Why did I title this post like this? Because I did!

One of my bother Tom’s latest blog posts (http://sportydebo.blogspot.com/2010/01/like-child.html) got me thinking, which surprisingly enough turned out well for once! It got me thinking about tech and my somewhat unhealthy obsession with it. Anyone who has spoken to me around the time a cool new piece tech is announced knows I geek out like a little school girl getting a pony for her birthday. While I never say it, there’s always a part of me that thinks “YAY! I’ll never have to work again! It shall all be rainbows and unicorns from now on!” (Ok, that was kinda girlie.) And of course it never turns out that way. In a few weeks I’m all “Wait. I have that? Huh, who knew?” Though, I do have to say I’m nowhere near as bad about it as I used to be. Admittedly, Nexus One was announced and POW! My paradigm shifted so far I almost fell over! But as it turns out I can’t afford the $530 for the new phone and (here’s the evidence of personal growth!) I don’t really need it. I have the myTouch 3G from T-Mobile and it works brilliantly, so why would I need a new phone? I don’t, but I digress. Even with any growth I’m still a little too obsessed with tech, be that video games, a new phone or a new computer.

In addition, this past Sunday my Pastor spoke about values. How we all have values but sometimes find our selves living and acting outside of those values. Between Tom’s blog and my Pastor’s sermon, I got to thinking about my values and I realized that while I had values in the vague sense I never really sat down and figured out what they are. I decided that while I’m sitting here typing, unable to sleep I might as well actually figure out some of my values. And sharing them with you, my readers, will help with accountability (and as a side note, I thank you all for taking the time to read my blog).

1. Family- You all are wonderful (especially my awesome wife!), and enrich my life in fantastic and sometimes weird ways.
2. Friends- For much the same reason. Sadly, I haven’t had the time I would like to spend time with all of you (stupid job).
3. Integrity- Something that anyone being honest with themselves would agree, can often be very difficult to live with.
4. Mercy- Another value I sometimes find hard to live with and is just as important as integrity.
5. Faith/hope- My faith is my hope, to me they are inseparable and arguably the most important part of who I am.

As you, oh reader, can see. Tech is where it should be, not on the list (though, not sure it could ever be considered a value). I look at this list and I am surprised that I think I can live up to these. I will make mistakes, but change doesn’t happen instantly. A journey starts with a single step.

Yay… electronics.

So, the year started out quite well. Been pretty good for sales at work, upgraded to Windows 7, and I’m still awesome in general (of course). Well, my laptop thought “things are going too well for you Debo!” So yesterday after lunch at work I was putting my laptop back into my bag and I heard a noise. My food was done, so I wasn’t chewing. My limbs all seemed to be in working order, nothing broken. Pulled my laptop back out and after a quick examination of the outer casing it seemed fine too. I proceed to look in the bag and notice some small square pieces of black plastic. Yup, several keys fell off. It seems like they only popped off and didn’t snap so they may be able to be repaired. But between the keys and the fact my DVD drive isn’t working (and hasn’t been for some time) all I can say is, Thank you HP. I will not be buying any of your products again. Not that I have the money to replace my laptop anyways.

As I said before, I upgraded my laptop (now netbook) to Windows 7. And let me just say, it is GREAT! I had XP, meh. I had Vista, ugh. But now with 7? SSSWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTT! I have to agree with several reviews: it’s what Vista should have been. On top of that, last night I “unlocked god-mode” Sounds impressive right? While very cool, the name makes it seem much bigger and more powerful than what it is. What it does is give you access to everything you can do to customize your system down to turning unwanted parts of 7 off (such as IE) and registry all in one place. It is astoundingly useful! For any one reading this using 7, the following is a link to instructions to getting “god-mode” from Gizmodo:

http://gizmodo.com/5440159/understanding-windows-7s-godmode

Saw Avatar this past Saturday with my wife, and was floored by the super-rocking-awesome-sweet-cewlness! Anymore adjectives for that….. Nope, we’re good. But seriously, it was one of the best movies I saw this past year (though seen in 2010 I’m count it as 2009 for now). Even though it was little more than Daces With Wolves in space, it was still very well written and never ceased to amaze with it’s visuals. We did see it in 3D, and not having anything to compare it to I have to say, I probably won’t worry about seeing another movie in 3D. For those who haven’t seen it yet it’s definitely worth seeing in theaters, maybe not 3D.

As a side note, watch NCIS right now. Jetpacks are AWESOME!

A year of babies!

Just in time for 2009 to end, a new blog post! HUH-ZAH! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!

Wow. First things first, as you can tell from the title there were a few babies born this year to people I know! My niece was born in the beginning of the year and two of my wife’s friends had babies in the past couple of months with the last being born just in time for the new year. Oh, and Boo was  born this year too (though initially I was referring to people babies)!

Time for resolutions! Well, my resolution for 2009 was to learn sign language… yeah, that didn’t happen. Not a resolution, but I started a blog… check! Sure, I didn’t keep it up to well but I’ll take what I can get! Since I’ve failed my resolutions so abysmally, I’ve decided not to use that word. Instead GOALS! Now for the goals for 2010:

1st: I SHALL be better about updating this blog

2nd: I’m gonna try the whole sign language thing again (it’s good thing to know)

3rd: To work harder on my photography, I don’t put the time into it that I need to and that needs to change

However, there one thing I need to do first! Upgrade my laptop (though now, not much more than a netbook) to 7! While the DVD drive may not be working (yeah, thanks for that HP)  I can download the 32 bit for $30 with my wife’s student discount! YAY! Load my games to my computer from my wife’s through networking and find the cracks to make my games disc free and I am set!

Looking forward to 2010! It’s gonna be even better than ’09!