Finally a break from homework

It's been a while since I wrote on here and I decided, since I needed a little bit of a break from school that I would go ahead and post. Between the wedding and school and everything else, life has been pretty crazy for us.

Christy is now pretty much settled into our new house in Spanish Fork and each night until we get married Nan and one of my other brothers or sisters is staying the night with her. (It'll be a good day when I get to be that sleepover buddy.)

The first night that she moved in there I scared her to death telling her how easy it would be to break into the house and she made it my responsibility to change that. We changed all the locks and she found out the next day how secure the house truly is. I got a call about an hour before getting off work from her telling me she got locked out while trying to feed the cat. (just a little side note. I am not very fond of this cat we inherited from the Stringhams... the thing has been way spoiled by it's previous owners) I got a bit of a kick out of my handy work in making the house secure.

Another cool thing we got worked out for our new house is a network setup for our computers. I talked to my supervisor at work who helped me to figure out how to make it so that our two laptops can be connected to the downstairs computer in a network. I was surprised how easy it was to set up (although Christy would disagree with this seeing as how it took me 2 hours). The cool thing is that now that this is set up, we have internet filters on all the computers, all the computers can print to the downstairs printer, we can save files to the downstairs computer and access them from any of our computers, and we have remote access so that if we see a problem with the downstairs computer while we're up in our room we can remote in and take care of it. (Oh yeah, this is all related to my wireless router.)


We also found a cool feature on both of our TV's where it will filter what can be watched according to it's rating (both TV and Movie Rating). It's really useful to keep junk out of our house. Pretty much, between the internet filters and TV filters we feel pretty good about how safe our house is from bad media influences. (Any of you that have new TV's since about 1998, you should check to see if they have the feature. It is really a good feature.) (and for internet filters, I highly recommend www.getk9.com. It is a great program that filters really well and won't take over your computer)

Christy and I have talked about this a lot lately, and we have decided that it is really a good idea for us to keep up on technology to make sure that we are always a step ahead of the game. We feel like we're doing pretty good.

It's funny, I guess as I'm writing this it seems like our talk about how vulnerable our house was really had a significant impact on us. I feel good that we decided to take the precautions to make sure bad stuff can't get in, both physically and spiritually.