Midnight Cheese

A quick spring break/vacation round-up:

Left Nashville Friday evening for Knoxville
Pulled over in Roane County clocked going 83 in a 70
Arrived in K-town
Visited the 1010 Gallery w/ Ernie
Krispy Kreme
Informed stretchers would have to be made
Sleep
Saturday resume work on stretchers
Take the long route to Lowe’s
Call from Larry
Another kid
Ridiculous construction on campus
Finally give up on stretcher construction
Haul-ass down to Atlanta
Eat at Varsities with Shaun and his gang
First visit to an Apple Store
Atlanta is huge
Video games at Georgia Tech
Sleep in the GATech dorms on couch and chairs
Up too early on Sunday
Bust out of GA
Arrive in Jacksonville Sunday afternoon
Meet-up with Jenn
Eat lunch at the crazy fried chicken place
Hit the road once more toward Orlando
Arrive in Orlando
Check-in to the condo
Dinner at Pizza Uno
Trip to the liquor store and Publix
Monday, Subway for lunch
visit Downtown Disney
Virgin Mega-Store
Shopping at the outlet mall
Ernie acquires the green wallet
Dinner at Chili’s
Meet-up with Jeff
Mistake giving Jeff a beer
Forced down to Pleasure Island at Disney
Tuesday lunch in celebration
Dinner at Ruby Tuesday
Head to downtown Orlando
Meet up with Brooke
Scruffy’s Irish Bar
Wednesday hit-up the Magic Kingdom, Epcot
Dinner at Morocco
Thursday fix Jeff’s computer
Titusville for rock shrimp at Dixie Crossroads
Drive up and down the coast looking for the beach
Spend all of 5 minutes at the beach in Cocoa
Wake up early and drive to Miami Friday morning
Reach Miami around 9:30
Drive around town, old high school
Meet-up with Adan at his house
Lunch at La Carreta
Head to South Beach
Spend most of the night at South Beach with Adan’s crazy crew
Back to Kendall
Pollo Tropical
Adan’s friend’s apartment
Psychotic girls
Finally pass out from lack of sleep
Drive back to Orlando on Saturday
Dinner at Buca
Jenn’s attractive former coworkers
Ernie calls maintenance
Pack-up
Sleep
Ernie steals a fork
Leave Orlando 9:00am
Arrive in Jacksonville 11:00am
Tony Roma’s at Ernie’s Great Grandmother’s
Off to Knoxville
Hit horrid rain near Atlanta
Pass the Map Lady
Finally arrive in Knoxville around 10:00pm
Unload Ernie’s gear
Leave K-town for Nashvegas
Hit even more horrid rain and fog between Oak Ridge and Crossville
30mph on the interstate
Reach Nashville 1:30am Monday morning
Crash.

Tomorrow I leave for a much anticipated spring break in Orlando. I got a truckload of stuff done yesterday to prepare: Finally(hopefully) got my car issue fixed by replacing the throttle body, got numerous chores done(dishes, trash, etc.), got the fishtank vacuumed out and replacement water put in, and even got a little freelance work furthered along.

Today I need to get the slow leak in my tire fixed, get vacation food for the fish, burn some mix CDs for the road, and pack everything up for tomorrow.

Today I taught myself how to write a search plug-in for Firefox. I made one for tapeonline.com that easily installs with a single click of the mouse. You can test it out here.

It’s time for a change. As of late you’re letting anything and everything get posted as newsworthy, all the while becoming increasingly cynical. That’s assuming the news report you’re posting is even true at all. And what’s up with some of these poll questions? It’s time to be a bit more objective. Let’s stop pandering to the script kiddies and go back to the old adage, News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.

And P.S. Please, PLEASE for the love of all that is sane and just in this world, lose the italic font on the story descriptions. It’s PAINFUL. Oh, it hurts my eyes so!

The Video Company website went live this weekend. I think overall it turned out well. It’s completely W3C CSS and XHTML compliant, weighing in at 388K not including the downloadable PDF documents. I kind of wish we had developed the logo before the site design, just so the two would tie in a bit better. Maybe a bit more flash on the home page. My favorite page is the directions page. For whatever reason I really enjoyed drawing out the maps. I think they look very clear and informative.

Bill has a website up promoting his musical talents. Be sure to browse the schedule and check out one of his shows.