Monthly Archives: February 2006

Adventures with Maryn

Pertussis

Maryn spent this past Wedsnday-Friday in the hospital. We took her in to the Dr. because she’d been vomiting up almost everything she ate..the Dr. sent us to Children’s Hospital ER to get IV fluids so she wouldn’t dehydrate.

The ER did everything except hook her up to fluids… and eventually admitted her to the hospital proper.. we found out Thursday morning she had Pertussis (Whooping Cough). At her age..it can be lethal! =(

She’s home, and doing ok.. an interesting tidbit we found out while in the hospital.. Colorado ranks 49th in regards to % of children vaccinated.. so.. people not vaccinating their kids… put mine in the hospital.

If you’re a parent.. Vaccinate your kid dammit! it protects EVERYONE….

Adventures with Maryn

Rants!

angry at a couple of things right now-

1- Tivo – Yes.. they have a great product.. yes It’d be hard for me to give it up.. but c’mon guys..get your shit together.. you keep promising Mac support for TiVo2Go since its release over a year ago.. and your most recent update to the Tivo Desktop for Mac.. did shit.. absolutely nothing (well..it did make it so it could be installed under Tiger…and only about 6 months after Tiger came out.. good job guys! way to be responsive!) yet your executives keep spouting soon.. its been over a year..anything after a month doesn’t qualify as ‘soon’ so stop saying soon, and just admit that since you chose to use a craptacular DRM based on windows media player 10.. you’re never going to be able to give us this feature…yet you keep charging us for the same level of service as windows users.. so at least give Mac users a discount on monthly service, since we can’t use all your advertised features…

2 – aggrowear.com – Don’t buy from these yahoos..ever.. I tried to order something from there on the 4th.. and they proceeded to promptly charge me.. but won’t ship the product, won’t respond to requests for information, and won’t cancel the order and refund my money either — so today.. I disputed the charge with my bank.. at least I’ll get my money back on this one.

3 – Parents that don’t vaccinate! see this

Just Stuff

Wedding Contract

I saw this over that The Smoking Gun today…

And if you ignore the whole “on trial for kidnapping” thing.. the guy writes a pretty good contract.. I think as a belated anniversary thing.. I’m going to have Janice sign this..

Some of my favorite parts of the ‘contract’:

setting aside 3 hours every night for “my time”, and including specific don’ts that aren’t allowed during that time (Don’t raise your voice, don’t be condescending, don’t whine) along with specific Do’s (Totally obedient, Cheerful and adoring)

Selection of sleepwear (although, this is where some of the guys contract writing skills fall apart.. earlier on, he says that the wife must be nekkid within 20 minutes of the kids going to bed.. in the sleepwear section, he says the wife must be in her jammies within 20 minutes of the kids going to bed), really, he should have checked better for consistency..

Does make you wonder how the wife is not on trial for murdering him..I wouldn’t even imagine giving this to Janice (as anything other then a joke)

Adventures with Maryn

the thanks I get

So, I’m sitting there, holding Maryn in my lap while checking my email, and doing a little web surfing..

you know what the little stinker did? do you?

She pooped on me..and I’m not talking about she pooped in her diaper while sitting on my lap..

No..the little stinker had a explosive, lift you six inches up poop.. shit came leaking out of all ends of her diaper (litterally!) She got me, the chair, the carpet, her pants, her shirt..and her hair (I’m not really sure how she managed that one)

I buy her clothes and other nice things, and this is the thanks I get?

Kids…..

Adventures with Maryn

V-Day

As I’m sure you’re all aware, today is(was) Valentine’s day:

Pizzapievd

When The Moon Hits your eye like a big pizza pie….

Picture came from my crazy friend Cindy….

And remember ladies..if your guy was good to you today.. you be good to him on March 14th (steakandabjday)

Adventures with Maryn

Explosively good time

Did you know they make exploding Condoms? Me neither.. thats gotta be worse then that old exploding gum thing..

This lady decided to mail a bunch of exploding condoms to a strip club she used to work at (apparently, her tips were not that good)

from the article:

A former strip club waitress mailed condoms filled with a potentially explosive mixture to a television station, strip clubs and other places, saying she was tired of being mistreated by men, according to court documents.

News flash Bimbo.. if you don’t want to be “mistreated” by men.. don’t work at a club were there are mostly naked women.. that does have a tendency to make guys a bit more crass and less polite then they might normally be.. something about all the blood pooling in the wrong head…

Apple

World of Warcraft goes Universal

Blizzard released a patch today to bring WoW up to 1.9.3, this patch, also turns it into a universal binary. So, if you play WoW and you’ve got one of the new x86 iMacs… get to patching, then when Blizzards lets you log in to play again (after the maintenance window is done) you’ll be playing with a native client (and then post somewhere what kinds of fps you get, settings etc..) err… of course.. that’s assuming that things will actually work after this weeks scheduled maintenance.. which hasn’t been the case for the last month or so… so maybe you better just plan on playing tomorrow

Just Stuff

Darwin Award Candidates

Found this article yesterday about two people doing their best to be in the Darwin Awards for this year. From the article:

The two told Sheridan Police officers that a balloon filled with acetylene exploded in the back seat of the car. Acetylene is a highly flammable gas used in welding.

The two people filled the balloon with the gas in hopes of blowing it up at a Super Bowl party. The balloon exploded after rolling across the car’s backseat.

Yep.. you read that right.. these morons filled a balloon with a flammable gas used in welding (you know that is lit by a spark) and let it roll around to gather up static electricity.. and then they were apparently surprised that it exploded. Unfortunetly, despite their best efforts, they are not going to be qualified for this years Darwin Awards (yet, I’d image we’ll hear from these two geniuses again).since they lived through their stupidity…

Kael's Adventures

Toddler Wisdom 13

“I can turn it down with my ears.”

While out running errands yesterday, we were listening to one of our iPods (oddly enough it was some of Kael’s music that we were listening to) and after telling us he wanted it louder, he decided it was to loud and should be quieter. He tells us he can turn it down with his ears, and we look back to see him sticking his fingers in his ears.