Today, Wednesday, May 10th, 2006, Nicole and I had to make one of the most difficult decisions we have ever had to make.  Our Foster Beagle, Taylor, was put to sleep at about 5:30 this evening. 

Taylor had messed in is crate for the 3rd day in a row, and off to the vet we went to find out what was wrong.  Almost immediatly we dicovered a bacterial infection that was causing the runs.  To be safe (and since his kidney levels weren't ideal last time) they vet wanted to run bloodwork again.  His levels, in a 4 month timeframe, had jumped drasticly.  We were left with the decision to watch him die slowly over a few months, or to let him go peacefully.  We made the decision as best for him and his life, and had him put down.

This is officially out of control.  WHY DO WE NEED TO KNOW IMMEDIATLY WHEN AN ACCIDENT HAPPENTS THAT DIDN'T HARM ONE OF OUR LEADERS!?!?!

 What Dick Cheney did was not illegal, immoral, premeditated, nor is it anyone's buisness.

 The White House Press Corp has a job.  Their job is to report on IMPORTANT matters involving the exectutive branch of our government. 

Read that statement carefully.  GOVERNMENT, not the personal lives of our leaders!!  What happened is unfortunate, and terrible, but it has NOTHING to do with the workings of our government, NOTHING AT ALL.

My wife RULES!!!

Ain't she great!!

You know... as I sit here listening to the State of the Union Address... I'm struck by one thing.  

George W Bush is saying the same thing he's been saying for 4 years.

Let me say that again.

George W Bush is saying the same thing he's been saying for 4 years.

The thing that strikes me about this is the way it has been and will be handled by the media.  Having heard both Left Leaning and Right Leaning media outlets today before the speech, I already know that this is not unexpected.  However, the Left will try to convince you this is a negative, while the right will try to convince you that this is a positive.

If you don't know already, I'm an AVID linux person, and use UBUNTU now for my personal desktop pc, along with having another ubuntu box as a backup server and a debian box as a web server.  Fun stuff!!!

On that note, I'm considering figuring out a way to offer free or low cost "introduction to desktop linux" classes localy.  I think with some education we might just inspire people to learn to use their PCS!!!

What do you think?  Leave a comment or post in the shoutbox your opnion.  I may put up a poll about it as well.

One other tech related note.  I read last week about the new Dell/Nvidia joint to the tune of a QUAD SLI BOARD!!!  This HOME PC actually rates number 70 on the top 500 supercomputers with 5.4 teraflops of computing power... WOW