dpal on February 9th, 2008

The blog has been really quiet the past few weeks, but we surely haven’t. I have just added a VERY limited version of our family tree to the blog. I also included a link to it in the sidebar under the “Pages” section. Unfortunately, It only shows my side of the family… leaving the Coats [...]

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dpal on January 21st, 2008

I haven’t posted in a bit, but things have been running rather smoothly for a bit, so there wasn’t much to write about. My lil’ Sis was in town this weekend with her two boys and with the long weekend(not for me, for some reason my job doesn’t take off on MLK Day), it would [...]

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dpal on January 7th, 2008

Before I post anything else, let me go ahead and preface this by telling all of my family members that are reading this, that all my kids absolutely loved your Christmas gifts! They were big hits, and the kids are truly enjoying them.
However, the big hit for the whole family, has been the Wii. This [...]

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dpal on December 20th, 2007

I have finally imported the pictures of my new PC build, and I have to say that I am extremely satisfied with it. (The PC, not the pictures… well - they’re ok).
I now have the whole family using the linux partition as their workspace. I also set it up where linux would mount my Windows [...]

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dpal on December 8th, 2007

I finally got everything put together for my PC around 1 or 2 this morning. I’ve gone ahead and loaded Windows and I’m downloading the 64-bit version of Ubuntu-Linux right now. I have to say that I absolutely LOVE this new computer!. One of the really nice pluses with my PC renewal strategy, is that [...]

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dpal on December 7th, 2007

YAY!!! The last component for my new PC shold now be sitting at home waiting for me to install it. Both of my remaining parts should have been delivered yesterday, but for some reason, my video card got sent to Spartanburg, SC - then, once they noticed the mistake, they had to send it back [...]

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dpal on December 6th, 2007

So today was the day. All but 2 of my new PC components were to be arriving at my house sometime today. Talk about excitement! OK, I’m a real geek, but honestly - I felt like a kid on the day before Christmas. So I’m at work all day tracking my deliveries(5 separate boxes) via [...]

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