Archive for September, 2008
Today’s Tweets
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
- 08:33 Fable II, why must you still be a month and a half away! #
- 10:24 working on piddly shit, thinking about the real work I have to do. #
- 11:20 simplest weather report ever: umbrellatoday.com #
- 11:32 I really need to trim my nails… making my typing unbearable. #
- 12:30 well, I may finally be tempted to upgrade my iPod Nano, I like the looks of the new one. #
- 12:37 boring sandwich. #
- 12:45 Watching the updates from Apple’s “Let’s Rock” event on Engadget. #
- 14:38 Is it really only 2:30? #
- 14:53 Oh how I love installing Oracle! #
- 15:12 iTunes is going to tease me for a while as it “creates artwork thumbnails.” #
- 16:27 Okay, the only thing that might convince me to consider a new ipod is if this genius thing is any good… I’m not expecting much, though. #
- 18:46 So I accidentally paid for Fable II completely today, when I was only intending to pay for half this month and half next month. #
- 20:38 Great, our DVR already decided to skip out on Fringe. #
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Today’s Tweets
Monday, September 8th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
- 09:26 Ansel’s coughs break my heart a little each time. #
- 12:27 I think I’ll slip in to work for a little while this afternoon, I have a meeting that would be more trouble to miss than to attend. #
- 12:36 Some good shirts in the Derby this week. Hope there are some decent winners. #
- 14:24 I want three day weekends and four day work weeks all the time! #
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Today’s Tweets
Friday, September 5th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
- 08:23 Looks like I’m flying solo. #
- 08:25 Finished Spaced last night, like all the short series before it, I’m sad its over. #
- 08:27 OH! not “I love cookies,” “albuquerque!” #
- 09:30 #Blog: Terror Comes to Tiny Town… kclose3.com/blog/?p=62 #
- 11:59 Why is Amazon selling Spore for the same price as GameStop? #
- 12:19 only 40 minutes until Rasoi! #
- 12:25 still not entirely sure I’m happy with my new Blog header graphic. #
- 12:28 I really need to start photographing again. #
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Terror Comes to Tiny Town…
Friday, September 5th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 4 Comments
…in which I talk about my poor, poor little baby and his horrible, terrible, no good, very bad night.
So, Wednesday was not a good day for baby Ansel. He was dripping snot all day, didn’t sleep well the night before, and didn’t nap well all day. He was grumpy (which was reiterated by his “GRUMPY” onesie) and we were pretty sure that Wednesday night would not go very well either, but we had no idea how bad it could be. › Continue reading
Terror Comes to Tiny Town…
Friday, September 5th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
…in which I talk about my poor, poor little baby and his horrible, terrible, no good, very bad night.
So, Wednesday was not a good day for baby Ansel. He was dripping snot all day, didn’t sleep well the night before, and didn’t nap well all day. He was grumpy (which was reiterated by his “GRUMPY” onesie) and we were pretty sure that Wednesday night would not go very well either, but we had no idea how bad it could be.
For those of you who have not met our Ansel, he is a super-champ. He’s very laid back, almost always cheerful, and just an all around happy baby. He hardly cries, and when he does, it takes almost nothing to soothe him again. Heather and I consider ourselves very lucky with him, and accept the fact that this may change as he gets older and are not taking his relaxed nature for granted. We appreciate every second of it.
My retelling of this may be a bit off, seeing as how I was pretty solidly asleep and I’m putting it together based on what I could discern from Heather. We struggled to get him to even go to sleep Wednesday night, and finally, with Heather sleeping on the floor in his room by his crib, he fall asleep. This was a short lived solace because after a short while, he all of a sudden awoke screaming, uncontrollably. I don’t know how long he screamed before I woke up in the next room, past a closed door, but I know Heather was crying trying to console him. After my head cleared and I realized this was no dream or hallucination, I got up to go check on them. When I found them, Ansel was in his crib screaming like his toes had been eaten in the middle of the night, and Heather was looking for something – anything – to soothe him. I rescued her and took him a way to try and calm him down myself.
