If you want to see a specific recipe uploaded just let me know!

I have uploaded the pictures take so far.  Here’s a link:

Florida - Thanksgiving 2009

On a side note with the blog, we have everything finished.  The pictures are now being hosted on Picasa and are linked through using a couple of plugins.  It makes things very nice, fast, and extremely easy to use (Katie needs that).

Since then, we’ve started our drive down to Florida. Mary Jane and her boyfriend, Adam, are tagging along so Chase doesn’t have just me to keep him company and awake during the drive. We’re currently relaxing at the hotel in Richmond Hill for the night. Tomorrow we’ll finish the rest of the drive.

Big update on our lives and everything that has happened in the past year from Katie in the next few days.

Well, to start off, Katie on the other hand has been busy almost every waking moment with her research.  Her animal studies have been completed, she is working on her final target compound, and is nearing the finish line with her computer modeling.  Only thing left is that gigantic paper she has to write.  It has become clear that she won’t be officially graduating until May, but she should be able to defend her thesis come January and after that she can get a job.  She just won’t have that piece of paper that makes everything official.

Me on the other hand, I’ve basically been working and then relaxing on my evenings and days off.  I have found time to finally get a decent file server setup at the house.  It has a 1-TB RAID-5 array, which should be plenty for us.  We’ve currently only filled up 23% (approx. 230 GB), but that frees a lot of stuff off our of computer drives.  The best part is that I have it setup to backup to Carbonite, that way if anything happens all of Katie’s important research and all our pictures are safe.  I highly recommend it to everyone.  I have also spent time cleaning out the spare bedroom and slowly getting rid of the stuff in there.  We donated our old waterbed frame to Goodwill and gave MJ a lot of stuff too.  It feels nice to have an almost fully functional spare room again.

We are still going to most of the Virginia Tech football games.  I’ve have been currently working on finishing up both Ladder Ball (a.k.a Tailgate Golf or Redneck Golf) and Cornhole.  I’ve just hit the lazy part with them and don’t feel like painting.  I know for a fact Cornhole will be done by the next game against Duke on the 21st.  If the weather stays in the 60s or so I can probably finish Ladder Ball too.

The dogs are still doing fine.  Gizmo is goofy as always and Teddy is shy as always.  The other day I was using the unfinished Cornhole piece to block of the door because I was staining some picture frames and didn’t want the dogs running around getting all wood colored and what does Gizmo do?  Shoves his head through the 6″ opening and almost gets stuck.  See for yourself!

I was such a nice husband to Katie.  To help alleviate some of her stress, I got her a cute furry little friend.  It wasn’t the cheapest hamster, but it sure is the nicest.  I had to buy everything too, cage, food, bedding, etc.  Her name is Kobito and she is a female Robovski hamster.  We bought this type of hamster because the lady at the pet store recommended them as the friendliest.  They don’t bite and can be picked up fairly easily, but she is fast so she can’t get loose or it’s the end of her.  Teddy seems to have taken a liking to her and is very protective of her when Gizmo comes close.  Katie took a picture of her, but it’s all blurry.  I’ll post it anyway though.

I said that I was a nice husband above, well then I guess the next piece of news will make me an awesome husband.  I bought Katie a new car.  Yes, yes I did.  The 2000 Eclipse she was driving had started to become a problem in these colds months.  The heater core is clogged and we have been quoted $1800+ to fix it.  Just not worth it for that car.  So, I got her a 2009 Imperial Blue Metallic Chevrolet Cobalt.  I could go in to detail describing it, but if you click on the picture below it will take you to the gallery.

I have also been recording out Dungeons and Dragons sessions.  I plan on posting the highlights when CERTAIN PEOPLE send me the time codes of the best moments of the evening.  It isn’t conducive to my bandwidth to allow anyone who can access this site to download 250+ MB, 5+ hours long MP3’s.  So, when I get those time codes, I’ll start creating the highlight reel. . .err MP3.

Also, if it matters to anyone, I got the software for the blog (WordPress) and the photo gallery (gallery2) fully updated.  It was amazing. . .it’s the first time it worked without anything blowing up.

Anyway, I’ll see what I can do about getting Katie to post and to force myself to post more often.

On another note, I know the photo gallery is missing.  I am in the process of fixing it.  Katie and I are going to King’s Dominion on Saturday and then we have D&D that evening.  So, hopefully Sunday it will be back.  Just don’t ask what I did to it.  I’ll just bore you with the details.

Second thing, I got a watermark placed on all of our images.  I don’t want people stealing them.  Not cool.  Especially since the some of the wedding photos that we paid for are up there.

Speaking of wedding photos, Katie got the wedding photos uploaded and I got the honeymoon pictures up.  Now everyone. . .stop complaining!

Anyway, we are going to go see Wall-E in a bit, after that we will post up all the pictures from the wedding and the honeymoon.  Then maybe I can get back to playing GTAIV some more.

EDIT: Errrrrrrrrrr. . .maybe it’s not fully fixed yet. . .GRRRR

EDIT #2:  After playing around for a long while, we changed a few things and updated some stuff.  A few small tweaks to do and everything should be set.