Abner's Space

LAST POST HERE!!!!

2009-05-30T03:14:00.000-07:00

I am now moving to a new domain. http://blog.abnergarza.com please visit my blog there. I have recently created my new blog on WordPress and I absolutely love it. Anyone who is looking for a wordpress site please let me know.

Thank the Lord

2009-04-30T16:01:00.000-07:00

First and foremost I want to Thank the Lord for all the wonderful things he does in our lives. I want the Thank him for keeping me and my family out of harms way. He has blessed us like no other, and most of all he has given me a loving family. With that being said I want to personally introduce my daughter Kaylee Elise Garza. You have probably already heard about her on my wife's blog, but being so busy I have not been able to update my blog. My daughter was born April 3, 2009 weighing 4lbs 6oz at about 3:35pm. She is so beautiful that most of the time I just want to eat her up! I Thank God for her because she is a blessing to mine and maggie's lives.

If you don't have a facebook account go get one. If you say well i already have a myspace account, well I got news for you MYSPACE is so last year. Facebook lets you really keep in touch with your friends and family. I am on there most of the day along with everyone else.

thats all for now
Abner

Schools are really killing creativity

2009-03-30T12:04:00.001-07:00

Watching this video really impacted my thinking. When he says "Someone else would have gave her some pills and told her to calm down" sometimes we have to keep our eyes open to creativity.

LMBO = Laughing My Butt Off and NSFK = Not Safe For Kids

2009-03-17T14:06:00.001-07:00

I just got done laughing my butt off with this video. This is probably the 10 or 20th time i've watched this video. If you actually pay attention to what he says, he is actaully a pretty smart guy even though his lyrics are gross or perverted. Anyways this is one of those guys who just started making video's on youtube and now is probably making a pretty good living doing that. Every time we watch his video we are making him money.

:) Enjoy

Digital Learners

2009-03-12T10:59:00.001-07:00

I have been watching these kinds of video's for a while, being in the Education realm of technology it has really opened my eyes. Teachers of tomorrow need to pay attention to whats going on around them and adapt instead of teach the same way they have been teaching for the last 100 years.

WARNING: This video is long

2009-03-11T17:21:00.000-07:00

I began watching most if not all of the TED video's after I saw this video. In this video Bill Gates the X-CEO of Microsoft is now trying to save the world. I was really intrigued by the second part of this video and think that he is moving in the right direction. If you ever get a chance take a look at some more TED video's.

Thanks
-Abner

Blogs in plain English

2009-03-10T13:22:00.000-07:00

I saw this video and really like the way it explains what a blog really is. I don't say this much because it sounds like I'm a THEORIST or something, but I really think we are at the verge of some big changes in the way we live. My next couple of posts will be these really good video's I find on youtube. I hope you can enjoy them.

Why the ads?

2009-03-09T11:56:00.000-07:00

Look i'm not a big fan of these stupid Google Ads, but yes they are purposely put on this page. Why? you might ask. Well they make me some extra money when you click on them. So if you want to support my blog you can click on the ads and just check the sites out. If you don't want to you don't have to, just skip over there, but they are there to make me money and all you really have to do is click on them. Now I know i'm not a great blogger, but there are some people that just live off these Google Ads. Every time you click them I get points, and when I get a certain amount of points I get a couple pennies.

Thanks

-abner

First Five by: Maggie Garza

2009-02-25T22:56:00.000-08:00

The first FIVE people to respond to this post will get something made by me (or my child)! My choice. For you. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2- What I create will be just for you.
3- It'll be done this year. (might be a little while)
4- You have no clue what it's going to be.It may be a story. It may be poetry, shoes, bags, or a little invention of my own! I may draw or paint something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
5- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange. Believe me... it may blow your mind!

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it! Sounds like fun, right? So, let's play!

-Abner

My new theme song

2009-02-11T12:58:00.000-08:00

This song is so me....

