Last Sunday, the 25th, we were hit by a pretty severe thunderstorm. Large parts of the Twin Cities metro area didn’t feel a thing, but in Forest Lake, we had some really serious winds, crazy sideways rain, and marble-sized hail. I didn’t get video of the worst of it because I was hiding in the [...]
Caleb and I had some fun tonight with Photo Booth when I had him in the Baby Bjorn.
I’m closing on my first house in two days, but no, I’m not going to write about something meaningful like that. Not tonight, anyhow. The thing that has compelled me more than any other to sit down and blog tonight is the discovery of a commercial. But not just any commercial. A commercial I already [...]
I got Steph a Flip video camera for Mother’s Day (yes, somewhat early) because I wanted to be sure we had something easily on hand to record all the little moments in life that don’t quite merit pulling out the HD behemoth, and many of those moments are soon arriving. Plus, now we can capture [...]
TweetClouds.com is a tool you can use to visually analyze the topics you talk about and words you use most on Twitter. I ran the tool on my tweets, and apparently I use the word “really” too much. Linguistic crutch alert!
A few weeks ago, Caleb said what we consider to be his first word. It’s a bit of a cheat, since it wasn’t exactly correct in definition or pronunciation, but I’m willing to count it. The word was, “mamamamamamamama…” and he says it whenever he is distressed, upset, or uncomfortable. We think [...]
Many things have changed drastically for me over the last few weeks, but one of the bigger changes in my day-to-day life has been in my commute to work. Previously, my commute was only a 10-minute car ride, and parking was always free and usually plentiful. There were even times at which I walked or [...]