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Online Journal Entries
A sooner-than-later updated journal of my life. You'll see a lot of really, really boring stuff here, but it's certainly more for my family than the average reader...unless I have a stalker.

List entries for: 2010 | 2009 | 2008

Entry for 12-29-2008Entry for $entrydate
Seeing is believing
It is 3am and I couldn't wait to brag. I just bought a big screen TV!
It is a 42" Visio plasma TV. What better way to watch the National Championship th...
Entry for 12-24-2008Entry for $entrydate
Addiction dies hard, Christmas nears
I'm actually a few days late posting this but nearly one year ago, I stopped smoking. I went from smoking a pack a day to absolutely none.

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Entry for 12-19-2008Entry for $entrydate
Quiet days
Nothing has been going on. I've been really bored at work. Hopefully we'll get some work to do before long (that pertains to my job).

The first b...
Entry for 12-16-2008Entry for $entrydate
And the Heisman goes to...
Sam Bradford of Oklahoma! I'm not suprised. After all, it was one of my pre-season predictions (read it here).

N...
Entry for 12-10-2008Entry for $entrydate
My fourth grade teacher
I received some bad news yesterday afternoon. Reita King, my fourth grade teacher, passed away on Saturday morning unexpectedly. I haven't heard what the cause ...
Entry for 12-09-2008Entry for $entrydate
OU is heading to Miami!
What better way to break my silence than to announce that my Oklahoma Sooners, as predicted by me (first paragraph) earlier, ar...
Entry for 11-30-2008Entry for $entrydate
BCS = Bedlam (pun intended)
With all the commotion in college football, I want to post my views of why OU jumped Texas.

First, it's important to know that OU is #2! We are g...
Entry for 11-25-2008Entry for $entrydate
Busy, work and personal
I've been really, really busy. I've started a new project titled "Scoreboard Live!" that will be sold to high schools to enable them to provide play-b...
Entry for 11-24-2008Entry for $entrydate
OU vs. Texas Tech
By the end of the first quarter, all you could see where signs that said "TECH-nical Difficulties", "Raiders of the lost game", and my favorite, "DANG!"
...
Entry for 11-20-2008Entry for $entrydate
Spam Attack!
Well, my forms were finally exploited yesterday. I am not entirely sure but I think the bot was searching for the string of text and found the math equation in ...
Entry for 11-14-2008Entry for $entrydate
WoW, Football game nears
I finally did it. I resubscribed to my World of Warcraft account. I loved the game but thought (still do) it was pathetic to charge for the game, then for a mem...
Entry for 11-07-2008Entry for $entrydate
Election results, Skyline, my car
Alright, I'm one of those stupid republican's that the stupid democrats talk bad about. I'm stupid because I didn't vote for Obama because I disagreed with his ...
Entry for 11-02-2008Entry for $entrydate
Bad days, Layoffs
It's funny how things work sometimes. Thursday, I was pondering how I have only written one time (that I can remember) where I had had a bad day.

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Entry for 10-27-2008Entry for $entrydate
Moving forward
I've been working on the family message board furiously. It's been fine, but I keep wanting to add this, or add that and so there have been a few flubs.
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Entry for 10-24-2008Entry for $entrydate
Family site debuts!, Metallica
I just launched the family site I have been promising for nearly a year now. It is officially launched and just features a simple messsage board system I made b...
Entry for 10-23-2008Entry for $entrydate
I've been hiding
As usual, I've gotten a bit behind on my journal entries. I've been trying to stay on top of them, but I've just been busy. Having kids really doesn't help the ...
Entry for 10-13-2008Entry for $entrydate
Windows Crap
Well, I hate Windows, everyone knows that. I cannot stand dealing with sub-par crap that gets in my way all the time.

