tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-165078592011-10-21T21:17:21.257-07:00JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.comBlogger13951100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-31525875929808130612009-09-13T19:50:00.001-07:002009-11-01T22:30:23.480-08:00

Ginger and the kids returned home today. Of course I was playing the PS3 when they arrived, so they were very interested in being able to play themselves. The kids have decided they really like the Little Big Planet game (or "Little Small World" as Catherine was referring to it for a while).Now we have to get more controllers so we can all play. The problem there is that while I managed to get

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Ginger and the kids left this morning for Richmond. They're heading down there so Quinn can attend the NASCAR race. Funny thing is this year Quinn still likes cars and racing just as much as ever, but he hasn't really been following NASCAR specifically as much as he has in the past. Mind you, that doesn't stop him from wanting to attend the race in the slightest.

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So I mentioned to some of my co-workers that I had purchased a PS3 and now I have a ton of games for it. I've had multiple people let me borrow games now. Some of the people are people that work for me, so I'm a bit concerned that they're feeling obligated to let me borrow them, but since I didn't ask or suggest it and they volunteered, I'm hoping that's not the case. Still, I only let it bother

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The PS3 has arrived. I've gotten it set up on the TV, but now that it's set up I've realized there's a flaw in my plan. It's on the main TV. It doesn't make sense to hook it up to the analog TV downstairs, so it's on the HD one. But that means I can only play games on it when that TV isn't being used by others (and by others I mean Ginger and myself watching TV). The obvious solution is to buy a

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Today was the kids first day of school. They're only going for half days this week, which sort of doesn't even give them any time at all to do anything, so it's more like they're just hanging out around the school for a bit. Today was big for Catherine since this is her first year in elementary school. She had packed her book bag last night and I think she liked the book bag and packing it more

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We had African Children Choir visiting our church today, which meant no Sunday School or kid's church. The odd thing is there appears to be some weird power struggle going on within our church. The pastor sent out an email earlier in the week telling people they could stay after the service to discuss any issues, but then in the service the board gave a statement basically criticizing that action

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Went to do pottery today. Catherine is one of those that will sit there and paint pottery for as long as you let her. Quinn on the other hand starts out strong, but after doing about one piece loses interest in it, it does take him longer to get his one piece done that Catherine though, since he's fairly meticulous about his painting.Catherine did several pieces. She would have done more if we

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All of us (including Nana who is up visiting) went bike riding tonight. It was a challenge since everyone in the group rides at a different pace. It meant Quinn would zoom ahead (which meant one of the adults had to keep up with him), and then they would have to wait on the rest of us to catch up.For the first time I decided to take a good camera with me on the ride. But I didn't feel comfortable

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I bought a PS3 today. It was somewhat against the wishes of Ginger who didn't think we needed one. And to a large degree she's right, we don't. However, there was a deal online that I couldn't pass up. In the previous months before Sony released the PS3 Slim the price of the PS3 was higher, and there was a deal online that showed up every so often that allowed you to buy the PS3 and basically get

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The big news of the day today was Marvel being bought up by Disney. It's an odd marriage. I know there had been rumors of Marvel being available to be bought for months now, but I don't think a anyone had really put forward the idea of them being bought by Disney. In retrospect I guess it makes sense. I don't think we're going to be seeing all the crossovers that everyone seems to be dreading (I

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Left Richmond today to return home. We'll have to wait until tomorrow to get the cats though since the vet they're being boarded at isn't open on Sunday.

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Spent the day in Richmond. I did nothing really but managed to get some work done and catch up on a lot of stuff that went on while I was off on vacation. While I was working Ginger and the kids went out for lunch. Oh, and they went to Rita's for ice. In fact the kids got to go to Rita's twice today since they went after dinner also.

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With today being our last day here we wanted to make sure we got as much in as we could, so we hit the community beach access this morning. The waves were pretty rough and there were still a fair number of jellyfish visible as you waded out, so we packed up and headed back to the community pool. We hung out there for a bit, but then Quinn started talking back and being generally rude and ended up

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In an attempt to avoid the jellyfish that were in the area yesterday we revisited Coquina beach today. The water was a bit on the rough side (the swimming flags were orange / yellow), but I assume that's because of tropical storm / potential hurricane Danny that's coming up the coast. The beach still had tons of shells at the break point, so coupling that with the fact that the waves were a bit

