Author Archives: Randy Peterman

Enough of the Negat’ism

Well, the last couple posts have been rather negative. For that I apologize. It is now time for something completely different:

Abby likes jumping. A lot. More than a lot. I think that today she might possibly have burned enough calories to lose me a pound or two. She’s just a jumping little girl. When she gets excited she jumps, when she gets upset because she’s not getting her way she jumps and then slumps. When she’s playing she jumps. Sometimes when we’re praying she jumps. If this were green eggs and ham she would eat them jumping without a question.

I think in the end though, she likes jumping because temporarily, for just the slightest fraction of time she’s suspended in the air and that’s quite a feeling when a fraction of a second is a longer part of your life than when you’re 27 🙂

Hi-Fi Satan

Well, we did it. We have gotten 666 tattooed onto our hands, on our foreheads and and our credit cards for good measure. OK, not really. We had basic cable installed. However, the first show that came up: Maurey Povich. That’s like having Satan beamed in on hi-fi.

I think that my favorite part will be the Jerry Springer Show at all hours of the day. Of course the televangelists come in clearly as well, and that’s just outright evil 😉

I Want a New Cell Phone, But…

I went into the Cingular store last night to possibly buy one of their most expensive phones. I don’t write that to brag, it’s for work purposes. However, here’s why I didn’t upgrade my phone or change services:

  1. The phone does not have insurance offered for it. That’s right, they want me to spend hundreds of dollars on a device that will get outdated… but if something happens to it they don’t even offer a way for me to insure it.
  2. Because the device is a PDA I have to buy their $24.99 (USD) a month internet connectivity plan if I want to use the phone for anything other than a phone. Forget the fact that I could get a cable and plug the phone into my laptop and use it as an internet connection for a modem using only ‘phone minutes.’

I’m going to buy a Pocket PC from Dell and move on. This is really silly, Cingular.

Killer on the Loose

Abby is now a violent killing machine. Every time ants, bugs or pretty much anything moves on the patio she must stomp on it. Frankly, it cracks me up. I think that her bug smashing is good clean fun… except for the bottom of her shoes.

Abby on Jessica’s Pregnancy

Sunday, April 3rd we told Abigail that Jessica was pregnant and she cracked us up. We explained that the baby was in Jessica’s tummy and Abby looked at Jess’ stomach and said, “I don’t think it’s coming out.” So we told her that she could talk to the baby if she wanted and so Jessica let Abby talk at her tummy. However, Abby couldnt’ see the baby so she kept giggling. Furthermore, Abby stared at Jessica’s belly button and said, “I can’t see it,” and then proceded to try to get her eye closer to Jessica’s belly button to help facilitate better visual contact with the little one inside her mommy.

Abby has flip-flopped more than a politician on whether or not this new baby will be a boy or a girl. I’m hoping for a healthy baby as is Jessica, though we’d both like to have a boy so that we could be disgustingly symetrical in our family. Either way the baby comes, we’ll take it 🙂 We’ll find out its sex at month’s end.

Young Minds

My wife’s cousin’s son, 3 years old, was being watched by his grandma. She was putting him to bed and he looked up at her and said, “I’m mad at you.”

She asked why, to which he replied, “I’ll give you some candy if you let me play.”

She declined the bribe and said he should go back to bed. Then, in true form he said, “Fine. I don’t have any candy anyway.”

Classic!

Happy Mother’s Day!

Happy Mother’s Day moms out there! I wouldn’t be here without my mom, and I would bet that you wouldn’t be here without yours!

Remember to drive safely tonight as Mother’s day often is filled with drinking and wild revelry. Wait, No. That’s New Year’s Eve. Go ahead and drive wildly then.

YourTotalSite.com / Basecamp Milestone Date Entry

From YourTotalSite.com / Basecamp Milestone Date Entry you’ll see that when designing date and time related interfaces adding dhtml to the mix that sets common time spans is a good design choice. I’m involved with several date related applications and this sort of implementation will help users of those applications to get things done more efficiently. I’m also a big fan of DHTML widgets like date pickers if they can be done in an efficient manner such as fast and light code.

In fact, I’ve been working on one project as a post release audit to see where we can lighten up the amount of bandwidth required to use the web-based application. However, the bandwidth issue would be minimal in the situation Garrett is addressing here. I hope 37Signals is listening because that’d be a handy application of the usability they are so loudly proclaiming in other areas.

Wahoo’s Fish Tacos

For lunch today Mike and I ate at Wahoo’s Fish Tacos. Dude. Whoa. It’s like California imported a restaurant and culture to Greenwood Village. The food was good but I kept saying (until Mike told me that if I mentioned it again he’d leave) that the place was totally California. I had chicken because I think that fish is not fit for human consumption if it is not eaten within about 3 hours from being pulled from the water and 30 minutes from the ocean.

They had this lovely green sauce that I can only describe as looking like green goddess dressing but having a spicy tang like wasabi. I heartily recommend this restaurant for people looking for California but being lost in any other part of the US or people who like to eat decently priced tasty food in a similar vein to Chipotle but not being so Mexican. Therefore, if you like food, and I know that most readers of this blog do, then you should check this out. I think that they have a vegetarian dish for those of you who like to avoid meat. Of course the food is based on the idea that carbohydrates are not from Satan and the caloric intake is not a bad thing. I recommend that people try the green stuff… whatever it’s called… because its tasty.

Moved In…

We’ve relocated all of our stuff to the new place. However, it may take weeks and weeks to get this all sorted out. I’ve got to water, mow and maintain the lawn so that’s only going to slow things down. The upside of all of this is that I don’t have to pay $6.00 to wash my car, plus I can vaccuum it, spot-check the windows and park it in a garage. Now we just have to do some small fixes, major remodelling (as soon as Jessica saw a friend’s house she wanted a second story for some reason) and also some basic things like cover the egresses so that Abby and other children do not fall in them!

All is well though and I’m very excited to be in the new place. Oh, and we’ve not changed our phone number so those of you who call will be able to keep dialing the number you’ve got in speed dial (no one memorizes numbers any more, do they? I don’t… if my cell phone ever loses all the numbers I’ve got in it, I’m hosed). I’ll get the address updated on the contact us page, but for now you can use the following:
Randy, Jessica, Abby and ? Peterman
2881 S Mobile st
Aurora, CO 80013
720-529-8647

Oh, and we don’t have inkernet yet so I’m at my real estate agent’s house using his broadband until ours is working at home. Apparently Qwest is out to rule the world through the ‘almost deliver’ approach to telcom services.