Passion and a Job

I have been thinking about this a lot today.  I have no real passion in my life.  I love my wife with passion.  My family is wonderful.  But I have no real passion for anything else.  Work is now a job.  I enjoy reading history and playing games on my computer.  Baseball and the boys sports are great fun.  But none of the that is something I would call a passion.  I am not sure if I have ever had a real passion.

I loved playing baseball as a kid up until high school.  I was not that good but I enjoyed playing.  I did not burn to be playing.  There was no passion to do it everyday. High school brought band and history.  Both were great fun and I put a lot into them both.  I again did not have enough talent for music and did not put the time into my writing to make history work.

I have enjoyed some part of all my jobs.  I really like talking and interacting with customers, guest, clients, etc but I am not a people person, just ask my friends.  I am a great problem solver and organizer.  I do well when writing out policies and procedures but it drives me nuts to do it.  I read  one of those find your perfect job books and it said find your passion.  Well that helped a lot. Okey it gave me the idea for this blog.

I think this may be the reason for part of my end of year blues.   Each year I get older and still no passion. The closest idea of passion I have is for politics but is that really a passion or just my liking to argue?  Oh well.  Any feed back would be helpful.

Bubba

Bubba weekend is here.  It has been a really long week and I can't wait to go see everyone.  This one just seems a little strange.  I not sure why but it just feels different.  Beth feels it but thinks its because she has not got everything as organized as she wants its.  It good be not knowing if Marc and Megan or Brian and Angie are going to make it.  It could be that we have changed location for for first time in years.  The boys are going to be with us part of the weekend as well.  Mom is going to take them Saturday for the day and night but they will be there tonight and Sunday.

I can't wait to see everyone.  Praying for traveling grace on all us.

Hey I have not written this week so I thought I would say hi.  Had a great friend remind me it was Stalingrad Day.  So Happy Stalingrad day everyone.  Been having a 3 day headache and it is killing me.    Bubba weekend is just a week away and can't wait to see everyone.  Still not sure if the Texas people are coming but Marc seems to be doing good according to FB posts.  Hope the can make it. Looks like the boys may be going with us.  This is news to the group so I would bet I will be in trouble with Beth but thats not stopping me from posting it.
Hope all is well with everyone.

Ipad Really? Ipad ?

I really was looking forward to the Apple release of a tablet computer.  What I got was the Ipad. Please insert your favorite tasteless joke here.  I am not an Apple fan,  I had to use 1 with work years ago and it was terrible.  I find them very expensive and not user friendly.  I was hoping for something better from an Apple tablet.  


A PC tablet is a type of laptop with a pivoting screen than can be laid flat so the the screen can be used as a touch screen.  They usually come with a stylus allowing people to write out by hand on the screen instead of having to type. Hp and Toshiba make some of the best ones but they are very expensive.  They are full blown laptops with different sizes and specs.  All to fit into what you need to do. 


Apple came out with its Macbook Air  a few years back.  Apple people love them and many Pc people said they would be great except for the price for what you got in computing power.  I was hoping for an Macbook Air tablet.  I could see a use for a small light laptop with built in Apple support for Itunes, Iphone apps etc.  Touch screen with a great stylus for handwriting.  A good handwriting program that would fit with Apples creative image.  The main reason I was hoping for this was to use to hand write the book I am to lazy type out.  Those of you who know my hand writing please keep the laughing to a small giggle and not a belly laugh.  So as a devout anti Apple I am pc guy, I was hoping for a great new toy to try out (Beth has an Iphone but I do not even own an Ipod).


I hooked my Blackberry browser on Cnet's live blog yesterday and set to refresh as fast as I could.  


I was very disappointed.  


I wanted a tablet I got a big Ipod touch. 


This thing is a joke right?  From the guy who said we do not read anymore we now will read because of a fancy screen?  Its a ebook reader with Itunes and Iphone apps.  The hard drive on it is smaller than some thumb drives. It has no connection for HD.  It has no real software beyond the apps on the Apple store. Iwork is not a real good software suite and if you can only open 1 part of it at a time then its is even worth less. 


Here is an Hp base model tablets specs and costs http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/cto.do.  Here is the spec page from the Ipad.  Tell me which you would rather have for around $850.00.  It is a joke and we need to just laugh at it and go on. 

Wii and E

E is driving my nuts.  He is playing the Wii with has big brother and is really enjoying himself.  Whats driving me crazy is his personal sound effects.  Its worse than the old Batman movie with the Pfft and Biffs.  He jumps and yells and really enjoys himself.   I could do without the yelling and the jumping.  At least he is moving around while playing a video game.  I am glad they play well together most of the time.  They are very cool but geeky kids.

Quite moment during Kung Fu Panada

Chrome

Ok a little geek blog time.

 Been running Chrome for about 2 weeks now.  I have really grown to enjoy it.   Firefox may have been replaced by it as my new favorite browser.   Both of then kick IE butt.  Chrome  has started using extensions like Firefox  and that has put it over the top for me.  I now can check Facebook , my blog, and all my emails form Chrome like I did with Firefox and the bookmarks are on the right hand side of the browser making them easy to reach.   I also like how it works with with Win7.    The window will split if I have AIM and Chrome  open at the same time.  This makes is easier to chat and surf the web at the same time.

Not much of a blog tonight but Hay.  

Quick Post

Good weekend was had by all.  Gman played basketball, Beth got a new coat. E got to see Grandma and Papa.  I got my computer deck cleaned off and the hutch that was falling down removed.  

I have found there are no good storage devices for computer games.  The cd/dvd case holders are to small for most computer games cases.  This is because most games come in a double case for the cd and a book.  The book has on it the activation code for the game and you really need to keep it together with the games itself.  This makes it hard to use one of the cd cases that does not have room for the books.  I really do not have the design ability to come up with something but I would think this would be an item people could use and buy.   Not to mention and good tool box for a computer geek.  Something to organize all the cables, boot disc, screws,  boards, memory etc.  I have seen a few good small cases mainly for tools but not a great organizer that has room for a GPU, power cable, a couple of different USB cords, and say a boot disc/key.  Again good idea but I have no talent on how to design or build.  

Well hope everyone has a good week.  Got to help E with homework.  Yes homework in KinderGarden I do not remember this from school