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Another day

Another beautiful autumn day here in NJ. Sun is shining, there’s a nice brisk feeling in the air. Yet I feel disconnected from everything around me.

The only thing that put a smile on my face was seeing Liam and Roslyn sleeping peacefully.

A am so at odds with myself. What do I do? I’m trying the best I can do raise my family but I just keep getting knocked down. If this is a test, God has a sick swnse of humour.
“I don’t want start any blasphemous rumors, because I think that God’s got a sick sense of humour. And when I die I expect for him to be laughing…”

We’ll see what happens today.

I think I need another session with my shamanic energy healer. Because I definitely don’t feel like I’m me. If that make sense.


Bad things

I deserve every bad thing that happens to me.

I must’ve did something horrible to someone. I guess I’m sleeping in the car tonight


another night

2 more days before my Mom flies into town to help out Linette and myself. Its been quite rough with all the diaper changes, feedings, explosive poop, luckily haven’t gotten the golden shower, although it’s been really close.

Life has definitely changed since Liam and Roslyn have been born, other than the fact that i get no sleep, I actually find myself leaving work on time just to see their cute faces. It’s quite uncanny that Liam looks nearly like me at his age. I’ll post it up sometime.
It’s about 3:17am EDT and my alarm goes off at 4am. Maybe i should set it back to 5:30 and see if i can get some rest, but then again, that plan didn’t work at all yesterday as I was 3 hours late for work. Right now, i’ll be up for 48 hours with no real sleep. I wonder what kind of toll that will take on me…. only time will tell. All this so my wife can get some rest.
I know it sounds nuts, but… yeah, I am nuts, but I do love her that much and then some, even though i may not show it all the time… which leads to another subject, but that is for a different evening.


Bad. Morning

What a bad star to a beautiful morning. I decided to be good husband and father last night so my wife could get some well deserved rest. Turns out that at about 3am I decided to take a power nap, for at least 15 minutes. That 15 minutes turned into a 5 hour long nap. In case you’re wondering I’m supposed to be at work at 7am.

Its going to be a long and trying day.


some thoughts

Current song playing on SiriusXM 80’s on 8 is Hall and Oates Maneater.  Just had to share that. 

Anyway, smaller celebrations continue to take place with resepctive familes after Randy & Jennie’s wedding.  The ceremony and following reception was tons of fun.  The Garabelis/Gancena/Napiza clan always know how to have a good great time. Especially when it comes to celebrations such as a wedding.  We need to come up with a name for this 1st generation, calling us “kids” is fine,  but we are far from it.  Most of us are done with our education or are on the verge of finishing up.  The firsts of the 2nd generation are on the way on November 2nd or earlier, and they are a most welcome and anticpated additions. I digress….

The wedding on May 16th was one that was in the works for quite some time.  All the months preceding the wedding was full of excitement and stress.  Arguemnts left and right, people wanting to interject their ideas of what a wedding should be, and all the other headaches that come with the planning.  But in the end, everybody had a great time and really enjoyed themselves.  This is evident from the photos and slideshow that I posted on flickr and blip.tv. 

Randy and Jennie are a great couple and I love them dearly very much.  There isn’t anything in world that I wouldn’t do for them.  I wish them the best of luck in everything they do, and if they ever need anything I hope they know that they can always reach out to Linette and I.

On to the future, April 17, 2010 will be here before we know it and we will see group known as Table 12 again.  I would hope that this will be the start of a new tradition for our families.  Thanks Randy and Jennie!!! Table 12 was such a great idea!

Please stayed tuned for announcements in the coming months.


Outlook tip

If you ever run into an issue in Outlook 2003 where images are displayed as a red x or if you have an issue opening up attachments. You may need to clear you Outlook Secure Temp Folder.
Here are the steps to do so:
1. Exit Outlook
2. Open your registry with regedt32
3. Go to HCUSoftwareMicrosoftOffice11.0OutlookSecurity
4. Copy the value in OutlookSecureTempFolder, it should look like
“C:Documents and SettingsusernameLocal SettingsTemporary Internet FilesContent.OutlookYLCQ3KBR”
5. Paste what you copied into explorer.
6. Select all and delete.
7. Open up Outlook and you’ll be able to see embedded images and open up attachments again.


broken images

I’m currently aware that I have broken images on my blog. It’s a good thing i backed up my old blog before I switched over. Unfortunately I do not have access to them until later in the week.


rain rain rain

I can’t believe the weekend was an almost total washout, except for Saturday afternoon.  Spent those few ours switching out the struts and coil springs on my car.  But of course I ran into problems.  Had to run back and forth to AutoZone and PepBoys for parts I needed.  Not to mention needing to get the hole bored out on the new strut mount so the Koni strut would fit.  Well I hope to get the rest of the car done this week, I’m really going to need it for this Friday for Jesse’s bachelor party, should be tons of fun!

Can’t wait to finish my car, I hope the ride will be alot smoother.  Installing Koni yellow externally adjustable struts along with B&G Sport Springs.  I’ll have an update after I’m done.


Goodbye blogger…. hello WordPress!!!

After trying to publish a short blog last night and googling for answers as to why I couldn’t, I decided to leave blogger and use WordPress.

After much trial and errors, I finally have it working the way I like, but more on that later. gotta run!


Android 1.5 Cupcake update on the way

Android 1.5 Cupcake is released. Multiple G1 users are reporting that they are getting updates. Can’t wait to get mine. Stay tuned..


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