Category Archives: News

Things, Goings On, and Stuff I write

JVC – Model GZ-MG30

They’re Here! JVC – Model GZ-MG30 are camcorders that start, and remain digital. They’re hard drive based video recorders and they are going to be ubiquitous in the next 10 years or my name’s not mud Randy Peterman. I have spent hours of computer time recording video onto computers and the editing afterword is time intensive as well. These sort of devices will remove one of those steps and allow for much greater efficiency.

Three Weeks Cheeze-it Free

I have officially been Cheez-it free for at least three weeks. I’m hoping to stay clean for a long time – its a good thing for me to reduce my carb and cheese intake, that is until the next time Jessica makes cheesecake. But who knows? I could be healthy in my eating habits for weeks and months until the holidays hit 🙂

The Road from Rita

Tonight as I saw the lines of cars on the news I realized something very incredible: People were going to run out of gasoline and the gas stations on their way away from Rita were going to be closed because the people responsible for running the stations were going to be leaving, too. Further, police and various other sources of security and protection are going to be leaving at some point in time simply because it is not safe for people to be in the path of this hurricane. Even worse: elderly and handicap will be left behind in this. I don’t know who, I don’t know where but there will be reports of people who were simply left behind.

I’m praying for the folks in the route of this, including my co-workers, and I am trusting that God, in His wisdom and strength, will protect a large amount of people, and those who die will do so in His mercy. Death is not evil, bad or nasty, but it is a change – may God’s glory be shown in this time of what looks like chaos.

Moore’s Law

My wireless router went out last Friday. I got the exact same router last night. I bought the first one two years ago for $110.00 [USD]. Last night I paid $32.00 with tax. I figure that by the time Abby is old enough to have her own computer these things will be so cheap that I’ll be able to use them for skeet shooting 🙂

Peterman Which Project

I get asked all the time, “Did you bathe this week?” Which is really annoying. Yes! I bathe once a week whether I need it or not. I also get asked, “Randy? Are you ever going to put more/better pictures of your house on your web site?” And the answer to that is a resounding Maybe. But, for those of you who are not able to travel to our fine estate with acres and acres of fine vineyards, rolling hills to hunt foxes on and experience the spacious living quarters we have…. here’s a large 25MB video (sorry, its in WMV format, so you’ll need the Windows Media Player for your Operating System). You’ll want to save it locally to your hard drive by right clicking on the link and saving the file (in Windows) or using whatever methods are available to you on your operating system. Windows 3.1 users are advised to turn their computers off and buy a Mac. Now.

Oh, and this footage is from when we moved in… so its really old.
Oh, Oh! And this has some bonus footage as well.

I Am Not a Car

One of the things my dad has said throughout my life is that by walking into a church you’re not a Christian, just like walking into a garage doesn’t make you a car. Well, this post is about our garage. It is relatively clean now. Last night Jessica and I spent lots of time cleaning out the garage and I can proudly say that we have room for me to walk around the garage, get into the car and if we were to remove the extra fridge, we could park two cars in it. I wouldn’t recommend two cars in our garage unless we removed the work bench as well, but its clean! Thanks to Jessica’s motivation as a pregnant woman (preggers!) we have a list of things to do before the baby comes and last night we knocked out two. This is a short list, fortunately, but I’m glad to be able to work on it and get it done.

I may post pictures if people ask for pictures of the garage. If you do ask… I may think you’re sick 😉 Maybe we can do a video tour.

Smells Like a Four Letter Word

So, as yet another surprise to my mother, I have eaten fish for the past two days. You see, I used to not like fish. At the present I’m still not a huge fish fan, but I can eat it and not throw up, so that’s a good thing. Yesterday while Abby was admiring the one shoed man, I was eating fish. Hot Fish, hot talapia to be exact. Or, for those of you who like to call it something else, St. Peter’s Fish or Hawaiian Sun Fish. However, today I smell like fish. My skin smells like fish and my nose smells fish constantly. I suppose that if I ate fish regularly this wouldn’t be an issue, but right now I’m just totally overwhelmed by the smell and am ready to take a break.

On the upside the fish oils contain fats that have been recently linked to prevention of alzheimers, which could be quite handy. Also, if I eat enough fish I will be able to grow gils and swim in the ocean like Kevin Costner – and we all know how cool that would be [the swimming, not being like Kevin Costner].

Birthday Wishlist

I get asked by family every year, so here it is…
Here it is, Tuesday, September 13th and I’ve spent all of my spending money for the month. This new album from Switchfoot Nothing is Sound should already be in my iTunes folder so that I can be listening to it, but alas, I have blown my spending money. I got Switchfoot’s first album a long time ago… oh, I think its fair to say I got Legend of Chin before it was official released. I saw them at Spirit West Coast, I saw them play with Five Iron Frenzy, and I saw them at the DFW airport leaving the bathroom. I also saw them play at Six Flags. It is safe to say that I enjoy their music… however, I’m going to have to wait until October 1st to get this one unless someone wants to get this for me for my birthday. I’d also like to get an album from House of Heroes. So if your wondering, “Randy, why would I get you something for your birthday?” The answer is don’t. This is a list for family and a few friends who have too much spending money 😉 iTunes gift cards are nifty if you want something fast and easy for my birthday present. I’d also like the Herbie Hancock CD that is currently being sold only at Starbucks. I dont’ want their coffee, just this CD.

Oh, and a tablesaw and router would be nice. No, not a computer network router, a wood manipulating router. Those are so expensive though that I think I’ll be selling my liver to buy the things 😉