I am currently downloading the Service Pack 2 update from Microsoft. I have a fast pipe (cable modem) but it is still taking forever. I don’t know if their site is being hit really hard or if there is something wrong.

I am going to install it on my laptop, and I am a little nervous. Josh, a guy I work with, has a laptop, and he lost the ability to put it to sleep when he installed XPSP2. I like being able to put my laptop to sleep in meetings so that it isn’t open and making noise when I don’t need it, but it starts really quickly as soon as I open the lid.

On Josh’s laptop it would freeze when he tried to sleep it or hibernate. I use both of those functions all the time. I will let you know what happens to me. I am interested to see if anyone else has had these problem with their laptops.

I am out…(43.80 MB of 110.00 MB) sheesh

I am sure there will be a lot of people who are going to be all over the Hogs for losing the game to Texas, but not me. If you look at the game from an objective point of view, there was no reason to believe that the Hogs would even stand a chance against a much stronger Longhorns team. Not only did the Hogs hang with the ‘horns, they were in the game until the very end when an untimely mishap allowed the victory to slip away.

There are a lot of people out there who have an unhealthy love affair with Matt Jones. They believe that he is the second coming. I don’t think that, in fact coming into this season, I believed that teams had him solved. Going through last year, he didn’t really surprise anyone because the secret that he could run was already out. So, coming into this season, I had low expectations. So far though, I have to say I am the one who is surprised. Matt Jones is finally showing the maturity that I had hope to see last season. This should be a really interesting season.

The Hogs come into this season with low expectations due to the fact that they have only one returning senior. They are very young, but so far they have been really fun to watch. The real fun begins when we start playing other SEC teams. Since the expectations are low, if the Hogs do good it is a nice surprise, and if they don’t then oh well, they are in a rebuilding year.

I am interested in seeing the new players. The Billis kid is really neat. It is fun to see a quick fullback who can come into the game and make a difference in his freshman year. I am looking forward to the next three years watching him.

I am pleasantly surprised at the Hogs, and I am not heart-broken at the loss last night. In fact, I think the Longhorns have more to worry about. They are a top-ten team who got a major scare from a team of freshmen. Think about it. It’s going to be another good year for the Sooners, and another heart-breaker for an over-rated Longhorn team.

Go Hogs…Beat Texas!!!!

Blessed days are here again. This is wonderful. I am spending the day gorging myself on college football. I love it. Even if I don’t care about the teams that are playing, it is still great to take a whole day and do nothing but watch football. The only blemish on my perfect record of sloth today is that we finally found some shoes for Wyatt.

No joke, we have been looking for some new shoes for Wyatt for a whole month. You see, Wyatt has some extremely wide feet which makes it surprisingly hard to find some shoes. We have gone to nearly every shoe store in Fayetteville and Rogers to no avail. Finally today, we went to Kohl’s (not a shoestore) in Rogers and finally found some New Balances that fit…well sorta. We had to buy 2 sizes too big, but that will let him wear these shoes for a long time which makes my pocket book happy!

Other than the shoe shopping, I have done nothing but watch football, and it is 4:20 and I don’t foresee anything changing….except for maybe a trip to the supermarket for a bag of chips or something.

MH Update

Mary Hadley just walked over to me to show me her blue tongue. We have some multi-colored animal crackers… apparently, the last one she ate was blue…

Chris and Carrie are our friends and you have to check out this pic. It will make your day.

Dog

Hey everyone, I just found the coolest thing ever. It is called “moblogging”. That’s short for Mobile Blogging. It works best if you have one of the new cell phones that has a camera. You go to www.textamerica.com and set up your moblog, and then you can send pictures straight from your camera to the moblog. It is cool. You can check out my new moblog at murdog.textamerica.com. Go there immediately and experience the majesty of MH and Wyatt. I promise there will be pictures of other things rather than just my kids, but for right now, they are who I take pictures of. Enjoy the moblog!!!!!!!

MurDog OUT!!!!

By the way, you don’t have to have a camera phone, you can do it from your computer, but that isn’t nearly as fun!!!!

Building the New Site

Man, have I been busy… Josh Graber and have been hard at work rebuilding the Fellowship Website. We have moved to an ASP site that allows us to do some cool server side stuff to make the website more useful to the folks of Fellowship, but in order to take advantage of all that fun stuff, we have to get the initial build done.

We are about done with the initial build, the new site is up. Over the next couple of weeks we are doing some testing and starting to train people up in each of the ministries to take advantage of their part of the site and “own” it. We will give them the tools to update their part of the web. That way, they can leverage the strengths of the web for their ministry. Also if we have more hands on deck, then all the areas of the website will be useful.

With all this web building, I haven’t had time to do any blogging, and that’s not cool. I mean, that is not fair to the 1 to 2 people per month who accidentally find themselves on this blog. IT’S NOT FAIR I say…NOT FAIR. I will do better. Maybe.

Hurricane Frances huh?!?

We are watching the coverage of the Hurricane Frances. It is like watching an incredibly slow car crash happen right in front of your eyes. It is hard to tear your eyes away. I have this deep abiding need to see building blow away in the wind. Also, it is great fun watching these weather guys who are on location doing their best to not get blown away. You can’t hear them because of the wind over the microphone, so the coverage spirals down into a comedy of errors. Do I root for the weather man in his attempt to stay standing, or do root for the wind. Watching this moron who says such gems as “…it’s really windy here”, get blown away by the wind would really make my morning. I am rooting for the wind…