I have been so busy with other things lately, that my blogging has suffered immensely.  Hopefully, I can remedy this before All Hallow's Eve:

• I have made a conscious decision to give up sodas at home.  Since I refuse to suffer through diet sodas, it means that I will be drinking more juice, kool-aid, and water.  The reason for the change is simple:  I was drinking anywhere between 4-8 sodas a day at home.  Each soda contains 150 calories, so by removing sodas from my diet while at home, I expect to cut 600-900 calories from my intake each day.  I want to see what kind of impact that has on my waist line or if I will start eating more to fill the void.  I will not be removing sodas entirely from my diet, but by not having them at home, they won't play as large a role in what I drink.  We'll see what happens, but things are not starting out great.
• I ran into a very annoying problem this weekend.  I was working on some validation for a form and was having some seriously weird problems.  I wanted to create a simple script to validate all the fields on a form to make sure that there was something in each of them.  The problem was that each of the fieldnames contained a hyphen "-".  While the W3C says that this is completely legal, both IE and FF barfed when I tried to access the fields via document.forms[0].field-name.  Something else to keep in mind when building your forms.
• I had mentioned earlier that I had to get a new oven.  Our last one started beeping and displaying and ever so helpful "F7" error message on the digital display.  After searching the internet, this seems to be caused by the main control board failing.  After the issues some people have had on this range, I can understand why it might be fried.  As a replacement, we decided to go with another GE Profile range.  Let's hope this one doesn't have the same problem.  One feature of the range I got to try out for the first time was the built-in temperature probe.  Helped me cook a roast perfectly last night.
• As Phil has already mentioned, the NHL season has started again.  The Caps have brought in some new faces, so it will be interesting to see how the chemistry develops.  I already feel really good about the new uniforms.  I might even be willing to buy one of them.  I love the move back to the old style logo and the red, white, and blue.
• Is it just me, or should eHarmony really be called JustUglyPeople?

Any ways, I hope to keep this more current in the coming weeks.  Not promising anything though.