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Today we mixed things up a bit. Instead of hitting the beach early and then heading out the pool we went to the pool first, then had lunch and went back out to the beach. I think we might have missed a good opportunity in the morning though. While Ginger and the kids were in the pool I walked out to the beach. The water was the warmest I've felt this year (and this is including when we were here

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Went to the Bee Beach (Coquina) today. Ginger had the idea that we would get there and build a sand castle / city and watch as high tide came in and tore it apart. Two things went wrong with this plan. One was me not getting up and ready that quickly. Two was the slope of the beach at coquina makes it so that there's not a lot of difference in the last couple of hours of high tide. So the city we

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Today was a very nice day. We hit the beach this morning and boy was it was crowded. More crowded I think than any beach we've ever been too that I can recall. The community pool was even worse. I suspect it's because this was the first nice day of the week so everyone was out trying to get in their beach allotment for the week.We hung out at the beach for a good while, but there were still some

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-68494487241426527062009-08-23T20:32:00.001-07:002009-09-28T10:41:43.693-07:00

The remnants of Hurricane Bill were vexing us today. It was raining most of the morning. Only a light drizzle for part of it, but enough that we didn't get into out swimsuits to go to the beach in the morning. We did head over to the community beach house to get our parking passes and pool passes. The place we're staying at has some really nice amenities. There's a private (community access) pool

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We ended up sticking around Richmond most of the day. There's currently a "debate" between myself and Ginger as to whose fault this is. Realistically she's probably right and the blame lies with me. I did get up late, and then the storm warning that came through prevented us from leaving until the afternoon. The drive was uneventful for the most part, which is always a good thing. I guess that's

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Since we didn't get to properly finish our vacation, we decided we would go ahead and go back and try to get that one last week in. We got a pretty good deal on the house since it was end of the season. We're past the prime paying season, and by renting this late in the game we were actually able to get 20% off the price. So while taking a third week of vacation isn't extremely cost effective, it

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-47101544306613863332009-08-19T19:15:00.001-07:002009-09-21T22:28:55.995-07:00

So a long time ago I played The Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time video game. I really liked a lot of aspects of it. You take on the role of the prince and basically get to do a lot of Jackie Chan style moves of running along walls, jumping, hanging and climbing. Which is probably why it's been picked up and being made into a ">movie.The fun part of the game for me is the game was basically one

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-2663161238845740902009-08-18T17:50:00.001-07:002009-09-18T05:57:45.272-07:00

I got to play with a new video editing program by Adobe. Ok, it's not "new" since I've owned it for over a year and a half, but it's newly installed. It required some special CPU specific operations that my computer didn't support back then. The interface is different from Window's Movie Maker. Probably better, but at this point without knowing all the tricks on how to use it I actually found it

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Yesterday at dinner when we were talking about Quinn riding his bike around the neighborhood he informed us that if he was going to ride around without us he was going to need a cell phone. This was stated very matter of fact as if it was the most common thing in the world for an eight year old to have a cell phone.And then tonight when Catherine was going to bed she was telling us how she had

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Made it back to the pool once again today. This allowed for more diving practice by Quinn and more just jumping off the board by Catherine.The Russian judge only gave him a 5 on that one since there was a fairly large splash on the entry.The kids had fun, and swimming always seems to tire them out pretty good, so it's a win win. Catherine still takes longer on the board than she probably should,

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-66920921824945910612009-08-15T18:01:00.000-07:002009-09-10T22:13:03.983-07:00

Today at the pool Catherine did her first solo jumping off the diving board. As you may recall (if you've been reading this blog for years) there was a time ages ago where Catherine would jump from the diving board as I was in the water to catch her. The "rules" police eventually put a stop to that though. Since Catherine's swam the length of our pool on her own we figured she was more than ready

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-59343067654888878102009-08-14T20:05:00.001-07:002009-09-08T06:54:11.288-07:00

A friend a work loaned me the Avatar: The Last Airbender series (and this has nothing whatsoever to do with the upcoming Avatar movie by James Cameron). It's an a cartoon series that was produced by Nickelodeon that's in the anime style. I had heard some good things about the series, and this kept me from having to burn 15 disc rentals through Netflixs. Plus I hear they're making a live action

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-13680799413299821312009-08-11T19:02:00.001-07:002009-09-01T14:38:39.558-07:00

Managed to get Quinn back out on his bike today. He wanted to get out and ride again, which is good. I had been a bit afraid he was going to be timid or not want to ride his bike anymore after his crash last week, but that didn't seem to be the case at all. Now, having said that he didn't want to drive through the spot that we think caused the crash, and instead drove out onto the street to

