The Reneau's

Wow, what can I say? We had a great Christmas. We first went to my parents house on Christmas eve and had a great time. Ate well, got good gifts enjoyed the fellowship and enjoyed being together. We had a traditional Christmas meal and it was SO good!

Christmas morning we had our Christmas, Mandy, myself, Dillon and Drew. They boys once again made a haul from Santa. He, Santa, even ate some of the cookies Dillon left out and drank the milk!

I'm sitting here on a Friday night at the kitchen table, one laptop on the table, another in, well, my lap and another beast of a Desktop on the corner just itching to have it's OS reinstalled. Ahh, the magic of Friday nights.

Mandy and I elected to stay home tonight rather than go out and pay for a meal and wrestle with the gruesome twosome. We had fajitas, and they were good if I do say so myself. Nothing fancy, just some chicken, onions and bell peppers. But what I like most is having my family close.

I've lived in Thomasville all my life and all my life I've gone else where for entertainment. Wild Adventures is east of us, all the best restaurants, traditionally have been south us and there isn't much in the way of live entertainment outside of a bar, which I won't visit. However I've begun to see a trend developing with upstarts and the "revival" I'll call it of the downtown area.

I had to return some thins to Lowes that I did not need and while at the service counter I noticed a buggy full of hardware items. A paslode nail gun caught my attention and I picked it up. It was brandy new, not even a scratch. The lady behind the counter said "Yeah, I know.". I asked what she meant and she explained that the items in the buggy were going to be thrown away. I gawked at her, literally. She went on to explain that if I bought flowers in the nursery and exited the building got to my car and came back because I changed my mind they had to throw them away.

I make no bones about it, I love my wife. She's wonderful and thoughtful. She loves me past my faults and knows how to soothe my rough edges when I get mad about something. Back when time ticked it's first "tick tock" on the clock God assigned my heart to her and her heart to me. From the foundation of the world our hearts were destined to be intertwined and I'm so glad.

I'm not a fan of politics but I do enjoy a jab to either side of the isle when necessary and this is one of my favorites. I'd like to give credit to the sender but can recall who sent it to me. Anyway, it's worth a good chuckle.

I know there are million's of you out there "on the internet" who wait daily for my posts and alas you have been w/o for 3 days.

I think I took another lighting strike at the house, lost a Linksys 4 port switch, a Linksys wireless router and a cable modem from CNS. All been replaced, all reconfigured and tada! I'm back online.

I'm a cynic and I generally see things that are really trivial and I make an issue where no issue exists. Recently I got on the soap box for a laugh regarding a particular vendors packaging.

If you were trying to get to the website since around 10:30 or 11:00 am today, Saturday, July 5th you probably noticed it didn't work. I have no idea what happened. I was showing the site to someone at 10:00 or there about and by the time I got home, probably 10:15 the site was down. But as you can well see the site is once again online. Now it runs on it's own server no longer trapped in a virtual machine. The site is a little quicker to load also, result of having it's own hardware rather than the virtual.

Anyway, I'm just rambling, should be in bed.

Glad the site is up.

Mandy and I decided to take the week of June 30th for our vacation. During that week we were going to go to St. George Island for the day (maybe do this twice) and go to Wild Adventures a few times (we bought season passes). So on the 29th we took the boys and had a good time. We rode a few rides even Drew got in on a few of them but the highlight was the water park.