Watched The Simpsons Movie with kid two, now on to Burn After Reading

Garage door spring (and part of the opener) broke today – first call on January 2 to Twin City Garage Door Company

Happy New Year, Central Time Zone

Slept til noon, watched the Winter Classic, loaded more pix on FB, now taking the tree down

I love 2009 so far!

damn, no $500 winners in the Minnesota Raffle

damn, no $25K winners in the Minnesota Raffle

damn, no $100K winners in the Minnesota Raffle

damn, no million dollar winners in the Minnesota Raffle – back to work tomorrow, I guess

watching Burn After Reading with Colleen (never made it that far yesterday night)

upgrading Studio A & B at HSRA

Lunch with Studio Phil at Flame, then shopping at Guitar Center

updating DNS zone files after Integra internet speed upgrade changed my IP addresses

yippee – 2008 Minnesota income tax forms in the mail today

trying real hard to get back in the swing of things (at least until vacation starts again on Thursday)

Wow, actually made it to a 7:30AM meeting in Golden Valley

Breakfast planning meeting at Key’s on Raymond – 1st Annual HSRA Golf Tournament?

following the Macworld keynote from afar yet again

best news of Macworld keynote for me: K-12 site licenses still available for iLife ’09 and iWork ’09 for $249 each

The new HSRA net connection is driving me insane – so I decided to take kid two out to dinner at Axel’s (trouble ticket open)

Picking up kid one at Skateville, then off to Wise Swim School

I really hope these networks issues at HSRA go away before I get on the plane

Dead firewall/router at HSRA – waiting for Best Buy to open

Getting ready to configure and test the new temporary HSRA firewall/router

All looks good to go at work – Florida, here we come!

AirTran online check-in complete, printed marathon waiver and kid two’s birthday certificate for free Disney stuff

CES announcements: Me likey the Sony VAIO P Series

Lunch with the wife at BWW, then credit union and last minute clothes shopping

Made it on the plane to Orlando, HSRA network is FUBAR again (dammit!)

Called in the networking calvary

landed safely in MCO

restless night as I worry about work instead of enjoying vacation

On the tram to the Magic Kingdom (and HSRA is supposed to be A-OK)

Lunch at Casey’s Corner on Main Street

Waiting for fireworks

finally going to bed – heading to Disney’s Hollywood Studios tomorrow

Fancy Florida McDonald’s for breakfast, outlet mall visit, then the Studios at noon

The Aerosmith roller coaster is not a good match for a headache. Back at my brother’s house for pre-race pasta dinner.

can’t believe I woke up before the 3AM alarm – heading for the starting line of the 2009 Disney World Marathon

Ran 26.2 miles in 5:07:51 – hot, leg & stomach cramps and sore knees = lots walking after mile 19

woke up from a nap and now my ankles hurt

big birthday day for kid two today – cake for breakfast, then heading to EPCOT

just finished birthday cake for kid two – happy not to be in MN tonight

hooked my MBP up to my brother’s internet connection – way easier to work on your own machine (but webmail, Twitter & FB don’t care)

It seems that a rainy, crappy day in Florida is about 100 times better than a cold, snowy day in Minnesota, eh?

One last full day in Florida before we return to the deep freeze

On the plane back to Minnesota

Landed safely at MSP – first AirTran experience pretty nice

Back for 2 days – Hockey Day Minnesota party at the @michaelguille house

Birthday party for kid two at Grand Slam in Burnsville

Checked in for Sun Country Vegas flight, passed thru security, watching Eagles choke

Landed safely in Las Vegas – heading for the Bellagio

the Bellagio Conservatory is beautiful right now

woo-hoo! 70% off at the Bobby Jones store in the Forum Shoppes

Mirage and Bellagio sports books have Wild 25-1 to win the cup (one other place was 50-1)

Last day in Vegas, then back to reality

Finally put a dent in the gambling damage – won $25 with blackjack and $42 with video poker

Leaving Las Vegas

Back home in Minnesota and ready to finally get 2009 started

First day back at work didn’t get me fired or beheaded, so I chalk that up as a win

starting my (hopefully fruitful) journey into iPhone development tonight

have to give Apple credit for the volume of information available on the iPhone Dev Center and WWDC 2008 video sites

in St. Cloud picking up donated Xserves and Xserve RAIDs

On the floor at HSRA, still chasing the network gremlins

picked up new hard drive for old HSRA iMac at Best Buy – I just love that you can buy internal hard drives just down the street

Swim time for both kids at Wise – nice and tropical in here

I’m sort of digging the intro to iPhone development videos from the last WWDC

No students in the building today = lots of productive maintenance work

Lunch at Cecil’s with Mikey Boom-Boom

I can’t believe how much crap I took out of the HSRA server room and the old tech office – it’s going to cost a fortune for recycling

Cleaning the house for Colleen’s party while watching Linkin Park Road to Revolution DVD

Marisa Tomei is just so damn cute, I can’t stand it (must go see The Wrestler now)

Haven’t got to the contract part yet, but it seems that Apple takes care of all of the local tax issues for iPhone app sales, eh? Sweeeet

Poker Night at the Thornburghs

getting a jump start on spring cleaning – won’t make it come any sooner, but maybe it will help with my never-ending cough

Minnesota freeways – now with even more slow drivers in the left hand lane

building a new Security Spy machine for HSRA

lunch at Davanni’s with Phil – the new pasta with Alfredo sauce and chicken is thumbs up

heading for the X to watch the Wild play Toronto

Is the short line-to-35E connection the worst road surface in the Twin Cities? Especially southbound…

Cold McDonald’s french fries are nasty. Pretty much all cold french fries are nasty, but it’s just so sad to throw away the clown’s artwork

iLife ’09 install DVD in the house

iWork ’09 also just arrived, along with my copies of OS X Server for the donated equipment

watching these WWDC iPhone development movies is like trying to learn a foreign language – major geek out time

dropped off graphics iMac at First Tech for repair, then had lunch with Bob at Barbette

flat iron frites at Barbette might just be my perfect meal

weekly visit to the tropics (Wise swim school) over – back to the -2 freezer

building a new “lite” eMac image; creating DMGs for iLife and iWork; fixing printer access and getting ready to build new Xserves – busy!

need some square mounting screws for a telecom rack – will stop at the hardware store on Raymond after lunch with Studio Phil

Picked Jay’s Cafe for lunch – mmm, Romeo’s Turkey and black cherry soda

I think the HSRA server is dying a slow, painful death

ran 6 miles outside in the Minnesota heat wave – 44 and sunny

Dinner at Snuffy’s Malt Shop with wife and kid two

Kid two: “Dad, have you ever been in jail?”

stopped at B&N on the way home, bought 3 new nerd books for work, watched an iPhone video & Nip/Tuck, now the end of the Wild game

finally beat Bonnie on FB’s Word Challenge – now I can move my obsession to iPhone development

picked more Tintin at the library, returned the extra firewall at Best Buy and did some grocery shopping at Byerly’s Eagan

headed to the Super Bowl party at the Cooks

Racking up donated Xserves and Xserve RAIDs – I’m getting too old for this

Family movie night with sick kid one: Harry Plopper #4

taking kid one to the doctor for a strep test

finished with most of the HSRA server room re-design; now shopping for new KVM and UPS options

watching WWDC videos (and trying not to fall asleep)

interesting – Nike just sent me a survey request about the Nike+ and it was administered using Survey Monkey

my post must have hexed things – heading in to work to get server back online

I think I found the problem – dead switch (that didn’t look dead). Pulled all wires out of patch panel and rebuilt it from scratch

the commute to and from St. Paul is *so* much better at 3:30AM

back in the server room – yeah

this is the calmest and most relaxed I’ve been in the server room in months – the tech zen is returning to my world

and then it was gone: network outage at 1PM – now the firewall is suspect

Was hoping to watch the Wild, but I’m heading back to the server room from hell

Not sure what will happen at work next, but maybe $27,000 worth of new switches will help

Stuff is actually working this morning – waiting for the other shoe to drop any time now

You know it’s a rough day when you don’t have time to tweet

At least I had time for lunch at the Blue Door – the Breakfast Blucy sure was something

It’s 10:30PM, must be time to head back to HSRA and work on the network

Met Timberwolves guard Rashad McCants tonight in studio A

Network issues return – shoot me now

leaving my network hell and heading to the Wild-Nashville game to get away from it all for a few hours

Heat wave – driving home from Wild game with windows down

Belated 40th birthday lunch at the mother-in-law’s house – Carbone’s pizza is still the best

The new Best Buy store at Mall of America is pretty nice. Picked up a couple of USB Ethernet adaptors

Going to Target with kid one and kid two – gift cards burning a hole in their pockets

dropped off kid two at a birthday party, now heading to the Wild-Oilers game with Mr. Miller

Watching the Grammy Awards – I miss Joe C

Stevie Wonder and the Jonas Brothers? Pah-leese

Morgan Freeman is a liar

All the record of the year peeps were British, eh?

A very preggers M.I.A. with the “Rap Pack”

Is this the Grammy Awards or the BRIT Awards?

Grammy Awards over – now in the HSRA server room trying to figure out what the hell is going on here (still)

After an all-nighter at HSRA, found a faulty network card in one of the copiers. Please, please, please let this be “it”

It was not “it” and now I’m looking for a good network consultant who knows Macs and Xserves

Found another bad device on the wired network – been up for a few hours now

Club sandwich at the Broiler with Studio Phil

taking kid one to Wise Swim School for team

Today’s schedule: HSRA board meeting, haircut, lunch at Zantigo, install new server network card and cross fingers

Switched over HSRA network to be primarily wireless – waiting for a fail

wow, I think the network made it through the day – I’m in shock

it’s so nice not to be worried 24/7 about my school network

made some good progress on work issues today – will next week be back to normal?

Network uptime celebration dinner at Raising Cane’s with the family

Just realized I had chicken for breakfast, lunch AND dinner – all bird, all the time

nice, laid-back day – just got dressed at 4PM and now watching Pebble Beach in HD

Clearance sale at Circuit City was *so* depressing

Lunch at the Outback Steakhouse with kid one and the wife – Australia in Burnsville, who knew?

watching Survivor and CSI via HD On Demand – Comcast gets points for this offering

Working the school holiday to get the final touches in place for the restoration of the HSRA network

Damn, eMacs are heavy. It’s like having a free workout at the club

taking a break from iWork ’09 and iLife ’09 upgrades to get some food from the clown

actually had time tonight to update 7minutemiles.com and watch some HD hockey on Versus (Blues vs. Rangers)

Lunch with Studio Phil at Town Talk Diner – mmm, cheese curds

Happy Birthday kid one! Birthday dinner at Punch Pizza in Highland

Had yet another network “event” this afternoon, but it seems I missed the network settings change on one iMac in another room

Heading in tonight after swim team to wire the place back and test

Too much slippery snow and ice tonight to risk driving in to work on the network. Wireless is up and running, so screw it (until tomorrow)

HSRA wired network connected again – let’s see how long it goes today

Lunch with Justin at Cecil’s – got called back to HSRA with a server down issue (different from network down)

just finished the most detailed diagram I think I’ve ever made – Omnigraffle is both the most awesome drawing program and also the suckiest

cleaning my home office tonight while watching live hockey online via the “pirate” site (Wings, Caps and now Kings)

Nice sunshine coming in through my office window – too bad the temperature isn’t nicer

At Wise Swim School with both kids and the grandparents

updating work diagrams so I can call in outside help

Wow, today is the birthday of Ansel Adams, Kurt Cobain and Robert Altman. Quite a trio, there.

