Doctor Who Tah-dis

So the Geekling loves Doctor Who. Seriously LOVES Doctor Who. When you ask her what she wants to watch, she’ll pull out a Doctor Who blu-ray about as often as she’ll pull out Wall-E or The Lion King. You’ve seen her reaction to my knee scrape, and she’s been known to watch the show like this:

 

Another thing she loves doing is playing with “Daddy’s Toys.” Those consist of plush versions of the Millennium Falcon, a X-Wing, and an AT-AT from Think Geek. She loves flying the ships around going PEW PEW PEW and having the AT-AT stomp over her.

With this in mind, I went to Amazon and ordered her a Plush Tardis with Sound Effects, making sure to have it shipped to her under her name. I ordered this on Tuesday, and it showed up yesterday, the 24^th.

As I carried it in, the Geekling ran up, excited, when she saw the box. She asked if it was for her, and to her surprise I showed her that her name was on the label. I broke open the tape and let her open the box, which had the plush packaged upside down so the back of the box was showing. This is where she flips out, bouncing up and down as she realizes she got something related to Doctor Who. She continues bouncing and giggling as she sees that it’s the “Doctor Who Tah-dis” when it’s pulled out of the box.

So far, the Tah-dis has gone on a car ride with us, sat at her side as she watched “Let’s Kill Hitler,” and even went to bed with her. When I woke up this morning, I found that she had crawled into bed between Mommy and I, and the Tah-dis was there with her.

Once again, raising geeks right.

 

Happy Geek Pride Day.

She Loves The “Kick Kick Pool”

The Geekling loves the pool.

Coincidentally, “Grammy and Pop-Pop’s House” has a swimming pool.

And guess where we are house sitting this week?

I love swimming with the Geekling. She is really into it. Now, being only 3, she’s still wearing water wings, and we have to keep an eye on her because she has absolutely NO fear of the water, but it’s a blast seeing the look on her face as she realizes she can float on her back and kick and she starts moving. Or playing “Teacups” where she floats and holds on to Daddy’s arm, spinning around and around in circles.

She’s getting really good in the water, and she’s starting to pick up on the finer points of how to move and how to turn. She just needs to work on the finer points of how not to sink.

Tonight is the last night at their place, and even with my allergies and big wound on my knee, I’m hoping to give her one more evening of fun in the “kick kick pool” before we head back to our place, and can only visit once every couple of weeks, because these times are short, and it’s worth it for her.

Raising Geeks Right

My daughter was sitting on the floor, looking at the scrape on my knee and shin last night. I didn’t know toddlers were fascinated by injuries like that, but she is just in awe of how it is healing, and the skin is growing back, even though she thinks it grows like plants and needs more sun. After looking at it for a minute and commenting how it’s growing, she looked up at me in all seriousness and asked me a one word question.

“Daleks?”

“Excuse me, hon?”

She pointed at my shin, very careful not to touch it. “Daleks do this?”

“Oh no, hon. Daddy’s lack of balance on a bicycle did this. Daddy hasn’t seen any Daleks lately.”

“Oh, okay.” She pondered for a moment, then asked, “Doctor Who help?”

“No, little one. Doctor Who couldn’t help.”

“Why not? Doctor Who helps!”

I look at Shannon, smile, and look at the Geekling. “Hon, Daddy’s accident was a fixed point in time. The Doctor can’t mess with fixed points in time.”

The Geekling’s face lost its quizzical look as she went “Oh, okay,” and went back to watching the Electric Company.

Raising a geek, I think we’re doing it right.

Tony

Oh hai!

You know, I really need to start updating this more often.

Mary is turning two soon, and I really need to do more on here to show her off.

Plus, I’m getting the creative bug again. And I need to get Shannon creative too!

Stay tuned!

Tony

The 411

Hey folks-

Not sure if anyone is following this blog or not, since I really haven’t promoted it that much, but hey, I’ve been busy.

