Happy Birthdays

Happy birthday to my wife who turns old…. er today. Heh, she’d kill me if I told the world how old she really is. All I can say is that she is older than me! lol So make sure you wish her a happy birthday.

Also, a happy birthday to our dog, Oskar. He turns one year old today. That’s 10.5 dog years!

House Broken Into, Stuff Stolen

Yesterday afternoon between about 12pm and 2pm someone broke into our house. Witnesses saw a male and female on our property with a dark (possibly red) vehicle. Looks like they entered the back yard from the driveway through the side fence,
made their way to the back porch, and then kicked in the back door.

They snatched about $2,500 worth of things, mainly games for the Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 2. They also took off with a couple of controllers, my Nintendo Wii, some DVDs, and the media trays that the games were sitting in. Thankfully they didn’t take anything else, despite the number of things in the general area that they were in.

They also didn’t harm our dog, which is pinned in the area where the back door is. I don’t know what I would have done had he been hurt.

Police believe that it was kids/teens that live in the area or were sitting close by watching the house, as they broke in when I left for the grocery store.

Some Stats About d3bruts1d.com

I was looking at my site’s stats for the past year via Google Analytics, and found some interesting stats. Well, at least they were interesting to me, you might not care one bit about them. :p According to the data reported:

  •  I’ve received 2x more traffic from Neowin.net than I have from OverclockersClub.com. I’ve only been active at Neowin since about May.
  • I’ve received almost as much traffic from my wife’s blog as I have from OverclockersClub.com.
  • Since switching to WordPress traffic appears to have increased. – Though this is more likely due to the fact that I’m posting more.
  • Yahoo brings in about 10% more search traffic than Google.
  • Altavista, which brings in very little traffic, still brings in more than Live and Ask.com combined.
  • The most popular search term is “viewmymessage.com”, which I was complaining about in this post.
  • Aside from the index or main page, the most popular pages here are the ones talking about Trillian Astra.

Christmas Again, So Soon?

Well, we now have two of our Christmas’ out of the way. The wife and I opened our gifts tonight. Usually, I’d make her wait till a little closer to Christmas… and by a little closer to, I mean after. :p Now we just have Christmas at my grandfather’s house (mom, step-dad, brother, aunt, uncle, grandfather, and cousins), though that isn’t really for me as much as it is for him. Of course, getting to go and see him is more than enough for me. He’s the best! After Christmas there, then I get to have it with my mom (and brother, step-brother, and step-dad). But I’m still not done after that, sometime in the new year (probably July, lol) I’ll go see my dad and step-mom and have Christmas there.

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