Both are short posts, so maybe it’ll really be like one regular sized post.

Back in the day (my senior year in high school), I took a nortel networks class, that basically taught me how to run a computer network.  So how do you expand what only takes a week to learn into 4 months?

Easy… you setup the network the first week and spend the rest of the semester “testing network integrity”.  Which simply means, playing mulitplayer video games against each other (i.e. Starcraft, Warcraft, Age of Empires, etc.) - yeah…. I’m a nerd.

But video games aren’t the only way we “tested network integrity”.  We also downloaded music illegally (should I really confess to that?), and watched videos online.

Now all that being said… I have recently come across a music video that we used to watch and dance to right in the middle of class.  It seems kind of ridiculous now, but we thought it was absolutely hilarious back then.

And so now… I would like to share that video with you.  I hope you enjoy it!

 I especially like the post titled: Do YOU have vagical fallout?

If you’ve got the time, at least make sure to listen to that post.

I must hold some kind of record now for the longest time between posts… so where’s my award?!?!

Anyways… it seems Baby L is following in her parents’ footstep.  She’s only just turning one next weekend and she’s already some kind of computer genious!  She’ll be the next big blog-star.

Here are the pictures to prove it:

For those of you who have commented on my blog and haven’t heard back from me… I’m on my way!

 It took a lot of time and patience to figure out how to do it, but it’s finally finished and ready for your comments.  Enjoy!

Anyways, the purpose of this post…

 It seems that my beautiful wife over at www.bosssanders.com has graced me with an award.  Not sure what I’ve done to deserve such an honor.  I’ve only been blogging now for maybe 3 or 4 weeks.  I can’t have done anything to warrant an award already.

 However… I did get it.  Its the “You Make Me Smile” award.

Just a quick note.  If you think anything that what I write is funny, you’ve got a weird since of humor.  This is supposed to be a serious blog about my life at the speed of dad.  No one can laugh… no one!  Damn it!  Stop right now!

I digress.  Thank you dear loving wife for your sweet and oh so generous giving spirit.  God knows I need it!

DadSpeed.com was just listed on Alltop.com as I see others before me have as well (Busy Dad, Joeprah, DadThing, etc.).

In their dad section, they’ve listed 30-40 different blogs related to being a dad.

My wife jumped on the bandwagon about a year ago and has been dragging me behind her kicking and screaming the whole way, but once I opened up and tried changing the types of things I use… I really never could tell that there was any difference as far as convenience or comfort (except for hair product, face wash, and shampoo - I don’t think I’ll ever be able to change from the products that work so well for me).

So… in the spirit of “Going Green” the wife and I have been using cloth diapers on Baby L.  Not the original cloth diapers that were a pain in the butt to use (you know… the ones where you stick yourself with the diaper pin 5 or 6 times before you can finally get the baby to hold still long enough to fasten them), but the new generation cloth diapers.  These cloth diapers, I’ve learned over this past year, are just as easy as messing with disposable diapers.  And a lot cheaper!

There are no pins only velcro or snaps (aka no bloody fingers or baby) and they have a special coating on them that soaks up the pee and rejects the poo (makes it easy to just toss the stuff out of it)… I know really gross huh?  But, you just take the diaper off, dump whatever is in it, out, and…. uh oh, now what?

How about putting them in a Sterilite container from walmart (less than $10).  It seals up the smell, and it’s clear so you know when to open it, turn it upside down into the washing machine, and turn the machine on.  How much easier can you get with cloth diapers?

So that’s my “Going Green” post for ya… and maybe it just might move you to try it yourself.

Speaking of “Going Green” I’ve designed a shirt for all bloggers that is 100% Organic Cotton.  So if I’ve not convinced you to use cloth diapers but you’re still interested in doing something towards “Going Green”, check out this new t-shirt.  (You can find it on my left menu).

The t-shirt is fully customizable, which means you can have your own blogger logo put on the back for FREE!  Kind of a custom t-shirt that represents your blog world.

It seems she thinks I need something to wake me up and make my day better… so she sends me these pictures:

Very Artsy (Yeah… like that’s what I’m thinking)

Work it baby!

I love summer!

You can get these this outfit at Walmart too… of all the places.  Only $7.00. 

Not sure where I was going with this post… I just got so excited about the thought that spring and summer are closer than ever, and I’m gonna get to see alot more shorts (and legs :)) and a lot less jeans.  (And of course… it makes me think of our trip to Sandals Resort in Jamaica coming up in May)

About 5 or 6 months ago, the wife and I were experimenting with youtube and doing some videos, but using our camera was way too complicated.  We would record the video (on our videocamera that still uses tapes - read “Old”), spend forever uploading the video to my computer via a crappy video capture device (only to then realize that the audio and video would be out of sync - read “Old chinese movies”), try to edit them using Windows Movie Maker (I now have Adobe Premier Pro), and when I was finally finished, spend 2-3 hours trying to upload them to youtube only to then get a message that said it was unsuccessful.

What a bitch!

So… like I said, I’ve been doing some research on video cameras that would make the process simple, and I’ve finally found the perfect camera for making movies for the web.

It’s called the Flip Ultra.  You can find it here: http://www.theflip.com/  I just bought the wife and I 2 of them. Yay!

Using it is so easy.  Step 1: Record  Step 2: Connect to Computer  Step 3: Upload to youtube or edit with built in software

So easy…. A caveman could do it

Here is a Review of the Flip Ultra done by another “youtuber”.

 But today… snow everywhere.  I think we got about 4-5 inches, which is a lot around here… especially since it’s the second weekend in March.

I’m ready for warmer weather… but it seems like Baby L isn’t.  Instead of trying to eat leaves… we had her eating snow.  She was hesitant at first, but after I got her to eat some, she seemed to enjoy it… except for the cold part.  And I could definitely tell that she still prefers those leaves.

We didn’t spend much time outside in the snow because we didn’t want Baby L sick again… but if you’ll click the picture you can see some of the photos we took of the fun.