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-67460581407565241692009-08-10T19:12:00.001-07:002009-09-01T08:58:35.929-07:00

Back on Friday when I was on my way to a going away lunch for one of our interns I rolled down my window (rolled being archaic at this point since it has automatic windows, but you know what I mean). As I was approaching the restaurant I was started putting up the window and heard a large *CRACK*. I turned and saw the window drop a little bit, then go up some, then drop, then go up, etc. Once I

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-48168474765997537682009-08-09T20:57:00.000-07:002009-08-31T23:44:59.410-07:00

Low key day as we stayed home, napped, and finished De Blob. My final analysis of De Blob is the game is entertaining and and easy to understand concept. It's not exceedingly difficult, but can be challenging. It's simple enough for kids to be able to play without needing a lot of explanation about what to do (the concept of apply paint to everything that isn't painted is fairly simple). There's

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-21004995397824064762009-08-08T17:55:00.000-07:002009-08-31T00:31:23.209-07:00

Went to the Maryland Science Center today. That was pretty much was an all day activity. We ended up getting a year long pass since the cost was only about double the cost to get in. Plus it allows access to any of the various science museums (of which there is one in Richmond). While we were waiting on Ginger to get the passes, the kids played with these dishes. There are two of them spaced on

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-13343507571260563562009-08-07T17:56:00.000-07:002009-08-29T21:17:41.179-07:00

With Quinn recovering from his crash yesterday he wasn't quite up for another bike ride today. His hands were still pretty raw and I just don't think he was psychologically ready to get back on the bike. So that meant tonight was just me and Catherine. As before this meant the trip was a bit slower. But tonight's wildlife spotting was a small rabbit. We're thinking of starting to call these

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-65150551793925727582009-08-06T18:02:00.000-07:002009-08-29T21:11:44.333-07:00

So the biking in the evening has been a bit hit. So much so that the kids requested I come home to do it again tonight. All us went tonight (it works better to have two parental units for the two kids since they move at different speeds on their bikes). For the most part the trip was Quinn was zip ahead, I would stay with him, then we would wait at an intersection for Catherine and Ginger to

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Came home today fully expecting to take both kids out on a bike ride around the neighborhood. But Quinn lost out on that opportunity by talking back and generally being rude to Ginger earlier in the day. He was pretty upset about not being able to go, but he needs to understand there are consequences to his actions and that being rude won't be tolerated. And frankly, if he keeps going the way he

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-6585302579264887502009-08-03T20:53:00.001-07:002009-08-27T21:31:11.864-07:00

Quinn asked if I could come home early today to take him bike riding. So I did. We tried to get Catherine to go, but she didn't seem interested. We took a route that took us all around the outside of our neighborhood. I only had my small hand held Nikon with me, so the pictures I did take were less than impressive.We saw a small family of deer at one point and stopped to watch them for a bit

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-54877719830330846652009-08-01T20:37:00.001-07:002009-08-26T22:04:38.707-07:00

Quinn decided on his special surprise (that he was promised for behaving during the funeral). He picked (and this really will come as a surprise to almost no one) a Lego set. He choose the City set. And immediately started putting it together in the dining room, the current home of all things Lego. Sadly this big ticket item didn't even take him more than a day to put together. I was hoping it

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Impossible eh? I present for the jury's consideration the evidence below.

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Nothing too spectacular here. The sky was too white in the top photo, and let's face it, the other photo is just a piece of wood.

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So while we were on vacation I noticed over at CAG that Gamestop was having a used game sale. A buy two get one free deal, and you could also get free shipping. And since the Wii has backward compatibility with the Gamecube system I loaded up on some old Gamecube games that I had always wanted to play but never gotten. I managed to pick up the Price of Persia: Warrior Within and Prince of Persia:

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So earlier in the week I had no idea how the funeral was going to go. Ginger was overly concerned that the children would be rambunctious or something and act inappropriately. Little did we know at the time they would both act with all the decorum the event demanded, but in order to insure good behavior I basically instituted a bribe promising them a surprise of some type if they managed to not

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Today we said goodbye to Ginger's grandmother. I was a bit surprised, but during the service the kids started crying. I should have realized from the day before that Quinn was going to react this way, but for some reason I wasn't expecting it. By the time we got to the graveyard service they seemed fine for the most part. I guess kids are pretty resilient. They seemed to have bounced back fully

