45 posts from 2007

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I don't think I've written about it on here yet so here goes. Meri and I are about 80% sure that we are going to name our new son Eli. Aaron seems to like the name, he talks about baby Eli all the time. Meri and I frequently talk to Aaron about Eli and how Eli will be different when he finally comes.

Aaron understands that it is his job as a big brother to teach Eli several things: how to walk, how to talk, how to eat (candy), how to play video games (Feeding Frenzy 2 and on twitter) , how to sing and play the guitar, and tons of others that he brings up all the time (that I can't think of right now).

I can't wait to have this baby! Babysitting Aidan Sunday wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. If anything, it made me more excited to have another baby in the house. I think I'm already looking forward to baby number 3 (which is TBD still but SHOULD be a girl, for Meri's sake)!

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This post is an update to my earlier post.

The DocSyncer  website is showing document from both my work laptop (XP Pro) and my home PC (Vista something).  I never got a response from DocSyncer though. I wasn't whole-heartedly expecting a response from them, given that I replied to a newsletter email address.

I don't know what made the service suddenly start showing the documents on both computers that I have the client installed on; it just worked.

Now that I've been using the service for a few days, I can say that it is VERY nice to have my documents available no matter what PC/internet connection I'm using.  I hope they don't start charging for this service because I really like it now.

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Meri is pregnant.  We are having another boy. Today, we are babysitting an 18 month old. We just fed Aaron and Aidan and reality is hitting me on how the next year or two is going to kick my ass! Good thing I stopped doing the small company thing and started back with the corporate stuff!

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I got an invitation to DocSyncer four days ago. Two days ago, I finally got around to setting it all up. The setup includes downloading an application onto your desktop, logging into your DocSyncer account and giving the DocSyncer application access to your Google Docs account. I really like the idea of the service and was excited that I got an invitation.

My initial impressions of the service aren't good. I have downloaded the desktop application on a computer with Vista installed and also one with XP installed. So far, I don't see any documents on my DocSyncer homepage.

I've searched for a place to let DocSyncer know about the issues that I'm having but I have not been able to find a support forum at all. I sent a reply to the newsletter_at_docsyner_dot_com email address that notified me about my invitation to the beta service but I don't think that was the correct place.I'm hoping that my issue is that I'm a moron and missed a key step.

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Well, Aaron has intermittent exotropia. Meri called me from the ophthalmologists office while I was at work and I quickly GTFO of (left) work; I don't even think I said much more to my project manager other than "can I leave!" (which was more of a statement than a question).

So the doctor said that Aaron definitely has this condition and that he wanted us to observe Aaron over the next four months. He also mentioned that he would NOT be aggressively treating condition. I got to the office right as Meri and Aaron were checking out so I wasn't able to ask questions (and violently shake his shoulders and scream WHY THE FUCK NOT?!). We came home and found three other pediatric ophthalmologists in the Orlando area.

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Aaron has bee squinting his left eye for about 2 or 3 weeks now. Since my new insurance has finally kicked in, we can finally get him into see a doctor about this.

I wear contacts and glasses but Meri doesn't. She's very worried about him having to wear glasses and being picked on when he starts elementary school in a couple of years. I've been telling her that he will be alright but of course, now I'm starting to worry about it.

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So I decided that I would attempt to use the OpenSocial API from Google.

This is not turning out to be a simple task...

I thought I would just be able to create a form, ask for some info, send a POST to some doctored-up URI to some API and then parse the response. Nope. There seems to be a bit of set up work. I'm still going to try this out but I guess it won't be this morning.

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He's just the cutest thing since...hm, ever!

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Meri, Aaron and I got the opportunity to watch the shuttle launch from Cape Canaveral this morning, thus ending our 3 days of tons-o-stuff-to-do and also the end of my vacation!

Here is a video I shot with my camera; it's not that great but it's decent:

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We had our ultra-sound today and we found out that we are having another boy! We are all very excited and are now looking for a great name for a boy.

Here are some pictures: