Face of the earth

I have spent the last couple of days blissfully unaware of anything to do with work or computers in general.  I must admit I enjoyed it tremendously.  I was unconnected, unaware, and loving it!  After officially falling of the face of the earth for a couple days I must say that the face of the earth is overrated.  I enjoyed just sitting and playing with my vast quantities of children and doing my honey do list.  I rearranged my entertainment center, put new weather stripping on the doors, got my foster parent training finally completed for this year, cleaned up some speaker wires the babies just love to play with (sorry babies it is for your own good), and most importantly for the first time since I have worked at my current job I did not have to come in over the holidays at all!  I had a great time and hope you guys did too.

A few of my favorite things 2008

These are a few of my favorite things I found this year.  These favorite things are excluding the obvious like my family etc.  Inspired by this post.

1) I finally broke down and got a big screen TV and LOVE it when I get the opportunity to watch it.

2) I am 100% addicted to my blackberry!  Awesome tool for work and life!

3) Dual Monitors! It opens up a whole new world.  I first got them here at work then when we bought a new computer at home I told Heather she had to get dual monitors.  I think she is hooked too!

4) FaceBook.com!  Another addition of mine.  What a blast this is connecting with new and old friends.  Much better than MySpace in my opinion. Don't forget the Facebook application for the BlackBerry to Geek it out properly.

5) Blogger.com!  My wife also turned me on to blogs this year and I have to say it is awesome!  I feel like I know some of the bloggers better than my real life friends.  Well I probably do because in real life you just don't have time to share like you can in a blog. Does that make me weird to have cyber friends?

6) 24hr Fitness.  Ok so another addiction of mine...  I think I have a problem... This is turning into and intervention post I think.  They opened up a gym right down the road from me and there is also one near my office so I get to go at lunch and after work!  Feel the burn baby!

7) Sensi~Care.  My wife actually discovered this but it has been a God send with all the pooping going on with these digestively challenged babies.  It creates a barrier between the baby bottom and anything.  Very crucial when the babies have toxic poo that eats their butts.

I am sure there are more but can not think of them right now.  If I do I will edit the post and add them.

Tried to figure out Mr. Linky thing but no luck so far... Just leave a comment with a link to your favorite things of 2008.

Ice Ice Baby!

I have lived in the south all of my life first in Charlotte NC and now in North Texas. Living in these areas has its colorful locals for certain but for the most part I work and live with people that are from all areas on the US and world. I meet very few people who are actually from the area. So today the melting pot are at odds with each other. Today we have ice everywhere which only happens perhaps twice a year and it never fails during these brief interludes of ice that someone from "bad weather land" will comment on how much us backwards hillbilly folk can not drive in bad weather.

First of all we are hillbillies but it is never nice to call people names. Secondly can anyone really drive on ice? I mean sure people from "bad weather land" can drive on snow because you see it more often than those of us that live closer to the equator, but ice is ice, no traction, slippery, fall down go boom, etc. Thirdly you might be from "bad weather land" and have driven in snow every day of your life but the fact is you are in the south now where we see snow/ice once or twice a year so our local governments do not have the money to invest in the equipment necessary to properly prepare and clean the roads. Even if you are used to it the roads here are not as well taken care. So if you see me driving 10 miles per hour leave me be I'm nervous! Give me lots of room! It's really in your best interest I may freak out at any moment!

"That's all I got to say about that"

Candid Photo MEME (at Heather's request)

MEME (What does this mean?) I don't know I am just doing what I was told to do by my wife!

My wife's POST and directions:

Here's the rules:
Shot on the spot, where you’re supposed to take a picture and post it right away.
Rules are:
1) Take a picture of yourself right NOW!
2) DON’T change your clothes, DON’T fix your hair… Just take a picture.
3) Post that picture with NO editing.
4) Post these instructions with your picture.
5)Tag up to 10 people to do this, be sure to let them know they're tagged!

So here is the candid picture of me from this morning.  Please forgive me I didn't have time to button up my shirt and my hair was a little messy but I guess that is what is all about right, warts and all?

Really I don't have a way to take a picture right now.  Sorry :(

Stand up for your rights!

Apparently it is perfectly acceptable to release your pent up gas while standing next to me at a urinal!  I think the proper etiquette is for me to stare straight ahead and pretend like I am deaf but I can not stay silent (pun intended) any longer!  I mean do I attract these Aggressive Urinal Farters or is this a more global issue?  Why is it acceptable because you are at a urinal?  It is like picking your nose while you are driving.  You are NOT invisible people we see you diggin in that thing like there is gold up there!  I would just like to say for the record WE HEAR YOU and it's not cool!

