Oh yeah.. the Stargate influence on the lettering in the center banner? (The letter A, done in a Stargate font)… that’s all Janice’s fault.. she’s become a Stargate geek! in fact, she even made me change the ringer on her phone to the Stargate theme music!
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New Layout
As you can (hopefully) tell.. I’ve changed the site layout.
Instead of waiting for the final MT 3.2, I went ahead and upgraded to the beta 5 build. I’d been running it (the beta) for awhile with no problems, so here’s hoping it continues to be problem free. Janice’s blog, has been upgraded to 3.2b5 as well.. so if you haven’t seen a default template for 3.2 yet, head over there.
In addition to the MT upgrade, I’ve changed the style sheet.. I know its hosed on Internet Exploder..but, what do you expect? IE doesn’t support w3c standards yet (and if I remove all the ads, this page will validate against standards). I did test it in both Firefox and Safari for Mac, and it looks good there, so let me know what you think about the new look. Also, I’ve switched to dynamic publishing for all the individual entries, so let me know if anything seems sluggish..it hasn’t in any of the testing…but.. this is now the real world..so who knows what’ll break =)
Name Suggestions
So, now that we know Vegas is a she, we can really start coming up with names to argue about. Here’s a quick list of names I like, and I’m pretty sure Janice will have some up on her blog soon..
Maryn Jaina
Asajj Jade
Mara Jade
Vegas Gold (Ok.. really.. I wouldn’t do that to the kid… but… its a good stripper name)
Aeryn Jaina
And.. um.. really.. that’s about it that I can think of..
And of course, Kael’s suggestion of Yoda is still in the running… but I’m having a hard time coming up with a middle name for that one..
Playing with trains
Kael and I were playing with his trains, on his train table this afternoon. All of a sudden, he stands up, looks at me and says “I go look at one thing real quick”.
He then goes and runs over to my chair, climbs up, and starts mousing and clicking around. (I think he even managed to refresh the Six Apart webpage), He then turns and looks at me, says “I looked at one more thing” climbs down from the chair, runs back over to the table and starts playing again…
My son.. the geek
Or..Maybe not
Looks like I spoke to soon last night.. 6A is releasing beta 5 today, not the ‘final’ version of MT 3.2… so, it looks like I may get to upgrade this site to beta 5, so I can make sure I get all the templates and stuff updated while I have time… Which is ok, because as easy and smooth as these upgrades have been, going from beta 5 to the ‘final’ 3.2 should be painless
MT 3.2
Looks like Six-Apart may be releasing the non-beta version of MT 3.2 as early as tomorrow. At least, they probably will, unless someone finds a showstopping bug. According to this entry on 6A’s beta blog…this is the last chance to file a bug report for the beta..I think its ready.. I’m running 3.2b4 on a seperate install for testing…and it seems pretty solid to me, the one bug I did find during beta was promptly squashed in one of the nightlies…so I’m hoping they’ll release it tomorrow..so I can do the upgrade and new templates/css while still on vacation….
Don’t forget to backup your database before upgrading!
Water Park
Since we got rained out yesterday, we decided to head on over to the water park today. Kael was… overwhelmed by the number of people there, and all the running and screaming and stuff, initially. So he started out not enjoying himself too much..but after he relaxed he started having fun.
His favorite attraction, was the “lazy river” (incase its called something else in other places.. its the big, slow moving, sit on a inner tube and float ride).. he had a blast.. he was rocking in my lap, trying to get us to go faster, singing “row, row, row your boat” and “wheels on the bus” waving to the lifeguards, waving to Janice, and just laughing…we musta floated in circles for an hour before he decided he was ready to get out..
It was fun, and I’m sure we’ll be taking him again…
And The Answer is….
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.
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.
2 Years old!
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…