Registration

I have disabled the option to let anyone register on here.  I have gotten a few registrants who turned out to just be people who were trying to figure out ways around security and spam filters recently, and I don’t want to have to deal with someone new trying to get junk in here.
If you’d like to register, just shoot me an email with your desired username and I’ll respond probably within a day with a password for you.  You can change the password when you log in again.
You don’t have to be registered in order to leave comments, though.  So I’m not really losing any functionality on the site.  I just wish there weren’t so many people out there trying to abuse the system.

Photo Printing

I have tried multiple times with several types of printers and have never been able to print photos that had the same quality of film cameras that I had developed.  Laser printers, inkjet printers, photosmart printers… none of them measured up.
I was browsing go2web20.net for Web 2.0 sites and stumbled on Cardvio.com.  I was hoping that it would work, but when we got the test card back from them, it looked worse than some of the others I had done myself.
Last night, Christle said something to me about giving photos to family members this weekend at the Christmas party.  I thought that there had to be a way of getting our digital photos printed quickly, easily, and hopefully cheaply.

 

I went to Walmart.com and went to the services section where I found a service to print digital photos.  I created an account, had 30 copies of our portrait printed in 4×6 in one hour for 19 cents each plus tax.  Just over 6 dollars and we would hopefully have something worth sharing.
Christle picked them up and the quality definitely measures up to my standards.  I wouldn’t be able to tell you if I didn’t already know that I had submitted these digitally instead of dropping off film.
I went online to order some of the ones that were of the girls and when I selected one hour photo, they said they’d be ready at 5:02pm today.  I’ll change my post if there are complications with this order, but I just had to write about my surprise in the quality of this product.

Weekly Cleaning

I can’t seem to keep my desk clean!!!  I get it just perfect and then I realize that I’ve cluttered it back up in what seems like no time at all.  Why is it that I put stuff on my desk knowing that if I’d just put it where it belongs I wouldn’t have to deal with a cleaning job every week or two?
I don’t want to throw everything away because I may need it, so I have to make a concentrated effort to put everything where it belongs.
I’ve read countless stories of how to manage a desk/work environment so that it is always clean and tidy, but I can’t seem to apply the suggestions I’ve read to what I do on a daily basis.
What I am going to do over the next few weeks is try to develop a game plan for constant organization so that I will have a fresh start on the new year.  If you have any ideas that may be useful, please let me know.
Just for reference, right now I have bills, a letter, receipts, my Bible, my Bible study guide, some bank stuff, a t-shirt, some tweasers, a few catalogs, a… thingy… that Alaina made for me, some loose change, a CD case filled with data CDs, and a rarely used external hard drive.

Christmas Parties

The time for Christmas parties has arrived once again.  My first official Christmas gathering will be tomorrow night.  There’s a Christmas show at church tomorrow night, where we’ll be having cookies and stuff afterwards.  The kids are doing it, so it’ll mainly be all about the cookies… but it’s still my first “Christmas” event for the year.
I will be attending a Christmas party on Thursday and Friday.  We’ll be having Christle’s dad’s extended Christmas gathering on Saturday, and then my Dad’s family gathering on Sunday.  They both have their awkward parts… I will not be sharing any related stories… but it should be nice to see everyone, anyway.
Then I have to go an entire week without Christmas events.  I’ll probably need a break anyway, though.  I will be just rested enough to get back into the swing of things the following Friday night through Monday night.

 Merry Christmas!

Christle doesn’t read this blog very often.  She doesn’t know that I have the day after Christmas off as a holiday this year.  If she finds out, that’s fine.  But the reason I haven’t told her, is because I don’t want to do anything that day but sit around and enjoy the day.  I’m afraid that if she finds out too early, that plans might change.  I don’t want that.  If things work the way I’d like, I’ll probably get up and leave at the same time I usually go to work, and go work out.  Then when I get done with a much needed workout, I’ll come home and say… “I thought I told you…”
Then I’ll show her this post, and we’ll have a nice laugh about it.

New Homepage Style

I changed my homepage to look just like the blog.  It took a bit of work, but I think it turned out just the way I had envisioned it.  It’s so difficult to find a template that I like that I had to jump on this one once I found it.  

www.kunefke.us

Let me know what you think of the new look.

TV This Fall

This fall we have had our fair share of good and bad television, even though we don’t have cable or satellite service.  There’s more bad than good, of course; we just have less of it to watch.
The good:  Heroes, Jericho, Lost, My Name is Earl, Smallville, Studio 60, The Office, and Til Death.  SNL had a few good episodes as well, but seemed to fall back into a slump pretty quickly.
The bad:  30 Rock, Show Me the Money, and everything else.
I’m really looking forward to January when 24 begins another all new season.  Lost will have 16 new episodes in a row with no reruns.  It should make for an entertaining season.  I just have to remember to turn the TV off when one of these is not on.

Getting Ready for Christmas

We set up the Christmas tree last night.  We had a good time doing it.  I kept feeling the urge to come in here and check my MySpace, but it wasn’t an option.  I didn’t even come in my office until we put the girls to bed.

It turned out nice.  Christle originally wanted a 7.5′ tree, but we realized after setting this one up that our ceiling is only 7.5′ high, so the angel wouldn’t have fit on top anyway.  It’s a good thing we decided on the 6.5′ tree.

Not MySpace

I no longer have a “space” on MySpace.  I have officially cancelled my account and have removed the site from my hometabs.  I saved all the pages that meant anything to me as a momento and also saved all of my friends’ links so that I can still check in on them every now and then.  I just can’t interact with them on MySpace anymore.
The fact that I don’t have to check on who is trying to contact me or deal with spam in that extra service any longer feels good.  I will also cut my advertising exposure by about a third.
I’ve secretly been dreading the followthrough of my announcement ever since I decided to make the announcement.  I didn’t want to do it, even after I had made my mind up.  I tried dropping my usage without dropping the account, but I just couldn’t make myself do it. 
Christmas is right around the corner and I am really looking forward to it.  The cold front that came through today really makes it feel more like Christmas.

Happy Thanksgiving

I know it’s a few days late, but I didn’t feel like spending too much time on the computer for the past few days.  I sent out a few Hallmark Greeting E-Cards on Wednesday, and if you didn’t get one, make sure I have your email address for next time.
I had a good weekend and enjoyed a LOT of good food.  In fact, I think I’m going to get some more right now.