Tag: Update

New Stuff

Like always, when I come here and say “Man, I need to update more often”, I wound up adding some stuff.  In this case, a cool doohicky that let’s you share a post from here on Twitter, Facebook, Digg, etc.  You’ll see little icons at the bottom of posts that you can click to share.  Neat.

The other thing, which is totally bitchin’ (what? I grew up in the 80s!), is that all of my Facebook photo albums are now here as well!  Just click the ‘Photos’ tab up top and you’ll be whisked away to a page that will let you select an album to look at.  Sweet!

And who knows… some time after posting this I may have added something else.


Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Imbodens

kim and santa

Mr. and Mrs. Clause celebrated 20 years of wedded bliss September 8, 2009
(so did Mike and Kim)

The 2009 Imbodens in a Snapshot

Mike is now working as a temp at Wells Fargo (hates) and part time at Beyond Comics (loves) in Frederick.  He continues to write his comic book, “The Fist of Justice”.  You can find more information at http://www.fistofjustice.com

Kim is in her fifth year of teaching at Green Valley Elementary School in Frederick County.  She teaches Language Arts and Social Studies and loves it.  Of course, she still works Saturday morning at Stup’s Market to stay connected with the neighborhood and for the extra money!

David just finished his first semester of college at Frederick Community College.  He likes to refer to it as 13th grade.  His plan is to transfer to a four college to study film. 

James is now 12 and in 7th grade.  He’s a terrific honors student  and plays a few sports throughout the year.  He still continues to battle his mother daily over emptying the dishwasher. 

daves grad The Imbodens celebrate David’s High School Graduation June 2009


Fuckin’ Spam-bots

I just had to “moderate” roughly three dozen spam-bot attempts to plaster my comments with worthless URLS for weiner drugs, ineffective medicines and other crap.
As a result, to post a comment you will now need to enter one of those CAPTCHA letter/number combinations. I have it set for medium, and after a little testing, it only asks for four characters and they are pretty easy to read. If anyone has any problems with it, let me know via email (mikeATimbodenDOTorg) and I’ll fix it.
Eventually I’ll try and get it so that it only prompts new people to fill it out. But right now I don’t have the time to fiddle with and test the settings.
My apologies for even having to hook this thing up, but it’s either that or my email is filled with notifications to moderate messages which just end up being spam. And that’s annoying.


Updating With Old Content

Over the course of the next few days I’ll be bringing over all of the old content from the Blogger version. Not that there was anything earth-shattering or life-changing, but I regret losing content from older versions of imboden.org (well, except for the flashing GIF days back in like 1998) so I’m going to make sure that never happens again.


Hello world!

Yes, yes, yes… yet ANOTHER change to things.

But now – NOW – I am good as gold.

My Brother From a Different Mother, Jamal Walton, has hooked me up with a new home for imboden.org!  That means I get pretty much what I want and need from a website without lots of bells and whistles I don’t need but have to pay for.

WordPress.  Much better than Blogger in just the few minutes I’ve played around with it.  Gotta check with Jamal to see if I can add different themes to it which will make laying the site out much easier.  It’s even got static pages, something I desperately wanted in Blogger and didn’t have.  FINALLY, I can have content that doesn’t change and I don’t have to post it as an entry and link to the “permalink” for it.  Nice!

So, thanks for stopping by (all three of you) and bear with me as I slowly (but surely) get this place looking all spiffy.


College Bound

No, not me.

We just got a letter yesterday saying that Dave was accepted to Towson State University (outside of Baltimore)!

Sure, it’s not a Big 10, ACC or other “big” school, but Towson has a good rep and has produced some notable people like Charles S. Dutton (used to love, love, LOVE his show “Roc”), Dwight Schultz (“Howlin’ Mad” Murdock from “The A-Team”!) and Stacy Kiebler (the long-legged hottie from WCW and WWE fame). Of course, the biggest plus is that they have a good film school there since that is what Dave eventually wants to get into (at least, that’s what he says).

