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Psalm 121

A psalm of ascent
1I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: From whence shall my help come?
2My help [cometh] from Jehovah, Who made heaven and earth.
3He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: He that keepeth thee will not slumber.
4Behold, he that keepeth Israel Will neither slumber nor sleep.
5Jehovah is thy keeper: Jehovah is thy shade upon thy right hand.
6The sun shall not smite thee by day, Nor the moon by night.
7Jehovah will keep thee from all evil; He will keep thy soul.
8Jehovah will keep thy going out and thy coming in From this time forth and for evermore.

Since I’m about to ascend, I thought this little play on words was witty, but right now I’m pretty tired. The noises and my own normally staying up later made it hard to sleep last night. Anyway, see you in a while!

Julia Child, 91, Dies

As I just found out, I had to report that Julia Child died. While many people don’t know it, I like food. I also like PBS and so sometimes those two would mix and I’d see Julia on PBS teaching the cameramen how to cook. Fortunately the cameramen shared with the editors and the TV food-chain so that I could watch. By the time she died she had osteoporosis so bad that she was really hunched over, however, her perky, squeaky voice continued on with delight as she dipped her hands into the ingredients, many of which I wouldn’t touch, and delightfully mashed, chopped, frapped, hammered, sliced, sauted, baked and ate various foods.

May her heritage continue on.

The Last Supper

Or Jesus Serves
Just imagine Christ finishing washing His disciple’s feet – dining with them, partaking in the breaking of bread and then they look down onto the table and see this:
Jesus Serves
That would totally have ruined the atmosphere.

I got this whilst eating at the Souper Salad a while back and had to share.

Bladder Control

I finally lost control and bought a bladder. A hydration bladder that is. One for hiking. Since I’m going to ascend to the height of Mt. Everest divided by two and subtract a whole bunch on Saturday I thought I should bring plenty of water. For me plenty of water means about five or six gallons, but they didn’t make any personal hydration units that held that much water (I can’t imagine why not). So I bought this back pack and I’m ready to hike with a little over two liters of water strapped to my back.

What is even funnier than me playing with a bladder is that I could play with the bladder with Abby. I filled it up (cleaned it) and then slowly but surely got her pretty wet by spraying water into her mouth and missing most of the time. She thought it was good fun and so she kept coming back for more in-your-face water squirting. The down side is that this bladder needs to be held up in the air while you just let it go, however, if you’re sucking on the water, it matters very little what you’re doing with the bladder.

Fun has been had and it’s almost worth the $30.00+ dollars it cost me just in the fun with Abby.

Parts of the Body

Abby discovered more about being a little girl this week. She touched herself in the private girl part and looked inquisitively at me. Why me Lord? Why didn’t she ask her mommy? So I explained that it was a v*gina which Abby was pleased to know as she instantly parroted back, “‘agina?” I affirmed this close enough pronounciation. The worst part is that now she’s touching it when on the potty and reminding us of its name.

Then, yesterday after I had showered from working out, she burst in on me in the buff and immediately spotted my ‘manacles.’ So we covered that territory, too. Being a dad of an inquisitive (almost) two year old is sure fun. I can’t wait until she asks where babies come from 🙂

Original Avengers

Jessica and I have been checking out DVD’s of the Original Avengers and watching them. Black and white film with mediocre camera and audio work, but fun none the less. And you just can’t beat the fabulous action when people are making special effects sounds with their mouths 🙂 You should check them out at www.originalavengers.com.

Mozilla’s Event Model

If you’re working on implementing event handling in Mozilla you might run into the problem that I do: You are used to Internet Explorer’s event model. However, the best method I’ve found for handling things is to just attach events to the objects via the DOM. Otherwise you might be like me and go bald trying it the hard way.

Five Hundred

This is the five-hundredth post on this blog. Wow, I’m far too prolific… I’d like to thank all of the people that helped me get where I am today 😉 I’d like to thank Shari Peterman for reading this site since its inception every day, checking it up to five times a day just to see if I’d written anything funny or zany or new about Jessica or Abby. Thanks goes to Google for probably being responsible for 20% or more of the total hits to this site.

Thanks for reading,

Randy Peterman

Scaling Through the Walls

So my neighbor upstairs has already made it into my blog a couple times… loud, Jerry Springer-ish fights have happened multiple times (next time I’m calling the police – this is getting out of hand). This morning though, she was preparing for church, only I didn’t know it. Here’s how it went down:

Abby was watching Arthur in the front room while Jessica and I were getting ready and I thought, “Wow, that’s a funny sound to be in Arthur.” It was, because it wasn’t in Arthur, it was in the bathroom upstairs. My neighbor was doing scales to prepare for singing at church, only it wasn’t the “Mi-May-Ma-Mo-Moo” scales, it was “woooo-oooooo-oooo-oo” [the sliding scale that starts low and slides up high] type of scales. Over and over and over and… well I’m glad we’re leaving for church in a moment.