25th
FEB
When Listening Isn’t a Good Thing
Filed under Family
It’s amazing to hear my 2.5 year old son say the same things as I do. It really makes me wonder what I say, and how often I say it.
I was taking a load off this evening playing some MLB2k6, and doing an overall poor job at it. It was the bottom of the 9th, I was up to bat, down by 1 run. With every swing-and-miss that I did Judah would exclaim loudly, “Oh geez!”
All of a sudden my mind is whirling with, “Did he just say that? Was that ‘cheese’ or ‘geez?’ I haven’t been saying that, have I?”
I guess that’s on par with when he repeated after me yesterday. I was working on something, and in a moment of exasperation I said “crap.” Not five seconds later I heard my echo, “cwap.”
Awww cr… ge… dan… DOH!
18th
FEB
A New Venture
Filed under Technology
I’m in the process of starting up a new blog venture, and I’m having some good fun getting it up off the ground.
A few months ago Sarah stopped by my office at work, and we had a great catch-up conversation (she lives in Boise and does missions work, so we only see each other once or twice a year). She made a comment about how she reads Aj’s blogs frequently, but mine only once in a while. The reason: I write mostly about tech stuff and not so much about family and life. I have to admit that there is definite truth to that.
In the months following that conversation I thought about that one statement, wondering what (if anything) I would do in response to it. I eventually decided to take a similar path as two people I interact with daily, Bren and my wife. Bren has a personal blog and a business blog. Aj has a personal/mama blog and a religious/Quaker thought blog. I now have my personal blog (this is it) and a tech blog.
Sarah — I’ll be putting my tech content elsewhere from now on, so don’t ignore this too much 
Stay tuned here for more stuff about normal life, Judah news, and Half Pint news. And of course the photos and videos. If you like the tech stuff, join me over at TechJive, too.
7th
FEB
Boy, we’re in for it now
Filed under Family
If these photos come as a surprise to you, you need to watch the video in this post.
In this photo Half Pint is showing his strength.
This is one of Half Pint’s feet. Don’t know which one, but the other one is in there somewhere.
A good shot of Half Pint’s profile, with the arm in there perfectly posed. He’s compliant already 
If you didn’t pick up on my choice of words yet, Half Pint is indeed a boy.
If you aren’t able to “read” the photos I made some notes of them on Flickr, so click on each photo to go there. Or you can click here for all of the photos.
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