BrianJarrett.com

So, I did it; I bought Orson his own domain: OrsonJarrett.com. [This has now been replaced by a subdomain on the family website] I know, I know, it’s nerdy. I want to use it to keep my family and friends up to date on Orson’s progress and achievements,at least at first. After he gets older it can be a bonding opportunity with his dad; we can work together to build his very own website. He’ll be the envy of other little nerds when he tells them ‘I’ve got my own website’. Hell, he’ll even have his own e-mail address @orsonjarrett.com. How many other brats have that? At $8.00 a year per domain (Dynonames.com) it’s hard to find a reason not to do it. I set up a little page for the time being that just redirects back to his photo gallery and to my web page. Now that I finally have named virtual hosts working under Apache (which took about six hours of frustration to accomplish) I can host multiple websites on the same IP address. I now have redirect pages for brianjarrett.net and brianjarrett.org and I’m temporarily hosting a site for a friend.

Work is going well; I’m making pretty good progress on the project. Now I just need to get familiar with the source data and get DataStage training.

Orson is doing fine. He loves having a “web presence” now. Helps him pick up chicks.

Traci bought a Wishblade. It looks like a printer and connects to her laptop via USB. It cuts out letters from various papers for titles for her scrapbooks. She’s pretty excited about this so far but we haven’t tried it out yet. I’ll report back later on how freakin’ awesome it is.

I’ve recently been looking at cars. I’m planning on buying one when Traci’s car is paid off (in 20 months). I know; I have some time. I’m still liking the Saturn Ion. I really like my Saturn now so it makes sense to get another. I’ve also entertained the idea of a small SUV but I can’t find one with a manual transmission AND a V6 engine. You get either one or the other. Evidently I can’t have my cake and eat it too.