We went out for ice cream for desert last night. It seems a little crazy, based on the fact that Winter is back, and it was snowing while we drove there. Afterwards, we swung by Superstore and picked up “The Incredibles” on DVD, in preparation for the arrival of the XBox. I wasn’t that enchanted with it, and normally I wouldn’t break my anti-disney stance on something so average, but apparently William really enjoyed it, so who am I to argue? Besides, it’ll look awesome on the projector ;)

So, today is Green Beer Day - despite what the confused people at greenbeerday.com seem to think. Tonight we’re going to Jason and Amy’s place for some beer - likely not green though.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “This is not the way to get healthy!!!” - Dr. Marvin Monroe

I’m getting an XBox to run the frontend of my MythTV setup upstairs. It seems like the cheapest/easiest way to put a frontend upstairs without building a machine from scratch, etc. The flipside of that is that I have to “hack” the thing so that I can run linux on it. I don’t know if that makes me a criminal or not, but I figure that if I buy the hardware I should be able to do what I want with it, as long as I’m not hurting anyone.

In a way, it’s connected to the old laptop. See we got the FL Inverter fixed just before it went for a swim and quit working. Well, yesterday, the repair place called up and said that Toshiba was issuing refunds to people who had that repair done. Our laptop was well out of warranty, so it didn’t occur to me to check for warranty service on it - not that it matters. Anyway, the end result is that we should be getting “free money” back from Toshiba, which will be earmarked for the XBox project (even though it won’t cover it totally.)

But the real impetus behind things was that William really enjoyed “The Incredibles” and wants to watch it. Since it came out on DVD yesterday, and we don’t have a DVD player upstairs, the XBox seems like a good compromise.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Oh Bart, cartoons don’t have to be one hundred percent realistic…” - Lisa

I mentioned earlier that I’d transitioned the web server to the new machine. Last night I got my mail server transitioned over too. The old server isn’t actually doing anything anymore. It’s sad, I’ll miss my OpenBSD. On the other hand, it was getting dangerously out of date because I was scared of the upgrade process. My new server is dangerously up to date, and easy to keep that way. It’s one of the features that really drew me to Gentoo in the first place.

That means that I have to get down and dirty and document what I did to get the machine running. I set it up, and documented a lot of the early steps, but then kind of let the documentation fall by the wayside as my fingers started flying over the keyboard. I should still be able to piece together everything that I did though, since it’s fairly fresh in my mind.

Anyway, I think I have the mail system set up properly, and I don’t think I missed any obvious steps, but just in case I did, if you have any problems emailing anyone at nodecam.com, let me know (via email :P ) and I’ll see what I can do to fix it up.

Chuck Norris has left the building.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “I think I hate Ted Koppel! No wait…I find him informative and witty. Good night.” - Homer

We took William to see “The Incredibles” over the weekend. It was his first movie theatre experience, and it went very well. He sat on my lap, and didn’t move an inch during the entire movie. He was very quiet, and seemed to be soaking in the movie fairly well. Erin claims that he fell asleep repeatedly, but every time I looked down, his eyes were wide open, staring a the screen.

We haven’t been to a lot of movies in the past couple of years, so it was nice to get a chance to go. Hopefully it will motivate us to get the projector screen finished up - it’s nearing the point where the paint hits the wall.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Is this cartoon going on the air live?” - Homer

Well, a new day, and a new website. It’s all about the CFL though, so if you don’t like football talk, it’s not the place for you. Jason and I thought this one up a while back, and we finally decided to do it this week. It would have been a nice outlet during the Burris fiasco, but that’s ok.

Jason, Amy and Mya came over for supper last night. The kids played decently well together, but there were times when the adults had to step in before someone got beaned with a hammer. (Ok, not a hammer) Apparently they were at their most combative when I was there, which is a bit amazing, because I thought they got along really well from what I saw. They must have spent the afternoon singing and dancing together or something.

Today we enter day three of no laptop at home. The parts hadn’t all arrived yesterday, and it’s not clear if they’re here today. It looks like we might be without for the weekend. Not a huge deal though.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “The Saskatchewan Roughriders are up next. They only scored three Rouges all last year.” - CFL Draft announcer

A lot of kids pick up phrases that get repeated to them again and again. At two, this is typically related to “No.” William seems to have picked up the phrases “That is a bad thing to do” and “That is a bad idea.” He likes to say those things whenever something he doesn’t like is proposed (get dressed, change diaper, go home, go out, go to bed, eat supper, turn off the TV…) One of his other pet phrases is “Don’t steal me” which he tends to say to me when I pick him up and take him somewhere he doesn’t want to go.

He’s also getting sneakier and sneakier. Erin put something up so that he wouldn’t get into it yesterday. His response was a rather calm “Go into the TV room” command to Erin - presumably so he could climb up and get the thing unhindered.

Let’s see - what else does he do? He plays hide and seek. He’ll sort of cover his eyes, count to ten, then say “ready or not here I come” and then find people. Then he wants to do it again, but this time he has suggested hiding places. He keeps talking about his “brother and sister” and how they haven’t come yet. Oh, and whenever you say something containing the phrase “we could try” he responds with “but it will work.”

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Save me from the wee turtles! They were too quick for me!” - Groundskeeper Willie

The “new” laptop has been having power cord issues that have been getting increasingly worse recently. I figured since it was under warranty, I’d check it out. End result is that the laptop is in the shop until at least Thursday, though hopefully it’ll be available to be picked up on Thursday. It’s unfortunate, but at least it’s getting fixed.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Attention. This is an emergency broadcast, all is well in the school, my authority as principal is total.” - Principal Skinner