See this printer here?

This printer is a networked printer with its own static IP address. Anyone on our network can print to it. Except Matt. I guess it just doesn't like his computer all of a sudden. He can access the printer's setup page in Safari by typing in its address. But if he wants to print from anything else... oh hell no! So our work around? Sharing a printer that's shared in the first place. Seriously. I set up a networked printer as a shared printer on my computer. So now, Matt accesses the printer through my computer which then in turn relays it to the printer that's already networked! WTF??? There I fixed it.

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I wonder...

If I will ever have anything more to say that is more that 140 characters. Sometimes I "tweetshrink" thoughts in my head. It becomes a math/word problem. I spend more time figuring out how to word something than the actual typing. And now I've added Gowalla into the social networking game. It does make traveling more fun, collecting/dropping items from places you visit. Huh, well would you look at that. A post longer than 140 characters. Looks like I need to use TwitLonger for this.

A Nutty Week Recap

This last week was indeed nutty. From Dallas to Ardmore to Tulsa to Oklahoma City. We dropped Averly of at her Grammy's in Ardmore so we could head on down to the Chickenfoot show at the Nokia Theater in Grand Prairie. I love the Nokia Theater. Not a bad seat in the house. Super clean and well staffed. Wasn't too stoked about the $8 beers though. Oh well. Davy Knowles and Back Door Slam opened the show. They were amazing. Old school bluesy rock n roll. Then Sammy, Michael, Joe, and Chris came on stage and were the greatest rock n roll band in the world (sorry Supersuckers). After the show we headed back to Ardmore to catch some Z's. Woke up and headed to Pauls Valley to the Action Figure and Toy Museum.That was awesome. I wanted to stage my own battles with all the toys there. You can see the pics I took here. Wednesday we headed back to work and at 5, headed to Tulsa for the Stragglers' Don Williams Tribute. Crowd was a little scarce being a Wednesday evening. Was a good show though. May have enjoyed visiting with everyone I don't get to see often more than the show itself. We stayed at Tara's in Owasso for the night and headed back to work in Stillwater Thursday morning. After work, Mom, had brought Averly back to us in Guthrie. She was so excited to her mommy and daddy after two whole days! Friday was pretty much normal. Actually stayed at the house that evening. Saturday, we went on our now yearly trip to the State Fair. Black Stone Cherry was playing that evening and I gotta tell you, Averly loved it! We were standing toward the back where it was open and she was just running around dancing everywhere. Even had some people stop and say "You better watch it, you've got a little rocker on your hands." Awesome. Sunday, we met Melisa's folks at the Wildlife Expo at the Lazy E Arena. It gets bigger every year. Averly was still really too little to do anything, but next years its on! She did love the butterfly exhibit. She got to touch one for a bit before she got excited and acted like she was going to crush every one of them! One more year. Then she'll be able to go to shows at the fair and do all the activities at the expo. I can't wait.

I bet we do at least 3 tanks of gas this week.

Yup. Its gonna be a nutty one for sure. Leave today at noon for Chickenfoot in Dallas. Drive back to Ardmore to stay the night. Tuesday head back to Guthrie. Melisa goes to Stillwater tomorrow evening. Wednesday after work, we head to Tulsa for the Stragglers' Don Williams Tribute. Stay the night there. Head back to work in Stillwater Thursday. That evening, we meet my mom in OKC to pick up Averly. Friday we may have the evening off. Saturday we take the fam to the Wildlife Expo at the Lazy E, go to Stillwater to tailgate for a bit, then head to the State Fair for Black Stone Cherry. Whew! Road Dogs. Its gonna be nuts.

I wonder if people understand....

1. The US Postal Service and Amtrak are nationalized/socialized businesses.

2. The Federal Reserve is a private bank.

3. Governments cannot survive without changing/adapting

4. Paying FICA is like a monarchy.

5. People that make issues out of non-issues are really annoying.

6. OSU is now a Top 5 Team and finally rated ahead of the Gooners!!! GO POKES!!!!

Alright Illustrator CS4....

