Hockey Game was a blast

Kylie had a blast last night, and to top it all off the Red Wings won! Kylie got a pair of Red Wings dog tags as a souvenir when they walked into Joe Louis Arena and then got even more free swag during the night. At one point during the game people working the game came around and were tossing small Domino’s Pizza boxes into the crowd, if you caught one you got a free slice of pizza from one of the concession stands. It turns out that the guy throwing the boxes out into the crowd saw Kylie and walked right up to her and handed her the box, so she got a free slice of pizza! Then during one of the between period intermissions one of the ushers walked up to Kylie and said “When you walked in, I heard your Mom say this is your first Red Wings game to help make it special, I want you to have this” and handed Kylie an Official Red Wings Pre-Game warm up puck! She had a blast at the game and all the extra swag just added to the event. Check out the pictures from the game and see just how much fun Kylie had.

Kylie’s Going to a Red Wings Game

Kylie’s going to her first Red Wings Hockey game tonight! I just got a phone call from Tiffany asking if she could pick Kylie up from daycare today (it is supposed to be my night to have her) because Mimi has just won 4 free tickets to tonight’s Red Wings game. Mommy called me to ask if it was ok that I loose a night with Kylie so she could go to the game, I of course said yes, I mean how could I not? I hope she has a good time, and I hope that we can take her to more sporting events in the future.

Murphy’s Law

Well, as Murphy would have it, it’s not the power supply that died on the web server which leads me to believe it is something on the motherboard. Luckily I will be able to return the one that i bought and get some of the money back, less a re-stocking fee and shipping of course. I have taken down my file server so that I can use it’s hardware to bring the web server back on line. I think this little fiasco has a small silver lining. Instead of replacing the motherboard I am going to replace the file server with a NAS solution, specifically the Western Digital My Book World Edition II, which has 2TB of storage capacity. I’ll configure it with RAID1 which will mirror the drives and give me 1TB of storage (with a second copy) which is still almost 10x greater than what my current file server has. The old file server will continue to act as the web server until further opportunity presents itself to move it to better hardware.

Sneak Peek of Kylie’s Recital

Today I had the opportunity to go watch a sneak preview of Kylie’s ballet recital, not the entire thing just what they have learned so far. I have seen Kylie do her ballet before, both in class and around the house, and I have always been impressed and very proud of her, but seeing her with the entire class is impressive. Both Kylie and her classmates have come a long way and are doing great! I can’t wait to go see her first recital. The video I took with my phone of today’s class can be seen on the video page along with all the other videos.