Now, like I said, Ansel is usually pretty easy to calm back down. For the most part, if he’s crying, you can just pick him up, carry him around for a little bit and bounce him in your arms and he’ll eventually downgrade his crying to sniffles and rest his head on your shoulder. This was not the case! No amount of waking, carrying, or bouncing was going to stop his wails. He was crying so hard that his body was shuddering. I went to the kitchen to try to find a solution. My first thought was that his teeth were in serious pain. He’s been teething again, and I’ve heard tell that the further back the teeth are, the more they hurt when they come out. So I tried cold water and Tylenol. Neither of which helped, in fact, he almost just poured the Tylenol back out of his mouth with his relentless crying. So after what felt like an eternity, between Heather and I both trying to make him feel better, I decided I’d get him a cold teething ring and opened the refrigerator. As I reached in, he started to quiet down. In my half-asleep, completely frustrated, stupor, I had to stop and think about why the refrigerator was calming him down. Was it the cold? Was it the glow of American consumerism? Was it something in the refrigerator, specifically? It finally occurred to me that in an effort to keep the mood calming, neither Heather nor I had turned on any lights. To test this theory, I went in to the living room, flipped the lights on full blast and started poking all of Ansel’s music toys.
He immediately stopped crying and started showing interest in his toys so we sat down on the floor and played for a bit. Heather came in and kind of calmed herself down, as well. We sat there for a while before I admitted that I needed to go to bed or I’d be useless the next day at work. However, when I got to bed, I found that the two hours of sleep I’d already had, plus the excitement and fear from Ansel’s crying fit had worked me up too much to sleep, so I ended up just reading for another 45 minutes or so. Needless to say, I ended up snoozing my alarm far more than I should, and then dragging myself through the morning to the point that I was an hour late to work on Thursday.
Fortunately, Thursday was a much better day for Ansel, and Friday is shaping up to be better still. Whatever scared him so bad Wednesday night seems to have passed and he looks to be getting over his cold. Unfortunately, Heather and I both seem to be fighting off a little bit of a cold ourselves. What goes around comes around.
Originally posted at K. Close III
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Today’s Tweets
Thursday, September 4th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
- 01:16 I guess sometimes daddy can be the comforter! #
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Today’s Tweets
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
- 08:24 Getting ready to go install some IM clients. woo? #
- 08:37 Sweet and Salty Peanut Granola bars are made entirely out of clouds from heaven! #
- 10:15 Why do I want to stick my flash drive up my nose? #
- 12:40 There are definitely not enough bike racks on campus. #
- 14:02 Man, I always forget how much I like Dire Straits… especially the “On Every Street” album. #
- 14:54 Damn I love WordPress. #
- 15:43 Any of you envelope pushers out there heard of a way to integrate del.icio.us with Google Chrome, yet? #
- 16:46 #LJ: Movie Night tinyurl.com/6lc6tk #
- 17:18 I’m thinking I’m going to watch season 2 of Spaced tonight. #
- 19:07 my poor Ansel baby is full of snot! #
- 19:08 and there aren’t enough cute girls in this parking lot. #
- 20:37 Quest for new bike tail light FAILED! #
- 21:00 Poor little Ansel is MISERABLE today. #
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Movie Night
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
Thats it, this week we’re watching Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)!
We’ll start at 8:27 pm.
Bring your flouride.
Today’s Tweets
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
- 14:33 Great Dr. Horrible photo for all those not following Dr. Horrible on Twitter: tinyurl.com/67gzb4 #
- 14:40 I had to make a new password today for my main network accounts. I don’t like what I came up with, but I’m too lazy to change it. #
- 14:53 Its not often that I say this, but I’d rather be reading! #
- 16:41 Now I need to fix a WordPress install that I just un-fixed. #
- 18:49 Useful page for all you TV Addicts: tinyurl.com/5zxqod #
- 21:50 it would seem that my problems with netflix streaming are related to my monitor, or more specifically, my monitor cable. #
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