Starved - diet not going well these last 24 hours - the body wants to eat...

thinking about 1. breakfast, 2. homework, 3. tattoo expo in Reno...in the mood for the unusual today

4 assignments due today - 3 done moderately well - 1 left to go - reset freaking out level from "completely bonkers" down to "frazzled" pls

Misread the syllabus & didn't realize everything is due **today** - freaking out may now commence

happy happy birthday to youngest daughter! 21 is an awesome age - have fun!

Biked/walked 9 miles (500 cal.) & feeling it - giving the knees the day off tomorrow & doing the cross trainer - now off to a veggie burger!

Another grapefruit-&-advil morning but spring is in the air - nice! good morning, everyone

good morning, all - a RP of a blog entry for us old Nevadans http://ping.fm/MM7SI

Old NV blog post: Reno & the Reno Silver Sox http://ping.fm/MM7SI (comments always welcome)

Doing a bunch of scanning for a blog entry - this one will knock the socks of you old northern Nevadans - your baseball sox, that is

Blog post: busy day in Nevada http://ping.fm/hNK7H (good morning, everyone!)

The car clock & my body clock agreed this morning: why am i awake at 5:15 AM??? (good morning, everyone!)

Wondering why six people used the phrase "madmommas" to find my blog (yes, that's a shameless plug, but still... http://blog.bbkld.com)

Sad blog post this morning - hope you're having a good day - http://ping.fm/Hc8kk

Another day of using comp time; gotta burn it off w/my AL ASAP; "use it or lose it" sucks; good morning, everyone!

Blog post w/a postcard & a candle in the darkness http://ping.fm/GTlQ4 (comments always welcome)

very short blog post at http://ping.fm/BiJk2

Loathing MS Project - i never, ever want to see it again after this class finishes (which means i'll be stuck w/it for life w/my luck)

Watchmen was imperfect but about as good as they could do under the circumstances w/a multimillion dollar budget (not for young ones, tho!)

Being peer-pressured into applying for a higher-paying, bigger-headache job...not gonna happen, folks - thanks for the compliment, tho

RP of MSNBC feature fm last night: my sister works here http://ping.fm/q4tHt (good morning, everybody!)

Canine Partners for Life were on MSNBC tonight (& my blog): http://ping.fm/q4tHt

today's workout won't go in the logbook: moving big oak office furniture, whining, & some of these: http://ping.fm/ykThT

today's workout won't go in the logbook: moving oak office furniture & some of this http://ping.fm/P5Osx(exercise)#Shoulder_fly

2-3 inches of snow on the groundin beautiful Cartoon City - covers up the Nevada brown landscape nicely - good morning, everybody!

snow, rain, & sun already this morning in NV's capital city - hope it's all shiny where you are - good morning, everyone!

Still waiting for the caffeine to hit - lots to do today - carpe diem, y'all!

New post about today's ride & a postcard, too http://ping.fm/KknhJ (comments always welcome)

Went for a bike ride & hopefully burned off half of this morning's veggie omelet b/c i'm having lasagna for dinner - hi, everybody!

There's a new post about my diet if you're interested http://blog.bbkld.com/ (comments welcomed). good morning, everyone!

About to post my first outdoor bike ride of the year - good to see all that gym work is doing some good!

god, i'm a sucker for these kinds of stories http://ping.fm/EQpQw (good morning, everyone!)

is Boomer5 on Quake Live (hey, i rhyme!)

finally broke down & whined about the day job http://blog.bbkld.com/ (comments welcome!)

62F outside & i'm trapped in my cubicle under the staircase w mice & cobwebs - i must have been rly, rly, RLY bad in a former life

one LCB request waiting for me at work sucks but more than one makes me think about faraway sandy beaches & umbrella drinks; good morning!

rly bad day for the diet & no mojo at the gym - typical monday - hope y'all had a better day

Y'all have carte blanche to carpe diem & to e pluribus unum, too! (that's my nevada public education peeking thru); good morning, everyone!

serious procrastination mode here on an overcast nevada day - time to do my usual magical homework trick and make it go away...

