Looks like I managed to get rid of that pound!

It's Valentine's Day! AND my 9 year anniversary! I am terrible at expressing the love I feel for my beautiful wife but am constantly amazed, and awed, at the beauty and caring and all around ball of awesome that she is. I think the best way that I can explain it is as follows: During the normal course of the day whenever I come across something interesting or do something that makes me happy or excited the first thought that pops into my head is "Hey Jennifer look at this!" I put pretty much everything in the context of "us." It hardly seems like 9 years have passed since we were wed, much less the 13 since we met! Together we have brought the two most perfect children into this world( Ok so I'm biased!) Jennifer is an incredible mother and keeps me grounded and calm around them, and I try to live up to that for her. I am truly a very fortunate man to have such a partner in life. I look forward to the next 20..30..40... years with her!

Found one of the pounds I lost yesterday.

Long meeting this afternoon. Should be *fun*.

Good weekend for the most part. Did the shopping with Bean. Made Pot roast. Played much go fish.

On the geeky side I was able to get qemu up and running and now have a virtual windows box that I can use to do taxes. Doing some tasks on a virtual box is somewhat amusing. I had originally given the windows box only 5 gig of space. I should have known better than that. It was relatively easy to give it more space. Using dd i was able to grow the image to 11 gig. Although a minor typo with dd made it 1.3 terabytes. For those interested Windows seems to have an issue with a disk that size. once that was corrected I had to use gparted to grow the partition. That just seemed weird booting a partition manager to change a disk that is actually just a file.

I also installed OPML editor and FlickrFan so I can have nifty pics fro m the AP on my desktop

I think qemu will be fun to try out some other distributions and such. Or to build some special purpose images for different apps. Perhaps I can use it to play with my old BeOS 5 stuff.

Power outage last night. Really threw the rythym off. Got a scare when I rebooted my desktop and /dev/sda was addressed as /dev/sdb power cycle seems to have fixed that. Ready for the weekend.

LOST LOST LOST LOST LOST!!!!

Looks like it's still a tight race on the Democratic side. I tried to stay up and see Obama's speech but couldn't make it. Hillary's speech was underwhelming. She started well but then completely killed any momentum she had going by stopping to mention the tornados and dead people. That really sucked the wind out of the sails. Then she read the speech more than she delivered it. It is really something that she should know better than to do. Outside of that the speech was not that different from the others she has been delivering. She did pick up California though which can be a big help. Obama still has a lot of work to do.

Good workout, but I'm a bit tired today. I stayed up too late.

Twitter seems to be very slow lately. Not server wise just traffic wise. I'm not seeing anywhere near the number of tweets that I used to. Perhaps all the downtime lately has driven people away. I hope not, it's interesting to see posts from people and what they are doing.

Too many waffles yesterday. Definitely worth it. It was a great weekend. Snow day on friday! I got to play with the snow blower. Played in the snow with the kids. Played a lot of go fish and cleaned and rearranged the home office. Not a bad time.

Workout was hard today. Not sure why. Hopefully the run tomorrow will be nice.