Back to work.

Just so you know, I did not want to get up this morning and drag my raggedy a$$ into work.

No sir, not one bit.

And that's all I have to say about that.

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You might find these links to be interesting:

• Five days, two murders. And they wonder why people don't want to go into Springfield...



• Key phrase in this story: "...he allowed him to put on his pants first."



• I'm thinking that Mr. Anand J Bodas might be a little too tall for his blood supply.



• This one falls under two categories: Only in Florida and Naked Guy In the News.



• Key phrase in this story: "Duval can have his sneakers back after he pays $100."



• Key phrase in this story: "I don’t like the way she’s acting or what she’s doing."

Looks like Pat came through

Pat sent me an email indicating that I was right, he does save everything and as it just so happens, he has some memory that might work in that old PC I want to turn into a server.

It's good to have friends who are pack-rats.

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At noon, I decided that the local weather dweebs were lying to me and the snow was not going to melt on my driveway. Rather than have it all freeze solid tonight and make my life miserable tomorrow morning, I decided to clear it.

Man, that stuff was heavy. Thank goodness for The Beast.

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Other than that, my last day off before I return to work was very relaxing. Which is good because I've got a long week ahead of me.

A very long week...

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Here are some links for you to visit:

• Only in Florida.



• She stapled her mom?



• Key entry from our favorite police log: "10:10 p.m. A scuffle between two Hungry Horse women resulted in some severe biting and one severed finger."

And we have furniture

Several months ago, we decided it was time to replace our living room furniture. My wife spent that last several months agonizing on what to buy, which is okay with me because I never actually go into the living room. So for the last few months, our living room has been vacant of most furnishings.

Today the new furniture arrived and we once again have plenty of sitting room in our sitting room.

There is much joy.

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I'm going to build a server for our home network out of my mother-in-laws old computer.

I'm getting a little sick of not having appropriate backups of our stuff and I figure it's time for me to change that. The best way to do it is to establish a server with shared drive space that I can back things up to.

I'm going to try a linux distro called ClearOS that supposedly is lightweight (the operating system doesn't overwhelm the CPU) and has good disk sharing capabilities.

Before I can build the operating system, I need to find some memory.

The computer is at least 8 or 9 years old and they don't really make the type of RAM it needs. I'm sure I can find the right stuff at good old reliable NewEgg but I figured I'd start with good old reliable Pat.

Like me, he hates to throw anything away and has a bunch of old stuff lying around, some of which might meet my needs.

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Here are a few links:

• Better hope the girlfriend is telling the truth....



• Only in Florida.



• And what was he going to do with them? It's not like he can just sell them on the street corner.



• Key phrase in this story about rednecks: "...the parents decided to go to Bass Pro Shops to wait until the contractions got closer together."



• We live in an interesting world....

Last official day of vacation.

I managed to use all of my 2014 vacation time before the end of 2014. I always take the one floating holiday they give us as my first day off of the new year so today was my floater.

That means that on Monday, I go back to work and face an entire new years worth of work.

And not to sound like too much of a dweeb but I'm looking forward to my major project this year. It's a modernization of our current mainframe security facility and it'll take almost the entire year. When we're done, I'll be able to spend less time correcting problems caused by folks trying to use an antiquated system to secure a modern platform.

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This afternoon, my wife was shredding some old documents and made a bit of a mess. She got the vacuum out to clean up and this is what I saw when I walked past the stairs:

He's a wuss...

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Here are some links:

• Only in Florida.



• More and more of my childhood is disappearing.



• Only in Florida.



• Only in New York.



• This is why men should not be left alone with their children.

And so begins another year

I hope we all have a great year and everything goes our way.

Here's a list of things I wish for all of us for 2015:

1. Good health because being sick sucks.
2. Fresh breath because having stinky breath sucks.
3. A winning lottery ticket because being rich does not suck.
4. Comfortable shoes because sore feet suck.
5. An ample supply of toilet paper because running out at the wrong moment sucks.
6. An enjoyable job because working at something you hate sucks.

That's a pretty good list of things.

If you were to get any three of those things, you would being doing pretty damned well. If you get four of them, you would have nothing to complain about. If you get all six, call me, I need some money...

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You can click on these links:

• Springfield appears to be starting off the new year in it's usual manner.



• I know a lot of cops and trust me, none of them have the skills required to fix a video game network.



• Key entry from our favorite police log: "1:48 p.m. A Kalispell man received some weird mail."



• Only in Florida.



• Also only in Florida.



• And still only in Florida.