Chuck's Blog

Sometimes it is time

2012-04-16T18:30:00Z

Building a business is hard work. In high school my dad came home from a business trip, sat the family down at the dinner table and said he was starting his own business. Over the next 10 plus years I watched my dad build 2 businesses (they were both franchises of Jersey Mikes ) and I feel blessed to have worked as one of his employees. There were many late nights, long hours, and coming home smelling like banana peppers, onions and bleach. I wouldn't trade it for the world. It made me who I am....(read more)

Response from Jim Webb

2009-05-19T14:24:00Z

Once again, I'm amazed at how shortsighted our leaders are when it comes to fiscal responsibility for our nation. Here is a response I received from my Senator, The Honorable Jim Webb after sending him a note several months ago. Dear Mr. Boyer: Thank you for contacting my office regarding federal spending and the budget. The fiscal year 2010 budget was passed against the backdrop of one of the worst recessions in this nation's history and, while imperfect, it reflects that harsh reality. The budget...(read more)

An open letter to America on Fiscal Responsibility

2009-02-25T12:10:00Z

With all that has been going on these last couple of years with our economic times, I feel the call to write about the problem in a clear and concise manner. You won't hear any thing about derivative securities or sub prime mortgages or [insert industry here -- banking, auto, etc] bail out. Let me be as clear as possible and bring it back to 5th grade math. Do not spend more than you make. What you do not spend, save. My kindergartener had a hard lesson yesterday at the the elementary school book...(read more)

Apple releases a new product

2009-01-08T12:05:00Z

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard...(read more)

America's (lack of) defense under Obama

2008-07-14T17:18:00Z

Obama's plan for your national defense:...(read more)

Save a Life

2008-07-05T11:30:00Z

http://www.nothingbutnets.net/...(read more)

3 Ways to Lower Gas Prices - From Americansolutions.com

2008-07-03T09:09:00Z

American Solutions...(read more)

Resize MS VPC Virtual Hard Disk

2008-07-02T17:52:00Z

Well, I ran out of disk space today on my VPC image that I do a lot of my software development on specifically for SiteOrganic. A quick Google search lead me to vmtoolkit.com . After running the VHD Resizer and following the steps in this post everything is hunky dory. My host OS is Vista Ultimate and my Virtual OS is Windows 2003 Server Here were the steps I used: Ran VHD Resizer to go from a 10 GB volume to a 20 GB volume In the VPC settings, set the new vhd file as a secondary drive Boot using...(read more)

Fishing at the lake

2008-05-05T01:14:00Z

We had a bit of an impromptu trip out to Lake Frederick to see the Boyer grandparents today. The kids had a fun time and as you can see, Sammie caught her first 2 fishies!...(read more)

Building - Week 11

2008-05-05T01:08:00Z

Here we are, week 11. Wow how time flies, just 10 days until we do our final walk through. Batteries were running a bit low on the camera this weekend so we didn't have quite as many pictures to choose from to share with you. The ones we do have are pretty good though. You can check them out here . Most of the light fixtures are in, still waiting on some kitchen appliances, and the flooring to go in. I would guess that flooring will be this week some time....(read more)

Building - Week 10

2008-04-28T01:00:00Z

Wow! Has it been that long since I wrote an update on the house? We've been quite busy as a family with a trip to the beach, illnesses, and a trip to Pittsburgh to visit family. The crew has been busy on the house in our absence though and they've made wonderful progress. It is official, we do our final walkthrough on May 15 and settlement is on May 22. That's right, in about a month we'll be moving in! Anyway feel free to check out some new pictures ....(read more)

Virginia Tech...one year later.

2008-04-16T11:56:00Z

Hard to believe it has been a year. http://www.remembrance.vt.edu/...(read more)

Building - Week 6

2008-04-08T00:03:00Z

Well, this post is a bit late (acutally in week 7 now) but we went on vacation this weekend to Kure Beach, NC to get a break from everything. Here are some pictures for this week. Most of the ones we took were for the pre drywall inspection for wiring and plumbing. The big change you'll probably notice is the brick front! ....(read more)

Bible proving Science

2008-03-31T17:36:00Z

It is amazing to me that the more we discover using Scientific techniques how much more clear the Bible becomes. Here is an article on Foxnews.com about an eye witness account of the distruction of Sodom and Gomorrah....(read more)

Hulu

2008-03-22T16:37:00Z

Now we know why NBC was so zealous last year about having Saturday Night Live clips taken off of YouTube . They released Hulu last week to the public and I have to say they've done a wonderful job. The site is easy to use and the video quality is excellent. Check it out at www.hulu.com...(read more)