http://www.rueplumet.com Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:54:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Whew! I haven't really been that busy, but it feels like it has been a crazy week anyway. I think I have almost everything installed on the new computer now, which is great because it is one less thing stuck in an unsettled state. It turned out that the first ... http://www.rueplumet.com/2009/01/16/odds-and-ends-of-the-week/ I started off the year well as far as blog posting goes, but you may have noticed that I have missed posting for a few days now. That's because I've been working on the next step in our changes around here. As I mentioned in a previous post, those changes ... http://www.rueplumet.com/2009/01/12/posted-from-the-new-computer-downstairs/ In keeping a bit with the theme from my post yesterday, for one of my New Year's resolutions I dropped all of the technology related blogs from my feed reader. For maybe the last fifteen years or so I've always been up to date about the latest new technology and ... http://www.rueplumet.com/2009/01/07/temptation/ We live in a three bedroom house and have two kids. We have our bedroom and Charis has her own room, but up until now, Cai has been kind of a nomad without a place of his own because Joy and I have been using the third bedroom for Joy's ... http://www.rueplumet.com/2009/01/06/big-changes-going-on/ Joy has been sick the past couple of days, so I was doing the ironing earlier tonight. I always iron in the family room because that's where the stereo is and I like to listen to music while ironing so that I don't go crazy (ironing is not exactly my ... http://www.rueplumet.com/2009/01/05/you-have-to-get-the-mood-right/ On most days (when she is well behaved), Charis gets to watch one 30 minute dvd or tv show. She usually watches it while Joy is preparing a meal or putting away groceries or something like that, so that Charis stays occupied while mom is busy. We have a couple ... http://www.rueplumet.com/2009/01/04/sid-the-science-kid/ Charis got a neat little magnetic dress up doll set for Christmas. It has a wooden figure and the various clothes you can dress it in that are magnets that stick to the doll. And actually she has two of them: one is a princess and one is supposed to ... http://www.rueplumet.com/2009/01/03/just-like-a-princess/ We've had a TiVo since one of the very first models that could record a grand total of five hours of television at high quality. Joy and I don't watch that much tv at our house, but the little bit we do watch is never according to the tv broadcast ... http://www.rueplumet.com/2009/01/02/gowing-up-in-a-tivo-household/ We had a great time bringing in the new year last night with friends and family. Two of our very dear friends and my brother-in-law came over last night to play a few board games and wait for the ball to drop. Our friends brought tasty monkey bread and sparkling ... http://www.rueplumet.com/2009/01/01/bringing-in-the-new-year/ Click "more" to see a list of all of the interesting web sites I found this month. I keep track of my favorite sites using del.icio.us, a free web site where you can access your favorite links from any computer and share them with friends. You can also see all ... http://www.rueplumet.com/2009/01/01/delicious-139/