"My god - the carnage!"
"Holla if ya hear me!"
"He was suplexed right through the Spanish announcers' table."
And my all-time favorite:
"It looks like she's using a modified chicken wing!"
Tuesday, February 18, 2003
A note on dress code
I'm at work today, but because I wasn't plowed out yet I walked in and I'm wearing old carpenter jeans, sneakers (my boots are in the corner, drying), a t-shirt, and an old denim workshirt.
Anyone who gives me any crap about dress code today is going to get a Jeff Jarrett-style guitar over the head.
Anyone who gives me any crap about dress code today is going to get a Jeff Jarrett-style guitar over the head.
Monday, February 10, 2003
By the way - the boy likes reading
Well, it looks like reading, at least. He actually took a pretty good run at eating the Sunday Boston Globe yesterday, but he occasionally held up the sections and looked at them before trying to stuff them in his mouth.
His favorite sections were the Automotive and TV sections. He liked the Circuit City ad, too, but he thought the Best Buy ad needed a litte salt.
Then he rolled around on the floor a lot. He's trying to kind of crawl forward now, and can usually get about 6 inches or so of forward movement in a surge before flopping on his side.
His favorite sections were the Automotive and TV sections. He liked the Circuit City ad, too, but he thought the Best Buy ad needed a litte salt.
Then he rolled around on the floor a lot. He's trying to kind of crawl forward now, and can usually get about 6 inches or so of forward movement in a surge before flopping on his side.
Sunday, February 09, 2003
Tough weekend
I have a cold that's left me feeling icky, and destroyed my voice. However, being voiceless will probably be considered by my co-workers tomorrow to be a Good Thing.
That's difficult enough, but then I had to try and decipher how to get qmail to work with the good old .forward files that we know and love. I spent several hours wrestling with it, then finally gave up in favor of using a tricky dash file to simulate our published BNUG e-mail address. Now that it's working, it should let me feed all the exec board's e-mail through Spamassassin and eliminate most of the junk we get.
It would have been easier, but e-smith (the server distro I use at home) uses qmail in a somewhat nonstandard way, as far as I can tell. So I had to combine reading man pages, Googling, and raw guesswork.
That's difficult enough, but then I had to try and decipher how to get qmail to work with the good old .forward files that we know and love. I spent several hours wrestling with it, then finally gave up in favor of using a tricky dash file to simulate our published BNUG e-mail address. Now that it's working, it should let me feed all the exec board's e-mail through Spamassassin and eliminate most of the junk we get.
It would have been easier, but e-smith (the server distro I use at home) uses qmail in a somewhat nonstandard way, as far as I can tell. So I had to combine reading man pages, Googling, and raw guesswork.
Wednesday, February 05, 2003
Ouch - teething hurts
Teething pains are proving to be a drag on the little guy. As the day winds down, he starts getting a lot fussier - usually around 7 or so. He's been going to sleep a little earlier than usual lately, too. Night time has seen him wake up occasionally lately, and when that happens Jane goes in and comforts him for a little while to get him back to sleep. That usually works.
He's trying to learn sitting up and crawling - I'm not sure which skill he'll master first. He can sit unsupported for about 10-20 seconds if you put him there, but he can't get to a sitting position quite yet, as he hasn't realized his hands can push him up. He rolls around (and travels quite well that way), and he's making most of the right motions to crawl, but he can't get the grip on the floor he needs in order to move.
As far as his other skills go, he's feeding himself the bottle, and his tongue-thrust reflex is gone so he eats much easier. We're exposing him to some new foods every couple of days. Feedings are now 4 bottles daily (that's been the number for a while now), and 2-3 jars of food/cereal. He's gotten very strong for such a little thing, and pinning him down for diaper changes can get Jane and I to work up a sweat pretty easily.
Lastly, we've started to keep the TV off in his presence most of the time, because he gets distracted too easily by it and we want him to be focusing on other things first. We do have him watching his Baby Einstein DVD's every day or two.
For those of you who like to go view them, I posted new pictures over the weekend, covering pretty much all of January.
He's trying to learn sitting up and crawling - I'm not sure which skill he'll master first. He can sit unsupported for about 10-20 seconds if you put him there, but he can't get to a sitting position quite yet, as he hasn't realized his hands can push him up. He rolls around (and travels quite well that way), and he's making most of the right motions to crawl, but he can't get the grip on the floor he needs in order to move.
