To me, you’ll always be the tiny baby who arrived so early and so small that I was afraid to hold him. And today, you are four years old. Those years have gone by in a blink and so much has changed — not just you, but the world around you — and it makes … Read more
Yesterday, I left the house for work at noon, with Sam sick, and Eddy in the midst of a full-blown tantrum — the type of tantrum only a three year-old can possibly throw: ridiculous subject matter (“no, I don’t want peaches with my lunch!”) and the kind of focus a sniper would envy. As I … Read more
This weekend was supposed to see some progress on both my major projects. One, I got some work done, the other stalled for reasons beyond my control. ANT+ Farm isn’t where I’d like it to be. I found some great sample code and spent the evening trying to get the Arduino linked-up to the ANT+ … Read more
So there’s all sorts of manner of things I haven’t really talked about on here that I need to cover. Each one of these could be a really long blog post in itself, but that might be a bit…excessive. So here’s what’s happening in as short a post as possible. Eddy Eddy is your typical … Read more
Dear Edwin, What a difference a year makes. In the time since your second birthday, you’ve changed so much. Most notably, you talk. Non. Stop. And it’s awesome. You have preferences about what you like and about how things are done, and you aren’t afraid to show it. Some people might call you difficult; I … Read more
The list of words Eddy has added to his vocabulary (regular usage) in the last six days: Black Purple (sometimes uses the sign for “touchdown” derived from our viewing of Vikings games) Shoes Ball Cake Pig No Rock Lamp Nine words in six days. For him, that’s huge. ADDENDUM, 8/7/14 Now adding a word a … Read more
The Lawn For the first time ever, our lawn looks better than the neighbors’ — only because I was the first one to break out the lawnmower. I used the time to put eyeballs on things around the house that need to be addressed (the deck needs some work), but mostly I just plowed through … Read more
It’s been awhile since I’ve provided any sort of large-ish update on what’s shaking with Eddy. As you can see from the picture above, he looks more like a little boy and less like a baby, which is kind of scary. He’s coming up on sixteen months of age, pretty quickly here…and shortly before his … Read more
So yeah, having a kid has really ruined the idle geeky daydream of strapping in to a heavily-modified DeLorean with Doc Brown and bouncing up and down the timestream in search of knowledge and adventure. Can’t go any earlier than June of 2011 because of the possibility of disrupting the timestream and then being unable … Read more