Monthly Archives: August 2005

Adventures with Maryn

And The Answer is….

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Today, we went in for our 20 week ultrasound.. in addition to confirming that Vegas is in good health.. this ultrasound is also the one where they are able to tell with any degree of certainty what sex the baby is.. and in case you couldn’t tell by the appearance of the blog*.. The ultrasound technician chickie confirmed what we found out at the previous ultrasound.. Vegas is not a puppy or an alien.. Vegas, in fact, is a healthy girl (err.. girl to be? soon to be girl? Ehh… you know what I mean)

(There was going to be a picture of the ultrasound here…but for some reason.. when I add pictures to a post…nothing is appearing except an empty square.. I’ll have to figure that out and post a picture later)

Look for posts in the future soliciting opinions on names…

*if you’re reading this after the 19th or 20th of August… the blog was pink for a few days..starting with this post.

Kael's Adventures

Birthday Day

While we were planning on taking Kael to the water park today… we got rained out… so we’re gonna try and do that tomorrow..

When he saw his new train table this morning, the kid went nuts.. he went running up to the table hollering “Trains! Trains! Trains!” The only way we were able to get him away from the table this morning, was to take him to Toys ‘R’ Us to spend a gift card he got… wanna guess what he got?

Yep… more trains…

Here’s a quick pic of him playing with the table.. more are available here.

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Kael's Adventures

2 Years old!

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Today is Kael’s second birthday!

We’ve been getting all nostalgic over the last couple of days, looking at old pictures of him (well..as old as pictures of a 2 year old can be)..and its amazing how far he’s come in 2 years.

He walks, he runs, he can hold complete conversations, he is strong willed, he’s got his own opinions and he definitely lets us know what his opinion is!

I’m still surprised that we haven’t screwed him up, especially considering how little I know about kids (other then they are stinky and sticky)

For his birthday, we got him a train table for him to play with his Thomas the Tank engine toys on..and we’re going to take him to one of the Water Parks in the area.. his “big” party is this weekend, when his friends, family, etc.. will be able to spoil him some more…

Current Events

Interesting Headlines

So, awhile ago, I was complaining about how protesters who were protesting something so pathetic, that the only way anyone would pay attention to them, was if they had naked people there. Today, I found an article where naked (or nearly naked people) were protesting something worth being naked for!

The reason for a sudden bout of nearly naked women in New York?

The 10 or so women gathered and showed nearly all to protest the arrest of Jill (Phoenix) Feeley, who said she was taken into custody this month after going half naked on the lower East Side.

and why is this protest worthy, and PETA isn’t? Because in New York.. its not illegal for women to go topless. (I know that at least in parts of Denver, its not illegal here either)

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Just Stuff

Uncrashing

After another relatively slow night at work.. I have yet another brilliant IM conversation to share, one of our customers had invented a new troubleshooting step… ‘uncrashing’

RP says: new term used…..”I had to uncrash it”

Dan says: what’d they do? delete windows?

RP says: no she said her son made the computer crash so she had to uncrash it

Dan says: she deleted her son?

RP says: no

Dan says: She should have..that would prevent future son crashings

RP says: lol

Dan says: this command, will uncrash any windows based system you run it on:

Dan says: Format C: /U /Y

Dan says: 100% Guarantee, no windows crashing your computer after that

RP says: lol funny

So.. while we’re still trying to figure out how this lady ‘uncrashed’ her computer.. we did have a good laugh about it..

I also got sent this link at work.. which loads up a pretty funny flash animation about SuperVillans and Linux…

Current Events

Bad Night?

And you thought you occasionally had a rough night when you were out. This guy managed to go out and get shot by police.. not just once…but twice during the same night! My favorite quote from the article:

“He refused to show his hands. Then he turned abruptly at the officer and the officer struck him in the same bad shoulder,” Turner said.

So..apparently the first time they shot him, he didn’t learn his lesson and surrender.. Now.. I may not be the world’s quickest learner.. but I’m thinking, that if a cop had just shot me, because I wasn’t listening to him.. well.. to me, that’d kinda be an attention getter..maybe make me stop what I was doing and listen to him.. but.. I suppose that could just be me…

Site Stuff

Movable Type Beta 4

Beta 4 was released on Friday… and it looks good. There’s a big list of bugs that were squashed in this update here. I’ve upgraded my test site to it, and its seems to be going well.. no problems with the upgrade.. this release came with the updated version of SpamLookup..

From the looks of things, I’d expect to see the final release of 3.2 by midweek.

Kael's Adventures

2 year Dr Appt

We took Kael to his 2 year doctor visit on Friday. Of course, Kael is in good health, he is only in like the 10th percentile for weight (which, means that 90% of 2 year olds weigh more then him)… but.. since he seems to have a really fast metabolism, I guess thats to be expected.. besides.. there’s nothing wrong with being skinny!

My favorite quote from the Doctor?

“He’s got the right amount of bruises on his legs”

Gotta be something they say, to help calm parents who think that someone will turn them in for child abuse because their toddler is a klutz

Kael's Adventures

Toddler Wisdom II

“Don’t drink the pool”

And since we were swimming at our parent tot class, in the water with a bunch of other kids (who probably have no more bladder control then Kael)… Very, very good words to pay attention to.