Famous Kid
Especially when he's dressed in such snappy clothes...
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August 30, 2005
Eight Years
In the midst of it all...today is the eighth anniversary of our wedding.
DeAnn and I always joke around "we won the pool". You see years ago before we got married and worked at GTE, whenever someone got married there would always be a pool guessing how long a marriage would last. Some people it would only be a year or two. The rumors we heard about our marriage was two to three years.
Well, seven kids later, here we are. Wonder whatever happened to that pot of money?
August 29, 2005
Been Quiet Around Here
I haven't posted much lately, but it's not because of a lack of things going on in the Wohlgemuth household.
First of all, our son Tyler was hostpialized once again. For those of you that know us, Tyler has been our biggest challenge. He will be returning home in the future, however, we have placed him in a facility that will spend the time and do the right things to figure out what is wrong and how we can fix it.
And today I was left with the unfortunate task of having our cat Tiger put down. Tiger would have been 18 years old in a couple of weeks. But we knew there was a problem and after some blood work and idea from the doctor of what type of life she would have to lead (flush her system to get the kidneys working again, insulin injections twice a day, blood sugar checks daily), we knew it was time. I always knew this day would come, I just always hoped it would be tomorrow. Well, I guess it's tomorrow.
Manufacturing History
I have to wonder if the Cindy Sheehan stand outside Bush's ranch will ever make the history books..especially the pictures that LGF found.
August 23, 2005
The Death of the Library System
Well, "death" is probably too strong of a word. How about "on life support with me ready to pull the plug".
Stroll down to the college university library today to pull up a few articles needed for my "huge, colossal, due in four weeks" Literature Review for my final "big" class in college. Some of the articles I need are only available if you pay mucho dollars for them since they are a) relatively new and b) from really obscure journals. Of course, one night of this class took place in the library which spent a few hours going over how to pull stuff up online and how they have access to "special resources" you can't find on the web, one of which was a huge journal search engine with free access to almost every professional journal out there.
OK, so I take a day off work and start writing said paper. Started pulling everything together so when I head to the library, I can get everything I need to get done as quickly as possible. I get to the library and thankfully it's dead. Not a single patron inside except for the two people working behind the desk. I asked one of them how to get to the "Journal Search" site, which took all of 30 seconds and started digging. Find the articles I need except, I can't download them. Nope, those articles are protected and for a fee (higher than what I had already found), I can download them. No mystical access to the files, no "we can do things you can't do online".
So what was the point? Seriously, libraries say they can help people find the data they need but in reality; they can't. The help the one employee provided could have been done over the phone. And the books inside the library? Totally useless for what I'm writing about. And I'm sure this is the same for most of my other classmates.
The data I need for my paper lives on the Internet. I'm sure many other people are finding the same thing. And the point of this screed is the library; something that was the resource for the college is now nothing more than a really quiet student union which serves weird coffees.
August 22, 2005
Great way to spend a Saturday Night
These people (including yours truly who was holding the camera) spent the evening in Indy watching this.
BTW, the Bears won! Double Bonus!
August 19, 2005
2:30 on a Friday
You know it's coming... It's a quiet day, getting caught up on paperwork, got a few things later this afternoon to do for work, but most likely they will be unneeded and dropped.
Perfect day for a five alarm fire to explode around 4:00. Will just have to wait and see what happens in the next ninety minutes.
Update: Well I was only off by nine minutes. Call came in from my largest customer they had a market down at 15:51.
August 16, 2005
To all the geniuses that were shorting my company's stock
Screw you! :-)
August 10, 2005
Payback - Google Style
About a year and a half ago I put up a post along the lines of "where are they now" for some of my classmates from the last graduating class of Kolmar Avenue School. And of course I put in the prophetic comment:
"So, several years from now, when someone along those lines decides to google "Kolmar Avenue School 1985", maybe I'll make their search a little more strange..."
Paging Mr. Strange....please pick up the white courtesy phone. :-)
Got a post from the "high-priced lawyer type" who was lamenting over the lack of adjectives descrbing her (preferably the word 'hot' of which she is and as she's reading this is probably turning twelve shades of red) but it sounds like there is a movement to pull together the graduating class of 1985 for a twenty-year reunion.
So at this point, I'd be glad to offer my site and this post as a central point for people to chime in if they were one of the 39 kids who remembers Mrs. Jumbeck, Mrs. Baio, and can remember the sound high heels tearing down the hallway at Mach 27. Please feel free to respond, post, wander around and to thank God you didn't end up in Rural Indiana unlike myself (who wouldn't trade it for anything).
All e-mail addresses posted here will be collected and used for blackmail purposes after the said reunion takes place. I have pictures of you guys from seventh grade and I'm not afraid to show them to your kids ;-)
August 3, 2005
Working in Slow Motion
Comcast apparently is having some "network capacity issues" (i.e. someone wasn't watching the old bandwidth usage meter) and is supposedly frantically trying to bump up their internal links to the dreaded AT&T to a higher capacity. It's not bad enough yet to warrant working somewhere else, but it's getting close.