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-85127379038135174662009-07-23T19:49:00.001-07:002009-08-24T05:12:00.226-07:00

Today was the viewing. And that meant the pre-viewing viewing. We had given the kids the option of not going, but they wanted to go. So we all ended up heading over to Hopewell to the funeral home to see what everyone would be seeing later. Quinn handled it pretty well, but you could tell the experience let him a bit uneasy. At one point he sat down in a pew and looked away, not wanting to look

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-22545907569212656302009-07-21T18:53:00.000-07:002009-08-24T20:45:56.101-07:00

Ginger wrote up a nice piece that covered some of her memories of her grandmother will be read during the funeral. I have many memories of you, my grandmother, but I have a few favorites I will always remember:I remember you taking me to the beach when I was young and climbing the sand dunes at Jockey's RidgeI remember you filming the bridge on the way to the beach for me since I thought it was

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We decided to revisit the "Bee Beach" today. Ginger and the kids worked on an elaborate sand city for most of the time. It ended up looking quite impressive when all was said and done. When I saw Ginger talking on her phone, I realized she had probably gotten the phone call we had been dreading. Her grandmother had been seriously deteriorating over the past week and the doctor that checked in on

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-47914080026184282742009-07-19T16:50:00.000-07:002009-08-22T08:52:57.291-07:00

It's hard to believe our two weeks of vacation is already more than half over. For the past couple of days at night there have been thunderstorms and in the morning it's been overcast. This has made the ocean a bit rougher than we would like and a lot colder than we would like. As such we've been hitting the pool a lot. I'm not particularly a fan of this since we have a pool at home and I have

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We went to the local beach today. There's public access and parking just down the street from the house we're staying. We're probably a mile away from the ocean beach, one of the consequences of choosing a house based on price, but it's not that much trouble to drive over and if you get there early there's ample parking. Sadly though the waves were a bit rougher today and the water was much

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No beach today. That's because we were just chilling and relaxing. At least that's my version of events. Ginger seems to believe it's because me and the kids would get off our "lazy butts" to do anything. We eventually decided to go to the pool, but just before we left I ended up spending a fair amount of time logged into work helping make a release. Unfortunately this resulted in me saying

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-46896235448661587072009-07-16T19:43:00.001-07:002009-08-18T13:34:56.243-07:00

Today we met up with another family from our church that happens to be down here at the same time as us. They're staying at a place right on the beach next to the fishing pier. The kids had a blast because for whatever reason today the waves weren't too rough and the water level was fairly low for a good way out. This allowed Quinn to be out in the waves solo. Even though the water level was kind

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-60876528445310773462009-07-15T20:17:00.001-07:002009-08-14T01:02:04.225-07:00

Today was a long day. And I took pictures. A lot of pictures. So go grab a drink while the page is loading (seriously, it's a lot of pictures) and then buckle in and let's get started. The day started off with us wanting to do something a bit different. Ginger and I batted around some ideas and we finally came up with the idea of taking a ride on the ferry. The kids were extremely excited about

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-34550209101087001592009-07-14T20:47:00.000-07:002009-08-13T15:14:36.650-07:00

Since I had a ton of pictures from Coquina in the last post I left a bunch of the non people pictures out. But I liked a couple of the shots so I figure they'll just have to deal with getting their own post.

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-74452734733381592442009-07-14T16:17:00.001-07:002009-08-13T11:02:46.668-07:00

Had to convince the kids to go back to Coquina beach today. Yesterday there were a couple bees that were buzzing around a couple times and it evidently left quite an impression on them and they really didn't want to go back. But we finally convinced them to give it another shot. And wouldn't you know it even though we entered the beach at a different location there was still a bee buzzing around

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-78814810610642966862009-07-13T20:14:00.001-07:002009-08-12T23:47:47.979-07:00

Ginger got all of us and ready early this morning to be able to get to an early start on going to the beach. We were actually out on the beach by 9:30, which I found impressive since there are times I'm not even up at that point. We headed down to the Coquina beach, which is miles away from where we're staying, but we like that beach a lot because of the smaller waves and the fact that since it's

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-2461052508070666372009-07-12T18:18:00.001-07:002009-08-12T12:54:04.771-07:00

I slept in while everyone else got up pretty early. How the kids are able to get up as early as they do when they got to bed so late last night is completely beyond me. While I was sleeping Ginger and the kids went on a walk around the area. They claim they located a good place to take sunset pictures. It's up some old wobbly structure. Ginger snapped a shot of the view with her iPhone while they