If you are a victim of AUF (Aggressive Urinal Farters) please join me in my fight!  If you suffer from AUF there is help for you.   Please join a support group near you and put an end to AUF!

One year ago...

I am sitting in one of my favorite BBQ places enjoying some smoked turkey with all the "fixins", talking with my boss about something or nothing and the phone rings.  I usually do not answer while at lunch because it is rude first of all and anything of importance can always wait until I am done digesting right?  I knew we were on the list for foster placement however so I decided to answer it.  It was indeed Heather calling saying we have a possible little boy. Rylan our second foster son had gone to live with his grandmother just a couple weeks before so we were anxious for another placement.  She said his mother had tested positive for several drugs and that she had given up several children before this one.  He would however, need open heart surgery in a couple months to correct a congenital heart defect and they needed a family to get him through that before he went to live with his grandparents.  I told her to get more information and call me back.  I would not normally consider this because of the medical needs however something made me say YES when she called back.  I think in the back of my mind I was thinking that the grandmother would get him so we would only be taking care of him for a couple months.

Since that day every time I get a moment to myself I wonder about all the children we have declined for one reason or another.  Did I make the right call?  What about all the wonderful children that I will never get to meet?  What if I had turned down baby T?  Overwhelming.

Yesterday my little boy turned one year old and I have to say he lights up my world.  When I get home from work he is there with his chubby little fingers on the gate saying "Da Da" through is half toothed grin!  Melts me every time. 

Happy Birthday Baby T!  Daddy Loves you! 

HOPE

Hope is the belief that your tomorrows will be better than your today or a feeling that your desire will be fulfilled.  It can be a powerful driving force in your life.  It can be the only thing that keeps you going sometimes.  Life can also be debilitating without it.  You have no direction to strive, no goal to reach, no belief things can get any better than they are right now.

I met a man this weekend that had just gotten out of prison and this week is on his way to live in a men's shelter because he has no where else to go.  He had a rough childhood with an abusive father.  He was in prison because he was hooked on drugs and did very desperate things to get more.  He wants to leave that behind and I see huge potential in this young man.  He has been clean for a year because he was in prison.  This is the bottom for him but with the right direction this can be a renewal and a rebirth for him.  This can be a new beginning.  I want to be that hope for him, I want to provide that direction and encouragement to not fall back into the same lifestyle (because that is what he knows) but to move forward with a fresh start.  With nothing else to loose he stands at a crossroads one path is difficult and unknown one path is easy and familiar.  I pray that God will provide a way for me to mentor him on the unknown path.  I want him to be able to reach up through HOPE and grab a hold of joy again to do the things with his life he wants to, to be the man God wants him to be.

It is important to me because the man I met is my foster son's dad.  We hope to adopt him soon and I know that someday my son will want to search out his birth father and I want the man he finds to be a righteous man living for God.  Pray that I can reach out to him.

Are we really that bad?

It's mothers day this year at our church.  I am sitting in the seat next to my wife in the middle of this wonderful appreciation service for all of those mothers that give so much and get so little in return.  I think to myself this is such a wonderful church and a wonderful service to honor the sacrifice mothers give to raise families and in some cases husbands.  It was a great service altogether and that night they provided babysitting and a free meal at a local steak house for all of the single mothers out there to show their appreciation and understanding of the struggles that a single mom has to go through on a daily basis.  I was very proud to be a part of our church that day.  They did a great job of honoring mothers that day.

Fast forward, its fathers day, I am feeling pretty good.  My wife and girls and even our foster children (Well Heather really but said it was from them) got me hand made cards and gifts in appreciation of me.  I felt appreciated and honored.  We get to church that Sunday and I am excited to see what wonderful things they have planned for us Dad's out there.  The worships starts, the announcements are made, the pastor gets up to preach, and he starts preaching the next part of the series we are in.  I am thinking surely there is a mistake.  Does he not know it's Fathers Day?  So confused I try to pay attention to what he is talking about but find myself wondering what is going on.  The pastor finishes his sermon and at the close of service says that they didn't do a fathers day because he did not want to go into what all we are doing wrong.  In essence you guys suck and I don't have anything good to say about dads so I wont say anything at all.  I was shocked to say the least.  Are we really that bad?

