3 months and counting...w00t!

Well, I just made reservations again at The Overlook Inn in Ellijay, GA. After Kelly and the boys had been out of town for 6 weeks last summer Kelly and I went and stayed the night there and fell in love with the place! Very romantic and beautiful scenery. We decided it would be an annual event, as she finally got it - she FINALLY realized that we, as a husband and wife, HAVE to get away every now and then to remind us of our roles OTHER than mom/dad. So we have been talking about it and decided to do a quick fall trip this year when it is cooler and the leaves are colorful.

We stayed in the the Grand Gahuti last year and planned on staying there this year too for nostalgia's sake. That is, until I saw their new addition. You see, the Overlook Inn, though very private, is still a small B&B with a communal sitting area with fireplace, etc. Let's just say that when we go on these trips we don't want to be looking over our shoulder to see who's around. Well, they have added a new, separate, "secluded" cabin - the "Ananda". When I asked just how secluded it was, the owner kind of giggled and said, "Don't worry, you can't see nothin' except the view of the overlook..."... BONUS! Hmmm... let's see....

• Brand New Spa Cabin
• Elegant 3 Course Gourmet Breakfast at the Inn each morning
• Complimentary Wine & Cheese Tray in your cabin the night of arrival
• Join us at the Inn each night for Complimentary Wine and Cheese Hour
• Steam Shower for 2
• Cedar Lined Sauna inside cabin
• Satellite TV - CD / DVD
• Stacked Rock Wood-Burning Fireplace
• Fantastic Mountain View - Very Secluded
• Gas Grill
• Use of the Inn Extensive Library
• Egyptian Cotton Robes
• Hairdryer - Shampoo, Soap & Spa Salts

Um, yeah, baby! Check out these pictures - the place looks beautiful! Can't wait! Though I don't know how much I will be able to report back afterwards.... hehehe. For all my buddies living in the area, you should really check this place out, quiet, romantic, the food is great, and the people are super nice!

I've gone widget happy!

Help!

I finally took the plunge and updated my blog to the new Blogger template format (formally known as Blogger Beta)... First let me say, that when they say you will lose all your former formatting, they ain't just whistlin' Dixie! It was quite the pain in the butt to recreate the color scheme and layout I had previously, especially since the html coding looks quite different in the new xml/widget format than the old straight html format. Spent most of my free time yesterday recreating it. There are some bugs still in the process of updating it with the new widgets (i.e., some give you errors when you try to update them or edit them, but you can't delete them or they duplicate on the page). I finally had to create a secondary blog and transfer stuff back and forth to get it right.

But once I finally got it done, I am getting widget happy! Blogger only has a few Blogger widgets that they offer, but the cool thing is you can make all your own or copy from other types of widgets! The only ones on this page so far that are actually Blogger widgets are the Blog Archive and the Newsfeed at the bottom of the page. All the others are just HTML/javascript code added as widgets, or widgets for other applications that you can add as custom HTML widgets - the LaGrange Weather and Calvin and Hobbes widgets actually are copied over from yourminis.com. All in all, widgets are just cool for folks like me who have very little coding knowledge. Ever since I discovered them, I have been surfing for new cool ones to add to the blog - stayed up til almost 2 am perusing the 'net last night...LOL... One thing I can see, though, is that I am gonna have to be careful that I don't make this place look all junky with too many widgets!

Got a favorite widget you can't live without? Lemme hear about it!

Atlanta Zoo slideshow

Cool!

Finally figured out how to put a Flickr slideshow directly in a post. I figure you people will be more likely to look at the pics if they're actually here than having to put forth the effort to click on the Flickr badge in the sidebar to go there and see them. Come to think of it, that's actually a sad comment on the state of our impatience in this society today. Geez.

Anyway, enjoy! And sorry in advance for the Baboon porn show... the guy was in the mood evidently that day... Just watch and you'll see what I am talking about...

Xbox 360 repairs... Microsoft finally owns up to the problem

It's about danged time that Microsoft grew some balls and did the right thing, owning up to the SIGNIFICANT hardware failures on the 360. Reports have recently come out that as much as 33% of 360's fail! Well at least they are gonna do the right thing and spend the cash to fix the problem and revitalize trust in them with the consumers. Now if I could just get Palm to listen about the crap hardware that is the Treo 700p. Grrr....

(Click on the image to view the article...)

Our day at Atlanta Zoo...

Just a quick posting mentioning the pics from our day at the Atlanta Zoo this week... for more pics check out the Flickr badge in the sidebar over there....

Where my web time is divided....

So I know a bunch of you have complained about me never updating my blog. And you were right. I was lazy. I was busy. I was a procrastinator. Pick your reason. But you can see that I have tried to update more regularly lately. But just so you know, my time is divided these days... I have started a website to be used as a men's ministry resource for the churches in my area, and since I have very little web design ability, it is always slow going... But also, I do blogging there too. So first, I couldn't keep up with blogging here, and now I am trying to keep up TWO blogs...

Yeah, that should be a trainwreck waiting to happen. Anyone wanna watch?

I hate days like this...

So here it is.

4:17 pm.

I have been at the office since 7:20 am. Guess how many patients I have seen.

None. Zero. Zilch. Nada.

• I was supposed to have a 4-hour psychoeducational evaluation at 8:00am.
• I was supposed to have therapy appointments at 1:00, 2:00, and 3:00 pm.
• I was supposed to have a session to provide feedback to parents on a previously completed evaluation at 4:00 pm.
• And I was supposed to have a last therapy appointment at 5:00 pm today.

Wow. I think this is the first time in my 10 years of seeing patients I have not had one single patient show for their appointment. As we say around here...

Welcome to Summer at Family Psychology Associates.

I mean, no-show rates always go up in the summer, but today was ridiculous! I guess that is what I get for trying to see patients the week of July 4th. At least I took tomorrow and Wednesday off, so at least I know I won't make any money those days. But coming to work all day hoping to make some cash and "not gettin' diddly" (can anyone tell me what movie that phrase is based on?) sucks out the wazoo.

And the thing that drives me the most crazy about a day like today is "now I have time to catch up on paperwork." Yep. Been writing reports and filling out forms and returning phone calls literally all stinkin' day. There's a reason why I try to stay busy with patients... TO AVOID ALL THAT STUFF!

Man, maybe the next couple of days' vacation will ease the pain...

Oh, and by the way, Happy July 4th!

Statistically this is just flat out scary!

OK.

I don't know where all of you fall on the current immigration debate. Most of y'all who know me probably know where I stand (LOL). But no matter where you stand on the issue, look at statistically what current immigration rates are going to do to this country:



Frankly that scares the crap out of me for the next few generations if nothing changes. If we want to help, we need to help where THEY ARE...

It's Hot in Here.... Scranton Style...

I love The Office... it's one of my guilty TV pleasures during the kinda-cool-but-not-really-that-bad-and actually-sometimes too-warm fall and winter season here in Georgia. Anyway, I ran across this on YouTube and it made me laugh.... for all of the Office fans out there (and you know who you are), enjoy...

Best.Slogan.Ever.

After I got finished laughing my butt off, I grabbed a pic and threw it up
for y'all...