Miscellaneous Ramblings » Parenthood

Photo privacy

Stick — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:24:26 +0000

So for a while I’ve had photos scattered in a few different places, I’ve decided to consolidate everything onto flickr (at least for the time being). I don’t love flickr’s presentation but I can’t argue with their usability. There are just more tools out there and flikr is the 500lb gorilla as far as community and sharing sites.

The only photos that will be public are the ‘style’ type photos. All the personal stuff will be Friend/Family only as appropriate. I’m sure a time will come when I may want to be able to see pictures of my kids but for right now I’m going to protect their privacy. Joining flickr is free and I recommend anyone interested in joining and adding me as a contact. I’ll return the favor and you can see all the cuteness/etc to your hearts content.

The photostream will pull in on the sidebar and can be found directly at flickr.com/photos/stickm

My New Daughter

Stick — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:37:19 +0000

Today I upped my family by one, increased my available tax deductions and created another justification for a larger car. My daughter Maggie Anne MacLeod was born at 12:52pm today, 8lbs 7os, 22″ long. Mom and Maggie are doing just fine. A few pictures can be found at picasaweb.google.com/stick265/Maggie

I’ve Been Lax

Stick — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:52:59 +0000

So I’ve been a horrible slacker with regards to this blog. I’ve been terribly busy recently, but that’s not much of an excuse. It seems that everytime I go to update wordpress I end up redoing my theme. So once again I’m updated it and hopefully that will keep me from going months between posts. It’s been a busy couple of months. The Disc Golf season is pretty much over. Since we’re here in the south you can pretty much play year rounds but at my age being out in 30 degree weather isn’t my idea of a good time. I am planning on going to Mytle Beach for a tournament in December.

As a family we’ve been really busy as well. T went back to work part time and it’s working out really really well. C gets to spend time with a friend of his (rather than some big day care which is good), but Mommy also gets to spend time with him. Work for me is going alright but I do have a new boss, we’ll see how it works out in the long run. I took a couple of trips that I’ll discuss in other posts but all in all they were very good. I love to leasure travel but doing it away from my little boy and my honey is tough.

Recently I’ve become quite addicted to twitter, most my limited ‘blogging’ occurs there since it’s very quick and I don’t have to sit down and think about what I’m going to write. It really appeals to the ADD side of my brain (ooohhh shiney thing…). I’m not convinced how twitter is going to stay in business since they don’t really have a revenue model that I’ve seen. I suppose they’ll fall back on the ‘We get a ton of traffic so we equate that into ad revenue.’ business model. As far as I’m concerned right now google is the only one that can actually make money with that model and sustain a full time business. But I’m a systems guy not an economic guy.

The election has come and gone. I won’t really talk about it much because it’s for the most part over and we have to live with this decision for the next four years, good or bad. If you’re really interested in political (and or economic) theory check out my friends over at demwits.com. They do way more research than I do.

So hopefully I’ll start posting more and it will actually be interesting or relavent. I’ll probably do an iphone post now that I’ve had mine for some time as well as a recap of LISA 2008.

Also during my recent wordpress upgrade I aslo setup a mobile optimized site. It’s probably pretty iphone specific since I can’t really test it with a blackberry, etc. It’s all sorts of ajaxy so it may be slightly slow, but drop some commets if it’s horrible.

Love, Hate, and dedication

Stick — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:35:30 +0000

Love the Red Wings, hate the Red Wings, it’s hard not to appreciate the class of Steve Yserman. His jersey now hangs at Joe Louis Arena, as everyone knew it would. When a player retires there are always a lot of stories about their dedication, their charitable works, what they’ve done for the sport, the town, or the sick kids at the hospital.

As a new father I can’t imagine the converstations that have to happen when something like this happens, it breaks my heart. But above all it shows true dedication.

3 Weeks and Counting

Stick — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:59:12 +0000

Connor has been alive for 3 weeks now and after spending a week in the nursery he came home. The past 2 weeks have been fun. Don’t get me wrong definatly trying, but certaining fun and boy educational! We still aren’t sleeping much, at least not in continuous blocks. We take lots of naps, usually not at the same time either. In fact it’s time for one now.