Note to self: the next time you book travel make sure there isn't a tropical storm there FIRST.

Things I love about the Net: eBay, Blogger, Drudge, CNet, TigerDirect, Google, Gmail, Amazon, IMDB, Weather, and CNN.

Having a good time in the digital world.
Spent a while on eBay this weekend. Bid on some wireless (802.11g) routers, a repeater, and a terrific Hugo Boss sport coat. We are preparing to go highspeed here on the digital ranch in the next week and we are having fun getting ready. We are going to bring the signal to the house and then boost the signal over to the office. I will use a Buffalo router connected to a Buffalo (WDS) repeater. If I need the extra boost I will get a Cantenna (probably also off eBay). This will be terrific!

Won the Hugo Boss sport jacket. What a deal!!! Paid under $10, coat cost $850 new. Hope that it looks as good as it did on the net. If not you will see a great Hugo Boss coat on eBay real soon. But if it does, I will be one sharp looking digital guy.

Monday in DC, going to see if W can see me for dinner.

Old Question: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound.

New Question: If a man blogs on his site and no one reads it, is it valid?

Tonight I was updating my site and my beloved walks up behind me to see what I am doing (accountability check more than anything). She saw my blog and said "Oh, that's neat!" Never saw it before. I have run this as a word-of-mouth kind of thing and never really promoted it. Mostly because it isn't 1% of what I want it to be. But, you would think that your own wife/roommate/partner/lover etc. would notice.

So the digital tree continues to fall, I continue to blog, even if only for my own enjoyment.

What a difference a good song can make to ones attitude. Listening to some old Santana and it makes me want to just dance around the office. Wow! Carlos knows how to write music.

Why is there no such thing as Northern Gospel?

I know, I know... It's almost 3am and I am still up. But, I found this great joke and had to share it:

When Bill and Hillary first got married Bill said, 'I am putting a box under the bed. You must promise never to look in it.'

In all their 30 years of marriage Hillary never looked. However, on the afternoon of their 30th anniversary, curiosity got the best of her and she lifted the lid and peeked inside. In the box were 3 empty beer cans and $81,874.25 in cash. She closed the box and put it back under the bed. Now that she knew what was in the box, she was doubly curious as to why.

That evening they were out for a special dinner. After dinner Hillary could no longer contain her curiosity and she confessed, saying, 'I am so sorry. For all these years I kept my promise and never looked into the box under our bed. However, today the temptation was too much and I gave in. But now I need to know, why do you keep the cans in the box?'

Bill thought for a while and said, 'I guess after all these years you deserve to know the truth. Whenever I was unfaithful to you I put an empty beer can in the box under the bed to remind myself not to do it again.'

Hillary was shocked, but said, 'Hmmm, Jennifer, Paula and Monica. I am very disappointed and saddened but temptation does happen and I guess that 3 times is not that bad considering the years.'

They hugged and made their peace.

A little while later Hillary asked Bill, 'So why do you have all that money in the box?'

Bill answered, 'Well, whenever the box filled up with empty cans, I took them to the recycling center and redeemed them for cash.'

Good night! Logging off...

Well here is something that you won't see everyday, me posting at 1:30 in the morning. Ate a huge plate of nachos this afternoon and they decided to take 12 hours to work on me. So, here I am. What does the Digital Guy do at 1:30 in the morning? Pretty much the same thing that I do at any hour that I have to surf. I look at Photoblogs! Well, that and looking for that rare car that I just have to have on eBay. I am debating tonight whether to purchase a 75' Bicklin or a 2003 Saleen S-7. The Bricklin is one of about 2000 models left (700 for that year). It has gullwing doors and a Ford 351 engine. Looks cool just sitting there with the doors open. Probably could pick this thing up for under $10k. The Saleen is one of 48 and has a 7 liter, 576 HP v-8 and goes in excess of 200mph (my personal goal). The current asking price is $400k, but they will likely see something in the $500k range when all is said and done.

Whenever I say something about wanting to go over 200mph someone inveriably says "why would you want a car that goes that fast when you can't go over 65mph?" It's kind of like asking how much a car costs. If you can't afford it, don't ask. Well, if you have to ask the question about how fast a car goes then you wouldn't understand the need to have one that goes that fast!

True, I rarely get the opportunity to take my baby to the top end. But it is the thrill of knowing that it is there. Had a kid in a rice burner toy with me last week, what a joke. Some kid puts a loud muffler and some ground effects on a Civic and he thinks he's a street racer. He bragged that his top end was 120mph. How sad.

Time to look at some muscle cars and then get back to bed.

Hope that you like the new look of the front page. I am going to get more serious about regular updates in the coming week or two. I decided that I wanted to feature some of my photographs and there was no sense in waiting for all of the nuts and bolts to come together. No promises, but I will be trying to put up a new picture at least once a week, and once a month I will try to start putting up a series. These pictures that are up there are LARGE because I don't have a working copy of Photoshop on the PC that I carry with me (Monday - Friday).

I had this idea that I was going to relaunch TheDigitalLife as one big launch, I think that right now that I will take baby steps. I have some neat things that I want to do, it will just have to happen one step at a time while I am traveling so much.

What a weird world. I am sitting in my office, a converted 1875 log cabin, looking at a field of grass. In the distance is a terrific national park. Yet, with a few clicks of this keyboard I am connected to the world! I can listen to radio stations playing any kind of music (or talk) that I like, in any language that I prefer. I can book my flights, car, and hotel - something that required a travel agent not too many years ago. I can instantly see the weather where I am going, including an up to the minute picture from space of the storms in the area. I listen to music digitally as I use my mapping software to plot my entire trip. And here I sit, listening to the birds and bugs outside my screen door, in the middle of Kentucky.

Cool Cameras! This is the site for those "Got to get me one of those" digital cameras. They have the absolutely smallest digital cameras that consumers can buy (military folks get the really cool ones). I think that I might look at the one that fits on a keychain. The Zippo is pretty cool too. Take a look my friends and let me know if you get one.

What do you think of the new look? Trying to make things look a little fancier.

Styx sang, "Too Much Time on My Hands". I would love to be Styx! Can't get enough time to do the things that I want. The family is soooo patient. I remember those days where I worked at home, wish that I had those days back at times.