the shaved look

I can't believe it, but I actually did it this morning! That is right, I am now a clean shaven man. First time since around 2001! haha..

So don't be afraid, I know it looks scary, but it is actually me. Or as my wife and everybody at work said "it is the 12-14 year old Jmo". I am not sure about that. Looks more like a chubby 15 year old! haha..

first night of band practice

Tonight was my first night of the garage band practice! Just me and Harley and a couple beers. It was really fun! It has been a good number of years since I have picked up the ol' bass, so it felt good to get it all tuned up and do some messing around.

We rocked out to a couple AC/DC, The Who, The Ramons, and then some home-made goodies that Harley wrote when he was back in college for Harley Deric and the Reverse Cowgirls.

But I was really worried that I would be beyond being able to play, but it kind of came back ok (for the first practice). So now I will have to do some practicing and getting ready for our next practice!

thursday playin'

Thursday Playin'

Brought the kids home from day care this afternoon and decided that we needed to go outside and play. So I decided to snap some photos of the kids and just the all around beauty that was this afternoon.

finally some photo updates

I have our photo gallery working again, finally! haha...

So to get it all rolling, I have placed in it some photos from last Saturday when we took the kids to the Children's Museum in Seminole as well as some photos from my Civil War trip that Harley and I went on a few days ago.

There are a few that I caught with my cell phone, so once I get those pulled off, I will add those to the galleries.

Enjoy! You can use the link at the top of the page for the nuthouse photo gallery, just click here!

the official end of the semester

The spring 09 semester has now officially come and gone. I really didn't think I would do that good in biology, but as crazy as it is, I actually did. I don't know if it is because I actually learned it somehow and was able to regurgitate all of it for the final, or if it is just because my professor for it lives 3 houses away from me. haha... Anyway, here is the official results.

DISCLAIMER : Don't pay any attention to the GPA information. lol... It isn't that good, but ended up in the shot anyway. But it is a long ways from the 1.45 that I started with! haha...


Look at that biology grade!! Woo Hoo!!!

what a tuesday...

You know you are going to have a bad day when you go into work, turn on your MacBook that was working fine the night before, and get this for a start up screen.


Instead of the Windows "blue screen of death", it is the Mac "blinking folder and question mark of death!

Yep, apparently somewhere between when it was working fine about 1am Tuesday morning and going to work about 8:30am the same day, the hard drive just decided to die. Not exactly sure why, I guess it just didn't like me anymore.

There were just two relaxing moments though. First, when calling Apple Support, I discovered there was 300 more days of service left on it! Thank God for that! Second, with the add-in of Time Machine in OS X 10.5, I actually backed my entire hard drive up about 2 days before. Just by pure happenstance. I never, ever, backup. But I was like... 'hm.. wonder what exactly this Time Machine thing does anyway...". Well, luckily it may be my lifesaver. We will see.

So now I am without my laptop for about 4 days. Kind of feel like I am missing a leg or something! lol... But I will try to survive. Later!

aaahhh.... and it comes to an end (the semester that is)

Before I continue, I would like to send out a BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY LITTLE NIECE!! She turned 4 today! She had a killer birthday party yesterday! Happy Birthday Madison...

And now...

Yes, it is true.... Another semester has come and gone... THANK GOD!!!!

So to celebrate the end of this one (since I had summer school and have gone pretty much a year solid), my lovely wife and kids took me out for a great dinner!

We headed over to Polo's, and let me just say, they have a Sangria Swirl Margareta that is just delicious... haha... So good in fact that I had to take a picture of it to just share. yummy!!


And this is just the medium! They have a larger size!