I experience this a lot or maybe I just notice it more for some reason.  This week we had our son in the hospital for a minor surgery.  He had just got out of surgery and they moved him to the recovery floor.  I have him in my arms all cuddled up because I did not get to see him before surgery.  Me and my wife are both sitting there and the nurse says "Mom what surgery did he have?" My wife has many great qualities but hearing is something she physically cant do (light bright in the ear at 5 doesn't help) so I said he had a circumcision.  She writes on the paper and goes on her way.  She comes back again and says "Mom how did the doctor advise you to treat it?" to which I replied what the doctor told us because again my wife did not hear what the doctor said.  What is the deal am I invisible?  Does she really think I have no clue why my son is in the hospital?

We have two teenage daughters and 3 children under 2 so when my wife has to do something outside the house I stay home and take care of it.  When my wife answers the question where are the children they seem appalled that she would leave them home with a dad.  They always ask "Can he handle that?"  I don't get it are there that many bad fathers out there giving the rest of us a bad name?

Do I suck and just don't know it?  Kinda like your fly is down and no one wants to tell you?

Disclaimer:
I am in no way suggesting I am a perfect father or husband.

Reminder of how stupid I am

I read this blog post the other day about opening the mouth and inserting the foot and it reminded me of more than one of those occasions but here is just one of the many:

A couple years ago I was working as the Network Administrator of this "Christian" based distributing company. I took care of the entire infrastructure from the ground up. I went to church with the CEO and my Pastor would often come to the office and speak to us about various topics. On this project I was charged with coming up with a solution for filtering Internet sites. So I go about doing all the research, selecting and buying the solution, and finally implementing the solution. I was quite proud of the product and all the fancy capabilities so now it is time to show off all of my hard work, its time for the big payoff! They are going to be so impressed with me when I am done with this baby!

We gather all of the Executives in the CEO's office and huddled around his computer for the masterful dog and pony show. So we go through the product and look at all the reporting and blocking capabilities it is going great, they are loving it, and then the CEO says to me "So this blocks porn sites right?" to which I very proudly said "Yes sir it does and outstanding job of it!" "here let me show you". I plop my, then, rather rotund behind into his chair and type in playboy dot com and proudly press the enter key... Ummm it didn't block it! SO there in front of all of my Christian Executives is the frontpage of playboy dot com in all its glory! The CEO's face got very flush with embarrassment, (he was going bald so I could see the entire top of his head getting red) and I about broke my finger clicking on the red X on the browser bar! Turns out there was one setting in the software that wasn't set quite right.

I retested this software after correcting the glitch and then very nervously had another demo in front of a much smaller audience this time. The software ended up being a success despite my stupidity and lack of thoroughness. Just when you start to think you are smart you go and prove yourself wrong.

I wonder why they laid me off?

Batman Begins while the Kung Fu Panda Gets Smart!

I was watching this movie where this kid's parents get shot coming out of a theatre so he ends up being raised by his butler Alfred.  Then one night he has a dream that he is part of the Ferocious Five and is kicking all kinds of bad guy booty and blinding people with his Awesomeness and Attractiveness.  Then when he grows up he actually ends up being a FBI analyst that wants to be an agent but is too clumsy and too good at his job to become an actual agent.

That is what I got out of it anyway. Over the past 2 weeks I have watched roughly half of three movies before crashing into sleep.  All together I have watched a movie and half but can never seem to finish any of them.  (Don't tell me how they end someday I will go back and watch the endings)

Since we became foster parents about a year and a half ago it has been a lot of sleepless nights!  We have had baby after baby so the normal 6mths and they are sleeping through the night was actually almost a year and a half of not sleeping through the night!  As soon as we get one baby sleeping through the night the next new born would come along and we would start the process all over again. 

Most nights all 5 children sleep through the night now but I spend from 6:30 (when I get home from work) until 9pm getting babies played with, fed, changed, fed, changed, bathed, played with and then finally put to bed.  (Of course my wife helps out a little) so when the older kids come and beg me to watch a movie with them I REALLY want too but my body just can't hang.  We get started and about 30mins in I am out like a light.  I feel really guilty because the babies require a lot of attention and the older girls get my left overs.  I need to figure out a way to give them more one on one daddy time.  Soon they will be off on their own and I will not have the opportunity to do that any more.

Did you kiss a vet?

