It seems somebody from overseas sees the ability to post comments as a method of posting weblinks for all sorts of shady websites dealing with stuff like warez, porn and the sort. For the last month or so I have been seeing these comments pop up. I diligently go in and delete them. The offender continues his games so I have started to block ip ranges to disallow posting from certain areas. Get a life doods….
Last week was a training week, a nice break from the routine. Windows Server 2003 has some cool new stuff, the coolest to me being shadow copy where you can automatically have recent versions of files backed up so if someone fat fingers it you can hop right back to the prior version of a document. Pretty cool admin tools have been added as well. The downside is to do a lot of the cool stuff, all of your DC’s need to be Win2K3 which at least in our case, isn’t going to be happening anytime soon. The class inspired me enough to take the 2 tests that are required to get my MCSE 2003 cert to go along with my NT4 and Win2K cert.
This weekend FLEW by. Saturday I cleaned while Ali got caught up on some Pampered Chef stuff. Then we were out most of the afternoon hitting 4 or 5 different spots to pick up assorted household items. Then in the evening we were watering, weeding, planting stuff in the garden, doin laundry, blah blah, throw in the time change and we didn’t hit bed to close to midnight.
Sunday Nicki woke me up at her normal time, evidently she doesn’t care if I go to bed at 10 or midnight. I loaded up the truck with our bikes after giving them a scrub down to wash off the spider webs and put air in the tires. We went to Ding Darling Reserve in Sanibel. Sanibel is a contrast from the beautiful but mostly man made landscaping in Naples. Sanibel is more or less in it’s natural state with dense native foliage everywhere. It is a very small island with only one way on and off of it. The Ding Darling reserve is a huge park that takes up a good chunk of the island. It has a cool 5 mile trail that you can walk, bike or drive through. The area is full of wildlife like birds, fish, gators and we even saw our first manatee. It is really a great place. I went through the park with my mom a while back but we drove through. Riding a bike was definitely the way to go. By the end, in total it is an 8 mile ride so our rears were a bit sore but it was worth it. We got a bunch of great pics, many of which I will be posting online in the next day or so. By the time we got home it was after 5.
We still had a shitload of stuff to get done so we spent the rest of the weekend vacuuming, doing laundry and cleaning cat puke. Speaking of which, our one cat is starting to push me into the territory where I am considering my options with her continued existence. She has diabetes so she gets a shot everyday. We have to give her special food and recently she has been on a vomitting spree. If you have cats, they vomit, there is no way to avoid it and she always has been a puker but this has been excessive. She pukes, goes and stuffs her face and pukes some more. I find myself getting infuriated with the cat even though logically I know she isn’t purposely turning our carpet into a brown stained wasteland. The turn for the worse seems to coincide with some hairball and tartar control treats I had been giving them. So I have discontinued that in hopes things that will settle down into a more normal 2 or 3 pukes a week pattern. If it doesn’t get better, I suppose a trip to the vet is in order but I already know that there is no way I would shell out big bucks if the problem would turn out to be serious in nature. Just not worth it to me, no more cats for me, ever.
Vette update, got a bit of time in. Totally scrubbed and cleaned out the fusebox with electrical cleaner, finally installed a fuse panel door, replaced the 2 front speakers so now I have 4 working again and and reconnected a vacuum line that was disconnected. I took the Vette to class Friday. It was great fun to cruise the highway in, definitely a joy at 70mph+. Discovered this morning another issue, no heat. A minor issue in Florida but something I need to look at just the same. I have a detailed page of the projects on the car here.
There were tons of other thoughts that I marked as bloggable in my brain during the past week but can’t recall them all right now, hopefully they will come to me.
