May 2012
1 post
Good question
Abigail: Daddy what's that?
Daddy: It's a newspaper.
Abigail: Daddy, what's a newspaper?
Daddy: [smiles] An extinct business, kinda like Dinosaurs.
April 2012
11 posts
Touché
Me: You know Downton Abbey is just a soap Oprah, right? I mean I like it, but it's a soap Oprah.
Wife: So was Battlestar Galactica!
Me: ...
Me: Touché... but for the record, BSG had robots that had sex with people.
March 2012
9 posts
Note to self
Don’t listen to classic rock in headphones while doing yard work. Eventually I end up doing a guitar solo in my front yard with the rake… The neighbors are starting to talk.
Secret Number of queries & time
I’ve been battling a an almost daily reboot of my Dreamhost VPS on visitgraceway.org. It’s been driving me crazy. In my search I wrote a quick php script that would let me see how many queries a page was doing and how long it took… But I didn’t want the world to see it when it ran, just me.
So I found a way to limit the view ability of my new php call to only...
February 2012
10 posts
“Thought my cat was loosing weight, turns out I’m just getting stronger...”
– Jim Edwards
Valentines Day
Abigail: Daddy, can we setup the Christmas tree?
Daddy: Well honey it's not Christmas time, but ya know what? It's almost Valentines day! That's when we by gifts for the people we love.
Abigail: Daddy, I wonder... What does Santa want for Valentines Day?
“In parenting, there are days just making it to bedtime is my definition of...”
“Trophies make it hard to forget the things you’ve accomplished…...”
– Man with the yellow hat
January 2012
9 posts
“Gently now, you just want kiss the ground, just a little peck, a smooch…...”
– Skipper of Madagascar 2
preventative medicine
Wife: Can you take the back seat out of the van? Just be careful, I don't want you getting a hernia.
Me: Honey, don't worry I'm way to lazy to actually exert myself enough to get a hernia.
Wife: Yea, I guess your right.
Me: . . . .
“Relationships are like farts, if you push to hard things might get messy.”
– unknown
Been there
clientsfromhell:
Client: Can you just get rid of this here?
Me: The Lorum Ipsum?
Client: Yeah, just fill it with dummy text that doesn’t mean anything.
“Cutting libraries in a recession is like cutting hospitals in a plague.”
– Eleanor Crumblehulme via @st_vockrodt
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
– Winston Churchill
December 2011
4 posts
Bed time on December 29th
Daddy: Good night Abigail, Daddy is going to go downstairs now.
Abigail: Daddy, will you leave Santa some cookies?
Daddy: Yes, I'll leave Santa more cookies.
Abigail: Ok, good night Daddy.
Mr Android 2011
Would love to see a similar infographic for iOS & blackberry users.
Via: Bluestacks
October 2011
2 posts
All Done
Abigail: Daddy I want juice
Daddy: Ok, I'll get a glass [gets glass]
Abigail: No Daddy, princess cup!
Daddy: Uh, ok, I'll get it sweet heart. [washes princess cup] Here ya go honey.
Abigail: No Daddy, No! Other princess cup.
Daddy: Really? Alright sweet heart, I'll get it for you. [washes second princess cup & pours juice] Here you are sweet heart.
Abigail: [Abigail takes one sip] All done Daddy.
Daddy: Abigail, I can feel my hair turning grey.
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The...”
– John Rogers
September 2011
1 post
June 2011
4 posts
Why every company should use twitter
I’ll admit at first I thought the idea was silly. But as time has gone by it just makes logical sense. Today my ISP died for about an hour, and a few days ago I had an issue with a netflix steaming movie. Two general customer service issues, but they were resolved in very different ways. (Ok one of them still isn’t resolved, I’ll let you guess which one, since I’m blogging...
Best Popcorn I've ever had
So we started instituting a family movie night at the Edwards household. Abigail honestly only makes it through the first hour, but we’ve found it’s a great time on a friday night to relax and enjoy each others company.
Tonight we watched Tangled and decided to make some popcorn Alton Brown style. It was amazing, now I didn’t have any peanut oil, so we substituted vegetable oil...
WatchIt’s good to be the Dad.