First off, I hope everybody had a good Christmas yesterday, or a good Hanukkah last week, or just have been having a pleasant December.

For those that don’t know, Shannon and I are living in two separate places right now as I’m finding a new job and an apartment for us out here in Southern California.  Shannon’s still living with her mother in Rancho Cucamonga, and I’m staying with a friend in Pasadena where I’m looking for work and planning on starting back to school during the Spring Term at Pasadena City College.  Shannon’s got the duty of having to deal with an almost 11 month old baby that is getting her top teeth and starting to figure out how to walk.

I’ve got to find a place for both of us and fast so she can have a hand.

Meanwhile, since I will have some down time while I’m looking for work and trying not to spend money, I’m going to have a chance to try to polish up the site a bit, add some organization, and hopefully get it looking decent.

Wish me luck!
Tony

Yes, I’m still here.

My computer is toast at home.  Until it gets replaced or fixed, I’m not doing much of anything online.

I just feel weird blogging at the front counter at work, too, so that’s why this is short.

I’ll start again when the PC is back up and running.  I’ve actually been writing down some ideas that I think are fairly decent that people might enjoy actually reading.

Why Facebook Isn’t Good Enough

So I’m sitting here wondering what I’m going to do with this.

Geocities is shutting down their web hosting services by the end of this month.  That is what I’m used to.  I’ve been building, tearing down, and rebuilding a personal site on there for about 10 years.  It’s kind of depressing me.  However, I don’t know why.  It’s almost been too much work coding and putting updates up for my family members and friends to see, especially since in the last ten years I now have:

- Social Networking via Twitter and Facebook that my family and friends access on a regular basis.
- Photo hosting on sites such as Photobucket and Picasa that has more photo hosting space than Geocities ever provided to build a full web page.
- Video hosting on YouTube that shows funny baby moments for my family.
- Web Logs such as this one to tie everything together.

All of these are meant for normal people. They are easily used without any knowledge of HTML.  I don’t need to jot things down in Notepad, upload it, and start fixing it.  I don’t need to change an opening frame, post an update. make a thumbnail, and upload everything to put up new pictures from vacation, a project I’m working on, or pictures of the family. I upload pics, send a mail, and I’m good.

So why am I upset that I have to ditch something difficult to use something easier?

I’m still trying to figure that one out.

I think a major part of it is, I like to build things.

Models, props, costumes, these things I do not have the room or the money or the time for right now.  A website?  That’s different. I don’t need any tools, I don’t need any glues. My workspace is a screen, mouse and keyboard.

Yes, I guess I’m still creating while typing things like a blog post, choosing what themed background I would like to use on Photobucket, and trying to think of a status message on Facebook, but that’s not the same.

I can’t design a layout, I can’t choose the colors or fonts people see, I can’t have one section designated for the Family, one for Hobbies, one for my lame brand of comedy.

In essence, I don’t feel that there’s enough freedom for me.

Oh well.  I don’t have the time for freedom anymore.

Instead of freedom, instead of spending money on dedicated web hosting and a domain name, I am now working with a plethora of different sites.  Where the challenge used to be in finding where I missed putting the backslash, now the challenge is remembering different sites and different passwords. Trying to tie everything together in the semblance of a cohesive unit.

Trying to update it more than once a quarter.

I have ideas on what I want to do, ideas on what I want on here. I know a lot of people use WordPress, so I’m anxious to take the time to figure it out, see what the limits of my freedom are.

I figure I’m going to set a goal to start of updating once a week with little observations about the site, and how I figure I’m going to organize this.

First things first, post this up and find out why WordPress thinks it 1:02 AM on Friday, October 2.  It’s 6:08 PM on Thursday, October 1. :-/

T

I am not titling a blog “Hello world!”

This is my first blog post.

I am building a blog because Geocities is shutting down its web hosting next month.

Bullocks.

We’ll see how this goes.

T