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Rest in Peace Grandpa

paulehr — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:34:54 +0000

http://www.buffalonews.com/obituaries/story/378717.html

quick biking update

paulehr — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:45:39 +0000

I been trying to ride every morning now since I got my new bike, I went from doing 2.5 miles and almost dying to doing almost 5 miles now here is a map of my expanded route!

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2012909

It’s taken me about 25 minutes to run this route. I am going to try and see if I can start shaving that time down a little bit.

Damn I am out of shape

paulehr — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:08:56 +0000

I started my new routine this morning. I am going to be getting up and biking for at least a half hour before I get read for work. I really need to start doing something about my weight. I am pushing 30 this year and I really need to start taking better care of myself. I used to bike close to 100 miles as week when I was younger. So for my birthday my wife, her parents, and my parents got me a new Trek FX7.3 hybrid bike.

So this morning I figured I would start easy and did this ride for a total of 2.6 miles roundtrip

View Larger Map

and needless to say…I am way out of shape.

Job update

paulehr — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:49:48 +0000

It’s official, I am not a system engineer for the local division. After being in job limbo for over 3 months I now have a permanent gig again. My last day with my current department is on the 19th and I start with the new group on the 20th. I am soo excited!!!

Another Weekend

paulehr — Mon, 26 May 2008 03:56:16 +0000

I did some work on my webhost today. I retired the wedding site and nuked the wordpress instance that I was running for it. It was never updated and well…its been over a year since we been married. I felt it was time to take it down. I got the domain name pointed to the blog for now and I am not going to re- register it next year. I also nuked the gallery2 install on here as well. I moved the wedding photo gallery to a picasaweb gallery instead.

Speaking of galleries, I have pictures of our house being built. The gallery can be found here

House Pictures!

My first 30 day challenge

paulehr — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:39:56 +0000

I been reading Zen Habits for awhile now, I think I found out about them through Lifehacker while reading through their RSS feeds. One of the interesting things I read on Leo’s website was in order to start a new good habit, you need to do it every day for 30 days (or something like that!) in order to incorporate it into your routine. My first challenge is I want to be able to get up at 5am, this in turn will give me more time in the morning to work on personal projects, do homework, etc. Right now my alarm goes off at 6 am and starting tomorrow I am going to set it at 5:45 am and after each week, dial it back 15 minutes till I hit the magical 5 am mark. This is going to be during the work week and not on the weekends. I set up a Google calenderto track my progress and make it public.

site updates

paulehr — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:47:27 +0000

I did some site updates this morning. I upgraded Akismet to the latest and greatest version. I also upgraded the Livejournal crosspost plugin to the latest version that supports WP 2.5.x. I also upgraded wordpress to 2.5.1.

For my next trick I need to clean up my web space a little bit. I want to nuke my gallery 2 install and move my gallery’s to something like flickr or picasaweb. I also have a second wordpress install running for amanda and I’s wedding site. I think it’s about time to retire it, we have been married for over a year now.

All work being done on my custom theme have ground to a halt. Between work, school, and house I have little time for anything extra right now. I do not know when I will get a chance to work on it.

Blogging from Birmingham Alabama

paulehr — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:01:57 +0000

Well I been in Brimingham Alabama doing engineering support the past couple of days. I guess one of the perks of this soon to be gone job is that I get to at least get out of the office and visit other cities in the country. I have gone to some really nice places that I would have not normally gone too. It feels pretty refreshing to go into a new office and talk to new people and see how they do things, It allows me to get a different perspective on the business. The only downside to these little adventures of mine is I get home sick within the first day or so and miss my wife. It’s bad enough we barely get to see each other with our schedules being so screwed up the way they are. This just adds a little extra layer of stress to things. But as I always say, you have to do what you have to do.

Speaking of jobs, things are looking good as far as job prospects go. I have a few things lining up in company and I started putting feelers out to the outside. I have a feeling that everything is going to end up comming together from all angles at once, and I will be forced to choose. I guess have too many options is better then having none.

Upgraded to Wordpress 2.5

paulehr — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:35:21 +0000

Wordpress 2.5 was released a few days ago and I finally got around to upgrading the website. So far so good and I am digging the new admin interface. I seen some traffic on the wordpress forums about how people didn’t like the new admin interface when it was in Beta. It is different then before, but I am not finding it too difficult to find everything.

Danger: Deep thought ahead!

paulehr — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:48:43 +0000

I been doing a great deal of soul searching the past couple of days. I always tended to kind of go with the flow and never really followed a set plan. I tend to think this has served me pretty well in the past couple of years. I always kind of had an idea on what I want to do, I never had a set goal of “I want to do in X in time frame Y”. I am starting to think its about time I did that. I am at the point where it seems like career wise I find something good for a few years, I work my ass off and do really well, only to just end up having to start from square one again. I do not want to keep having to do this, this is my fourth time already and its starting to get rather tiring. I need to start working on getting to a point career wise and life wise where I won’t have to do that anymore.