Making 50s Look Like 20s
Mitchell has been practicing his bike jumps lately. He has hired Jacob to take pictures of his jumps from various angles. I had to stop the "under the jump" shot from continuing. They all seem to be having a great time at school and one of them went so far …
I don’t remember their first day of Kindergarten feeling this sad. I was so busy/distracted with David when the boys started school that I didn’t have time or energy to feel this lonely. When David started Kindergarten I knew the school and the teachers, plus I was busy going to …
It was a week ago today that a friend called to tell me about Jonathan and Justin, it seems an eternity. So much has happened. Tears, hugs, prayers, and a pouring out of love the likes of which I have never experienced before. The Gwins went to Justin’s viewing and …
Funeral Blues Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,Silence the pianos and with muffled drumBring out the coffin, let the mourners come.Let aeroplanes circle moaning overheadScribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.Put crepe bows round the white necks of …
I have never enjoyed writing. NEVER. I don’t feel confidant in my writing abilities and fret constantly about making grammatical errors. How can I express my deepest feelings if I keep backspacing and changing my words? The reason I am even venturing this far is because I feel the need …
Pic of the boys in their Iola little league uniforms, just after we moved here
The .NET 2.0 GridView control works much like the old DataGrid in .NET 1.1, but giving in to the tempation of the ObjectDataSource and its ability to automatically bind your list controls can lead to trouble in non-trivial situations. For example, take an editable GridView with a DropDownList control in …
What’s the difference between a great friendship and a great marriage? Sex!! That may sound like a joke you would read in a magazine, but if you really think about it, it’s true. Two in love pour out their souls hoping to still be accepted by the other person, so …
A nifty feature of ASP.NET 2.0 is the ability to store all of your application’s code in the App_Code folder and automatically have it be compiled into one big, happy namespace. Most of the time this works well; however, when you’re doing a forms authentication-based application and are: A) too …
So, Mitchell asks me this morning if I’ll take him to a skateboard park; to which I cleverly reply, "If you can find one in the area I will take you." Never say that to a boy on a mission. He looked on line and found a city park (free!) …
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