Pls send some love/support to Liz Moore (@strdncr5); she's feels overwhelmed by her classes & needs to know she has friends - TYVMBB

moving very slowly at the moment - hope it makes the weekend last longer - einstein said it might work - good morning, everyone!

this was fun - let's do it again, tomorrow - same bat time, same bat channel - good night, everyone!

let's give it up for a friday/payday, kids! (woot) (good morning!)

crashed after an hour on the crosstrainer; calves of steel; energy of a 3-toed sloth; g'nite, everybody!

should be doing schoolwork but supremely apathetic - sure sign of burnout but don't care about that, either ;)

my name is bob & i am an addict http://ping.fm/50zkR (good morning, everyone!)

found the cause of @strdncr5's sleep apnea http://ping.fm/90WOK

went for a brisk walk, had a great omelet, updated the exercise & food logs - now for homework (or nap) - good morning, everyone!

thinking about reassessing the diet - 2000 consumed calories + 1.5 hours of exercise left me starving at the end of the day

procrastinating the h/w just a little longer to offer a post-VD blog post http://ping.fm/YnZSC

wonders if anyone w/homework ever actually had the non-panicky motivation to do homework; not me; good morning, everyone!

blogged & posted pix about room 2202 http://ping.fm/VnwFP http://ping.fm/JAK1T

this is our 27th V-Day with @strdncr5 & they keep getting better w/time - may you all have such happiness

at the Peppermill in Reno listening to a really bad (lounge singer) version of "Highway to Hell" - it'd be good if i was drunk ;)

you want to do this after work http://ping.fm/FDsuB

dear spammers calling my personal cell: if i don't recognize the number, i don't pick up - i win, you lose (gloat)

irritated @ lame office politics; shouldn't let little things like this get under my skin *sigh* good morning, everyone!

dennys omelet: good; calories: bad (but body was starved for nutrition); dennys fruit bowl: very very yummy - good morning, everyone!

25 things? pshaw - here's 100 things b/c i'm too lazy to think of 25 new things http://ping.fm/aeZkJ (good morning, everyone!)

the missus will be irritated to hear my diet in past 2 wks averaged +/- 1800 calories (supposed to be 2490); keep it a secret, OKTYBB ;)

Up at the college waiting for Sadistics to start - maybe go to the gym afterwards...

As the snow falls in northern NV, today's mantra: Cubs pitchers/catchers report in 3 days and change

lots of ice out there - hope the two-wheelers (& four-wheelers) are slow and safe out there - good morning, everyone!

Have neither motivation or desire to work today so here's a postcard blogpost, instead; hope all is well http://ping.fm/ip1rn

Off to find food while the newly-reformatted HP laptop receives 68 updates for Vista (serious)

At work & got this on my mind - http://ping.fm/G5ZpA (good morning, everyone!)

Dear Fellow Nevadans: This explains a lot http://ping.fm/5n4pG

Hey, America: got your Red on? http://ping.fm/MPjm4 (good morning, everyone!)

For Aunt Lily: http://ping.fm/TG42K (I've never eaten so much fruit at one time before) - good morning, everyone!

the only proof of sanity is discharge paperwork from an insane asylum - where's your copy, huh?

Another wedding picture fm Aunt Lily: the son-in-law and me (http://ping.fm/FoJ28)

Clocked in at 6:15 in hopes of finding my desk under the stacks of paper - i'm a dreamer but i'm not the only one - good morning everyone!

Today was so much fun, **two** posts aimed for ur funny bone - good night, everyone! http://ping.fm/OY36L http://ping.fm/2LBj2

Exercised, shaved & LOL'd from an old joke from the intertubes http://ping.fm/2LBj2 (good morning, everybody!)

sadistics question: standard deviation can be found by a. 30 minute lecture or b. 4 buttons on a calculator - guess which one i picked? ;)

Random blogging & wishing you a Great Monday! http://ping.fm/9vWoz (Comments welcome!)

Gonna piss off The Boss: muting the TV at halftime to focus on this big honking piece of homework - sorry, Mr. Springsteen

update on the diet on my blog but here's the short form: nothing happening http://blog.bbkld.com

got a lot done today - to sleep - g'nite, y'all and take care of you

Earned 6 hours comp for The Man, finished some El Pollo Loco, & about to do Sadisitics homework - weekends are fun? (doh)

Here's some sacriledge: Meatloaf does this song much better than Celine Dion http://ping.fm/OuNRA

good morning, all - in the office to begin the daily rassling match w/our cranky report writer - Focus was so much easier...

Endorphins are God's way of saying: "Get your ass off the couch & work it good" - me love endorphins

Stuck with the ex-VH'ers theme at the gym: http://ping.fm/MdMZt

This weekend: 15 hrs sleep; 10 hrs work; 8 hrs school; two hrs exercise; what did i forget???

