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I’m not certain where I am on the health train, traveling in Atlanta. My first week’s goal was to establish a walking routine. I actually snickered while I wrote it down, thinking, “This is easy, how can I mess this up.” As of date, I’m still not consistent with exercising. One would think it was easy, but I’ve proven to myself that I need to put more effort into it. I think since I’ve started I’ve walked 3 times and did Tae Bo 3 times. It’s been a couple of weeks so that’s not going to work.

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What a day! Today we had a small birthday party for Alexander, our 4-year-old son. His birthday was during the week, so we threw something together and invited some friends over. It was a good event, but very tiring. At the end of it, my wife and I were on our last leg.  Alex is really maturing and I’ve been enjoying him more for the past two weeks or so. He still has a temper, but when he’s not in “Hulk-smash” mode, he’s a great kid! My wife works really hard with him on rationalizing things so that forces me to do the same – it’s hard work thinking things out!

Right now, he’s into Star Wars (clone wars era) and Spiderman. So; we got him those kind of toys. I have some pictures posted on Flickr, but I have more to upload. Happy Birthday, son!

Yesterday I’ve taken yet another step into manhood by fixing something else that broke on my car. My power steering fluid was leaking pretty bad, so we had to bench the car.  It’s been sitting in the garage since Thursday night. I took the bus/train/bus combination to work Friday and hoped I wouldn’t have to do that Tuesday.  My wife ordered the part and it was to arrive Monday. Since I work from home on Monday, it was perfect timing.  We thought the power steering pump might be bad and I was not looking forward to replacing that. I saw some tutorials on YouTube, but all those guys had the right tools. I’m still borrowing stuff from my brother’s stash.

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I just wanted to share about our experience last night with trying to log into our Bank of America account. Ever since we moved (about a month ago) my wife had a 70/30 chance of successfully logging into our online banking. After you put in your credentials you’d get a “address could not be found” error. She contacted their folks and, of course, nothing is wrong on their end.  So she did some research and other people have experienced the same thing.  From her research she’s seen that the common denominator is… you guessed it… Windows Vista!

So; knowing that, we tried it on my installation of Fedora and I tried it with Epiphany and Firefox and BoYAH! We’re in! Just one more reason to switch from Windows to Linux. Linux can get you into online banking.

It’s about time I took my health into my hands and work on habits that will keep me around for a much longer time. I already made some changes, but now my dad is really concerned and checking up on me daily. I can credit that to social media. I posted a status update on Facebook the other day about my eyes being blurrier than normal and he caught whim of that. We have high blood pressure (HBP) in our family and my parents, my brother and I have it as well. My brother and I are straddling Stage 1. Lucky for me, I work at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and last year or so, I took a “Mastering Weight Management” course. It was eye-opening to me and I never looked at my diet in the same light again.

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I fought to find the answer to this question for weeks. I almost pulled the plug on my Vista adventure, to revert back to Windows XP, in order to play Battlefield 2.  I finally found the answer, there’s a secret v1.5 beta 2 patch being hosted on the mirrored sites, which has Windows Vista support.

• FileFront (BF2_Patch_1.50.exe, 1.27 GB)

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