Too many hobbies, not enough focus
This is part of my end-of-the-year cleaning of draft posts. I wrote this two years ago about HP's severely-discounted self-imposed failure that was the TouchPad tablet. I intended to review it thoroughly but never finished the review and never will. I'm posting it here in its draft state for anyone interested. I still have my …
Continue reading "2013 Clean Out: HP TouchPad: Dead Product Review"
This is part of my end-of-the-year cleaning of draft posts. I wrote it when the boys were about two and a half to document some of the chaos. The dinner/bath/tantrum thing still happens but the biggest issue we deal with now is them bugging the sh*t out of each other. Enjoy our pain from …
Continue reading "2013 Clean Out: Surviving the Ups and Downs of Toddlers"
Our potty training experience has continued over the past few days with the typical ups and downs that we expected. Day two was mostly a blur for me as I spent the majority of the day sick in bed but it appeared to go OK. There were more successes on the toilet and few accidents. …
We have been casually potty training the boys for about six months now, encouraging it now and then on the weekends and putting together a sticker chart / reward system but not being consistent about it in any way. Adam has been more ready than Zach in the past but neither really showed signs that …
The boys are speaking more and more all the time. They frequently use full sentences to express complete thoughts and engage in back-and-forth conversation with us and each other. One of my favorite things is listening to them tell a story about something because you can see them pause and think about what words to …
Continue reading "Fwashing Your Hands After Fwatching Fwaffi"
Last weekend I was surfing the internet as I usually do, reading the news that flows through my RSS feed. I happened onto a story about Google's purchase of Boston Dynamics, the Massachusetts-based robotics company responsible for Big Dog. The article had a bunch of YouTube videos embedded in it of the various new members …
Four months ago I posted about my "next Mac" and how I was 90% sure that it would be a MacBook Air. I don't need a mega-powerful machine and I want something that is light and has long battery life. At the end of the post I mentioned that there was a slim chance I'd opt …
Zachary has an obsession. It is all-encompassing and causes numerous problems for him, Adam, and as a result, us. He cannot leave a door or gate open. Ever. As soon as he walks through a gate he slams it shut, usually locking Adam out of wherever he just went but sometimes also closing him into the …
Adam is very detail oriented (no idea where that comes from) and notices quickly when certain things are different or out-of-place. I was up in our bedroom putting away laundry when suddenly I heard "Daddy, there's a cord ova thaya!" I turned around and asked him where it came from and he excitedly replied "It came up …
Adam has become quite the parent to his brother lately. In addition to making sure to repeat the rules to Zachary ("Two minutes, Zachary two minutes; We don't hit our friends, Zachary"), he has also made an extra effort to look out for his brother's safety. We were getting ready to leave the house one …
Relatively Ambitious 