Never Let a Hungry, Pregnant Woman Go Grocery Shopping

Yes, that title is a might long. Jessica went grocery shopping after her chiropractor appoinment today. I think she spent a tiny fraction compared to the United States Gross National Debt but she spent a lot. She bought lots of things we needed… plus some snacks. Or, maybe it could be better stated: she bought a lot of snacks, and some other things we needed.

I asked her why so many snacks and she just told me, “Never Let a Hungry, Pregnant Woman Go Grocery Shopping.”

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 That’s right, they want me to spend hundreds of dollars on a device that will get outdated… but if something happens to it they don’t even offer a way for me to insure it.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.