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• 08:09 Early day, started at at 5am. We went into V ernon to help with the People Place garage sale. A nice family event we all participated in.
• 08:10 Now it's breakfast at Denny's with free Wi-Fi. Another awesome netbook moment.

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My First Dell

You would think that after about 20 years of computing I would have owned a Dell before now. Well I'm starting to think I should have waited a little longer.

About a month ago I got excited about ordering a netbook. The Dell Mini 9 was the lone netbook on the market that had a few of my "must have" features so I decided to bite the bullet and order my first Dell.

I would love to rant and go into a long funny story of everthing that has happened since that fateful day, but instead I'll keep it short form.

• Ordered a Dell Mini 9 tweaked for my purposes including a carrying case.
• Got notice the next day that my order had shipped.
• One week later my package arrived, it contained the carrying case?
• After much digging around their website and clicking on every link related to my order I discovered the order had been broken into two shipments. The case shipped the day after the order was placed and the actual netbook would ship in 3-4 weeks.
• One month later the 2nd Dell package with the custom built netbook arrived. I plugged it in and turned it on and heard two beeps. Nothing else, just two beeps.
• 30 minute tech call to India and I've confirmed the memory is bad. A replacement chip will ship overnight. To my salvation I happen to have an older 512mb memory chip from another laptop so I can actually start playing with the netbook, however it's slow.
• Next day the new 2GB memory chip arrived, it's faulty.
• 40 minutes on the phone with India and they will ship another memory chip.
• A weekend of waiting and the next box from Dell arrives and I open it up. It's empty... no memory chip in the box!!!!!
• 30 minute tech call with India and they agree to attempt a 3rd shipment of a replacement memory chip. To prove the box is empty I need to send them a digital photo of the box?

Tune in tomorrow for the continuing saga of "Aaren Versus Dell"

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• 18:28 First Tweet from my new Dell Mini 9 NetBook
• 13:15 First Tweet from my hackintosh'd Dell Mini 9 running Apples OSX 10.5.6 Yipee!!!

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The Winter Benz

An overnight charge of the battery and the 88' 560SEL purred to life Sunday morning. Molly and I checked the fluids and went a quick little drive down the road and back. I took some new pictures and re-listed the car on a few online classifieds. I hate to part with the old girl but I need the room and just can't keep her anymore. Molly might miss her more than I do.

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• 06:54 Back at work, time to try and get back to normal.
• 15:14 Sounds like Jessie our long standing guest dog is becoming a permanent resident of the Jensen household.

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• 07:29 Pat's funeral mass is this morning starting at 11am at St. James Roman Catholic Church. Thanks to everyone for their condolences.

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Sad Family News

Kelly's dad, Pat Heaney passed away Friday morning at the Vernon Jubilee Hospital. Pat had been battling lung cancer for almost a year and a half and had gone into the hospital the previous morning with a fever and a low white blood cell count.

His doctor was preparing his release papers Friday morning and Pat had already gotten up and shaved and dressed to go home. A nurse entered the room a few minutes later and he had passed on. It was a shock for everyone. We have been through many ups and downs related to his illness and everyone thought this was just another bump in the road.

Pat was a very well known person. With family, friends, and people met through his faith and professional life he was popular and liked by everyone. His funeral service will be held at the St. James Catholic church in Vernon this Wednesday at 11am.

Kelly and I have been with her family as much as possible over the last few days and will continue to do so for the rest of this week. Molly has taken the news well and has spent some time with us and the rest with my parents (a gesture we both have been very thankful for).

We miss you Pat, but there has been a lot of laughter as we reminisce about your time spent with us.

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• 13:09 Started to tear apart one of my Arcade machines the other night, instead I ended up fixing everything that was wrong with it. Vindicators!

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• 11:45 Starting to use Craigs List but it sucks that I can only create one ad for one location. I'm centrally located between to listed cities?

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• 20:31 Starting Earth Hour 2009 in a few minutes. All the lights are off and we're just going to bed a bit early

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Earth Hour 2009

The entire family is participating. The lights are all out and we just decided to make an event out of going to bed early.

Earth Hour invites one billion people in more than 2800 cities representing 83 countries to turn off their lights for one hour – tonight, Saturday, March 28 from 8:30pm to 9:30pm in their local time zone. On this day, cities around the world, including Paris, Sydney, London, Cairo, New York, Los Angeles and Cape Town, will join together to demonstrate their commitment to energy conservation and sustainability. Here's how you can participate:

• All you have to do to Vote Earth is turn your lights out for one hour tonight, Saturday, March 28 from 8:30pm to 9:30pm local time, in your city. Your light switch is your vote!
• Set your computer's power management and save up to $60 on your electricity bill and nearly half a ton of C02 over the next twelve months. Climate Savers Computing Initiative provides instructions on how you can save electricity all year long through efficient computing.
• Join Earth Connect and share your opinions about climate change through blogs, e-mails, and Twitter. The goal is to gather one billion words to present at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December.
• If you are affiliated with a college, help your university reduce its environmental impact by adopting green computing practices. Pledge to Power Down for the Planet and create a video to teach others about the importance of energy efficient computing in the fight against climate change.

Earth Hour is about more than dimming lights for sixty minutes; it’s about making a commitment to reduce energy consumption throughout the year. As Google's business grows, we want to make sure we minimize our impact on the Earth's climate through responsible environmental practices every hour, every day.

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• 08:17 Day off, slept in a little, sitting at my desk at home with a nice cup of coffee. Enjoying a little me time.

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• 08:49 The Irelands arrived in Vernon yesterday. Looking for a great visit this week. Ian Heaney is driving out today to join the fun as well
• 08:49 Molly got a new bike from her Nana. She is SO EXCITED she was riding it in the house last night

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