Last night, it was determined by the post-mortem investigatory team (me) that this Tuesday, as we sat through a horrible storm at the about-to-be-cancelled Def Leppard/Styx/Foreigner concert, a friend of mine was experiencing injury so grievous it would lead to their death two days later. That friend was my Linksys WRT54G version 2.
The girls were at a swim lesson the other day. It was the last of a session so their coach was handing them certificates documenting the goals they had met. Kaitrinn’s was covered with a list about how she was starting to swim on her own, was now going into the deep end, and could put her face under water (FINALLY!!!). Shealyn’s was a bit more ’simple’ to put it tactfully. It was a list of things like kicking harder and faster, “swimming” at the steps, and having fun. Well Shealyn was beaming ear to ear and she proudly ran off with her certificate in hand. Kaitrinn watched her leave, turned to the coach, and stated, “My goals may be harder and there are more of them, but that doesn’t mean they are any better than hers.” Damn right kid! I just blinked and asked the coach for confirmation of what I thought I had heard. Lol… Looks like we’ve taught her well.
A while back our friend Jonathan, from England, sent us a care package with some extra special goodies in it. Two of them were specifically marked for me. I don’t say that because they had my name on them or were marked in any way. I could tell because of what they were, and the fact that no one in their right mind would want them.
Okay, so it’s a sad day when one gets this excited over a little medical wipe. Lol! Shealyn had skin reactions to 4 (count ‘em- 1, 2, 3, 4) previous adhesive removers. We change her pump infusion site every two days and there is always a circle an inch wide of residual adhesive left on her hip/bottom. I’ve tried other home remedies such as baby oil suggested by other parents of T1 children.
The only thing we’ve found to work was something called TacAway that they had sent us home with 3 samples when she first started her pump in April. Since then, I had a heck of a time finding it in stock anywhere and had tried other types. Welcome EdgePark Supply!! The lady laughed when I celebrated the fact that they 1) had it in stock and 2) would ship to an individual. I will be simply wiping away about 20 circles on our girl’s bottom as soon as she finishes breakfast. Ahh .. the ‘little’ things in life. Lol
This is quoted from our local weather website…. “At the Raleigh-Durham International Airport, the thermometer read 104 and the index was calculated at 112.” And today is supposed to be the fourth day of it! At 7:30 in the morning, it’s already 80 degrees. We’re heading to a pool playdate at a friend’s house early this morning so we can head for cover in her nice a/c- cooled house for a break and lunch. There will be no typical poolside picnic today!
I remember not having a/c when I was little. My parents would hang sheets up over the windows on days like this and the temp would drop like 10 degrees immediately. Lol…sheets and a fan could do wonders.
Did you remember to buckle the baby Dear? Lol… No, I didn’t leave the room and find him like this. I stood there and watched him to see how far he would get. If you place him in the chair and walk out of his view, you can guarantee he will start to wiggle his way over and out the front of the chair. Unfortunately, he just can’t quite figure out the last step. He pauses as if to ponder the next course of action, sighs deeply, and madly kicks his legs and whimpers until you flip him back over. He then looks at you with this wide-mouthed smile as if to say, “My Hero!” Straighten him out, walk away, and repeat. It’s one way to get exercise I guess! Lol
It’s a good thing we’ve never tried out for one of those home improvement/interior design TV shows…. They would probably take away Gavin’s new best friends. He seems to have developed a love interest with all of our ceiling fans. Lol- The boy practically breaks his neck trying to bend around to keep the spinning blades within view. He will lay on the floor, wave all four limbs, and coo away talking to the fan. His eyes just get huge when one suddenly appears within sight.
Louie and I both hit a total mental block when it came to dinnertime tonight. It was one of those evenings where you just stand in front of the open pantry and blankly stare at the shelves. If there hadn’t been two kids to feed, I would have probably just skipped dinner because it hurt too much to think about it. *laugh* Louie finally broke down and confidently said “Well, I’m going to make something.” I beamed and said, “Ooooh! It sounds yummy!” We both laughed and were soon enjoying a homemade pizza with ham, bacon, and “giant” pepperoni (as we explained the deli pepperoni to the girls). It WAS yummy.
I’ve had Akismet for quite some time on my own blog and it’s worked wonders. Seems that our family blog has been found by spammers so it has just been implemented here as well.
It’s amazing what you can do for free/extremely cheap these days. Thanks to Linux (specifically CentOS) we can have our own web server at home that runs an very reliable and well-supported operating system. Thanks to WordPress we can put this wonderful site out there easily. Those are just the major players among many who have contributed to what you see here.
The good folks in the Open Source and Free Software communities are the ‘hippies’ of this age. They are a part of a larger movement that believes knowledge should be free, transparent, and easily accessible. Without them there would be no internet as it exists today. Our little family web log is the product of at least hundreds of thousands - perhaps millions - of these individuals who have contributed their efforts toward the cause of making knowledge free to humanity. Not all have done this for purely humanitarian reasons, but the underlying cause is one that I believe is very noble.
If there is one fundamental positive change to humanity that is the least noticed by the average person, this has to be it. The internet can be disturbing. Technology can be painful. It’s so easy to miss what’s going on underneath it all!
As a glass-half-full person with many friends who have directly involved themselves in this change (and involved me to a small extent) I hope I can help people think about it for a moment.
Okay.. so today was Kaitrinn’s first day of school. We just spent the past hour talking about her day and calling family to tell them about the new First-Grader. I then got an email from a friend to tell us Kaitrinn is in the news! Excuse me? Lol… Check out the link
Edit on July 11- There is a second picture of her here. It’s #8 in the slideshow. Silly Girl!