About the van… yeah… well…

The van started missing really badly… I mean really badly! We took it in to the shop, and to make a long story short, the cost of fixing the van was going to be upward of $1500.00. Not the kind of money we wanted to sink into a vehicle with 250,000 miles on it.

Enter the new car. It’s a 2003 Mazda Protegé. We didn’t really need a mini van anyway at this point in our lives. We figure by the time our family grows large enough for a mini van (if the Lord blesses us) it will be time to trade my Escort in…

Here’s the new car:

I suppose this is an easy one for me to do since I really hate McDonalds food anyway and already mostly avoided it.

I know we have to pick our battles, but it looks like this boycott is gaining momentum…

http://www.boycottmcdonalds.com/

I realize that probably every major food chain has some problem or other but maybe this will send a message, and McDonalds is being very open and flaunting this one right in our faces.

Have you ever heard someone who is missing something and grumbling about it say, “I just know it will be in the last place I look...”

I submit to you, that if you are missing something, and you are looking for it, when you find it, it will always be in the last place you look because once you find it you don’t need to keep looking for it!

Yes, I know I’m overdue on posting pictures… or even just posting at all.

Well, for now, just head over to my Brother-in-law’s blogs and check out these two posts:

Lots of Allen pics at this post

General Weekend pics at this post

YES! My MacBook Pro is maxed out on RAM, and currently has the biggest hard drive one can put in a laptop! It really is amazing. I bought 4 gigs of RAM for $88.00. That’s like dirt cheap… does anyone remember so many moons ago (say like 4 years) when 4 gigs of RAM was something akin to $400.00? Yeah… it’s amazing. And it’s not like my computer was slow or anything, but going from 2 gigs to 4 gigs is just an amazing difference.

I was also running out of hard drive space, so I order the Western Digital 320 Scorpio. $129.00. Amazing… I moved a bunch of stuff of my external drives and back onto my laptop hard drive (like all my photos) and still have 85 gigs free! I’m elated!

My brother-in-law just launched his new site design. Frankly, I think it looks great. And he does really great photography work… the best actually. Make sure you hire him if you need any photography work done!

http://www.blackolivestudios.com