…to get teeth!
Poor Miss Addie is getting 4 big chewers. The top two have been feelable for a couple weeks now and just today I noticed I can feel the points on the bottom ones (while I was checking to see if she put something she wasn’t supposed to in her mouth).
So that makes 8 in, 2 top ones coming in and 2 bottom ones coming in.
Every morning when Addie and I get up she comes into the bathroom with me while I brush my teeth. She stands at the counter holding her arms up until I give her her toothbrush. Once she has her toothbrush she stands with it in one hand and arms reached out until I give her her toothpaste. She then gives me back her toothpaste and holds out her brush until I put a little on. Finally she brushes her own teeth (as well as a 14 month old can). When she is done she holds her toothbrush up to go back onto the counter. She always wants to be picked up to watch me rinse it and then sit on the counter to put it back in the holder by herself.
How cute is that?
The name Addison was number 11 on the list of most popular names for 2007. This list is put out by the Social Security Administration each year.
I knew it would be a popular name, it has been increasing in popularity for the past 5 years. I was hoping it wouldn’t be quite this high on the list but what can ya do. I just hope she isn’t one of 3 Addison’s in her classl once she starts school.
In my Real Simple magazine every month they have people write in about a various book. A favorite childhood memory, how they save money, ways to go green, etc. This month happened to be “What motivates you to exercise. This was my favorite…
When I don’t feel like exercising, I remind myself of all the health and emotional benefits I will experience. However – let’s face it – that doesn’t always work or we would always exercise. So when that fails, I get naked and jump up and down in front of my full-length mirror. That little trick always seems to get me moving.
So if you need some motivation, I think that would work for the vast majority of America. lol
For the last two weeks now I’ve been tinkering with our new Vista Media Center PC. I’ve been thinking about doing this for a while and I finally decided to go for it after clearing my CCIE re-certification. I picked up a cheap Dell PC ($525) to run Vista Home Premium. I ended up getting a PC with these specs:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4ghz)
3gigs of ram
500gig hard drive
Integrated video / sound / nic
Windows Vista Home Premium
I’m using this PC as an HD-capable replacement for our old series 2 Tivo. The results so far have been spectacular. All TV tuning duties are handled with Silicon Dust’s HDHomeRun network-attached HDTV tuner. It has two tuners on it which I’m using to tune the clear qam HDTV signals off my Time Warner Cable service. We only pay for basic cable ($12/month), but we can watch all the unencrypted HDTV for “free” off the cable, which is more reliable than getting it over-the-air. Now we can record / time shift all of our shows in HDTV, something the Tivo couldn’t do.
The PC itself is actually tucked away in the computer room. It only has a power cable and a network cable attached. We’re using the Xbox 360 in the living room as a Media Center Extender to access all the content on the PC. With the Xbox we can do everything that we could if we were sitting at the PC’s media center interface – schedule TV recordings, watch live tv, pause live tv, watch recorded shows, play all the music (mp3s) on the computer, watch videos and pictures. Just about any media that is available on the PC is available from the Xbox which is connected to our 50” Sony HDTV.
At first I was worried that the PC wouldn’t be able to handle streaming all that HD content at the same time. Thankfully, this has proven to be a non-issue. The PC can simultaneously record two shows in HD while streaming a third one down to the Xbox. In the two weeks PC has been up and running its moved over 450gigs across the network.
There were a few hiccups when I was getting everything setup but now I think we’ve got it pretty much figured out. The PC stays in standby unless someone is using the Xbox. It can also wake itself up to perform any scheduled recordings after which it puts itself back to sleep. I think this will save some power in the long run when compared to the Tivo which was on 24/7.
My only real complaint is that Vista Home Premium doesn’t support remote desktop without some messy dll hacking. Why is that? Mac OS X Leopard has screen sharing built in.
All in all, we’re both really happy with the results. This was definitely worth the money.
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