November 2007
- Friday 30 | Cracking down on baby names
Real life Blog Friend Wendy commented on a recent post in which I mentioned we still haven’t named our son with a link to a much needed service. All I have to say is, foreigners are funny. Cracking down on baby names – Chaser’s War
- Friday 30 | EDD – Disability Insurance – Paid Family Leave Insurance
California State Disability Insurance (SDI) is a partial wage-replacement insurance plan for California workers. The SDI programs are State-mandated, and funded through employee payroll deductions. SDI provides affordable, short-term benefits to eligible workers. Workers covered by SDI are covered by two programs. The Disability Insurance (DI) program was established for workers who suffer a loss [...]
- Thursday 29 | Kindle Cares
Amazon Kindle is a revolutionary portable reader that wirelessly downloads books, newspapers, magazines and blogs to a crisp, high-resolution electronic paper display that looks and reads like real paper, even in bright sunlight. Kindle customers, no matter where they are in the U.S., can wirelessly shop the Kindle Store and download new content — all [...]
- Thursday 29 | Take that, Kimberly
Competition can be healthy but when it comes to pregnancy, not so much. But its easy to do since you have so little to measure your pregnancy against. Our good friend Kimberly is pregnant with her second child and has a due date shortly after ours. Her first born was very premature so we’re all [...]
- Thursday 29 | Organize your feeds
I was going to post my Bloglines Feeds so you could see who I read regularly (Kind of a Master Blogroll) but then I thought, people may not take too kindly to what folder they are assigned to. Obviously My Blogs are blogs I publish and includes the comments feeds (did you know you could [...]
- Wednesday 28 | 14 days to go!
So I guess I do have something to write about today. We only have 14 days to go! We’re very excited and eager, too. We’re in the home stretch and feeling very good about everything. Julia is doing well and we have all the “stuff” we need and are well prepared. We’re ready. Or as [...]
- Wednesday 28 | A real life memento
I don’t have much to say today so I stole this from Gil (he always has the best stuff) Man without a memory – Clive Wearing Clive Alex Wearing (born 1938) is a British musicologist, conductor, and keyboardist suffering from an acute and long lasting case of anterograde amnesia. Specifically, this means he lacks the [...]
- Tuesday 27 | Ding Fries are Done
It’s that time of year again so I thought I’d bring this holiday classic out of the closet and dust off the ol’ cobwebs. Swing on over to everybody’s favorite holiday song/video and have a nightmarish good time. Ding! Fries are Done I work at burger king making flame broiled whoppers I wear paper hats [...]
- Monday 26 | EmergingTechs
My good friend Casey has announced the launch of his new site (replacing his old site) which is geared towards you computer tech type people. He’s a great guy and pretty knowledgeable so check it out and be sure to bookmark it or add it to your RSS feed reader As many of you know, [...]
- Monday 26 | The last thing I need
Well, this is the last thing I need. I guess it’s just another one of those days. As I’ve shared in the past, we’ve been blessed by the generous gifts of family and friends who have provided us with the new and gently used items we need for safely raising our son. The few items [...]
- Sunday 25 | More good stuff
So we never made it to Sea World (sorry Wendy) but we did have a good day, none-the-less. After lounging around the house until the crack of noon, we headed out to run a couple errands and get out side. I had a gift card for Best Buy (which usually isn’t) so I figured we’d [...]
- Saturday 24 | A good day
I’m trying to limit my internet time this weekend so this will be brief (I hope). Anyway, we had a wonderful thanksgiving/birthday. And to paraphrase Wendy, a Happy B-Thanksday. We ended up using some birthday cash to buy the much desired Sea World passes we wanted so I hope to get them activated and use [...]
- Friday 23 | Best Places to Get Free Books – The Ultimate Guide
With the Thanksgiving weekend coming up and the beginning of the shopping season (aka Black Friday) I wanted to share this list of free online book resources with all of you. I figure some of you will be going on long trips or have some down time with the holidays and could use some nice [...]
