Ok ok, I've strung you all along for long enough. Our family is about to grow by another member! Jenni had an ultrasound done and everything is looking great; we are about 10 weeks along. This means an October due date. Here are the ultrasound pics:
hehe.. cheesy title for tips -n- tricks day. This should be a very good entry though.
LIFE CHANGING TIPS AND TRICKS!!!! Have a password? Of course you do, who doesn't these days. Here is an extremely important read for you, go ahead and click through to read the linked blog in the story too. Be safe with your information.
Vista is not doing to shabby. I've been using it on my main desktop at work since the enterprise edition launched and I have to say that I've been overall really pleased with it. This link is for Jenni, spiffy new medical tablet PC. If you work in health care, I'm sure you'd kill (figuratively) to get one of those. Do you fly often? Use text messaging on your mobile phone too? Here is some great info for you to help keep track of your flights, etc. Speaking of Google, there is an exciting rumor spinning about GDrive... JotSpot = new GDrive? I would love to have all my Google services wrapped in one beautiful little container so I'm extremely excited to see this kind of news, even if it is just a rumor.
The weekend was a blur, got a good amount of stuff done but it still seemed to go to quick. Did the quarter-round for the tile in the bathroom (will try to update a few pics this week in there), attached a steering wheel and telescope to Carson's clubhouse, fixed a few of the gutter spouts, and took Carson to the neighborhood Easter egg hunt.
Haffey strikes again with his links! Photos of wrong place/wrong time situations, on the adult meter the worst is a far away shot of some dudes butt. Speaking of Haffey, check out his new bike... hot.
Here's a funny link that Haffey sent me yesterday... funny stuff said in court. In honor of Haffey providing me so much material, I've added a new label "Haffey's Links"... in time I hope to go back through what I've already posted and add the label when necessary. This way you can target just the posts with "Links provided by Haffey"(tm).
I've been off work the last couple of days while tile was being laid in our master bathroom. I got some thing done around the house while the guys put down the tile... after we can mop it real good I'll take one more round of photos and just update this album.
I'm going to be building Carson's birthday present... a swing set/playset. We'll see about getting some pics of that up here afterwards. Afterwards we're going over to a friend's place for some celebrating, should be a good time.
I got my new PC! It's huge, I have named it BEAST. LOL Check out the pics. Next to a normal PC.
Generally speaking, a term from the ancient Roman calendar. The Ides fell on the 15th day of March, May, July, or October or the 13th day of any other month.[1] Thus the Ides of March was the 15th day of March.
Carson and I hung out yesterday and had a good time. We went to two different parks and generally just had a lot of fun in the really nice weather (I wore shorts!). Here's some pics I snapped.
Sorry to disappoint (HA).. but I most likely will not be making a post tomorrow. I'm taking the day off of work to hang out with Carson (he's on Spring Break from Daycare) and I will most likely be no where near a computer. So this Tuesday, late evening edition, will have to hold you over until Thursday.
So the US Government is going to give out coupons to people to help with the adoption of HDTV... that's ok I guess, as long as they actually do the switch. Hasn't it already been pushed back twice? Not that I'm overly excited at the possibility of them spending 1.5 billion dollars to help make sure everyone can receive TV signals but if they can verify the people they are giving the money to are paying taxes I have no problem.
I took a couple pictures today on the way home from work... Here's the Colt's complex Here's a close up of the banner Here's Eagle Creek Reservoir (with the dam in the distance) There's a few more of each of those types of pictures in the album there. Hope you all have a good Wednesday.
This day in history Johannes Kepler Discovers Third Law of Planetary Motion (1618) Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician who derived the three laws of planetary motion. His observations influenced Isaac Newton's later discovery of the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
I created a orkut profile and invited a couple people to be my friends... but looking at my list of email contacts maybe I just put it on here and those interested can contact me about an invite. From the site:
orkut.com is a new social networking service named for the Google engineer who developed it, Orkut Buyukkokten. (Orkut is easier to spell and pronounce than Buyukkokten.) It was created as an independent project to help people around the world connect.
Anyway, let me know if you are interested in joining up. It's like MySpace but less cluttered and less crazy unreadable profiles.
Wednesday is upon us... halfway to the weekend, well at noon anyway.
We're going to my friend James' wedding this weekend in French Lick, Indiana then driving to Edinburgh to stay the night and go to the outlet mall there on Sunday. Kind of a mini-vacation, we've been working on the house nearly every weekend so this will be a good break.
LIFE CHANGING TIPS AND TRICKS!!!! I'm seeing weather reports that are saying that Spring is on the way and that warmer weather is coming soon. In the meantime (was 5 here yesterday with windchill), here's some helpful information on saving someone that has fallen through some ice.
Peyton Manning celebrates his birthday as the host of SNL! I haven't watched a live airing of SNL in ages, this one I will be watching. I watched the IU vs. Northwestern game the other day... that was more thrilling than it needed to be. It was cool to see Wilmont break the IU 3 point record in a game though.
Haffey sent me a nice link on how to optimize your computer, whether you are running Vista or XP. Check it out. Thanks Haffey.
Noticing how sporadic my updates here are? lol This is where subscribing using the "Subscribe now" section on the right will help you out.. get notified using your preferred method when updates are made.
I think the feature stuff is fun, as it gives me extra motivation to post on the days where I have a specific feature... like Tips and Tricks or Friday Funnies. So I'm going to add one for Thursdays:
This day in history This should be a fun feature... I will put things things in this feature that happened within the last week that were of historical interest and/or humorous interest. For the first installment we'll stay on the serious side, but definitely interesting. On this day in 1692, the Salem Witch Trials began. There is a lot of interesting reading at that link, with a ton of external links if you really wanted to dig in to the subject.
On to techie stuff... Real time traffic updates with Google Maps? Very cool. Adobe is looking at releasing a web version of Photoshop... I'll be interested to see how they handle the access/licensing but this really is the direction a ton of software and services are going.
Have a CVS in your area? Slickdeals is reporting a deal from them for 30 free digital prints. Awesome.
I try normally not to embed videos on consecutive days but this is an amazing piece of hardware and I've watched the video about 4 times myself already.
Late entry: So as a parent, stories about daycare tend to catch my eye... This story on MSNBC is very interesting and a bit worrisome. I think we were very lucky to find such a GREAT daycare when we lived in Nebraska. After moving to Indiana our first daycare experience was horrible but have again been lucky that we were able to move him to the daycare where I work. It's an amazing daycare available for us to use and it keeps Carson close to me as well. I hope that other parents have all the luck we've had and none of the horrible experience.
