February 19, 2005 Posted by mitch |
house, life |
We finally did it, we bought a house. We've been looking for over a year now... and instead of buying new like we've been looking at before, we got an old house in Orem. Since it is an old house, we are doing some remodeling before we move in. First up is the kitchen. Tonight my wife, my little brothers and I went in and we removed almost all of the cabinets in the kitchen so we could get at the walls behind them to run new electrical... Man its a big job... None of the electrical is grounded in the house and with my computer equipment, audio/video stuff for my home theater, and even some of the new appliances we bought all require grounding... So we don't really have a choice. I was really hesitant at first about even buying the house because of it... Its a really big job. However, we're going to do one room at a time and get it all completly rewired and make other improvements while we're at it. *sigh* wish me luck.
February 11, 2005 Posted by mitch |
thoughts |
I've read it countless times before, and had a general impression of what it meant. Well I finally looked it up in the dictionary for its definition:
To understand profoundly through intuition or empathy.
Which combined with knowing the definitions of intuition and empathy. The word just becomes that much cooler. I also realized that best describes how my learning exerpiences with respect to linux have been.
I've been unsure of what to write about as of late... Blogging in general has two sides. One, is freedom of speech. The other however is where the corporate types get a little uptight about what you say. They even go as far as sueing for things such as defamation, or even lately an appartment complex is sueing http://apartmentratings.com because people have posted unfavorable reviews about the appartments. Personally I'm on the side of free speech here assuming the posts were made by actual (former?) tenants with real complaints. They have every right to share those complaints with anyone who will listen. With the use of the internet, this becomes MUCH easier, and maybe it will inspire (or force..) the service and manufacturing sectors to stop pushing crap on us, because now our opinion will be heard much easier. Personally I love sites that allow user feedback about products and services. I used them when I bought my phone which conviced me it would be ok to buy it.
Blogging can also get one into trouble with their employer(if the employer ever found out about the blog and read it that is...). I would love to write about more of my life and things going on, however this thought has kept me from actually doing it. I'm unsure about how much I would be able to say without getting into some kind of heat. I'm also sure it wouldn't take much of it to get fired. Which is why I haven't said much of anything about it.
This alone however, wont stop me from blogging completly. I will continue to keep sheding atleast some of my insite's on life as I feel inspired.
February 1, 2005 Posted by mitch |
technology |
Finally! I got a new cell phone! Its been forever and a day but my work cell phone crapped out the other weekend, so I got a loaner for the last week (which was the same model). The worst part of it, was I also lost all of the phone numbers I had saved on it. So I have to put those back in... :( Anway, I got the LG PM-325. So far so good, but I'll post a review after I've used it for a couple days :) So far I'm loving the fact that I can create groups, and assign rings to groups and pictures, AND I can do the same to each individual in my address book. *sigh* I really hated my old phone.
