Airborne Swine Coming Soon to an Internet Near YOU!
So… For about four or five years, I’ve been saying that I’m working on a new version of my site. Each time I’ve said it, I meant it. Unfortunately, I didn’t follow through. Not enough time, got bored with the design or just plain didn’t want to code. Now, I want to code it. I am coding it. I’ve finished the public side of my site. I just need to finish the admin panel and fill in some content and it’ll be ready. I’m shooting for May-ish, but no guarantees.
You can start looking for those flying pigs now. When you see them, my new site will be live.
In other news, I just moved Tia’s website to her new domain: www.capturedbytia.com. I’m sure she would appreciate you taking a look and be sure to contact her if you need a photographer.
Since I’m talking websites, I should probably plug my wife’s website again. You can find it at www.unfinishedproject.org. She’s got gluten-free recipes, a couple reviews and pictures of Caleb all up ons her site.
A Not-So Unfinished Project
So I was wrong in my last post. Ashley’s website will not be taking weeks.
It’s done!
Be sure to check out www.unfinishedproject.org!
And for the record, I am a website coding machine! Two websites in two weekends! BOO-YAH!
Crawling, Court & Websites
As of tonight at 11:31pm, Caleb is 7 months old. He’s growing up way too fast. I keep telling him to stop, but typical of a child, he won’t listen. The last few days he’s been sick with a nasty cold. It’s harder for him to sleep, eat, and breathe and he has a ugly cough. Does that stop him? Of course not. He has still picked up crawling. He now crawls and rolls his way to whatever he wants in out apartment and nothing is safe. See the video below for proof.
Also, his first word was "Tiggy." While technically not a word, it is what we call his little Tigger toy. Sometimes it come out as "tsssiggy" or "iggyts" or just "iggy," but his meaning is obvious. Especially since he is always looking at his toy and holding out his hands.
He’s taken to putting his arms out when he wants up now, too. It’s great that he’s finally able to communicate. It was heartbreaking, however, when I put him down for a nap he put his arms up for me to pick him up while he cried.
*sniff*
Ahem.
Anyways, tomorrow (read: in 8 hours… I really need to be in bed) I go to court for the accident where I totaled the Hyundai. I’m not fighting the ticket, just trying to defer it. If they allow me to defer it, I have a chance to keep it off my record. All I would need is one year of no tickets and it doesn’t show up on my record. Short of that, I hope that they will drop the amount, since, to my extensive (read: not-so) legal knowledge, it seems that the $550 is higher than allowed by law. Pray that it goes well.
EDIT: It went well. I got the deferment!
In other news, I’ve been working hard on my website. I’ve got a good chunk of the coding done (about 50% by my estimation), but I’ve still got a long way to go. This is easily the most complex website I’ve built and I want it to work as close to perfect as possible. Once the code is done, there’s the task of filling in the content. I want to copy over the content from my old site, which shouldn’t be too hard, and begin putting in new stuff. Hopefully, the end result will be a website that everyone can enjoy and lasts a long time.
Oh, and by the way, I’m not just building my own site right now. I’m also building an image hosting site, a forum site, a comics site, a resumé/portfolio site, a family tree site, a web design site and Ashley’s website. Ashley’s should actually be ready within the next couple weeks! The Image hosting site is actually finished already. I was able to code it over my four day weekend last weekend. Booyah! I’m a website-coding machine!
So… now I’m off to bed.
The Ol’ Switcheroo
So I’ve just switched hosts. Yeah. For the past five years I was hosted by ICDSoft. They are an amazing host. I never had any downtime. Support requests are handled within minutes, literally! They even kept my service going last year when I was out of a job and couldn’t pay for a month! If you are looking for a good hosting company, ICDSoft is definitely worth a look.
Why switch, if they’re that good?
I’m a hosting reseller now and I was able to set myself up with a hosting plan that gives me 15Gb of space (compared to 1Gb) and 20Gb of traffic (compared to 2Gb) and 100 subdomains (compared to 10 or 15, can’t remember) for 3/4 the price. Plus it gives me the opportunity to see first hand what my customers have available to them so if they have problems, I can talk them through it. So far, I’m loving the new hosting. We’ll see how it works out over the next few months/years.
Oh… and one more plug, since they are a great host: ICDSoft, ftw!
First Forty-Four
As of yesterday, Bush has stepped down and Obama has been sworn in as our new president. It was a pretty interesting event to watch. Historic, too.
This presidency will be one of firsts. Our first black president. Our first chief technology officer. Our first president who understands and uses computers on a regular basis. It will be interesting to see what other firsts he starts.
Here’s to hoping that Obama’s presidency will be better than the last one.
New Year’s Resolutions
Resolutions. Why do we always wait to make them? Why can we never make them on a normal day? Why must we wait until the new year? I think that if you are going to resolve to change something in your life it should be whenever you decide it needs to be changed, not at the beginning of the next month, year, or whenever.
That said, I have a couple of my own resolutions I’m making. Purely coincidental that it’s near the beginning of the New Year… yeah.
- Diabetes. I’m going to be taking better care of myself in this.
- Websites. I’m actually going to finish my own new website and build the one Ashley wants.
- Work. I’ve been at my job for almost a year now. It’s time to step up what I’m doing there.
- Food. I’m going to eat healthier, not just because my wife is, but because it is good for me too.
- Stress. I’ve had a lot of it last year with unemployment, nearly losing my new job, a lawsuit, a baby, and a car accident. I’m going to not let it get to me like it did last year.
So there they are, my resolutions. We’ll see how well I can stick to them.
Christmas Stuphs
So Christmas has now come and gone. We had a good Christmas this year, especially when compared to last year. I thank God for my job and hope to never be unemployed over Christmas again.
