Tonight Kylie told Mommy and Aunt Sissy at the dinner table that she would like to have her ears pierced. They said “Oh really? Are you sure?” To which Kylie said, “Yes! Can we do it now?” Mommy was pretty excited since Kylie usually says she wants them done, but when they press to make certain, Kylie says she wants it done some time later. So considering that Kylie seemed to be pretty certain this time, they all got in the car and drove over to the mall. Kylie was chatting the whole time and making up songs, Mommy thinks Kylie might have been a little nervous. Mommy told Kylie that it feels like a shot and that they would put one “shot” in each ear, and after they do it it will stop hurting; Kylie said “ok” and shortly there after they arrived at the mall. Once they got to the mall, they checked in at two different stores and they only had one person working (Mommy was hoping for two so they could do both ears at the same time). Once Mommy decided on Claire’s they tried to get Kylie’s ears pierced, but they wouldn’t let they get them done since Mommy didn’t bring her purse and had no proof of ID saying she was Kylie’s Mom. Kylie was still really wanting to get her ears pierced so they walked over to Piercing Pagoda to try and get them pierced there. In order to make sure they didn’t run in to the same problem they had at Claire’s so they had to tell Kylie to pretend that Mommy was Aunt Sissy and Aunt Sissy was Mommy. They told Kylie that if she really wanted to have her ears pierced, they had to do that since Mommy didn’t have her purse. Once at Piercing Pagoda, they signed some papers, picked out a pair of 3mm 14k studs for Kylie and then got prepared to have her ears pierced. Kylie was still nervous so “Aunt Sissy” held her hand in the chair while “Mom” looked on. The lady cleaned both ears, marked them, then asked Kylie which ear she wanted to start with, and Kylie choose her right ear. When the lady did the first one, Kylie had this look on her face that said “I didn’t like that.” She started tearing up and said she didn’t want the other ear done, she just wanted one. Luckily the lady was a pro and didn’t give Kylie even a minute before she said “No, sorry sweetie, we’re doing this one too,” and did the second one. Once it was done, Kylie was crying a bit more and Mommy picked her up right away to hug and squeeze her and tell her how brave she was and how proud Mommy was. The lady working there gave her 2 suckers and a sticker. By the time we made it back to the car, Kylie said her ears didn’t hurt anymore and she was so happy to have earrings and she was talking about all the new earrings she wanted to get.
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Renaming Volume Groups
I’m anticipating a project coming up at work that will hopefully allow me to rearrange some file systems on my TSM server and improve some performance. However, one of the things I want to do as part of this project is to rename some volume groups on the housing AIX server so they make a little more sense in the overall scheme of things. Problem is I was not positive as to how this should be done, so I needed to do some research. I found the commands that I will need to use to implement and make the changes, in theory:
First I need to know what volume groups are on the system, this can be found using the lsvg command:
# lsvg
rootvg
vg04
raweagantsm02
raweagantsm01
raweaganarch
Next I need to know which disks are in each volume group, this can be found using the lspv command (truncated output):
#lspv hdisk0 00cdfe5b0855e5f5 rootvg active hdiskpower0 00cdfe5b448b684a vg04 active hdiskpower13 00cdfe5bd1d8fdd5 raweagantsm02 active hdiskpower92 00cdfe5b4494c652 raweagantsm01 active hdiskpower96 00cdfe5b448dddcf raweaganarch active
Next I will need to offline the volume group that I want to rename using the varyoffvg command:
#varyoffvg vg04
Now we need to export the volume group so we can later import it with the new name. To export a volume group use the exportvg command:
#exportvg vg04
Now an lspv would show all disks previously associated with the exported volume as having no volume group:
#lspv hdisk0 00cdfe5b0855e5f5 rootvg active hdiskpower0 00cdfe5b448b684a None active hdiskpower13 00cdfe5bd1d8fdd5 raweagantsm02 active hdiskpower92 00cdfe5b4494c652 raweagantsm01 active hdiskpower96 00cdfe5b448dddcf raweaganarch active
Now I can import the old volume group with the new name using the importvg -y command (the -y <volume_group_name> tells the system what to name the new volume group, if this is omitted the system will automatically generate a new one):
#importvg -y raweagantsm03 hdiskpower0 (or any other disk that was part of the volume group)
Now an lsvg should show the new volume group:
# lsvg
rootvg
raweagantsm03
raweagantsm02
raweagantsm01
raweaganarch
Additionally an lspv will show the disk now being part of the new volume group:
#lspv hdisk0 00cdfe5b0855e5f5 rootvg active hdiskpower0 00cdfe5b448b684a raweagantsm03 active hdiskpower13 00cdfe5bd1d8fdd5 raweagantsm02 active hdiskpower92 00cdfe5b4494c652 raweagantsm01 active hdiskpower96 00cdfe5b448dddcf raweaganarch active
Hopefully this works the way I think it should. I have spoken with my local AIX guru and told him my plans and everything seems to check out. Once the new disk comes in for the rest of the project I’ll work on implementing the above.
