Category Archives: Personal

Checking out themes

Personal,

I’ve been playing around with WordPress Themes a bit lately and have found a few I seem to like. The challenge being what can I tweak and what’s the result. Some of my recent downloads are:

I keep going back to my original modification of The Glass People. It’s clean, simple and I can follow the CSS and PHP. Now if I could only come up with one from scratch, something to add to the list I guess.

People dumping animals

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Lost Dog

Can’t believe what I just saw about 45 minutes ago. A van stops at the end our our cludesack pauses for 5 – 10 seconds and then drives away. When I looked back a dog was standing in the street… I don’t get people sometimes.

A very fun loving puppy which looks to be a male rotwiler. Animal control is closed today, how ironic, so we’ll have to take him tomorrow. That is if he comes back. While I was typing this Rosce jumped the fence and the little one got out with him. Roscoe came back but the other one hasn’t yet. Hopefully their are some good hearted neighbors out there to at least get him to animal control. He may not have a great chance there but at least he’s out of the elements and would have an opportunity to get adopted. This is the second time we’ve had to deal with this type of thing. I guess being 5 minutes from animal control people might go there find it closed and then think, I’ll just find a nice spot close by someone will take care of it….. crazy.We’ll keep an eye out.

Unexpected outage

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This morning when checking email I got a unknown host error, that was rather unexpected. After a few more checks it looked like a problem. When logging a ticket with 8-95.com, my host, it was learned the data center which physically houses the server the domain is on had a fiber line cut. Not only did they have problems with their primary circuit but their redundancy failed as well, not good. I’ve been following the outage on Webhostingtalk and I should consider myself lucky my site is not business related.

Since around 10:40 this morning that facility has been down but as of 6:15 looks like we’re back up. According to the thread on Webhostingtalk the carrier has routed around the fiber cut.

Thanksgiving break

Personal,

Thursday morning, thanksgiving day, we hopped a plane to Denver for a vist with some friends. Landed at about 8:30 and it was off to Keystone for a couple nights. The highlight there was going to be tubing at Breckenridge, of course going there and not skiing kind of sucks but no one else was up for it. The tubing was a blast though so even if your there to ski I’d recommend taking some runs down the “tub track”. You can see some pics in the new Flickr Feed on the side bar.

Saturday on the way back to Denver we stopped in Idaho Springs at the TommyKnocker micro brewery. It’s a great place to stop in between Denver and Dillon. That night we took in a Avalanche game at the Pepsi center. Sunday the girls shopped and it was football for the guys. All in all a nice few days away. Today it was back on the plane and in Nashville before the rush hour. The boys survived the kennel and it’s good to be home.

Back to the grind in the morning, it’s going to be a busy week.

A move for the boys

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Cooper and Roscoe's houses

This weekends project was to move the dog houses. I finished the temporary fence last weekend, it could still use a bit of work but it should be OK for now… more on that later. So the move was up the hill in the back yard, about 50 feet from where they were. You can see from the pic on the left the angle is a little steep and their’s a flat spot fit for a pair. So after prepping a little to level where the houses would sit and getting some pavers to lift them off the ground about four inches we were ready.

A friend came by and in about 40 minutes we were done. The houses are 36 x 48 and the roofs come off. Got to say thanks to dad for that cause otherwise it would have been a three man job. Now back to “the fence should be OK for now” comment. Tonight while sitting downstairs Cooper started a barking fit I first thought was directed at the cats next door… that is common. But after a little more ruckus than normal I went up to find Cooper in and Roscoe out. So much for my good fence work !!!

It was about ten minutes to calm Cooper down and then into the truck and up the road. A quick drive around the neighborhood, as a road circles back above us to a dead end, and on the way back hear he comes jingling up behind me. One of the other neighborhood labs (lucky) was hangin around too so my guess is Roscoe found his way there and they were playing.

When we got back I put the invisible fence collars on, I took them off earlier as we went for a walk, and figured we’d be good… got it out of our system. Not ten minutes later the whole episode started again but this time he didn’t get far. Back in August I mentioned extending the fence almost all the way around the lot, good thing cause the fence caught him this time. Unbelievable !!!!. So by this time I’ve had it for the night up to the house we go with the 10ft leash wrapped to the tree and he’s staying there. I’ll work on the corner where he got out tomorrow. But in reality the wooden picket fence you see in the pic is only four feet tall, they both can jump over it if they really want to. With any luck I can make it to spring when I’ll have to put in a new fence as the existing one is close to falling down. O well what’s life without a little excitement.