http://randypeterman.com/wordpress Because This is Normal Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:14:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've just crossed the 10,000 picture threshold on my Canon S3IS.  I've used it for personal photography, portrait photography and for product photography.  I have taken many great pictures with it (some of which can be found here) and I still love it.  It is definitely a consumer level camera ... http://randypeterman.com/wordpress/2008/08/18/canon-s3is-10000/ Jessica discoverd that while I like fresh, hot coffee her leg does not.  She's got a substantial second degree burn down her left thigh and has been out of commission since Friday morning.  Since Jessica has been out of commission, I have partially been out of my normal commission so ... http://randypeterman.com/wordpress/2008/08/18/the-burninator/ A Spore Critter Originally uploaded by RandyPeterman This weekend I picked up the $9.99 Spore Creature Creator at the store. Its only a pre-game utility for a game that will be out next month. We may not even get the game, but the utility has been ... http://randypeterman.com/wordpress/2008/08/18/a-spore-critter/ Jessica used to work with a friend making cakes. You can find cakes that pretty much everyone should be embarrased by at this awesome (new to me) blog: Cake Wrecks I want you to know that even my most recent attempt at making Jessica's birthday cake was better than many of the examples ... http://randypeterman.com/wordpress/2008/08/17/get-your-cake-on/ Evie said to me this evening, "I just want to leave myself alone." There's really nothing to add to that. http://randypeterman.com/wordpress/2008/08/14/solitude/ One of the women's olympic swimmers competed first in 1984.  I watched those olympics.  I told my girls that I watched those olympics.  Abby replied, "But they didn't have TV a long time ago.  You couldn't have watched it." I guess that makes me old :) http://randypeterman.com/wordpress/2008/08/11/dirt-2/ The girls were being cute for me at the school playground. http://randypeterman.com/wordpress/2008/08/01/sistren/ Abby, "Mom, are there still pirates?" Jessica, "Yes, I guess there still are." Abby, "I want to be a pirate when I grow up." Jessica, "You probably don't want to be a pirate, that's illegal." Abby, "What does illegal mean?" Jessica, "It means that if they catch you, you will go to jail." Abby, "Oh.  I ... http://randypeterman.com/wordpress/2008/07/28/that-would-be-my-daughter/ Nadia Elizabeth Originally uploaded by RandyPeterman. This would be a picture of my new niece. She's pretty awesome. I'm rather excited to get to be around her, spend time with her, and be an uncle to her. All is going well with her (from what I know) and ... http://randypeterman.com/wordpress/2008/07/19/nadia-k/ Jeremy Doan, a pal, brother in Christ, and great photographer has also posted some pictures on his blog: here. http://randypeterman.com/wordpress/2008/07/15/other-camping-pictures/ Evie is getting so big now its unbelievable.  She's doing things with more sophisication and she's trying really hard to speak clearly about larger concepts like this: "I'm getting so tall, just like sissy." It makes my daddy heart beat with a little bit more sorrow to think that they're growing up, ... http://randypeterman.com/wordpress/2008/07/15/so-tall/ chicago_creek_panorama Originally uploaded by RandyPeterman. We went camping this weekend at Chicago Creek campgrounds up near Mt. Evans in the Colorado Rockies. Great fun was had by mostly all (some of the kids had a harder time due to lack of naps, constant social engagement, and smores). I took ... http://randypeterman.com/wordpress/2008/07/13/camping/ James tagged me in an interweb chain letter.  The last person who didn't comply with the chain letter lived into their 100's, and I don't need that.  Here are my answers: What i was doing ten years ago I was preparing to get married while I worked at a Christian Bookstore called ... http://randypeterman.com/wordpress/2008/07/03/meme-ify-me/ The idiots specially gifted people in my neighborhood have been lighting off fireworks around my house for the last week just to make sure that their ears still work and that the fireworks continue to make loud popping sounds.  Their sober under-aged children might have some serious, lifelong emotional trauma ... http://randypeterman.com/wordpress/2008/07/03/the-july-fireworks-series-of-aurora/ My buddy Trint does a "White Board Quip of the Week", I don't have a white board up in my office, but if I did, it would be this gem from Merlin Mann: It's stunning how hypocritical everyone but me is. http://randypeterman.com/wordpress/2008/07/01/white-bored-quote-of-the-weak/ At the end of the above video is a grape letting off a gaseous flame. I showed the above video to an 11 year old boy and he announced, "Oh! They made it better!" In boy terms there is nothing better than first making flames from a ... http://randypeterman.com/wordpress/2008/06/27/2226/ By adding the fans into the girls rooms it appears, after a short run, that they're sleeping much better and are actually sleeping in. I actually woke up a little worried that I'd slept past the normal start of my work day this morning because the girls hadn't gotten ... http://randypeterman.com/wordpress/2008/06/26/the-fans-are-causing-the-children-to-not-lose-sleep/ Jessica has been watching a show called, "So You Think You Can Dance."  There is a 'judge' who cackles and screams.  She is the very reason why America will not watch this show.  You can witness the nastiness here: Mary "Crack Smoking Crazy" Murphy http://randypeterman.com/wordpress/2008/06/25/so-you-think-you-can-cackle/ Tonight while going over an alphabet book with Evie we got to the Strawberries (and of course the letter S) and she said, "We have strawberries! They are growing so up!"  Her expression of their getting bigger and ripe is so fun.  She's growing so up herself.  My two girls ... http://randypeterman.com/wordpress/2008/06/25/they-are-growing-so-up/ This evening, over far too many minutes, I installed a ceiling fan in Evie's room.  I had to install a support rod with complementary electrical box first.  Insulation fell all over me - I itched then, I'm itching now.  I somehow missed one of the steps in the installation and ... http://randypeterman.com/wordpress/2008/06/24/my-best-fan/