Daisy our new doodle

Posted on April 4, 2020February 19, 2021 by jrblack Leave a comment

Back in early January our dog Amber (Labradoodle) of 10ish years her health finally got severe enough, that it was best to put her down. Though this was something we all knew was coming for a year or so it was a lot harder to deal with then we all thought. We were now down […]... Read More

Covid-19 Pandemic and Working From Home

Posted on March 27, 2020February 18, 2021 by jrblack Leave a comment

So… Covid-19 spread across the world, the numbers increased like craze in many Europe countries, and then numbers started popping up in the United States. Soon there were growing red dots across the country. Soon it went from this… to this… and given that both Kim and have the ability to work from home, we […]... Read More

Winter Furniture Market in Atlanta

Posted on January 23, 2020May 29, 2020 by jrblack Leave a comment

So… it finally happened, I was asked to go to the furniture market in Atlanta and the the IT presence and support this market. I haven’t traveled for business or flown in a plane since maybe 2004. We have a much smaller showroom in Atlanta and only a handful of the sales staff goes to […]... Read More

K-Love Christmas

Posted on December 21, 2019May 29, 2020 by jrblack Leave a comment

We always try to do something different or special around Christmas Holiday to remind us and our kids that it is Christmas and why we celebrate Christmas. I have heard this event announced for years, but it always seemed to be in a city far away, or a week night, or the cost was prohibitive […]... Read More

NC Zoo

Posted on December 20, 2019May 29, 2020 by jrblack Leave a comment

Once again I volunteered to chaperon High School kids on a field trip to the NC Zoo, but it didn’t rain this time. December it not an active time at the Zoo for many animals, but we made the best of it and had a good time. As it is with most Winters here in […]... Read More

Pixel 4XL

Posted on November 30, 2019May 27, 2020 by jrblack Leave a comment

So, for the past 2 years my phone has been the LG G6, and it was a good phone. Loved it, it was snappy, took great photos and video, water resistant, all that good stuff. All 5 members of my family had one. 2 years before that it was the LG G4 that suffered the […]... Read More

Don’t Expose the full web site menu to the world

Posted on July 16, 2019July 16, 2019 by jrblack Leave a comment

Here I am with another story given to me by a recent contractor software developer that worked for me. Unfortunately he was no longer with us by the time I discovered this, so I couldn’t share it with him. We were converting VB desktop apps to ASP.Net MVC C# applications, converting VB classic web apps […]... Read More

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