I just installed Parallels ...
Entry for 10-08-2008Entry for $entrydate
Voting, Football
Wow. It finally happened. I finally feel so disgusted with the candidate running against my candidate that I have registered to vote. That's really saying somet...
Entry for 10-05-2008Entry for $entrydate
General Conference, football
Our second General Conference as a family occurred today. We stayed at home and watched it on the computer. We thought it started at 10am so we got to watch all...
Entry for 09-29-2008Entry for $entrydate
Guess who's Number 1
I love it. #8 Alabama rolled #3 Georgia. #2 Oklahoma stepped on #24 TCU. The result?

Oklahoma is #1.

What an awesome week for col...
Entry for 09-26-2008Entry for $entrydate
1 USC falls, Nathans football.
I hate USC. They are arrogant, obnoxious, and prideful. Last night, I watched them, the #1 team in the nation, fall to an unranked Oregon State team. I laughed,...
Entry for 09-20-2008Entry for $entrydate
Blake's First Birthday!
Wow, doesn't seem like it's been a year but it has. We had a small birthday party for Blake. We let him tear in to his own little cake and gave him his presents...
Entry for 09-19-2008Entry for $entrydate
One Year Later...
Here I sit, 11:01pm in my recliner typing away on my Mac. I'm recalling my feelings from one year ago. You see, today marks the one year anniversary of my last ...
Entry for 09-16-2008Entry for $entrydate
Secret event, Tire pictures
The secret event I have been hinting around at has come and gone. I still can't mention anything due to the fiscal responsibilities I have. I can tell you the e...
Entry for 09-12-2008Entry for $entrydate
Friday's rock.
Just a quick note: I love Fridays. You see, I always listen to Greenwood play football on Friday nights. It also marks the day before I get to watch my OU Soone...
Entry for 09-11-2008Entry for $entrydate
Remember.
I was 17 years old when it happened. I was sitting in my History class at Greenwood High School. My teacher kept her cell phone in her desk drawer so her parent...
Entry for 09-09-2008Entry for $entrydate
Updates go live
Today, the update to MPA2PMP went live. I pushed it out to the server and ran it, checked it and all was well. As instructed, it pulled the wide-open password f...
Entry for 09-08-2008Entry for $entrydate
Software updates in progress
Well, things definitely aren't slowing down any. I have been busy on a new software project called "Workhorse" that can run multiple transfer/delete/back up job...
Entry for 09-02-2008Entry for $entrydate
Monthly Update
Well, turns out I got a little behind on some things and never could quite find the time to update my journal.

Heather has started working her ni...
Entry for 07-30-2008Entry for $entrydate
Talk results, Website, Scouts
Ladies and gentlemen, I have completed my first talk since reactivating in the church. I think it went well. I tried really hard to act as natural as possible a...
Entry for 07-24-2008Entry for $entrydate
Preparations for a talk, projects
Well, I've been slacking off with my journal lately. I've been extremely busy lately.

Sunday evening, I was asked to give a talk this Sunday. T...
Entry for 07-15-2008Entry for $entrydate
NCLEX Results
Heather received her test results from the State Board of Review that determined whether or not she received her nursing license.

The results are...
Entry for 07-14-2008Entry for $entrydate
iPhone Day, NCLEX Review
I got my iPhone on Friday. What an absolute work of genius. I had to wait in line for an hour and a half to get it, but I did get it.

I freaking ...
Entry for 07-06-2008Entry for $entrydate
Nathan is homesick + Chat with Dave
Nathan called tonight. He has been at mom's since Friday and I guess he got a little bored today and wanted to come home. We talked him in to staying the rest o...
Entry for 07-05-2008Entry for $entrydate
Independence Day Vacation
Well, another fourth of July has come and gone. We went down to Mom's overnight. Thursday night we shot a few fireworks and just mainly visited.

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Entry for 06-30-2008Entry for $entrydate
YouTube channel, Visit from Dad
Well, believe it or not, I saw Dad and Robin on Saturday.

They visited a local chapter of the GWRRA and went to one of their meetings. While they...
Entry for 06-26-2008Entry for $entrydate
The Flip is in!
Well, the video recorder arrived yesterday and it is so absolutely perfect for this kind of stuff.

