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OK – my online blog is now tied to FACEBOOK so here is MY 25 THINGS

1. I married in 1996 to Cynthia Page, daughter of Paul Page (Journalism Teacher at Saratoga High School) – I have known Mr. Page longer than his daughter (1988 for him compared to 1989 for her)

2. My father died in 2004 from Leukemia – It took me a long time to shed the depression from that.

3. I lived in Roseville for one whole year (2002-2003) and was unemployed the entire time (with 2 kids)

4. I am related to Daniel Boone – my great, great, great, great, great grandfather (Isaiah Boone) is the brother of Daniel Boone (I think I have enough GREAT’s in there). 

5. I love horror movies and thrillers – I am not talking about the GORE fest flicks of the 21 century, but the classic horrors up to the early 80′s.  (not a real fan of HOSTEL and SAW series)

6. I love Halloween more than any other time of year – 2 years ago, I dressed up as Michael Myers and stationed myself in my front yard

7. I have walked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon (5,300 feet down), camped at the bottom for two days and walked back up to the South Rim – with my father in law in 2007

8. My wife and I (and subsequently, our children) are all Disney-Holics!  We usually make a trip to Disneyland every year – we are in a dry spell of 1 1/2 years so far – But SPRING is just around the corner (listening to a Disney album as I type this)

9. I haven’t met a lawyer I liked, yet.

10. I love video games – World of Warcraft and Warhammer Online are my favorites

11. I was a registered/certified California Firefighter and EMT-D in 1992-1994 and volunteered for the Saratoga Fire District – Now absorbed by another agency

12.  I collect Warhammer 40K and Warhammer models but have never played the game, yet.

13. I sucked at organized education (as some of you may recall from the high school years) but have an IQ that is in the mid-140′s

14. I love mathematics and science but cannot stand spelling or grammar (as you might find in my blog).

15. I am my son’s baseball manager (little league teams) for the past several years and promised him I would do it for as long as he played the game

16. I love music of all types – my iTunes collection is now at 20,315 items and reaches 92 GB’s in size and would last for 58 days, 7 hours and 53 minutes if played continuously

17. I used to collect comics and now have a stash of them in my attic

18. I am very anal about my desk and organization at home and work – it must be clean and organized or it makes me feel sick

19. I suffer from occasional anxiety attacks brought on by childhood fears and influences from my mother that I am striving to overcome and break the cycle with my children

20. I was the victim of sex abuse when I was 8 years old

21. I got braces at the age of 33 and wore them for 3 years to help make me a more handsome man!

22. I believe friends are super important, yet find it difficult to keep up strong ties with all of my friends, given my job and family

23. I smoked for 6 months during high school and more recently enjoy a good pipe

24. I am not as close to my brother as I used to be (like during high school)

25. I was part of the Civil Air Patrol (Auxiliary Air Force) for a few years and enjoyed the experience immensely – but that is as close to the Armed Services as I was ever going to get.

There is my list – hope you find some insight into who the heck I am!

Cheers,

Bill

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Today, my tried and true, ole reliable Macbook 2.0 GHz laptop decided it had had enough of my philandering with LINUX/VISTA on my other laptop and scrambled some of the 0’s and 1’s on my hard drive, thereby enabling the spinning gray boot of death.

Now – I give Apple high marks in a lot of what they do and what they create, but one area they do not get KUDOS in  is their filesystem maintenance.  When a Mac crashes – it CRASHES! and crashes hard.  The SMART drive function has no errors – so I am guessing that the hardware is fine – what we have here is a failure of the OS to communicate with the rest of the system.

In the old days of Mac OS 8 and 9 we were plagued with B-TREE errors and extent issues.  What a pain in the ass all that was.  Now we have similar errors again and it is like 10 years later.  Let’s get a grip here – even 2000 and XP came up with NTFS which is a great filesystem and I am not knocking HFS+, but there has to be better recoverability from the OS so we aren’t left with gaping wholes in the security of our data!

Anyway – I tried Drive Genius 2 on it and it failed miserably.

Tried my new Techtool Pro 5 boot DVD – it also failed, miserably (that was a waste of money…)

Now I am target booting my Macbook, connected to my iMac and attempting a repair on the volume with Techtool Pro 4.0.  I will let you know what comes of it.

What a sad, sad day!

Looks like I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue!

B

Today is Andrew’s 9th birthday.  It was 9 years ago today, at about this time (9 ish) that Cynthia called me to tell me her water broke and it was time.  I just arrived at  my job and was settling in for the day.

It has been an amazing journey to this point and to watch him grow and expand his knowledge and become this little man is just amazing.

So tradition has it that I bake and create a cake for the kids on their birthdays.  Last night was no exception and below is the creation in a YouTube video.  I hope you enjoy!  It took 4 1/2 hours to complete (and that is just the frosting portion – the baking was done ahead of time by Cynthia, this time).

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