jim's Aeonity Blog

Reign Over Me

Lyndsey and I want to see a movie last night after eating dinner at Black Eyed Peas (very good salads). The movie we choose was one that involved Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle, two very good actors. The movie was about a man who lost his wife and 3 girls from the terrorists attacks that happened on September 11th.

This is a very strong, heartfelt and emotional movie. Reign Over Me is a subtle comedy, but made you laugh hard. This profound movie really hit me hard, it made me wonder what would I do in Charlie Fineman's (Adam Sandlers) situation. I am still amazed by this movie and as a re-percussion still in a very deep and profound stage. It really makes you re-think the priorities you place in your life. It makes me wonder about how mine has been going.

I am still in deep thought about Reign Over Me and I hope to take the morals of the story into major consideration. The real questions are1, if someone you loved died tomorrow, is this how you would want them to remember you? And am I destroying a very good thing in my life by having other items take precedence?

I would highly recommend Reign Over Me to anyone. It is not another sad sap story to be tugged at 9/11 for money. If you were to ask me the story actually pulls away from that mood and Adam Sandler did a great job, one of the better movies I have seen him in, in a long time.

For a good laugh, cry and to be touched see Reign Over Me, you will not be disappointed.

Frustration Sets In

Working on Aeonity v3.0 I recently found out my theory having to do with PHP is flawed. At least so I think, the load time on a few test pages is insane compared to current load times.

I may have to re-think my logic. I plan on testing a different theory I have and hopefully that one works. If it does work the only issue I have to watch out for is compatibility with PHP 5 incase our host decides to upgrade.

Anyhow I am very frustrated and sad right now that those hours may have been wasted. We will see.

Thanks for Reading,
--Jim

Update as of March 2007

Well here is a long awaited update (yea right huh?) Anyhow Lyndsey and I are doing well. We are moved into the house, with the exception of the main bathroom and kitchen being done. We are going to look into new cabinets this weekend/ripping out the old cabinets with hope to get the rest of the laminate floor laid in the kitchen area.

It has been a really busy month for February and is starting to slow down some. We are now in the "unpacking" phase and hopefully will be done with at least the upstairs portion this weekend. Our Valentines was really un-eventful as Lynds had homework to do. Hopefully she will want to go out tonight, unlike the other nights I offered to take her our.

We love the new place. It is soo quiet and nice. The neighbors are friendly and I am just a 5 minute walk away from work! That will help out a ton with gas money etc.

Well enough rambling I will hopefully update the blog more, doubtful but anything is possible.

Thanks for Reading,
--Jim

Christmas Eve 2006 Gifts

Lyndsey's family has a tradition of spending Chistmas eve day with her Grandma and Grandpa and her Aunt and Uncle's family. We went over there around 11:00am. At which time we waited for everyone else to get there. Once everyone was there we got our list for what to order from Garamonies (an Italian place) and placed the order. After which we opened presents.

Lyndsey's Grandma and Grandpa gave me a brand new pair of Timberland hiking boots, which I love. Next her brother gave me a new Knife and hunting hat, which I also love. After that her Great Grandma gave me a nice pair of Deer Leather gloves and $30! After that her Uncle and Aunt gave us $45 to Lowes and a Measuring tape! Needless to say we were very spoiled with tons of money for fixing our new house. Finally her Grandma and Grandpa had tin pales which the super glued shut and put $50 + change in the containers. The trick was they were hard to open and made alot of noise. That was interesting and fun trying to get the lids off of those tin cans.

After all that was said and done our food was ready to eat. We ate a ton of food and than watched the Broncos beat the Bengals 23-24. That was a very good and intense game. Once the Broncos won we went upstairs and played "Battle of the Sexes," which was a great game but flawed. The game there is a line you cannot cross unless you get a missed turn. That was the major flaw of Battle of the Sexes. They needed a card that said something like "If you answer the next question right you may progress one." Either way it was fun for the first 30-45minutes after that everyone gave up because it was literally impossible to play a game that long that would probably keep going on for another 2 hours.

Once the game was over we all said our good-byes and went on our merry way. But I had a great day!

Thanks for Reading,
--Jim

Christmas Gifts I Received

I had a wonderful Christmas this year despite the fact of getting a cold. The cold part is not fun as I am still battling it. At anyrate here is how my frist Christmas went with my wife Lyndsey and her family.

Christmas morning we got up around 10:30am and went over to Lyndsey's dads house around 11:15am. We opened presents and found that her dad gave us a gift card to Home Depot and gave me a 256mb Jump Drive from Heidelberg, Germany. After we opened presents we had Chirstmas ham, mashed potatoes and green beans for lunch. The ham was very good. Once we were done eating and everyone was stuffed we watched the movie Invincible, with Mark Wahlberg. The movie was pretty good. Once the movie was over we went over to my sisters house.

At my sisters house (around 2:30pm) we gave my sister and her husband their present along with my neice and nephew. They enjoyed the homemade presents and were excited. My sister and her husband gave us a homedepot card, which goes right along with our other 4 home depots cards. After that Leif and I made a trash run and a battery run. Once we got back Lyndsey and I again said our good-byes as we had to go to her mom's house next.

At Lyndsey's moms house we say and watched A Christmas Story until Lyndsey's mom and brother got home, at that time we opened our presents from her mom and brother and from each other. From Lyndsey's mom I got a drawer organizer, a Porter Cable drill, and Black and Decker drill bits. From Lyndsey's brother he gave Lyndsey and I a new Door Knocker with "Worthen" engraved into it, a great gift.

Now it was my time to open Lyndsey's present to me. I was kinda sad that I was sick because I do not think I expressed how excited I was enough. But she got me a brand new Charbroil grill!!!!!!!!!!!!! It does not require those crazy lava rocks and is very awesome!! I cannot wait till we are in our new house fulltime and I can grill! Along with the grill she got me the grill tools! I love my new grill!

After all that was said and done I was soo tired. Dinner was next and we had a great dinner made by her mom. It was steaks and Crab legs. I love crab and I was stuffed! Needless to say, despite the fact of me being sick I had a wonderful Chistmas thanks to my new and old family.

Thanks for Reading,
--Jim