Last night, I recorded me tickling Blake after...
Entry for 06-25-2008Entry for $entrydate
The Flip has shipped
I did it. I finally did it. I saved up a small chunk of money and bought a video recorder. It's called the Flip. It was priced at $12...
Entry for 06-22-2008Entry for $entrydate
Church, more dreams, etc
Had church today. Heather had to work so it was me and the boys.
Blake didn't sleep on the way to church because Nathan was pestering him so I missed th...
Entry for 06-20-2008Entry for $entrydate
More rain, Tool dream
Well, I'm convinced that the rain will drown us all before it stops. The Mississippi River has been flooding towns all along it's banks. By the sounds of it, St...
Entry for 06-17-2008Entry for $entrydate
Lunch with Jay, storms getting old.
I forgot to mention this before, but me and Heather got to hang out with Jay and Amber (friends whom we haven't talked to in a while). It was nice seeing them ...
Entry for 06-16-2008Entry for $entrydate
Long overdue update
It's been 10 days since I updated my site. I've been working terribly hard on a redesign which will finally include a FAMILY section.

The site w...
Entry for 06-06-2008Entry for $entrydate
WWDC Keynote address nearing!
As many of you know, I use nothing but Apple computers. Microsoft had their chance. Regardless, on Monday, June 9, 2008, Apple will start on their annual World ...
Entry for 06-05-2008Entry for $entrydate
Blake goes vertical + New pictures!
Blake has officially learned how to stand upright. He's even gotten to where he'll let go for several seconds at a time.

He's just growing up so ...
Entry for 05-23-2008Entry for $entrydate
Holidays at work.
When we have these terrible Monday holidays at work, my department does not have to work on Monday. The problem is that the newspaper still goes out, which mean...
Entry for 05-20-2008Entry for $entrydate
Blake says "Ma-Ma"!
So, we're just sitting around last night. Blake was crawling around in the floor and just was making his weird noises like always.

Well, apparent...
Entry for 05-14-2008Entry for $entrydate
LDS Article
It has been a slow week so instead of not posting anything, here is an update on a previous journal entry. Back on March 23, 2008 I posted the cover to a specia...
Entry for 05-10-2008Entry for $entrydate
Pinning and graduation
Last night was Heathers pinning ceremony. Her nursing class has a separate graduation where the nursing faculty place pins on their uniforms. This signifies the...
Entry for 05-09-2008Entry for $entrydate
The roof over our heads
Yesterday, we got our roof replaced.

The roof Entry for 05-07-2008Entry for $entrydate
Future nurse proceeds to graduation!
Heather Greninger will proceed to graduation. She passed her nursing final with a 84% and her retake with a 91.7%.

EDIT: I was corrected today. S...
Entry for 05-06-2008Entry for $entrydate
2008 Fort Smith Classic (Practice)
The Times Record (my employer) is owned by Stephens Media. Stephens Media is the presenting sponsor of the Fort Smith Classic, one of the many stops on the Nati...
Entry for 05-05-2008Entry for $entrydate
Good News/Bad News
Good News:
Heather is 2 days away from completing her degree.

Bad News:
She has this test. This horrible test that Hell put togethe...
Entry for 04-30-2008Entry for $entrydate
Tha roof, tha roof, tha roof is gettin' replaced
We've had two contractors come out to estimate the roof damage. Both estimates were upwards of $6,000.

If you've read my previous entries, our ap...
Entry for 04-28-2008Entry for $entrydate
Bring on the car insurance!
Saturday, me and Heather had our cars appraised. My car had the least damage (or the worse adjuster...depending on how you want to look at it). Their replacing ...
Entry for 04-23-2008Entry for $entrydate
House insurance update
Alright, our house was appraised this morning. He said everything on the front of the house, minus the bricks, needs to be replaced. That includes all siding, f...
Entry for 04-22-2008Entry for $entrydate
All work and no play... + Graduation info
All work and no play...sucks.