The Bible says there is no greater love than to lay down your life for another.  Each man and woman through this countries great history were willing to do just that.  They signed that dotted line knowing full well that if called upon they would sacrifice their life to keep our freedoms undefiled, and our country sovereign. 

Many Americans paid the ultimate price for our ancestors, for us, and for future generations.  These are our sons and daughters, our brothers and sisters, our mothers and fathers, these are our heroes! 

Honor the memory of those that have fought and died, those that have fought and come home, and those still fighting by saying thank you. If you see someone in uniform in a restaurant say thank you by buying their lunch.  Let them know you appreciate their service and sacrifice.

I took the time to say thank you to all the veterans I know yesterday, from my father, to co-workers, to friends.  It doesn't just have to be on veterans day it can be any day.

Melting Pot

So I ran out of oatmeal for breakfast!  This is terrible I always eat a package of Wal Mart brand Cinnamon Roll oatmeal for breakfast (and usually lunch) but this morning none!  There is no Wal Mart around my office so I had to scrape up enough change from the ashtray in the car (what else are you going to use an ashtray for?) and off to MickeyD's I go.

I pull up the the drive thru order my plain biscuit get the total and pull up to the first window:

Me: "Good morning"
Cashier No. 1 (Indian woman): "Total is..."
Me: "OK"
I give her the money
Cashier No. 1: "Have a day!"
I chuckled to myself thinking "Ok I guess I have that covered. I have a day already I suppose a Thursday to be exact" (I crack me up all the time. Other people not so much)

Cashier No. 2 (Hispanic Woman): "Would you like yelley?"

I drive by probably 3 MickeyD's on the way to work but I always pass them by to stop at the one by the office because I can't wait to hear the little Hispanic woman say "Would you like yelly?"  I have yet to try this yelley but she makes it sound so good I will have to try that soon.

What a wonderfully diverse culture we live in.  I wonder what I say funny? :) 

One Giant Leap for mankind!

At the founding of our country the atmosphere was much different. In all of Europe (where our ancestors are from) at the time it was commonplace to own slaves from either your own country or other countries. You could become a slave because of dept you owed, punishment for a crime, prisoner of war, or any other various reasons. This was not strictly an African phenomenon, all countries were subject to slavery. At one time nearly 25% of the Roman Empire were slaves.

North America was no stranger to slavery. The Native Americans had slaves captured from other tribes as well as debtor slaves before there was ever a United States. The first African slaves arrived some time in the early 1600's.

The slave codes of 1705 defined a slave as any imported person who was a non Christian in their native country. It also classified them as Real Estate and not humans affording the owners exemption from punishment if they kill their slaves.

Not all Americans agreed with this practice, enough so that they were willing to fight for the rights of slaves. The Civil war was waged greatly on this one issue and the practice of slavery did not end until the conclusion of the Civil war and the drafting of the 13th Amendment in 1865. This Amendment abolished the practice of slavery but did not end the attitudes towards slaves.

There have been many milestones in the Civil Rights movement since then, from Rosa Parks not giving up her seat on a bus in Montgomery Alabama in 1955 to Marin Luther King's infamous "I have a Dream" speech in Washington DC in 1963. We have seen progress, we have seen change. The prejudice of old is slowly passing away with each new generation. Each new generation breaking new ground, making new strides in making all people equal.

Last night was ONE GIANT LEAP for mankind as Barack Obama leapt from the oppression of centuries past to the dreams of Martin Luther King. Going from slave, to free, to leader.

I do not agree with Obama's politics and would have much rather seen Alan Keys or Clarence Thomas as the first African American President but I can put all that aside for a moment in time and realize the history of today.

Something in the air

Update: This is a repost. I took this down originally and my wife insisted I put it back up so here it is...

Wow is all I can articulate at the moment. I am a youth worker at our church, I am a small group leader on Wednesday nights and I lead a small group every other Sunday night at "My best good friends" house. We have a rather large group of pre-teens and teens every Wednesday. We combine them and the middle school pastor and the high school pastor tag team on Wednesday night. We have student led worship and generally a ton of fun.

