She's too much like her parents...

For the last week or so, Maya has not been tired enough to go to bed until after midnight. She hasn't been having extra naps or getting up particualrly late or anything, but she just doesn't seem tired late at night.
When you try and put her to bed she just sits up and wants to play and is very happy. Its not really that big of a deal but it means that Anne and I really get no alone time which can be rather frustating and makes us snarky.

Hopefully she can get back on track this weekend?

Seriously, it was THAT bad.

So I was working on a problem at someone's desk today and they were away today. This particular person has chronic bad breath. REALLY bad breath.
I had to use their phone and the smell of on the phone was so bad that I could barely hold it close enough to my mouth to use it. I am dead serious too.

Day off

Since the month I took off was parental leave and not vacation, I actually still have 2 and a half weeks I need to take off before the end of the year. I took today off but it doesn't count either as I am just using extra time I have built up with after-hours work. I am very glad to have it off as work has been crazy lately and its nice to be able to be at home and hang out with Maya.
I also have been doing a ton of computer work for people at home. I have had 2 new computers to build and install as well as 3 or 4 one to repair on the go.
Add that up with my purchase of the Half-life 2: Silver package with has got me Counter Strike: Source until HL2 is released and I haven't had a lot of time for stuff.

Heh, right now Maya is dancing to the music I am listening to, its really cute.

The end of an era...

So this week Anne and I got rid of our TV.
We used to have a crappy one but when my brother went into the army we borrowed his and gave away our old one (which we got for free). But since my brother quit the army he wanted his back, so now we don't have a TV anymore.
We are perfectly okay with this as we don't really watch any TV anyway and all the shows we do follow we download and watch on the computer anyway. So here is the plan.
When Anne goes back to work we are going to get a new 22" monitor (from here) to facilitate the computer watching (this will have a nice side affect on my gaming). And in a few years, we are going to get one of the HDTV's that you can hang on the wall.
We are both pleased with this arrangement and it does tidy up the living room a bit. One side affect may be that I will have to build a second computer for Anne so she can watch her shows while I do something else. But we will see I guess.

Julie is Cool

This is my friend Julies blog. She is really cool and practices attachment parenting and has four kids and two of those are twins and she is really thrifty and has a hairless cat that I covet and cloth diapers and is half way crunchy like me and I really like her and wished she lived in Hanover. Sometimes I stalk her to see what she says on MDC but that's ok cause she isn't supposed to know about that but I let it slip all the time- opps.

Computer Upgrade

One thing is new that I forgot. On friday I upgraded by system to an Asus K8N-E Deluxe Motherboard and an Athlon64 3000+ chip. Its not really a great speed upgrade to what I had but it will overclock well. To assist with that I have this Thermalright XP-120 heatsink coming this week and I need new RAM. The heatsink is my price for a computer I am building someone and the RAM I will have to swing a deal somehow with Nathan or something.
I am pretty pleased with the new hardware but I did have to reinstall Windows from scratch to get it to work. Its going to take a bit of work as well to figure out how well its going to OC too. But thats more than half the fun to me :) (yes I am a huge nerd thank you)
The upgrades I have planned (depending on how much comptuer work I do for people) are a new 22" monitor, 2 SATA HD's (in RAID 0), and a new Videocard (ATI Radeon whatever-is-the-newest).
Our current system specs are:

• Athlon64 3000+ (2.0 Ghz)
• Asus k8N-E Deluxe
• Radeon 9700 Pro
• 240 GB Total Hard drive space (80% full, its the Anime and 6 Feet Under downloads!)
• 1 GB Ram
• Audigy 2
  

Nothing really new going on right now. It looks like the fall has arrived.
I played hockey last night again and it was fun. Some cousins and may sister were playing too, and surprisingly well.
I picked up Anne at the airport Wednesday night last week which was uneventful. I did miss them both a lot while they were gone, Maya took a couple of minutes to relize who I was I think.
Other than that there really is nothing really fun or interesting to report...