Senator McCain's First Wife

Recently read an article about what happened between Senator McCain and his first wife Carol. I'm At this point i'm not sure what I think about the whole thing. Here's a Wikipedia article about her: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_McCain

John McCain picks Sarah Palin

Bold move by Senator McCain. Im not sure it was the best selection for vp, but it might be the best selection for a running mate in this campain. It will be intresting to see if Senator Bidden attacks the Governer as aggresivly as he is capabel of. Technorati Tags: 08 Presidential Election

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

I took in a viewing of The new Mummy movie last week at the Wehrenberg theater in Des Peres. The movie tries to be an all action flick without the story and charictor development the other mummy movies had. I have to say i was disapointed agin this summer.

Fence

worked on straitening out my leaning backyard fence, with help from friends, last weekend. It's still standing

Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot

Cool Beans... Hulu has 10 episodes of Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot!

Wildlife at play

Twin Baby Moose in Sprinkler win baby moose and mother playing in sprinkler in Anchorage, AK. Too cute.

Shaved Katie

She didn't want to cooperate for this photo, she almost seemed embarrassed. Poor girl.

Planet Sub

Two coworkers and I had lunch at Planet Sub on Monday, August 11 around 11:30. I had a six inch ”The Planet Sub” sandwich, sides of pasta salad and potato salad and water for ~$8.

The potato salad had a good flavor and was pretty good. The pasta salad had great dressing on it that I really liked.

The sandwich was great, especially the bread. It was a soft hoagie style that was toasted just to the point before it would start to burn.

This is definitely a place to return to.

**Update** Tried the Cheesy Crab sandwich on my second visit...   The bread was really good...  the Surimi Crab, Mozzarella, Swiss, Lettuce, Tomatoes, & Mayo, not so good.

211 N. 9th Street
St Louis, MO 63101
Phone: 314-588-7827

Parents's PC

Built Computer over the weekend for my parents. All the parts, except for the operating system, hard drive and the CD drive,

were purchased from TigerDirect.

• Windows XP Professional (Education version)
  
• Ultra Micro Fly MATX w/400w XV – Case & Power Supply
  
• XFX MG-610i-7059 GeForce 7050 Socket 775 - Motherboard
  
• Intel Celeron Dual Core E1200 1.6Ghz 512k 800Mhz – Processor
  
• Masscool 8W553 Intel Socket 775 CPU Fan
  
• CRUCIAL 1024MB PC5400 DDR2 667MHZ -.RAM(Memory)
  
• Maxtor 40GB hard drive
  
• Hewlett Packard CD-RW Drive
  

Problems

I had problems finding the pst file for outlook 2003. I was getting worried that I had lost all their contact, calendar, and past email information. Fortunately I had backed up on a regular bases their complete set of "documents and settings" folder. I was able to restore the information by replacing the new "documents and settings" with their backup copy. To do that I had to log in in as administrator in safe mode otherwise some of the files couldn't be replaced.

The "Masscool 8W553 CPU fan" seems to make a lot of noise compaired to the past Masscool 8W553 fan I installed

Note:

Lawn Bugs, Ants & Mosquitoes

I used Ortho Bug-B-Gone Max about a month ago and again yesterday. The stuff really seems to do the trick. I hadn't be bitten by a Mosquitoes in till this past week, that's why I added another application.

When I went outside with the pups last night I didn't see a single flying bug and this morning I'm siting on my deck and theres not a bug is sight.

Bug-B-Gone seems to be good stuff. Just attach your garden hose and spray.

Fox News: John Edwards

I don't know about the other news stations because I mainly only watch Fox. I realize the John Edwards affair story is news, but I don't think it a story the deserves this much air time. I wish they would focus more on the Russian invasion of Georgia, the Olympics, and interview people in the know on why the price of oil/gas is going down and if it will continue to do so.

Olympics

Dose anyone care about the Olympics any more? I seem to care less and less each year. I think I lost interest when three things happened. We, the United States, started insisting that our professional athletics be allowed to compete (i.e.: Hockey, Basketball),when major commercialization was added, by the United States, back in the 1984, and I have a lot more events/activities that compete with the Olympics for my attention.

Puppy Pool Party

On Monday my roommate and I took Katie and Corbie to a puppy pool party at McNair Park in St, Charles. $10 per dog and one person, $3 for just one person. The party took place at a city park pool someplace in St Charles, MO. Katie swam and swam and swam. After an hour of constant swimming after her disk she was still going strong when we were ready to leave. Corbie on the other hand wined and whimpered a lot but also got in the water and swam a lot more on his own

Walking the Dogs

IMG_2585, originally uploaded by slugme2.

Photo of me taking by Steve on the Katy Trail in St Charles, Mo
this past spring. I think I could do a Gap add ;-)

Mr Thompson's PC

Built Computer over the weekend for my roommates parents. All the parts, except for the hard drive and the CD/DVD drive, were purchased from TigerDirect.

• Windows XP Media Center 2005 OEM
  
• Ultra Micro Fly SX6 Clear Side w/600w XV – Case & Power Supply
  
• XFX MG-610i-7059 GeForce 7050 Socket 775 - Motherboard
  
• Intel Celeron Dual Core E1200 1.6Ghz 512k 800Mhz – Processor
  
• Masscool 8W553 Intel Socket 775 CPU Fan
  
• CRUCIAL 1024MB PC5400 DDR2 667MHZ -.RAM(Memory)
  
• Hiro Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps PCI Cars w/Port 5dBi – Wireless G Card
  
• Western Digital 80GB hard drive
  
• DVD/CD-RW Drive
  

Problems

The only problem I had was the install of Windows XP Media Center. The package came with 3 CD's:

• Install disk 1
  
• Install disk 2
  
• Windows XP media disk
  

During the install I was asked for Windows XP professional disks and one time I was asked for a Service Pack 2 disk. Switching between the 3 disks did the trick. Complete install without any other hitches.

Note:

• The Masscool 8W553 Fan fit like it was made for the Ultra Micro Fly SX6 case
  
• The Masscool 8W553 Fan has a bracket you put on the back side of the mother board and screw in the fan from the top. I really like this new design!
• Door hing that covers the frount of the DVD drives was broken on arrival. After talking with Mr. Thompson we both agreed that those front doors are really more of a pain than anything else so we just left it off rather than return it. I have to say, it seems to me the hinge is a vary week design
  
• Did not install any of the Hiro Wireless card software or driver. Wireless works great.
  
• Processor seems to be running at about 33 degrees according to the Ultra Micro Fly case thermometer.