Daley Ponderings | November 2004

What Religion Best Suits You?

I ran across a 100% accurate quiz to show what religion you believe in. (:
I scored True Christian: (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on November 22, 2004, 3:05 pm | Read 55816 times | Comments (5)
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Our DSL went down and Jon called me and did a three way with Speakeasy to see what was going on. After trying a couple of things that did not work, Jon mentioned that it was raining, but not lightning. I went to the window to check things out, and I saw a Verizon guy up at the telephone pole. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on November 19, 2004, 11:30 am | Read 3341 times | Comments (0)
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Thinking of Isaac on Jonathan's Birthday

This morning, I received a card from my parents letting me know that they will always remember Isaac and that they had given a gift to World Vision in his honor.
Then, this afternoon, I was listening to Stacey Regan's CD, which of course includes I Offer My Isaac. The lyrics can be found here. The version on the CD also has a heartrending bagpipe prelude.
I haven't cried for Isaac in a long time. Jonathan was very sweet, rubbing noses with me and letting me hold him close.

Posted by Heather Daley on November 18, 2004, 5:07 pm | Read 3586 times | Comments (0)
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Birthday Fun

Today Jonathan put on a show for me. He had a plastic lei and was dancing around with it, putting it on and off, and generally making a silly time of it. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on November 18, 2004, 4:57 pm | Read 4942 times | Comments (0)
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Flabbergasted Cable Guy

A Comcast guy came to the door yesterday. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on November 18, 2004, 9:09 am | Read 10950 times | Comments (3)
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Test Director Problems

For those of you who have successfully installed Mercury's Test Director, and have it die suddenly, you need to check the IIS/NTFS permissions. (Note, for those of you asking questions, you should read all four pages of comments - there are various questions and answers given throughout the comments, and you will be able to get your answer quicker than waiting for someone to see your question) (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on November 17, 2004, 9:45 am | Read 46416 times | Comments (98)
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J-J-J

Is, I think, what Jonathan says for his name. He has said J-J in the mirror before. After shuffling his family bits the last time, the Jonathan bit came up in front, and is easily visible in the file rack. Just now, Jonathan went up to it, pointed at it, and said, "J-J-J" with the syllabic inflections just as we would say "Jonathan."

Posted by Heather Daley on November 16, 2004, 5:11 pm | Read 4436 times | Comments (1)
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Family Bits

Jonathan's most recent set of family bits includes the people he knows best - Daddy, Mommy, and Jonathan. The Daddy and Jonathan bits, especially, get a big smile and happy sound when he sees them. When one of those happens to be the last one, he exclaims and points joyously, saying "Daddy!" or the sounds he makes when looking at himself in the mirror. (see next post.)

Posted by Heather Daley on November 16, 2004, 5:07 pm | Read 2336 times | Comments (1)
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Down Stairs, Hooray!

Jonathan climbed down the stairs all by himself - beginning with turning himself around at the top, which was the limiting factor in his previous attempts. Very soon, I think, we will take the gates away.

This success was from the third floor to the second, which has the (more easily) removable gate. I think the other gates are hindering him from turning around because of the thresholds.

This ability to climb the stairs himself makes my job much easier - now I can carry stuff in both hands, thus, I can carry more, and have fewer trips to make!

Posted by Heather Daley on November 15, 2004, 11:09 am | Read 2594 times | Comments (1)
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Daley Visit

Grammy and Auntie E are in Pittsburgh for the weekend, and an early one year birthday for Jonathan. His accomplishments while they were here: (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on November 12, 2004, 9:22 pm | Read 2670 times | Comments (0)
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Great Word

Last night, our four-year-old friend William was telling us about the state of their basement playroom. "You don't want to go downstairs, it's a disastrophe!"

Posted by Heather Daley on November 5, 2004, 12:52 pm | Read 3162 times | Comments (0)
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Spam: In Perspective

A friend of ours was complaining about spam, and Heather agreed, and said she had been getting tons of spam lately. I questioned her on that, since I am in charge of the filters that filter our spam, and I think they do a pretty good job: maybe 15-20 spams got through in the last two years.
She said, well, I got one yesterday, and one today.

Posted by Jon Daley on November 4, 2004, 11:19 pm | Read 9399 times | Comments (0)
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Google Features

I just discovered another nifty feature of the Google search engine. You can paste in UPS and USPS tracking numbers, and will automatically provide you a link to the appropriate site, so you can track your package. (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on November 4, 2004, 11:12 pm | Read 11603 times | Comments (1)
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Jonathan's First Election

I went to vote this morning on the way to Women's Bible Study. The most interesting part was that Jonathan somehow got ahold of the "Independent" label from the voting machine and was chewing on it when we got back outside. I thought I had kept him from touching it! I gave it back to one of the ladies there, but it wasn't really useable any more. I hope we didn't mess anything up.

Posted by Heather Daley on November 2, 2004, 1:13 pm | Read 2517 times | Comments (1)
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"Oops!"

Jonathan has started saying, "Oops!". He learned that at the progressive dinner where one of the college guys was playing with him, shooting a matchbox car back and forth across the room. One time it hit a cord lying on the floor, so it didn't make it to Jonathan, and the guy said, "Oops". Jonathan repeated it a couple times immediately, but now has said it quite frequently over the last couple of days.

It sounds like "upths" where the "u" sounds as in "put" and the lisp is only slight.

Posted by Heather Daley on November 2, 2004, 1:08 pm | Read 2359 times | Comments (0)
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