Meijer Trick-or-Treat
Meijer had a special event today in celebration for Halloween. They set up tables throughout the store that were giving away candy to all the little trick-or-treaters. Seeing as Tiffany will be taking Kylie out tomorrow I figured we could at least go and do this today, so we all got dressed up and went to do some trick-or-treating, yes all of us. They even had a photo shoot setup to capture the memory: 
Halloween Events
Today was a day full of special happenings at Kylie’s school, and she had a ton of fun participating in all of the activities with her friends. It started off with all the kids being allowed to wear their Halloween costumes to school for the day, so Kylie was very excited to be able to wear the witch costume that Mimi had made for her. Then when she got to school she was able to take part in the Halloween parade! Mommy was able to go and see Kylie and all of her classmates and friends wearing their costumes and watch as the school put on the parade. Then tonight was Kylie’s School’s Halloween Party and apparently everyone at school was talking about it all week, so Kylie was really excited about it and looking forward to going, so that was what we (Kylie, Daddy and Melissa) did. Now, before I mention how cool it was that the school puts this on every year, and all the neat stuff they have for the kids, let me just say this place was packed! There must have been around 700 people here; parents, kids, teachers it was crazy. They had trick-or-treat bag decorating, dancing, food, a haunted hayride, pumpkin decorating, and pictures. There was even an entire hallway decorated with the lights dimmed and stations set up for the kids to trick-or-treat at with teachers in costume giving out candy. We didn’t get to do everything, but Kylie had a lot of fun dancing and trick-or-treating, also after waiting in a long line we got to go on the hayride, which was a whole lot of fun. All the pictures from the day can be found in the October gallery under today’s date.
FREE Kindle books!
While checking out the specs on the new Kindle I stumbled upon this page at amazon that lists all the FREE kindle books. These are all mainly old books that are out of copyright and in the public domain, but there are some great reads here; like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Dracula and many many others. I know there are a lot of things that I want to read on this list and seeing as I also just discovered the Kindle App for Blackberry, now as long as I have my phone with me I will have books to read! Eventually, though, I want to get a Kindle!
Kindergarten Class Photo
We got Kylie’s kindergarten class photo today, and she looks amazing. Here it is:
You can click the picture to go to her October gallery and see all the pictures from October 2010.
Kindle; I still want one
I’ve wanted a Kindle for a while now, ok basically since they have come out, but one
thing more than anything else has been holding me back; you can’t share books. However, according to this article that may be changing. According to the article “Amazon will allow Kindle users to lend books to each other for 14-day periods” with the restrictions that the “lenders will not be able to access the book on loan during the 14-day period, nor will they be able to loan the book to the same user more than once.” While I am not positive that i could find the time to read most books I would borrow in 14 days, it would certainly give me more incentive to find more time to read. While not all books will be available to lend, this is dependent on publishers and right holders, but it is a big step closer to making me cave and buy one. Original Kindle Community post.
The Zoo Boo Returns
After missing last years Zoo Boo, I am very happy that tonight Melissa and I took Kylie to the Detroit Zoo Boo, this was Melissa’s first time going so she was particularly looking forward to the evening. They had it set up a little different this year compared to previous years that I have gone. I remember the trial leading off to the left when you first walk in, but this year it lead to the right. One of the first things we came to this year was the big tent where they hold the “Zoo Boo Review” show, in previous years this was one of the last things we came to and hadn’t gone because by then it was late and everyone was tired. This year though, we decided to go, and I am really glad we did. They put on a show called “Phantom of the Zoo Boo” that was fun, upbeat, and rather entertaining. I know Kylie liked it a lot, she was dancing at our seats and waving to all the characters on stage. There was Witch Hazel, Mummy Moose, Alligator-stein, Fuzzy the Werewolf, Count Batula, and Witchy Poo. Makes me wonder what we have missed in previous years under the tent. Also new this year was a section off to the side, but still on the path, where they were carving pumpkins while the children watched. There seemed to be fewer pumpkin and gourd animals and creations than I remember in previous years as well, but the reptile house was still open and that is always fun to walk through. I am not positive, but it also seemed like there were fewer candy stops for the kids too, but they could just be because the path was different so they were spaced odd different than I remember, one thing is for sure though, I don’t remember them handing out cans of Mt. Dew before, yes full cans. That was a little odd. It took us about two hours to walk through everything and sit and watch the show and we all had a great time! We took a lot of pictures, and they can be found here.
First Mean Girl Encounter
Today, as Mommy and Kylie were standing outside waiting for school to start, Kylie wanted to go stand next to a group of girls (which Mommy is not particularly fond of to begin with due to the way the act and how they are typically rude) but not wanting to influence Kylie, Mommy said she could. Mommy and Kylie walked over and all the girls said “hi” but then they started to walk away towards a bench. When Kylie started to walk with them, they turned and said, “No more people can follow” in a very rude tone. Kylie responded by saying, “It’s not nice to be a mean girl. Mean girls are not my friends. When you are mean, you are ugly on the inside and the outside.” Mommy was very proud of her and told Kylie that she handled that very well! Then Mommy and Kylie walked over to where they usually stand and waited for the doors to open and school to begin. Mommy and Daddy both hope that Kylie continues to stand up for herself and to be beautiful on the inside as well as the outside.
Go Gears!
Oh man, I haven’t played video games that long in a long time. So yesterday my brother Chris came over at about 1pm, it was a rare weekend when we were both available for a few hours and so we thought it would be cool to hang out like when we were younger and play some video games. Now, keep in mind the last time he and I played video games together is somewhere around the 15 year ago mark! So needless to say I was pretty stoked that he was going to come over for a few hours, I am even more stoked that those few hours turned into an overnight Gears of War 1 and 2 marathon! He had never played Gears 1 so we played that game all the way through so he could get most of the achievements for it and I could get a few I needed for playing as second player, and then we made it more than half way through Gears 2. Seriously, we didn’t stop playing until 3am and then were back on it at 9am. I haven’t had this much fun playing video games in a very very long time. Not to mention spending some serious quality time with my brother, that was awesome! I forgot how much fun it was to hang out with him and chill like that, like I said it has been many years since we have done that. I know there is no way this is going to happen every weekend, and really it shouldn’t, but I do hope we can arrange to hang out more often. Besides, we need to finish off Gears 2! 🙂 Epic weekend brother, thanks a million!