Tonight there was something in the air, I could feel it the moment the middle school pastor shook my hand, something was different. The service started out as normal, the Price is Right game where they guess how much various items cost, the announcements, the small groups where we prepare them for service by asking questions that relate to the topic of the night, then the worship began and the mood changed immediately the air was electrifying the sense of God was palpable. It began slowly as a wave I could see it from the sound booth the hands going up, one, then three or four more, then whole sections, then the whole auditorium, then the middle school pastor, way of script, got up and spoke from his heart about what God was telling him and what he wanted the students to know, it got to the heart of the where the students were, then the high school pastor in a perfect tag team with God came back to the booth and picked up his Bible and canceled every other graphic, music, special event and went on stage and began to deliver what was on his heart out of the book of Revelations. He spoke passionately about how it is better to be cold and away from God or Hot and on fire for God than to be luke warm and complacent in the middle. The alter call was who wants to get closer, who wants to walk hand in hand, who wants more of God. Nearly every hand in the auditorium was raised. It was truly a wonderful experience. I regret my wife was not there to see her daughters raise their hand unashamed during worship, and answer the call to get closer to God. I hope this continues, I hope this is the beginning of a revival in our youth. I hope this is a moment of change in my girls! I hope this is a launching point for the youth pastors to follow Gods heart and lead with an open mind and a open heart! This is what our hurting teens need a true experience with God.

The age of a Democracy

I was listening to Dr. James Dobson on the way to work the other morning and during the radio program he mentioned the quote below as a warning to voters:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

I thought this was remarkable.  He was quoting Alexander Tytler who was a Historian in Scotland that died in 1813.  How could such an old quotation ring so true in today's times?  It seems like that is exactly what people are doing these days they are voting themselves large benefits from the treasury which will lead to a financial collapse. 

How tempting is it to vote yourself more benefits?  How tempting would it be to vote yourself a raise?  Look at congress every year on Jan 1st they vote themselves a raise!  Why?  Because they can.  There are judges waiting to be voted on, budgets to pass, any number of bills laying around with dust on them, but this bill always seems to work its way to the top of the list and gets voted on and passed immediately.

Obama is promising a huge government with entitlements galore, he is doing a rather great impression of Robin Hood and stealing from the rich to give to the poor through his tax plan.  People are surrounding him in droves just to look at him, as if he is the second coming.  What is the attraction to most voters?  Seemingly free money!  Nothing is free folks, that free money came from someone.  The government should be a stop gap not a life style.  The government should be there to help you when you are down but there should be a limit to the benefits. You should not be able to live your whole life on welfare and pass that mentality onto your children and on to their children.

Well it turns out Dobson was dooped!  The quote only dates back to the 1950's and was not breathed by a historian in the 1700's but rather has unknown authorship.  The origins is not true but I think the quote is being lived out right in front of us!

Snopes Entry: Don't believe everything you hear!

Redistribution of Wealth

Funny article I stumbled upon.

"Today on my way to lunch I passed a homeless guy with a sign the read “Vote Obama, I need the money.” I laughed.

Once in the restaurant my server had on a “Obama 08" tie, again I laughed–just imagine the coincidence.

Suddenly, it hit me. An experiment is in order.

I asked the server, did he really believe that Obama's platform was a good one? Yes, he did.

When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept.

He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need – the homeless guy outside. The server angrily stormed from my sight.

I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10, and told him to thank the server inside as I've decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was grateful.

At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn, even though the actual recipient needed the money more.

I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in concept than in practical application - at least if it is your wealth that is being redistributed."

Originally Posted Here

The power of a box

Heather and I drug 5 children to our early voting location yesterday and stood patiently in line for an hour to cast our votes.  The younger children were fine but the older children were asking why we had to endure this long line with all the babies just to vote.  I told them it was our "Civic Duty" to vote.  That is the short answer and the one that matches their attention span when it comes to politics.

As I was marking the little boxes I was thinking how much power there is in these little unassuming boxes.  They are meaningless just sitting there by themselves on a piece of paper until we come along and provide meaning to it.   They are more than a check mark in the box, they represent ideas.  I understood fully why I put a check beside the names I did, it was not because I like them on a personal level, it is not because they are charismatic, it is not because of their race, it is not because their gender, it was not based on popularity, it was not based on what the news media spins about them, it was because I believe in the ideas behind that check mark. 

