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A little blurb about a Russian script kiddie who tries to hack 127.0.0.1. That's a standard loopback address that's used to check your local network connection... more or less. I use it to check for open ports. In any event, this kid uses it to wipe his own hard drive. Pretty funny stuff. If you really want to learn how to 'hack' (and I'm no expert) go to Hackthissite.org. It's a great place to start.

So the plants that I said I was going to take pictures of and didn't are doing well. I should have some pictures this weekend. I have a ton of projects to do around the house. I've talked about building a wall around the garden out front and it's finally time to act... next week. Seriously, the weather is just too good not to stay inside and cuddle up with some nice wholesome GTA VI!

The big project that I am really excited about is to knock out the wall in the closet under the stairs and build out that area. I'm going to make a cubby space out of it. I think that if I finish off the space with drywall, run in some lights and a carpet I can make a cool hiding spot for Hayden and Seri... and more importantly a place for their toys down stairs. It'll be an out of sight play room. Rock and roll! More importantly than that, I can use the space to run CAT-5 from the first floor all the way to the attic like I should of when we built the house. If I can get up to the attic I can wire whatever I want wherever I want. Since I rigged the speaker system to stream my MP3's from my server I can run speakers upstairs and have the stereo play through the house. The system has 5 zones I can run so I can turn them on and off as needed. I also can get a hardwire connection to the 360 and my den PC. The wireless is fine but everyone knows you need copper for gaming... I'll probably still suck at Halo.

I think that this is going to be great. I'm not really mister handy but I want to learn how to be. When it comes to electronics and cars I can make things go but I'm just not good at making things pretty. We'll see how it turns out.

Other than that life is good. It's almost mothers day and I have no idea what to get Joy. I don't have a clue. I think I might figure out a way to surprise her with getting her hair done. I'll have to figure something out... the couch is comfortable and all but... we got that tempur-pedic bed!

I got to see Iron Man... which made me want to take apart the Honda. I think that I can get it running really nice if I try. It needs new shocks in the front, a new chain, the engine is oxidized and some of the electric is faulty. Not too bad for a 30 yr old bike! I really want to sand down the tank and re-paint it, but that gets into the make it go/make it pretty thing and I'm only good at the former.

Anyway, I have a ton of stuff to do, which starts with watching the first season of House... which I happened to have just finished 'obtaining'. Cheers!