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Yesterday Melissa and Violet’s god mother Suzanne got together and began doing some of the prep work for Violets Birthday. When they showed me there results of there afternoon of work I was impressed. So what do my readers think these pretty boxes will be used for?
Jacob usually wakes up before Melissa or me. Usually he’s a good boy and comes wakes us up. This morning he did something a little different. Today he went into Violet’s room and took the food from her kitchen dumped it into her crib and climbed in. When I came in and asked what they were doing, they told me they were having a picnic. As a parent I’m really glad to see how well the two of them can play together. I guess the only question is how long does that last?
Today I did something I haven’t done before. Today I picked up a pair of winter boots. After buying them I was trying to remember the last time I own a pair of winter boots. I know I have owned them, I just don’t know when. I don’t think I have never bought myself a pair. The closest I came was using my hiking shoes in the winter. That probably wouldn’t have changed now, except Melissa keeps insisting that I need a pair of boots. So I looked around a bit this afternoon and found a pair regularly $150 on for $80 with an extra 30% off. I couldn’t resist them at that price. I must admit though, after walking through todays snow with my old runners, and my new boots. It’s much better to have boots.
All winter Jacob has wanted to go out and play in the snow. Unfortunately there hasn’t been enough snow or time to let him get out and enjoy it. Today after school there was. On Her way Home Melissa capture this picture of one of our little guys Snow Angels.
Today our fair city got a sprinkling of snow, leaving the streets picturesque. What surprised me most was how I felt walking home from work, I wanted to go home get into my running gear and hit the streets. I wonder were this running monster came from, but there it is. Under the surface there wishing to get out. Of course with my knee injury I can’t head out there, due to the Fight with wife Attorney overland park, so I’m forced to sit here and ponder if today is a good day to see if it’s better. It didn’t hurt today, but then it wasn’t hurting before my last run either. So for now, I sit and look over my past runs. Explore the new features in RunKeeper and wait. I see my family doctor next Wednesday and all I’m trying to decided if I should try my knee before I see her or wait to get her opinion.
Today Violet decided she wanted to help with the vacuuming in our living room. It was very cute to watch her with her little toy vacuum. She even set her baby up in her chair to watch.
Today we have our first guest photographer, Melissa snapped this picture of our little guy while they waited for the bell to ring and school to start. It’s a bit strange to be posting a picture I didn’t take, but it’s a great picture and well I didn’t take one worthy of the blog today.
Today I thought I’d continue with the living room series. Today it’s our new Desk. It’s been an adjustment having the compute in the living room, but it’s been worth it. The best part of it has been that Melissa has let me keep both my monitors, something I didn’t think she’d do. Of course the person who likes the move the most is probably Jacob, who now thinks anytime can be computer time, of course it doesn’t work that way. It’s also nice that we now have a dedicated area for Jacob do to his homework.
At the beginning of December Angry Birds Seasons came to the Android Market Place. I had resisted the temptation to install Angry Birds since it came to android. We’ve purchased it for Melissa’s iPhone and iPod Touch so I’ve felt the addictive nature of the game. With Seasons I broke down and installed it. Many hours of my time got sucked into that game. I’m happy to report that my phone is once again Angry birds free, but I still thought I’d share my thoughts on Angry Bird Seasons for Android with my readers.
A new year begins and with it I find myself reflecting on the year that was and planning for the year ahead. So lets start by looking back at the 3 geeky challenges I set for myself last January 1st. There were 3, Finding my Blogging Voice, Project 365, and Coding Challenge. Over all I’m proud of how I met my Challenges. Though there still work that needs to be done. So before I set out my new goals for 2011, lets take a look at the successes and failures.
Where I succeeded was my blogging, taking and posting a picture everyday was surprisingly difficult. Though I managed to get through it and find that I don’t want to stop. I like being able to look back and see snapshots of my life from the last year, and think it’d be great if I could do it for the last decade, More on that in this years challenges later. I’ve also found that by having to post a photo every day on my blog I want to post more. Though I don’t always have the time to find the words. I’ve started Mobile Mondays and I’m looking to add more regular posts soon.
Where I failed was the coding challenge.Though it started out well, I even had a great source for inspiration on the Dream in Code Forms, I just couldn’t manage to keep it up. What really bothers me about it is that I don’t have a single new program to show for the last year. I have a few skeletons, but nothing that I can point to and say look what I did. This is something that I really want to change this year.