made some changes to the HSRA network this morning and now monitoring 30 student computers – OMG MySpace works!

the bane of my existence: “TX ring is hung. Resetting chip.”

just ordered a new gig-e Watchguard firewall for school – enough of this crap, already

upgraded 7minutemiles.com to WordPress 2.7.1 – seems to work so far

Hockey in Minnesota (hockey.mn) upgraded to the new WordPress – a few more issues this time, mainly with WP-Sticky and WPG2 plugins

Finished upgrading all the WordPress sites on my server to 2.7.1

slept in til noon, shoveled 4-5 inches of heavy snow, took kid one to Target for more party items, then got lunch from the King

nice, quiet night at home with just kid one – watching the Wild in HD

kid one’s birthday party about to start – the theme is day spa, joy

massive headache; watching the Wild-Blackhawks game

maybe it’s the headache talking, but I can’t stand the “new” Oscars format – just read the names and tell me who won, dammit

hanging out in the HSRA server room, waiting for my new gear to arrive

“ARIA will also offer a new Cirque du Soleil production celebrating the musical legacy of Elvis Presley.” Hmm…

got a few things up and running today: $20 KVM I bought on eBay works, installed new web and database server successfully

I forgot just how bad the out of box experience is on OS X Server for web development – have to re-do everything, basically

compiling Apache 2 and PHP with GD and mcrypt support from scratch

hurray! new custom web server up and running – tweaks can wait until tomorrow

donated Xserve RAID chugging away on the re-initialization: two 1TB RAID5 volumes named Run and DMC

preparing for arrival of my new baby: a Watchguard Firebox® X1250e

Taking kid two to the Wild-Kings game at the X

Can’t believe I got a parking ticket – no signs, curb is covered in snow, tiny car. $25 for parking “within 20 feet of a crosswalk”

running Windows update on my XP VMware volume – need it for the Watchguard configuration tomorrow

successfully installed the Watchguard software in VMware, now I need to read the manual before setting it lose on the network

This Watchguard thingy is just a tad more complex than our current firewall/router

this firewall better freakin’ rock, because it’s taking me all day and all night to get it installed

finished what I wanted to do today at work – need to beat the traffic home tonight during the big snow storm

made it home safely, but don’t think I left second gear the whole way

Happy to have the Word Challenge crown back from Bonnie – can I ever catch Al?

VPN Tracker supports the Watchguard – full VPN to HSRA will again be a reality soon

The plow job on Interstate 35E was almost as bad as the main St. Paul thoroughfares – icy ruts and traffic moving at a crawl

Cleaning up my laptop – way too many files on the desktop

Trying out the Safari 4 Beta – not sure what I think yet

Lunch at the Broiler with Phil and Justin

Final changes made to the Watchguard – will try a switchover later this afternoon

Switchover had a few port forwarding glitches, but those are resolved and everything seems to be working fine (so far)

final preparations for dinner party with Jake and Rebecca (and perhaps Nappy too)

Just checked the server and the new firewall didn’t fix the link hung error – something still lurks on the floor (or at the switches)

ran back-to-back 5Ks on the treadmill – slow and boring (62:00), but at least I’m finally “in training” again

backed up my laptop today – have you backed up your computer lately?

If the mysterious owners of the golf.mn and ski.mn domains want to sell them, please contact me

After a mad day of laundry and watching golf on TV, now taking the family out to dinner at Fuddrucker’s

Just cleaned up and copied over bookmarks from Firefox to Safari 4 – I think I’m staying with the beta browser

walked for 35 minutes, then ran a 5K in 28:12 – feels pretty good to be training again

waiting for a new windshield to be installed on the MINI

talked to the California switch vendor and the order has been placed – the HP ProCurve 2848s should be here in 4-5 days

starting to set up databases on the new Studio 4 server, PHP and Apache config up next

cleaning up the office for the big fundraising meeting tomorrow

Swim team for kid one at Wise – so nice and tropical in here tonight

Ran 10K on the treadmill while watching the Wild give up a two-goal lead to the Canucks

Lunch with Phil at El Norteno – Mexican Coke no more 🙁

The Friends of HSRA meeting in my office went pretty good this afternoon – glad I picked up the place

Finally got virtual host settings on the new Apache2 server set the way I want, with 8 out of 34 domains now moved over successfully

transferred another dozen domains to the new web server – all the rest need databases moved first; tomorrow

fighting with a plug-in Mikey used for photo galleries in WordPress that doesn’t like the new server

Lunch with the studio guys at Famous Dave’s

finished moving a number of database-driven sites to the new Studio 4 web server, only minor issues remain (+ the HSRA sites)

Drove to Lake Street in MPLS to change flat tire for wife; not at Wise Swim School with kids 1 & 2

Home from Wise and trying to motivate myself to run on the treadmill during the Wild-Sharks game

Imagine that – the state tax refund arrived just as the wife’s car needs 4 new tires

ran 5K on the treadmill during the first period, but now I’m eating half a box of Girl Scout cookies

still waiting for the cable guy – switched over a few more websites while I wait

New, faster Comcast connection (50/10) initially worked, but is now offline (along with the new server). They are rebuilding the router now

ran 10.24 slow miles in Eagan and Apple Valley. nice MN winter day – sunny and 42. much nicer running with the wind, though.

seems that Comcast has resolved all of the issues with the new 50/10 internet connection at HSRA

there’s nothing quite like a long, hot shower after a cold, wet run

hanging out in my office while the family visits my mother-in-law’s house, then off to O’Gara’s for a late lunch

grilling some steak and chicken out on the deck

ran 4 miles on the cold, icy sidewalks of Eagan in 37:44

Bowling at Cedarvale with the Cooks – will break 100!

Belated birthday dinner at Bibo in Eagan with my parents

Mailed putter in for restoration, deposited $ at credit union, switched cars with mom, now lunch in River Falls

made it back from lunch with Garrett in time to meet the kids at the bus stop

Dinner at Champps Butler Square with Brad, then Timberpuppies game vs the Wizards

UPS says new tires on truck for delivery -working from home until they arrive

didn’t feel great this morning – feel asleep waiting for the Accord’s new tires to arrive. much better now, though

Nice and warm inside Wise Swim School; outside, not so much

Online tires I ordered were too big for the Accord – tire store 1, nerds 0

Tires on Accord replaced; working on returning the Pirelli’s, but now the MINI is in the shop getting the fluids flushed

I like the new shuffle, but you’d have to use the supplied headphones or it won’t work, no?

walked over to Kowalski’s to get some lunch; stopped at the gas station to pick up my lucky Gopher 5 ticket

MINI needs new input shaft seal, tie rods and control arm bushings (and maybe a new clutch), $2500+

building a new online HSRA photo gallery using Gallery2

not sure if I like Twitter hashtags or not – people are asking me to use them, but I don’t like the look and they use up your 140 characters

finally got some good news – the bad-ass new HP gigabit switches have arrived at work

Lunch with Phil and Justin at Vina in Highland Park

trying to plan the logistics of moving 5 servers from Seattle to Minnesota with minimum downtime is more challenging than I thought

Swim team and lessons for both kids, then maybe Target for groceries

Waiting for my car to be finished. Almost done with the new online photo server for HSRA

Car ready at Motorworks MINI – total damage is $2800+

expensive car repairs and now the network issues at work have returned (after being fine for almost three weeks)

two working cars in the garage (with no extra tires) and new bad-ass switches installed and configured at work – life is getting better

Spring skiing at Welch Village – I wouldn’t hate winter so much if it was always like this

Dinner with the family at the new Sonic Drive-In in Burnsville

ran 4 icy miles in Eagan

sitting in the server room – can’t wait for lunch

Lunch with Phil at Leeann Chins, then bought some Nikon Coolpix cams at Target

ran 6 miles in Eagan & Apple Valley – top random song of the run: Tom Waits – “You Can Never Hold Back Spring”

dammit, I don’t get to call in rich tomorrow yet again – stupid Minnesota Lottery

fixed email, WordPress image upload issues for Dr. Rossi, now need to figure out why his Mac Book Pro hates my wireless network

heading to the Apple Store to get some last minute things for the LA trip contingent – Rosedale or Mall of America?

got stuff at Rosedale, made some crappy lunch in the microwave, finished moving sites off the Seattle server; now watching iPhone 3.0 news

ran 7 miles in Eagan – seems strange to be running by frozen lakes in shorts and a T-shirt

Spending St. Patrick’s Day eve at Wise swim school watching kid one

stupid cough – got 3 hours of sleep last night

coughing and tired, but sitting in my office hoping to get primary DNS set up today on the new server (and maybe some ping-pong with Phil)

the logistics of this server move is blowing my mind – DNS alone is a pain in the ass

Lunch at Kims with Phil and Colleen

Google mail for domains is acting a little weird this morning

What is it was all of my web services this morning? Google webmail for HSRA is acting weird and now Twitter is losing my tweets

ordered a Dell netbook for work – can’t wait to see what you get for $350

Wise swim school with kid one and two – mom and dad here tonight too

Added Twitter integration to the Tapemark Charity Pro-Am site (http://proam.mn) – follow them @proam

damn, now I’m addicted to the word twist part of Word Challenge – 2AM, sigh

spring in Minnesota – enough snow overnight in St. Paul to scrape windshields

installed Elgg and Drupal test environments on the Minnesota server before having lunch at Cecil’s with Justin, Opal and Mikey Boom-Boom

plans for this afternoon: install a BuddyPress test environment on the Minnesota server; try to keep growing gut from bursting

WAVE swim team meet at Wise for kid one

Memory Lanes in Minneapolis with Colleen

Another Dave bowled my first frame by accident and I still broke 100 despite his “1”

Awake at 12:30 PM – can’t remember the last time I slept in until after noon

library and Best Buy – the girls bought Twilight and I got a Linkin Park EP; guilty pleasures

Beautiful day in Eagan – ran 8 miles, then brought all of the deck furniture out of storage

Windier, but another nice day – ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley at a brisker pace (53:05)

My first robin sightings of the year today

off to family dinner night at Jake’s in Eagan

damn, awake at 2:30AM again

cold and rainy outside my office, cold and drafty inside – glad I still have a blanket here

just finished moving primary DNS over to the new Minnesota server and notifying registrars – fingers crossed that nothing breaks too badly

uploaded a bunch of updates to the Tapemark Charity Pro-Am website

finished moving two test advisories over to the new network switches and ran software update on a bunch of machines

taking kid two to see Coraline 3D at the Eagan Regal Cinema tonight

got my federal tax refund direct deposited, but they stiffed me $200 – wonder what I did wrong *this* year

due to the wind, rain and cold outside, ran 5K on the treadmill (28:08)

decided to remove Google Analytics tracking code from my personal sites; also Amazon Store links and very close to axing AdSense ads

watching 24 online while trying to recover the hard drives of two advisory iMacs

Wife taking kids to swimming so I can stay home and watch the Wild in HD

Listening to new Brother Ali EP – the iTunes Music Store is dangerous for budgets

just finished removing Google Ads from my sites and re-validating all of them for XHTML 1.0 Strict

NatGeo: In all of history, only 161,000 tons of gold have been mined, barely enough to fill two Olympic pools – can that possibly be true?

time for errands: gas station, hair cut, then lunch with my mom and the girls at Midtown Global Market

Eating lunch at Andy’s Garage in the MGM

Dinner with Colleen at Green Mill Eagan

Prince pumpin’ the Minneapolis sound on the Tonight Show – nice catches by the roadie

web standards troubleshooting is sort of a time suck, but very satisfying once you pass

Got dreaded “network is down” calls this morning, but it was really just a power outage; new bad-ass switches still bad-ass

Yeah me – successfully found the reason for slow internet in my St. Paul office (duplicate DNS settings)

Turkey club at the St. Clair Broiler with Studio Phil

trying to use Lingon to create a launchd startup item that will run as root on server startup to launch my custom Apache2 install

Lingon created plist seems to load on restart, but not as root. Permission issue?

just found the fix to the server startup item issue – owner (root) did not have execute permissions; seems to work now

Wise Swim School with kid one – nice and tropical inside, cold and craptacular outside

watched some Dexter with Colleen, now waiting to watch the second night of Prince on the Tonight Show

Prince tonight: more guitar, 2nd night with a harmonica and was that big Michael Bland on drums?

