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It seems to be the idea this year to release the April Fool's day jokes early, perhaps to give them more credibility, or maybe simply to join with the Australians. I hadn't heard of the spaghetti tree joke before, but that is a pretty good one. I showed Jonathan and Noah the... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 1, 2008, 10:39 am
Category: Reviews

Easter Stargazing

We had Easter dinner at the Venables with four families (total.) It was a fun time and we got home after it was fully dark. As I was getting Noah out of the car I noticed that the sky was perfectly clear and the stars were shining as much as you can expect in a city. I saw... (More)

Posted by joyful on March 23, 2008, 9:00 pm
Category: General, Jonathan

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

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

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

Christmas/Vacation/Home Again

Can I condense three weeks of activities into one post? We'll see how it turns out. One thing we discovered at Christmastime is that Noah loves cocktail sauce. He just dipped his finger in and licked it off, licked the bowl clean and wanted more! We had Christmas at... (More)

Posted by joyful on January 16, 2008, 8:45 am
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah

VPNC / Resolvconf / Set search string

I found what I would call a bug in resolvconf today, though probably most people don't run a VPN server like I wanted to, so no one ever noticed before. The internal DNS server at one of my clients somehow loses its connection to folks connected via the VPN. That is an unsolved... (More)

Posted by jondaley on January 14, 2008, 11:06 pm
Category: Programming

Random Stuff

Just when I thought I was a geek, the bar is raised... I forgot to post this a while ago: Tim Hawkins and the "homeschool family". Prairie Home Sausage is kind of funny - and has a picture of a really neat merry-go-round. Lastly, being... (More)

Posted by jondaley on January 7, 2008, 2:50 pm
Category: General

Christmas Present from Verizon

For some reason, Verizon thought it would be a good idea to reconfigure their network early morning Christmas Eve (or late the night before, I am not sure which). Unfortunately, they transferred me to a broken gateway, which has 3 minutes outages every fifteen minutes or so.... (More)

Posted by jondaley on December 26, 2007, 11:47 am
Category: Internet

Smile For The Camera

I somehow missed when Street View (and for that matter - Terrain ) showed up on Google Maps. I am not sure when that happened. Actually, now that I look at the demo video, I did see the demo before, but I hadn't seen when it came to our house. You can't quite see how ripe our... (More)

Posted by jondaley on December 21, 2007, 10:13 am
Category: Internet

Spelling, Counting, Play and More

11/28 - Sanda has been teaching us Romanian, and one day Jonathan was asking what various random words were. We thought he said, "walk" and Sanda hesitated because it's a verb, so when she asked him to clarify (I walk, you walk, she walks?) he said, "No! Not 'walk' with a... (More)

Posted by joyful on December 12, 2007, 2:20 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah

Do Not Call Lists

We have been getting more and more sales calls lately. I try to take the time to report them to the do not call lists, both for our state and for the country. We are supposed to get $100 for each violation (where the caller pays $1000). But, I haven't ever gotten any money.... (More)

Posted by jondaley on December 10, 2007, 4:20 pm
Category: Reviews

I'm Sorry, Your Product is Obsolete

This is what the HP technical support person said to me when I called about our printer. Our faithful HP LaserJet 6L, which was manufactured 10.5 years ago, and given to us 6(7?) years ago. It printed Mom's boarding pass just fine, and then one day later, all three indicator lights... (More)

Posted by joyful on December 3, 2007, 3:50 pm
Category: General

30 Day Organizational Challenge Finish Line

Here is my original post to enter the contest, here is my update . Our computer room/guest room is now functional and neat. There are still two actively-being-worked-on server computers on the card table in the room. We had hoped to have them both in their finished... (More)

Posted by joyful on November 30, 2007, 11:27 am
Category: General

November in a Nutshell

This month has been full, busy, and blog-sparse. Because we're actually living life instead of blogging about it! But here goes: Noah is experimenting more with sounds. He copies a lot. Still not much consistently, but here are some things we've heard him say:... (More)

Posted by joyful on November 27, 2007, 7:00 pm
Category: General, Jonathan, Isaac, Noah