I’m currently doing prep for Gumbo I’m cooking tomorrow it will be at least two large pots and maybe more. Now when I say large pots one pot is 34 quarts and the smaller pot is 20 quarts. .
I am making my gumbo with large Alaskan King, Crabs, Chicken, sausage, scallops, oysters, clams, and all of the other fixings!
We will also have some collard & Mustard greens, black eyed peas and I think Turkey.
December 2006 Archives
Out of four Fantasy football leagues I’m in the championship game in two of the leagues. The other two leagues I was one position out of the last playoff spot. Coming into Monday night I have the lead in both championship games I am participating in.
The custom private league that I’m the commissioner of I have a commanding lead of about 130 + points that is insurmountable unless the players my opponent has for Monday have legendary games.
The public league is competitive level, where the point system is different and not as flexible I’m up by 3 points and have a very good running back that is the hub of the offense going Monday night and he has the number two or three wide-out on a not so potent passing team. You can never tell though but I like my position.
I haven’t won the custom league we call the BDFL (Big Dogs Fantasy League) I am the commissioner of in a couple of years. In fact my opponent who I’m beating had won the last two years and was going for a 3 peat. He’s not a Lakers fan so I had to squash that!
Anyhow just having fun here about the Fantasy sports I love to play its just nice fun and something to do on the internet that combines sports as well, I try to win but don’t go crazy over it.
Well my power just went out so now to see how long my UPS' will keep my systems for my sites up and running.
I hope they stay up long enough for the power to come back on. Time for me to log off and shut a few things down to conserve power.
Thats right I finally have my web site on my new system with the idea of having two systems available with similar architecture in case I need upgrades I can perform them on the system that’s not live while still staying up on my main system.
Here is the state of my site currently:
This all started just as something to keep a few skills up and expand into other IT type skills and is really fun and has just continued to expand.
Changes made:
- Moved Mainblog to my root web site so I can easily change web content on my main page. - My Mainblog has recent post titles from the rest of my Blogs and Photo Galleries.
- I dropped Photo Blog because it was redundant and I have 2 Photo Galleries already with Gallery2 being my main Photo Gallery since I can upload larger files without using other software to limit the size since it creates optimized thumbnails.
- Radio Blog now has the following capabilities:
o View Currently playing song
o View upcoming song
o Show last 5 songs that played with Album covers where available.
o Listen with Windows Media Player or Winamp over broadband or dial-up.
o Browse through list of songs and make requests that will play shortly after requested and the request will be listed on the site (these are not the music files which are stored on another server just the list)
o Make Dedications when you make requests. (Playlist & Requests -> Request -> Fill out Dedication -> Request.
o View the 5 most recent Dedications
o Click on info link to find out more about the artists and in some cases go to the artists web site.
o Backed by Mysql database just like my Blogs for more flexibility and easier manipulation of music play lists.
o The ability to pre-program with scripts and other methods to have specific music at specific times for instance when I wish to do a nice Quiet Storm late night set, Classic Hip-hop set etc... or even a lunch time or holiday set.
o I can also inject special sound affects over the air interactively whenever the mood strikes or its appropriate.
o I can now do talkovers easily if I choose to for whatever reason.
Home = Darryl’s Main blog - http://www.dhoytt.com
This is my entry page that’s now a Blog.
Snakeice’s Radio Blog - http://www.dhoytt.com/snake-ice-radio-blog/
Where I play music and you can listen, make request, dedications, find out about artists etc...
Darryl’s Sales Items - http://www.dhoytt.com/forsale/
Items I have for sale until I get my Mysql Commerce site up and running.
Photo Gallery - http://www.dhoytt.com/gallery/
Experimental Photo Gallery (I may use this for pictures I manipulate with imaging software).
Gallery2 Photos - http://www.dhoytt.com/gallery2/
My main listing of Photos I post for different events.
Future Changes in progress:
- Will have fully functional automated web store backed by Mysql with secure payment structure and the ability for customers to register and check their account details (this is mostly ready already but since I built and switched to another system and need to add more products its I’m not sharing that now)..
- Yes Local artists finally!
- Game server of some type I just haven’t decided on the game yet.
- A forum bulletin board for discussions and integrated with the Internet Radio and possibly the Blog and of course backed by Mysql (already ready to go but I want to play with it a bit more still). I will also integrate a discussion group of course for whichever game/s I decide to place on the site.
- Continuous changes to tighten up and improve.
Darryl Hoytt
AKA Snakeice