Category Archives: Family

The goings on in this crazy family of mine.

Commercial Jingles

6/20/2007 – 6:40 pm

My wife was a Communications major in college. So she often makes observations about how organizations try to get their message out to their audience. One thing she remarked on recently was the decline in the use of musical jingles, as opposed to non-musical slogans, in advertising. [...]

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Benefits of Blogging

4/27/2007 – 11:33 am

My brother-in-law, Bob, has been keeping a blog on wordpress.com for a while now called Arcane Code. He mostly writes about software development using Microsoft tools, because that’s what he does for a living. [...]

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Alabama Tornadoes

3/2/2007 – 5:51 pm

Many of you are probably currently familiar with hearing about the tornado that hit Enterprise, Alabama yesterday. What you might not realize is that my wife and I both graduated from the high school that was leveled in that storm system. [...]

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Happy Birthday, Susan!

12/27/2006 – 12:34 pm
Suze and Claire

Susan and Claire, October 2005

A very happy birthday to my wonderful wife, Susan! She is truly an amazing woman, able to take care of our kids, keep up our house, help out her parents at their business, and take classes for grad school, all at once.

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We interrupt this silence for a brief message…

12/8/2006 – 5:24 pm

I’m a working stiff with three kids and an hour-each-way commute. I think that’s all the explanation needed for the long break, right? :)

It’s not like I didn’t have anything to write about. [...]

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Egads! It’s Purple!

10/26/2006 – 10:48 pm
Halloween Digital Divas Theme

Susan’s spookalicious Halloween theme

A few months ago, I mentioned that my wife Susan had gotten her blog up, complete with a pink theme. [...]

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Knock, knock…

6/28/2006 – 11:41 am

I know, I know… I haven’t been very active on the blogging front lately. Once again I’ve been sucked into a swirling vortex of job and home projects, with little-to-no time for participating in blogdom. I’ve managed to keep up with most of the latest memes, and I’ve added a few new del.icio.us bookmarks, but there’s been no opportunity to develop any nifty code or write about the subject of the day.

I’ve got eight draft posts in my queue, and three of those are no longer timely, and so I’ll probably end up deleting them. [...]

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The prodigal son returns

5/15/2006 – 11:27 am

On Friday afternoon, I called home as I was leaving the office, as usual. Before I had a chance to say much more than “hello,” Susan said, “guess what?” Not knowing whether it was something good or bad, I asked, “what?” She replied, “the prodigal son has returned.”

A neighbor down the street from us had found our dog! This nice young lady had first spotted Spirit wandering around on Thursday, and thought that he didn’t look like he should be wandering around on his own. [...]

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Digital Diva

4/25/2006 – 10:14 pm

It’s been a long time coming, but my wife, Susan, finally has a WordPress blog. You can check it out at DigitalDivas.net. As you’ll see when you get there, It’s Pink! Susan spent a lot of time adapting some CSS techniques for her site, and I helped her turn her html code into a WP theme.

I’m sure she’ll be posting on a variety of topics, from web design and technology, to current events, to family matters. [...]

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return(true);

1/10/2006 – 11:32 am

function do_stuff() {
  if (in_array($date, $holidays) && $vacation == true) {
    travel('away');
    visit_family();
    $gifts->exchange();
    eat();
    travel('home');
  }

  if ($new_year == true) {
    eat() && drink();
    $weight++;
    $sleep = false;
  }

  $slack = false;
  $resolve++;

  $work->resume();

  return(true);
}

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