Decided it was time to set up Google Apps for Domains on baseball.mn and basketball.mn (along with the associated Twitter handles)

Logos and colors selected for Baseball in Minnesota and Basketball in Minnesota – see @baseballmn and @basketballmn

Ran 12 miles this afternoon in the sunny, but cold and windy Eagan and Apple Valley

Pizza for dinner at the Cooks

heading to Afton Alps for one last ski day

cleaned and vacuumed the house, watched some Dexter and now catching up on EyeTV recordings

trying to get some spring cleaning done in the garage before winter returns this week

ran a quick 4 miler in Eagan – it’s not nearing as warm as it looks

watching Tiger try to catch O’Hair on NBC

Tiger closes the deal with a birdie on 18; now on to see what the Wild will do now that they are “nearly” dead

Final preparations for the Seattle trip tomorrow; also watching the Sunday shows

Taking the kids out to dinner as the wife goes swimming

decided I needed a break from running tonight, but after all the crappy food today, walked 2 miles on the treadmill to make up for it

just made copies of the HSRA Excellence databases in anticipation of tomorrow’s server move

heading for the airport – quick out and back to Seattle today

Forgot just how much the main terminal experience at MSP sucks compared to Humphrey

Two good things about the main terminal – breakfast with the clown and free access to the Delta Club

Full plane to Seattle – should leave close to on-time. Aircraft continuing on to Maui. Smart aircraft

Landed in SEA – the new Delta is just as crappy as the old Northwest

All but two servers un-racked at digital.forest – visiting with Chuck in his office

Had a nice dinner and drinks with Chuck Goolsbee of digital.forest at the Airport Hilton; now hanging out at the SEA-TAC WorldClub

Oh yeah, so Delta/NWA didn’t want to accept my Anvil case loaded with 2 servers. Their scale said 81 pounds – finally took it for $175 fee

It feels weird having all of my personal websites offline – hopefully back up and running in about 7 hours

Just made notes on server setup in Minnesota once I get back – it’s going to be a long morning

On the plane early in my damn exit row aisle seat

Landed safely in Minnesota – can I blame the crying baby on the new Delta? Sure!

one of of three servers mostly back up – still a lot of work to do

taking kid two to the doctor – possible pink eye. Then she wants Noodles for lunch

moving servers is a royal pain in the ass – not sure if it’s worth the cost savings

submitted reverse DNS requests to Comcast business – the Ruby server still doesn’t like the new IP address

got “the letter” from the IRS today – it was my error, but it only cost $200 this year

Man I wish Jake still worked for Studio 4 – he saves the day again, getting the Ruby machine back up and running with the new IP

travel fatigue and lack of sleep catching up with me

picked up a chicken sandwich from the King, now ready to finish off the server move project at HSRA

the school is such a peaceful place when no one else is here

successfully upgraded the Watchguard to version 10.2.8

got all of the floor workstations connected to the new bad-ass switches and ran software updates; waiting for Watchguard to call back

my first Dell has arrived – an Inspiron Mini 9. It says to please wait

all Windows updates, anti-virus and crapware tools installed on the Dell mini – it’s nicer than I expected

finished most of the mini 9 config – need to get a 16GB card next

installed another ProCurve switch, connected it to new secondary DNS server, 70+ domains transferred over, dig works = much joy

Sense of joy diminished as brake light comes on again MINI

Dropped off graphics computer at FirstTech, Best Buy had nothing form me, now having lunch with the wife at BWW

Installing Watchguard software on Mini 9, then off for a run

ran 10 easy, sunny miles in Eagan and Apple Valley – saw one bald eagle and two large birds that looked like swans

Dishes, laundry and vacuuming – what an exciting Saturday

Poker at Todd’s house

Due to the stupid April snow and cold weather, had to run on the treadmill today – 10K in 55:32 while watching the Houston Open – go Fred!

depressing TV today on NBC: Wild lose to the Red Wings and Freddie Couples blows it on the last three holes

Hanging out in the HSRA server room today with fingers crossed (and headphones blaring)

Students have been here for more than an hour and the network is still up (but fingers still crossed)

Lunch at Kim’s with Studio Phil

90 minutes to go before students leave for the day and the network is still standing

so the fastest upload speed Qwest offers via DSL on *any* package is only 896Kbps? That seems really low

More Chinese food – Lee Ann Chin for dinner with Colleen, then off to see Morrissey at the State Theater in Minneapolis

HSRA network still stable, so I’ve been working on clearing out the backlog of stupid stuff – day becoming very long

Still not used to Facebook chats – it works fine, but doesn’t really fit into my work flow

Ran a new 11.7 mile route in Eagan and Apple Valley just for Bonnie; now swimming for both kids

Not feeling so great this morning. Maybe lunch with kid two at school will help

Ordered new rear brake pads for the MINI (will wait on the caliper for now); watching the Masters par 3 tournament

Finally finished updating HSRA network diagrams for the day (about 90% done). Hmm, what to do the rest of the day?

Got phone system admin software installed on the netbook; now watching old CSI episodes from Netflix

Finishing the HSRA reference diagrams and watching the Masters live stream from Amen Corner (still the best online video quality ever)

Having a cheese dog with fries at the Wienery with Studio Phil

added a 16GB SDHC card from Amazon to the netbook, doubling storage for about $35

finishing lots of little stupid things today while watching the Masters; just got VPN working on the new firewall and it’s way fast

Brought Carbone’s Pizza over to the Cooks for dinner; up next – taking kid one to swim team

No school for the kids, so I’m taking the day off. Headed to see farm babies at the Minnesota Zoo this morning

looks sunny and nice outside, but really cold and windy: ran 10K on the treadmill while watching the Masters

Heading to the first round of the year with the Millers at Columbia in Minneapolis

Shot 88 from the whites at Columbia in the season opener; birdied the first hole and added one more on 14

Dinner at Ghengis Grill with the Millers

ran a nice 15.5 mile route in Eagan and Apple Valley – would have been almost perfect with a little less wind and flatter hills

Easter lunch at the mother-in-law’s house; now watching the Masters in HD

Mmmm: multi-colored Jello Easter eggs

too many metal grinding noises coming from the MINI – will wait to drive it again until after the new pads arrive tomorrow

so I’ll work from home today and tomorrow; updating project list, review digital still and video camera options, troubleshoot Excellence

running backups – thanks for the reminder Time Machine

dealing with registrars is a pain in the ass

Kid number one while watching Grease (with John Travolta): “This is like an old version of High School Musical”

Watching an old CSI with Colleen – HD On Demand is the best thing about cable

Very pleased with the speed of the new VPN

updating Coda to version 1.6.4

heading to lunch with Todd at BWW in Eagan

MINI rear brake pads have arrived; headed to the garage this afternoon

Finally done with the brake job (thanks to @chuckgoolsbee) – test drive around the block went fine, but I still may get it checked out

taking the kids to Wise Swim School (in the other car, as I still need to bleed the brake line in the MINI)

my arms and hands are killing me from trying to compress that piston, so I guess I’ll go for a late night run to make my legs hurt too

ran a brisk 4 miles in the dark – Eagan really could use some more street lights

Sue McLean is keeping Zoo dates a secret, but Pollstar spills a few beans

Concern over caliper leads to me dropping off MINI at neighborhood shop – they will flush the fluid too

Finally listening to Gruber & Mann’s talk from SXSW – need some inspiration for my publishing sites

House all to myself for an hour and I don’t have to work either. Making a little dinner, then maybe a run

Colleen decided on LA for her 40th birthday trip: Manhattan Beach, Hollywood and Disneyland

could only manage a 5K on the treadmill tonight during the Canucks-Blues game, so I did some sit-ups and hand weights to compensate

In a good mood to start the work day – let’s see how long that lasts

I’ve been celebrating lechery since at least 1979

In Uptown with Studio Phil – lunch at Green Mill (mmm, Walleye Fritters), then pick up graphics iMac at FirstTech

Very productive, positive day at work today; the MINI brakes worked; heading for a run in the 70 degree spring day

ran the 6 mile Eagan/New Zoo route. 70 degrees + sun = a very sweaty run – forgot about that after a long, cold winter

Three marathons in one year – what the hell am I thinking?

Back from a productive business development day; picked up dinner from the King for Colleen and kid two

Late night hockey with kid one – watching the Canucks beat St. Louis in HD

Also updating HSRA workstations via the new VPN while watching Bobby Lou

Finally went to Home Depot to get lawn junk, but wore my arms out raking (still lots to do). Had lunch with the clown; now Lynn’s graduation

Wow – 500 people graduating from Le Cordon Bleu today. Guest speaker was the executive chef from Murray’s. Mmm, butterknife steak

lawn care done – let the rain begin!

Nice dinner at my grandfather’s house with a bunch of relatives. Rooster’s chicken and fries and high fives all around for the Riser firing

heading out for a long Sunday run in the rain – not sure how far yet

Today’s training run brought to you by the letter “W” and the number “13.” Rain and 42 degrees – just like the 2008 TCM

Taking the wife out to dinner tonight, just the two of us – Bibo?

Bibo was awesome – Colleen had Prosciutto pizza and some Valpolicella wine, while I had Perciatelli Carbonara

Everyone else is asleep now, so I get to watch my third playoff hockey game of the day – go Sharks!

They are off and running in Boston – hope I can be there someday

Working on the disaster recover plan while watching Boston online

Trying out the free version of Mozy online backup for Mac

The desktop version of Tweetie is even better than the iPhone version – goodbye Twitterific (and the Safari tab)

Made it 45 minutes into the agape meal for kid two before I got into trouble; now I get to watch the C of Red on Versus HD

So I wonder how long “shortly” will be regarding PowerPC support for Retrospect 8.0

MozyPro purchased and installed on main file server, but the lack of pre-built sets for Open Directory, iCal Server, etc. is disappointing

Lunch with Phil at Cecil’s

Our Exabyte VXA tape drive didn’t like the trip back from Seattle – POST failed & servo errors

The “secret” screen sharing app in Leopard is very handy when you don’t have ARD around; also got SSH-forwarding set up on the WatchGuard

Trying to find the best (and easiest) way to securely sync folders between two servers

Enough backup script research for one day, time to take both offspring to swim school

Finished a quick 10K on the treadmill while watching the Sharks-Ducks game

Signed up for the personal unlimited Mozy account, but I think it may take a week for the initial upload (that’s with no music or pix too)

Off to Minneapolis Golf Club for Minnesota Section PGA media day; then a Tapemark Pro-Am meeting

Great networking day at MGC – even got to talk Wild with Gorg

Nice to spend a day away from the computer, but wow was there a lot of email and news to catch up on

Sitting on the front porch reflecting on what an awesome day it was – I really like talking with people outside my normal circle

Can’t believe I left my office keys at home – I really need a second set for the backpack

Sorry marketing people, I’m done spending time answering “customer satisfaction” surveys

If you don’t hear from me (either way), you can assume I’m moderately satisfied

Updated Ubuntu in VMware today, but not to version 9

Got some new keys made at the hardware store on Raymond; now lunch at Keys with Phil

I wonder how many different accounts I actually have with Apple and the ADC – guess I needed a new one to get another copy of the dev tools

Giving rsync a whirl on the secure copy between servers thing from earlier this week

Ran a semi-quick 5K on the treadmill while watching the Sharks lose again. Last run before Get in Gear 10K on Saturday morning

Going to get in a half day of work, pick up my race packet for Get in Gear and then do house prep for this weekend’s events

Season 5 of Weeds premiers Monday, June 8th

Hooray – Scotty is shipping my putter back to me today! FedEx should have it here by Wednesday

House is ready for Colleen’s book club; grilling some turkey breast & waiting for more playoff hockey tonight

Took kid two to Best Buy for a new Airport Extreme base station and also TJ Maxx. North Stars trucker hats for $3!