Caleb made out like a bandit this year, but then again, he is a new baby and they tend to get spoiled. He loves his new toys and the ones that his Nana and Papa (Ashley’s parents) got him. The last picture in that link was him sleeping with his new caterpillar in his high chair.
My gifts this year were lots of candy and sweets, new sheepskin slippers, a KJ-52 CD, Brisingr, a new keyboard (pics below), some freaking comfy Wii pajamas and a Moutain Dew beanie. Ashley’s parents got me a Best Buy gift card and Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii. We don’t have one so I either have to play at their house or at the base recreation center, but that’s no biggie.
Ashley actually got more video games than me this year. She got Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 and Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force for the DS, and a mystery game for the computer. She also got an eBay gift card, the new Patricia Cornwell Scarpetta book, Short Circuit on DVD, a Shea Cashmere gift set with cashmere socks and lotion, and the David Cook CD.
Aside from Christmas, we’ve had quite an interesting couple of weeks with all the snow up here. It’s been fun to just try to get to the Starbucks in our back yard.
Caleb is now eating stage 2 foods, which are thicker than the stage 1 foods we started him on last month. He had his first taste of Macaroni & Cheese yesterday for dinner and he loved it. He’s getting so much into eating his solid foods that he grabbed the spoon from Ashley one day to feed himself.
Caleb Stealing the Spoon
He also now has his first tooth! We tried to get a picture of it, but the flash just reflects off his saliva and drool so much that all you get is a big white spot where the tooth is. We’re thinking his second tooth won’t be too much longer as we can feel a bump where it would be.
Anyway, I hope you all had a Merry Christmas! Happy New Year, too!
My Old, Disgusting Keyboard
New, Sexy, Sleek Keyboard
The Twelve Wheeking Days of Christmas
For those who don’t know, wheeking is the shrill, whistle-like sound that a guinea pig makes.
Anyway, I arrived at my in-laws house last year around this time and when I walked in the door, I saw Ashley, her mom and her sister all sitting with papers in hand and big grins on their faces. First reaction: fear. What the heck do they have planned? Then they began singing. This was their song.
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
A mound of timothy hay.
On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Two nut logs
And a mound of timothy hay
On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Three apple slices
Two nut logs
And a mound of timothy hay
On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Four carrots
Three apple slices
Two nut logs
And a mound of timothy hay
On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Five lettuce leaves
Four carrots
Three apple slices
Two nut logs
And a mound of timothy hay
On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Six plastic Pigloos
Five lettuce leaves
Four carrots
Three apple slices
Two nut logs
And a mound of timothy hay
On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Seven sprigs of spinach
Six plastic Pigloos
Five lettuce leaves
Four carrots
Three apple slices
Two nut logs
And a mound of timothy hay
On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Eight shredded papers
Seven sprigs of spinach
Six plastic Pigloos
Five lettuce leaves
Four carrots
Three apple slices
Two nut logs
And a mound of timothy hay
On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Nine ducky bottles
Eight shredded papers
Seven sprigs of spinach
Six plastic Pigloos
Five lettuce leaves
Four carrots
Three apple slices
Two nut logs
And a mound of timothy hay
On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Ten bags a rustling
Nine ducky bottles
Eight shredded papers
Seven sprigs of spinach
Six plastic Pigloos
Five lettuce leaves
Four carrots
Three apple slices
Two nut logs
And a mound of timothy hay
On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Eleven Shred-a-Boxes
Ten bags a rustling
Nine ducky bottles
Eight shredded papers
Seven sprigs of spinach
Six plastic Pigloos
Five lettuce leaves
Four carrots
Three apple slices
Two nut logs
And a mound of timothy hay
On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Twelve hidey houses
Eleven Shred-a-Boxes
Ten bags a rustling
Nine ducky bottles
Eight shredded papers
Seven sprigs of spinach
Six plastic Pigloos
Five lettuce leaves
Four carrots
Three apple slices
Two nut logs
And a mound of timothy hay
Merry Christmas from CynicSoC and Bella!
Wedding Photos and Caleb Videos!
So, after more than a year, Ashley and I got the DVD with all of our wedding photos. This is good, because other than the really nice prints in the wedding album, we don’t have any pictures from our wedding. No one who took pictures ever sent us any. Oh well. Now we have all the professional photos and we are loving it.
You can find the photos on my Facebook or here.
Also, Ashley put together another video of Caleb and put some music to it. Here it is!
Caleb’s First Christmas
Caleb has the Christmas spirit! See for yourself! Also, check out the video below!
Music
Here is the Music Player. You need to installl flash player to show this cool thing!
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SoC's Tweets
- Done with Lost Season 2. That was a confusing cliffhanger. Oh well.. on to Season 3 tonight!
- Me: "I love you." My son: "I know." Quoting Han Solo at two years old. *sniff* I'm so proud. #starwars #geekpride
- Just finished Lost Season 1. I guess I'm officially hooked. C'mon library, tell me I can pick up seasons 2 & 3 tomorrow... please?
- Halfway through Lost Season 1. Liking it so far.
- So... we are back from the "Camping Trip from Hell." That was decided by all to be the official name for it, so no I'm not exaggerating.
- Today we clean house and finish preparations for vacation. Tomorrow, vacation. Booyah! Thank you Dave & Becky for making it possible!
- Recently, my wife watched Lord of the Rings for the first time. Now, Caleb is watching Lord of the Beans and she wants to watch LOTR again.
- Anyone have a rhino killer that's not a giant gun or explosive? We have a nasty one running around our apartment, and it needs to die now.
- My wife just called me "old".
- If I were a shape, I would be a rhombicuboctahedron today. Also, if I were a number, I would be between a square and a cube.
