Ladies and Gentlemen, it is with great pleasure that I introduce to you, my darling bride. People, this is my bride, Linda. Linda, this is the world. =:) Unfortunately for Lynn, she married a real geek (that’s me). Now, don’t get me wrong, there’s good sides and bad sides to that. Good sides being that I’m devilishly handsome, quick-witted, smarter than a box of hammers, and vastly rich. *snicker* Bad sides being that I’m occasionally less than clueful about putting my darling bride at the top of my list where she belongs. We’ve had several… um… discussions about said problem, and she’s right… I have rarely mentioned her in my blog. In the past, I’ve tried to keep my blog Read more…

I don’t think I’ve felt this low in a long, long time. In a lot of ways. I know that this is not helped in the slightest by the fact that my darling bride has given me some kind of flu thing and that I’ve spent the last 24 hours in aching pain, horking up my lungs. Speaking of which, words cannot possibly express the horror that is vomiting. Like Jerry, I had one heck of a no-vomit streak going. It must have been at least 20 years. Seriously. But between the be-gifted flu (which has now spread to my poor, wonderful daughters and I fully expect to spread to my son in the next day), and the astoundingly horribly Read more…

Okay, This Is How I Feel Originally uploaded by vanRijn Repeat after me: I will never, ever, ever, ever, never, never, ever eat at Burger King again.

2/21/2007 Originally uploaded by imurdock LOL! My apologies for plagiarism to Ian Murdock, but this is too funny to not do… =;) In other news…. I’m holding onto my hope that one day soon, I will be able to do that which I’m most passionate about professionally…. =;)

<vanRijn> also, do not upgrade all of your KDE packages without logging out/in again <pusling> vanRijn: you could just have run kbuildsycoca manually 😉 * pusling only recieved about 10 bugs in kde abouth the upgrade to 3.5.7 broke their installation <vanRijn> pusling: meh. Real Men Zap X (TM). =;P <pusling> 😉 <vanRijn> heh <vanRijn> I just went through re-install hell the last 2 days <vanRijn> got 4 hours of sleep 2 nights ago <vanRijn> went from opensuse 10.2…. <vanRijn> installed fedora 7… <vanRijn> apparently my cryptoloop-encrypted home partition is completely unusable with kernel 2.6.21. i blame the new pata drivers. <vanRijn> so downloaded opensuse 10.3-alpha4 (all 6 cd’s, ’cause they don’t have a dvd iso, grr) <vanRijn> installed it Read more…

I have seen these published elsewhere, but I got these from my beautiful daughter recently and meant to post them. They are very funny and not at all outside the realm of me being serious about them. =:) Rules for Dating My Daughters If you pull into my driveway and honk you’d better be delivering a package, because you’re sure not picking anything up. You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter’s body, I will remove them. I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your Read more…

Sarah’s Band Originally uploaded by vanRijn. I am SO proud of you Sarah!! I SO wish I could have been there, cheering you on! I hope that Kiani did a doubly good job for both of us. Aftershock came in second!!! =:) Woohoo!