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This week the powers that be, upgraded our laundry facilities. Gone are the older worn out machines in their place are brand new front loading washers and spiffy new driers. So today I thought I’d share a picture of our new driers. Sure it’s not the most interesting Project 365 photo of the year, but they can’t all be great.
Once again my picture of the day is Jacob at the computer. I didn’t really plan this, it’s just that when we sat down for computer time he navigated to TVOKids.com and to the The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog game. He’s played it before but tonight was different. Tonight he wasn’t asking me to ready every chat box that popped up. He would sound out the words or when he’d stumble ask for help. But it was mostly him. It was amazing to see. I’ve know for a while that he was picking up reading but it’s the first time I’ve seen him using it for something more than just to read. Here he was using it to solve problems. It was a proud moment for this father.
Today’s picture is of Violet’s stuffed Monkey, relaxing in her dolls stroller. Our little Violet loves her dolls and stuffed animals. She pushes them in her stroller or tries to put diapers on them. She’ll even lay them down and cover them with a blanket and say ‘shhh’, like she’s putting them to bed. I’m not sure if I’d seen the Monkey in the stroller before today, but it was there a lot today.
I’m not sure if the picture really does Jacob’s shirt justice, but I couldn’t resist this as the picture of the day. You see when Jacob came home from school she shirt was covered in paint. The teach told my mom who picked up our little guy that he wearing a smock… it was just backwards.
Today’s picture is of our TV, well of the growing patch of dead pixels on our less than 2 years old TV. I’ve spoken with Sony about and they told me I need to get it looked at see what it will cost to fix… It will probably cost more tl fix then we aid for it new, but we need to have it examined by a qualified tech before Sony will give us a deal on a new tv. I have to problems with this, the first is I have to pay to have the tv looked at. Then pay for a new TV. The second is do I want another Sony Tv after this one failed in less than 2 years? TVs are supposed to last, so do I go down the Sony path see what type of deal I can get from them or cut my loses and get a new tv from a different maker?
Today I spent the morning at a clients re-setting up their corrupted profile. The last task was to configure the shared Dot-Matrix printer to print using the LPT port. It’s needed for their legacy systems. The process got me wondering how hard would it be when they upgrade there aging Windows XP machines to set up there legacy application with their legacy printers?
It’s a day late but here is myself portrait for October, I ment to get one with the kids yesterday but it didn’t work out. So here I am sitting at my desk working way. It amuses me that I’m wearing the same shirt as my last self-portrait from September 30 (Project 365-273: Looking in the Mirror 9). It’s also clear that I really need to find time to get a haircut and maybe a proper shave.
Tonight Jacob did the cutest thing. For some reason he wanted to do the dishes. So I set him up at the sink and let him at it. He did a pretty good job but after about a half a sink he’d had enough. I think I might be able to get a complete sink next time 😉
Today our little family headed out to do a little shopping. While there Violet showed us what she wants for christmas. Perhaps we’ll let Santa know so he can put it under the tree.
Today Melissa and I spent the evening putting together Halloween bags for the kids of Jacob class. It seems so strange, its times like this that make me really think about how fast my little guy is growing up.