Lake Boston rises!

Check out the Baby Name Wizard

Did you ever wonder how popular your name was when you were born? Do you wonder now? Well, Baby Name Wizard will let you enter a name and it will tell you graphically how popular it was over the years.

Hasn't she heard???

If anyone hasn’t already heard, sorry, but I am starting a new job on Monday. Yup, my VW days are almost over. Thursday to be exact. So, I got a call from someone who takes care of our hours reporting system at VW (gedas) yesterday. We have to fill out an online timesheet in addition to the one that I have signed and send to the company I contract through. Anyway, she wants to know why I have been claiming 4 hours of administration time for the past month. I tell her it is because that is what my boss asked me to do. She tells me it is wrong and I should change it. After speaking to the team lead here, we figured out how to claim the 4 hours. Then, this lady, who hasn’t been the nicest, asked me if I understand why it was wrong to claim the hours like I did. Apparently she doesn’t know I am leaving in a couple of days. I told her that it really didn’t matter to me why it was wrong, I was just going to fix it. I am not sure how she took it, but she did say she would unlock my hours and I could re-enter them. After hanging up, I told the team lead that she is very lucky that I am even fixing them. As long as I get paid, I don’t care. We just laughed and carried on with our day. It is exciting to be leaving, but sad at the same time. I really like the people I have worked with and will miss seeing them everyday.

5 minutes always turns into hours with computers!

After church last night, Melinda and I visited the Bachman’s to install an appraisal program for Michellee, so she can type reports in her spare time for extra money. Well, we sat around for a little bit and just talked because the program was only supposed to take 30 minutes to install. We should have known that there is no such thing as an easy install on a PC. After about 30 minutes, Melinda called me in the room to see if I could help configuring the program to send email. When I took a look at the computer, Michellee’s logon was not going online and when I logged on under Pastor Randy’s, there was so much spyware, I really couldn’t do a thing. They had the spyware that doesn’t let you go to any spyware removal sites. Well, after spending some time fooling the spyware program into letting me download an anti-spyware program, it was time to remove all the junk. Well, 30 minutes and 115 spyware instances later, we were ready to go back to Michellee’s logon to try the install of the appraisal program (while scanning for spyware, I figured out what was wrong with Michellee’s internet). This time the install went smoothly, but wouldn’t accept the email address we were trying to use. By this time, it was 11:30pm and we were all getting tired. After creating Michellee an email address through Mel’s Appraisals, we finally got the email thing to work. It would have been nice to call it a night at that point, but there were still updates to load. This took a few more minutes and we finally went home at 12am. Then we had the ice storm to deal with. Argh! Needless to say, I am tired this morning. It was good to fellowship with the Bachman’s though.

NASCAR points, in a nutshell

Ever wonder how a NASCAR race is scored? I know that a lot of people could care less, but Melinda is always asking questions about the fine points of scoring. Well, I have the answers for you! Click HERE to read NASCAR.com’s article on scoring. They even explain the scoring system for the Chase for the Cup.

You gotta love good commercials!

In case you missed Superbowl XXXIX or just want to watch again, check out all the commercials HERE. They have all the commercials from the last 3 Superbowls in case you want to take a trip down memory lane. What was your favorite commercial and why? Discuss it in the FORUMs.