Dr. Seuss ABC book reading by Holly

Holly likes to read to the boys like this as she puts them to sleep.  My favorite method is to grab a pile of books and get them all under the covers in the big bed and read nice and slow until they all drop off, then take a nap myself. My method isn’t as [...]

Shock & Awe

Last night, I was in the big black chair reading in my new book, Guitar All-In-One for Dummies, when Holly said with a little bit of alarm, “Matt, I think I just saw a mouse. Is that possible?” Hmmm. Knowing Holly like I do, I figured if she’d really just seen a mouse, that question [...]

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HD trials, tribulations, and triumphs!

At first when I loaded the image of the new 500GB drive onto my computer I was crestfallen, as the 500gb drive only showed as a 91GB HD, see below.  This was the state of my computer for the last three weeks. But today, after three hours of monkeying around, I was greeted by the [...]

It was a tough day here.

Holly was down for the count all day. Being a single parent must be tough.  I’m sticking with Holly. Today was supposed to be one of Holly’s big days, she had all sorts of activities planned, shopping, going to the bazaar, cleaning the house, putting on the pageant a the Lighting of the fort and [...]

Canon G9 (or G10)

I bought Holly a used Canon G9 to shoot pictures and video of the boys.  It’s a small size, like she’s always said she’d like to have, and it’s easy to use.  And yet it still has lots of manual controls and plenty of speed to react to changing situations.  In bright light it’s a [...]

John Caleb’s first oil painting

This morning while the older two were outside playing in the snow, John Caleb did his first oil painting on my LE1600 Motion Computing Tablet PC using Art Rage 2.5. It helped that the stylus was tethered to the Tablet, as he kept trying to walk off with it and write on something else. John [...]

My Class notes are online again! Yipee!

I guess Ken fixed my web-site a few weeks back, because the web-site he gave me a few years ago is working again!  the web page, in Internet explorer 7 anyway, looks almost exactly like the pages in OneNote that I write in class.  I host my notes and my old wedding album samples there. [...]

50D Resolution

Having just bought a used 40D from Ron Horn, I was very interested in www.dpreview.com ‘s take on the 50D which just came out a few days ago.  They basically said to save $400 and just buy a 40D, as the 50D is not too much better than the 40D.  I am not convinced.  What [...]

Time articles to read…

Top gadget inventions…  CLICK HERE! #1: PEEK To me, the “Peek” looks cool, it’s used to do email to PEEK at it.  I like the concept but don’t have a need for it over the winter–but hey, over the summer I could use it on the boat, if it’s cellular.  All it does is email, [...]