- Thursday 22 | Happy Thanksgiving
1424 This is a very special Thanksgiving Day for me this year. First, it’s my birthday (today) and normally that’s a bummer but this year I don’t care. My son is due to be born within the next few weeks and, in general, things are going pretty well for us. Sure there are some scary [...]
- Wednesday 21 | Black Tie Optional
Every year my company hosts a Christmas Holiday Party and typically, each year it gets a little better than the previous year. This year looks to be following that tradition. Unfortunately, I may not be good enough to attend. Stupid standards. You see, the problem is that the invitation reads – ATTIRE: Formal/Black Tie Optional [...]
- Wednesday 21 | The mind of a Psychopath
I had a weird dream last night. And it has me a bit concerned. You see, I think it demonstrates how twisted I really am. In my dream, I was some sort of super hero. Not like superman or spiderman but more in the vein of Heroes or Bionic Woman. But it wasn’t like it [...]
- Tuesday 20 | Cappuccino Coast: The day the Pacific was whipped up into an ocean of froth
Found this in my inbox. Looks like it’s true so I thought I’d pass it on… Full story and more pictures at Cappuccino Coast: The day the Pacific was whipped up into an ocean of froth | the Daily Mail It was as if someone had poured tons of coffee and milk into the ocean, [...]
- Monday 19 | US Postal Service Issues Recall
I found this story over at Sirdar’s site the other day and thought it was worth sharing. Also, I posted this so late last night that I forgot to explain where it came from. I mean, I may be a thief, but I’m an honest thief. Something I also noticed was that when Daylight Saving [...]
- Sunday 18 | Let’s make a deal
Amazon Customers Vote is back for 2007. Each round of Customers Vote lets you vote for the deal you’d most like to have. Voting begins on Thursday, November 15th and continues through Monday, November 26th. There will be six rounds of voting this year with three products in each round. Beginning Thursday, November 22nd, each [...]
- Sunday 18 | Bible map
BibleMap.org is developed by the duo at He Lives Ministries (HeLives.com). The motivation for developing the site was simple, create a free Bible atlas which harnesses Google maps. They hope this site will be a blessing to you and possibly help make the living book of the Bible more alive in your life.
- Saturday 17 | The single clenched fist
I saw this over at Shelly’s place and had to share. Actually, I think my exact words were “I like this, I’m going to steal it. Just thought you’d like to know.” The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or [...]
- Friday 16 | 34 weeks
Your baby is still packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an ounce a day. He now weighs almost 6 pounds (like a crenshaw melon) and is more than 18-1/2 inches long. He’s shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered his body as well as the vernix caseosa, the [...]
- Friday 16 | Bloons Tower Defense 2
Update: You can now Play Bloons Tower Defense 3 at Ninja Kiwi. I have to confess – I have an addiction (one of many) I have suddenly found myself wasting many precious moments playing a new game online. But this is no ordinary game. It has monkeys and balloons – but no clowns. The object [...]
- Thursday 15 | Nougatocity
When I first saw this word on the wrapper of my Snickers bar I thought it said naughty, then I realized I was wrong and thought it said nougaty, which didn’t sound much better. In fact, it sounded something Tweeky would say – nougaty, nougaty. But upon further inspection I see that it actually says [...]
- Wednesday 14 | to be more outgoing
One thing I’ve learned in my blogging experience is that to get more traffic to your blog, you have to be more outgoing. First, you have to write, write well and write often. I’m not saying you have to write a Pulitzer Prize winning blog, but write something that is worth reading. You can be [...]
- Tuesday 13 | He knows if you’ve been bad or good
Have you been good this year? Is there anything you want to confess before the end of the year? You know you can’t hide. He’s watching your every move. Question is; who’s watching you? Turns out it’s just me. I use a site called statcounter.com to keep track of my visitor stats. It lets me [...]