Happy Birthday to my beautiful wife

2009-01-29T09:05:00.001-08:00

I just wanted to take this time to say happy birthday to the love of my life. Maggie I love you in every way possible and I hope you have a great Day because it is your Birthday! It is so unbelievable to think we are having a baby in MAY! And I know that you will be the greatest mother to my child that could ever be. Thank you for being there for me whenever I need you and doing everything you do. Happy Birthday Hunny!

Oh yea and NANDO! I get so caught up with maggie that I seem to forget about my awesome brother -in-law Luis Fernando Gomez de Nuevo Leon. Maggie and Nando are twins! Happy Birthday man I hope your day goes good at school and at work.

Happy Birthday Happy Birthday Happy Birthday Happy Birthday Happy Birthday Happy Birthday Happy Birthday Happy Birthday Happy Birthday Happy Birthday Happy Birthday Happy Birthday Happy Birthday Happy Birthday

- Your husband

Windows 7 Beta Verdict

2009-01-28T17:00:00.000-08:00

Here at work we are windows based which means all of our computers have windows operating system on them. We usually run windows XP which is supposed to be the most stable operating system for microsoft. A few days ago my boss asked me if I wanted to install Windows 7 beta since he has been testing it on his home computer. I said sure I'll give it a shot. So here is a screen shot of it on my computer.

First impression was great. Boot-up time was super fast, thats always a plus. I installed a few things and install times seemed to be faster, shut down times as well were alot faster than XP. Faster boot up and shut down times mean happier people, so thats a big plus for windows. I have installed all my software now and I must say I'm impressed. Graphics are nice, and has alot of added features that FINALLY aren't copies of other operating systems. Although deep down inside I still think they want to be like Mac OS, I'll have to give them props for doing a pretty good job on this beta. Until further notice .... take care.

VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

2009-01-15T09:43:00.000-08:00

My wife has a poll of names for our up coming baby! Please vote.

P.S. I like Ari (pronounced in spanish)

Thanks! http://maggie-garza.blogspot.com

New office furniture! I am high maintenance.

2009-01-13T15:44:00.001-08:00

So after me and my officemate Eric got a new and improved office, we are just now getting our new furniture. Brutzmans came and assembled it and they looked very nice, only I didn't like facing the back wall of my office, so I graciously asked Eric if he would switch me desk's and he said ok. After switching desks I was a happy camper, and Eric turns around and says, " Man, your high mainenance." While I don't think i'm high maintenance, I did not want to face the wall with my back to the door. Well over all I love the new desks and though I'd take a picture of my new digs for you all.

Glad To be Back Home!

2009-01-08T14:56:00.000-08:00

Let me tell you that I am so glad to be back home. We packed up and headed for Mexico December 6th with a trailer and two four wheelers.
After a 48 hour drive with 4 hours of sleep we finally got to our destination of Mission, TX where we spent the night with my lovely sister Sandra ( Thanks Sandra for your Hospitality). Luckily my wonderful pregnant wife didn't get two cramped up on the road trip. The next day my wife went out shopping in the "centrito" which is spanish for the place to spend all your money on cheap stuff. My wife bought herself a nice purse because she was due for one.
And then off to the great country of MEXICO. We had a wonderful trip full of potholes and roads the width of my drive way. Finally we were home at my dad's house. We stayed in my brother Ben's room...
Wish I had better pics, but thats all we took. Needless to say the weather was really good, we had 85-90 degree weather most of the time with beautiful sunny skies.

Me and Grandpa Chon

Me Finding My Childhood Phone (I love that thing)

Freshly painted auditorium

Fireworks with Damian

My mom, Sandra, Maggie Making Tamales!!! MMMMM

Maggie, Vianey, Mom, Ema, Carrisa Having Fun

Mom, Eric/Aaron, Lil Hector, Abner/Maggie, Vianey, Brianna, Sandra, Hector

Dad Buying a Chivo

Crossing the Arrollo

Nando Hangin on way to tight with Mak

Me Planting Tree's and My brother Eric and My Dad standing there watching me

2 Words, BOMB FOOD

Maggie and Abuelita Mage

What else can you do at the 4 wheeler track?