We are about to shrink our newsprint again. We're chopping it down from a 50" web to a 46" web which when holding t...
Entry for 04-20-2008Entry for $entrydate
New project
Well, as my week came to a close, it finally slowed down a bit. At least long enough for me to lock myself into another project.

I have already c...
Entry for 04-18-2008Entry for $entrydate
About time for an update...
Sorry for the 9 day delay. I've been busy and really haven't had time to do much since the hail storm (unrelated).

I have developed a new applica...
Entry for 04-09-2008Entry for $entrydate
Oh, Hail.
It's almost 10:30pm right now and I figured I'd post a few pics for you. I'll get some daylight shots up tomorrow sometime.

For those who don't k...
Entry for 04-08-2008Entry for $entrydate
A case of the Mondays
Well, yesterday was pretty crappy. It was busy from the time I got there to the time I left. I'm currently working on 3 software dev projects (a droplet for Bre...
Entry for 04-06-2008Entry for $entrydate
General Conference + General Update
I've found as the days are passing by that time becomes more and more valuable. I find it hard to juggle all the things in my life and am finding that I'll forg...
Entry for 03-30-2008Entry for $entrydate
Scoutmaster calling is proving to be difficult
Well, I finally was able to have a nice long talk with Pres. Hubler and Pres. Fair about the scouting program.

From what I can tell, it needs a t...
Entry for 03-27-2008Entry for $entrydate
Goodbye Elder Davis
Well, work has been extremely busy lately so I kept forgetting to post.

Tonight, we had to say farewell to Elder Davis. He was the first missiona...
Entry for 03-23-2008Entry for $entrydate
Callings
I totally forgot! Back on the 10th of March, I posted that me and Heather both accepted callings. I also said I'd update you that following Sunday. I apparently...
Entry for 03-20-2008Entry for $entrydate
OTM: Complete + Nathans Computer
This happened a couple days ago and I completely dropped the ball.
The Living Faith special section has printed and approx. 30,000 people were able to he...
Entry for 03-19-2008Entry for $entrydate
The ol' 240SX
I actually got to do something today that truely made me happy. After a quick charge, I started the 240SX and drove it up and down the street a couple times.
Entry for 03-18-2008Entry for $entrydate
Blake Crawls + APA Awards
The past few days have been busy. My horrible week at work has ended and I am now enjoying my week long vacation.

Tonight, Blake scooted for his ...
Entry for 03-10-2008Entry for $entrydate
Patriartical blessing + Bro. Woodrome
It's been really crazy around here the past few days.

On Sunday, Heather received her Patriartical blessing from Patriarch Hubler. It was awesome...
Entry for 03-07-2008Entry for $entrydate
Living Faith cover complete
Today, I completed the Living Faith special section cover. This one was really difficult to do because I was hoping to use a photo of our missionaries on the co...
Entry for 03-06-2008Entry for $entrydate
Website update + Vacation!
I went to work this morning around 7:30am instead of my normal 9am because our webmaster is out of town until next Monday. This means I'll be in charge of the w...
Entry for 03-05-2008Entry for $entrydate
Where is your foundation?
Our Elders were out the other day and came across a nice little church in Sallisaw. They said that there was a very interesting stone engraving on the building ...
Entry for 03-03-2008Entry for $entrydate
APA award announcements
Well, another pretty slow day at work. One big thing that I have been waiting on is the APA (Arkansas Press Association) awards.

We were allowed ...
Entry for 03-02-2008Entry for $entrydate
Church was today...
It was a pretty average Sunday. Got up and went to church. Brother Fair (as I call him, Cowboy) gave a really nice testimony and a really good idea for Easter.<...
Entry for 02-29-2008Entry for $entrydate
Dinner with everyone
Tonight, we grilled hamburgers and cheddar brats for dinner. We had Penny, Chris, one of Chris's friends, Josh, MIke, and the missionaries.

