And I got a new friend anyway.

Welcome Ack!

Times have been good, got engaged. My daughter Emily is doing well.

I have zero motivation but still I've been really busy. I've been skimming through journals and posting a comment about once a week or so.

Here are some things I've done lately.

I got a Magellan Roadmate 700. Nice, but I don't want it. I know, strange, a gadget that I have no desire for.

I want to convert it into other cool toys for myself. We're talking $1,000 bucks here. Maybe a Creative Labs Nomad Zen MP3 player, maybe the new Kodak 5 MP camera. What would you buy yourself for new gadgets in about the $300 price range? I already have a Tivo and Roomba.

Here are the latest pictures of Emily. I had them done so they would be back before father's day.

There is one of me with Emily in there. Here they are.

Went to gmailswap and offered up a $20 donation to the Victory Junction camp. Someone took me up right away and I made the donation. Got my account immediately afterward. 1 GB here I come.

Emily has been getting better with the potty training, she is almost there. Her mother told me she woke her up at 5 am to go potty...I'll save some money there.

Gotta run because Emily has her first dance lesson tonight. I have to spend 45 minutes near the ex-, yuck.

My mom called me the other day, she said there were Amish sharpshooters walking around near her house. I didn't know there were such things.

Tivo is now giving away the Home Media Option for free.

I'm going to write them and ask for my $99 back (well $50 after the rebate).

Found this quiz, thought it was kind of cool. It tests your thinking style. I'll put my results in a comment below.

Got a call from the Ex-. She just got the paperwork in the mail, it is official, the divorce is final.

I'm hoping my copy is in the mail today.

WooHoo!

My company is finally interviewing for the second senior sysadmin person. This person would be my peer, there would be two guys junior to us. Interviewed a guy yesterday, about 10 years experience (compared to my 6 years). He has lots of certs and a Master's degree.

The ex- signed the petition for divorce. It heads off to the judge.

I met the ex- at a Notary's office, got everything notarized, then immediately drove it to my lawyer's office. I had to take the day off work to ensure it got done, but it was a good use of a personal day.

Lawyer's secretary says it come back as quickly as 2 weeks or as long as 8 weeks depending on the judge's workload.

Time for a little Soup Dragons

Don't be afraid of your freedom
Freedom

So things are going pretty well with the gf and me. The gf took Emily out to a farmer's market last Saturday and then some other shopping. Saturday Emily called the gf "mommy". She also did it last night.

Now what approach do I take with this? Here are some factors to affect this:

She is 3 years old, she knows that kids have a mommy and a daddy, but the ex- and I have been seperated for the last 1.5 yrs.

Not my first choice of bands, but tonight we went to see the "Indigo Girls". My GF picked up the tickets, and no she's not a lesbian, although her gay friend from college also went along.

I've just started playing around with the world of RSS and I found this fun little test.

Here it is the Libertarian Purity Test.

I'll post my score below in the comments.

I have had some good luck submitting stories to the main page. Out of 34 submissions, 3 have been accepted. There are two more accepted prior to that I think they were removed from my history in a /. database crash prior to August 2001.