Yesterday I voted for all of the unborn children that will never have a voice because their life was ended by the choice of a politician, their collective voices were heard through my marking of an unassuming box.  The next President will appoint at least one and perhaps 4 Supreme Court Justices in their first term in office.  This is the arena where the fate of these unborn children will be decided.  I voted for a smaller government which means spending less and taxing less allowing us to keep more of our money in our pockets and letting us decided what to spend it on.  I voted for bringing our troops home in a way that will leave a democratic and stable government in Iraq so that my children do not have to fight this war again.  I voted for the protection of our homeland without the depletion of our freedoms.  I voted against the redistribution of wealth.  I voted against socialized healthcare.  These are some of the things that these boxes mean to me.  Rather than looking at the people I looked at the ideas behind the people.  I know what the boxes mean to me and I hope as each American goes to the booth they know what the boxes mean to them and are not just making the boxes about who they like because they look good on TV, or that they are so disappointed with Bush that they are simply voting against him.  The boxes have ideas behind them and the ideas affect us all.  I am not telling you who to vote for just to make sure you understand the ideas behind the vote or don't vote at all.  Vote with wisdom and knowledge.

Officially, somewhat, maybe, could be interested...

Both of my biological daughters have had this aversion to anything physical or team related all their lives.  I have tried to get them interested in team sports from the time they were very little.  I wanted them to develop the team building of a team sport as well as the exercise they would get while participating.  They have inherited some of my bad genes unfortunately.  I can look at food and gain weight.  I can eat a 100% cholesterol free diet and still have high cholesterol.  It is genetics at its worst.  They did get my striking good looks so I guess it is a toss up right? 

Through their friends at church they now realize that team sports can be fun and rewarding.  The oldest wants to play soccer and the youngest wants to play volleyball.  We are going to give it a go the next available opportunity.  They are both very interested in reading so it is hard to pull them away from their books to get them out but I think we may have an opportunity with this.

I didn't force them to participate in sports when they were younger because I knew it would be unsuccessful if they didn't want to do it.  Not sure if that was the right approach or not looking back.  We signed them up for several non-sports related things growing up but none of them really stuck.  The point was not to force them to do anything but let them at least experience it and see if that is what they enjoyed or not.  I probably should have done that with sports as well just to give them the experience to decide for themselves.  Maybe I will take a different approach with Baby K and Baby T-money if we get to adopt them.  I have a feeling I will have a lot more chances to get it right or at least more right!

Protect your data!

Just thought I would give you a tech tip for today!  Most everyone lives in a digital world these days I know we have our entire kids lives on disk from the time they were 3 or 4 until now and it would be irreplaceable if we lost all of those pictures and memories!  So what can you do?

Here is what we have done.  We have an external hard drive where we store all of our data as one line of protection.  If the Operating System freaks out or the internal hard drive crashes we have all of our data on an external drive.  To add another level of protection you can use AllWaySync (***Free product***) to sync your internal hard drive with your external hard drive in real time.  This gives you the data in two places.  This is a great protection plan however it does have limitations.  If there is a fire, or theft of your PC then both drives and data are gone!  So the next step is to get all of that data offsite.  I highly recommend Mozy.  This will copy your data from your hard drive to a data center.  For home use you get UNLIMITED storage for $5 a month.  You can not beat that!  So we have over 100GB of data offsite and protected.  If your hard drive crashes, is stolen, or you have some sort of other disaster then your data is safe and sound.  You can restore one file at a time if you delete something you didn't mean to or you can have them overnight you DVD's of your data.

So your data flow would look like this:
Internal Hard drive on your PC through  AllWaySync to your External Hard drive through Mozy to the offsite storage.  Both of these are set and forget programs meaning you set them up once and then they work in the background.

 

Ghost Hunters

My youngest daughter has an odd fascination with all things creepy.  Not sure where it came from or more importantly where it is going!  Nonetheless I thought it was time to entertain her with a little Halloween fun.  I decided to take the girls to a haunted house for the first time (They are in their early teens).  I figured it would go down like this... The oldest would be way too freaked out and decline to go and opt to stay at home and read and it would be me the youngest going out to pay people to scare us and pretend to try and kill us, you know, good clean fun.  Well turns out the oldest was super pumped and the youngest got pretty skittish.  Go figure. (Are you done figuring yet? OK I'll wait)

Well after hours of searching for a good haunted house I discovered that it was a minimum of $18 each for haunted houses in our area an there were really not any that were close.  I had one picked out that was about 45mins away and $10 each but when I looked up directions it ended up being 2hrs and 45mins away.  Not sure what happened there.  Darned internets!

So instead of the Haunted House we just stayed home and opened and closed the Power Bill, far scarier but somehow I can't help imagine less satisfying.  Maybe next year.