Teen Discovers his New Toy Doubles as a Race Car...

I can see him rolling down the hill in the back yard this spring. Oh, boy.
At least there's woven wire at the bottom and not barbed;-)

Teen's New Wheels

Apparently he has a new mode of transportation;-)

David---

Teen learns the importance of Phonological Awareness

... And teamwork with The Wonder Pets!

Go Wonder Pets, Yea!

Cool Christmas Teen

The glasses go well with his cool Christmas jammies!

Chore-baby

Lisa and Garret on their way out to milk the goaties. He's such a good
chore-baby!

Garret and his train

Teeny playing with his train (quietly:-) on a Saturday morning. Notice how
he's figured out how to train cars from his other train onto his wooden one
the Amish made? Pretty smart for a 22 month old!

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Cool!

How to Build a Hackintosh with Snow Leopard, Start to Finish - Feature - Lifehacker

Must remember to try to use this article to build a Mac for my home lab...

How to Build a Hackintosh with Snow Leopard, Start to Finish - Feature - Lifehacker

Scripts for the Configuration Manager 2007 Management Pack

We're trying to set up NetCool at work to monitor our Configuration Manager 2007 hierarchy. We've already got a few monitors but wanted to compare the wheel we're re-inventing to the one that already exists. I found the article below that describes the default monitors in the OpsMgr 2007 Management Pack. Pretty cool!

Scripts for the Configuration Manager 2007 Management Pack

Goodbye to the Fair!

A fitting rainbow over the fairgrounds on our way out with the last load!
See you next year!

Shania's market ducks sold for $450! A Big 'Thank You!' to Ripple Creek Farms, Erin Kelty at Fisrt Knox and Jay Walker from Edward Jones!

Last day of the fair! Shania will be selling her pair of market ducks at the small stock sale today so come on down and bid. Benefits 4-H!

School Bus Races

Ever want to know what a school bus race looks like?

Now you know...

Don't say I didn't warn you;-)

Took most of the day off from the fair today. Still not feeling well and needed to get the new stereo installed in my crappy car.

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The 'Strutin Buck' is for sale, know anyone who's interested? They didn't
give a price. What do you think?

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Teeny enjoying the OSTPA tractor pull at the Morrow County Fair!

says "OSTPA tractor pull at the Morrow County Fair begins with a full pull!"

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OSTPA begins at the Morrow County Fair!

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Farmer Garret!

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Mia and Shania win Reserve Supreme Dairy at the Morrow County Fair!

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We win Grand and Reserve Champion Nubian at the Morrow County Fair!

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Shania wins 1st and 2nd in Nubian Dry Yearling!

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Shania wins Grand and Reserve Champion for her Nubian Dry Yearlings!

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Shania winning Grand Champion for her Nubian Dry Yearling!

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Shania showing her Nubian Doe Kid!

Shania got Reserve Grand Champion for her Dairy Market Wether!

says "We've got the goat show this morning, goat pot luck this afternoon and the OSTPA tractor pulls tonight!"

At the fairgrounds all day. First the rabbit show, then working Pork Producers from 3-7 and then a date at the tractor pulls tonight!

From the Morrow County Fair!

Back at the fairgrounds this morning for another full day. First the rabbit show, then working the Pork booth from 3-7 and then finally a date night at the tractor pull!

All done at the fairgrounds for now. Could've stayed longer but baby-head wants to be a big kid and drove us nuts. Men should be sterile;-)

Just finished up the goat building meeting and chasing the baby around the barn. Wee!

Finally got BlackPing working!

We're loading in at the fair right this minute. Woo-Hoo!

Sitting in taco bell parking lot trying to get baby-head to eat something. Unsuccessful.

Team Meeting, yea! Team Meeting. Then it's off to vacation next week! Real Yea!

TurboLister

Working with Ebay's TurboLister this afternoon to try to determine if it will meet my needs for creating auctions in a timely fashion for my neighbor's harness and mower business. It looks like they've made some significant improvements over the years although I still don't see how I can easily capture pictures of the items without taking them, downloading them to my computer and then inserting them into the listing.

What I'd like to be able to do is take picture 1-3 while I'm creating the listing for item number 1. That way I don't have to go through all those steps.