Did some street racing

People at the Races How dirty my truck got with the roads over in mexico Bye Bye San Benito

So we finally came back another 48 hour drive with a 9 Hour break in Provo, UT Fairfield Inn. Thank God we made it back safely. To find out the next morning the the trailer tire was on the verge of blowing up because of damage. Anyhow we had alot of great times and now its time to get back into the daily grind.

Hello Pasco? Whats this white stuff? lol
There are more pics, but i'm tired of adding them. Maybe on myspace later on.

Silly Hats

2008-12-05T10:54:00.000-08:00

Here's me and my brother Ben and his son Bryson being silly.

Bryson

Its been a while....again.

2008-12-05T10:27:00.000-08:00

I haven't been so good at blogging like I should. I'm sorry, why lie I've been gaming. But let me tell you what I've been up to. Lately I got a piano and totally love to play around. I'm not into playing notes or songs, but I love playing tunes. I can now play part of the nut cracker theme, the supermario tune, and part of Beverly Hills Cop Theme song. I have been having alot of fun with this piano making some beats and stuff, I will post a video when I get a chance. Of course I have been doing alot of gaming playin halo3 with my brothers Eric, Josh, and Ben. I've also been trying to spend more time with my hunny bunny just because I love her so much. And just recently I have been really really sick. Thanksgiving was not very fun for me because I was feeling so sick. I was sick for about 5 days and then I got all better, but I pushed the limits while I was fixing my bike in fidel's shop because it was REALLY cold. So now I am still fighting off some sickness still. I will be going on vacation to MEXICO tomorrow, I pray that all will go well on our trip. Please keep us in our prayers and God Bless.

This is a picture of my game room

Here is a picture of my nightstand when I am sick

Byson's Birthday Party

2008-10-30T13:44:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Bryson!

Bryson is one of my favorite nephews. He's just like me, blunt, funny, and not shy. We had a party for him the other day and he started the party with a couple songs he likes to sing, one of them being "Joshua fought the battle of Jericho" with no shame in his game, he must be a Garza! Hope he likes his remote control car!

My dad is awesome!

2008-10-30T12:24:00.000-07:00

I'm not sure why I am so interested in this thing called a computer, but all I know is I've had one all my life. My dad bought us the first Commador 64 in 1984 when I was only 3 years old, which got stolen very quickly there after. The next computer we got was the IBM Tandy in 1986 i believe. This computer was very expensive and sported the dual disk drive that need a 5 1/4 disk to boot and another disk to run a command prompt and another disk to run an application. Needless to say it didn't have much of a hard drive or memory for that matter. Yet this was one of the coolest things we ever had. We would WOW our guests with printed booklets and signs with their personal names on them. We had a great program called PrintShop and it gave me such pleasure to create a sign or something fun with this program and print it on our super cool printer. I remember RSVP was the coolest font that we had. Anyways I think all this computer stuff gave me a head start on the technology world. I asked my dad a couple weeks ago "How did you know to buy us computers?" He said, " well my boss told me everything was moving to computers so I decided it would get you guys ahead of the game." And indeed he was right. My brother Ben works for a great company called Pacific Northwest National Laboratories as a Computer Scientist and I work for Educational Service District 123 as the Technology Support Specialist. I wonder, what would make my kids "ahead of the game" who knows, but I hope I can get them ahead of the game like my dad did.

Thanks Dad for getting us the tools for the future. My dad is awesome, he has always been a technology buff in his own way. He had a video camera early on, he had a sweet camera, and always had the coolest toys. He now owns a nice plasma tv and now one of the lastest and greatest Iphones. We recently went to the Seattle Apple Store and he took the plunge.

The New Macbooks were AWESOME to see!!!!!!!!!!

