The TJ Draper Family Blog http://tjdraper.com/home/render/ en tjdraper@mac.com Copyright 2008 2008-07-04T14:53:00-06:00 Boycott McDonalds http://tjdraper.com/home/render/boycott-mcdonalds/ http://tjdraper.com/home/render/boycott-mcdonalds/#When:15:53:00Z I suppose this is an easy one for me to do since I really hate McDonalds food anyway and already mostly avoided it.

I know we have to pick our battles, but it looks like this boycott is gaining momentum…

http://www.boycottmcdonalds.com/

I realize that probably every major food chain has some problem or other but maybe this will send a message, and McDonalds is being very open and flaunting this one right in our faces.

]]> Church, Life, Politics 2008-07-04T15:53:00-06:00 Last Place You Look http://tjdraper.com/home/render/last-place-you-look/ http://tjdraper.com/home/render/last-place-you-look/#When:05:24:00Z Have you ever heard someone who is missing something and grumbling about it say, “I just know it will be in the last place I look...”

I submit to you, that if you are missing something, and you are looking for it, when you find it, it will always be in the last place you look because once you find it you don’t need to keep looking for it!

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]]> Random 2008-07-04T05:24:00-06:00 Overdue on Pictures http://tjdraper.com/home/render/overdue-on-pictures/ http://tjdraper.com/home/render/overdue-on-pictures/#When:05:46:00Z Yes, I know I’m overdue on posting pictures… or even just posting at all.

Well, for now, just head over to my Brother-in-law’s blogs and check out these two posts:

Lots of Allen pics at this post

General Weekend pics at this post

]]> Allen, General Ruminations 2008-06-27T05:46:00-06:00 4 Gigs of Ram, 320 Gig HD http://tjdraper.com/home/render/4-gigs-of-ram-320-gig-hd/ http://tjdraper.com/home/render/4-gigs-of-ram-320-gig-hd/#When:04:49:00Z image

YES! My MacBook Pro is maxed out on RAM, and currently has the biggest hard drive one can put in a laptop! It really is amazing. I bought 4 gigs of RAM for $88.00. That’s like dirt cheap… does anyone remember so many moons ago (say like 4 years) when 4 gigs of RAM was something akin to $400.00? Yeah… it’s amazing. And it’s not like my computer was slow or anything, but going from 2 gigs to 4 gigs is just an amazing difference.

I was also running out of hard drive space, so I order the Western Digital 320 Scorpio. $129.00. Amazing… I moved a bunch of stuff of my external drives and back onto my laptop hard drive (like all my photos) and still have 85 gigs free! I’m elated!

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]]> Apple, General Ruminations, Technology 2008-06-22T04:49:00-06:00 Black Olive Re-design http://tjdraper.com/home/render/black-olive-re-design/ http://tjdraper.com/home/render/black-olive-re-design/#When:04:14:00Z image

My brother-in-law just launched his new site design. Frankly, I think it looks great. And he does really great photography work… the best actually. Make sure you hire him if you need any photography work done!

http://www.blackolivestudios.com

]]> General Ruminations 2008-06-21T04:14:00-06:00 Re-Run - Old Times http://tjdraper.com/home/render/re-run-old-times/ http://tjdraper.com/home/render/re-run-old-times/#When:03:53:00Z Looky what I found while sorting through my pictures in iPhoto (that would have been about the time I was looking through the wedding pictures as well smile )

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]]> General Ruminations 2008-06-20T03:53:00-06:00 The Third Anniversary http://tjdraper.com/home/render/the-third-anniversary/ http://tjdraper.com/home/render/the-third-anniversary/#When:05:04:00Z Today is our third anniversary. Time flies!

We aren’t celebrating till Friday though because we decided I could take off work and have a three day weekend! smile

But, I did go looking through the wedding photos and thought I would post a few here for you, my dear readers.

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]]> General Ruminations 2008-06-19T05:04:00-06:00 The Baptized Household http://tjdraper.com/home/render/the-baptized-household/ http://tjdraper.com/home/render/the-baptized-household/#When:16:07:00Z I listened to an awesome sermon this morning by Pastor McDonald that I wanted to share with you all:

The Baptized Household

Go and Listen!

]]> Church 2008-06-17T16:07:00-06:00 Google Reader Subscribers http://tjdraper.com/home/render/google-reader-subscribers/ http://tjdraper.com/home/render/google-reader-subscribers/#When:04:19:00Z imageOf course I’m subscribed to my own blog in Google Reader. I mean you never know when Rachel might post on our blog, because she does that so often… o wait… on second thought… well anyway, moving on.

So I never really noticed the little link up toward the top right corner when you are viewing a feed in Google Reader. It says ”show details” (which if click magically becomes a ”hide details” link). Being of the curious sort, and willing to take risks, I clicked that little link while viewing my blog’s RSS feed. That little link gave me a few details. Actually two to be exact, and they are as follows:

  1. This feed has 0.0 posts per week and

  2. There are 11 subscribers to this feed

So this post is two fold. 1. Bring up the post count. 2. I’m bummed that there are only 11 subscribers in Google Reader and since this blog has to be more popular than that (it has to right?) then I must assume my readers are terribly ill informed and don’t know about Google Reader.

Let me assure you that Google Reader is the coolest thing since sliced bread! It lets you keep up with any RSS enabled website without having to check up on the website constantly. For instance, I subscribe to 95 RSS feeds, many of them blogs of folks I like, friends etc. Anytime a blog I subscribed to in Google Reader has a new post it shows up in my Google Reader thanks to that nifty thing called RSS!

Try it! You’ll love it!

That should help my post count smile

]]> General Ruminations 2008-06-17T04:19:00-06:00 Control Freak! http://tjdraper.com/home/render/control-freak/ http://tjdraper.com/home/render/control-freak/#When:03:50:00Z I think there is a control freak in our family… and no it’s not me.

Let me give you one small example.

Rachel’s MacBook almost always sits on top of the entertainment center, with audio and video hooked up to the television. Now, Macs have this cool program called Front Row, and they also have remote controls. The remote always sits on the shelf next to the rocking chair.

We often use Rachel’s MacBook to play music through the TV by means of the remote and Front Row. When an album or playlist gets done, Allen immediately begins frantically pointing at the shelf where the remote resides practically shouting “Moe, Moe” and then pointing to the TV (Moe means remote)…

Yes, that’s what I call micro management! smile

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