Friday, April 24, 2009 – the day Gina turned down a drink

Weather doesn’t look *too* bad for the race this morning – heading to Minnehaha Park

Set new 10K PR at Get in Gear – 49:01

Showered and changed – time to head for the Cannon Falls Bakery to pick up first communion cakes

Stopped for lunch in Hampton at Little Oscar’s – choo choo

This Philly-Pittsburgh game is nuts

Watching Doubt on DVD while cleaning my office

Getting the house ready for kid two’s first communion after party (4PM) – wish it would stop raining

Lazy Sunday: a little lunch at Wendy’s with the family, library, playoff hockey, City Pages Best Of issue and rain. Only missing cupcakes

Do potential MINI owners really consider the Suzuki SX4 Crossover a viable alternative? Seems like wasted ad money to me

Ran 4 slow and easy recovery miles in Eagan, dodging rain drops and earthworms

Compressing Acrobat files, prepping online test environments, updating web sites and entering student test results – and it’s not even 10

Mom still sick, so I’m now working from home this afternoon. Aside from the ant party in the family room, not a bad deal

Think I found a fix to obscure Gallery2/WPG2 sidebar issue with private galleries – what an exciting life I lead

Wow, NWEA re-wrote their Intel Mac version of the TestTaker app using X windows – WTF?

If I were NWEA, I think I’d be moving to an all web solution, not X11. But that’s just me

And speaking of suck, why is it taking half an hour to upgrade Acrobat Reader on my old WinXP workstation?

Trying to remember how to code a web page from scratch – too many templates these days

Lunch with Phil at Vina in Highland

NWEA even has a center for me

Just how many Twitter accounts do I really need? Up to nine now in the Tweetie sidebar

Ran the 10 mile Johnny Cake Ridge Road route, with an intermission to watch kid one and two swim – Brad also stopped and said hi

Oh yeah – Kid Rock at the MN State Fair Grandstand August 29th with Lynyrd Skynyrd

Learning more about Subversion this morning as I wait for FedEx to deliver the restored Cameron putter

Updated HSRA site with new board minutes; reading first few chapters of the Subversion book – still no putter

Restored putter in the house – pictures at 11

Pirate English on Facebook is pretty damn creative

Had almost all the Subversion training I can absorb for one day; five kids now in the basement playing and pizza in the oven for dinner

Pepsi Throwback would taste better in a glass bottle, but overall is pretty good. Throwback Mountain Dew? Not so much

Got lots done this morning already: installed NWEA on 3 advisories, fixed a printing issue, reset 2 security cams, answered email

Screw swine flu: having lunch with Colleen at El Norteno on Lake Street

Helped Tomas move desks into his new space across the hall and got my new white shirt all dirty; fixed Rossi’s JMC issue & TC’s mail issue

Heading to kid one music concert, which will include a tuba solo by said kid

Post concert treats for the tuba star at DQ

Ran 5 miles on the treadmill while watching Hawks-Canucks game on Versus. That should get me to 110 miles for April

Ran 4 miles in Eagan with the absentee runner

Today’s plan: load new NWEA app on remaining iMacs, roll out old eMacs back to the floor, run 100ft ethernet cable & hit Best Buy

Amazing how many tweets pile up when you are offline for half a day; now at Herbergers with Colleen for her health care worker sale

Spent a nice early evening with Mr. Schuster and his friend Randy in Stillwater

Stopped at Kowalski’s Eagan on the way home (love that store); now watching CSI via HD On Demand

Driving to Hayfield, Minnesota this morning to play golf with the Millers at the Oaks

Mowed lawn for the first time this year, turned on sprinkler system and tested; now Derby Time!

Fun Derby – now watching Bolt with kid two

Awesome night for a walk, now it’s time for Harper’s Island

Ran six miles with Gina in Eagan and Apple Valley – perfect weather today. This might be a good day to spend on the deck in the sun

Showered, changed, dirty clothes in the wash, stack of magazine to read on the deck ready to go

Best name in an Economist story: industry analyst Ferdinand Dudenhoffer

Finished what seems like the 10th load of laundry, watched the 3OT Detroit game, now watching Boston while catching up on office stuff

Time for walkies

Checking out the University of Minnesota Press and the Quadrant program

It’s way too nice to be at work, but baby needs a new pair of shoes

Running 100ft of Ethernet cable 20ft off the ground – ladders are fun!

The ceilings here are filthy – glad to have most of the cable run finished. All that’s left is installing another switch and a second cable

First half of cable pull working perfectly – setting up an iMac for Bonnie’s JMC access upstairs

How come replacement APC UPS batteries cost almost as much as a new unit?

My fear of heights and my hatred of being dirty combine to make for a pretty crappy Monday. Cable run completed and working, though

Had a nice visit with my new office neighbor Tomas – his space is coming along great

HSRA staff meeting almost over

No wife, so taking three kids to Raising Cane’s for dinner. A chef I am not

Sat out in the garage reading the Economist until it got dark, then filled out the online form for PGA media credentials – fingers crossed

Ran 8 humid, after-the-rain miles in Eagan & Apple Valley; crossed paths with a wild turkey near the zoo

Lunch with Studio Phil at Annie’s Parlour in Dinkytown

The smoky sharp cheddar at Annie’s just might be my favorite cheese of all time. Definitely top three

Back to reading about Subversion (finally)

Taking everyone to Wise Swim School tonight

It’s amazing how much a good set of headphones and some great music can totally change your mood

Mozy has finally finished backing up my laptop

Ran 4 early morning miles with Gina in Eagan

Morning server maintenance and backups, then some BuddyPress upgrades, followed by a haircut and Zantigos for lunch

Appears that I successfully upgraded WordPress Multi-user to 2.7.1 and BuddyPress to 1.0, but this learning curve is a little steep

Minnesota’s version of CHiPs was out in force on I-94; got clocked, but not going fast enough over limit to get stopped. Phew.

Ah, sweet Zantigo, greatest feast on Earth

So much for severe thunderstorms after 3PM – working on the driveway in the sun

OK, so what do you do when you forget the password to the spreadsheet with all the passwords in it?

Oooh, here comes a storm now – better start packing it up

I think that storm just totally broke up once it hit the metro area – sun coming back out.

Watching Caps-Pens on Versus HD and checking out the Bloomington Public School District

My mind is all over the place this morning – time to enter some test scores and zone out

Reading up on iCal Server

Now moving on from iCal Server to Google Calendar – iCal sync

Leave the building for 30 minutes to get my kids and Comcast kills the net connection at HSRA – chaos ensues

The Comcast business connection at HSRA is back up and running, preventing a commute back to St. Paul. Glad we have redundant networks

Done troubleshooting from the garage chair – time to take kid two for a bike ride to the Deerwood playground (kid one to swim team)

Milk Run flier came in the mail today – kid one and I are now registered

Looks like all our Google Apps mail accounts are “temporary unavailable” right now

Ran 4 pre-dawn miles in Eagan with Gina

Google Apps is back, so I’m heading to Minneapolis Golf Club for the Minnesota Golf Champions tournament

Late lunch meeting at the Eagan BWW with Todd from Accenture

Back in the Eagan office – lots to work on

Watched some CSI and hockey in HD, now off to do some reading before bed

Ran the Eminem run in Eagan with Gina (8 miles). Perfect Minnesota spring weather

Heading to Clearwater, Minnesota to golf at Eagle Trace with Mikey and the Duke

Shot 90 from the whites at Eagle Trace, now getting some food at Keith’s Kettle

Nice evening in front of the fire at the Cooks – first S’mores of the season

Watching Private Practice season finale in one window, Canucks-Blackhawks in another and Facebook on the laptop. Multitask FTW!

Oh man, this SNL is the best one I’ve seen in ages

Taking Colleen to the new Crave restaurant at MOA for Mother’s Day lunch, then to Archivers

Not so many people at MOA now – I think everyone left after race for the cure

Colleen wants pancakes for dinner, so no Bibo – headed to Perkins

The South sure knows comfort food: had Perkin’s “Southern Fried Chicken Biscuit Platter” tonight and now just waiting for my heart to stop

Ran 5 miles in Eagan with Gina. 40 degrees – is summer ever going to arrive?

Time Machine says it’s time to back up the hard drive – have you backed up lately?

Setting up another test WordPress MU/Buddypress environment this morning

Heading to Southview for a Tapemark Charity Pro-Am meeting – hoping they have a club sandwich with my name on it

A little overwhelmed after the lunch meeting – we some very ambitious plans with not a lot of time to work on them

I hate typos in Tweets, but I never really stop to proof-read them either

Reading up on mobile-optimized web design principals and tips

Creating the foundation for the online scoring functions of the 2009 Tapemark Charity Pro-Am while watching the Pens game

Monty Python and the Holy Grail has aged nicely after almost 35 years. Camelot is a silly place, indeed

My college employer has been demolished

About halfway finished with 2009 updates to the Tapemark scoring code

Heading to the original Carbone’s in St. Paul for lunch with Mr. Skoglund

2009 scoring code edited and uploaded – should be ready for golfer entry and initialization now. Might clean up some CSS and layout stuff

tapemark08 duplicated to tapemark09, which is now active and being backed up by the dumpdb script

Still freaks me out getting tweets from @natalie_gulbis in my Tweetie sidebar – restores my faith in technology every time

Tapemark sponsor updates finished and Basecamp volunteer config ready – now on to Keynote automation and mobile-optimized web design

Watched a Matter of Loaf and Death (thanks DS), now off to Wise Swim School

Want to stay up and watch the Red Wings – Ducks game, but that 4:30AM alarm clock is taunting me

Ran 4 windy and damp miles in Eagan with Gina. More rain on the way

Early morning is a good time to catch up on TV shows: watched Scrubs and Simpsons

Upgraded the laptop to 10.5.7 – took a really long time. Good thing I brought The Wrestler in to watch on the big screen

Aside from Marisa Tomei naked and the great Springsteen song at the end, didn’t much care for The Wrestler

Just bought the new David Byrne Live fundraiser EP

Damn KFC bait and switch bastards -“overwhelming demand” means that won’t give me my free Oprah meal. Mail me a rain check? WTF?

Researching Keynote and Numbers automation and integration – do they? The Applescript dictionary seems a little light

Heading to Oak Marsh to sub in Dan’s golf league

Shot 42 in league play at Oak Marsh (from the whites); ordering the free sampler at the Oakdale BWW

This Twins game is going way too long – need to get some sleep before the 5AM alarm

Ran 4 windy, cold miles in Eagan with Gina. Shorts and a T-shirt were not the correct choice

After reading Cabel Sasser’s review, now thinking about a Canon SD960

Today’s work cinema – The Princess Bride

“Get back witch! I’m not a witch, I’m your wife!”

