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Noah now has many more words that I can write down. They are still mostly only understood by me and Jonathan, but he's using his mouth to communicate. Most words have only the initial consonant and vowel sound (moo for "moose") and some have only part of the word (mo' for "remote") so much... (More)

Posted by joyful on June 7, 2008, 7:23 am
Category: Noah

Connect the Dots

Jonathan got a couple of connect the dots books for Christmas and has recently taken off with them. He can easily do the ones that go up to 25, and I made him a homemade one that went to 40. He likes to make his own and have me or Jon fill them out. Usually he does not label the dots with... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 26, 2008, 8:18 pm
Category: Jonathan

Jonathan's Shopping Trip

Life cereal was on sale for $2, and we found a $1 off coupon inside one box. So tonight, Jonathan bought a box of cereal with his own dollar bill. We all walked to the store together. Jonathan found the cereal aisle by himself and saw where the cereal was, but had Daddy reach up to... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 14, 2008, 8:01 pm
Category: Jonathan

ReleaseForge for SourceForge

I found a link to this application a while ago, but never took the time to check it out. Fortunately, it stuck in the back of my mind that there was a handy application, although even handier that I had saved my bookmarks from an old computer, because I couldn't remember the name, and I... (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 1, 2008, 4:22 pm
Category: Reviews

What Do People Search For?

I just updated Usermin, and so wanted to make sure that my custom modules didn't break. And in the process, poked around through my webalizer module, which shows the things that people type into search engines to end up at our blog as well as the number of hits for certain pages. ... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 19, 2008, 12:45 pm
Category: Reviews

Debian Installed Relatively Painlessly on my Sony Laptop

I am sure this will excite many of our normal readers, but I have finally (after four years) switched my laptop to Linux. Now that I am using it everyday, it is much nicer to be in this environment, instead of having putty windows all over the place. Perhaps if I had a better... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 28, 2008, 11:56 am
Category: Programming, Reviews

Note to Self

When a customer says that he has a smaller project than the one I just did, don't pay attention, and think about the quote, rather than simply estimating the time as less than the previous project. Yesterday, I did a project for a friend (one who let me have better access than average... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 20, 2008, 9:27 pm
Category: Programming

Phun Computer Programming for Jonathan

I found a nifty application (watch the youtube video for an idea of how it works) for playing around, and Jonathan and spent at least a couple hours today playing with it. It simulates gravity, friction, inertia and things like that. Jonathan enjoyed it and asked about it when we... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 8, 2008, 8:33 pm
Category: Reviews

House Search

As some of you know, we have been looking for a house for the last couple of months, and we think we have found one! I asked a couple guys from church to come look at it today, and give their thoughts, and they generally approved. Someday, I'll probably make the kitchen nicer (ie.... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 8, 2008, 8:23 pm
Category: General

Catch-up

2/9 - Jonathan: "What does special mean?" I say something about someone/thing that someone cares for. "How much do you care for me?" Well, I don't think I can really measure that. "Well, you may care for me abundantly. " 2/12 - Noah is putting the dipthongs into his "hi" and... (More)

Posted by joyful on March 5, 2008, 7:43 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah

Where Does The Time Go? (the numbers are even correct this time...)

Shortly after I posted the first analysis of my time , I realized that my hours per day calculation were kind of off, since I was counting 7 day weeks, and I basically never work on Sundays. As I am redoing the calculations, I see that I must have been doing something strange to try get... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 4, 2008, 11:58 am
Category: Reviews

Remote Access

I finally decided to buy a wireless card for my laptop that uses the cell phone network, as opposed to plain wi-fi. This will allow me to have more/better access when I am not in range of a wifi access point (say, hypothetically, if one were to travel to Middleburg, Virginia to a house... (More)

Posted by jondaley on February 23, 2008, 5:19 pm
Category: Reviews

Noah Will Be A Big Brother!

Last week (actually within the span of three days) four people asked me if I am pregnant. Really, you ask? Yes, really, they did. One of them was Jonathan, whom you have read has been praying fervently for a little sister, and has not yet learned that you don't ask women that... (More)

Posted by joyful on February 20, 2008, 11:38 am
Category: Pregnancy

Taxes

Whew... For some reason, taxes took longer than they have in other years. Part of the time was spent trying to get out of a federal tax penalty for not calculating the estimated taxes correctly. We spent 14.63 hours (courtesy of worklog ), mostly together working on them. I... (More)

Posted by jondaley on February 7, 2008, 12:47 pm
Category: General

One For All Universal Remote

One of my customers gave me an Amazon gift certificate for Christmas, and so I bought a geeky toy for myself ( One for All URC 8910 Universal Remote Control ), and a book for Heather and I ( Teach Them Diligently: How To Use The Scriptures In Child Trainin g). I haven't opened the... (More)

Posted by jondaley on January 27, 2008, 12:05 am
Category: Reviews