My "techy" bull

Well, as those of you who know me know, I love tech gadgets and stuff. Well, now that I finally came into the times and have cable internet, I have been finding all the joys that come with that! haha..

If you love music, then keep reading!

First, a page I just found tonight, http://www.danceage.com/. This site is awesome! Depending on the artist, you can listen to a song or song(s) of artists for free on their site. You can also see some of the latest videos, full length!, for free. (That requires installing an AOL active X control though, so just do this at your own risk).

Now, for listening... How many of you have heard of Winamp? Well, if you haven't, CHECK IT OUT!! www.winamp.com. Download the free player, and get ready to hear "high-defenition" radio! You can listen to online radio stations that sound just like a CD in your computer, that clear and crisp! Plus, most of the stations are advertisement free channels.

Winamp will let you listen to various Shoutcast radio stations. Here is how you find this little jewel... Once you have the player installed (it will require a reboot), start it up, then right click on the face of the player and select the option for Media Library (you can also press ALT + L). There will be a window pop up with a left hand column and a right hand column. In the left side, scroll down until you see Shoutcast Radio, click that. Now, in the right side, at the top, you can select a music genre or search for something specific.

Since I'm a classic rock man, I recommend looking for the radio station named Radio Free Colorado. Now for another secret. When you search for "Radio Free Colorado", it will find 2 different items. If you will scroll across the bottom of the right hand side, there should be a column called Bitrate. You want to double click on the line item with the highest here. So right now, I have clicked on the line with a 320 bitrate versus the other at 64 bitrate. The higher the bitrate, the clearer the sound.

Now, I have also been spreading my musical listening ability (since I'm almost 30, figured it was about time), and I have been listening to some jazz. A good station for jazz that I like is (just copy what I have here and paste it, other wise you will not find it) S K Y . F M

There is a space between each of the letters and the "dot". They have a channel called S K Y . F M - Absolutely Smooth Jazz. Excellent channel I must say.

I will leave you with this. A little jewel for classic movie lovers. You can watch some real b&w classics, sci-fi and horror at www.americafree.tv. All you need is QuickTime version 6 or higher (version 7 plays the best, but it isn't required). To watch them, just click on the letters "QT" under the Unicast column.

Anyway, just some tech stuff, if you have questions, contact my dad!! haha... I will share more as I find it.... Have fun music lovers!

Festival

Well, I got to start doing my part of covering the Chickasaw Nation's Annual Festival. Being that I work in Web Development for them, we are covering each day and each event and displaying those photos on their website. You can see what has been going on so far by going to our site at www.chickasaw.net. Follow the links for the Photo Gallery and you will find them.

It is a fun deal to go to, not to mention it is nice to get out of the office occasionally! haha..

This past weekend

We got to go to Stillwater this past weekend, and we had a blast! It was great to see everyone, and there was some great food! (as there always is!). Thanks again mom and dad...

I pulled a few pictures from the weekend, so enjoy!


This is my Grandma Moffat with my niece Madison.

This is Kaitlyn eye-balling her cousin Andrew's ice pop.

Here is Kaitlyn and her cousin Andrew playing with some toys.

What goes around...

Well, things are staying constant around here, busy busy busy... Kaitlyn seems to be getting a bit better, but she has a nasty sounding cough we are having to watch. Randi ended up catching Kaitlyn's eye infection, but that seems to be clearing up as well. Now, I'm hoping it is just allergies, but my head is all stopped up and my throat is sore.. Man, we just can't win this battle! haha.. The guys at work were telling me that it is because I have lost weight, so I'm getting sick, but well... I don't think so.

Well, we have our festival at work next week, so it looks like at least 4 or 5 days that I get to spend driving back and forth from here to Tishomingo, about 50 minutes or so 1 way. That will be a long week. The entire festival last 8 days this year. They are expecting an even larger crowd than they had last year. So we should have plenty of things to take photos of! haha..

