Well, well, well…

…look what the cat dragged in

I know, I know…What’s the use of having a blog if you don’t use it…

I could make all kinds of excuses but I won’t. A lot has happened since my last post and I don’t really want to go into details, so I’ll keep this brief.

I’m on vacation.

I’m single again.

I now own a dog.

I quit my guild.

I went golfing.

I won $800.00 at the Casino.

Bought a new DVD player.

I’m tiling the shower. Sorta.

I turned 45.

The yard-work has begun.

Weather is getting nicer.

I still love Vodka.

Trying to find a use for my iTouch since buying a Droid.

I don’t care about your farm.

Need to buy an external HD.

Pepperoni is NOT the new bacon.

I lost some weight.

I still smoke.

Facebook is crack.

Need to update my WP installation.

Checking out Joomla.

Bought some new shoes.

Filed my taxes.

Developed some film.

And, uh, yeah…

So, that’s all I have to say about that. Let’s see if I can post again before 2011

I hope that all is well in your world…

~KJ

Turn the page

in which I embrace yet another chapter in my life…

It’s been an exciting week for me and I’m here to tell you about it. First off, I moved this site to a new server. The move was a breeze and I have to give special thanks to Ruben for making it all possible. Gibblesnix is now hosted right here in Walla Walla, Wa. I was given space on a local server that I have full access to earlier in the week. Installed the latest version of WP, imported my content, uploaded my theme and plugins with little to no trouble at all. I’m super happy and looking forward to adding some new content to it as I’ve ditched a lot of the old links and content. Kind of a clean slate to work with and I’ll be tweaking it as the days go by. Please be patient, it’s a work in progress. Still getting used to the new WP install.

The week in general has been really good to me. I feel like I’m breathing easier, I’m much more relaxed and starting to move in a positive direction overall. Work is picking up, I’m making more sales, my numbers are looking better and have a renewed enthusiasm for the job that I’m doing. It’s always been easy for me to get stuck in a rut and it’s nice to get back to ‘just being me’ again. Looking forward to the days and weeks ahead. Nice to have things going my way for a change as the last couple of month have been rough on me in more ways than one.

I went out to visit @smugirishman Friday night and simply had a blast. Nothing like a night of drinking, playing and yelling with a good friend to get ones head moving in the right direction. Took a bottle of Skyy out there, had some drinks, played some guitar and basically got blasted out of my mind. Ahhhh, good times! Glad to have a friend like him. Srsly.

Saturday, I sold the Monza back to its original owner, Mike Glyn. He has been a life-long friend of mine and I was glad to give him his car back. I bought the Monza about 7 years ago when he was going through a divorce. We both agreed that if I was ever to sell the car, he would have first shot at it. Honestly, I never did get very attached to it. It was fun to drive, quick as hell but I never fell in love with it and always felt like it didn’t belong to me. Also, I’ve never really been a Chevy guy. I prefer MOPARS. Anyway, I drove it over to his house yesterday, right where it came from. Exchanged keys for cash, had a drink and bid it farewell. I’m not gonna say that I won’t miss it cuz I will, but it was nice to give him his baby back. He was all smiles!

Today, I’ve spent some time cleaning up the driveway, (where the car had been parked for evar) mowed the yard and picked up my apt. Watched some of the Solheim Cup coverage. USA retained the cup in fine fashion. Gotta love Sunday’s, always nice to just do ‘whatever’.

So, there you have it. Not too exciting for some but it was for me.

I sometimes forget that this life is full of changes. Some good and some bad. For me, the outcome always hinges on how I deal with things. When things go bad, it’s always been easy for me to stay ‘in’ the bad instead of shifting gears and moving on to better things. When things are good, I don’t think that I embrace them enough and let them slip by too quickly. So with this post, I begin a new chapter in my life, a new beginning so to speak. One that is full of new and exciting things. Making new friends, going to new places, doing new things with an open heart and open mind. Life is just too damn short and I’m here to live it!

~KJ

***Welcome Back***

You are now viewing my site from the new server. Hell yeah! New content coming soon.

Thanks Ruben!

~KJ

Pulling weeds

literally and digitally…

Well, it’s Wednesday, I’m done with work and home to relax a bit. Having a beer and getting ready to go do some weeding around the house. I weed the flowerbeds one week and they’re full of more weeds the next. I’m pretty lazy, for the most part and loathe manual labor. So there are times when I have to force myself to do the work that needs to be done around here. The yard managed to survive the heat wave we had last week and it’s once again growing and wanting to be mowed. All good.

I also will be pulling some weeds online. The deleting/removing/blocking/unlinking of unwanted or useless content from my website and other forms of social networking that I dabble in. Not trying to be an asshole or anything but I’ll be damned if I continue to be spammed, ignored, bothered or blasted with useless data that really means nothing to me at this point in my life. I just don’t have room for it any longer and that’s just the way it is.

My website has been bouncing lately and apparently the server was totally rebuilt last week. Special thanks to Mush and Keef for giving me a place to host. It still seems to be a little funky and I’ll be updating my WP installation soon in hopes of some stability. I now have a current backup and hope I don’t hose it when I try the WP update. It should be OK as I’ve done it before but if it’s not, please be patient and I’ll make it work.

In other news, I’ve been totally diggin’ the cooler weather and I hope to never see another 100 degree day for the rest of the summer. It just wears me out.

I also have three or four days of vacation time left and thinkin’ that I might want to use them soon. Not sure where I want to go but they are there for the taking and I could use a break right about now. I feel as if I have been pushing too hard to make things good for myself and might want to just relax and let life run its course.

Not much news but that’s what I’ve got for now…

Take care…

~KJ

PC upgrade complete

and I’m totally diggin’ it…

Alright, I got all of my parts last week and did the build over the weekend. I went with a EVGA nForce 730a Motherboard, AMD 64 X2 6000+ 3.0 ghz dual core proccesor, Rosewill varialble speed 92mm heatsink and cooling fan, 4 gigs of DDR2 RAM and a sweet EVGA 9800 GT video card. I also have anoth 2 gigs of RAM sitting on the shelf just in case. Let me tell ya’, this system freakin’ rocks! I gutted my old can Sunday around noon, assembled the new gear and had a desktop within a couple of hours. Smooth upgrade to say the least. Not a hickup one. I installed Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit, slapped in SP1 and did all the Windows upgrades. Oh, and DirectX 10. So far so good. Not too sure about this whole Vista thing but I’m likin’ what I’m seein’. I ran a benchmark test and came up with 74 fps at the highest possible settings. w00t! Also, the CPU temp idles at 19c and only 36c under a full load. Super cool running machine!

At this point is was time to install WoW and put it to the test. Loaded up the basic WoW, the Burning Crusade and then Wrath of the Lich King. Downloaded and installed all of the latest patches and i was off and running. I’m getting no less than 60fps in all areas including Northrend and frame spikes as high as 72fps. Un-fucking-real! So, it looks like I will stop leveling my Druid (Weedbgone lvl20) and get back to capping my Rogue (Supramax lvl76). At this rate, Supramax will be at 80 in no time and will then start farming honor for PVP gear. I just got on board with the guild <Krawler> and hope to do some raids/runs in the near future.

Anyway, I’m super happy with the new build and looking forward to some lag free gaming. This was my smoothest upgrade to date and all for 308.00…w00t!

KJ