The Johnson Blog

Ramblings of a geek with a few hobbies…

Category: General

  • Busy Saturday

    Today turned out to be a pretty busy day.  I made a quick trip to Lowes to get a pair of 12′ pieces of crown molding to finally finish off David’s room.  It has taken entirely too long to get it completed, but I can’t exactly be in there with a nailgun while he’s sleeping.

    I only had one 10′ section of wall left, but decided to buy two pieces of ample size so that when I inevitably screwed up the first piece I could just laugh, set it aside, and try again without having a trip in the car piss me off.  The most amazing thing happened, though – I didn’t need the second piece because I didn’t screw it up. Wooo!

    After getting that piece in place I had to putty, sand, touchup paint, and caulk around the room which took a lot longer than I expected.  But, it’s finally done and looks really good to my untrained eye.  To top it off, we also finally got the pictures up in the room.

    Sometime in there I also cleaned my desk(!) and mowed the lawn.  Busy day.  I’m tired.

  • Refried Beans and Lettuce

    We made taco salad tonight for dinner, using lettuce straight out of our backyard.  I need to take a picture and get it posted here, because the garden is quite full of growth – mostly intentional but there are some pretty hefty weeds too.  I hope the peppers get growing soon so we can get some salsa made!

    And now a little rant about refried beans.  Is there a reason you have to buy 16oz cans of refried beans?  After we’re done eating tacos or similar meals including them, we find ourselves tossing a nearly full can of beans because we’ve used just several spoonfuls. Would it be too difficult to have smaller “serving size”-sized cans, say on the order of 4 ounces or so?  Please!?

  • Some David Media

    I’ve got a couple videos for David’s fans:

    Piano Man:
    http://www.motionbox.com/external/hd_player/type%3Dsd%2Cvideo_uid%3D069bdeb41918e08f

    Playing on the Floor:

    http://www.motionbox.com/external/hd_player/type%3Dsd%2Cvideo_uid%3D069bdeb41a1be08f

    And some more photos from this evening are available in gallery.

    Just a general update on him, he’s doing great – close to crawling, enjoys grabbing everything around him, and laughs LOTS.

  • Home!

    We got out of Chicago much faster and earlier than expected today, so we were able to make it back to Springfield around 9:30 tonight.  I took a few photos of the conference that I’ll post, just not right now because my camera is downstairs at the moment.

  • Chicago

    One more day to go here in Chicago.  I’ve been here since Wednesday for the eBay Live! conference for work and it has been quite a bit more fun than I expected – albeit exhausting.  I have never attended anything like this, let alone on the exhibitor side of things.

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  • Respect for Single Moms

    This is to all those single mom’s out there. How in the world do you do it? Completely and utterly amazed by you all – total respect for being able to do it yourself. Besides getting 3 hours of sleep last night between various wake ups of our little David, I then had to deal with a 30 minutes screaming session while I was getting dressed and ready for work. That followed by him smiling at himself in the mirror while still sniffling from all the crying was enough to make me just want to go back to bed. We managed to eat breakfast, pack the car, feed the cats and water the garden without incident. But wow, what a morning. FYI, I had to do this all myself this morning because Eric is in Chicago for work. Usually he entertains David while I’m getting ready, as well as feeds the cats. I feed David and pack the car (garden is usually done at night). PLUS we split the who gets up to put him back to sleep duties. Eric won’t be back until Sunday (basically), so I’ll be doing the same battle tomorrow. Maybe David will relax a bit on day 2?

  • Java Updates

    I swear there’s a new Java update every week, tonight I got so mad at the java icon yelling at me in the system tray on my server that I gave in and clicked it so it would go download the latest ultra-important POS updates that are Java.

    What am I greeted with?

    I’ve blogged about the JRE wanting to install Google Desktop before, but an entire Office Suite!?!  Give me a break!

  • Power Plant

    I drove just outside of Springfield tonight and took a few photos, here’s one of the sunset and CWLP.

    Edit: A few more from the evening are located in gallery.

  • Happy 6 Months!

    (edit: here are the rest of the set!)

  • Bicycle Trailer

    This afternoon I went over to Wheel Fast and picked up a bike trailer for David.  It’s a Burley Bee which seems to be well built and collapses into a good size to store in the garage or trunk of my car.  Here it is, attached to my bike and David getting all strapped in:

    Well, lets just say he wasn’t too impressed or happy with his first ride.

    Not happy David: