Too many hobbies, not enough focus
Wow, it's already been three months (almost four) since the boys were born. Boy does time fly! On one hand I feel like it was yesterday that Sally was walking into childbirth classes ready to pop at a moment's notice but on the other it feels like we've been parents forever. We're really starting to …
I've updated my photography page to include albums. Currently it contains albums that categorize what is on my front page, but later it will contain other albums as well. Check it out!
Sometimes I feel like a celebrity. Whenever we go out to a store we invariably meet people who are interested in the boys. It's great, but at the same time it makes a task like grocery shopping take so much longer when you have to stop ten times to chat with people. It's interesting because …
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It's been about a month since I posted about the boys' sleep habits. A quick summary: when we brought them home we tried and failed to put them to bed at 8 PM every night. This routine evolved into essentially letting the boys stay up as late as they wanted (somewhere around 10 PM), taking …
So it's obvious that I've applied a new design to my website. This one is called HighLight and it is the first theme that I've paid for. My other theme was a free one, and while it was pretty good, it was starting to wear on me. I originally wanted to go dark, but now …
One of the major reasons that I moved to WordPress instead of coding my site by hand was so that I could change the look and layout easily. Instead of spending months designing, creating, and coding a new layout, I could just download or buy a layout that somebody else had made. That's what I've …
My father taught me about hard work. My father taught me how to do the right thing. My father taught me how to be confident in myself. My father taught me to be who I am. My father taught me how to treat a woman. My father taught me to have a sense of humor. …
We've had a lot of rain lately and the weather has just started to get better. There have been more and more beautiful days. On one such day last week we decided to take an evening trip to the beach. We were just planning to drive up to York and travel through, but I brought …
I read a few blog posts by Niel Van Nickerk about balancing flash with ambient light and I found them very intriguing. The posts were basically a detailed discussion of how to control fill flash, which is the act of using flash in a daylight setting to fill in the shadows in an image. But …
If you've ever driven down Borthwick Ave past the hospital you may have noticed the Liberty Mutual building that I work in. You may have also noticed that it has quite a bit of nice landscaping around it. We have a large man-made pond wrapped by a walking path and two bridges. There are trees, …
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