According to the weather man we got like 8 inches of snow but because it blows all around who knows what we really got in my exact location. We had snow drifts all over the place with the high winds. Most of my driveway had over a foot of snow. A lot of it was up to the bottom of my knee. I was told to work from home in the morning. Snow lasted until about 11:00am. I shoveled and snow blowed snow from about 11:50am until 1:30pm. It was then not worth cleaning up to go to work as I normally leave work at 5pm. So I had a snow day. Nothing beats telecommuting laying on a Tempurpedic bed with throw pillows and someone else cooking a bacon and eggs breakfast for you; check out the pic. Also look at how my 12 inch ruler tries to measure the snow!

Now You see it...


Now You don't.


A foot -I mean legprint in my driveway.


My driveway with about 2 feet of snow in places like this.


3 foot snow drift on my deck.


Working from home on my snow day.

DATE 8/30/2006:
What happens when the Earthquakes team dressed as the Houston Dynamo come to the new Toyota Park to play the Chicago fire in Bridgeview, IL? What happens when two crazy San Jose fans fly from SJC on a plane to meet another Quake fan in Bridgeview, Illinois? EARTHQUAKE FANS REUNITE! that's what. The tail gate opens, the beer goes down and the faces get painted. We get on TV and everyone turns heads to see the crazed out Earthquakes fans watch their old team in new colors while spreading the word and keeping it in our concious that Earthquakes fans are still alive and waiting for their team's triumphant return. Saaaan Joooose... Saan Joose! Earth!.. Quakes!... Earth... Quakes! Someone's got to represent those Quakes in Houston uniform!

See more crazed photos of us and (of course) another TV appearance.

Check out soccersiliconvalley.com for more info on the MLS Earthquakes return to the Bay Area.

if the refs would have actually been decent. if the US would pass forward and take the risk versus pass it back. If the US would think I can get it past this guy versus I can make a pass to my own player. If our defense would actually try to be offensive and bring it down the side runnnning!, (NOT THE MIDDLE). If Keller would actually croak and not play and we could have a keeper that wasn't cocky but instead feeling the world was on his shoulders and he should try to save every single ball, instead of assuming any possibility that the ball would go wide. If we would actually think like our young players and take risks and think offensive. If Donovan would be a scorer more than an assister. We were playing as a Cocky England that can come back but HEELLLLO we have no offensive cock-- those guys sit on the bench. Don't keep a veteran on the field because he plays hard when you can put in a rookie that gives a possible random spark. Spark means goals and offensive changes screw up the current mindset of the opposing team. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

lesson learned today... Do not attempt to avoid hearing the scores of any 2006 World Cup match all day just so you can watch it with the same emotion as having it be live when watching it from your DVR. YOU may be successful with avoiding the information, but when you expect or ASSume your friends to do the same as they have planned to watch it with you from a DVR, they will likely find out the score and your plan will be defeated. Instead of watching my first soccer game in HD, I have chose to watch it on a smaller screen and with average-resolution picture just so I can the get the full fledged feeling of sitting on your edge of your chair for the whole match. It is 3:11pm the game was at 9:30 am and I leave at 4pm early from work to lock the doors to our house, avoid answering the phone and watch it PSEUDO-LIVE with my just as crazy wife. My foots a tappin' how many minutes left?, can I continue to avoid hearing the news?? AAAAAAAHHHHH! THE ANTICIPATION OF THE MAKE-OR-BREAK US WORLD CUP GAME. Gonna need some beers tonight to calm my nerves, regardless of the result. Pleeaaaasseeeeeee win and win big!!!

Summer's approaching and I remember the days when I would plan on fun things to buy and do over the summer. Well those days seem gone. If I had the the choice of things to blow money on this summer I would definitely spend things differently. I would love to spend it on multiple-day jam band festivals and MLS/International soccer matches. Instead it'll likely go to to saving up for some household purchase or other family obligations. I sign off with a boyish greed and selfishness in my heart. I don't even know why I feel I should post this. Maybe I can at least go camping this summer... Sigh.

In my original home town it looks like there was a cop, named Dan Schroeder, that was finally caught doing wrong. That crew has had it coming for a long time. I hope this is just the beginning as this offense is minor compared to the stuff they did to us kids growing up. Teenagers continually get pulled over by these cops and written up for nothing but wearing a baseball cap when they were simply legally driving around sober posessing nothing illegal. There are stories from my younger years worse than that, but I don't feel like ranting those stories because this post is not about those incidents, it is about this one cop. Anyway what are we supposed to tell our kids when its the police get that busted for doing illegal stuff like telling someone to lie? If you do wrong you admit wrong. I'm not allowed to lie to a cop so a cop shouldn't tell someone to lie. Humility to the whole department for ever electing that guy to "Officer of the Year". That cop better get kicked off the force and hopefully be humiliated into considering another profession. There are just too many corrupt police officers out there. Keeping an open mind, I'm not saying that this guy is one, but his now tarnished reputation hopefully opens up some of that community's ears and eyes to questioning honesty in the Rockton Police Department. MAY THE TRUTH LIVE.


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If that official link doesn't work it's been cached here.

Having two commenters on my blog (at least those don't live in my house) has temporarily resparked this blogger writer out of blogger's depression. So let me give y'all another little post...

Click the above photo to see a bigger photo of this stupid accomplishment!

Over the weekend, on Saturday, my dad and I added 4 new outlets down in the basement. Previously we only had one! All of these new outlets are now hooked up to a new 20 amp fuse in our house's fuse box. Before it was very annoying because I had to use a long extension cord which was required to provide power to different parts of my unfinished basement. Being the X-Silicon Valley engineer / IT network guy that I am, I have an IT-style tall server rack where I've been meaning to put some always running computer equipment. The problem had always been that I did not have enough power to run the stuff in that one location as it would have had to come from an extension cord.

Now I have an outlet right where my tall server rack is. So this means less snap servers and printers in the living area, and more equipment consolidated to the main "hub" in the basement. Soon I'll have an entire automated backup solution where computers at my house are backed up automatically and our network storage always has an existing backup. If there was every a networking geek equivelent to the Tim Allen Tool Time grunt it would definitely be inserted [HERE].