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I’m going to put this question out there for the blog nation:

How long on average does it take to post a blog entry?  I know it varies greatly on the subject, as well if you add images/video (finding, creating, optimizing, linking, etc.) but I’m interested in seeing how long it takes people.  The biggest obstacle for me is that I have a lot to say, but I only have a limited amount of time so I’ll either:

• write a little bit and not get my full thoughts down
• wait for a time when I have a longer period of time, which sometimes leads to me forgetting altogether
• end up writing and going over on time, more specifically late at night and then cheating my sleep

I have great respect for blogs that regularly post content, especially those that are able to consistently include media.  I’d like to get to the point where it is a pretty predicatable time and process.  These days, I’m realizing how important process is and how it pays off.

So just rediscovered Flock and trying this thing out again.  They seemed to have added blog functionality.  The tools are out there for me to use, but just need to do more of it.  I guess I can apply that to a lot of things.

Blogged with Flock

Happy Birthday Choooaaayyy and thanks for including us.  We had a blast and always good to catch up with good peoples. On my daily idea scraps that are in my head, does anyone else think that Tivo/DVR should be applied to radio? Still looking for a Mac mini to use as a home media center.  I’m a geek and obsessed with this at the moment. 

Sundays are the beginning of the end.  Last chance to stretch out the weekend before the work week begins for us people in the 9 to 5ers.  Seeing that I’m just starting and don’t have much and that I’m more of a visual vs. text person, here’s some randomness:

1.  I’ve been keeping my eye out for a used Mac Mini as I’m starting to realize the advantages of not only having a desktop Mac at home but also having it used primarily with the Panasonic plasma I have.  Currently I’m using the Macbook Pro for mobile and around the house, but plugging and unplugging into different areas gets to be cumbersome.  I recently bought a DVI-HDMI cable and hooked up to the MBP to test out watching shows and movies and its pretty slick.  I’m aiming to have a Mac Mini in the family room with a bluetooth/wireless keyboard and maybe with a built-in mouse device.  I read up on this old article for hooking up to an HDTV.  The day of convergence and the digital hub is coming… (I also searched through different Flickr photos of people’s setups which was helpful and scary at the same time.)
2. Saw Juno on Friday night.  Cute little movie.  Guess it was a little hyped up for us but good nonetheless.  We also watched Golden Compass and The Kite Runner this weekend.
3. Washer pooped on us this weekend and its not even a year old yet.

This was actually written back in April 2007 and I was so lazy I didn’t even publish it.  Funny that since then, we’ve moved, gotten married, saw lots of Spain and Portugal and living… life. Enjoy.

This week has been pretty interesting so far and its only Wednesday. I’ve been trying to get one of our car’s on-board computer to back to normal after it was reset due to a ‘Check Engine’ light error. Of all times, it happens near the the deadline for vehicle registration and a smog check. Even though the guys at Clean Air Smog are great and William at ABC Automotive has been wonderful, this whole mystery procedure to get the car’s computer back to normal from a reset by driving it in a certain manner is getting frustrating. Looks like we’ll have to file an extension since we don’t know when the computer will cooperate with the smog machine. Does it know we’re moving this week and that the registration is due next week?As for the move, its going along fine since we’ve been doing a bit here and there the past couple of weeks. I canceled the roundtrip U-haul truck rental and decided to go with the one way rental to save time.I can’t wait until we’re settled in.

Ok, in an effort to give this whole blog thing a go, I’m giving it another shot.  I have to admit that there are many blogs out there and I’m not trying to compete with any of them, but an old coworker has consistently kept his blog up to date.  I truly admire and respect his dedication and his content is very much the kind of things I want to write about which may seem uninteresting to many but meaningful to those who know me.  So here I try again…

Ok, here’s another shot. ‘They’ say to keep your blog focused, but I figured I’d write about whatever and let the content find its own focus. I think its more realistic to try and update this once a week.