Off to Best Buy and Barnes and Noble, then maybe lunch somewhere.

Got the new camera at Best Buy, but their printer selection stinks, so I went to Staples. They had printers, but no ink. Ordered from Amazon

Barnes and Noble only had one mobile web design book (and it was written for marketers). Ordered two books from Amazon

Meeting with Randy from LubeTech at their Golden Valley office at 3

Back from Golden Valley. Don’t know how people drive 169 and 494 on a daily basis

Wife-less tonight: fed the kids, watched 24 and a bit of hockey and Survivor. Now off to swim team for kid one

Tip from the Canon SD960 manual: Be careful not to accidentally bang people. I’ll be sure to make a note of that

Ran 10 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – much less wind today (finally)

Breakfast with Colleen at the clown’s place, then a stop at the credit union for weekend money. Now on to writing a meeting agenda

First (and currently only) person at the pre-meeting lunch at Famous Dave’s

Done with meeting, now waiting for the rest of the family to pick me up for Twins night at Allina Commons

Golfing with the Miller brothers this morning at Ridges of Sand Creek in Jordan

Spilled peanut butter on my pants and the wind is gusting to 37, but it’s still golf

Did I mention it’s windy today? Geez

Shot 92 from the whites at Ridges – so happy to be out of the wind

Dropped off plants at Grandma Karen’s house, now taking kid one to Target

Mowed the lawn and now I’ve had enough wind and grass for one day. Trying to catch up on The Office now via hulu

Poker night at Todd’s house

Poker night ended like 3 hours ago and I’m going out for run? What’s wrong with this picture?

Beautiful morning for a run (despite the sleep deprivation) – ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley

Got some laundry in and watching the last couple of episodes of The Office

Perfect day to live the country club life

Shot 92 from the whites at Southview CC – and that was with five 7’s on the card

Who will be the sole Survivor? Here goes three hours of my life down the drain

Ran 4 miles in Eagan with Gina – decided to push the hilly route run to Wednesday

“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

Yikes, I was born 14,729 days ago

Are these the winds of change that have been blowing the past two weeks?

Time to enter some student test results into Excellence

Entering test scores gives me the blues – time for a Robert Cray marathon in iTunes

Printing the 40-page manuals from MDE and Pearson to figure how to set up the online science tests that have to be done by Friday

Heading to Kim’s for some chicken chow mein with Studio Phil

Reading the Pearson manuals so I can ready to test tomorrow (if needed)

Just got back from the ‘Hawk Middle School parent orientation. I hope the sorting hat picks Gryffindor House for kid one

Abandoned the kids at home, used their free junior Frosty’s coupons at Wendy’s. Parents of the Year!

Finally gonna mess around with video, iMovie ’09 and the YouTube account I opened two years ago and never used

Trying to stay up to watch the 24 season finale that I recording earlier

Was thinking about a Honda Insight until I read this: Eco Assist™ helps you develop fuel-efficient driving habits over the long term. Nope.

Hmm, the 2010 Porsche Panamera Turbo would make for a nice Minnesota family car, no? 4WD, 0-60 in 4 seconds and a top speed of 188MPH. Nice!

Why am I still up? Oh yeah, I get to sleep in until 7 tomorrow/today. Safari beta upgraded, car sites visited, 24 watched. Time for bed

More Pearson test prep this morning – hope to finally have this ready by noon

Test environment set up, now having a chicken Caesar salad at Cafe Latte with Studio Phil. Weather here today is perfect

Left work early for a Texas-style run in the 84 degree heat. Science test admin can be done tonight from home, right?

Now I remember why I don’t live in Texas. 12 miles cut to 8, temp really 93, walked for 2 miles and Gina drove by when I started – busted

Flashback: my mother made me Kraft macaroni and cheese with chopped up hot dogs for dinner tonight

Swimming lessons for kid two, followed by swim team for kid one

Karen was right, it does feel like the Amazon rain forest in here tonight

Ran a new 4 mile hill route in Eagan with Gina. Only 70 degrees and windy – much better than yesterday

Pearson’s java-based TestNav app takes like 10 minutes to launch on a new Intel iMac – decrypt and load

TestNav installed, TestTaker fixed, now on to the dentist

Clean bill of health at the dentist, now on to Target, gas station and lunch

Sweet – Robert Cray at the Cabooze, Thursday, July 2. Colleen just stopped by there and got us two tickets – never been there

Chatted with Jack Skoglund, Studio Phil and Hans Erik this afternoon. Great to hear from all of them

Minnesota Pearson tech support was quick, courteous and very helpful. Will be ready to test our three science students tomorrow

Hurray for USA First-Class Forever stamps – glad I picked up a stack of those way back when

Can’t remember the last time I bought 3 physical CDs on the same day: Green Day, Eminem and Tori Amos

Tried the Mongolian chicken at Leeann Chin today for lunch – stay away from our wall, you freakin’ Mongrolians!

Caliper replacement repair estimate scheduled with Motorwerks for next Friday – sick of worrying about it

Plumber coming tomorrow to fix the back flow regulator – getting all our broken stuff fixed

Off to the post office, then pick up kid one and two (and maybe kid three) for Wild Select-A-Seat at the X

Toured almost every inch of the X tonight. Aunt and uncle got to move, warehouse sale was great and now we are at the DQ on 7th

Ran 5 miles in Eagan with Gina – saw Brad heading to Lifetime and had a few raindrops during the last mile

Science tests ready to go, now I just need the students to show up

Office way too hot – glad the A/C fired right up with no issues

Made a few updates to bradjamesgolf.com – bigger re-design coming this summer

Still no students to test, so I’m cleaning up my desktop, writing some posts, uploading some photos and waiting for lunch with Colleen

Turned off java on Safari 4 beta due to the security threat, but quickly needed it again and now it seems to be hosed.

Off to fix printers I guess

One student tested, one student refused (!) – that’s a wrap

Program director and development director caught the refusing student and now I’m proctoring listening to a lot of attitude and sighs

I’m not sure who wants to get out of here more – me or the student taking the science test on the day before a long weekend

Plumber did a bang-up job, no more sprinkler system leaks. Kid two gone, kid one about to leave – time to sit in the lawn chairs & relax

Ran a new 7.4 mile route in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – perfect weather today with no wind (finally)

Awesome breakfast at J’s, now a Target stop

Washin’ the MINI, then off to downtown Minneapolis to visit Mike and try out Fogo de Chão

OMG, I’ve never seen anything like this before – it’s a total meat party

I don’t think the Stillwater Marathon was quite ready today for people. Got my packet and now family dinner at Brine’s

Where did this rain come from? Heading to golf with the Millers at Theodore Worth

Shot an ugly 96 from the whites at Wirth; great weather and it felt like I played much better than 96

Ate late lunch at home (for once), replaced nasty grill parts, picking up kid one from birthday party, housework, then dinner at Luci

One addition to today’s agenda: taking kid one and friend to Old Navy

Booked our room at the Belamar in Manhattan Beach for Colleen’s b-day trip – also got two tix to see Craig Ferguson (guest Jeff Foxworthy)

Thanks Bonnie and Eric for a nice evening at Luci – had Insalata Cesare, Spaghetti alla Carbonara and Kobe Beef. Great food & great company!

Off to Stillwater

Everyone safe and sound at the Stillwater Half – finished around 2:25

Dinner and another nice visit with old Central friends at Champps in St. Paul

Chip times are up now for the Stillwater race – 2:24:57

Upgraded two servers to 10.5.7, even though I said I wasn’t going to do any work this weekend. Back to vacation for the rest of the day

Two goals for today: laundry and a clean office (lofty and exciting, I know)

Memorial Day dinner at Jean’s house – sketching out future plans for 7minutemiles.com

Totally not feeling it today – how many days left in the school year?

Studying WordPress <> Twitter plug-in code

Heading to a lunch meeting with Studio Phil at the Broiler

Trying out some DNS and Apache2 re-direct stuff

Runner’s World online training log too slow (and seems partially broken) – time to write my own

Crazy new Flash-based movie overlay now live at proam.mn

Studying the “Writing a Plugin” section of the WordPress Codex

Time for kid one and two to go to swimming at Wise

Stayed up late last night watching Dexter and Craig Ferguson; home this morning with sick kid one

Checking out Starkey Labs

Off to Wendy’s to get a frosty for the sickie

Great lunch and meeting with Doug at Sunsets in Wayzata

Ran 10.2 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley, followed by a Davanni’s sub and some NHL playoff hockey

Ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – now it’s time to taper until Saturday (Burnsville Half)

Kid one off to writer’s conference, kid two field trip to Children’s Theater

Back in the office after a long, troubling chaperone trip for kid two to the Children’s Theater

Changed Irwin video to only play on the front page of proam.mn, uploaded raffle PDF

Got a few things done in the school before the big parent night event: installed new printer, fixed old printer, uploaded NWEA data, etc.

Skipped out on Famous Dave’s catering to catch the end of kid one’s swim meet

This meet just might last all night

Watched kid one win all 3 of her individual heats (a first!), then dropped off the MINI to have the caliper looked at in the morning

Taleo must die

Best Buy, Federal Reserve, General Mills and Thomson Reuters

Oh, and Jostens too

Set up DNS for new subdomain: golf.hsra.org

Motorworks wants almost $800 to replace one brake caliper (and almost $500 to fix the door lock) – time to look elsewhere

Visual voicemail not working on my phone today – AT&T issue?

Circuit breakers blown at HSRA – messed up everything. Emergency visit to bring systems back up before I get the car back from Motorworks

EDGE back, power back, web sites live again, all servers online. Now back to south metro to pick up wife and MINI

Off to pick up (un-fixed) car and have lunch with Colleen

Lunch at David Fong’s in Bloomington – established 1958

Picked up the MINI and will research other mechanics in town – thinking about the import place in Uptown

Got a last minute invite from Schuster to join him at Highland National in an hour. Kids covered, wife approved – hurray! A brief respite

Now that’s more like it – shot 85 from the whites at Highland National

Sweet! Just received an application for 2010 Masters Tournament practice round tickets in my email this morning

1.5 hours away from the start of the 2009 Heart of the City half marathon in Burnsville – Go Gina!

Great day for a race – finished with a watch time of 2:10:37

Nice (but cold and windy) lunch on the patio at Doolittle’s with the Cooks

It’s time to drop the puck

Fire and s’mores at the Cooks, now some late night TV

Heading to work on a Sunday morning – what fun

Uploaded test data, installed 4 kiosks, upgraded all iMacs to 10.5.7, reimaged 1 machine, repaired 1 drive, installed Office patches

Trash, recycling, lawn waste, dishwasher, laundry, gift wrapping & now a little golf in HD. Tonight: Up in 3D at Eagan Regal

Almost $50 to get the family in to this movie – and that’s before the price gouging at the snack bar

$50 was totally worth it – my favorite Pixar movie so far

I didn’t cry as much as I did when I first watched Life is Beautiful, but it was awfully close – Up is a very touching story

Ran 4 recovery miles in Eagan with Gina – beautiful spring morning

Alright, time to get this HSRA golf tournament web site built – July 18, 2009 at Majestic Oaks, if you want to save the date

Good progress on the HSRA golf tournament, now off to a Tapemark Pro-Am meeting at SVCC

Good meeting at SVCC, nice phone call with TC, kids left with Grandma to see Up again and wife is swimming – all alone in empty house

Fafinski Mark & Johnson open house at Flying Cloud airport in Eden Prairie

Home from the awesome open house – got to sit in a Citation CJ1 business jet and saw lots of Garmin gear. Congrats on 10 years KJ!