I registered to take a course at Stanford University today too!! Well, it is actually a 3 day workshop, but hey, it is at the Stanford University campus in CA!! So that works for me. It is a workshop for web professionals. They are having speakers from Yahoo, PC Magazine, the group that does the Webby Awards, and a dozen or so "famous" web design firms. It is an "intensive 3-days" of listening to people!! haha.. But I think it will be cool. Not sure if I am going, but I registered. This is a deal where you register, and then they will go through all the registered people and select the group that they will actually invite to attend. So I have my fingers crossed since we are a government.

Back from the Doctors

Well, Kaitlyn has good reason for not feeling well, and man does day care kick your butt!



Kaitlyn has an ear infection in both ears and her eyes are contagious. The doctor said she can't go back to day care, so Randi is taking off to take her home. Randi's folks have agreed to keep her overnight tonight and tomorrow though, so that will be a big help. Hopefully we will get her over this quick. Anyway, so goes it in my world.

Just an update

Well, it seems as though the day care system is finding ways to "break us in" real good. It seems that for the 2nd time now Kaitlyn is sick. But this time, I think Randi and I have caught it too.

I am hoping that Randi and I just have a bad head cold, but we Randi is taking Kaitlyn to the doctor this morning. She hasn't ran much of a fever or anything, but her head is real stopped up and she just acts like she isn't feeling well.

I will post more after Randi gets her into the doctors.

Busy busy

Well, we are coming up on the end of the fiscal year at my work, so it is rush-rush to get our projects caught up. I am currently (well, just started actually) a site for a newspaper, and it is turning out to be a lot more difficult than we thought. It is going to mean some more working late and weekends again (possibly, but hopefully not). This project has to be done by the end of September, so it is one of our top priority projects.

We are also working to find another office to move to since we are growing. We just hired another employee for our department and there are at least 2 other positions that we are going to fill during our next year, so we are going to overflow from or current location.

On top of aaaaallllllll that, the last week of September is our big 8 day festival. So that week will be full of driving back and forth to Tishomingo and Ada and then putting off my projects to get the photos that we take online. So that week will take a big toll on me I think. Randi is excited though because the last Saturday night of the week there is a rodeo, and since I will be there taking photos, Randi is going to go too.

The only good I see from all of this is that I'm going to get another week of vacation out of the deal, so that is really cool! I'm scheduled to get the week off that is between my (30th) birthday and Kaitlyn's first birthday. So that way I can help get things ready for that why Randi is working (and catch up on some much needed sleep!).

Randi and I went tonight to do some b-day shopping for her and go ahead and get them on layaway to make it easier when the big day gets here. We got her some cool stuff, so I think she will be happy.. haha.. I know daddy will be happy once he gets to play with her toys!

Well, I miss all of you and hopefully we will get to see you all soon.

New movies added

This is a shot of Randi and Kaitlyn on their "first days". Randi was off to work and Kaitlyn was off to her new day care. So far both of them really like their new places. Kaitlyn took a little while to get adjusted but she is doing good now. And Randi's work took some time to get adjusted to her, but it is all going smooth now and she is really enjoying it.

Well, since my family hasn't had a chance to see Kaitlyn lately, I decided to shoot some video of her getting around. I did these last night. Kaitlyn was in one of her Ms. Energy modes and was walking from one place to another and getting up all on her own without using any help from chairs and stuff.

She is getting so big. Randi and I were talking yesterday that it is hard to believe that she will be 1 year old next month. We are in the process of trying to decide the logistics of her party. I am lucky enough to get the week before her birthday off since have so much vacation time. So I think I will get to do some of the getting ready for that. Anyway, will keep you all posted.

In the mean time, Kaitlyn's videos are accessible from the link on the left hand side of the page that reads "All of our Videos" under the Photo Galleries heading. Or, for people like me that are impatient, you can click here. They are the last 2 on the page.