Is is Spring yet?

I don't know about you, but I am ready for some spring. Bring on the warm weather.

Week Days to be Days off

For the last 3 months at work I have been working a 6:30 am to 3:30 pm Monday through Friday with Saturdays and Sundays off. I loved that shift and it was nice to go home while the sun was still up.

Well, as of late there has been allot of calls coming in with people and there broken computers. So many calls in fact that we have been putting in allot of over time. Now with that my schedule has changed and will be like this until May. So to compensate for all the calls coming in I will be working Monday and Tuesday, off Wednesday and Thursday, Work Friday and Saturday and off on Sunday. The time frame is 8:00 am to 7:00pm. So now I am working 10 hour shifts with 4 days of work. Its not bad really. I like the fact that I can now do something that needs taken care of during the week. Although I must admit that when that last hour on the second day hits I get excited to have a day off soon and not have to wait until Saturday.

Iron Chef

Well Heather and I are on the road to recovery of this lousy no good sickness, all I have left is this awful cough that according to my wife I sound like my grandpa Moncur when he would cough. Well, here's to you Grandpa.

We have spent every weekend at home working on getting better and sometimes I feel cooped up and out of sync with the world. I have been going to work but the drive has been horrible. We are still under an inversion and we have had fog here for the last 10 days. When I drive to work in the morning I can only see about 5 feet ahead of me. Like in Heathers post I can't wait for summer time to.

I am not sure if any of you have seen this show on TV but its called Iron Chef America. Heather has really gotten into this show. What happens is 4 top Chefs that have been named Iron chef are selected to compete against ameture Chefs. They also have a master of ceremonies that does back flips up to his podium, and screams at the top of his lungs like a crazy China man.(that's always a thrill) sometime down the road when he is back flipping he is going to miss. Anyway These people have to cook up something using secret ingredients. Some ingredients have been pretty nasty looking.

So tonight I am in the kitchen making dinner for Heather and I and she is watching Iron Chef, now here are pros making sauce and what not from scratch and here I am frying up hamburger for spaghetti and using Hunts spaghetti sauce, the sauce you can trust. Kind of reminds you of wild Hickory nuts, You know I may not be a professional Chef, but In the words of my father "Reminds me when I was working at Antwan's. (family members will get that joke). I made a pretty mean spaghetti dinner tonight and that's just fine. I am not sure if it will have the same after effect as my brothers Salomi club sandwich but you never now.

For more information on Davids culinary musical club sandwich read here. http://moncurblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/twisted-thoughts-during-sacrament.html


Maybe next time I make dinner I will do a few back flips for Heather and land on a podium and serve dinner while screaming like a crazy China man. Just call me IRON CHEF GARY.

Been sick for a little bit.

Ever since New Years eve I have been sick. so that is the reason I have not updated the blog in a while. Heather was sick during the Christmas week and I was being a nurse for her and well that is how I got it. I have Bronchitis and a nice big sinus infection. Heather is now being a wonderful nurse for me. We just got back from the doctors and we are both on anti-biotics. I am still not feeling all that well so I don't have a great story for you but I do have something that might help out. Hope you like it. I call it, can't fix stupid.

A Christmas show

OK so you have all seen Rudolph the red nosed reindeer and Santa Clause is coming to town and Frosty the snowman. Now there is a show that is Tradition in my family. We would gather around the TV every year with Mom and Dad. That show was called A Christmas Story. Yes that exact same one with the kid who told the story from his point of view about Christmas and he wanting a Red Rider 200 shot Carbine Action Air Rifle BB gun, with a compass in the stock. Every time Ralphie would tell his parents of even Santa Clause at the Mall they would all responded to his request, "You'll shoot your eye out kid". Just a great show.