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-91377699319434855012009-07-11T13:22:00.000-07:002009-08-12T00:09:03.499-07:00

We left for the beach from Richmond today. We left Richmond really late and didn't even get to the beach until almost 10 at night. We did stop for food along the way and Ginger was okay with us stopping at Pierce's bar-b-que for the first time since we found out about Catherine's food peanut allergies. It was really good. I had forgotten how much I missed eating it. Mind you, the kids were eating

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-35194632747072081162009-07-10T18:54:00.000-07:002009-08-11T10:06:35.388-07:00

In preparation for our imminent departure on vacation I finished packing the car this morning while Ginger and the kids took the cats to the vet for boarding. Then once everyone was back home we were on the road. Somehow every year we go on vacation we end up taking more space than we did the year before. This year Ginger even bought one of those things that goes on top of the car and even with

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-21495718663959256132009-07-09T20:55:00.001-07:002009-08-11T05:28:44.120-07:00

I found out the answer to my TiVoToGo problem. Turns out that some friends of mine that have TiVo have no trouble at all downloading episodes of the Daily Show. The thing that's different is that they have Verizon FIOS whereas my cable provider is Cox. After looking around online it appears that individual cable companies have the option of when to set the broadcast flag that prevents copying and

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-46977583116939484642009-07-08T20:52:00.001-07:002009-08-10T22:44:01.597-07:00

Sometimes it's striped.

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-50351154862229812382009-07-07T20:10:00.000-07:002009-08-09T22:42:29.762-07:00

In preparation for our upcoming vacation I watched Defiance. It's one of my Netflix movies and if I watched it quickly I would be able to return and get a DVD that both Ginger and I want to watch for the beach (which at this point is MI:5, a.k.a. Spooks). The story for Defiance is set in WW II and follows a group of Jews living in the woods trying to avoid the Nazis. The group is led by James

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-81673550859948150262009-07-06T20:27:00.001-07:002009-08-05T14:27:54.592-07:00

So I just installed TivoToGo on the new laptop. Since we're preparing for vacation my plan is to copy all the old Daily Show and Colbert Reports I'm behind on to the computer and catch up while I'm at the beach. Last time I used TiVo to go was well over a year or more ago. However, it seems completely worthless now since just about every single recording on the TiVo is flagged as being copy right

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-58333388460063626812009-07-05T20:08:00.001-07:002009-08-04T09:54:25.925-07:00

No fireworks celebrations for us this year, we were limited to some sparklers that the kids set off last night. It took a while for them not to be afraid of them, but eventually they warmed up to them (no pun intended).Next year maybe we'll try and make it out to see a local fireworks display or something. After all the years of almost losing body parts from where my Uncle Frank would set off

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-83528799953057454502009-07-04T20:07:00.000-07:002009-08-03T13:17:14.144-07:00

As happens every year in our neighborhood we had a mini 4th of July "parade". Ken and Amanda came over just for the parade and left not too long after that. I typically try and take a mini movie of the parade with the hand held camera, but this year I was unable to locate it (possibly because it was so cleverly hidden inside the pouch of my camera bag, why would I ever look for it there).As in

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-89230198660611739362009-07-03T20:06:00.001-07:002009-08-03T07:58:33.052-07:00

I had the day off today for the July 4th holiday. And it turns out we did nothing and simply stayed in and played video games all day. So was it was wasted day, or the perfect day? We did do the grilling out thing which is when I took the above picture. These days I can really see all the dirt that's on the CCD in pictures I take and it bugs me to no end. And yet I'm too chicken to actually try

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-57416862108566853612009-07-01T19:01:00.001-07:002009-08-02T15:33:51.836-07:00

Catherine's Tap dance from the rehearsal.

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Catherine's Jazz dance from the rehearsal. I think Catherine's is done with the traditional ballet dances. Or at least she doesn't seem to have the interest in them that she once did.

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-44691261834628780772009-06-29T19:55:00.001-07:002009-08-01T15:21:15.766-07:00

Ginger and the kids returned home. Otherwise not that much interesting happened. Time to start posting the videoes I have from the kid's dance recital last weekend. I only have the rehearsal, but it's not that much different than the real thing.

