Some silliness: Based on the recent huge success of two short videos of Lailah (with one of them being a "music" video), the decision has been made in the Williams' household to glue a movie camera to a football helmet and wear it around the house while she's over at my place (babysitting me). I was wondering the other day if I could invent something to record her from my point of view and came up … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2015
Friendship – Linda Dowell – part two
February 24, 2015 By
My friend and former colleague, Linda Dowell passed away today. I hope she knew she was loved by everyone in her life. I will miss her. … [Read more...]
Bullying – Blog posting from Jason Lanier (professional photog)
February 21, 2015 By
I'm into photography, been into it since end of HS. I came across a professional photographer a few months ago who gives photography advice over YouTube. He has (to me) a great personality and knows what he's talking about photography wise. I was just reading his blog and read this (recent?) posting, regarding what he calls "haters", about people who leave (very) negative comments on his YouTube … [Read more...]
Friendship – Linda Dowell – part one
February 17, 2015 By
A former Wells Fargo colleague of mine, Linda, is in the hospital and needs some extra love. A month ago she went to have knee replacement surgery, which was successful. However, a couple of days later due to unusual sleepiness and headaches, a CT scan revealed a baseball size brain tumor. On Jan 24th the tumor was removed during an 8 hour surgery. The tumor was found to be a malignant … [Read more...]
Lailah – she tires me out!
February 13, 2015 By
Not really sure which tires me more: Taking all of Lailah's toys, books, playthings (castles, pirate fairies, stuffed animals) out and putting them around the house to make sure she sees them and plays with as many of them as she wants, Playing with Lailah all day long, Collecting everything off the floor after she leaves and putting the stuff away. I know it's not the second choice, and … [Read more...]
Lailah – sick!
February 6, 2015 By
I'd heard yesterday that "my" little girl (AKA Lailah) was pretty sick, so I knew I probably wouldn't be seeing her today (her "regular" day with me). Realizing that I saw her on Tuesday has "helped" (somewhat), but I am sure hoping she's feeling better since it's really really lonesome here without having her to babysit and play with me. Lailah - It's not the same, looking at the (thousands of) … [Read more...]
Religion – a different perspective
February 4, 2015 By
A lot of you don't know me that well, so here is a disclaimer in advance to my posting below: I was brought up Baptist, and my family was "religious" such that we attended church a couple of times each week, all thru elementary, JR and SR high school. That is, until high school ended and I then stopped going to church soon after. Since then, I guess I also stopped "believing" due to a variety of … [Read more...]
Lailah – last minute visit!
February 4, 2015 By
I had a last minute visit by "my" little girl last night. Her parents had an event to go to and they dropped her off so that she could babysit me. I had gone to Cub (Foods) earlier (yesterday) and I, again, wandered past the small area/aisle of toys (which is really strange, I feel, for a grocery store to have), but I again noticed the Hot Wheels display, and I looked thru them, remembering how … [Read more...]
Toys from childhood
February 4, 2015 By
Ever have a favorite toy that you grew up with, that you absolutely loved playing with, but due to being "old", you have forgotten what it was called? Well, I had a few favs when I was a kid, and for the life of me, I couldn't remember the name of them - and if a person can't remember the name, it's pretty hard to look for them on eBay... One of my favs was a set of three robots - which is why … [Read more...]
U/Saint Thomas – Classes – Spring/2015 – part two
February 4, 2015 By
Had my first class session for both of my two evening courses this week: SW Architecture was on Monday, and Advanced web app development was tonight. Since I'm also taking a Saturday class (which is a required class), and not wanting to take 3 classes at a time, I must decide on which evening class to "drop". [the plan has always been to only take two classes this semester]. The SW Architecture … [Read more...]