- Monday 12 | One Anothering
This is an excerpt from a recent message on what it looks like to Love one another. I wanted to share it with you and hope you dwell on it’s meaning.
- Sunday 11 | Help for Keerthana
Below is a copy of an email that Thomas and Suzanne (Abandoned But Precious Ministries) received from their friend Joseph. It’s the story of what happened to one of the children they work with in India. At first read you may think this is one of those scam emails but I can assure you it [...]
- Saturday 10 | Taking care of business
Today was my chore day. basically, while Julia is away this weekend, I get to take care of some home improvements that we’ve been meaning to finish. I’m glad to report, I’m nearly done. Sooner than I expected thanks to getting an early start. My list for this weekend consisted of the following: Paint kitchen [...]
- Friday 9 | Unexpected
This is a two part post. first how does this statement make you feel? woman without her man is nothing more on that after the next part. Unexpected. That’s what it was. DinkyInky from the Inktank Forums has generously sent us a baby gift. And not some homemade craft that is unsafe for children in [...]
- Thursday 8 | Halo fellowship
So tomorrow, Julia leaves for a women’s retreat and will be gone all weekend. Which is fine since I scheduled my (hopefully) last exam for Friday afternoon and plan to be busy around the house while she’s out. Painting mostly but a couple of other projects if I get to them. Actually, it’s because she’ll [...]
- Wednesday 7 | Sharing the Word
I recently mentioned why I like the ESV bible but I wanted to mention that I also use the NASB (New American Standard Bible) and NKJV (New King James Version) bibles. I just use the ESV (English Standard Version) most of the time. This is not to say that the other translations are evil and [...]
- Wednesday 7 | TMBG – With the Dark
More They Might Be Giants fun – With the Dark music video I’ve been a fan of these guys since I first heard them back in 1990 with the release of their album Flood. They’re not your typical rock band (as you can see) but I enjoy their quirky style of music, lyrics and antics. [...]
- Tuesday 6 | Translations
Mars Hill Church in Seattle has a wonderful article explaining why they use the English Standard Version (ESV) as their pulpit translation. One of the key reasons is the accuracy of the translation (word-for-word). Which raises the question, How did we get the English Scriptures? Many volumes have been written to explain the miraculous and [...]
- Monday 5 | Thank You All
We’re very excited about our son’s upcoming birth. We’ve been blessed with lots of friends and family who support us with their gifts, advice and time. Having just finished up our last baby shower last weekend, we find ourselves very well prepared for our son’s arrival. Well, as prepared as we can. Babies have a [...]
- Sunday 4 | Sharkwater
I am officially jealous. There’s a new movie out that sounds awesome and I so wish it had been me who made this film. Of course, If I had made it, it wouldn’t be worth watching. So I guess the world makes sense again. The animal we fear the most is the one we can’t [...]
- Saturday 3 | Daylight Saving Time
That’s right my friends, it’s time to “fall back” and reclaim that hour you lost in the spring. Tonight, Daylight Saving Time ends (not daylight savings time). So tonight, not last night but tonight, you set your clocks back one hour. if you set them back last night you’d be a complete dork and late [...]
- Friday 2 | Wholy4Christ
As some of you know, I have more than one blog site that I manage. A couple were pretty inactive (Serving-SanDiego.com and the now defunct BurritoAndSocks.com) and others are for other people (PhotoJulia.com and IversonInteriors.com). I’ve also started work on a new blog but that one’s not ready for promotion just yet. It’s a site [...]
- Thursday 1 | Like the sheep that I am
National Blog Posting Month aka NaBloPoMo begins today and like the sheep that I am, I signed up. After all, I want to be a rebel just like everyone else. What is NaBloPoMo? That’s a darn good question. Have you noticed that good questions seldom have good answers? Anyway, the basic premis is that for [...]
- Thursday 1 | Ninja Parade Passes Unseen. Again…
Ninja Parade Slips Through Town Unnoticed Once Again
