A few years ago Mark and I bought our first LCD t.v. A 40 inch Dynex from best buy. It’s been a great t.v. and even survived the 2500+ mile car trip from Washington. But apparently it couldn’t survive a falling broomstick handle. The tip of the broom hit it and and well now it’s just screwed.

This is what our t.v. looked like after the broom handle accidently fell into it.

So now we have to get a new t.v. because as you can see by the picture it was not only our t.v. but a computer monitor which we used for our media center computer. It really sucks to have unexpected expenses.

My bed in a bag finally arrived yesterday! I decided to go with neutral colors because well they go with anything..lol. So here it is

I finally got my new bed, well at least a part of it. We ordered a platform and for now it just has the air mattress sitting on it until we can get the actual mattress. But having just the platform has made a world of diffrence to my back. When we moved we left pretty much all our furniture behind so we’re starting over but I guess it will be ok. It’s a chance to get new stuff, but it’s just a slow and painful process.

I’m excited because I’m getting a new bed…for now we’ve been sleeping on an air

This semester in school Kenzie classes are as follows

• English I: Literature & Composition
• Physical Education I
• Latin I
• Geometry
• Biology
• Digital Video Editing & Production
• Skills for Health II

Outside of school we are also exploring a few other topics history, philosophy, and astronomy are all areas where Kenzie has shown an interest.

Currently we are exploring a few philosophy books, the philosophy of the Matrix and the philosophy of Star Wars. We recently watched a documentary on the dark ages as well as a documentary about evolution. Astronomy will be covered by having Kenzie keep an astrological journal. Each night he’ll be going outside and keeping track of how many stars he can see (not the number but a general idea either a lot, a little or medium) as well as what phase the moon is in and which constellations he can see. We are also going to explore planetary sciences.

I’m very much looking forward to this year.

Today I was shocked to discover that My 16 yr old was never made to memorize the Preamble to the Constitution. In fact when I rattled of the first line he couldn’t even tell me what it was from. I find that to be very sad. The constitution is a very important part of our history and the preamble is a very powerful statement as to why this country was founded. How can our children, essentially our future hope to better our society if they can’t look too and learn from the lessons of the past? I’m proud to say that my child will be memorizing the preamble and analyzing it.

Well I haven’t had a cigarette since yesterday, though I won’t deny that the I haven’t thought about it. When I do though I just pick

Well Lord of the rings online is going free to play on the 10th of September. Some of us over at the Ubuntu forums were wondering if pylotro would be updated. So I email the developer and asked him and he has since posted over at the forums that he indeed plans on updating pylotro for the change. So good news for all you linux loving lotro players, including me!

Well I ordered and electronic cigarette, it’s called the Joye ego. I ordered it on August 11th and received it today on August 16th. It’s definitely different from smoking a regular cigarette. At first there was a slight taste of metal, but cleaned the atomizers in 99% isopropyl alcohol and dried them by hanging them on the front of my desktop fan, and that seemed to make the metal taste go away. I definitely think I’ll be trying different flavors as the ones the starter kit came with just don’t have the “right” taste for me. But everyone is different. The folks over at E-Cigarette Forum have given me quite a lot of good advice. I’ve been advised to try getting some empty cartridges and filling it with juice myself, and to also try to different flavors, so I will.

There is a real difference in the feel between dragging on a cigarette and an e-cig but it has already helped me cut way down on smoking just this first day. Hopefully my experience will get even better with different flavors. I’ll update more later on the subject.

I wanted to share how I have gotten both Lord of the Rings Online & Dungeons & Dragons Online Eberron Unlimited working on my Kubuntu 10.04 install

My Methods will require you to either have a copy of windows running in virtualbox or a dualboot with a working LOTRO install.
First I downloaded pylotro Though the program is called pylotro it is a launcher for both LOTRO & DDO. I also download and installed wine. My current working version is 1.2-rc1

1. I used the regular download manager from turbine in Virtualbox and downloaded both LOTRO & DDO . You should make sure to do full download of all game files, be forewarned it could take a while.
2. I created a folder called Turbine in
   /home/angel/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/
3. Using grsync I copied everything from
   C:\Program Files\Turbine\
   to
   /home/angel/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Turbine
4. Using winetricksI installed
   • win2k
   • gecko
   • vcrun2003
   • vcrun2005
   • vcrun2005sp1
5. I then installed pylotro in wine
6. Once I ran pylotro I had to go into the settings and point it to my LOTRO and DDO installs. While I wasn’t able to patch DDO I can play it just fine. With LOTRO I was able to patch and everything runs just fine.
7. Note You’ll have 2 folders(1 if you only play LOTRO or only play DDO) in your /home directory called
   Dungeons and Dragons Online
   and
   The Lord of the Rings Online
   These would generally be the folders that would appear in your Documents
   folder in windows.This folder will normally hold your
   UserPreferences.ini file along with your lotro.keymap file. For reference HERE is a copy my UserPreferences.ini file

I haven’t had any sound issues and my game seems to run fine. Of course I
don’t use pulseaudio being on kubuntu instead of Ubuntu. One thing I
did notice is that settings aren’t saved to the ini file so if you say
adjust your sound one session then log and come back later your need to
readjust them. I worked around this but just editing the volume settings
in the actual UserPreferences.ini file instead of using the in game
options.