Kyle Dickerson – Page 85 – If we had a Marriage, These Would be its Thoughts

Easter 2015

April 11, 2015 1:53 pm

Mom was here helping with Corinne for a few weeks and she happened to be here over Easter. She helped Heather dye some eggs and made sugar cookies and cooked Easter dinner. Thanks Mom!

The Easter Bunny paid us a visit but just when Heather discovered what had happened it started raining. And it rained right up until we finished finding eggs and came back inside, so that was really convenient. Heather didn’t care though and it wasn’t too cold regardless.

The Easter Bunny hid 4 special “golden” eggs for Jess.

They found almost everything, but got stuck on the final egg.

And some additional photos:

Tech Museum

12:54 pm

Heather’s been feeling a little uneasy about the new family organization. So on April 1st I took the day off and we went down to the Tech Museum in San Jose for which Mike and Tina gave us a gift certificate for Christmas.

Heather had a blast.

We started with the requisite Chick-Fil-A, since one was in the area. As we pulled in to the parking lot Heather began exclaiming, “I love Chick-Fil-A. We’re so close I can almost taste it!” And as soon as we walked in, “This is the best day ever!”

So the trip started off good.

At the Tech Museum she liked playing with the infrared camera:

And anything she could put her hands on, which was pretty much everything:

The downside of the visit was that the place was crawling with school groups with little to no supervision. Nothing particularly bad, but every exhibit was therefore swamped and trying to get a chance to play with it was difficult at times. But, after about 2:30 when all the school groups left it was quite nice. Heather got a chance to have the robot artist draw her picture:

And the spelling robot wrote her name in blocks:

It was fun. We’ll have to go back sometime.

Heather’s Mask

11:26 am

Heather wanted to make a mask this morning. Here’s what she came up with. She even took a self-portrait with her tablet.

Corinne Olivia Dickerson

March 19, 2015 2:49 pm

Born Tuesday March 17, 2015 at 1:15pm. 7 pounds 6.9 ounces and 20.5 inches long.

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Additional details will follow in a different post.

Supercharging Slickdeals

March 3, 2015 10:46 am

I’ve been using Slickdeals.net to discover good deals on things for several years now. Today I thought it’d be really helpful to be able to hide deals from companies that I don’t ever buy things from (like Tigerdirect and eBay). A quick Google search turned up nothing, but playing around with Slickdeals revealed just such an option.

Open the Frontpage preferences by clicking the little gear icon at the top-right:

Doing so reveals the Preferences panel which allows you to adjust Category Preferences (on the left) and Store Preferences (on the right).

The Store Preferences allows you to type in a store name and it will provide suggestions for matching companies. Select the match and it will appear with a dislike/neutral/like slider you can adjust.

Any category or company set to “dislike” is hidden. Any category/company set to “like” will result in more deals matching that category/company being shown to you.

This makes Slickdeals even more useful since I can stop seeing stuff from companies and categories I don’t care about and instead see more stuff I might actually be interested in.