Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Why Me? Oh, Great One in the Heavens, Why Me?

Kind of busy at work of late, so here’s a cute/funny/weird/scary pic of my two youngest:

That’s Jonah on the left, doing his best Jedi Master impression. I’m not exactly sure why he has on the hat or the funky socks, but it does look a bit alien. Ellis, on the other hand, is doing her patented, “I’m a fairy princess, bow before me, pig dogs” pose.

The faux pearls totally make the outfit, I think, don’t you?

And that’s Carrie in the background, doing her standard “ignore all things around me, I’m IM-ing now and I won’t be logging off until the wee hours of the morning” trick.

And our cluttered living room, doing exhibiting its normal “Why do they treat me so badly, walk all over me and spill yogurt on me and then sulking for hours on end” behavior.

Jon scribbled this mess on 01/16/07 at 10:46 AM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Photos Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Monday, January 15, 2007

Nosiree, Not Complaining

But I really wouldn’t have minded taking the day off today, along with most of the rest of America. Except of course, our hard working, 99.6% white State Legislature, which started its yearly session of craziness, insane law-making and grand-standing.

Seems like I had the same thought last year.

But I’m not complaining! I’m really not. I’m just saying…

Days off are nice.

Jon scribbled this mess on 01/15/07 at 11:18 AM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Alpha-Geek Does Not Mean Boy Genius

At work, I’m the Alpha Geek. They guy who has all the answers as far as computers go. That’s demonstrably NOT true, since I currently can’t track down a memory leaking app on my Mac Pro right now, but I do tend to know a whole lot of stuff about how computers and specifically about how Mac computers work. Comes from not dating much in high school and an unhealthy obsession with technology and Macs in particular. People ask me tech support type questions ranging from “why did my Adobe Illustrator unexpectedly quit?” to “why is the Internet faster downstairs?” The answer to those questions is: “Could be that you have 2763 fonts open” and “I’m doubtful about that,” since everyone is on the same switch and speed on the internet is totally subjective, mostly.

But I get asked about all sorts of things, because being the SysAdmin means you know everything, apparently. True, I sometimes know the answer to esoteric Mac and technology questions (What processor was in the Quadra 840AV? Easy one! Motorola 68040 which ran at 40 MHz, plus it had a cool DSP chip to offload voice synthesis stuff. Which never really took off. Sad.)

Anyway.

Sometimes I don’t know the answer. And people get bugged. Seriously. They are annoyed with me because I don’t know something. They aren’t annoyed that *they* don’t know the answer right off, but it’s a national tragedy if I don’t immediately know what the deal-io is.

So herewith is a small list of the MANY things that I know next to NOTHING about. In particular, these are things that plug in that I don’t really understand:

Electro-cardiograms
Your stereo
The furnace at work
How iRoomba’s do their thing
Windows ME
How to re-create Google Maps on your personal site
HDTV
Lasers and robots
Amps, Volts and Ohms
L*A*B color
The Prius

Technically, the Prius doesn’t doesn’t plug in, but I do not know how it’s braking-into-energy thing works.

So, if you need answers to those questions, go someplace else. I’ll do my best, but I can’t know everything. Especially the Windows ME thing. Ugh.

Jon scribbled this mess on 01/11/07 at 05:57 PM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Things I don't understand Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Never Let a Three Year Old with Scissors Next to Your Head

First off:

Yes, I KNOW it was a dumb thing to do.

I let Ellis cut my hair. Sort of. Mostly I was letting her pretend to cut my hair. She took the whole “Let’s cut Daddy’s hair!” pretend thing a bit too far, frankly. She started off on the right side of my noggin just fine. She was making these cute little “snip, snip!” noises and PRETENDING TO CUT MY HAIR. Yes, she had real scissors, and yes, I was a bit wary. But I was also reading a book and was a bit pre-occupied, OK?

Once she made it over to the left side though she was still making cute little “snip, snip” noises; but those cute “snip snip” little noises were DROWNING OUT the sound of her actually cutting my hair. In five places all told. I could kind of feel that something weird was happening, but again… engrossed in the book. Plus I was trying to keep the scissors out of my eyes.

Anyway, if you have a three year old, don’t let them next to your head. “Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.”

But I guess it’s a testament to how little I really care about my head these days. I’m not even going to wear a hat.

Jon scribbled this mess on 01/10/07 at 12:02 AM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Photos Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Skidding Down the Mountain

Well, OK, hill is a more apt term. We took the kidlets sledding over the weekend. I was a little worried that Ellis might be scared, but she took to it quite well. As longs as someone carried her back up the hill after going down. She wasn’t keen at all on walking back up. Walking uphill was for “other people.”

I’m going to get this one framed. It’s a look of pure joy on both their faces.

Look! You can almost smell the F-E-A-R and uncertaintity about the whole thing on Reha’s face.

These next four are proof that the Young have no fear of death. This is Lucas as he takes a running start at the hill and throws himself down and toward a decently sized jump

Finally, even though the sun began to set, he was still going!

Jon scribbled this mess on 01/09/07 at 12:04 AM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

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