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Monthly Archives: February 2007

Babbling

Little Glenn is babbling away.  Since I don’t like the audio shifts that seem to happen with Flash movies, here is an avi file of Glenn babbling:Glenn Babbling
It’s a little big if you have dial up.  About 20 meg or so.  When I figure out how to embed the things and have it work in all browsers, I will post it that way.

Now, off to bed.

 

Posted by on February 28, 2007 in General Comments

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Printers, Baby, and all that fun stuff.

We bought a new Laser printer to replace over our old, but getting a little touchy Samsung (ML-1210) printer.  I think Ron bought the same printer, a Brother HL-2070N.  It is the cheapest, fastest laser printer I have seen with networking.  With multiple computers, networking was a must.  I did have the Samsung hooked up to my computer, but that meant I had to have my computer on all the time so Tiffany can print.  Now, I can turn off my machine if it has nothing to do.  It really does print 20 pages a minute, and it fires up in seconds, as compared to the Samsung, which took almost a minute.  The Brother also works perfectly with Linux, Windows, and Mac, so whatever way you swing, it should work. 

Glenn is doing well, we had him out for a ride today.  Went to the mall.  I forgot how many people go to malls!  I am really looking forward spring, so we can do somewhere and not be tempted to spend money and look at mall rats.  There is still a foot of snow on the ground, and we got about 3 inches Friday.

Kudos to Mike and Erika for coming over on short notice to take care of Glenn for a few hours.  Every now and then we just need some time together without him.  He was especially screamy on Friday night and Saturday morning, so we were both frazzled.  Today he was much better, quieter and very cute.  He blurted out what sounded like Mom today!  I don’t think he meant to, but it was still cool to here.  He is making new noises every day.  You can really hear his voice coming out. 

He went to bead early tonight, hence, I can actually update the blog.  I will post his pictures tomorrow.

 

Posted by on February 18, 2007 in General Comments

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Cold out there.

Took the photo below this morning.  It has been averaging about -5 °F at night, how nice.

I wish the weather would break one of these days, it is wearing me down.  I the plus column, I will be moving at work tomorrow to a nice window seat.  No cube walls yet, but at least it will be larger than the office we are working in now.

 

Posted by on February 8, 2007 in General Comments

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Da Bears :-( Glenn Photos :-)

Oh Well, the Bears lost.  It is still just a game.
Photos for:
Week 27
Week 28
Week 29
Week 30
Week 31
Are all up now.

 

Posted by on February 4, 2007 in General Comments

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Compiz and normal stuff

Been running Mandriva Linux 2007 for a few days with Compiz running.  At first I was not sure about all the whiz bang visuals, but now I can’t live without them.  I see why Microsoft put cool 3d effects into vista, the eye candy is cool to look at.  Sucks that you have to have a ripper machine to run it.  My 4 year old machine runs all the 3d stuff without a hitch.  My $50 original video card handles it just fine, an nVidia GeForce4 MX 420. 

Under the hood, Mandriva 2007 is much better with removable media, the automounter is improved from 2005.  When I started using Linux in 1999, I remember taking notes as how to mount CD-ROMS and removable media correctly–from the command line!  We’ve come a long way baby!  Amarok (an Itunes like player/manager) now sees our Rio Carbon perfectly. 

Glenn is doing well, the little guy is almost crawling.  I am looking forward to having my sister over this weekend to watch over him for a while.  We all just need a break from time to time.

It’s supposed to get colder than a witches’ teat soon, I am not looking forward to that.  I have been re-caulking the windows, which really helps keep the cold out.

Work has been busy, we are finally getting cubicles, instead of 11 guys sharing 2 small offices!  It will be weird to have an office of my own again.  I had my own cube at my last job, and it was one thing I missed.  My new cube will be 2 feet shorter, but it is a windows seat.  Never had a window seat before.  I’ll take photos after I move to show everyone what my job looks like.

 

Posted by on February 1, 2007 in General Comments

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