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    7.15.2010

    Happy Birthday Cameron!

    My oldest nephew on my side of the family, Cameron, turned 12 today. Holy macaroni.

    Congratulations on the achievement, Cam-dawg...

    I'm glad that everyone in the family had the opportunity to test their broken parenting methods on you before their kids came along (including mine)...

    How did you turn out to be such a good kid?!

    Now... For a little birthday embarrassment. That's Cameron on the right.

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    7/14/10





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        • Snoozed too many times.


          • Again.

          • I am a snooze button whore.

        • Had to hustle and get ready for work.

        • No Breakfast


          • No surprise

        • Traffic was tolerable

        • Work in the morning was hecktic.


          • Didn't get everything done that I wanted to.

        • Went to lunch at Thai Drift


          • Got my "usual"


            • Green Curry, Beef, no rice

          • Delicious

          • Thanks to Ryan Higgins for paying me back from when I paid for him a couple months ago.

        • Tons of work to do in the afternoon as well.


          • Didn't get everything done that I wanted to.

        • Investigated a few other free options to use for mind mapping on my PC other than Freeside


          • Tried Novamind, which was promising, but from what I could tell, you could not draw arrows.


            • Lame.

          • Settled on Freeplane, which is an offshoot of the freemind project.

        • Drive home was tolerable. Was able to stay awake with no problems.

        • Trisha prepared a DELICIOUS dinner


          • Baked chicken


            • AMAZING

          • Green beans


            • Good. Had to add tons of cheese and some butter. The brand I bought is kind of bland.


              • Too bad I still have 4 more pounds of beans in the bag I bought


                • Curse you Costco.

        • Watched some TV


          • So you think you can dance

          • Should have been cleaning

        • Played an addictive little game on my iPhone until bedtime


          • Angry Birds


            • Simple.

            • Pretty fun.
        • Goodnight
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    7.14.2010

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    7.13.2010

    New Format

    So I have come across (thanks to Ryan Werner) a note taking tool called mind mapping. I use an app on my phone which syncs with an app on my computer. So, no matter where I am, I can create or edit a mind map.

    After thinking about it for a little bit, I figured that it could work as a good format for a blog/journal. My biggest concern is how do I convert an image with bubbles and thoughts branching off of each other into a blog post. Worst case scenario, it will be a good outlining tool for my daily activities that may be memorable.

    This is a potentially bad thing, however. This means that I may include mundane tasks in my blog posts, simply because I was thinking about it at the time, or because it was somehow noteworthy to me, albeit not important overall...

    I'll give it a shot in a little bit here and see how it translates.
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    Holy Absentia

    If you have not noticed, I have been absent for 10 months. I'm gunna give this blog thing another swing. I have a new idea on how to organize my posts.. Probably going to include more posts, but shorter ones.

    Wanna make a bet on how consistent I'll be? I don't...

    Here goes nothing...
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    9.14.2009

    Heber 2009 - Ryan's First Campout

    This last weekend we went to Heber with my family to go camping. We went up to the girls camp owned by the LDS church east of Heber. It's a nice little facility and fairly cost effective. You are able to get 4 cabins with lots of bunks in each and a covered pavilion with a fridge, running water, bathrooms, showers, etc. We have made it a family tradition to go every year at the end of the summer.

    We weren't sure that it would be a good idea to take Ryan at such a young age (he hit 4 weeks while we were there), but he took it like a champ. He didn't complain much and he's starting to get on a good sleep schedule and we had some help from some family members taking care of him.
    There was also some doubt as to whether I would be able to go because of a software release we were doing at work, but because of some of the circumstances, we were able to move it to Saturday night/Sunday morning so I was able to make it.

    We played some fun games and ate some good food whilst up there. We had a good breakfast and Fettuccine Alfredo and lots of snacks. I was on my diet while we were up there, which was surprisingly hard. There were so many treats and good things to eat, but I did a pretty good job. I had plenty to eat and plenty of treats that are low-carb compliant.

    We survived without too much contention, which seems to happen frequently when my family gets together for some reason. I'm a debater, and I, of course, had to bring up some recent political topics and some religious topics as well. Growing up, I never would have imagined that the political and religious range of beliefs would vary so much in our family. It's not like there's even enough variance of a different religion, but degrees within the same religion difference. Same politically, I wouldn't consider myself liberal, but I am much more liberal than some of my family members. But regardless, even with those discussions, there wasn't arguing or anything like that, just a debate.

    We played tons of games, which I really enjoy. We played a game called the Movie Game that Trisha and I taught to everyone that we recently learned from our neighbors. We played Nertz, which is a solitare type game, we played a poker type game called "between the sheets" (no, it's not strip poker, you sicko). We played Pick, which is a scrabble variant and a couple other games here or there.

    All in all, a great weekend.
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    8.30.2009

    Boy was I mistaken.

    I was Was thinking at day 7 if ryan's life that despite the occasional choke that he had, my kid was gosh darn perfect. Everyone I know that has kids said that I nights were going to be tough. I thought that I wasn't going to experience that cuz Ryan slept so good. Boy was I wrong. It just didn't happen until day 10 or so. He sleeps during the day and is fussy at night.

    So to all you out there that told me... No "I told ya so" needed. I got the point.

    I would however appreciate any tips and timelines for his sleeping to get on track.
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    8.25.2009

    The little things

    It's crazy how you notice the little unique things about Ryan and what things he has inherited from Trisha and me.
    For example, every time Ryan sneezes, he sneezes, he sneezes not once, not twice, but thrice. Every time! (it seems).
    Also, on my ring finger, my fingernail has a really unique shape. It's only on my ring finger on both hands. Ryan has the same thing.
    One last example. One of trishas toes has a unique curl to it. Ryan has the same thing. It's cute and amazing at the same time.
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