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Going to the Chapel

Posted by Bry on July 19, 2010 in Amber, Bryan, Family, Kayley with No Comments


Well those crazy kids did it… Paul and Lynsey got hitched Saturday July 17th, 2010. Below is a link to the playlist of what I personally recorded. Sorry for the wind and bad focus. I will attempt to clean them up at a later date. Also I’m not sure what the hell is going on with youtube playlist but it continues to play the video out of order. Click on the link under the embedded video for HD… And yes I’m the minister!

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=524B8391B9AD6EC0

-Bryan

Moving On…

Posted by Bry on April 5, 2010 in Amber, Bryan, Cooking, Family, Kayley, Tech with No Comments


Well easter is over and I have about all of the videos I captured converted and posted to youtube (check out the links —>). Kayley liked her swing and got lots of great stuff from her grandparents and aunts, uncles. I got a quick nine in Saturday @ Skyland Pines and boy did I suck; time to get out the golf net.

I also finally made the switch all of my computers are now using Chrome. Still has corks but I’m hoping as it matures some of my issues get buttoned up. With the work day almost over I’m going to go home and eat some of my wifes famous sloppy joe.

Take care and hope you all had a good break. PS 2:00min mark on the video below… lol

Easter Tire Swing… Done

Posted by Bry on March 30, 2010 in Bryan, Hardware, Kayley with No Comments


6 Quick Links, 6 Washers, 3 Eye Bolts,1 swivel connector thing ( I forget what it was called ), 30 feet of chain and a tire I picked up off the side of the road. Now the Easter Bunny will bring my daughter a tire swing, lol. Took about 45 minutes to construct.

DIY Tire Swing

New Saw

Posted by Bry on March 28, 2010 in Bryan, Hardware, Kayley with No Comments


No not the movie. I purchased a new table saw and did a little unboxing video for others whom may be interested in purchasing one. Its a Ryobi BTS16 with QUICKSTAND. I got it from CPO Ryobi refurb.

Netbook

Posted by Bry on March 25, 2010 in Bryan, Tech with No Comments


Testing out the wordpress app for android. Thought I would see how easy or hard it was to post photos.
Also I finally forced myself to start using chrome on my netbook. I still use firefox on my other pcs.. so far the experience is better than the last time I tried it.
Off you go to the blog-o-sphere…
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Tech Changes

Posted by Bry on March 25, 2010 in Bryan, Tech with No Comments


This past weekend, at the office, we had a major server crash; it happened to be one of our vmware servers. I spent 20 hours recovering, rebuild and getting the back images going. The nice thing about the crash was we got to start our move from vmware to hyper-v early.

Out of the 5 servers we have virtualized, we have already migrated 4 to hyper-v and what a difference it has made. Things are much faster backups seem easier to perform, and the software just feels alot more stable. First machine I used a tool by DavidB @ VMTookKit to convert from VMDK to VHD, subsequent machines I’ve used SCVMM 2008 R2 tools. Microsoft has a 180 Day Trial which is working great. Not to mention Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Core is free.

For backups we have been using diskshadow, task scheduler and some scripts loosely based off of John Kelbley’s scripts and Glo Network scripts.

Android and I

Posted by Bry on November 15, 2009 in Bryan with No Comments


I’ve had my motorola droid for about a week. Thus far I have begun to realize windows mobile is way behind the times. I’m thinking about picking up some android programming books. I’ll keep anyone interested posted

-Bryan

Crash Amber

Posted by Bry on August 10, 2009 in Amber, Bryan with No Comments


Pretty good week. Had Monday off and took Kayley golfing, for the first time. SNC00095I think she had fun and she did pretty good putting and driving the ball. Played over at EdgeWood on Market in North Canton; it’s a nice 9 hole course kind short but good layout.

Took a trip to Fort Wayne on Thursday for some work related items. Nice trip minus the 3:15AM start time. But got everything fixed up and back in time to pick up the kid before the wife had work.

This weekend was crazy! Went over to Berlin Lake to hang with the family and attend a function Saturday afternoon. At about midnight I was feeling sleepy so decided to head to bed. Well my wife decided to stay up because we had a friend from out of town in. After having to much to drink they miraculously made it back to the camp site on the golf cart in one piece but after that it becomes a little sketchy; but goes something like this. .  . Dan and Amber pull into the 5580_133968590752_680985752_2880526_4286526_ncamp site between 1:30am and 2:00am. Dan heads back to his site and amber sits on the golf cart, feeling to sick to move at the moment. When she finally decides to move she stands up and then passes out onto the gas pedal causing the golf cart to jump the railroad tie, drive over (through) the turkey fryer, and careen into the picnic table and push the picnic table into the deck.  Some time after that she flopped out of the golf cart and into the gravel and feel asleep unit my uncle found her.

At about 2:30AM they, my whole family, woke me up to try to help get her out of the golf cart; she moved to a sitting position from sleeping in the gravel sometime before I got involved. I sort of took one step back after receiving multiple threats, punches and kicks, to getting her backing into the gravel. After some more convincing my uncle and I managed to get her on to the deck where I proceeded to give up and gave her a blanket and a pillow. She remained there the rest of the night until about 7:30AM when she finally crawled into bed.

Now I thought about taking a picture and/or video but decided against it since I want to continue living. But my uncle Jeff decided against life and choose the after life the next time him and amber meet for posting the attached picture to facebook. Sure I’ll catch some aftermath for re-posting it and telling the story but, that’s just another weekend with the Snyder’s.

Sunday was uneventful. Outside of the obivously sick wife. I played golf, went to the grocery store and made homemade zucchini bread.

-B

 

Weekend Update

Posted by Bry on August 2, 2009 in Bryan with No Comments


Pretty good weekend, and week for that matter. Friday Kayley and I 20687033went to the Belden Foodfest and Balloon lift-off which was very nice. It looked pretty crappy Friday morning so I thought we might get rained out but the weather didn’t let us down.

Saturday night we went to the Lynn Drive-in @ Starsburg. We watched Funny People and Public Enemies. Both were really good movies but Funny People wasn’t what I really was expecting. That’s not to say it was bad in any way just different. Public Enemies was exactly what I was looking for and was just awsome. The only part about that was the drive home @ 2:00AM.

Desktop08022009Sunday. .  . Kayley fell into a huge muddy hole while visiting her horse at the barn. She was carrying her chicken at the time and protected it quite well when she fell. Though she was covered up to her waist in mud it didn’t really slow her down. Hine sight I should have grabbed a picture but she carried right on so I really didn’t have a chance.

As the day comes to an end I finished up by converting some HD camcorder videos and pictures into some dvds. And listened to some Jack Johnson while doing laundry, waiting files to convert and menus to be built for the DVDs.

-B

Coding

Posted by Bry on July 30, 2009 in Bryan with No Comments


Completed some back-end coding on the site. I think it’s ready for use. Lets find out.