Month: March 2006

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I’m lazy…

I’ve been meaning to post on here for a while, but I’m just too damn lazy. Ez got some funny toys for christmas I wanted to post about. Sebs is getting huge, I think he’ll pass his brother by the time he’s 1. Work is going crazy. I set up a blog for Am, though she has yet to post in it. Click the link at the top of the page to see if she ever does.

Dave gave me his old laptop, and after some soldering and re-wiring, I got it working again. Then I imediately formatted and installed Ubuntu. Took me a couple of days to get all the hardware working, but it’s good now. Then I found out that you couldn’t adjust the shared video memory without the windows tool that comes with it. Stupid Insyde bios. Never buy a computer that doesn’t have an Award bios. even Phoenix and AMI are better than this Insyde one though. The ONLY think it lets you change is the boot order. So I had to use the recovery disk to install XP again, just to adjust the video memory. Unfortunately the recovery disk only has the option to wipe all partitions from the hard drive and restore their disk image. No nice “install XP to selected partition” option. And I couldn’t get the video utility off of the disk because everything is in an unknown archive format. So I wiped Ubuntu, restored xp, changed the video ram to Max, and then reinstalled Ubuntu. I decided to keep the XP partition, and just resize it to the smallest I could get it, so that if there were any other utilities that only work in windows, I wouldn’t lose my Ubuntu again.

Wow, this was just going to be a teaser post about all of the things I haven’t posted. But you get me onto the subject of computers, and I just can’t stop talking. Ok, I guess this is enough for now.

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He’s late, he’s late, he’s late

For a very important date. Jan 22nd to be exact. Sebastian was due yesterday, but still isn’t here. According to the Doctor that did the sonogram, he was due Mon the 16th. That’s a week ago…. AM is pretty tired of carying him around and says it’s my turn. We’re going to the midwife in a little bit, and going to have her “Rim” Am’s cervix. She says it’s just as much fun as it sounds. After that we’re going to walk the Prescott Gateway mall. If all that fails, I’m getting a plunger… This kid better be born tonight or tomorrow morning…

His brother was late too, I don’t know what’s up with them. They must get this procrastination from their mother.

Hopefully I’ll have some new pics tomorrow.

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He’s Here!!!!

He’s finally here!!! Sebastian Osiris Fox was born on Jan 26th 2006 at 11:49pm. He weighed 8lbs 14oz, and was 21″ long. It was a long tiring labor. Amber decided to try incucing by taking 2oz of castor oil mixed with orange juice. But one sip and she threw up. Luckily that started her contractions. Neither of us could get back to sleep after that.

It took 21.5 hours of irregular contactions for this kid to come out. The contractions never did get regular. The midwife had to break Am’s water to help speed things up. My mom, her mom, and my brother Kevin’s girlfriend Tina were all there to help out. Kevin stayed in the computer room with Ezra the whole time.

I’m sure everyone wants to see pics of the new little guy, so we put some up on his brother’s site. http://www.just2ez.com/sebastian/ Let us know what you think of our new little pudge-ball.

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Halloween Was a Hit

After sewing like crazy for the last few weeks, the big day finally arrived. Ezzie looked so cute in his little Yoda costume. Everyone wanted to know where we bought it, and they were amazed when I told them I sewed it.

We went to the mall first, and Klara (who works with AM) was very impressed. She sews, so she knew how much work it took to make the costumes. Ezzie had a little hood with Yoda ears, 3 fingered gloved, 3 toed feet, and the Jedi outfit I made for him back when Ep III came out. Technically the tunic and pants were the wrong color, since they were made in the Obi-Wan style, and Yoda’s tunic is very dark, but no one seemed to notice.

They also didn’t know that I was Anakin and AM was Padme. Most people thought we were Luke and Leia. One old dude even said “Hey, I thought Leia was supposed to be a virgin!” =)

Every shopkeeper we saw said ours were the best costumes of the night and we should win a prize. Most of them did give EZ twice as much candy as they gave everyone else. One lady was even going to dump her entire basket into his “pumpkin” (KT got mad that I kept referring to it as a pumpkin, since it was actually Darth Vader’s Head. I feel that it is still a pumpkin, even if it takes a different shape).

We got stopped by at least 10 people who asked if they could take EZ’s picture. And we noticed quite a few others who took it as we went by without asking. Many with video cameras too. We should have charged a few dollars a pop.

Over all EZ thoroughly enjoyed this Halloween, not just for all of the candy he got (which I will be taking a percentage of for costume construction fees 😉 ), but also for all of the attention he got. I think he liked that even more than the candy.

Check out my halloween page for this year’s costumes as well as all of our costumes from the past few years.