I hate my desk top!

yeah, both Jen and I have been staying away from the computer as of late due to the stupid laptop taking a crap. So until a new one comes along our posts will be spread apart more than ususal...don't worry my people will get a hold of your people...k?....k

HAPPY BIRTHDAY O'MALLY!

To my wonderful wife who has just turned 29 for the 4th time and is ever more beautiful as time passes.

Since this has been her birthday week (yeah week, what is that?) I have decided to not retaliate the little occurrence that happened, at least not this week.

So go over and wish her a HAPPY IRISH BIRTHDAY!!!

The Worst is Yet to Come!

I thought that living without a laptop would be the worst thing ever, apparently having a scanner next to the computer trumps that.

Holy Kelly Clarkson!!!!!!

You want to know what the F'n happened to me this morning! Well I don't give a shit I am telling you anyway!

I go to start my laptop to download some music for Dominic to listen to on the way to Honey and Grampa Chucks house and wouldn't you know it the hole F'n thing died, no power, no nothing. I am frustrated enough to break something and I don't break things.

You want to know why I am so mad? because the same god damn problem with the power cord we had on the old one we are having on this one...to top it off I just reformatted another maching and didn't get a back up to the server for the laptop (that was on the agenda for this weekend)....story of my life. Does anyone know how to get the info off my hard drive without actually powering up my laptop? Because I am not worried about all the piddly shit like music and stuff it is the budget that I worked so hard at to create that I really want back, let alone $1000 for a new f'n laptop.

FUCK AM I PISSED!!!!!!!

Where's Waldo?

A good friend of mine sent me some fun facts that make so much sense that my world has now been completed. As an example:

1. Guns don't kill people. Chuck Norris kills People.
2. There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of animals Chuck Norris allows to live.
3. Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.
4. The chief export of Chuck Norris is Pain.
5. There is no chin under Chuck Norris' Beard. There is only another fist.
6. Chuck Norris has two speeds. Walk, and Kill.
7. The leading causes of death in the United States are: 1. Heart Disease 2. Chuck Norris 3. Cancer

8. Chuck Norris drives an ice cream truck covered in human skulls.
9. Chuck Norris is my Homeboy.
10.Chuck Norris doesn't go hunting.... CHUCK NORRIS GOES KILLING

As you can tell the wisdom from This Site is endless and all consuming....Enjoy

Ok, lets focus here a little, shall we?

When I went back to school in '03 I cashed out all my 401K's and savings (as little as we had) just to try to survive. Even then it was rough but with a little help from my Best Friend we made it through.

It has been one year since I got my job and during that time We have made lots of sacrifices but are finally getting to the point of seeing the light from under our debt accumulated during that time....What does that mean? Well it means that in April I get to sign up for my 401K for the 1st time in 3 years and I have to start planning on how to allocate my money. See my company will only match 25% of the first 5% that I invest, now I say "only" but in reality where else are you going to get an immediate 25% return on your money let alone accumulate interest on the total amount over time, so it is not such a bad thing now is it? My Chief Financial Officer would say never turn down free money....Which is paying yourself first, now isn't it?

Now because I am going into this with some vested interest I have been looking at what my options are. This is what I know, first is that because it is a 401k I am going to have to deal with mutual funds. Now I can choose growth mutual funds or value mutual funds.....Hey I can even blend these two together and choose...Get this...Blended mutual funds...Woo hoo

Now once I get past this little fiasco of choose the style of mutual fund to invest in I should really get an idea of what size of fund to invest in. Now we got "small-cap", "mid-cap" and "large-cap"....Confused yet....Yeah me too.

So I finally get to this point and it gets a little murky because now someone is telling me I should watch out for managed funds and go with unmanaged funds and to top this off I have to deal with "A", "B" or no load fund, but the "B" fund is the A-hole of the group because they double dip apparently and also include a "12b-1" fee.....Holy shit.

Actually I have a pretty good hold on what is going on and I have month to figure it out and run some hypothetical's before committing to such big investment, beside I can still call my CFO for direction.