Maggie, Wrestling, and the Rainbow Song
Carlee went out with the girls tonight (this one, this one, and another one) and left me with the task of taking care of Maggie. Some people may not believe that I actually enjoy spending time alone with Maggie, but I really do. Maggie and I have this awesome wrestling routine where she tackles me and thumps on my stomach while I pick her up, spin her around over my head, and then pile drive her into the carpet. It’s awesome. So, I really do look forward to watching her when Carlee goes out for some well deserved fun.
So anyway, Carlee left and it was just Maggie and me. She played in her toy corner for about 40 minutes before falling asleep on her stomach with one hand in her mouth and the other hand on her ice cream serving spoon. I was able to put her down without any fuss and went into the office to finish up a few things.
It had barely been an hour when Maggie started to scream like I haven’t heard before. I rushed into her room to see what was the matter. After much screaming and anguish I finally smelled a pungent odor which told me what the problem was. A quick diaper change (Maggie has had some bad diaper rash the past couple of days, which is why she was crying I assume) and a few escape attempts later I was rocking Maggie in the glider, but she was still crying.
I didn’t know what to do, I felt so helpless. So I did the only thing I could think of, I started to sing the rainbow song my dad had sung to me when I was younger. Almost immediately she stopped crying and looked up at me with a little scrunched smile and patted my chin. After a few more songs she fell asleep in my arms.
Thanks dad.
Belly of the Oil Beast
My final assignment for COMM 3000 was to create a portfolio of photos that reflected our chosen subject matter for the semester. I chose industrial architecture and for the past few months I have been taking pictures, most of them really bad, of various industrial structures trying to come up with something great.
In the end it was the oil refinery pictures that carried the most emotion for me, being that the photos cannot describe what it really was like to be so close to these massive installations. In a few of the shots I remember it being hard to breathe and my eyes watering due to the fumes that were a constant reminder of the toxicity of the area.
So if you would like, my oil refinery photo portfolio can be found here. I am also posting the photos on Flickr, hoping to keep the adventure of taking pictures alive for me.
Identical Code, Different Environments
I’ve been working on debugging a JavaScript bug in our eSuite app for the past five hours and it is slowly driving me to insanity. I can get it working perfectly on my local development environment but as soon as I commit it to the dev server and deploy, it doesn’t work. How can something that is identical work in one environment but not another? Perhaps this is philosophical, but regardless I just want it to work.
On a completely different note, I have been out of blogging for so long that I cannot get that “post flow” going again. You know the feeling where you have a comfortable schedule and you don’t feel pressured to have something to write about? Can’t get there.
Oh, and for anyone wondering I wrote this while the dev server was once again deploying so I can see if my bug fixes have finally made it.
Rats.
Brilliant - Winter Hymnal (Fleet Foxes)
One of my new favorite groups, Fleet Foxes. Go buy all their stuff.
Kicking Heads and Taking Names
Just thought I’d draw a picture for everyone showing how I used to take care of business back in the day. Enjoy.
Garbage Posts
Alright, so I don’t have anyone reading this blog and it remains a mystery to Google even though the domain has been out of the sandbox for a couple years. Meh. I figure it will take a few garbage posts, posts about nothing particular just to create content, before the spiders find me and index a few of my pages.
Over on the other side though, Carlee’s blog seems to be gaining popularity by the boatload. We started using Google Analytics on her site April 10th 2008, and here are some interesting facts thus far:
- Since April 10th, 2008 she’s had 8,112 visits
- 14,596 page views
- 1,825 unique visitors
- Averages 140 unique readers a day
- 536 sites link to her blog
Whoah, who would have thought an awkward girl from Utah would gain internet popularity so quickly? You keep on truck’n wife!
Come Together
Well, it looks like things are finally coming together for this new blog of mine. Of course Carlee thinks it’s to bland and she doesn’t like the white background, but she is a very hard person to please. Seriously though, she’s great, and she mostly puts up with my geeky stuff. Like what for example?
If you didn’t notice before, all of the pictures in the posts have the ability to appear in a light box. This blacks out the background and brings the thumbnail image to full size. For example, the picture in this post can be clicked and viewed at full scale without leaving the page. Also, I have streaming audio on the side if you so desire to listen and I’m pretty proud of that.
Will my blog ever be as popular as Carlee’s? Of course not. Welcome to Insomniac Soup.
