Well I spend way to much time building a new virtual machine and migrating 98% of the content for two domains to it only to have my ISP of almost eight years, www.Visi.com pull the plug on all of their Frontier Communications customers. I cannot blame Visi, they made a business decision based on 150 customers in the Frontier phone service area and Frontier probably pricing them out of profitability. The short version of the outcome is I have decided to go with www.Arvixe.com as a hosting provider and I am switching from DSL to Cable Modem service.

Well being unemployed for some time now, besides taking care of the kids while looking for a job from home, I was trying to keep my mind active and ready for work. I took the time to build a few virtual machines, restructure my bizarre home network a bit and install Drupal to migrate my main website. I also have begun upgrading my gallery install, adding the genealogy content Karen has accumulated though suite called PhpGedView and migrated some other things to make things better.

It has been a long time since I have had an oppertunity to update this page. BIG NEWS - Karen and I are parents a second time with our latest addition to our family. Evan James Haley has joined us as of Tuesday December 27th, 2005. Born at 4:12 PM he weighs in at 7 pounds, 1 ounce, with a total length of 20 inches. Pictures have been added for all to see here in the new album for Evan James.

Well for those of you who did not know, I was unemployed for five months, but I have landed a new job I started last week at Norstan. On the bright side, that did leave me nine weeks to spend with my new son Sean and help Karen on her maternity leave. Karen and I have repainted the living room to have only one wall color instead of the five we had when we moved in. I have also moved TheHaleyHouse.com to a new server that should provide some better performance along with the DSL speed upgrade Frontier and VISI.com have provided me for free.

Karen and I have been busy preparing for our first child to arrive and have been distracted from many of the things we want to do. Since we have move in to our house, we have painted two bedrooms and one bathroom. We have our sights on the living room next as there are five shades of tan in there. The nursery is one of the bedrooms that we painted, and is ready for our first child.

The holidays are almost here, and the turkey has already been eaten. Karen is doing well, and so am I, Jim. We have setup our Christmas tree already, and we celebrated St. Nick's last weekend. St. Nick's is a holiday that is not often celebrated in the Twin Cities, but it is one that I grew up with in Milwaukee, so Karen and I have agreed to continue it. After all, it was the day that I proposed to her on two years ago....

We are in our new house as of 7/13/2003, and have our phone as of 7/17/2003 and finally got the DSL up as of 7/24/2003. Lack of communication and a faulty port on the DSLAM ended up delaying the DSL until today. VISI.com was great at dealing with this, and Frontier was like most Telcos, but they got it done. I now have three Speedstream DSL modems that I have no intension of using as well. My apologies to Tobin, Kyle, and everyone else for having the DSL be down for nine days instead of one hour. Both domains are back up and running.