Tapemark meeting at SVCC with Phil, Mark and Sean

Decent meeting at Tapemark, now it’s time for an open faced club sand wedge (sorry CMK)

Wow: U.S. May sales for Toyota drop 41%, Honda 39%

Time to install some software updates – back in a bit (hopefully)

Firmware updates scare me, but this one seems to have gone smoothly. Laptop done, server databases backed up, time for NWEA data entry

Spaghetti at home, now off to Wise swim school for kids one and two

Home in time to watch the third period of the Wings-Pens game, then a little Economist and early to bed to prepare for big day tomorrow

Happy National Running Day! Ran 5 miles with Gina in Eagan

Busy day today – first up: MGCSA fundraiser round of golf at Town and Country

The new Pearl Jam song sounds great

Shot an ugly 96 at Town and Country from the whites – fast greens and lots of elevation changes. Cool course, but it’s different

HSRA golf tournament planning meeting

Too much going on now – isn’t summer supposed to be relaxing? Leaving to meet Dan at Oak Marsh

Played OK in league – shot 45 from the whites with 2 missed putts under 2 feet

Skipped the post-league bar trip and went to Zantigo instead. Morning run cancelled, so I can sleep in until 6, then Willinger’s with DGG

Picking up Duke and heading to Northfield – looks like a great day

Shot 90 from the whites at Willinger’s on an absolutely gorgeous day; now lunch at Raising Cane’s

Too nice to be inside, so I’m working from the driveway this afternoon. Wish this screen was a little brighter

More software updates today: iLife Support, iDVD/iMovie/iPhoto Updates, new Airport Utility and new Digital Camera RAW support

Farmer’s Market dinner on the driveway: fresh bread, cheese and salami from Cossetta + watermelon. Spring in Minnesota can be wonderful

In case any of you are interested, I also tweet here: @golfingmn, @hockeymn, @runmn, @baseballmn, @skiingmn and next season, @basketballmn

I’ve been informed our grass in “too long” and needs to be cut “immediately”

Happy Birthday Gina! Went for a 3 mile walk with the birthday girl in Eagan

Library, breakfast with CMK at Junior’s, credit union, Target, then finish the HSRA golf web site

I like David Lynch, but wow, Eraserhead is one messed up movie

Some remote tech support, proam.mn and anotherlevelrecords.com updates, lunch with the clown and found stuff for Canterbury tonight

Oh, I so want to go here

Glad I just read my Chase credit card statement – just ordered seven free $25 Target gift cards with the points I didn’t know I had

Getting ready for an evening at the track to celebrate Gina’s birthday. And I’m not talking about a running track

One $87.20 exacta win so far (plus quite a few losers). Will be up for the night, though

Finally hit a trifecta and it only paid $18 – but I shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth, right?

Finished the night up like $65. Thanks to Todd for the reservations and happy birthday one last time to Gina

Slept in ’til 10, then ran a cold and wet 14 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley. Drought’s over

Family minus kid one watched Matilda on DVD; now time for some DQ on a rainy night

Heading out to play Troy Burne with Tim in the brisk *June* weather

Shot 95 from the Players tees at Troy Burne with Tim and Gordie – no rain, great course

Trying to help kid one with math homework, but can’t remember how to multiply & divide fractions. Gee, when was the last time I did that?

One goal for today – finish the HSRA golf tournament web site and letters

Managed to stay focused at work all morning, so I decided to have lunch with CMK at Chiang Mai Thai in Uptown

Mixed feelings about missing WWDC this year – would like to be there, but have so much going on this week and next, it’s almost a relief

If I have one more red or orange light come on while driving the MINI, I think I’m going to scream. Today’s culprit: Service Engine Soon

Stayed off the computer and phone for one entire night. It was wonderful

Ran 8 miles in Eagan – the cold weather is much more pleasant when it isn’t combined with rain

Shuffled meetings around today – now at Sonic for lunch, then haircut, then HSRA golf meeting, then Tapemark

Done with meetings, skipping dinner (at least for now), final swimming at Wise tonight for kid one and two, hope Wings loss = more hockey

Ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley. 57 degrees, humid and a few rain drops

Breakfast with Terry at Keys on Raymond – great to finally catch up with him after a long school year

Meeting at Majestic Oaks with Randy, now a quick round in the rain

Being a procrastinator is not good for my blood pressure – ready for the Tapemark drawing with 45 minutes to spare

2009 drawing night is complete – now to crunch the numbers and get the tee sheet ready

Lots of code changes and updates to the Tapemark site

In the tent at Southview – 38th Annual Tapemark Charity Pro-Am begins in less than 20 minutes!

Time to start entering scores – watch the leaderboards online

Sweet – my media credentials for the PGA Championship at Hazeltine have been approved

Coding in the tent FTW!

Found the bug in the locator code and now we are waiting for Dillon and the White Castle order

Waiting for 13 more teams to report in on day one at the Tapemark

I feel so new media special right now – kingsbury on both Twitter and Facebook. Go me!

Can’t sleep, but I need to wake up in less than 4 hours for day two of the Tapemark (and my cousin’s wedding)

Earliest I’ve ever been in the tent at the Tapemark – and I wasn’t the first one here even

Almost done in the tent – all teams in the database, just need the tee time PDF

Feeling better today – got some sleep, made it to the wedding, Tapemark cut night went fine and play is underway in the final round

Settling in at home for the first time in 3 days. Happy with the tournament and anxious to get out and run again in the morning

Ran 4 miles in Eagan this morning – Grandma’s weekend approaching rapidly

Long, crazy day today – both literally and figuratively

Safely in Manhattan Beach at the Belamar. Uncle Bill’s for breakfast, then up to Hollywood for Ferguson, Farmer’s Market and Roscoe’s

Ran 10 peaceful and contemplative miles along the Pacific Ocean – last run before Grandma’s

Up early: 3rd time to Uncle Bill’s for breakfast, Disneyland from 8AM-9PM, then a redeye flight home

I’m offline for just a day and Facebook and Twitter go crazy on me – finally caught up

Grandma’s was sunny & hot again this year (global warming is not helping this race), but ran a 4:21 after a fast start. Thanks @bhollnagel!

Time to catch up on sleep tomorrow after a hectic 10 days of non-stop events and activities

Trouble sleeping again last night, but up early to drive kid one (and friend) to swim camp at the U and pay for yet another car repair.

Nice finish to the Open, but was pulling for Duval. Time for some mac and cheese, then a trip into St. Paul

Ran 5 miles in the hot and humid evening. Ran into Gina around mile 3 – glad to have her healthy again, as there are only 15 weeks until TCM

Happy 40th birthday to my dear wife – hope you have a great day!

Dropped off kid one and friend at the U, breakfast with Tricksy at Al’s in Dinkytown, short Target run, now staying in the AC all day

Five places I could totally live: North Shore, Portland, 17-Mile Drive, Victoria Island, Manhattan Beach

Installed NetNewsWire on my sister’s computer and I think it will take me two days to catch up on feeds – information overload!

Heading to Lucky’s in Mendota for Colleen’s 40th birthday party – stop by and say hi

Learning about Bollywood this morning

Grilling on the deck, researching the university press environment and waiting for kid one and the wife to return home

Ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley – cooler than yesterday, but still warm

Taking kid one and friend to last day of swim camp at the U – get to watch races too

Ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – right leg still a little sore from last weekend

Heading to SVCC to meet with Phil and Bob, Jr.

Ran 10 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – the long training run progression for TCM has begun (12 miles next weekend)

All kids now under one roof again

Ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – very nice morning

Two words I didn’t want to hear today: orthodontic examination. Kid one *and* kid two

7minutemiles.com will be offline for about a day as we move to a new provider – thanks for your patience!

On the road to Ruttger’s with kid one and two

Ah, sweet, sweet iPhone. Exactly 2 years ago today, eh? Even works at Ruttger’s Sugar Lake Lodge

Shot 85 from the whites at Eagle Ridge in Coleraine with Brad. Windy and freakin’ cold

7minutemiles.com is back online – waiting for DNS on the MN sites to get updated

Home from a nice visit with the Millers (and Mr. Last). Now watching Captain EO video for the first time in years (thanks Andrew!)

Tapemark Charity Pro-Am post-tournament meeting at SVCC

Meeting Dan at Oak Marsh to sub in his league

Played pretty bad at Oak Marsh in league play – a 45 doesn’t hold up very well when you are giving up 6 shots to your opponent

North Shore icon shutting down operations – Monson trucking of Duluth closing after 94 years

Ran the 7.4 mile Valleywood route in Eagan and Apple Valley – much harder to wake up early when you are running solo

Second round of ortho consults this morning, then a stop at the library

All kids gone to the beach with Gina while I work in my office looking for $6200 for kid one braces

Who are those handsome young men on the cover of the Summer 2009 edition of Minnesota Golfer?

Robert Cray tonight at the Cabooze – can’t wait!

First time at the Cabooze – much smaller and narrower than I expected. Reach out and touch the stage, eh?

Not many better things in life than watching masters at work – after concert drinks now at Lucky’s (no kids tonight)

Testing twitpic http://yfrog.com/5xhb7j

I was *this* far from the second ace of my golf career

I’m pretty sure about 90% of the country was on vacation today – is there anybody out there?

Ran a new 7.6 mile hill route in Eagan with Gina – very humid for 6 in the morning

Off to Luck, Wisconsin for Fourth of July picnic, fireworks, jet ski and family reunion on Bone Lake

Ran the hilly 12 mile route in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – tennis later with Studio Phil?

Wow, my running log at runnersworld.com says I passed the 500 mile mark today for 2009 runs

Looks like no tennis today, but mowed the lawn, cleaned up the garage, moved to a new golf bag and did some reading. Need to work tonight

Updates to womenstapemark.org, cammackmarshall.org back online, uploading pictures to 7minutemiles.com, heading to drug store for toothpaste

Rembrandt Canker Sore toothpaste is the best thing that’s ever happened to my teeth, but $8 a tube? Sheesh

Know anyone looking for a web publisher, system administrator and/or technology consultant?

Heading out soon to meet with Gophers director of golf Brad James on campus

And it begins anew: taking kid one to a tuba lesson at Black Hawk

Grand Marais newspaper: conservation officer took enforcement action for a watercraft registration violation. Guy owned pontoon since 2006..

..but didn’t register it because he “didn’t want a bunch of crappy numbers on his boat.”

Grandma is here to take the kids to Ice Age and to Raising Cane’s for lunch. Might join them for the lunch part

Ran 5 miles in Eagan with Gina. 4:30 is really, really early

Upgraded two sites to WordPress 2.8 and all seems well so far

Off to join course architect Paul Miller for a round of golf at Meadows of Mystic Lake in Prior Lake

More MINI trouble: gas smell under hood and in cabin. No visible leaks, but mechanic to review on Friday AM

Shot an adjusted 92 from the blues at Mystic Lake. Don’t even want to know my real score on 18 – 10? 11?

Blogger night at Kooza in downtown St. Paul

First half of Kooza was pretty amazing -even the clowns are good in this one

Two thumbs up for Kooza – full review coming soon on 7minutemiles.com

About to head to downtown Minneapolis for my meeting at the University of Minnesota Press – nervous and excited!