Oh well, I guess I'll have to try it to see how good "free" is:-)

David---

A New Forrester Wave Comes Ashore: End-User Experience Monitoring - destinationCRM.com

A New Forrester Wave Comes Ashore: End-User Experience Monitoring - destinationCRM.com

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PowerPoint in French

I'm enjoying the view of a vendor's WebEx'd desktop in French. How cool is that.

Why HughesNet Sucks

So I'm writing this post on my Blogger Buddy while VPN'd into work and waiting on the RDP client to refresh my screen. I'm on the lowest tier package and it still costs $69.95/mo. It's unbelievably slow and practically useless this day and age. It's amazing that we still have no other viable option for broadband at home.

Yes, I would move if I could find another place to live where the land was free (well, cheap anyway).

Anyone else struggling with HughesNet? Anyone actually like it?

End-User Performance Monitoring

In 2000, I tried to drive the purchase of an end-user performance monitoring product for both our desktop and Citrix environment. I struggled to drive this (a. due to my inexpierence and b. the greater need for a standardized desktop) and ultimately decided that there was no real need for end-user performance monitoring of a truly optimized desktop.

I think I might be changing my mind however. What a product like SERDEN Interact shows us is in the optimized desktop is where the problem is not. On the ideal desktop it's going to point out problems elsewhere but not on the desktop itself.

What do you think?

Got to get better about updating this...

I've fallen off the band-wagon the last couple of months and need to get back to it. Just sitting here watching a demo on measuring the performance of Citrix from the end users perspective.

Icing my wife's sprained ankle....

bought a Nubian buck near Covington, KY. Just passed Jeffersonville, OH on
our way home...

Beautiful hot rods on I-71S this morning..

Back to the grind... Well, not really. Our team is going to see the
Clippers play today!

On our way up route 4 to Kelleys Island! No reality for 3 days!

Leaving the house for Indian Lake here in a few minutes to get Baby-Pants
(Garrett) from my parents. Watch some fireworks too.

Helped my father-in-law unload a "clicker" that weighs about 1000 lbs. And
ate dinner with the family.

Off to play in traffic!

Setting up ping.fm to post updates to multiple services!

Taco Bell

It's not every day you see a mint Ferrari 308 GTSi in a Taco Bell parking lot at 10pm on a Wednesday night. Must have spent $25k on the car and now has only Taco Bell to take his girl.

I told my buddies I was with that if I had been that guy, I would have asked my girlfriend to sit on the curb for a minute while I got in and drove away. Would have been much easier then enduring the months or years of her feeling inferior to my car.

I did watch him wipe the car down with the softest towel I've ever seen before he let her get in. Too funny. I wish the camera on my BlackBerry didn't suck so bad. Sorry about that.

Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7!

Here's the link to the RSAT tools for Windows 7 RC:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/D/4/AD4D3903-E06D-456D-AED4-D53895D2C1A9/Windows6.1-KB958830-x64.msu

Lot's of important stuff here. I wanted the starter GPO's for Windows 7 since I'm seeing some strange behaviors running our current corporate policy. I will also need GPMC and this is the only place to get it. I thought the link was hard to find so I figured I'd post it here!

Using the new Easy Transfer...

Easy Transfer actually works now! How cool is that. In the past, it was very difficult to get Easy Transfer to actually both save from your down-level operating system and restore to the current version of Windows. Even if you could get it to be successful, it was rare that it actually moved this you wanted. I just performed the tranfer on my Windows 7 computer while I typed this and it finished moving about 640MB worth of stuff in about 5 minutes from a network share. Got to go see if it really put things where it's supposed to be!

Weird Prompt on Windows 7

So I get this weird prompt on Windows 7 every time I try to access a network resource. It's a prompt titled "Enter Network Password" and the error at the bottom says: "The system detected a possible attempt to compromise security. Please ensure that you can contact the server that authenticated you."

This error (and the long delay accessing the network resource) remind me of a similar issue in the past (like with Windows XP) but I'm still searching my memory banks...

Working on Windows 7

Working on Windows 7 today. Just added the BloggerBuddy gadget and thought I'd check it out!