Few things make a work day as sweet as dreading putting 1000's upon 1000's of pieces of data into a new database only to find out that you can cut and paste it from excel and it not be a disaster.

Hours of dread turn to a sweet couple of minutes!  Priceless! 

     Jordan and Justice both went to their nanas house this weekend while I went riding with my pops, and Melissa got a well deserved and long overdue girls weekend without any kids within screaming distance.  It was a pretty relaxing weekend but like all riding/fishing/campling... etc,  trips it can't end without a story.  The story was pretty short and not really that interesting but on the way home (when I thought I was home free), Justice vomited like a child out of the excercist.   He hurled so hard that some landed in the front seat.  So here I am on the side of the road, with the wind whipping about 20-30 mph, stripping JT and his car seat down to put in a plastic bag.  I cleaned up everything as much as I could, but it still stunk pretty bad for the final hour of the trip.  I am guessing he just got car sick.  He was sleeping soundly right before this happened.  He woke up and mumbled for a minute or two then let loose.  Fortunately, Jordan was not with us and I just put him in her carseat, I am not sure what I would have done if I didn't have that option other than let him sit in the dirty seat.  Just another chapter in the book of parenthood.

 

School minute

    Over the past couple of weeks I have noticed that since we are entering a new era of storage capacity, that a whole lot of people are not informed about what comes after gigabyte.  I have heard at least ten people refer to the "Tetrabyte" size of storage capacity.  That is not correct.... it is "Terabyte".  This scale, though similar to metric sizing scale is not the same.  It was developed by IBM in 1956 with the origination of the term "byte" which allowed for the defining of  4-bit fields known today as a byte.  This allows for 1-16 bits to be stored in this configuration.

    Anyway, below is the official scale of bytes, so you don't have an excuse in the future.

Decimal
Value	SI
1000	k	kilo-
10002	M	mega-
10003	G	giga-
10004	T	tera-
10005	P	peta-
10006	E	exa-
10007	Z	zetta-
10008	Y	yotta-

 

 FYI, Binary

Binary
Value	IEC		JEDEC
1024	Ki	kibi-	K	kilo-
10242	Mi	mebi-	M	mega-
10243	Gi	gibi-	G	giga-
10244	Ti	tebi-
10245	Pi	pebi-
10246	Ei	exbi-
10247	Zi	zebi-
10248	Yi	yobi

   Besides being a great piece of cinematic history, things really are tough all over..... or so they seem.  Melissa, the kids and I were dining at a ritzy establishment here in town called Taco Bell.  You may have heard of it.  Anywho, while I was waiting for them to get my order ready, this lady (who was with two unruly kids and a husband) approached me and asked " So how do we get our food, do we just wait for them to call our number or something).  I was a little struck by the question, and politely said yes and helped to inform her of the complex dining process that is fast food at Taco Bell.  After that exchange, I observed several cues that suggest that she and her family may be lowering their usual dining standards perhaps because of the economic times. 

    This was a strange encounter because I can't imagine anyone, natively born in the US, that hasn't partaken the in delictable dishes served at the the premier mexican/american fast food joint.  I could be way off base and it was just a sort of brain fart situation on the part of the woman.  However, another episode occurred in the same encounter that still leaves me perplexed.  One of the fine ladies sons proceeded (with parental supervision) over to the drink dispenser and dialed up this fantabulous concoction.  1/4 pepsi, 1/2 pink lemonade, 1/4 water.  The parent seem to be directing the child on the amounts that they were allowed to consume.  I understand that maybe mixing lemonade with water, but the pepsi mixed just boggled my mind.  It was a strange occurrence but hey, I at least got something to noodle on for a while and bizzare story to share!

    What makes a good attorney?   Is it the stack of law books on the shelf behind him/her in a commercial at 3am in the morning?  If not, why in the hell do they all seem to stiffly stand in front of a bunch of books?  Does that really project intelligence?