Its just you and me now. Snow Leopard forced me into this (not really, but times/software are a changin'). You will obey my commands... whenever I customize my shortcuts. You will learn how to manage swatches like I do. You will learn how to "punch", "union", and "split" objects like I'm used to. You will learn how to work completely in spot colors and not just your generic CMYK BS. Its just you and me now kid. You're brother Photoshop I can handle enough. Its you you and your squirrelly little menus and commands that have been renamed and replaced.You say you're a master at gradients. We'll see how you fair when they are spot colors with custom halftones. Yeah, its on buddy. You're gonna be my bitch.

For my birthday, I would like...

AND...

Averly's Arkansas Vacation

FInally got around to making a video of our vacation. Here it is!

Averly's Arkansas Vacation from Ragan Parkerson on Vimeo.

Hangin' in Springdale

So, we've had our first day in Arkansas. Red and Carrie opened their home to us for a few days. Had Jesse's second birthday party in Owasso yesterday morning. Pam and AJ came up. The girls had a blast. Averly has been having a ball so far. She's such a well traveled kid. Going swimming tonight. Got Averly a blow up plane she can sit in. Should be fun. We're staying here until Tuesday morning. Then heading to Bentonville for a night at Melisa's cousin's. We'll be in Eureka Spings Wednesday afternoon. Really excited to relax there. See ya on down the road...

4th of July Weekend

What a great one. Got spend some good time with family. Friday evening was spent at my Dad's in Edmond. He and Miram cooked us dinner. Grilled some steaks. Averly had a blast in their neighbor's backyard. The neighbor's have a few older grandkids with a lot of playground stuff. Averly loved the swing and slide. Saturday and Sunday we spent out at Melisa's folks in Jones. Rob, Tara, Tatum and Jesse came down from Owasso for the weekend. Always good to see them. The storms only put a damper on the fireworks show for an hour of two. Luckily it was around dinner time. We got all the meat cooked before it hit. Learned how to grill corn on the cob too. Man it was delicious. When we started the fireworks, we saw Averly wasn't a big fan; even of the ones that didn't make noise. It was close to her bedtime anyway. We put her down to bed and Tatum and Jesse stayed up and watched Rob and I try not to blow ourselves up. We were both saying how we haven't set off our own fireworks probably since we were kids. So we kind of turned back the clock on our age for a time as well... except we didn't go to bed when we should have.

Now, we're gearing up for our family road trip to NW Arkansas! We hit the highway Friday after work!

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Happy 4th & Trip Planning

So, we're taking off on a little road trip in a week. Heading to the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. But not before we stop and visit Uncle Red and Aunt Carrie in Springdale. Should be a hoot. Averly's first big road trip since we drug her to Austin when she was three months old. GOing to spend a couple of nights in Bentonville at Melisa's cousin's palatial pad. Then move on north to Eureka Springs. I haven't visited there since I was a kid. I remember driving through the mountains, sitting in the backseat. All the twists and turns... ended up car sick. Party. I should be over it by now I hope. Spending the 4th out at the inlaws in Jones. Rob & Tara are bring the girls down from Tulsa. That's always a good time. Making grape ice cream too. Old family recipe. My Grandma & Grandpa used to make it every 4th of July. I'm gonna try and carry on the tradition. Now.... where are those fireworks....

Blahhhhg.... Blah

Yeah its been a month. So? Get to see the Shurman boys tonight at the Wormy Dog. Been a while. I think we saw them more when they lived in LA than since they moved to Austin. Just had lunch with Ryin, Dustin and Issei. Talked about "ideas" for a video. I get to be Brody. Thats all I can say due to a self inflicted gag order. Is inflicted the right word? I don't know. Just ready to get out and see all my friends tonight. Been a while since a big show where everybody is out. Averly is one now. Can't believe it. She's growing like crazy. About 60% walking now. I think she's just lazy like her dad. Been playing Super Dad for three days the past two weeks while Melisa works her Grandparent University Event at OSU. I love being a dad. So much fun. Tiring... but way fun. Oh, know something else I can't believe? Ragweed selling over a million albums now! Holy shit! Wow. I still can't be more proud of that family and what they've all accomplished. Its nuts. Life's nuts. Good... but nuts. Salty. See ya at the Dog.

