Ahhhhh!!.. That's better.

I was having problems with the post/publish page. When Opera is in MSIE 6.0 mode, this box shows up as a single line across the page, which makes it difficult to review what you are writing. When Opera is in Opera mode, this box has 10 lines and makes it much easier to read and revise.

I am attempting a bootable W2kAdvSrv CD slipstreamed with SP3. I had to download and compile Xcdroast to continue. I'll post my findings when I'm finished. It's done compiling. later...

Just a quick update. I went to the Super Scientific Circus show at the Rialto Theatre with my son's 5th grade class. It was alot of fun.

I found another web based accounting program called ARIA. It was developed out of the frustration of other NOLA users. I had problems installing and getting NOLA to work, but this one loaded up just fine. I like the back-to-basics of the pages. No funky graphics, just text links. I haven't checked the site information too much yet, but I imagine that functionality is more important to the developers than fashion. Thus the elimination of the graphical buttons. That should always be done after main development has taken place.

Well, I guess I'd better start upgrading and repairing Barry's computer.

Enjoy...

A scary thing happened to me yesterday when I was delivering papers. Since it was Saturday, the paper has a later delivery time of 7:00, so the sun was up just over the horizon. As I was headed East on McCarthy Road, I was facing directly into the sun, as well as oncoming car headlights. Whenever headlights, or sun are in my eyes, I usually look at the side of the road and use peripheral vision to see the road ahead. I did that this time, but after I turned, I noticed I had a blind spot and couldn't see in a particular area in my field of vision. This really concerned me. I thought it might be temporary, as you may know what happens when a flash goes off from a camera, but this wasn't a normal "dark spot" from the light. It was acually like an invisible area, nothing was there. After a few minutes I started to see wiggly or wavy lines or curves in the area affected. I pulled over and closed my eyes for a few minutes thinking this will subside, but after that my entire field of vision started to flicker.
I guess all of this was a reaction to the bright light, but it took me alot longer to finish the route, and I missed and had to go back to some drops. Things started to clear up after 15-20 minutes, and started to go back to normal. I was very weary of the sunligh the rest of the day. It had me worried. I told my wife, Monica about the incident. She asked why I didn't have a pair of sunglasses. Actually, I looked for some (she usually has several pair laying around), but there were none in the van, and every pari of sunglasses I have bought in the past have either been lost or broken. She bought me a pair later that day, and I wore them this morning.

Great story, huh?

Actually I left out some important thoughts going through my head at the time my vision was wacky. I thought how horrible it would be for my last images to be that of my paper route. I thought about my family and how I would have to remember their faces if my vision failed before I got home. I actually started to cry and think about what plan God has for me, if this is going to happen. Although some of this seems more trivial now, I was really worried at the time and wanted to mention these thoughts.