I am the GODFATHER!

2008-10-30T12:10:00.000-07:00

Fidel and Marissa are both my cousins, no not because they are married, they are both my first cousins! Weird isn't it. Well its not that weird because Fidel is my cousin on my dads side and Marissa on my moms side. They have both been the bestest of friends to me since we were really really little. They have this wonderful son his name is Aiden and they blessed us with the privilege of being his God Parents. Being a "God Parent" is a privilege and a blessing because you get to embrace the child as if it was your very own, but it really isn't! Great isn't it? Well thats not the only reason, the other reason is you get to instruct this child on the ritious path to heaven. We plan to do that with Aiden. Aiden just turned one and we had an awesome birthday party at The Pizza Factory. We watched a video of him as he grew from 1 month to 12 months. Wow babies get big fast. Anyways, if Aiden ever gets to read this, Happy First Birthday from your Godfather!

Ah my beautiful truck

2008-10-30T12:06:00.000-07:00

This is just a blog about my beautiful truck...
2007 Toyota Tacoma TRD Sport 4x4

MTV CRIBS

2008-10-30T11:57:00.000-07:00

Thanks to my buddy PJ we managed to finish our master closet. It looks like something out of MTV Cribs (of course i'm going to say that, I BUILT IT). Well it's not quiet finished, but it is good for now. It only took us two weeks to finally complete it, but we got it done. Here are some pictures of it and I will try to look for the "in the process" pictures.

His

Hers

Ours

Catching Up!

2008-10-30T10:56:00.000-07:00

Well lately it has been one of those times where I've been super busy at work and can't seem to find time to blog. Well I saw my wife blogging last night and I thought, she is really dedicated, maybe I should be to. I enjoy blogging and wish I could do it more often. So anyways here it goes.

The only reason I remember what i've done in the past month is due to a great invention by Apple called the Iphone. I know you guys have heard of it because if you haven't then you have been sitting under a rock. I randomly take pictures of interesting things and it helps me remember the fun times i've had. It nothing like having a camera at your fingertips all the time. Needless to say I think the Iphone is a great invention, but I'm just a geek.

To this day God has blessed me every second of every day. Thank you God! And one of the biggest blessings has been that we are having a baby!!!!!! I'm sure you all already know that but it has made me realize that God is wonderful and keeps blessing us. Here are some pictures and audio of our baby.

Blessing from above

2008-09-12T23:15:00.000-07:00

I just want everyone to know first and foremost that God has certainly provided for everything both needs and wants. I have to confess that i've been wanting and not really needing a pickup lately and we finally came across a really good deal. Tonight we took the plunge and bought a 2007 SHINY RED TRD TOYOTA TACOMA as pictured below. There will be more pictures to come, but for now we are at Nando's having some fun.

What is all this bird talk? Twitter?

2008-08-12T12:58:00.000-07:00

Ok enough with the twitter already! Twitter over here, twitter over there, I've heard so much about this twitter thing that I had to find out what it was. I went to twitter.com and found a video that explained it. It is a way of keeping up to date with what you are doing at the moment. It is not meant to be a blog or anything like that, but just a note to say I'm working, or at home, or watching tv, well you get the point. I made an account if any of you want to track what i'm doing constantly just go to http://www.twitter.com/wingman011 . Now everyone keeps asking me what is this twitter thing you speak of? I will point you to my blog. :)

This twitter would say "Smoking dad and eric at chinese checkers"

love, peace, and pizza grease :)

Playing with the macs at work....I mean testing the macs at work

2008-08-07T07:25:00.000-07:00

Ever wonder why everyone on myspace and msn messenger have these pictures with 4 squares of the same picture. Its probably because they have a program called photobooth on their apple computer. No I haven't bought a mac yet, but we recently bought 12 macbooks at work for a computer lab that we run and I was testing this photobooth feature. Here are the results.

