Over the next 2 months im packing up, giving away & minimizing my load of things to take to Tennessee. Yes, that’s right, it’s official, I’m moving. Perhaps i’ve said it before, but this is my official statement.

Im Moving to Tennessee!!! Here is my time frame:

• April: pack up, give away, and send off my stuff.
• May: Settle my debts to society in Portland. Thank my new friends in the Portland area, and gather addresses, emails, and phone#’s. Organize my digital world with multiple back up and mobilized web access. Bubble wrap my hard-drives, shred old documents, and organize all my paper files.
• June: Get on a plain and fly to Ca, hang out with my parents, say “hi” to my friends, and enjoy Auburn one more time. Then → Get back on a plain and fly to Tn hang out with Brody and fam, check out the town, and get settled in a new place (which i still have to find)…

Over the last couple of days ive been posting some random items that i have, some are a joke and some are kinda cool. All the things i have are going away or are to be given away. Dont be bashful if you see something you like that im giving away, let me know and we’ll talk about what ever it is and how to get it too you. We’ll call it Randy’s small Givaway. I’d just like to thank Oprah for coming up with this tag line. I dont think i could have done it with out her. “your the best Oprah“.

There is more to come…

I dont know a thing about Tennessee or the towns around Nashville. If anyone has any good ideas I’d like to here them. Springhill is where im going to start, but im open to some ideas.

This is my next item… he he he… this is a converted bug zapper. It makes for a great prank. (if you like mean ones)

Trust me it’s fun. Let me know if you’re interested. (actually it probably cheaper to buy a bug zapper and make one than it is to send this anywhere)

I decided the other day to go ahead and go for it. I upgraded my WP to 2.5 even though it’s still a little raw. I thought that i would go ahead and get a feel for it so i could be up to par with what going to be the new WP standard. This way i’ll know if i should be using it for my clients or waiting for a better version.

There are a few new features that i think everyone is going to love. The Add Media is absolutely great. They cut out the need for a couple of plugins and helped out with placement of multimedia objects. (im really not that big on putting video on here anyway, but it’s still nice to know there thinking about me.)

Here are a few screen captures to take a peak at.

Another great option that has been added is that there are now three options for putting an image into a post.

1. Thumbnail
2. Medium
3. Full Size

What’s the big woop? well you can go to Setting / Miscellaneous and enter you sized for Thumbnail & Medium. You can still re-size it the way you’re used too. The actual big woop is the combination of these things when your uploading a huge image you dont have to scroll through you Post window to get to the corner. (again and again) - just another way to skin the cat -

ps - if you’re not a WP user thats nice, but ive used Blogger and its finiky and somewhat unreliable. The next time you get pissed off you should go check out WP. Im not telling you what to do, but do it anyway

Im not much on sweets and i dont each much in the way of cake an ice cream. Im alergic to chocolate so i just dont eat alot of things tat have to do with desserts.

But if you know how to make these you could probably get me to do a lot of things for you. I would probably mow your lawn or wash your car. You know, the simple things. Butterfly Cakes are the best, if you ever get a chance to eat one you should.

I know what some of you are thinking, im crazzzzy!!! well, yes… Thing is i’ve really only played with it a few time in the last 5yrs and its not going to be able to make the trip. I have to get rid of it, but thought i would open up the lines to see if anyone wants it.

What you see is it, plus 4 more regular controllers and the necessary plugs to the TV and the wall. I got it about 5yrs ago, it was still in the box. It works good apart from the dust issues and if your game has corrosions than thats your fault.

Let me know if you’re interested, all we have to do is figure out how much it costs to send.

Here’s my top 5 Nintendo Games

1. 1942 (or is it 1943, the good one)
2. Tetris
3. RC ProAM
4. Zelda
5. Mega Man 3

What was your favorite Nintendo Game?

I had a conversation with friend of mine today about blogging and what it does, how it works, who’s good at it, why i blog, why he blogs, and all types of thing about blogging. We really didnt come to any major conclusions or final answers, but we did help define our concept of why blog and what makes for a blog I would read.

The general topic of the conversation was, ‘is there competition amongst bloggers?’ My initial reaction was, ‘competition? who’s competing and what are they competing for?’ Stats, Page Views & the ability to say they did it first… “huh?” i thought & we both chuckled…

So here’s my thought, Plain & Simple…

Over the next week or so think about why you blog. After you’ve done a little blog-soul searching tell your readers why you write to them. Some of you might not need to do this, some of you that i read about do this all the time, and its a huge reason why i read about you. None the less, Community is the heart of the blogosphere and where would we be with out our readers.

I wont deny that i look at my stats at least every other day and I like to know how many people read a post and even better i really appreciate it when people comment. But!!! over the last few months since ive been posting and reading on a more consistent basis ive come to know about a dozen people that i would like to hang out with. Thats what does it for me, meeting people that i would call up to hang out with.

So sit back and think about it. If you’re more worried about traffic than content or if you’re more concentrated on your stats than you’re conversations with other bloggers than perhaps you should slow down and have some reflection time.

I woke up this morning to hear this horrible scratching sound going along with one of the cats meowing off into the distance. I was too tired to get up so I just let it be. Turns out Pan was stuck in the office all night and was trying to dig himself out. Damn it!!!!

Poor guy, i dont think he realized that there is wood under that carpet.

Here in Portland were getting a fairly radical storm coming through. It’s dropping a little bit of everything. I guess it has been since 2002 that the surrounding area has had snow in March. (dont quote me on that) Im always curious about the weather and what makes it work the way it does.

I also heard about a new iceberg in Antarctica check it out. ↓

A city-sized iceberg has broken off an island near Antarctica.

The iceberg is about 8 miles wide and 15 miles long. It broke free of the Fimbul Ice Shelf, a large glacial ice sheet along the northwestern section of Queen Maud Land, in the eastern Weddell Sea near Antarctica

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I’ve always been curious about what will happen in the future when it comes to climate change and how it will affect our geography. There are so many points of view on this and some people are a little to passionate about it so i’ll keep my opinion to myself for now.

My thought is this. If an ecological catastrophe were to strike the world in a global form, and we were forced to change our habits and patterns what would happen? (a little more specific) If your material world was striped by an act of nature (not God) who would you be?

Do you think the majority of the people in our culture are capable of surviving outside of the American standard? Could I? Could You?

Check this out.

Its a little demo video by Matt Mullenweg. He’s showing off some cool new features. If you’re not WordPress some of these new features might interest you in moving.

So here it is, Tuesday again. I almost forgot.

This week im going to talk about a friend of mine that ive known since i was 5yrs old. David Bellemy has been one of my best friends since i was a kid, and im not sure if i spelled his last name right.

Dave and i have seen everything together, that is until now. He lives in CA and im in OR, so we dont get to hang out much. After all this time and all these years he’s a father and i dont get to hang with him, his wife and their kids. Kinda makes me sad…

But, here’s the positive part. All the years ive known David he’s always been such a humanitarian. He may not think so but ive always thought of him as someone who cares more than others. He’s was always thinking of other people, and alot of the time i wasnt even noticing.

The one thing i really regret is not being able to know David and his family as they grow. Seeing him with his kids and wife would be truly inspiring to me.

Thanks Dave!!!