My wife got the DVD for me and I just now was able to rip it to my hard drive. now I can see it when ever I want to. I wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and have a great Christmas story

Extreme Sports

Every Friday when I go home from work I drive across the Twin Falls Perrine Bridge and I see The Base jumpers get ready to jump over the bridge with there parachutes on. This is the only place left in the United States that allows base jumping year round with out a permit. So I see these guys jump and to me that's pretty extreme and I will admit that I have seen some interesting things happen here. Now I was sent a pretty cool video from one of my friends that I think is really really extreme and I wanted to share it with you. So sit back, relax , put your dinner trays in there upright position and enjoy the ride.

It's about time

Yeah its about time things happen. Its about time Gas prices are going down. This morning when I went to fill the van with gas, I was very happy to be able to fill the tank for just 20 dollars. How long has it been since I was able to do that huh? Gas right now in Idaho is a $1.87 a gallon in some places. Yeah yeah I know, for most of you its been that way or even lower for a while but here in Idaho they are greedy and kept the price high for a long time.

Another its about time is that I write in my blog. lol yeah I know its been almost a month, no excuses for another good story or something that's going on. I have been dealing allot in work and home making sure both are getting the right balanced attention. Also been enjoying face book meeting new friends and getting back with friends that I haven't seen in a while.

Ok so here is a story for you, another IT'S ABOUT TIME. Imagine if you will The story of the Laptop that went through heck and back.

Today I spoke with a guy that has had a his laptop since 2005. He said that the computer has been doing well and has never had a problem until now. I asked what was it that was wrong, he replied "you know those rubber feet on the bottom"? "I'm missing one" can you send me a rubber foot? Now here I am used to dealing with high end servers and raid systems with multiple parts and he needs just a rubber foot? WOW let me call in the reserves and get every supervisor, team coach in on this. His warranty was up in 3 days. He will get his rubber foot in the morning.

now you may thing awwwww such a great story a man and his laptop two best friends walking off into the sunset . Well wait till you meet Frank.

Frank called in, another man that said it was his first time calling in on his computer. He had an issue with his Laptop. the Internet was not working and needed some help getting back online. After going through a series of software trouble shooting I decided its got to be something hardware. I had him unplug the the cable. he said it would take a sec he had to take the tape off from around the cord. He said he used tape to hold it in because the cord was loose. Suddenly the power on the computer went out because he had tape holding the power cord in because it was loose.

I told him that these shouldn't be loose and asked what was the deal. he said that he noticed they were loose when the computer fell off the desk. He also said that he needed to put some more tape on them so they will hold. he had to put tape on the bottom to cover the hole he made because he hit it so hard because the fan wasn't working because again it fell off the desk.

he then told me about the duct tape that holds the battery in place, again all from the fall. now it gets interesting. He also said he had to go to the store because he is out of transparent tape that he puts on the LCD screen because there is a big crack across the screen. I started to laugh and asked "is that also from the fall" He said yes. How did I know. ok what else.

Now at this time my eyes were watery because I was laughing because if this huge tape job. I'm thinking wow I wish I could actually see what this laptop looked like. Then the next thing he told me was unbelievable. He told me that his computer gets hot, really hot. I'm thinking ummmm duh all the tape, the falling off the desk, ummmmm yeah I bet it's massively hot. He said that was part of the deal with the fan not working and I said In a controlled laughing voice "this is from the fall off the desk to"? I heard this very low embarrassed "yes" on the other side of the phone. Frank said that when it gets that hot he shuts it down and goes and sticks the laptop in the freezer. At that moment I had to put him on hold and take my head set off . I couldn't hold it in anymore. I let loose a laugh that my team mates were wondering what happened. After telling them what happened with this guy some of them laughed pretty good. After all that He wanted me to replace his computer. Well the answer was a big no. Its like if I took my car and ran it in to a light pole on purpose, then go to a car dealer and say "Hey replace my car", Yeah like that's going to happen.

I felt bad for the guy but not to much. I think he would be better off if he had one of these .

Because I got a funny feeling he is one of these guys that has a homemade tank top.