New Server

Not that you’ll notice much, but my site’s on a new server now.
As soon as I get the database all moved over, it’ll be even quicker.
The new server offers me more room.
How much more room?
5 Megabytes.
Not a lot, but more.
How much am I using right now?
15 Megabytes – mostly from pictures and old files I should probably dump.

You probably don’t care about this, but I thought I’d let you know in case there was a disruption of service.

Resting in Him,

Randy “Server Hopper” Peterman

Hot Kool-aid

No, I’m not referring to stolen kids drinks.
In fact, I’m not even referring to Kool-aid.
I’m referring to tea.
Fruity tea that would make some British tea drinkers spew their strong, strip the paint off of your car, tea out their nose.
Tea with honey in it.
Not just some honey, but probably more than you would normally put in your tea.

You see, when you put a lot of honey in a cup of hot water, let a tea bag soak in the honey water you get a warm drink that is quite tasty and would probably pass as punch if you let it cool down.
I love it.
Tony likes chocolate milk, his wife Erin likes Dr. Pepper.
Jessica’s cousin Amanda lives on Dr. Pepper.
Me, I seem to like hot Kool-aid.
I’m sorry, but I just had to get that out in the open.

Resting in Him,

Randy “Spot of Tea” Peterman

Late Night Part V

Late nights are getting more and more normal.
Unfortunately, I’m starting to get warn out.
The upside is that it’s still not as bad as when Abby was born in which case I was at the complete point of exhaustian.
Any more exhaustian and I’d have been hallucinating (at some points I may have been).

Doug and Amanda came down and we had dinner with our two families and then I went to help them load up a huge aquarium into their van.
When I say huge, I think it was as big as a casket, but without the dead person.
The thing was about 6 feet long (maybe longer) and about 18 inches deep, I think it held 120 gallons, but don’t quote me on that, it could have been bigger.
That’s a lot of salt, that’s a lot of water, that’s a lot of fish and most of all: that’s a lot of money (to keep up).
That’s also why I don’t have any pets.

OK, it’s night-night time.

Resting in Him,

Randy Peterman

Quicky

Been busy since we got back from Austin.
Jess’ mom, Linda, came into town and so we’ve been having fun, Abby enjoys her grandma.
Work is good, but we’re coming up to a release, so hopefully all will be done and ready quite soon.

Pray for my nephew Brennan who was bit by a dog – some stitches apparently took care of things, but we hope his healing will leave no scars.

Oh, and this is the 151st article in my database – Cool!

Resting in Him,

Randy Peterman

Round Rock Water

Frozen in time, or at least in time to hit the ground as snow the rain fell from the clouds, turned into little ice crystals and then sold itself on Ebay.
Actually, it didn’t sell itself, we helped.
Tony (with my help at the end) made a large snowball out of the 1 inch or snow in his frontyard.
Then, we took some pictures and put it for sale on Ebay (picture).
We actually got some bids.

Anyway, it was fun, it was funny, it was only part of the day.
But hey, don’t interupt my time with my buddy Tony 😉

Randy “Round Rock Rebel” Peterman

Waco Water

Today we drove to Round Rock.
Slowly.
It took us approximately 5 hours to get here.
I will grant that eventually we stopped for dinner which added some time, but
we just kept getting delayed by traffic and more traffic.
Dinner was a unique experience.

We stopped at the Cracker Barrel in Waco and were seated quickly, our waitress was really nice and took our order almost immediately.
Here’s the problem: the water had fish in it.
Not really, but it tasted like it had fish in it.
So I ordered a soda.
The soda contained Waco Water ice in it.
This is like new Fish Flavored Diet Coke, look out lime and lemon!
It was really not so good.
The waitress asked if I wanted a second serving and I couldn’t pallette a second serving of fish soda.

However, we got to the Nuzzi’s and the weird water experience is all gone.
Now it’ll be time for a wacky weekend.