As far as his other skills go, he's feeding himself the bottle, and his tongue-thrust reflex is gone so he eats much easier. We're exposing him to some new foods every couple of days. Feedings are now 4 bottles daily (that's been the number for a while now), and 2-3 jars of food/cereal. He's gotten very strong for such a little thing, and pinning him down for diaper changes can get Jane and I to work up a sweat pretty easily.
Lastly, we've started to keep the TV off in his presence most of the time, because he gets distracted too easily by it and we want him to be focusing on other things first. We do have him watching his Baby Einstein DVD's every day or two.
For those of you who like to go view them, I posted new pictures over the weekend, covering pretty much all of January.
Thursday, January 30, 2003
For those of you updating your calendars at home
Yesterday was another milestone of sorts - I finally took the infant seat base out of Jane's car and installed the car seat in it's place. Then I took our fancy umbrella stroller and put it in her trunk (though the stroller is one of those English Maclaren strollers, so I should probably say that I tossed it in her car's boot), leaving the giant stroller that came with the travel system for my own truck.
Ergo, no more infant carrier in use! We'll still throw it in the trunk occasionally for the next month or so - if we take him out to a restaurant he can't quite sit up on his own yet, so it makes a good chair. But we don't schlep him around in it anymore.
The catalyst for this move was yesterday at lunchtime. Jane was headed out to an appointment, and I was putting him in the carrier for her - well, with his sweats on over his sleeper and his jacket on I couldn't buckle the darned thing. For her trip out we had to lose the jacket and cover him with a blanket, and I did the switcheroo as soon as I got home.
Ergo, no more infant carrier in use! We'll still throw it in the trunk occasionally for the next month or so - if we take him out to a restaurant he can't quite sit up on his own yet, so it makes a good chair. But we don't schlep him around in it anymore.
The catalyst for this move was yesterday at lunchtime. Jane was headed out to an appointment, and I was putting him in the carrier for her - well, with his sweats on over his sleeper and his jacket on I couldn't buckle the darned thing. For her trip out we had to lose the jacket and cover him with a blanket, and I did the switcheroo as soon as I got home.
As long as DSL is on my mind
First off - no, it's not resolved yet. Verizon's databases don't show my line as cleared yet, so we're waiting for the system to catch up before Covad can reconnect me.
Secondly, and on a quasi-related note, are we the only folks who are sick and tired of Verizon trying to sell us their DSL? We get 1-2 direct mail pieces per week, and we're getting phone calls from their telemarketers about once per week on average. Another one came tonight, after I finally had lost patience with the last caller and told them that no, I wasn't interested, no, I would never be interested, and please be so kind as to never call us again. Obviously, that had no effect.
The ironic thing is I pseudo-have DSL today, and I've had it for a long time. Yet they aren't capable of bouncing my number from their system as having existing DSL service. Grumble.
If they spent more time working their network, and less money trying to sell it to people who don't want it, perhaps they could manage to give static IP addresses out and ditch their dumb-ass PPPoE client system. Then maybe I'd use them - but only if they're literally the last DSL provider in business.
Secondly, and on a quasi-related note, are we the only folks who are sick and tired of Verizon trying to sell us their DSL? We get 1-2 direct mail pieces per week, and we're getting phone calls from their telemarketers about once per week on average. Another one came tonight, after I finally had lost patience with the last caller and told them that no, I wasn't interested, no, I would never be interested, and please be so kind as to never call us again. Obviously, that had no effect.
The ironic thing is I pseudo-have DSL today, and I've had it for a long time. Yet they aren't capable of bouncing my number from their system as having existing DSL service. Grumble.
If they spent more time working their network, and less money trying to sell it to people who don't want it, perhaps they could manage to give static IP addresses out and ditch their dumb-ass PPPoE client system. Then maybe I'd use them - but only if they're literally the last DSL provider in business.
Wednesday, January 29, 2003
Neat trick
My sister and her long-time boyfriend went to my parents' house last weekend, on their way to a ski week in Vermont. They dropped Loomis (their cat) off for safekeeping, picked up their skis, and zoomed off.
Except it turns out they didn't head north - they actually then went back to their apartment, dumped the ski gear, picked up their real travel supplies, and hopped a plane to Fiji - where they just got married. They'll be back in another week and a half.
The two of them had long stated that they had no interest in a big production-type wedding, so they just took off and did it. Personally (and I believe I speak for the entire Turiel side of the family when I say this), I think it's great. I just wish Jane and I had thought of something like that way back when we got hitched.
Mazel Tov!