Mike ...
Entry for 02-28-2008Entry for $entrydate
Intranet site
A new project at work was discussed today briefly over the phone. I will be designing an intranet site for Times Record employees.

It will featur...
Entry for 02-27-2008Entry for $entrydate
Open Thy Mouth: Step 1 Complete
Well, if you read my entry a couple days ago, I set up an interview between our missionaries and a feature writer from the newspaper I work at.

A...
Entry for 02-26-2008Entry for $entrydate
Proxy server setup
Tonight, I decided to set up a proxy server. I had never done it before and I needed a way to have some control over what my son accessed on the computers.
Entry for 02-25-2008Entry for $entrydate
Interview is ago!
I was talking co-worker again today at work and she brought up the "Faith" special section we run every year. It's actually going to be printing next week.
Entry for 02-24-2008Entry for $entrydate
Branch conference
Today was Branch conference at church. We had some really good speakers. I saw Sis. Sutton, Sis. Reiske, & Bro. Lee (who married Heather & I). Richard w...
Entry for 02-23-2008Entry for $entrydate
Just the 3 of us.
Heather worked today so it was me, Nathan & Blake. Nathan came back from his friends house around 2. I put Blake in his walker so I could make some lunch. He st...
Entry for 02-22-2008Entry for $entrydate
Funeral & dinner with the Missionaries
Today was rather sad. I attended the funeral of Cheryl Nobel, Carl's wife and Trevor's mother. The service was nice. I have never liked funerals. I always feel ...
Entry for 02-21-2008Entry for $entrydate
Late night trip
A coworker called me last night to tell me that the IQue Server (where all the stories & pages for our newspaper are stored) died again. This happens frequently...
Entry for 02-20-2008Entry for $entrydate
Comments go live + another boring day
In case you are wondering why I am using my journal entries as a "site update" column, I do it because it is what I spent the day working on.

It'...
Entry for 02-19-2008Entry for $entrydate
Police chief job is safe + comments again.
I spent a lot of today trying to figure out why people where protesting downtown today. I found out that the city was trying to fire our Chief of Police, based ...
Entry for 02-18-2008Entry for $entrydate
Article comments
Well, I made major headway for the addition of comments on the website. As a matter of fact, they should be fully operational by the weekend. You will find them...
Entry for 02-17-2008Entry for $entrydate
Melchizedek Priesthood & Stake Conference
Today was a very special day for me. We attended our first Stake Conference as a family. Even more than that, I got up early and had a fantastic interview with ...
Entry for 02-15-2008Entry for $entrydate
Magazine project + New missionary
Yesterday was more of a farewell to a friend of ours so I didn't include the following topic:

I was in a meeting to decided what our magazine's p...
Entry for 02-14-2008Entry for $entrydate
Elder Nickle, farewell my friend.
Tonight was our last night with Elder Nickle. He is being transferred to NWA. Elder Nickle was an amazing friend and so hopefully this won't sound too much like...
Entry for 02-13-2008Entry for $entrydate
Magazine project consumed my day.
Today was fairly uneventful. Work greatly consisted of working on page layout designs for our upcoming real estate magazine.

I will be posting so...
Entry for 02-12-2008Entry for $entrydate
Staying ahead of the curve
Today was really slow at work so I spent some time working on some upcoming projects we have. We are doing a magazine and I am responsible for the cover design ...
Entry for 02-11-2008Entry for $entrydate
False doctrine: not just for cults anymore.
Today, I talked to a friend briefly about my Digging for Truth blog. I just basically told him what it was going to be for.

He showed me a Chris...
Entry for 02-08-2008Entry for $entrydate
Admin panel complete!
A huge milestone in my knowledge of PHP, and for the livelyhood of this website was reached just moments ago.

I completed the Admin panel I will ...
Entry for 02-07-2008Entry for $entrydate
My first entry
This is a really pathetic first entry because it's just a test to see how everything works.

You see, this is the 3rd table in the same database t...