around with attitude to cool/funky music by the three young stars and not a whole lot of substance, but I enjoyed it.

The weather here in Spokane has been really nice all weekend. I think Spring is finally here.

Tonight the Oscars are on.

I hope Cate Blanchett wins best actress for her role in Elizabeth. Gwyneth was good in Shakespeare in Love, but Cate was better.

All I know is that Joseph Fiennes was a very lucky man to star opposite both of them!

It sure has been raining a lot the last couple days. I like it!

Today I decided to stop off at Pier 1 Imports on my way home and work on improving my apartment decor. I’d only been thinking about going there for oh, about seven months. I picked up a couple picture frames and a table cloth.

It snowed a little bit this evening right at the end of work, but it didn’t end up being all that much. That was especially good since I usually park on a hill and it can be a big mess.

I think being able to see the latest doppler radar for the area is the coolest thing.

Tomorrow it’s rematch time with University. The boys JV team plays at 4:45pm and the varsity plays at 8pm at U-High.