Doh! I've been doing that lately too.
Home improvement update: Dot's Aunt hired a contractor to upgrade the kitchen and dining room floor. The contractor quoted us a price of $800.00 which is cheap for New York standards. I guess that how these chinese contractors win bids for jobs by quoting very cheaply. And hiring day laborers when needed. Were going to have fast food dinners the next few days. Hopefully I wont gain too much. I stopped running last week due to heel spurs.

I am such a dork! I meant to post that last blog to my personal blog but I posted it here instead! I should really pay more attention! GRR!

Congrats to dad for finally ditching is old Ford Ranger, biting the bullet and buying a brand new car.  He's now driving a more stylish, more reliable 2004 Toyota Corolla.  We'll be checking it out this Saturday.  Of course, mom's car is still much nicer.  It's a Toyota Highlander SUV they bought brand new, around this time last year, right before my wedding.  This is typical for Filipino households.  The woman always has the better vehicle.  They were actually thinking of getting a Toyota Tundra for dad (perhaps because he is partial to trucks) but my always pragmatic parents thought that it would be wasteful to drive a Tundra to and from Houston because all of the mileage will depreciate the value right away.  Brian made a really good point when we were talking the shower the other day, though.  Trucks are great for moving and dad moves around a lot.  I guess he will just have to either borrow mom's Highlander (since it is an SUV and can hold a lot more than his new Corolla) or rent a UHaul trailer.

What I really find amusing about my parents is that the purchase, as usual, was totally unplanned.  Matt picked up Logan one day.  I guess they saw an Eddy's Toyota (where they bought mom's car last year) commercial ad on tv saying 0% financing on all 2003 models so they thought, we have nothing better to do, let's go check out cars!  Of course, there were no more 2003 models when the got there.  How that can happen (as big an operation Eddy's is), I know not but they ended up getting talked into buying a 2004 model with 2.9% financing.  Not bad but with car dealerships, just like in Vegas, the house always wins.

I'm a little surprised that mom talked dad into it.  I know it was her too because she always does this sort of thing.  She'll spend hundreds of dollars (perhaps thousands) on furniture without even blinking.  She is the impulsive one.  Dad used to be really anal-retentive about stuff, researching every aspect and examining every angle before he will even say yes I'll think about it.  He is more laid back now and more open to mom's whims.  Maybe he has mellowed in his old age (no offense, dad) or maybe he's just given up the fight.  If you can't beat them, join them..  Right?

Kidding aside, mom tells me that this is a necessity because dad's truck has gone to hell in a handbasket.  It's turned into a cash cow for greedy mechanics at the auto repair shop.  So it was a spur-of-the-moment necessity purchase, if there is such a thing.  Mom was really happy that the dealership gave them $2000 trade in value for the truck without even looking at it.  I think they could have squeezed another $1000 out of the deal, considering that the dealer will probably sell it for $5000 on the lot, but hey dad has mellowed and mom has always been easy (no offense to either of you).  Lord knows how many imaginary repairs they've paid for on that truck.  Just kidding!

Jason Kidd signed up with the Nets for yet another season! The Nets will certainly be a contender this coming season.

The P.O.S. crashed in our branch today. POS stands for the Point Of Sale computers or what other companies call the cash register. At about 3pm E.D.T. the POS started hashing out error codes at each station. It happened at the height of a rush at the store. We could not ring in any sales and the line in front of the counter was growing impatient. I quickly had to turn the customers out to express and having them utilize express pay cards or inserting their credit cards on the ep card readers. There were problems when they had to puchase outputs on the oversize bw plotter and the sony picture stations which were not put on the express pay system. I had to manually bill them by writing up receipts and stapling our business cards on the receipts. This could not have happened at a better time. We have 2 litigation jobs in house that have to be completed by tomorrow. I had to fan out one of these projects to the Bayside Kinko's so that it could be completed.

I also lost my cool today. Tre came in late again and inavertedly turned on one of the POS's while someone from tech support was reloading the back up from the previous day. That put a damper on our backup time by a whole hour. I flipped and started slamming a corrugated box on the kitchen counter in the witness of Tre who was shocked to see me in that state of mind. When I vent out my frustrations in a physical way, I often go overboard. I really feel bad about this action. It could ideally give me a write up from Jaba, who is on vacation, and can also be grounds for me getting fired.

We will have to see what happens tomorrow...

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I just discovered something loopy! If WIN2K is your OS and you are operating your blog or web page in PHP or some other language other than html, you will find that the site shows a cache version of the document in internet explorer 6.0. I discovered that when blogger was uploading all its user's blogs to DANO. My blog site in blogspot would always show up as a cache file until I removed the template I was using and loaded one of the current blog templates used under DANO. Blogger was posting blogs that were not in DANO under a folder called 'no cache'. IE6 could not locate the index.html file so it would always show what it had in the network server's cache file. This of course wouldn't happen on home computers since the cache file on your computers automatically gets updated everytime you visit a website unless of course you tweeked IE6 differently. So for those of you that are using Blogger for your blog please point to an index.html. For those of you that are using PHP in your web servers, have the PHP script point to an index.html file. For those of you that are lazy to create an index.html file in Blogger just recreate your template when your blog gets moved over to DANO. For those of you that are dazed and confused with this current post, go back to bed and dream of golem and the butterflies...(_)_)

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