Goof

July 19, 2014 10:19 pm

This morning while helping me clean the garage Heather paused and tensed up all her muscles.  I asked her what she was doing.  She said, “I’m trying to take myself apart.”  She’s done this every so often for the last several weeks since she’s seen Frozen enough times and tries to emulate Olaf (the snowman that disassembles).

This evening she started hopping and then started getting upset because, “I can’t float anymore.”  We don’t know when she used to float, but when Jess tried to help her she said, “No, I just want to float by myself.”  We tried to explain that people can’t float.

We fear that the mantra from Daniel Tiger of “keep trying, you’ll get better” may be detrimental in these cases.

The beginnings of a very long trip…

8:21 pm

We just returned from a month-long stay in Texas. Kyle was doing a program at A&M for work (I’ll let him explain that at some point if he wants to) and that’s only 3.5 hours from where my parents live, in Frisco. So Heather and I stayed with them, and Kyle came up on the weekends.

The drive out to Texas was largely uneventful: we just needed to get out there as quickly as possible. We left May 28th (a Wednesday) and arrived on the 31st (Saturday). Kyle’s classes started on Monday, the 2nd and ran through the 26th of June.

We did make an impromptu stop at a dinosaur museum that happened to be around when we needed a break from driving, though. It was in Tucumcari, NM, and it kind of rocked! It wasn’t large, but they had some cool stuff. And Heather got to dig for fossils! Okay, they were cow bones buried in pieces of walnut shell. But it was awesome, and she loved it. We also discovered that if you can read, you’re going to seem like a genius to anyone who can’t (like a 2-year-old). No wonder we all thought our parents knew everything! Turns out, they were just reading the informational signs.

RSS Feed broken?

July 5, 2014 1:36 pm

If you subscribed to the RSS feed back when this blog was hosted on Blogger, the forwarding for that feed apparently no longer works.  I don’t know why.  It seems Google decided to break it.  So if you usually use RSS feeds, you’ll need to re-subscribe.  The links are on the left-hand panel.  The “All Posts” feed is equivalent to what you would have seen before.

Tidy Media Center

July 4, 2014 2:06 pm

I got annoyed that every time I needed to adjust cables behind the media center it was a disaster back there.  So I finally took some time to get it all cleaned up (this was before our trip to Texas, catch-up posts coming soon now that we’re home).

Tidied up media center cablesPower bricks are zip-tied to the back of the unit, common-run cables are zip-tied together and hung across hooks.  Extra slack is zip-tied up, with enough left to pull the unit away from the wall when needing to access things.  Much nicer looking.