Late lunch at the Eagan BWW after a nice meeting downtown

Everyone in the neighborhood is doing stuff tonight, so kid two and I are using her free meal reading card at Applebee’s

Now everyone has left me. Time for some system updates and photo uploads, I guess

Upgrades to server OS and WordPress 2.8.1 going smoothly so far

Ran 12 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina. Very humid this morning, but the sun didn’t break through until the very end (thankfully)

Time to get the MINI checked – fingers crossed

My new favorite mechanics, Fixt Rite in South Minneapolis, found the leak, fixed it, took a 5 mile test drive and charged me $0

Then my friend Brad bought me lunch at Chipotle – first time there for me, believe it or not

Trying out Silverlight 3 on Colleen’s Mac Book so I can watch Californication via Netflix streaming – pretty decent quality so far

All sites now updated to WordPress 2.8.1

Out doing some freakin’ back to school shopping for kid one and two at Target

Heading out to Baker National to meet the Millers this morning

Wow, it’s like my arms forgot how to swing a club today – shot an adjusted 99 from the whites at Baker National

Something in the neighborhood is on fire – going out to investigate

Heard sirens, now smoke has stopped – brush fire near I-35E?

Extended family over for dinner tonight – ate way too much Rooster’s chicken

Murder-mystery two hour finale – one by one!

SJN Summer Sizzle with Grandma Jean and the family. Kid one serving up the Sno-Cones

Got to catch the first half of the Wild scrimmage before the picnic too – pictures later at hockey.mn

RIP Marlys Podolak

Crazy errand Monday: credit union, jeweler, Home Depot, Hallmark, Famous Footwear, TJ Maxx, Running Room, Run N Fun, BK, Golf Galaxy, Target

Kid two at first tennis lesson

Used Senuti to move kid iPod music over to Colleen’s laptop, then erased and re-synced. Add in gift card purchases = very happy kids

Watching the Google Wave video via Charles Edge’s site

I could get used to be a househusband – any one want to pay my mortgage for the next 20 years?

I hate when I make typos in Twitter, but it seems to happen all the time. Why can’t I edit my own tweets?

I wonder how hard it would be to integrate Lightbox2 support into my Gallery2 custom theme that is called from the WPG2 plugin in WordPress

Starting to dislike the whole RT concept, as my timeline keeps filling up with the same message multiple times whenever something happens

New double-sided business cards arrived today from sharpdots.com – love that place: low prices, high quality and quick turn-around times

Getting two watch batteries replaced at Waldeland Jewelers in Eagan – one for the Timex running watch & one for the Movado

Upgrade to iPhone OS 3.0 on first generation hardware seems to have gone smoothly – no major changes to the basic operation so far

Ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – decided it’s been a pretty decent summer for running weather-wise in MN this year

Last ortho consult for both kids

Testing Gallery2 version 2.3 upgrades – seems to work fine so far. Next up: WordPress plugin updates

Oh, crap, the WPG2 plugin is now unsupported

All hosted web sites now running latest version of Gallery2 (2.3) and WordPress (2.8.1) with updated plugins

Looks like I will be trying out the new beta 2 release of Gallery3 later today. Not sure how it will embed within WordPress yet, though

Heading to lunch at Cecil’s in Highland Park

No Cecil’s today – heading home

Kid two off to a birthday party overnight at Treasure Island, but not much else going on tonight. Trying to catch up on blog posts

Watched some Entourage, Dexter up next

Got the beta of Gallery3 installed and configured – will load some test images after Dexter

Woke up at 5AM (by choice!) and ran a solo 10 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley. 15 mile headwind on the return leg was not fun, though

Nice lunch and visit with Mr. Skoglund at the Roseville Fuddruckers

Off to pick up mom for the 4PM performance of Kooza

Kooza update: one act in the first half was different than the last time I was here

Dinner with mom at Savoy’s Pizza

Nice early fall night around the fire in July – widget says 63, but I’m pretty sure it’s in the 50s

Dropped off kid two with Grandma – they are off to see Mercy Watson & Kate DiCamillo at the Red Balloon

Good sign: not yet August and I just had to go refill the gas tank on the grill

Inspired by Mr. Watson, ran a quick 7.5 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley (59:59). Old guys of the world, unite!

66 degrees – perfect weather to roast marshmellows and make smores

Ran 10 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina. Perfect weather for a fall run in July

Just visited the Disney Christmas Carol train at the Amtrak station in St. Paul. Disney sure knows marketing

Finished lawn duties and took all the bins to the curb – beautiful day in Minnesota today

Monday Errand Day: Mall of America, Run-N-Fun Burnsville

Ran into Phil Keeney and his wife at the MOA Apple Store

It’s pretzel time!

Kids decided my music isn’t “cool” enough, so I had to add KDWB to the radio presets. Ugh.

The fortune cookie said the current year will bring you much happiness. I’m still waiting, current year

Upgraded all web sites to WordPress 2.8.2 and the Akismet plug-in to 2.2.6. Also applied for a web designer job at Thomson Reuters in Eagan

Kid two picked up by one dad to go to tennis lessons, kid one picked up by another dad to go to Cascade Bay. Feeling like a slacker dad

Whoa, Bellanotte closed?

Get well Adam Yauch – Beastie Boy MCA diagnosed with cancer (tumor found in left parotid gland)

Applied for a web design job with HealthPartners in Bloomington

What a sad dinner: two left-over chicken strips, some pretzels, a banana and a Coke

I wonder if those storms out by Willmar will hit us this time. Everything seems to go north or south of the metro area these days

Ran 2 miles in the new shoes with a very reluctant kid one – need to practice up for the State Fair Milk Run 5K

Heading over to see Kim for a haircut; applied for the “Managing Editor, Team Content” job with the Minnesota Wild

How come the Facebook iPhone app and the regular online Facebook site always seem to show different things? Feels like I’m missing things

Treating myself to some lunch at the Woodbury Zantigo. I really need to open one of these in Eagan

Tried to make appointment with the Sister Kenny RunSMART program, but you need a doctor’s referral first, it seems

Well-written reject email from the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank. Sort of forgot I applied with them

Heading to an MNPEP (Minnesota Non-Profit Event Planners) meeting at the Aloft Hotel in Minneapolis. Backing up Jammi to talk about proam.mn

The Aloft is very hip for not being a “real” W hotel. How did we get one of these here? Especially with the Foshay just down the road

So it turns out there aren’t a lot of male non-profit event planners. I’d say the ratio is about 25:2

Totally pushing this poor iMac G5 to the limit – now able to watch the Twins again in a window

Day off to a good start – received free Senuti license (@senutiapp) for mentioning them on Twitter; scale showed a new post-school low

Compared to the usual bad rap they get, Comcast totally made my day today

Kid one has finally started blogging again

Leaving for Oak Marsh to play in my brother-in-law’s league

Shot a lucky 45 at Oak Marsh in league (was +7 after 3). Free post-round food at BWW with Dan and Todd

Ran 14 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina (her longest run yet). New shoes are working great – should have bought them weeks ago

Taking kid one to the orthodontist and regular dentist in Edina

Waiting to meet Colleen for lunch at Cosetta’s in St. Paul with kid one and kid two – sun on the patio and Louis Prima on the speakers

Stopped at Girl Scouts office to pick up camp gear; kid one and two headed to the beach with the neighbors

Just heard my aunt and uncle in St. Paul bought a Chihuahua/Dachshound mix – my kids are going to freak

Wow, Fanball was using Coldfusion and FoxPro?

Pancakes and bacon for dinner, followed by a trip to library, where I picked up a bunch of unique CDs. Think we’ll watch Hung on HBO tonight

Dropped off the Honda in Burnsville for 60K mile service. Stopping at Jensen’s Cafe for breakfast

Feeling guilty about the Eggs Montreal for breakfast (poached eggs on sausage on pancakes, topped with sausage gravy), so now I’m cleaning

Strangely entranced by HBO’s True Blood

So when did golf Saturday get replaced by chore day? Laundry, dishes, cleaning, ugh.

Walked to the gas station to buy a lottery ticket. Pathetic on so many levels

Creating some new 16+ miles routes on runnersworld.com

Gave wife a quick lesson on HTML tags and CSS basics. Her work makes her update internal web sites using Lotus Notes templates

Need to work on some Gallery2 theme troubleshooting after dinner (steaks on the grill!)

Uh-oh, I’ve been challenged to a game of Scrabble on the deck

The editor has fallen. Final tiles: “F” and “U”

I think this is the latest I’ve stayed up in some time. Re-living lots of old history tonight

Checked out Clarity Coverdale Fury and Target.com this morning

Time for a little re-modeling on 7minutemiles.com

Added new social media buttons on 7minutemiles.com (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) and uploaded new header graphics. Now re-writing about page

Also decided to just re-direct davidkingsbury.com to 7minutemiles.com

The changes to the about page are finished (for now)

7 Minute Miles reference page now updated

Actually stopped watching a movie we got from Netflix today due to boredom

Ran 4 miles in Eagan with Gina – warm night, but the humidity was low

Early morning ortho visits, girl scout camp for kid two, library

Ran an errand, then returned to find my initial PGA media credential and instructions for the first day – can’t wait!

Just got off the phone with one of my first Northwest Airlines bosses (he’s now retired) – fun to catch up after all these years

Kid one helping me clean and re-organize my office

Office changes: furiture moved and all cables re-wired. Computer back online – now just need to clean up the odds and ends

Went for a family walk around the block. Busy day tomorrow (golf, meeting, kid one road trip, kid two camp with Colleen) – need some sleep

Back from a great day with Garrett and Matt at White Eagle. Garrett and I stopped for lunch at Barker’s Bar and Grill in Hudson – yum!

Beautiful night tonight – got the lawn work finished, washed the car and stopped at the gas station. Now to find some dinner and sit outside

Ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley. Surprisingly, people outnumbered bunnies today

80th Annual Fisherman’s Picnic starts today in Grand Marais – wish I was there

Girls scouts dropped off at camp; taking kid one for a bike ride

I think I have a new love: Lebanon Hills mountain bike trail – 6.36 miles of fun and beautiful terrain located less than 2 miles from home

The new Brother Ali is hot

Ran errands earlier (credit union, lunch at Jimmy John’s, CPAP repair for CMK, Target) – now taking kid one to oral surgeon in Woodbury

Wish house husband paid better – I’m getting good at it

Last car payment on MINI next month. Might as well sell it now in exchange for new teeth for kid one and kid two

Off to watch the Twins play the White Sox at the Dome. Seems weird it might be my last baseball game there

Play ball!

So tired and up too late, but needed to catch up online after the big Twins game. Will try to fit in an early morning run too – in 5 hours?

5:30 came way too early – legs tired and a small sore throat kept me in bed until now. Taking kid two to last day of girl scout camp

I wonder how many billions of terabytes of storage in the world are devoted to storing blurry digicam snapshots that no one ever looks at

Just purchased two tickets to the November Brother Ali show at First Avenue – only $35 including fees!

Cook County News: Grand Portage State Park getting new 5800 square foot visitors center at the High Falls, set to open June 2010

I would like one of these please: D300s SLR Digital Camera w/18-200mm VR II Lens. Need it by the PGA Championship, though

Just got back from the Summer ’09 AITG (advertising information technology group) event at Martin Williams. Nice group of people – cool shop

Ran 7.4 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley. Zero bunnies (!), but 3 adult wild turkeys with 5 babies.

It’s so nice out, I think I’ll hit the mountain bike trail before taking a shower

My legs frickin’ hate me now – did the Lebanon Hills mountain bike trail in 42 minutes. Much harder without kid one giving me breaks

Time to catch up on some Angry Mac Bastards

Richard Thompson: Walking On a Wire (1968-2009) – the new Box-set, available from Free Reed for £37.99

Almost time to pick up kid two from the girl scout camp sleepover – can’t wait to hear how it went!

