This is just a note to let my loyal fan base know that I will be out of town for training until this Friday, so blogging may be light- to non-existent.
I'm taking a class on developing Web Portals.
In honor of Portals, my wife has suggested that I bring along our copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Hopefully I'll be able to report that there's more nonsense in the book than in the training. :-)
A Christian husband, homeschooling father, software engineer and amateur musician bloviates about whatever he feels like at the moment.
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- My Daughter, the Anarcho-Capitalist
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About Me
- Timothy Power
- Christian husband, father, software engineer, instigator of never-ending landscaping projects, amateur music director, amateur harp player, amateur composer of vocal and other music, who gets his intellectual fingers into way too many pies, and mixes too many metaphors to boot. Be forewarned: I'm pretty wordy.
Can't tell the players without a program
Tonya
My lovely wife. Maintains a blog here.
Pillowfight Fairy
My firstborn daughter, born October 2002, so eight years old. Once upon a time, while I was trying to do something at the computer, she came up to me with a pillow and a mischievous twinkle in her eye, and loudly announced, "I am the Pillowfight Fairy!" I'll leave it to your imagination to figure out what happened next.
Adrenaline Junky
My second child, one very spunky little girl. She was born December 2004, so she's five years old. She reached her "climbing stage" very young, and never left it.
Happy Boy
My third child. Born February 2007. So named because he was just about the happiest baby I've ever met, at the time. He was smiling at complete strangers before he was one month old. Now that he's mobile, he's only happy if you let him go wherever he wants; so his title is not as descriptively accurate now as it once was. I've occasionally referred to him as "The Omnivore", given his culinary appreciation of stuff we don't normally think of as food; but even that name isn't completely accurate, given that he doesn't actually eat vegetables.
The Chunk
Latest addition to our family, born October 2010. As of this writing not much was known of his personality, except for the fact that he was quite wiggly inside mommy (and strong!). Named The Chunk due to the fact that he was 9lbs 10oz at birth (and strong!).
My lovely wife. Maintains a blog here.
Pillowfight Fairy
My firstborn daughter, born October 2002, so eight years old. Once upon a time, while I was trying to do something at the computer, she came up to me with a pillow and a mischievous twinkle in her eye, and loudly announced, "I am the Pillowfight Fairy!" I'll leave it to your imagination to figure out what happened next.
Adrenaline Junky
My second child, one very spunky little girl. She was born December 2004, so she's five years old. She reached her "climbing stage" very young, and never left it.
Happy Boy
My third child. Born February 2007. So named because he was just about the happiest baby I've ever met, at the time. He was smiling at complete strangers before he was one month old. Now that he's mobile, he's only happy if you let him go wherever he wants; so his title is not as descriptively accurate now as it once was. I've occasionally referred to him as "The Omnivore", given his culinary appreciation of stuff we don't normally think of as food; but even that name isn't completely accurate, given that he doesn't actually eat vegetables.
The Chunk
Latest addition to our family, born October 2010. As of this writing not much was known of his personality, except for the fact that he was quite wiggly inside mommy (and strong!). Named The Chunk due to the fact that he was 9lbs 10oz at birth (and strong!).
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2 comments:
1) Ah! Gotta love training classes. I don't have any of those pending, but I have been advised of the ever-popular "kick-off" meeting coming in the new year. The good news is, instead of holing up in our standard training facility (which could easily double as a set for "Prison Break"), we're heading to the MGM Grand in Las Vegas! I've never been to Vegas and don't gamble, but this should still be fun.
2) unrelated, but I thought you'd appreciate it. . . you've mentioned your pomegranete (sp?) tree a few times and the copious amounts of fruit you received from it this year. I was in a grocery store this afternoon and saw that very fruit for sale (on special): 2 for $4. Dude, you're sitting on a gold-mine! If only you could ship those delicacies east cheaply!
Hey, Chris!
Yeah, we know how expensive the pomegranates are. The trouble is, we use all of ours making jelly and stuff, so we don't have any left over to sell. And with the high prices these things are fetching, you have to know that anyone with a small plot of land is planting new trees, so the market will be glutted in a few years when the trees mature... just about the time the pomegranate fad dies off. That's the way these things work, you know.
As for the training, today was the day that we covered the stuff that my team needs us to know the most, and, well... Let's say the nonsense levels put one in mind of Alice and Wonderland. However, I don't think the nonsense levels are quite as high as one encounters in Vegas. :)
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