Good-Bye Family Van

For a long time I periodically charged the battery and started it up, and inflated the tires. But finally the tires wouldn’t keep air more than an hour, and I hadn’t started the engine for about a year. So, I gave ‘er to my old friend Jim Vantuyl of Vantuyl Motors, and he arranged to have ‘er hauled to the car lot. Actually, he hauled it to Vantuyl Auto Center, where they put on some new tires, new fuel pump, new gas tank, and cleaned it up. I drove by the car lot on the way to work the other day, and they had it looking pretty good. Meanwhile, it still feels weird to go outside and see the empty spot in the driveway.

Client’s New Website

I recently unleashed another website on the world: Black Star 231 Corp. This is a client, and actually is the second website I’ve done for him, the first being Pryor Oil Company. Jim Pryor is one of my longest standing clients; we go back to around 1984, and have seen a lot together. He’s also a good friend. The Black Star site isn’t actually finished yet, but we decided it was good enough to “launch”, and he needed to be able to refer people to it for business reasons. If anybody’s curious about how my law practice relates to the “real world”, you can see that world in these websites.

It’s 2009 Fer Cryin’ Out Loud

It’s incredible I haven’t written anything here since Thanksgiving! So much has happened since then. Of course, I became a grandpa on Halloween, with the birth of Isabelle Chappell. Then Becky went out to CA first of December to help out, I went out mid-December, and we came back Jan. 4, 2009. While in CA a lot of good visiting was done with the family, and I must’ve taken at least 500 pictures, none of which I’m posting here, being sensitive to everybody’s privacy concerns. Pictures have been shared on a private basis with notification by emails.

It snowed a couple or more inches last night and has continued snowing today, just stopping a little while ago. Maybe I’ll take a picture or two and add them here later. Usually, it snows on my birthday, which is not until Monday. I don’t think any more snow is predicted after this one.

In one of my blogs, don’t recall whether whether it was this one or my attorney blog or bandolero’s blog or harpshot’s blog, I mentioned the Safari browser for PC. Apple just released Safari Version 4 beta, which I’m using now. It is FAST! I might have to stay with it until Firefox catches up with similar technology to speed it up like this. Safari still doesn’t have a lot of the plug-ins I’ve come to rely on with Firefox for web designing and certain other esoteric endeavors.

So, Spring is just around the corner. Incredible, ain’t it?