This is gonna be a good day - state email is down again - maybe I'll get caught up a little now :)

Good morning, all - time for a little carpe diem action, ya think? Have a great Friday!

Perhaps my laptops would have a longer life if i stopped naming them "HAL" (<------- geek alert); good night, everybody

State email system is down...blessed silence...now can we unpluggz the phonz 2 plz?

RP of my blogpost (http://ping.fm/czX7L) b/c it's good advice (& i'm a comment whore) - good morning, everyone!

Setting up a histogram in SPSS v16 or Excel 2007 is hurting both of my braincells - Google, here i come!

Casale wedding attendees: I'm gathering pix - please send what you got or send link to your public pix page - TYLYBBFN

testing out ping.fm for my micro-blogging & boring-you-to-tears posts - have a great day!

Been Awhile

This is my backup blog to this so it's months before I will check into it, but it was surprising to see that it's been 14 months since I posted here.

I'll say it here, then, instead of there:

Happy Birthday to me.

Take care.

Yahoo Speaks!

"Hello Bob,
Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Web Hosting. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to assist you.

I understand that the blog installed in your account is unable to connect to the MySQL database.

Thank you for reporting us the problem you have encountered and I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you.

We have been just informed by our engineers that there is some problem with our MySQL servers and you may encounter one or more of the following problems with the MySQL server:

* Unable to connect to the database
* Can't connect to MySQL server on 'mysql' (61) [Using hostname - mysql]
* The system is either busy or unavailable Please try again later
* #2003 - The server is not responding error message.
* Error connecting to the blog
* Error making database connection

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Our engineering team is working on this issue and soon you will be able to access the database.

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Yahoo is worthless

Yes...back here again. The reason is below (posted to the WordPress Forum).

Forgive my venting...

I'm getting the infamous "Error establishing a database connection" with my Yahoo-based WP blog. I made no changes. Zip. Zero.

I called Yahoo TS, wandered through some phone menu choices, and was told to call somewhere else. (I could barely hear her because Yahoo uses voice over IP. (hellloooo, India :-))

OK, my bad. I called the wrong tech support. I tried again. I navigated through the menus and got a human who told me Yahoo does not support this third-party software.

This is the second time Yahoo TS has misbehaved for me. This first time happened when I asked them how to change domains and, following their advice, lost two months worth of work.

I must have been very bad in a former life. :-)

I gotta say this again: I changed nothing. I am about done with Yahoo services and need to find another host.

Many Censored Thoughts

Yes...I'm back here again.

I'll get into the long woeful discussion on what happened to my site and the 60+ blog entries when I get in a better mood.

For now, bear with me until things get back to normal....


....whatever the hell that is.

100 Years Ago Was a Minute Ago

In geologic terms, anyway. We’re approaching to the 100 anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. My great-grandmother was finishing her senior year at Stanford University when the quake struck. They canceled finals, sent the students home, and eventually mailed the diplomas to the graduates.

The U.S. Geological Survey has a bunch of interesting links about the earthquake, including the printout of the earthquake from the pendulum seismograph in beautiful Cartoon City. (Warning: You’ll need high-speed internet and Google Earth.)

Company Policy

[An oldie from the internet]

Start with a large cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it.

Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with ice cold water. After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result; all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water.

Soon, when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.

Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.

Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm! Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth.

Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked. When all of the original monkeys have been replaced none of them have ever been doused with cold water. Consequently, none of the monkeys know why they are beating the newcomer or why they are not permitted to climb the stairs.

Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the banana. Why not? Because, as far as they know that’s the way it’s always been done around here.

And that, my friends, is how a company policy begins.

Oh, this is just peachy

I wanted to move my blog to a subdomain so I could use the main domain as a real website. I emailed Tech Support, followed their instructions precisely and, despite best efforts otherwise, cannot display two months of entries.

Everything is there on the server. I will email them again and see if they can recover the files or restructure the WordPress MySQL database.

In the meantime:
- Classes are done for this week and all tests have been given. Less that half of the students in my Thursday night class did not show. Curious.
- Voices are whispering again that my new job is moving to Reno. I would lose the raise in salary just in refilling the truck if gas prices go up to $3+ a gallon, which media experts say is a sure thing.
- It’s beautiful out there and I’m thinking of riding the bike to work tomorrow. Oh wait. Thunderstorms are forecast for the morning. I may do it, anyway.