Tonya and PQBON's WebLog
Will and I had a great weekend. I was afraid that it wouldn't be so great because I was sick thursday and friday, but my cold cleared up in time for our weekend plans.
It started saturday morning at 6:30am with the alarm clock going off. We got ready and made it to Will's parents hotel in Monterey at 9:30am. Then we headed to the florist for our 10am appointment in Carmel. The florist was really nice and seemed to be willing to give us want we wanted for a very reasonable cost. She was very friendly and made both Will and I hug her before we left. Later on we decided to go with her as our florist. Then we met with our wedding coordinator at the place where we are getting married. She was very nice and we went over wedding day iteneraries and vendors ect.... It was slightly overwhelming. I kept thinking.....I have to do that too.... Before we parted for our next appointment, she took us down to the beach to see another location for the wedding ceremony. This is a small private cove a little ways down from the main beach. We liked it a lot. One of our major concerns with the wedding ceremony was the privacy issues.....but now we will have a private space that will just be for those invited. The photos have already been uploaded to our photo gallery if you would like to see. They are listed under trips and its the second wedding trip.
So then we went to the bakery for our next appointment. It was at Parker-Lusseau a french bakery that Bernadette had recommended. We really liked them but they were a little pricy. But we were willing to pay a little extra if we liked them the best. Next we went to Layers, which is another bakery close to the first. At this bakery, instead of sitting down and talking with the staff and sampling a couple pieces of cake, they just give you a sample box to take home. Will got a bad feeling about them immediatly because of the conversation he overheard with a staff member and a couple ordering their wedding cake. They seemed to charge extra for everything.....even an extra dot. After taking our sample box, we checked into our hotel room, put our cake in our mini fridge, and decided on dinner. Wills dad made reservations for Blue Moon on Cannery Row and we decided to walk there since it wasn't too far away. Although with none of us being very familiar with the area it took us a lot longer to get there than expected.....but it was a nice walk.
There were several events happening in monterey this last weekend, one of them was Cherries Jubilee which is the old car show. They block off cannery row to traffic and line up the old cars along the street. Along our walk we walked the full length of cannery row to look at all the cars. We ate a very nice dinner at Blue Moon and then returned to our hotel for our cake dessert waiting for us in the mini fridge. None of us were impressed with the cake from Layers. We only finished 1 out the the 5 pieces. It has to be bad if you won't even finish the samples. So they were an obvious no for our bakery.
Will's parents left to return to their hotel room and then the next morning we got up for our final appointment of the weekend, Patisserie Bechler, another french bakery. The baker was really nice and the cake was not only very yummy but also less expensive than the other french bakery. So we decided to use them and gave them our information and what we wanted on and in the cake.
Next, we went to Carmel by the Sea for brunch. We had a nice brunch with Will's parents and then walked around the the town and looked at the shops. We went into a very nice jewerly store and Will and I both found rings that we really liked. I didn't want to bother trying them on because I figured that a designer jewerly store in Carmel would be very expensive. Will convinced me to try it on anyway so the jeweler took it out for me. It was a very pretty white gold ring with little round diamonds on the side leading up to the center stone which is also round. They didn't have a matching wedding band to show me but they had something similar which I liked. It has the small round diamonds going across like the engagement ring, just no center stone. Will looked at a men's wedding band that was made out of titanium and carbon fiber that he really liked. Which we both thought would be a very fitting ring for him. We were surprised that all of the rings were in our price range and since I fell in love with the rings I tried on we are going to go back and order them asap.
After dropping off Will's parents, we had a nice drive home on hwy 1 and 9 to finish our weekend. It was a beautiful weekend and even more productive than I had planned. Now, I'm just excited about finally getting my engagement ring. Yay!!!
After some looking and poking for a good way to post images to the web I have found it.
Introducing PQBON.COM Galleries. This is using the gallery web package. Gallery is a kickass package that lets you display and manage images.
However, the piece that completes the puzzle is iPhotoToGallery. This allows me to export out of iPhoto directly to gallery with no middle man or extra work. Two big thumbs up!
If you poke around you will find things that have already been posted and things that have not. I'm currently uploading all of the collected photo's from Shane and Alyssa's wedding and Shelly's Birthday Dinner. There is also a metric ton of pictures of me and my motorcycles (can I help it if that's what most of my pictures of from?).
If you would like the ability to post pictures email me for access to the galleries.
As a result of PQBON.COM needing new hardware, Tonya got a new computer.
I had given her my P4 2.4GHz to replace her 900MHz Celeron. We replaced the harddrive and installed a new legal OEM copy of Windows XP. However, when toryn died I needed a system to replace it with quickly. I went to Fry's to see what I could do. I quickly realized that buying Tonya a new motherboard for Xeon's would be cheeper then buying a processor, motherboard, and memory for toryn. I decided that I would buy Tonya an Asus PC-DL Delux. I also bought her 1GB of 512MB dimms (I had 1GB of 512MB dimms and two 2.2 GHz Xeons ready for her). We later bought a GeForce 5700LE video card to complete the system.
I had gotten a new case for Christmas from my parents and hadn't done anything with it (I was going to put a duel Opteron in it since I have two Opterons sitting on my desk at work but I guess that will come later). Tonya assembled the case from scratch. We then added lights and fans. Then the harddrive, memory card drive, and CD/DVD burner. Finally, the motherboard and powersupply. The ATA cables and the powersupply cables are all ultraviolet sensitive. Four of the fans, and four of the cold cathode tubes are ultraviolet lights. There is one fan that isn't, it is a four color lighted fan and there is one cold cathode that is blue. The powersupply is partially acrylic and has two ultraviolet blue fans in it.
The closest thing we had to a "problem" was getting the top fan installed. We could have left it out and put in just a wire grill and let convection be responsible for the airflow out the top instead we choose to mount the fan out side the case on top. We were put to these choices because the power intruded into the location the fan was supposed to occupy.
Here are some pictures...
I just purged the plugins database and reinstalled MT-BLACKLIST. It now works. I reimported the most up to date blacklist data from the plugin author. However, there may be more comment spam while we re-add our own local scumbags.
So far it is the only piece of data that had endian issues (we went from a big-endian UltraSpac to a little-endian Pentium 4).
Tonya is almost done building her new computer, more on that to come...
Please post any problems or issues you are having with PQBON.COM to this blog entry. Additionally, if you would like an account of PQBON.COM you may also ask for one. When it isn't moving from one place to the other or crashing because of failing hardware it is a nice place to get your email, have a Unix shell, and host your web pages.
Oh, I've just upgraded to a beta copy of Ecto2. I can now fully recommend it to anyone who wants a nice way to post to a Movable Type Blog.
Another one bites the dust. The Sun Ultra 30 that was toryn.pqbon.com has gone the way of the Sun SparcStation 20 that it replaced, to the scrap heap. Both systems seem to have dead motherboards. The good thing about this is the harddrive was OK so I was able to save ALL the data off the system. (Thank god linux supports sun partition tables on ALL architectures.)
PQBON.COM is back alive at tooch's place humming along. For those that care PQBON.COM is now:
It is currently running Debian Testing with a 2.6.8.1 Kernel. The Filesystem on the compact flash is ext3fs and IBMs jfs is running on the mirrored 32GB disks.
Some may notice that this machine is Tonya's desktop machine. We are now in the process of building her a new desktop system to replace the one I sacrificed in the name of pqbon.com.
If you notice any problems with the system please let me know.
