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Category: Webcam Fun

Meet Christy

Christy is my friend who also likes to read the Amanda Peterson blog. She doesn't have a blog of her own, but reads other people's blogs. I don't know many people who do that. Yay for Christy!

Meet k-sue - orangecatplays

k-sue used to have a blog called orangecatplays. She used to begin all her entries with a note about what orangecat was doing at that moment. I always thought that was neat. Later she got another cat, but I'm embarrassed to say I don't remember what she called that cat. I'm not sure why she quit blogging, and I don't want to put her on the spot, but it's cool that she's still reading mine and commenting periodically.

Meet Boogaboo - Boog @ Get Me Music

Boogaboo is one of my internet music friends. My favorite Boogaboo song is "Honorable Thing," a country song you can hear at Get Me Music. Boogaboo and I did one of his songs together, too. There are two versions: Almost Right (AK Kinda Unplugged Mix) and Almost Right (RJR Rock Mix). Boogaboo has a bulletin board called Hidden Soul where more of our internet music friends hang out. Boogaboo claims he doesn't need his pinky to play guitar, but I saw a picture of him using his pinky.

Meet Kevin - KevinDonahue.com

Kevin is one of the bloggers behind Fanblogs and Y'all Blog. I found Kevin a couple of years ago when I was searching for college football blogs. That was before Fanblogs. Kevin's always giving tips on making your toys work better and more securely. He recently posted links about Securing your wireless connection. I usually read the latest news about TiVo happenings on his blog, too.

Meet Rob - CrabAppleLane

Rob recently bought bicycles for him and his wife. He hadn't ridden in 30 years, and no... he didn't forget. Rob posts wonderful pictures of the area around his house in Bush, Louisiana. Bush is on the north side of Lake Pontchartrain, and part of his almost daily life is one of the greatest wonders I've seen: the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway (longest bridge in the world). Maybe not so much of a wonder to him anymore because of the traffic. He plays fantasy football, and in the real football world, he hopes that next year is the Saint's year.

Meet Pam - Hurtling towards obscurity

Pam's girlfriend is currently incommunicado due to the release of Halo 2 for Xbox. Pam recently got broadband and found out from a lady on the radio that 30 year olds are "old." She also watched a documentary recently about a high school here in Texas for gay kids. It's a shame there's a reason to even consider sheltering and segregating gay kids. I was hoping that might become a non-issue in my lifetime, but with the ridiculous movement to ban gay marriage, I don't believe it will.

It's depressing here in Austin. It's cold. Cold in an "I live in Texas" kind of way. It's also raining. I haven't seen the sun in days.

So when I clicked on the Niagara webcam and saw the following picture, it made me smile.



Now I'm going to Starbucks.

Back in June, I was surfing webcams, and this picture from the Seattle airport made me chuckle out loud:



Do those Alaska Airlines faces on the tails of the planes look funny to you, too?

Seatac Cam

The Ampcast chatroom witnessed some fun on the Niagara Falls webcam tonight... a spider and some fireworks!

My friend Boogaboo and I watched fireworks in Washington, DC together tonight. We were chatting at Ampcast.com, and we opened a Washington, DC webcam at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. It only lasted 15 minutes, but it was fun. Fireworks never last long enough for all the fuss and trouble it takes to get to a good spot to watch them. But watching on the webcam was mighty fine.

Here are some shots:

I've had some great mail come my way lately. Today, I got a six bottles of Torani syrup.

• Watermelon
• Black Cherry
• White Chocolate
• English Toffee YUM!!!
• Chocolate
• Raspberry

I also got the new Lori McKenna CD, "Bittertown." She's one of my favorite songwriters and singers.



On Friday, I got a box of checks I ordered with Lily's picture on them. They're so cool!!

Then I got a new webcam. It's a Creative NX Pro. Here's a sample:



I also got some nasty bills in the mail. Bleh. But I guess you can't usually have good mail days without getting a nasty bill in the mail at some point. heh!

Check out this webcam picture of Robby James Rabuck...

Yesterday was the second day of my "Fundamentals of XML" class. Man... I love XML. You get to make your own rules and then you get to apply them and then you get to validate against your own rules and if you break them you get to fix them. Fun!!

The day started off weird, though. I got there and my chair was missing. They had these big leany back soft kind of chairs that were even comfortable while sitting typing at a computer. But the second day, mine was gone. I told the helper guy who was hanging around the classroom first thing. We studied all the chairs and came to the conclusion that I really was out of luck... there was one less chair than there were students. That's when a nice lady told me that a guy had taken my chair and moved it to another spot. Then I found out that one of the people the prior day was sitting on a fold up style metal chair.

So I decided to let it go and get one of the fold up style metal chairs and sit on it. Really... I let it go. No worries... someone had to sit on the fold up style metal chair. But then...

This girl got to class late. She was sharing a computer with the loud obnoxious guy (you know the one... always has a comment or question). He welcomed her and told her we were working on an exercise. Then he said something that made me fume... He said...

"And I got you a chair."

Um... that was my chair. It was painfully obvious it was my chair. It was sitting in front of my computer. "And I got you a chair." Bastage.

I still let it go except for making a mental note to blog about it... life's too short.

At lunch, I did something I haven't done in ages. Shoe shopping! Yay! I got two new pairs of Aerosoles. Those really are the most comfortable shoes ever. And that's what matters the most to me... comfort. You'll never see me in spiked heels (sorry boys ).

After class, I had a little time to kill before I could pick up LilyDawg, so I drove down Lake Austin Blvd to Lake Austin. I passed by the apartments where Kevin and Mary Hannigan used to live. Ah... memories. I miss Kevin and Ryan and Eric from my days as a State Auditor.

I got home at 5:00 which gave me plenty of time to relax before the 7:00 start of Velcro Touch Radio. I watched the rest of Ed TV, ate the last of my Tex Mex Pork Chops, and generally just vegged out.

The radio show and chat were a blast! There was great music and dancing! Here's what you missed:

ME SALSA DANCING

I wish everyday could be like that. Well... except for the part where the guy stole my chair and bragged about it to his computer partner. heh!