New Dinning Table

2008-07-02T07:56:00.000-07:00

For months now we have been looking for a dinning table. Most stores like ashley's and walkers, and most other furniture stores in tri-cities had square, rectangle, or oval tables but no round tables! We were looking for a round table because we thought that would look the nicest in our dinning space. Finally we stumbled across a little place in pasco called "Casa Mia" and sure enough they had the table we were looking for. And for a good price to! Here it is.

Just call me the Godfather :)

2008-07-02T07:42:00.000-07:00

It was an honor for me when my best bud fidel (since we were babies) asked us to be his son Aiden X. Garza's Godparents. We presented Aiden in church on sunday and he was lookin like a stud (he gets that from the garza's of course).

Lets catch up for June-- Eric's Graduation!

2008-07-02T07:26:00.000-07:00

Eric my little big brother is finally graduated from high school and thankfully is going to Eastern Washington University this fall. Here is a picture of Eric graduating at othello high school :) Congrats to you ERIC!! We are all super duper proud man.

This Next picture was inspired by my sister Sandra! We wanted to take a picture with all the siblings and my sister sandra lives in texas so we decided to take her senior picture off the wall and take a picture with it. I thought it was halarious.

Fishing!!! Finally!!!

2008-06-21T22:11:00.000-07:00

Today my buddy Johnny and Steven took me fishing to the "private lake". I gotta say these guys usually catch bigger and better fish than me, but today I SMOOOOOOKED THEM. hahaha. It was great fun though and definitely want to go as often as I can this summer.

Spring Time is Finally HERE!

2008-04-17T08:25:00.000-07:00

I have been waiting for this time of year, well ALL YEAR. Finally it is here "Spring Time," birds chirping, sun shining, and of course lawn mowing. Mostly when I lived with my parents I hated to mow, of course we had like an acre to mow. Now i have like 3 ft of grass in the front and like 10 ft in the back and i'm done. I drove over to Lowes on the corner of 68 and Burden and was looking for a "weed wacker" or tirmmer if you will, they had everything from a 200 dollar, 4 stroke, weed eating MACHINE to a 30 dollar plug it in and go piece of crap. Of course with a tight budget and not a huge need for a trimmer I bought a 30 dollar plug it in and go trimmer. I had no idea but the stupid little trimmer is also a edge trimmer, and I gotta say i give it a 7 out of 10. That little thing worked pretty good. Here are the results.

I finally learned how to rubix

2008-01-15T14:54:00.000-08:00

Oh what fun it is to RIDE!

2008-01-14T09:22:00.000-08:00

Hang on babe!

This canal is deeper than the picture makes it look like...we all crossed it.

Fidel and his Family

Me and My Wifey

Fidel jumping on my ride

Oh man this weekend was awesome!! Me and my beautiful wife went to Othello this weekend for some fun in the snow. We headed over to my cousin Fidels, who is blessed with four wheelers, and we did some awesome trail riding! We also hooked up a sled and did some sleddding which proved to be not so fun when your cousin runs you into a tire unexpectedly! HAHAHA I almost bit off my tounge which I cant taste anything out of now and almost broke my tail bone. All was fun anyways and I jumped back on the horse to finish off the day. Its fun being a kid, so for now no kids for me!

Have a great day
Abner

Happy 2008

2008-01-04T07:58:00.000-08:00

I just want to wish everyone a happy new year. My prayer for everyone that I know to have a great year. Last year someone must have been praying for me because it was a huge year for me and my new wife. We got married, moved twice, bought a car, furnished a house, and changed jobs about 3 times all in one year. Finally we are where we wanted to be. I give all the thanks to my Lord God Almighty.

Amen

-Abner

2007-12-06T13:22:00.001-08:00

This is my cousin and good friend Luz. He has informed me that my last blog was a little bit road-ragey. This ones for you LUZ!