So now it’s off to find financial aid – God knows we can’t afford college tuition these days.

And, hey – good job, Dave. I’m proud of you.


You Know You Suck When…

Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:45:06 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
From: DoNotReply@kenexa.com
To: mike@imboden.org
Subject: Resume Status Update
Content-Type: text/plain

Dear Michael,

You recently applied for the Entry Level Manager (49277) position with CEC Entertainment. At this stage in the selection process, we have determined that your qualifications do not identify you as an eligible candidate for this position.

Really? Chuck E. Mother-Fuckin’ Cheese?!? Entry Level?!?!? Damn…. Fucking poor man’s Mickey Mouse, anyway…


What’s New?

Nothing here. Still looking for full time work and just found out that we have a shortage in our escrow account because of Frederick County’s mile-high and out of whack property taxes. As a result our mortgage payments just shot up nearly $325 a month. Man, ya’ gotta love it when your home’s value is based on the houses around yours which are, undeniably, worth much more. So, as if we weren’t facing a nasty shortage before, now we have this to deal with.
thanksgiving
Hey, look! It’s us! This is shortly after dinner on Thanksgiving. That’s (part of ) the view from our back porch. I look weird without a baseball hat on, huh? Tramp doesn’t look too happy to be getting his picture taken – I think we had pulled him away from eating HIS Thanksgiving dinner for the picture, so I can understand being a bit miffed with us.

My apologies on not keeping things up to date as I promised I would. Sometimes things happen and you tend to lose focus, y’know? Anyway, I’ve got a couple of things waiting in the wings to post, so I’ll probably hit here with ‘em over the next couple of days.


The Shape of Things

Well, still no luck on the job front and with the way things are looking, it may be a while.
It seems that I’m in an odd spot; too qualified for blue collar work and not quite qualified for the white collar stuff. Plus, it being a “Seller’s Market” and all when it comes to jobs, employers can pretty much cherry pick who they want. I seriously think that, at this time, more so than ever it’s WHO you know and not what you know. So, if anyone reading this knows of anyone looking for someone like me to work, don’t hesitate to give them my number or e-mail.

The lack of FT work and, thus, lack of money, has really put a crimp on my creative side. It’s hard to sit and write when I should be busting my balls to find a job. It’s like I’ve got a little devil on one shoulder tapping the side of my head and reminding me of all the things I need to get done and/or caught up on while, on the other shoulder, a little angel is telling me that time spent in front of the computer should be time spent sending out resumes. So, I try and find a happy middle. I’ve set times for when I allow myself to write and times for when I dig through every site I can find for employers in the area. I don’t know how well that’s working out yet, but considering I’m still not employed FT and I still have a couple of scripts that need to be done, I’d say not too well.

Anyway, enough of the depressing shit. I’ll be back soon with something more lighthearted, I promise. And hey, maybe even a special sneak peek at some Fist of Justice stuff that we haven’t unveiled anywhere else yet. That’d be cool, yeah?


Screwed Again!

For the second time in as many months, Domain Direct is screwing me with a serious problem on their mail servers. What makes this time even worse is that I sent out at least a half dozen resumes on Monday and now I have no way of knowing if anyone is biting on those hooks or not.
Domain Direct says no e-mail is lost, that it will all be delivered once things are fixed. Well, guess what? That does SHIT for me if I needed to get something YESTERDAY to reply by, say, TODAY!
So the proverbial camel has had his proverbial back broken and I need to find another domain host. The thing I like(d?) best about Domain Direct was their “domain forwarding” and I have no idea if anything like that is even common now days. When I started using them back in the late 90s, they were the only ones that offered that service and I’ve never looked since (no need).
All of this means that:
A) I have no access to my goddamn e-mail, nor does anyone else in the family.
B) There’s the possibility I’ve missed a job opportunity because of this.
C) I need to find a new domain host.
Like I don’t ALREADY have enough shit on my mind, right?


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