Resting in Him,

Randy “Water Quality Management” Peterman

Word Quiz

Tonight Jessica went out to see a movie with her friend Louanne Mason, they saw Miracle.
I think that’s a story about a bunch of Canadians that moved to the U.S. to be in the Olympics.
Ha ha.
Canadians move to the U.S. all the time, they do it to make big money on our comedy circuit.
Witness Martin Short, Jim Carey, Peter Jennings, William Shatner, Mike Myers, and Harlan Williams.
Oh, and the artist formerly known as Tom Green, however, you have to consider him funny to put him in this list.

Anyway, while Jessica was out I took Abby (new pictures) to get gasoline in the Stratus and to buy something at the store.
While on the way I quizzed Abby on words to see if she could repeat them.
She did OK with words like ‘wonderful’ and ‘puppy.’
However, she really butchered our last name.
Peterman ended up something like “P’da.”
Grandma and Grandpa she can say, but her own last name is a real tuffy.
I’ll have to work with her on that.

There are words I know she knows.
Words like cookie.
Abby loves cookies.
She walks around the house saying, “Nemo! Nemo!”
Or, “Cooky, Cooky, cooky!”
Sometimes, just for fun she’ll start saying, “Jess. Jess.”

Overall I think she’ll score well on the SAT’s next week as we’ve signed her
up for one of those prep-classes the day before, they say that kids are
sponges at this age.
Speaking of sponges she likes Bob, the square panted sponge.
Maybe he’ll be on the SAT’s.
If she scores high I think I’ll give her a cookie.

Resting in Him,

Randy “Square Pants” Peterman

Cinderella II

This last weekend while helping remodel at Doug and Amanda’s house I saw a commercial for Cinderella II while passing the TV carrying something (I don’t recall what it was).
There’s a lot of television that you shouldn’t take in passing.
You should take it sitting down.
You should actually not take any television, at least not unless you’ve paid for it.
Anyway…

What grabbed me was that the commercial boldly proclaimed, “This time she’s in charge!”
As usual, my mind went wandering off imagining what that meant.
Close your eyes and imagine the following with me:

Ha ha!
If you’re reading this, then your eyes aren’t closed.
So then, open your eyes with me and close your imagination as we imagine the wonderful whirled of Dizzy bring Cinderella II life.
She’s sitting there on a nice bay window seat, soft cushion underneath, outside the birds are chirping, singing a song just like they did in the first movie (you must capture the minds of the children with familiarity, if it’s not familiar now, it will be when they watch it for the 234th time).
As the birds sing they start to draw near.
The screen pans over to a smallish hole in the castle walls and a cute, chubby mouse (Gus) squeezes out onto the castle floor, other mice pour out after him and in a quick second Cinderella sees the mice and screams with a blood curdling scream, “How on earth does blood curdle?”

The mice scatter, the cat comes running in, blood and carnage ensue.
Children are scared by this, their parent’s sue.
Someone gets upset because their name has been infringed upon in the legal process, her name is Sue, so she gets involved in a litigation as well.
Lawyers get rich, their client’s get mixed up in the legal system and before you know it John Kerry’s beating them in the polls as well.

Anyway, Cinderella being in charge sounds a whole lot like trouble.
Is Disney hurting for cash?
Are they running out of culturally diverse movies where the mother dies in the first few minutes of the film (note that in The Lion King the father dies, but what in the heck happens to the mom)?

Geek

This evening Abby called me a geek.
Well, not really.
Actually, she was trying to say tweak.
Tweak because in the Little Miss book Little Miss Naughty little miss naughty gets her nose tweaked.
However, when her nose got tweaked in the book Jessica (playfully) tweaked Abby’s nose.

It is so cool to be Abby’s dad.
She’s just so amazing to me.
Jessica’s a great mom, too.
I’m truly blessed.

Bible Study Software

The Bible study software that I bought back when I worked at the Manger in Carson City is way outdated.
Therefore I’m working on some of my own, tonight I made a basic web interface that has a left frame with the Bible broken up into testaments (Old and New), the books (in traditional canonical order) and then each chapter as links.
The links open up in the right hand frame showing the chapter selected.
There’s a lot left to do, but I’m in such need of some study software that a King James version on my machine (so I don’t have to be connected to the Internet)

Resting in Him,

Randy “Bibliotech” Peterman