Jan 17, 2010
As we wrote about in Dahlia's blog, she fell down yesterday and got a cut on her head. After a while she calmed down and let us take her into the bathroom to clean it up a bit. When we pulled back the hair it was a little deeper than we had thought and I guess I wasn't prepared for that. Combine that with a lack of sleep and a little too much wii fit earlier in the day and it was a bad situation. I remember getting a little nauseas and light headed, the next thing I know I'm laying in the bathtub Gwen's slapping me in the face and screaming and the shower is on. My first thought was that I wasn't ready to get out of bed yet and couldn't imagine what was so important that I needed to get up so quickly. My second thought was 'Why am I sleeping in the shower?' Then everything came back to me when my vision returned and I saw Dahlia sitting on the counter screaming.
Gwen says that I fell pretty hard, but I didn't feel like it at all. She said I was out for a good 15 seconds. It freaked her out pretty well since she was also having a hard time with Dahlia and everything. and she says my eyes were rolled back and open making me look dead and creepy! turning the shower on as I was falling made the whole thing more funny ... in retrospect.
Aug 23, 2009
Yesterday I was putting a shelf together and the kids both really wanted to 'help' me. Gwen was shuffling Valen away so I could finish and she asked if she should grab Dahlia too. I said, "Just Valen is fine, I don't care about Dahlia". Dahlia looked a me a little confused and sad and said "You don't care about me Daddy??". Needless to say, I gave her a big hug and explained.
These kids get smart quickly.
May 21, 2009
Been a while since I've written eh? Thought I'd drop in and share something tech related. Maybe I'll start doing my tech Thursday posts again... yeah, maybe...
Do you like music? If you answered no then you might be a communist and you can skip this post. For the rest of you, I recommend that you check out last.fm. It has many cool features for just about anyone.
It's huge
They have a huge amount of music. Seriously, if you can think of a musician or band that isn't on there, then the band you are thinking of is probably a band you were in in high school.
It's connected
Not only do they have all of this music, they have it all connected intelligently. If you look at any band, they will have a list of other bands that you are likely to enjoy if you enjoy that band. I've been impressed for the most part with their recommendations.
It's easy
Just about every popular music player either has a plugin for last.fm or has it already built in. Once you log in to it, you don't have to do anything. It just starts uploading a history of everything you've listened to. I started using last.fm about three years ago. I didn't really log in for a year or so afterwards but now I find it very valuable. It automatically gives you recommendations for bands you might like. It even will give you a list of free downloads from band it thinks you will like. You can check out my page here:
http://www.last.fm/user/sporkss
It's social
If you have friends on there (and if you're reading this you have at least one), then you can see everything they're listening to. It will even stream a 'radio station' of music that your friends listen to.
There are loads of other little features that you might love as well. I suggest you check it out for yourslef. If you do, don't forget to drop me a note :)
Nov 01, 2008
Today was a very proud day for me. Dahlia has learned for herself the joys of linux. She saw an Ubuntu logo and asked what it was. I said Ubuntu and she started repeating that all day.
Oct 19, 2008
I had heard about Advent Conspiracy the last two years through Imago Dei and had thought it was a great idea. Today I was able to present it to my church at both services. Anyway, check out the promo video and visit their
website for more info.
Advent Conspiracy Intro - 2008 from Robert Terrell on Vimeo.
We're going to be giving half of the money we raise back to Advent Conspiracy and half of it to SafePlace, a local group that helps abused women.
