Katherine & Mike » Home http://kathnmike.us 20, it's the new 30 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:10:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Starry starry night http://kathnmike.us/2009/02/07/starry-starry-night/ http://kathnmike.us/2009/02/07/starry-starry-night/#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:09:30 +0000 Mike http://kathnmike.us/2009/02/07/starry-starry-night/ One of my favorite things about living 5 miles from town is how dark it is out here at night. I had forgotten how many stars there are at night. I think that it’s one of my favorite things about the house, looking forward to enjoying it this summer.

We’ve had our iPhones for a week now, and I’m pretty happy with it. Twitter, facebook, IM, RSS feeds, and email. Even posting this entry from it.

Getting over being sick kinda sucks, but I got a couple video games out of it. “Wario Land: Shake It” is a great game. Lots of replay value doing missions, but not crazy long like a lot of the current games on the market. 2D side scrolling games still rock.

]]> http://kathnmike.us/2009/02/07/starry-starry-night/feed/ 0 Changes http://kathnmike.us/2008/07/14/changes/ http://kathnmike.us/2008/07/14/changes/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:47:36 +0000 Katherine http://kathnmike.us/2008/07/14/changes/ Many things have changed in my life in the past few months about which I have failed to update friends and family.  I suppose I should begin with my new job.  As of June 16, 2008, I am the Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Health and Human Resources, Bureau of Children and Families, Region 1.  To break it down, I am an Assistant Attorney General for the State of West Virginia.  I am assigned to work for the Department of Health and Human Resources in the Bureau of Children and Families (BCF).  BCF handles child abuse and neglect reports, adult protective services, foster care, daycare licensing, etc., and welfare benefits for eligible families.  I am the legal counsel for BCF in Region 1 of West Virginia.  West Virginia’s BCF is broken up into 4 different Regions.  Region 1 is the northwest quarter of the state.  I represent DHHR offices in 16 counties.  My primary responsibility is to provide legal advice on any issue that arises during the daily operation of BCF.  I also represent DHHR at grievance hearings (if a person is contesting DHHR’s finding that the person committed maltreatment of a child or an adult).  My duties also extend to representing DHHR on appeal from Circuit Court juvenile abuse and neglect cases and representing DHHR workers if they are pulled into civil case matters (mostly as witnesses).  After one month, the job has been going well. It is interesting and there is always something new to do.  Hopefully, I will continue to enjoy it.

My new job led to the next change in my life which is that I have moved.  I no longer live in Keyser.  I have moved to the “big city” of Fairmont, WV.  Fairmont is about 20 minutes south of Morgantown.  Mike is happy because now he only has to drive 20 minutes to see me on the weekend instead of an hour and a half.  It is much nicer living in Fairmont than in Keyser.  Fairmont does not have a lot of entertainment itself, but it does have restaurant choices.  Plus, Morgantown is within distance for a night on the town if one is so inclined.

What else is new?  I got a new car back in May of 2008.  I now have a Mazda 5, which is a mini-minivan.  The lease on my Mazda 6 was set to expire this October and I needed a car that has room to transport my poochies.  The Mazda 5 has more cargo area with the third row of seats down than a station wagon.  So far it has worked out well.  I like it.  It’s red.

The most recent and biggest news and change is that Mike and I got engaged this past weekend (Saturday, July 12, 2008).  We’ve set the date for the wedding as October 10, 2009, which is a Saturday.  We’re planning on getting married in Morgantown.  We are going to have my judge (the judge I clerked for) perform the ceremony.  Beyond that, we have not made any other plans.  I intend to write another post with more details about the proposal and pictures of the ring in the next week or so.

Life’s been busy lately, as you can see, so I haven’t had time to work on the site a lot.  I’m going to try to add more content, but I can’t promise much as half of my house is still in boxes.

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Top 10 Ways to get Cables Under Control

Having just rewired my desk, i still haven’t gotten my gadgets and cables the way that I would like them too be. I might have to try some of these out after i finish cleaning my room up and regain some resemblance of order to my home life.

One other device that i’ve been looking at is called the CableYoYo … i think that combined with some of the ideas in that post will be the utopia of desktop cable management using a Laptop.

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