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-54460033093228520852009-06-28T20:53:00.001-07:002009-07-29T23:38:32.528-07:00

Ginger was originally planning on coming back tonight, but a storm passing through Richmond made them rethink their plans. That coupled with the fact that I don't think the kids really want to come back just yet means they're staying until tomorrow. They have to be back eventually though because this is the last week of Catherine's Spanish class and that's on Tuesday and Thursday. While Ginger

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-65052608614425918022009-06-27T20:52:00.001-07:002009-07-26T20:38:14.365-07:00

Ginger and the kids are still in Richmond, and from the look of things will probably end up staying down there even longer so that Ginger can have some more time with her grandmother. So this meant I had time to work on a request Ben had made to have some head shots taken. He needed a head shot and had asked me if I could take some. Having never done this before I reluctantly agreed and told him

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-62279118539437286562009-06-25T20:53:00.001-07:002009-07-26T08:10:18.862-07:00

A somewhat low budget science fiction foreign film (I'm pretty sure the version I watched was dubbed, either that or the audio was horribly out of sync at times). The title can probably give you a hint as to what aspect of science fiction is involved in this. It's an interesting story and the acting is decent. As always with these types of stories there's an inherent paradox that you have to

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-21375835416612322162009-06-24T18:53:00.001-07:002009-07-25T13:03:11.065-07:00

Got a chance to watch this. I've heard a lot of people saying how good it is, so I figured I would give it a shot. I'll start out with that fact that enjoyed the movie. Clint Eastwood plays Walt Kowalski, a set in his ways Korean war veteran / recent widower with more than a few racial prejudices. The area he lives in has evolved into a Hmong neighborhood, leaving him surrounded by the people he

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-75223102943832503702009-06-23T20:33:00.001-07:002009-07-22T10:51:47.377-07:00

Ginger and Catherine left for Richmond today after Catherine finished her Spanish class. This is good since it'll give Ginger some time with her grandmother. But now I'm at home all alone. However will I cope with all the silence. The picture up above is a left over shot from the recital. In theory with the kids gone I should be coming up with some type of thing to do with brick, but this might

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-45675123336341314582009-06-21T19:02:00.000-07:002009-07-21T22:44:40.800-07:00

Today was the big dance recital day. Nana, Grammy and Pop Pop all came up to watch the performance. First we had to drive over for the dress rehearsal early this morning. Then it was back home and waiting until we got to drive back over again for the actual performance. Unlike previous years they were allowing photographs during the performance, but no flash photography and no video photography.

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-62526405416203591762009-06-20T20:16:00.001-07:002009-07-21T11:06:26.216-07:00

Ginger and Catherine had another birthday party to go attend today. So I let Quinn pick what we would do while they were out. To be honest I wasn't overly surprised that we ended up riding our bikes over to the pool for a bit. As cold as I thought the water was last time I swear I thought it was even colder this time. That didn't stop Quinn at all though. Or stop him from insisting I get in also.

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-44157015635134875032009-06-19T20:29:00.001-07:002009-07-21T09:09:08.593-07:00

Haven't had a lot of chances to take picture of the hydrangeas this year. Whenever I do take pictures though the blue that's evident when looking at them never seems to translate properly to the picture. It's like the color balance always accentuates the yellow versus the blue.

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-52363454358624502722009-06-18T20:16:00.001-07:002009-07-19T08:20:32.721-07:00

Today was Quinn's dance picture day before the upcoming recital. And for some reason we didn't actually take a picture of him in the outfit beforehand like we did with Catherine. So in lieu of a picture I'll post this video that Catherine took of the dance practice. It'll be hard to spot which one is Quinn, but I'll give you a hint, he's the only boy.

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-12075899943001664272009-06-16T20:59:00.000-07:002009-07-17T08:56:10.718-07:00

Today was Catherine's first day of Spanish classes. She's enrolled in one of the summer classes that meets for an hour on Tuesday and Thursday. When I got home tonight the only thing she could say in Spanish was her name since she had already forgotten how to say hello and goodbye. I was sort of expecting her to ask where the bathroom or the library was since those are common questions people get

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-27523165602604428472009-06-15T18:35:00.001-07:002009-07-15T18:31:19.647-07:00

Today was Catherine's picture day at dance. So she got a chance to sport the outfit she'll be wearing the upcoming dance recital.

