Daley Ponderings

Words?

There are times when it seems like Jonathan is saying something in the right context, but it's hard to be sure if he really "means" it. Here are a few of those: Da-dy, Mom, bus, water, ball, out

Posted by Heather Daley on September 10, 2004, 5:03 pm | Read 2368 times | Comments (1)
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Jonathan had a routine blood test at his 9 month appointment, and they say he has a high lead content in his blood. They are re-running the test today, to make sure that they didn't mess it up the first time.
The city will test your water, so we did that this morning. I think it takes a week or two to get the results back. (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on September 9, 2004, 8:00 am | Read 2626 times | Comments (5)
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Trial Date?

It is somewhat humorous I guess, that all this takes so long and that the judges and attornies (and coroner) schedule all these meetings, get paid a ton per hour, and then don't bother to show up (or subpeona the witness, or let the interested parties know when things are happening, etc).
There was supposed to be a hearing this last Friday to schedule the trial date, but when Judy and her lawyer traveled the couple hours into Pittsburgh to be told that the judge was on vacation, so there isn't a date scheduled yet. I wonder if this always happens, or are they just specially treating Judy?
The guess is in March sometime.

Posted by Jon Daley on September 8, 2004, 9:27 am | Read 3323 times | Comments (0)
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Standing Up

Today at Women's Bible Study, Jonathan stood up all by himself, without pulling up on anything or anyone.

Posted by Heather Daley on September 7, 2004, 3:08 pm | Read 2550 times | Comments (1)
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Perl Initialization

When I was installing RT (Request Tracker) I got an error, since I hadn't ever set up CPAN before. After searching for a bit, here is the solution. I figured I would post this here to help others in the future find it in google quicker. (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on August 31, 2004, 3:07 pm | Read 3433 times | Comments (1)
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5 Easy Steps to Bathroom Repair on a Sunday

Wake up at 3AM because you can't sleep.
Notice that the shower has not drained from the day before.
Plunge the tub to force the water through the slow drain.
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Posted by Jon Daley on August 30, 2004, 11:04 am | Read 4431 times | Comments (3)
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Firefox Lucky Feature

I just discovered last night that if you type in more than one word into the address bar, FireFox assumes you are doing a google search, and even better, does the "I'm feeling lucky" feature of google. So, if you type Jon Daley into firefox's address bar, it goes to my home page. Faster than typing out snurgle.org...

Posted by Jon Daley on August 30, 2004, 10:43 am | Read 2852 times | Comments (1)
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Walking!

Jonathan walked from the doorway of the computer room to the mirror in the hallway all by himself! The distance is about six feet. He cheered for himself when he got to the mirror (:

Posted by Heather Daley on August 27, 2004, 10:00 am | Read 2719 times | Comments (1)
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More Color Stuff

I added a small color changing picker (bottom right of this page), if you don't like my purply colors. Of course, you can only pick the colorsets that I let you, and right now there isn't much interesting, but I will get around to making some more at some point. (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on August 23, 2004, 8:33 am | Read 3167 times | Comments (3)
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Another New Thing

Last night, Jonathan, from a standing position and without holding onto anything else, bent down to pick up a toy and straightened up again.

Posted by Heather Daley on August 20, 2004, 10:44 am | Read 2448 times | Comments (1)
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Adobe Acrobat Slow Loading

Ever notice how it now takes a year for Acrobat Reader to load up? You can speed it up about 20x or so, by moving the plugins you don't use out of the "startup" folder. If you put the files into the "optional" folder, I believe it will still be able to find them when you want to use them, and it will load them then.
A reasonable default is to leave ewh32.api, search.api, and reflow.api in your plugins directory, and move everything else into the optional folder.
You can make a disabled_plugins directory if you want them to be really gone.

Posted by Jon Daley on August 19, 2004, 10:22 pm | Read 55615 times | Comments (6)
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16 Years and 186,000 Miles Later

Bernie says our car is dead. He can't figure out what is going on. He thought maybe the dealership might know something, but he didn't have a lot of hope.
I have heard that a 1988 Dodge Caravan was/is a really good car, and should last a long time.
I do see lots of them around Pittsburgh. But, something is messing up the engine, so it has a hard time starting and a hard time idling. I guess if you keep your foot on the gas, then it does alright, although it wears out the starter.
I don't really want to buy another car. They are so much money, and I don't have any idea what a good price is.

Posted by Jon Daley on August 19, 2004, 12:31 pm | Read 3397 times | Comments (13)
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