Thankful for Hayley

This weekend flew by. We spent Thursday and Friday at Willmar. I was surprised how good Hayley was around everyone. She is so easy going. I don't think she cried at all. So having such an awesome baby is what I'm thankful of this year. No matter what I'd be thankful for her but her personality is a bonus. I think Hayley took a day to get wound down though cuz she didn't sleep to well yesterday but she was still good. I think maybe she missed everyone.

Ticket

I got a ticket on Saturday for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a cross walk. For one, the guy was wearing all black and he had his hood up so I didn't see him until the last minute. So I stopped and waited for him to cross my lane of traffic. As soon as I went through a cop pulled me over and said I had to stop until the guy was through the entire intersection and he proceeded to give me a $150 ticket. Well I was looking through the traffic ordinances of MN and I found this on pedestrians - read it here and it states "The driver must remain stopped until the pedestrian has passed the lane in which the vehicle is stopped." So I'm definitely going to court on this one.

Who's going to win in this case.

The Renter Speaks

In class our prof mentioned a site called "The Way Back Machine". I was curious if a web site I created back in college would be there so I typed in the old address - http://www.therenterspeaks.com. I gave up on the site after I got my job. It was kind of interesting seeing what it looked like. Although it doesn't work so you can't see the entire site it's kind of neat to see the old home page. Check it out here.

Snow??

It supposed to snow tomorrow. I have a plan to convince Jen we should move after living in Winter for a while. Florida is so much better then this winter crap.

Weekend

Not really sure what's going on this weekend. The only sure thing is taking care of Hayley while Jen works. That's exciting to me. I've been thinking about taking Hayley to Willmar to meet the family but Jen said she cried for her on their trip to Little Falls. Listening to a crying baby for 2 hours is a tough task so I'm thinking I'm going to wait until Jen is free so she can sit with Hayley in the back. We'll see though.

Waiting for a new car

Although I'm not in the market for a new car I do check out cars that would make sense for me. I need a compact vehicle to drive to work and back. The gas mileage on the Explorer is terrible. I'm not sold on Hybrids because you have to replace the battery every 3-5 years or so. No cost savings there. I've also contemplated a VW Jetta TDI diesel that gets 50mph, but with the price of diesel that would probably be a bad idea. Reading Popular Science online I saw this Europe-only Golf GT that gets 30mph city and 50mph Highway by using both a super charger and a turbo charger. One top of the great gas mileage the performance is good too. The only problem is they're not selling it in the US. Why? I have no clue. I think this car would sell like crazy. So I'm saving my pennies in case they decide to sell it here.

Software Bugs

Top 10 software bugs. My favorite.

1982 -- Soviet gas pipeline. Operatives working for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency allegedly (.pdf) plant a bug in a Canadian computer system purchased to control the trans-Siberian gas pipeline. The Soviets had obtained the system as part of a wide-ranging effort to covertly purchase or steal sensitive U.S. technology. The CIA reportedly found out about the program and decided to make it backfire with equipment that would pass Soviet inspection and then fail once in operation. The resulting event is reportedly the largest non-nuclear explosion in the planet's history.

New Web Site

I'm working on creating a web site that I can host pics of Hayley and a Hayley blog securly. I'll use the site for other odds and ends too like posting my resume and maybe some old college projects and my attempt at writing a Holdem Program. (Maybe Ben would want to finish it) Anyway, I'm trying to decide what the address of this site should be. I'm leaning toward www.ksetrum.com or www.ksetty.com. What do you think? Leave a comment and let me know.

Serious Blowout

Hayley hadn't pooped for three days. We were watching the Vikings when she let out a serious grunt. I was happy that she finally was pooping, and I figured I'd wait 5-10 minutes to change her so she could finish until I could feel it through my shirt. By that time it was too late. I present a challenge to all diaper manufactures to try and stop a blowout of this magnitude.

DVR is back

We just couldn't live without it so we broke down and got DVR back. Once you have it you'll have a hard time living without it. It's a little more expensive but when we've been missing a lot of TV caring for Hayley DVR is in order.

The Amazing Race Results

Well we came up short. We ended up 1 point out of first. Although I really don't care that we lost but when an event like this is put on I wish judges would be a little more strict on the rules. No big deal though. We came in like 6 out of 8 for the race, however, our airplane expert built a paper airplane that made it across the court yard, about twice as far as everyone else except for a team that put quarters in their airplane. They were disqualified.

The Amazing Race

Tomorrow I'm participating on a team that's competing in the Amazing Race we're having at work. The race consists of 4 team members which have to do different things like leap frogging, putting, building and flying a paper airplane and other stuff. Anyway I thought we'd get a jump start on our paper airplane design. We went to the court yard to test different designs and there were two other teams practicing. I guess we're not going to be the only team prepared. Anyway, if you know of a good paper airplane design let me know.