Except it turns out they didn't head north - they actually then went back to their apartment, dumped the ski gear, picked up their real travel supplies, and hopped a plane to Fiji - where they just got married. They'll be back in another week and a half.
The two of them had long stated that they had no interest in a big production-type wedding, so they just took off and did it. Personally (and I believe I speak for the entire Turiel side of the family when I say this), I think it's great. I just wish Jane and I had thought of something like that way back when we got hitched.
Mazel Tov!
Tuesday, January 28, 2003
Penultimate DSL update
We're doing OK on cable (though, as I remembered from my prior experience with them, the ATTBI DNS servers eat it raw) for now. Meanwhile, Worldcom cleared out my line on Friday, so I expect Covad to snap it back up shortly - probably some time today. When it comes back up, I'll give it a day or so to make sure it's staying up and then cut back over to it.
Upload speeds are lower on Covad (it's 1.5/128 service), so those of you who view my website may notice it slows down a little. I'm debating moving it to my .Mac account, which has 100MB of disk space attached to it. I also may move my blog there at some point, but if I do I'll leave a pointer to it here.
Besides that, I'll probably post a small photo update later in the week. The little guy is now feeding himself his own bottles (with a little help tilting them occasionally from us), and he moves around the room by rolling places. He scootches, but doesn't crawl yet. I can feel his first teeth trying to get out, but no eruption as of yet.
As for other things, we went to the annual Bernard/Nunes Super bowl party on Sunday. Wisely, I took the day off yesterday - that turned out to be good because we got home after midnight. Unfortunately, events conspired to keep me from being properly rested. Both Saturday and Sunday nights featured early morning screaming fits from the boy. Saturday's event was at 4AM, and Jane ultimately fed him back to sleep. Sunday night's happened around 2:30 - his diaper came loose so he had a wet outfit, which took a good while to settle down. Then I had to come into work yesterday for about an hour and a half to do a conference call (though I was otherwise off yesterday), and I felt like I was coming down with a cold all day (much better today, though).
So that's my whine for the week. He slept really well last night, and I got a little rest as a result. What's a little funny is that we both share the pain when he wakes up at night, because though Jane's the one who takes care of him at that point, I'm always the one who gets woken up by the monitor first.
Last night on Raw: So, are the Horsemen back, or what?
Upload speeds are lower on Covad (it's 1.5/128 service), so those of you who view my website may notice it slows down a little. I'm debating moving it to my .Mac account, which has 100MB of disk space attached to it. I also may move my blog there at some point, but if I do I'll leave a pointer to it here.
Besides that, I'll probably post a small photo update later in the week. The little guy is now feeding himself his own bottles (with a little help tilting them occasionally from us), and he moves around the room by rolling places. He scootches, but doesn't crawl yet. I can feel his first teeth trying to get out, but no eruption as of yet.
As for other things, we went to the annual Bernard/Nunes Super bowl party on Sunday. Wisely, I took the day off yesterday - that turned out to be good because we got home after midnight. Unfortunately, events conspired to keep me from being properly rested. Both Saturday and Sunday nights featured early morning screaming fits from the boy. Saturday's event was at 4AM, and Jane ultimately fed him back to sleep. Sunday night's happened around 2:30 - his diaper came loose so he had a wet outfit, which took a good while to settle down. Then I had to come into work yesterday for about an hour and a half to do a conference call (though I was otherwise off yesterday), and I felt like I was coming down with a cold all day (much better today, though).
So that's my whine for the week. He slept really well last night, and I got a little rest as a result. What's a little funny is that we both share the pain when he wakes up at night, because though Jane's the one who takes care of him at that point, I'm always the one who gets woken up by the monitor first.
Last night on Raw: So, are the Horsemen back, or what?
Thursday, January 23, 2003
Ahh... That's better...
All better for now. The house is back on-line, being served by cable. The installer arrived just before 11 and was gone by 11:02.
The only thing that was a pain in the butt was having to register on-line using their software. At least it was MacOS X-native, but it still sucked. It took me longer to untangle it from my PowerBook than it did to register the modem.
Meanwhile, on the DSL front, Worldcom has released my line as of today, meaning Covad should be back up by Monday. I'll try it again when the line sync light goes back on at my modem.
The only thing that was a pain in the butt was having to register on-line using their software. At least it was MacOS X-native, but it still sucked. It took me longer to untangle it from my PowerBook than it did to register the modem.
Meanwhile, on the DSL front, Worldcom has released my line as of today, meaning Covad should be back up by Monday. I'll try it again when the line sync light goes back on at my modem.
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