January 12, 2003

Dominica and I drove out to Rochester today to take a drive around some areas that we might be interested in moving to. Min has never seen much of the east side of Rochester so it was necessary for her to get the lay of the land. We did manage to find a number of areas that we might be interested in. Loopy’s grandmother is a realtor so we are going to talk to her to see what is available. We are also very interested in finding an area that has a lot of potential for me to be able to work from home most of the time and maybe even move our servers there. So, I will be doing a lot of looking into options along that line of thinking as well.

While we were in Rochester, I stopped by CompUSA and picked a massive new computer case for my main computer (the one that I am on now.) It is almost the same as Josh’s and it is way bigger than the one that I have had. I have been having problems with my computer overheadting so I am hoping that this new, bigger case with more fans will be able to make a difference. I am also going to add some of Loopy’s expensive silver thermal grease while I am switching everything else to see if that will make any difference. Something has to work to cool this thing down. I am going to move my current case down to the new PIII 866 that I just built and that case will go to a server that has just returned from DC.

We met my parents and my grandmother at Tom Wahl’s in Avon for dinner. Min wasn’t able to eat, though, because she had gotten a migrane and wasn’t feeling very well.

I did some technical work on the site this evening and we have made it as being totally XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS2 compliant. I am very excited because I take code compliance very seriously and neither of these things are all that easy to do. I had to do some minor changes to the site but we were most of the way there already when I started. But, you can now see our certifications listed at the bottom of the page. For those of you who know how I make web pages, you will know how excited I am. Currently, only our main page is validated but I will slowly be working my way through the pages trying to get them up to snuff.

January 11, 2003

Not much happening today. I am tired from spending the last couple of days in DC so I am spending the day resting. I have spent some time and cataloged my huge collection of computer based training modules that I have had for a couple of years now. I have almost 650 of them that I know work. I have only done about 40 of them myself. But I plan on using more of them in the near future. I have about 100 more that I haven’t figured out how to use yet. I also bought a collection of new CBTs off of eBay that I hope that I will be able to get on Monday.

January 10, 2003

We were hoping to be able to work and leave DC by noonish but that never happens. We didn’t end up leaving until after 7:00 pm (so we had dinner in town.) At least the A/C came back on in the middle of the afternoon so it wasn’t as unbearable being at the office all day. We ended up having a really productive trip (moreso than usual.) We hit some bad snow on the way back to Ithaca and Eric ended up staying at the Llama house to avoid driving back through the blizzard.

January 8, 2003

Eric arrived in Ithaca around 8:30 this morning and we packed up and headed off to DC. We only made it to downtown, though, before we realized that my inspection sticker was expired and that we needed to get the car inspected before we left town. So we went and got the headlight fixed and then got the car inspected. So our early start turned into a late one by the time that we were done.

We managed to get to DC late in the afternoon after rush hour and we worked for an hour or two at the hospital before headed out to Annapolis for the evening. We ordered a pizza and watched the movie Big Trouble. It was short but pretty funny. We started watching the Pink Panther but we just ended up going to bed. Boy are we getting old.