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-62629071587663942132009-06-13T18:43:00.001-07:002009-07-14T22:30:54.032-07:00

Quinn has a birthday party to attend today so this morning Ginger and Quinn went to get a gift. While they were gone Catherine decided I would be playing Barbies with her.Catherine usually gets upset with me playing Barbies because "I don't play the right way." Meaning I have the Prince doing stuff like scaling the castle, or sitting on the couch watching TV or (and I got chastised for this once)

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-65642299533059731552009-06-11T20:50:00.001-07:002009-07-06T14:38:58.798-07:00

Today was Quinn's last day of school. The kids put on a very minor show for the parents and there was a graduation / progression ceremony for the older kids that are moving on to the next phase of school.For some reason that we still haven't been able to determine Catherine started breaking out today. We suspect it's from some form of cross contamination, but at this point don't really know what

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-38676847515528487672009-06-09T19:23:00.001-07:002009-07-06T18:52:44.922-07:00

So a while back KennyG turned me onto the Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine that rates photos via a computer. Basically looking for patterns of things in pictures people rate highly and then applying those rules to the photo you submit. Based on this I should just stop taking pictures altogether. I went ahead and submitted some of my more recent shots. And when all those came in between 4 (I kid

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-64869391416739025392009-06-08T20:47:00.000-07:002009-07-06T07:22:31.618-07:00

Our home refinance is finally done. We're no longer one of those crazy sub prime loans that caused so much heartache for the economy. We used to have a 4.75% 7 year ARM that was interest only. We were only four and a half years into the loan, but with the rates being pretty low we figured it was time to lock in something. Unfortunately we're at a slightly higher rate now (4.875% I believe), but

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-82965046746557203102009-06-06T18:32:00.001-07:002009-07-02T22:45:46.024-07:00

Catherine had yet another birthday party to attend today. This was another one of the kids in her class at school. These things seem to be pretty clustered to me. I'm not seeing a equal distribution of birthday across the calendar. It seems like there are an awful lot of them in the spring time.In addition to having pony rides this one also had an appearance by The Great Zucchini. At least I

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-72386184695186450672009-06-05T18:30:00.000-07:002009-07-01T21:38:36.006-07:00

It was international day at the kid's school. The elementary class divided up into teams and each team took a continent. In addition there was some entertainment as well. I wasn't able to attend the event, but Ginger was there and snapped some pictures.Quinn was at the Europe station. Mostly because Europe was one of the few continents that he could actually locate on a map.Catherine got a chance

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-20134591223685424972009-06-04T18:45:00.000-07:002009-06-28T23:16:13.814-07:00

As I said earlier, this week had tons of after school activities the kids were attending. Today it was a bowling outing with kids from Catherine's class. I wasn't there but Ginger took pictures. And I have to say that after looking at them the pictures aren't what I was expecting.What the?!? Who is this kid? I need to have a "chat" with him. And then I'm going to have to have a talk with

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-8256231939815035122009-06-03T18:06:00.001-07:002009-06-26T12:16:21.278-07:00

Quinn's class took another field trip into DC and Ginger signed me up to play the part of one of the chaperons again. Although when I did show up somehow the teacher didn't know I was going, so I almost didn't go. But things worked out and I went, which is good considering I had already told work I wasn't coming so it's not like I had anything else to do. Today's trip was to the west building of

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-39221661431569477882009-06-02T20:38:00.000-07:002009-06-26T09:40:35.043-07:00

Catherine is only doing half days this week. So there's a lot of after school activities planned. One was her class going to the Clemyjontri Park. Pictures were taken by Ginger. Kind of wish I had been able to go too, I really like this park. It's very well done and extremely colorful.

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-86404106918495623062009-05-31T20:26:00.001-07:002009-06-25T11:56:55.531-07:00

Catherine had a birthday party to attend today, but before she left the kids were outside bike riding for a bit. Ginger took Catherine to the birthday party. It was with a bunch of kids from Catherine's class at school and was at a miniature golf place. I don't know what kind of score Catherine got, but from looking at the pictures Ginger took I would guess it was probably well over 100 for 18

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-42789953349016533202009-05-30T20:25:00.000-07:002009-06-24T13:29:45.720-07:00

Quinn and Ginger were off running errands this morning (I believe they were buying presents for an upcoming birthday party or something), so while they were gone Catherine decided to do some chalk drawings. She made a really elaborate drawing inside the garage. Later in the day Ken and Amanda came over. A lot of times when Amanda is over Catherine and Amanda will play together and Quinn gets left

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-31635228040036191382009-05-28T20:31:00.000-07:002009-06-21T06:37:27.145-07:00

Another post with just a couple pictures.