Namedropping with Rue McClanahan

So, Hollywood has posted station six blocks from our house. They are filming a movie, The Killer Inside Me. The movie was originally written as a novel by an Okie, Jim Thompson. A movie was even made in '76 with Stacy Keach. So, technically, this is a remake I guess. Anyway,it stars with Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson, Casey Affleck, and Simon Baker. They are filming not six blocks down from our house. Part of the highway is closed and people have to detour during the afternoon. Pre-production is being set up now. Actual filming begins Monday. I was thinking of strolling on down there to see how close I can get. I was wondering who I could possibly name-drop to get by Hollywood muscle. My repertoire is pretty shallow when it comes to Tinsel Town Big Wigs. Remotely all I have are Loudon Wainwright III, Lou Diamond Phillips and my big gun Rue McClanahan. Come on. She and I grew up in Ardmore. Even graduated from the same high school. Her folks lived across the street from one of my friends. You know who I think I am??? Hook a brotha up. Yeah, so we'll see.

Making Todd's "Greatest Hits"

Before there were ipods, itunes and hard drives no bigger than 3gb we had to make our own mix cds. So when we got our first 4x cd burner in the late 90's for our office for "archiving", we figured out how to use Toast to import tracks and burn custom audio cd's. This was when Todd Snider only had 3 albums out; Songs for the Daily Planet, Step Right Up and Viva Satellite. Well, going through my archives here and consolidating my digital life, I came across the artwork we would make for the cds. Here now is the one I made for the Best of Todd Snider

The song list still holds true today. Although with the more recent albums, it would probably be a three disc set. Anyway, just thought I'd share.

Movie Prices Suck

Melisa and I went to see Watchmen last night. Great flick. Three hours long. Did great at holding my attention. We paid nine bucks a piece to see it at AMC 24 in Quail Springs. Now, that movie has been out a while, so it was stuck in one of the smaller theaters. I know its a flat rate for movies no matter what size theater they're in. I don't get it though. If I pay nine bucks, I want the full opening night experience on the biggest screen you got. If the movie is showing on a smaller screen and has been out for a while, knock a few bucks off. I think that would drive sales. Hell people may go see a movie twice! I know we'd go to movies more often with tiered pricing. Hell they do it for music on iTunes now. Just an idea and it might keep fewer people from sailing the high seas for a free show.

Have you ever seen a crematory?

Melisa and I were discussing this on the way to work this morning passing buy a recently renovated funeral home in Guthrie. I know some funeral homes may have them on site but I know they do them elsewhere too. They probably don't have big neon signs adverting them or anything. But where are they? And if I knew of one and saw smoke coming out of the top, I'd be like, "Well, they're burning another one." And do they smell at all? The fire has to have some exhaust somewhere. I would hate to mistake somebody grilling for a crematory. Just questions. I think I want to start an ice cream shop and call it "The Creamatory".

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Not sure if this gonna be the in thing, but I'll give it a try.

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Top 15 Most Influential Albums... Personally

"Think of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the albums that no matter what they were thought of musically shaped your world."

So here we go...

1. Motley Crue : Theatre of Pain (my introduction to the Devil's music)

2. George DeVore : Wonderland (my introduction to the Austin music scene)

3. Poison : Look What the Cat Dragged In (Poison rules)

4. Cinderella : Heartbreak Station (best rock/blues/country/folk album ever)

5. Steve Earle : El Corazon (Steve's best work. Encompasses all his songwriting abilities)

6. Run DMC : Raising Hell (first full rap album I bought. still listen to it today)

7. Michael Jackson : Thriller (first record that was actually mine)

8. Def Leppard : Hysteria (I found tapes have a limit how much they can be played)

9. 2 Live Crew : As Nasty As They Wanna Be (my mom had to buy this for since I was under age. That's when I knew I had become a man musically)

10. Todd Snider : Songs for the Daily Planet (best folk rock album from the best folk rock singer

11. V- Roys : All About Town (one best roots rock albums ever which brings me too...

12. Scott Miller & The Commonwealth : Upside Downside (my favorite albums from one of my favorite songwriters)

13. Van Halen : 5150 (THE greatest Van Halen album EVER! Sammy rules!)

14 & 15. Cross Canadian Ragweed : Carney, Jason Boland & The Stragglers : Pearl Snaps (the flagship albums from the bands that changed the way look at music today)