Our new Kitchen
I actually just wanted to post up a picture of our new fridge and micro-hood, of course our dream is to have every appliance in the kitchen stainless steel. The fridge we got is a LG with a stainless look which I really like because you can actually stick a magnet to, and the other ones you can not stick magnets to. Another feature this fridge has is "no finger print marks" if you touch it you don't leave your finger prints behind. Well while we were at best buy trying to get the best deal I could (which I think I did get a good deal) he also told me that he could give me a good price on a micro-hood. I ended up getting both and I think they look awesome in our new kitchen.

My Very First House

2007-11-29T11:36:00.000-08:00

Well to start off with I want to Thank the Lord God all mighty for everything that he provides for us. God willing I will be purchasing my first house starting today. Hopefully all the paper work will go through today and we will start actually taking the keys into our possession today. So you know what that means, bring your trucks and boxes because we are MOVING! Anyways its a three bedroom 1880 sq ft. house with a 2 car garage. Needless to say I hope to have this house transformed into the house of the future soon with a HTPC (home theater PC) and many other goodies to come. Oh and did I mention I"M SUPER EXCITED!!!!
-Abner

Need I say more

2007-09-25T12:55:00.000-07:00

I don't even have to write in this blog....

Margarita Garza!

2007-09-08T11:40:00.000-07:00

Margarita what a wonderful name. Of course the name of my beautiful wife. I just want to tell her that I really love her! Maggie (short for margarita) just got a great job at the Boys and Girls club as the assistant coordinator. Congradulations BABE! I'm so proud of her doing what she loves to do and still going to WSU-tricities full time and being my wife.

-Abner

I miss my Dog

2007-09-04T13:00:00.000-07:00

Coming from a person that didn't ever like animals, I miss my dog. Mavrick now belongs to Donny a friend of mine since I couldn't have him in our new apartment. I took him camping with us this weekend and man we had a blast together.

Camping at Cascade Peaks

2007-09-04T08:26:00.000-07:00

Camping? well I meant to say RVing. My cousin Fidel invited me and my wife to go with his family Rving this weekend. We had a blast. The Camp site was AMAZING very nice tree's, no bugs, perfect weather, just an all around perfect time. We had all the amenities as a house since he took his RV and well as it wasn't so much camping it was a great experience. My brother josh and his family and friends were there as well in the camp site across the way from us. When we arrived at our camp site his wife had food for us and let me tell you was it GREAT. Theres nothing better than some great meat with tortillas and arroz. MMMMMMMMMMMMMM

If you wanted to know more about Cascade Peaks on labor day weekend, it is a place where you can sit back and relax and enjoy the trees and great weather. On labor day weekend there are tons of people that gather at a town called pacwood about 8 miles before you get to cascade peaks. These people bring all their stuff and have a huge yard sale, and I'm talkin HUGE like city wide. Other than that there was probably a few hiking places that I didn't take advantage of near by and maybe a few streams I didn't see, but other than that I sat back and just enjoyed the outdoors.

Current Development

2007-08-26T08:07:00.000-07:00

I am working on my personal site to make it more appealing to future employers. I do not plan on ever moving fromt he current job I have, but I like to have a backup plan just in case. As of today my site seems out of date and not something that appeals to anyone at this point in time. To the right is a sample of something I have been creating. This site is a very simple and gets straight to the point. I hope to get this done on my spare time, but the key words are "spare time", I never seem to have any spare time to just work on something like this now that I have a beautiful wife at home that loves to cuddle with me. Which brings me to another point, I've been married for a month and six days woooohooooo! Hey thats longer than alot of people on tv. Anyways I better get back to my wife. Thanks for stoppin by.

-Abner

First Blog Ever

2007-08-24T14:40:00.000-07:00

Blog? Whats a blog? Well according to wikipedia "A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog." Better said its somewhere to post whatever I want in order of when it happened.

As I search for a cool place to put my pictures up and maybe write a little about them, I found that my brother Ben was with this cool place blogger.com. I really like the themes that they have and enjoy the no-ad blog. All in all I welcome you to my very first blog EVER!

-Abner