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Today was a special day. And it's not just because there was a turtle on our front walkway either (even though there was). It was special because today was our Wedding Anniversary. Apparently both Ginger and myself forgot (which possibly calls into question the day's specialness). The good news is we both remembered it later in the day. Do I still have to acquire negative points for forgetting if

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-46749840542854772902009-05-26T16:03:00.001-07:002009-06-18T21:10:36.757-07:00

This is too rich. You may remember how a while back I ranted about Marvel Comics and how they decided to end Spider-Man's marriage by having him make a deal with the devil (because really, that's what heroes do, right? nothing like teaching the kids if you can't win, just make a deal with the prince of darkness). Marvel has stood firm on this even amid a severe backlash from fans. They're

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-90276883551577808882009-05-25T19:02:00.001-07:002009-06-18T11:13:11.853-07:00

Had a nice day off for Memorial Day. Ginger had to run to the store at one point, so while she was gone the kids and I biked over to the nearby school. I think this was the first time Catherine had ridden her bike that far. I didn't have anything to take pictures with except for my small hand held camera (which is my way of saying excuse the poor quality of the photos).Once we were there we

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-44300208522381681942009-05-24T19:53:00.001-07:002009-06-18T08:56:51.344-07:00

Ahh, a day to just take it easy. We went out to eat at Sweetwater since the kids wanted to eat out, and as a bonus it keeps Ginger from having to cook.

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-10960247638276037562009-05-23T19:56:00.001-07:002009-06-17T19:32:25.209-07:00

We attended the Viva Vienna festival today. The kids seemed to have a lot of fun, but personally I'm not sure how many more years we can continue to go to this. We got the all day pass for the kids, and they actually rode enough rides to cover the cost (yes, we counted). But a lot of the rides are geared towards younger kids. Don't get me wrong, that didn't stop Quinn and Catherine from riding

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-4225425327234682032009-05-21T19:45:00.001-07:002009-06-15T22:25:21.953-07:00

When we were at the birthday party last weekend the owner of the house pointed out this tree stump and said how much they liked it because it looked like a face. I don't see it myself. Looks more like a hermaphrodite to me.

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-74644555717414907882009-05-20T20:06:00.001-07:002009-06-11T20:52:34.191-07:00

As I expected I'm going to be making multiple visits to the hardware store. The good news is that I lucked out on buying the right piece for the toilet, so I was actually able to finish that one off. The sink upstairs though is another matter entirely. Turns out the replacement pieces I bought were chrome (the ones we had before were brass) and as such they've already become tarnished and stained

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-89599841591302380612009-05-19T20:05:00.001-07:002009-06-11T08:25:36.801-07:00

Over the weekend we found a slight problem with Ginger's sink in the bathroom. Apparently it's got a small leak somewhere. It's already gotten a majority of the stuff under her sink wet. My guess is it's been doing this way for a while now since a lot of the stuff under her sink had suffered some water damage. This means I get to play the part of a plumber again and try to fix it. This invariably

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-84426734736757237702009-05-18T20:27:00.001-07:002009-06-10T14:27:03.115-07:00

A non people photo from the birthday party on Sunday.

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The kids attended a birthday party today. It was a backyard birthday party complete with inflatable moon bounce / slide, a zip line and pony rides. The fact that there was a birthday only came up during the cake for about five or ten minutes. All the rest of the time was all the kids running around and playing. The party was for one of Catherine's friend's and Quinn's previous classmate. He was,

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We attended the 18th Annual Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival on Saturday. Pete lives in that area so we met him for a bit. Lots of artwork on display. At the prices being charged I need to get Will to open a booth here next year so he can sell his wares.I really liked these glass works. They have color planes inside so the color disappears and changes at different angles. The piece above was

JamesFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861155533959393695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16507859.post-9344143045792732842009-05-12T20:36:00.001-07:002009-06-04T09:01:48.952-07:00

I let Pete talk me into attending our company's golf outing. I've avoided this thing like the plague for the past couple of years because I'm terrible at golf (and for some reason when I did sign up they would always rate me as B player when clearly I'm a D or a really bad C). But Pete decided we would put together a team that was playing just for fun so I foolish decided to participate. We

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I'll be shocked if anyone realizes the title for the post is actually from an episode of the Simpsons. Even if you didn't know / don't remember it, trust me when I say it applies in this case. One of the things we bought for Quinn for Christmas was a new camera. He really likes taking pictures (video more than anything really) and we thought this would be a good chance for him to prove that he

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