Today was Thanksgiving day so our family had a small dinner. It was a great success. There were a lot of things we did a little differently this year. The first was we backed our own Apple pie for desert, with Violet’s nut allergies we just don’t trust most bakeries. We also tried a new turkey, a pre-stuffed bake from frozen, from Lilydale. Everything was a big success. And though the pre-stuffed bird seems unnatural it turned out so good and was so much easier to make it’s hard not to see us getting it again.
On moment that stood out for me tonight was after dinner and dessert I asked Jacob what he was thankful for. He thought about it for a moment then said he had to go up to his room to check. I was thinking he’d pick his current favourite toy, or maybe his new magnetic letters. Instead he came back down stairs with his Monkey Coco and said he was thankful for love. If was so very sweet and unexpected.
Today we take a quick look at one of the sillier apps on my phone, Tricorder. It seems fitting on this holiday Monday to have a simple and fun app. I’ve had a Tricorder app for every PDA I’ve owned, though this is the first one that actually does any Scanning. All it does is visual some of the phones sensors with a feel of a Star Trek inspired interface. Overall they have limited value. Though I find the Acoustic sensor is kind of neat and the EM Spectrum scan gives you an interest view of the different Networks around you.
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Tomorrow is our family Thanksgiving dinner. We’re not having a big affair, just our little family and my mom and Niece. We didn’t want it to be to big this year, but still feel that we should be celebrating the holiday. So in preparation for eating entirely too much tomorrow, and having eaten too much at the birthday party yesterday, we had a good dinner of Chicken and salad.
Today we spent the afternoon at a friends daughters first birthday party. It was a great day for a party and the kids even got a chance to play in the backyard. Not something usually expected for an October party.
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Today Jacob brought home some of his artwork from Kindergarten. It seemed like only yesterday he was off to his first day of pre-school, and now he’s making turkeys. The time just seems to be flying by so fast. Even though there have been rough times with Jacob’s school, I’m so proud of how my little guy is handling it. I know that once he gets used to his SK class everything will be alright.
Today I came home to find my Children and there nan building a Lego tower. So I thought I’d take a picture of the tower for my picture of the day.
Today I took a moment to capture a piece of nature. You can’t really see it, but the leaves are starting to turn. That with the drop of temperature makes it clear that summer has left us and winter is around the corner.
Today after Jacob’s doctors appointment we ran in to look for a few things at old navy. Something about the manikin’s seemed off, so I snapped todays picture of the day.
Today we had another visit to the Asthma clinic. While waiting for our turn Jacob showed off his artistic side, drawing a couple of pictures, first with Mommy, Daddy and Chloe. Then one of Violet and him. I was quite impressed with the hands and feet. Not to mention that he included names of the people he drew.
Today I start a new series of posts, Mobile Mondays. It’s a expansion of my earlier post about mobile apps. I plan on posting once a week something to do with mobile. There will be app reviews, Hardware Reviews, my thoughts on the mobile space and more. I have tried to get into a roll with this kind of posts for a while. I had hopped to when I posted my review of WordPress for android a few weeks back(link). It didn’t happen but today I am confident that this time it will work out. With today’s post you will see the addition of Mobile Mondays tot the Data Points. This will be a central place to see the different posts that make up this series. You will also find a link to AppBrain and a list of applications that I have installed on my Milestone. It seemed fitting to start the series with a review of AppBrain.
AppBrain is an application manager for android. Its web interface makes it easy to find and install applications from any web browser. The Android Application makes it easy to manage and find applications from your phone. When you launch the app on your device you are given 4 choices.
