Daycare Notes

5/23/08

My note to providers:

[Baby Girl] is feeling a bit silly today.

Daycare note to us:

Mom/Dad, My world is full of fun, it's all about me : )
Ms. [A.] said I was growing up much too fast. : )
It was a "me me me" day : ) all about me.

5/27/08

My note to providers:

[Baby Girl] ha lots of hugs this morning.

Daycare note to us:

Mom/Dad, my day was full of fun. Playing outside, slide, playing inside the house, cooking : ) my day with lots of love.
[Baby Girl] was very loving all day. Sweet, sweet girl.

5/29/08
[Baby Girl] has been teething so she's been grouchy the last few days. On the 28th, she was having a rough morning and I couldn't pry her precious Pinky away from her when it was time to leave for daycare. Pinky is a plush and soft pink puppy with floppy ears that I got for her in the hospital the day she was born, it has become her favorite stuffed animal. At night when I ask her if she is ready to go lay down, she walks to her crib, points inside it, and says "Pinky!"
Unfortunately, we forgot Pinky when we went home at the end of the day. She asked for it several times at bedtime, but was very, very tired so didn't last too long before fading out.

My note to provider:

She is better this morning than yesterday, but she missed her Pinky last night!

I tried to sneak it out to the car after I dropped her off, but she saw it.

Note from daycare:

Storytime, singing songs, ouside play, writing on blacktop with chalk, play with parachute and ball game and a tent game. She had a very happy day!

Poor Hillary

Questions

Why is that whenever I run a disk cleanup in Windows I have to sit there and wait seemingly forever for it to calculate how much free space I could free up if I zipped files when in fact I don't want to zip files?

I read in a computer column about a way to turn this off, but it didn't work.

With all these gigabyte memory drives why would someone want to zip files (besides prepping for email)? Oh, maybe so that Vista will work, but no Vista for me, thanks.

And, one time when I did try and zip a bunch of big files, the "compressed" file was even larger than what I started with. What's up with that?

Handy Seinfeld Quote

You really need some help. A regular psychiatrist couldn't even help you. You need to go to, like, Vienna or something. You know what I mean? You need to get involved at the university level, like where Freud studied, and have all those people looking at you and checking up on you. That's the kind of help you need. Not the once-a-week for eighty bucks, no. You need a team. A team of psychiatrists working around the clock, thinking about you, having conferences, observing you like the way they did with the elephant man. That's what I'm talking about, because that's the only way you're going to get better.

Source.

My name is Paco. My name is Paco.

Ever since she read this story, my wife has been trying to teach our noisy conure that his name is Paco and he is from Peru!

Seriously?!

I find this very hard to believe.


Shaken Republicans look to McCain as savior

"I think that we're going to do a lot better than people think," Boehner said.

"John McCain appeals to almost all Republicans."

Google thinks I am Indian

Not that there is anything wrong with that.

I keep getting this blogger tip when I post something. I never paid it any attention until just now.

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Daycare Notes - Not Ready to Be Back

Our daycare for Baby Girl takes their vacation week in the spring, instead of around Christmas time. Before the vacation, we never had any troubles with the drop off, but afterwards, she had a re-adjustment period.

On the first day back, she walked over to a corner and cried:

I wasn't ready to be back, but after I saw all my friends, and Ms. A. gave me some of her love, I was ok :) We had a wonderful day, sotry time was fun with Ms. S and my friends. :)

Daycare Notes

This was from some day last week:

Dad Mom, Ms. A. said my [favorite] word is "No No" :)
But "Thank you" is also big. :)
I am growing up fast. I like playing with my friends. Outside all day: riding, pushing climbing, running, jumping, that's funny! :)

I am thankful I don't have to ride the Metro everyday

Harris Teeter in Adams Morgan

Wow, it finally opened. This has been a decade in the making and it is good for the neighborhood. I hope the Dorchester Market continues to thrive, the owner and employees were always very friendly and seemed like good people. Love the art deco store logo (see pic in the link above).

The Libraries of Alexandria

The Libraries of Alexandria (Virginia) have gone interactive. I've been dropping by 2 of the local branches about twice a week for the past month, so it is odd that I am learning about this feature from a blog and not from a flier or poster or pamphlet from the library system.

It's about time

Blogger now enables scheduled posting. I guess I haven't really had a need for this feature, but I did notice that it wasn't previously available.

Music Search Engine

My wife forwarded a link for SeeqPod, a search engine for music. Put in a band and it scours the web for music files, information, and YouTube links featuring your artist. Pretty handy at pulling stuff from a variety of sources. It will use the available links to create play lists that you can save. Didn't try that out yet. I'll check it out again next time I am looking for something specific. The only complaint I have initially is that only 6 search results are displayed on the first search page. I like to be able to see more than that off the bat, I have google set to show 50 results at a time, for one reason, it is a better gauge of whether my query is pulling useful information. Another complaint is that there were no results for my search for "Wred Fright"!

Questions

Why is it that, in the mid-Atlantic region anyway, the manhole covers in the streets are almost alway in the part of the road where you have to either drive over them and wear out your shocks, or to avoid them, steer wildly in your lane? Why can't they put them more in the center of the lanes?

Also, and equally as annoying, how can I get Microsoft Internet Explorer to *stop* asking permission before I copy from or paste into a web page?

Random Find

For some reason I was looking for info on the defunct funk band, Big Hunk o' Cheese, and found this old video from Saturday morning TV in the 70's. I remember doing a specific search for it last year after I realized it wasn't included in the School House Rock DVDs we checked out from the library for The Boy to watch, but I couldn't locate it.


and this,


wait, there's more,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt3KHH4Hh4A&feature=related

And last but not least:

Baby Girl

Baby Girl (almost a year and a half old now, but she is still my baby girl) is so sweet. When she finishes her bottle at night, I ask her if she is ready for bed she nods and says, "Yeah!" then she gets up, walks over to crib, and in mimic of me, counts to three the way I do when I prep to pick her up, and lays right down. She cries for few moments when I leave the room, but then she settles down and goes to sleep.

Moraes Watches When I Can't Bear To

Normally, I watch American Idol so that I can further appreciate Lisa de Moraes's wrap ups, but last night, I couldn't stand to even think about watching 'Broadway songs week,' so I took advantage of her column's subtitle, "We Watch So You Don't Have To".

Redesign Gmail

I only use the basics that come with Firefox, but this user-designed extension, gives Gmail a good facelift.

HT: GoogleBlogoscoped

My iPod's Moods

This morning my iPod was in a mellow, melancholy mood. I have it set for random albums. It started out with Laika's Good Looking Blues (jazzy trip-hop, Miles Davis's Bitches Brew crossed with Portishead).
Next it queued up a very mellow jazz album, Lonnie Liston Smith's Visions of a New World,

followed by Astrud Gilberto's A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness.


Now that I've returned for lunch, the iPod is kicking things up a notch with some Fugazi: End Hits.