#26

26. Cinderella's "One for Rock n Roll" is one of the greatest songs ever written and I live by it every day.

I was born on the dawn of a new society
And I feel lucky that my eyes could see
People standing up and being who they want to be
People made the music and the music made them free
Now I was just a baby through the summer of love they say
But it still feels like it was today
And if the road gets rough I pick up my guitar and play
It's always been right by my side to help me on my way

Now I don't need to worry 'bout tomorrow
Ain't anticipating what's to come
And I don't need to worry 'bout the things I have not done
Long as I got rock and roll I'm forever young

Now we can't always understand this world
Farther along we'll understand it all
The seventies looked like we all were headed for a fall
But those who listened hard enough could hear the summer call
Now I was growing up through all of this
My first beer and love and my first kiss
You never learn the things in school
You learn by living and going through
You taught me how to be myself
How can I thank you

And I don't need to worry 'bout tomorrow
Ain't anticipating what's to come
And I don't need to worry 'bout the things I have not done
Long as I got rock and roll I'm forever young
Long as I got rock and roll I'm forever young
Ain't it the truth

25 random things

OK, I'll do it....

1. I love taking things apart to see how they work.

2. I've gone over 160mph in a car.

3. I took piano 6 years growing up. (and yes I regret quitting and my parents said I would.)

4. I know little/ nothing about sports.

5. I want a C3 Corvette Stingray more than any other car in the world.

6. I'm obsessed with finding deals on eBay.

7. I have 5 Macs in our house (and one in my pocket ;-).

8. I did illegal drag racing in high school.

9. I had the fastest car in high school.

10. I'm horrible with money.

11. I never learned to crawl when I was a baby.

12. I've driven from Guthrie, OK to Austin, TX for one night of party.

13. I've had eight teeth pulled out of my mouth.

14. I absolutely HATE driving with a dirty windshield.

15. I have a room that looks like its from The 40 Year Old Virgin.

16. I've never broken a bone or sprained anything.

17. I can't stand not being on top of the latest technology.

18. I have a 1TB RAID disk that is literally half full of music only.

19. I can work on Brunswick automatic pinsetters.

20. I've worn glasses since the third grade.

21. My favorite thing about designing is manipulating type.

22. I've never learned to dive.

23. I've completely rebuilt an engine by hand.

24. I hated any kind of school every day I was in it, even though I was good an learnin'.

25. My most favorite time with friends is drinking sangria outside the Grist Mill.

Yeah, yeah yeah...

I missed last Friday's CD of the Week. Had a sick kid though. She's better. Kinda threw the weekend off track. Had a good Valentine's Day though. Ate dinner at the Boneyard in Guthrie then headed to the Dog to watch Bart Crow Band and conduct a little business. Gonna kick it old school on the Strip in Stillwater tomorrow. Mac is playing the Copper Penny.... WTF? Well it will be like old times. Kinda. Looking forward to partyin' on a school night. Come on out.

Rock 'n' Roll CD of the Week: Hardline "Double Eclipse"

This cd doesn't actually come from 80's. Its from 1992. But when you look at the band, you'll see a member synonymous with the 80's. Neal Schon. That's right, the guitarist for Journey. After they broke up this was one of his side projects. He along with the Gioeli brothers, Todd Jensen and Deen Castonovo (drummer for Journey presently), debuted this cd with the single "Takin' Me Down". I heard that song for the first time on 99.1 Z-Rock out of Dallas. I fell in love with it. Double eclipse remains one of my top 10 cd's of this era. Schon wrote some of his catchiest guitar licks ever on this album. Every song on there could be a hit. Other favs include "Life's a Bitch", "Dr. Love", and "Hot Cherie". Hardline has been though member changes through the years but they still retain the strong vocals of Johnny Gioeli. You can listen to the live tracks from Double Eclipse over at last.fm. Go check 'em out. Rock your balls.

A regular article? What?

I've been thinking. I need something to write about. Something more than the 160 character limit of Twitter or Facebook status update. If I write about something, I want to have knowledge of what I'm writing. And what do I know more about than 80's rock 'n' roll. So here's what I'm gonna do. Every Friday will have an album from that era/ genre from my personal collection. Now every once in a while I may stray from said specifics and throw in a little rap and/ or pop. But these will be cd's and tapes I've accumulated over that period of time... some from the early 90's too before that damn grunge killed off good rock n roll. I'm sure a few will get a kick out of it and other will get a "Fuck yeah! I remember that!". Probably from my musical brothers Poncho and Kevin. So I'll start this up sometime today after lunch. It's a good 'un. Hell they're all good. But anyway, see ya in a bit.