Had lunch at the gas station customer appreciation event, then took kid one to a new swim park. Now kid two gets to go back to ortho office

My almost-paid-for 2005 MINI just hit 70K miles today

Kid one (and friend) decided water park number one was lame; asked to be dropped off at water park number two instead

“Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances.”

Even more driving today – off to the running store, then a BBQ party at the Kellgrens. Later tonight: poker at the neighbors

Heading down to Cannon Falls this morning to play the Summit (today’s score could be painful), visit the bakery and maybe get some jerky

Finally had a nice bounce-back round of golf: shot 86 from the whites at The Summit in Cannon Falls. October-like temps at the start

Suckiest fire of the year – think the wood is too wet

Visiting Colleen’s friend Sarah in Plymouth at their new house

Ran 8 miles in Eagan with Gina – very hot & humid (especially compared to yesterday)

Taking kid two (and friends) to first day of VBS, then off to meeting at Clarity Coverdale Fury

Lunch at the Eagan Green Mill with Grandma Karen and the kids – had an urge for the Parmesan walleye sammy

My server in Seattle seems to be down – just opened an emergency ticket with digital.forest

Yes! Server looks to be back up and running – digital.forest support rocks

Looks like my server shut down by itself sometime yesterday evening – logs don’t show anything unusual. Weird.

Whoa, new logo and site design for netsol.com

Waiting for DNS changes to propagate on gilldesigninc.com and gillgolfgroup.com

Slept in a little this morning, but have to take kid two and friends to VBS now. Today’s project: clean the “un-cleanable” loft

Successfully switched Gill Design email accounts to Google Apps this morning

I’m beginning to think the un-cleanable loft truly is

New version 2.0 of Alex King’s excellent Twitter Tools plugin released yesterday

Damn, a new WordPress security update (2.8.3) also came out yesterday

Love summer – house full of neighborhood kids, plans of sleep-overs, water parks, BBQ. Working on a Hazeltine National story for golfing.mn

Internet connection being flaky this afternoon (just as I was getting stuff done)

Grilled some brats, visited mini-Cub to buy state fair tickets (and ran into Gina), then rode the mountain bike trail – scary in the dark

Internet outage at home this morning (after being slow all day yesterday)

After lots of flashing light sequences on the cable modem, the internet seems to be back up and running at our house

Gearing up to play golf reporter for next week’s PGA Championship at Hazeltine. Check out the coverage at golfing.mn

Comcast home internet just slowed to a crawl again – wonder if the local road construction is messing things up?

Feeling some over eating guilt today, so tonight was 3 mile bike with kids, solo mountain bike trail, then 3 mile run with kid one & friend

Beautiful day this morning – should be outside, but it’s laundry time. Also checked out the Science Museum of Minnesota listings

Damn, the Minnesota Twins have a great technology position open, but they use things I don’t

Updated laptop to 10.5.8 and installed GarageBand updater. Comcast still a little slow (but working). Twitter wonky. Go technology!

Checked my mom in online for her AirTran flight tomorrow. Do they really have Wi-Fi and live XM radio on every flight?

I like to think that party pizzas are much smaller now, but in reality, I’m just eating too much

Trying to finish up my “research” today – season two of Mad Men via Comcast HD On Demand

VBS dinner in Eagan, kids on the playground, skinks at the traveling zoo

Wow, kid one just said, “Ha, dad, you just got powned”

Gizmodo just reminded me I was in Boston 12 years ago today

Ran 10 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – rare scattered rain today (which we really need)

Nice, heavy rain now falling in Eagan. Getting kid one ready for the oral surgeon – two impacted wisdom teeth coming out this morning

Kid one safely home with two less teeth in her mouth. Resting on the couch with the Disney Channel and some ice cream

Kid one at a birthday party sleep-over; kid two hosting a sleep-over; I’m doing laundry and watching this weird Twins game

Ran 8 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina; off to play 18 at Pioneer Creek in Maple Plain with the Millers

Shot 91 from the whites at Pioneer Creek – I think we experienced several seasons in a few hours. Sunny, hot & humid now

Sweet – nothing scheduled for the rest of the day. Might try to finish season 2 of Mad Men and stay in the A/C

Overtime in front of TV this weekend: Mad Men, Entourage, Men in Black, Bee Movie, Shrek 3. Kid one still not dealing well with the teeth

Welcome to the media center at the 91st PGA Championship!

Just got back from Hazeltine. Follow Golfing in Minnesota (@golfingmn) this week for our coverage of the PGA Championship

Dropped off the redbox DVDs, then stopped at Target to pick up soft stuff for kid one (mouth is finally getting better)

Lunch at BWW Apple Valley, then to Crystal Lake for the Hawgs for Dogs golf tournament

Trader Joe’s, Sixth Chamber Books, Science Museum, then Hazeltine

Cooling off in the PGA media center, then heading home. Back early AM tomorrow to get the Amex tour

So much to do – photo sorting and uploading, golfing.mn posts, thank you note to write and news/email to catch up on. 5:30 wake-up too

Oh yeah, there’s another WordPress security update out too (2.8.4) – need a few more hours added to each day this week, it seems

WordPress 2.8.4 seems to be playing nice – guess I’ll do all of them before I crash

Up an hour late, but now headed to Hazletine

Did I hear that right – Suzanne Vega for 3 nights at the Dakota?

Finished talking to the Amex people, had a nice lunch, might visit the Lehman interview, then off to St. Paul to meet at Macalester

Back at home base, buried in photos and press releases

Getting a bit loopy from lack of sleep and all the activity this week. Need to get up at 5 for a run, though

Run cancelled, kid one won’t stop puking. Doctor’s office this morning – or ER

Leaving the course early today – kid one needs surgery (appendix)

Kid one surgery completed successfully. Appendix did not rupture and we’ll be going home tomorrow afternoon

Short break at home for a quick dinner, run and shower. Uploaded some photos to golfing.mn and now back to the hospital for the night

Getting ready to spend the night at United Hospital with kid one. This is sort of like trying to sleep on a red-eye flight

The waiting room lounge with the free wireless internet and the TV with Craig Ferguson is much, much better than the chair in kid one’s room

Last night was just like a red-eye, but with less sleep. The replacement crew is here, so it’s off to the PGA soon

Ran 16+ miles on the TCM course in St. Paul and Minneapolis with Gina – the race will be here before we know it

Just got my clock cleaned at poker – thanks guys

On the road to Glory’s Last Shot

Home from the PGA – only had 2 1/2 hours of sleep, so hopefully I can stay awake for the last 6 holes

So tired, but need to stay up for must see TV tonight: True Blood, Mad Men, Hung

Dinner tonight: chips, clam dip and cherry Coke. The media dining room has spoiled me for life

Took kid one for tooth follow-up in Stillwater, then shot 94 from the whites at Sawmill – too many swing thoughts in my mind now

The only thing that got exercise tonight was the TV remote – watched 1 Mad Men, 2 Hung and 8 episodes of Entourage

Office getting cleaner (stack of PGA stuff is a foot tall). Heading to Bloomington to meet with StoryTeller Media

Home internet connection so slow today, it’s driving me crazy. Standard troubleshooting not working – might have to go somewhere for wi-fi

Computers and wireless base station eliminated as causes for slowdown – either cable modem or service

Ran 7.4 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina. Wildlife sightings tonight: a doe and her baby

Internet working fine this morning, so it must be the service. Time to get organized

It’s pouring rain in Eagan today – good time to sync up my Twitter followers on all accounts (hungry for lunch too)

Total worm party happening now on the driveway. No snail mail today – weird.

Hmm, second tornado siren of the afternoon in Eagan

Heading north on Cedar – hope none of that is flooded. Need to pick up wife at Midtown Market – plans for Burger Jones tonight

Ran 5 miles in Eagan with Gina – looks like another rainy day in Minnesota

Apparently I was more sleep deprived than I thought – just got an 11:00AM wake-up call from the wife

Hayao Miyazaki-san day – watching Spirited Away this afternoon; going to see Ponyo tonight

Can’t remember the last time I took out my umbrella and went for a walk – needed to pick up Northstar Cash tickets at the gas station

Hmm, 18 months interest-free financing at Best Buy for purchases over $500. New laptop?

Working outside near the rain and cool breeze. Think we’ll skip the movie until the kids come back. Netflix and Wendy’s, FTW!

Took wife for 1.1 mile walk, then got phone call from crying kid one. Unplanned late night road trip to Grand Marais to rescue them

Duluth – rained entire way

Silver Bay

Back from kid rescue mission to North Shore. Ate some world’s best donuts and had lunch at the newly re-modeled Lutsen restaurant, Moguls

Ran 16.8 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina by mistake – thought I was running the 14 mile route

Such a beautiful day today – off to play 18 holes at the Ridges of Sand Creek in Jordan with Mr. Miller

Went 43-52-95 from the whites at Sand Creek. Wonder what caused the back nine melt-down: the 17 mile run or the injured wrist

Had no fun at neighborhood bonfire – offered no drinks, math skills made fun of and Twitter skills mocked 🙂

Slept in til 10 – think I’ll clean the basement, then take wife for 2 mile walk. Blubber Run is < 3 weeks away

2009 Blubber Run registration complete

Basement seems unclean-able – moving on to lawn care

Nice: David Kingsbury’s anagram name is ASK VIRGIN BUDDY

Ran 4 miles in Eagan with Gina, watched end of True Blood, now eating World’s Best donuts and waiting for Hung and Entourage

Heading to a Tapemark breakfast meeting with Phil Callen at Southview CC

Just set up tee times for Mendakota and Bearpath – today is a good, good day

According to the credit union site, my 2005 MINI Cooper loan was paid in full 4 days ago. This of course means it should break any time now

Taking kid one & two (and friend) to Target and Mall of America

American Girl, Forever 21, Ragstock, lunch at Ruby Tuesday. When does the dad stuff start?

Libby Lu at MOA is no more – sad kids comforted by Claire’s and Justice

Home from MOA. Did my part for the economy (and Best Buy’s bottom line) – new 17-inch MacBook Pro

Cold Stone Creamery in Eagan with whole family – “The fun starts here.” Who knew?

Massive laptop data integration project taking longer than I’d like – need to take a Mad Men break soon

Everyone gone for a while and getting closer to a fully loaded and organized laptop. Think it’s time for a bike ride, then finally Mad Men

Rode 16 miles (6 on the muddy mtn bike trail that had 3+ trees down and 10 for a quick visit to the Hovde residence). Time for food and TV

Damn, is there anything smoother at 1AM than Lou Rawls?

Back to school jamboree at Black Hawk Middle school – kid one is very happy (2T)

Ten points for Gryffindor!

Had a great time at Bearpath today – shot 96 from the member tees (wrist still hurts), saw Favre’s new house

Both of my trainees bailed tonight (runner and walker), so I started watching season 1 of True Blood. Now back to laptop setup

Old Northwest co-worker from 17 years ago called me out of the blue yesterday. Credit Division reunion Friday at Joe Senser’s Eagan, 4PM

Ran 6 miles in Eagan and Apple Valley with Gina – shout out to Joe!

The wheels are in motion for my new company – exciting times

Talked to lawyer, started laundry, changed burned out light bulbs, loaded dishwasher, visited with bird, working on newco – good day so far

My lawyer rocks: Fafinski Mark and Johnson’s “Startup Stimulus” plan

Thumbs up on the new iPhone Facebook app – much better than before

Hashing out some DNS and mail delivery issues with Digital Forest for gilldesigninc.com

Consolidating all of my music and photos on one machine for the first time in ages (ever?) – might need a new 750GB laptop drive soon

Ordered new P.O. box online for 7 Minute Miles, LLC