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It’s been a while since I have had an opportunity to compose any thoughts. Now it is a new year. A time for new opportunities and new friendships. Last year was like a rollercoaster ride. This year will hopefully be more stable, or at least more sane. So far it’s looking very good.

Everything that occurs in life is a stepping stone to the next paragraph and the next chapter. Without the steps I’ve taken, I couldn’t be where I am.

The new year brings a new career, a new step in life. One without the camoflauge uniform.  Now that I am free from the burden that military life can bring, I feel free and less stressed. Although it is a bittersweet goodbye. I made many friends along my journey, but I can now concentrate more on what matters, my family.  My children need me to be there for them. And this year I promise myself that I will spend more time with them. It’s a difficult balancing act. Family, friends, work, play, and a wonderful woman. Each of these things needs time devoted to them. But there is only so much time to give. At least some of those things can be combined.

The next big step in life is my wonderful lady. She brightens my day and has a big heart. She is young and beautiful and knows what she wants. She is independent and responsible and is everything I could ask for and more. I would have never expected that a meeting on the highway would bring me someone who is so amazing. I guess that when you aren’t looking for something, you find it. Strange how that is.

Hopefully a new career and a new girl will bring more stability and help with the time I need with my family. Only time will tell if I’m taking the right steps. More steps remain to be taken however. But I can only take one at a time.

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Hey all, it’s been a while since I have had an opportunity to write. I haven’t fallen off a cliff or anything, just been busy with work and stuff at home. Since I don’t have a lot of comments on my previous writings, I am assuming that no one reads this. So if you read, please say something in a comment. I don’t care if it’s positive or negative. Anything will do. Conversation is essential to any interactive website. I will try to write more so keep watching.

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I don’t know about you, but I have noticed a big difference between the way I was raised, and the way young people today are raised. When I was younger, I played outside most of the time during the summer. During the school year I watched TV and did homework. I didn’t even know what a computer was. I certainly didn’t have a cell phone. Texting? We wrote notes on a piece of paper. And we wrote in plain english. Had an English paper to write? Paper or a typewriter was used, which used paper of course. It wasn’t until High School that we used computers for writing papers. Then again, I went to high school before the days of Windows XP and Windows Vista. I wonder what other people my age, 26, experienced when they were growing up. Read more…

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San Antonio, Texas. This city cannot easily be described with one word. We have a varying but mostly Semi-Arid climate. Rain is hard to come buy for the most part. Usually during the Summer it’s partly cloudy and HOT. The weather in San Antonio makes it a great tourist destination year round. There are many things to do and see here. I will start with the most famous and work my way to the least famous. Read more…

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Baseball, America’s Pastime. San Antonio has the Spurs, that’s it for Professional sports. Some people want to bring an NFL team to San Antonio, but not me. Most people I know here in South Texas are Cowboys’ Fans. Good luck trying to get them to convert to some other NFL team. Not to mention that getting an NFL team here is a difficult task. The Alamodome is getting old, the city can’t really afford to build another football oriented stadium. I think the city of San Antonio would be better served by bringing in MLB.

We already have Wolff Stadium where the Missions play. Building a baseball stadium seems like it would be cheaper, maybe not though. But nevertheless, we don’t have much of a baseball presence here in the city. We do have the Missions, but come on, they are a AA team. Put an MLB team at Wolff Stadium, and you’ll sell it out. If not, build a new stadium. There is plenty of room in this city.

Even if the city doesn’t get an MLB team, we still have the Spurs. But how nice it would be to have something other than Double-A baseball. NFL is a maybe, but I’d rather have an MLB team to cheer for. Afterall, baseball is America’s Pastime.

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The new season is still a little over a month away. But I’m ready for it so begin right this second! The Spurs have added a few key players. And I think they will benefit the team in a significant way. So it’s going to be an exciting season of basketball. Maybe this season will be another special season to remember. I’m looking forward to sitting in my chair at home watching the game on my HDTV, ready to jump out of my seat on every bad call and every spectacular play. “Ginobli takes the rock at the top of the key, pauses, drives through the lane…oh he’s fouled on the play…it falls, and one.  Manu Ginobli is fouled on the play but he makes the basket.”. Read more…

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Sportacular: Gives instant updates of your favorite teams, lets you know when a game is starting, when it ended. One of the few paid apps that I have.

Facebook: What more can I say about this? They just updated it this last week. It is still missing push notifications, but it is a major improvement over the previous app. Which was severely overdue for an update. My favorite part, you can now view your friends’ friends and mutual friends.

The Weather Channel: One of the best weather apps.

Weather Bug: Another good weather app.

USAA: For those of you who bank with USAA, this app is a must have. Easily transfer funds, view account balances, etc.

Radar Scope: For you weather geeks, this is a must have app. View base reflectivity, velocity, etc. And if you want to know where you are in relation so the storm, it is location aware.

Snap Tell: Great if you need to find out what game or book to buy. Gives links to reviews, prices. All around cool app.

Shazam: Don’t know the name of a song or who the artist is? You have got to have this app. Just let it listen for a few seconds, then it returns with the song, artist, and album title.

Repair Pal: Car broken down? Use this app to find a repair shop near you, even quote average prices in the area for various repair jobs.

Road Trip: Input your mileage and your fuel, gives you detailed data on gas mileage and what not.

These are not in any particular order, they are all great.

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Murphy’s Computing Laws

1. When computing, whatever happens, behave as though you meant it to happen.

2. When you get to the point where you really understand your computer, it’s probably obsolete.

3. The first place to look for information is in the section of the manual where you least expect to find it.

4. When the going gets tough, upgrade.

5. For every action, there is an equal and opposite malfunction.

6. To err is human . . . to blame your computer for your mistakes is even more human, it’s downright natural.

7. He who laughs last probably made a back-up.

8. If at first you do not succeed, blame your computer.

9. A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked just fine.

10. The number one cause of computer problems is computer solutions.

11. A computer program will always do what you tell it to do, but rarely what you want to do.

12. A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years make.

13. The computer will work perfectly at the repair shop.

14. Never test an error condition you don’t know how to handle.

And Finally:

15. Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.

These are our 15 Commandments. Live by them or be prepared to put your head thru a wall in fustration.

Found these here.

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Tony Parker, 2007 NBA Finals MVP, NBA All-Star 2006, 2007, 2009, and three time NBA Champion. He is only 27, yet he has already been in the league since 2001. Tony began his basketball career in France playing for French amateur teams. In 1999 he joined up with the pro French team Paris Basket Racing. Two years later he entered the 2001 NBA draft. Read more…

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