Has this ever happened to you?

I know when everybody wakes up in the morning, they usually have a routine. Well, when I shower, I start from the top and go to the bottom. Wash my hair, then my face, then I lather up a wash cloth and finish up the rest. This morning I found myself holding the wash cloth and thinking "did I already wash myself?". I seemed to have just forgot. Like I just been swept in some time rift of about a minute and a half. Huh. Then I kind of remembered lathering up the wash cloth with soap. See, the cloth is soap free now. Ergo, I must have washed. Good, enough for me. I'm done.

Anyone?

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Done with Doctors

As in I'm sick of them. After 5 trips to Averly's doctor in a week and a half and numerous shots, drugs, and the verdict seems to be she didn't need all that shit in the first place. So the pulmonary specialist at OU Children's asked us a ton of questions from diet to sleep habits. He checked vitals, reflexes, and listened to her breathing. He reviewed the results from her xrays. "Well, I don't want to run tests on a healthy baby." What? "She's fine. She seems to be thriving" But what about all this shit we've been giving her and worrying about? "When a child is in daycare, she'll get 8 to 9 upper respiratory infections a year." What? Thats it? "You can give her antibiotics that may or may not work. Could be viral, could be bacterial. She can inhale some of her formula while she's eating cuz she's so young. That can cause fluid in her lungs. I can do a bronchoscopy and one of her airways may be weak and we can yadda yadda yadda but she'll just outgrow it anyway. And we can't diagnose asthma until she's three which she will more than likely have." Seriously? That's it? "Yes, one of you can quit your job and stay home with her or just have a sick kid several times a year." Huh. "I want to see her again in two months with a clear chest xray." Ok. Have a nice day. So we a left a little pissed off. Yes, we're happy she's healthy and all. But all that shit we her go through before was for nothing. I felt like the guy was basically like "why are you here wasting my time". Sorry dude, we didn't make the appointment. We decided we're not taking Averly back to the doctor unless she's had a fever of 103 or more for two days. Seriously, I'm done with doctors.

Update on Averly

Well, we got good news and bad. Not out of the woods. Man, this is exhausting. Had Averly's third doctor appointment this morning. A followup. We noticed she had more trouble breathing the past 24 hours or so. Coughing sounded more productive though. Its so much. They checked he oxygen level. Got up to around 96% which is still low even when you're sick. So they did another xray. She doesn't like that table. I don't blame her. The good news: the bacterial pneumonia isn't as concentrated as it was. It has spread out a little and loosened up in her lungs. The bad news: she's not getting rid of it. They suggest another shot of antibiotic. One shot, meaning two, one in each leg. Poor girl has been stuck about eight times this week. Now she'll know why daddy doesn't like needles either. They prescribe her two more oral antibiotics and an inhaled steroid (flovent) twice a day to easy the swelling in the lungs to see if that will help her clear it out. So, let's see what our baby girl is on now..... rotate ibuprofen and tylenol every four hours to help with pain and keep the fever from returning, albuterol nebulizer every four to six hours to help keep the pneumonia broken up, an oral steroid once a day for five days, two antibiotics once a day for 10 days, and flovent inhaler twice a day. It sucks, you find yourself getting angry but no place to direct it. Lack of sleep doesn't help either. She's lost about a half a pound because when she eats, she starts to cough and won't finish. Averly also has an ear infection on top of that. That has the doctor worried since she's pumped full of antibiotics and steroids and she still gets an infection??? So, Monday we have yet another visit to our doctor to see how things have progressed. They are hopefully going to be able to do some blood work then. Tuesday is when we see the pediatric pulmonologist to do a bronchial test at Children's. That's where we are now. Averly still smiles and plays, but she still isn't comfortable wheezing and coughing everywhere. I hate it.

"No Steamboat for You!" Party

For all the people whose friends got to go but they didn't. We can still party. Just watch.

Bloggin' Straight from the iPhone

So, we'll see how this works. Not able to post pics just yet. They said it will be able to in an upcoming version. Hope it's soon. This is pretty cool. Have fun now.

Mobile Blogging from here.

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