The last couple of weeks I haven’t really been keeping the web site up to date but and I set myself a goal of getting our Labour day pictures up and done this weekend. With a couple of hours to spare I’ve managed to get them up.
During the labour day holiday we took a trip down to Sea World San Antonio and then drove over to Lake Jackon Texas to visit the Jesse and Otto. You can check out all the pictures here, enjoy.
Is anyone else out there watching Project Runway? It’s Heidi Klum’s entry into the reality tv world where 15 designers complete for the chance to show their collection during New York’s fashion week. Each week the aspiring designers are given a challenge where they need to design and create some piece of women’s clothing. The show culminates with models showing off each of the designers creates and Heidi with a panel of judges critique the works.
I’m sure your asking yourself right about now, “What in the world are you doing watching Project Runway?” I blame Jen, it’s her show.
Just before the designers show their clothes Heidi introduces the judges for the days show. Typically they have a different guest judge each week in addition to the regular panel of Heidi, Michael Kors (apparently a designer), and my nemesis judge “Nina Garcia, fashion editor of Elle Magazine.” Now I have absolutely nothing against Nina Garcia herself but when Heidi introduces her it never sounds like she says her name correctly. It always sounds like “Nina Gacia“, like she’s leaving out the “r” in Garcia. Listen for yourself, I swear I’m not out of my mind.
I’ll have to be honest at first it really bothered me every time Heidi said it but now it’s the highlight of the show for me. Here’s some time wasting “Nina Gacia audio fun,” enjoy
I’m still here I just haven’t had any time to sit down and update the website in the last couple of days. Last week was a disaster at work and three of the days I ended up getting paged at night and working issues during the day. I ended up on a conference call for four hours one day.
Things have calmed down this week but I still haven’t found any time to put anything on the site. We did take some pictures of the boys at the pool this weekend so maybe by the weekend I’ll try and get those posted.
Yes, were home but there is something wrong with our phone line. When you try and call in or whenever you pickup the phone your just assaulted with a loud buzzing noise. After 10 minutes of talking with the phone company automated computer I finally got through to a real person who ran some kind of test that showed a problem with the line.
They “guarantee” that by Friday at 11:00 they will have the problem fixed. There you have it, three days without a phone. The internet connection is working (thank god) so we can answer email so lets hope when they fix the phone they don’t break that when they fix the phone.
I don’t know what it is but I have some unnatural phobia of mall playgrounds. After work today I met Jen and the kids at the mall while she went to get her hair cut. After she went off I took the kids to the mall playground since they were already excited to go.
We go, I took the boys shoes off and they set off to play and I started my thirty minutes to hell. I’m not one of those parents that can just sit back, relax, and let my kids go play on the slides, cars, houses, and stuff. I need to be up and walking around making sure that I can see them and making sure that the other kids (monsters I tell you) aren’t stepping on Andrew or pushing him around. When one of the them would disappear behind the big playthings and I’d couldn’t see them for like thirty seconds I start freaking out, “Where did they go!!”, “What happened, are they ok?”
The kids might be having fun but I’m a complete wreck.
After the overwhelming response, ok, complete silence would be a better description, to “Pictures from the Past” feature I figure I’ll just stick with that name. I also figure if I’m going to start posting old pictures of people I should probably start with a picture of myself.
Here is “Picture from the Past” Number 1. This picture was obviously taken when I was just a little guy. I’m not really sure how old I was when this was taken but I figure I was probably a couple of months old. In the grand scheme of pictures that exist of me from my infant years this is number six in the album.
For a while now I’ve been thinking about getting a scanner and so the other day I took the plunge and I bought one. We have all kinds of pictures floating around the house from over the years, like pictures of me when I was Andrew and Alex’s age, and some of them are starting to fade and look a bit grungy.
I hooked it up this morning and the first two things I scanned was an original Alex Mason T-Rex in construction paper and Andrew’s first piece of school art work, “Blue Hand Fish”.
Now that I have my new play toy I’m going to start a new mfdc/slotmf feature “Pictures from the Past” (Ok, the name might need some work but if you think you can come up with something better let me know.) where I’ll pick some of the better pictures and post them. Hey, I might even pick some embarrassing pictures too, not of me of course :-).
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I went to go buy some milk tonight and I was standing in line with my three gallons freezing my fingers off I suddenly realized that I had no wallet with me, hence no way to pay for said milk. I had to get out of line and put the milk back in the fridge, drive home, get my wallet, and drive back to the store. I figured as a consolation for having to go to the store twice I deserved to get myself a package of brownies.
They finally posted the meet results today. Jen and I managed to win our age group in everything we swam but before I start gloating there were a couple events that we were the only swimmers in our age group. In fact in most of the events there was only one or two heats for all age groups but what really matters is that we were there. Yeah, so there.
Overall we were pretty pleased with our times except I was a little disappointed with my 200 free time.
50 Meter Fly
1 McEachern, Jennifer 33.56
1 McEachern, Derek 27.75
100 Meter Free
1 McEachern, Jennifer 1:07:01
50 Meter Free
1 McEachern, Jennifer 29.75
1 McEachern, Derek 26.05
100 Meter Fly
1 McEachern, Jennifer 1:15.39
200 Meter Free
1 McEachern, Derek 2:15.30
The highlight of the meet for me was the 50 free where I got to swim next to Jim Montgomery. Yes, that Jim Montgomery, Saturday morning trivial push ups “Who was the first person to break 50 seconds in the 100 free?” Jim Montgomery. Incidentally I ended up beating him but then again he is 18 years older then I am.
On Friday Jen and I took Alex’s four year pictures and Andrew’s one year pictures to be framed so I thought it was about time I actually got the pictures on the web site. Here are Alex’s pictures and here are Andrew’s pictures. At the bottom of Alex’s page I created an animated picture that has a picture from each of the past four years.
Jen and I swam in our meet this today and I’m happy to say that we did pretty good but more on that later. I’ll post a whole meet update once they post the results on line.