Thank you, Sprint. Thank you, video chat.

For the past several days, my Kindergartner's first loose tooth has been giving him fits. He keeps accidentally chomping down on it at mealtime, causing quite a bit of pain. Last night he kept asking me to pull it, but it still seemed too attached. So I just told him to wiggle it around as much as possible and it should come out soon.

Well, it did! This morning at work I got picture mail from my wife of the tooth and the gap! I was a little disappointed to not be there in person. So, I immediately got out my Motorola Photon - powered by Sprint's 4G NOW Network - and fired up a Google Talk video chat with my wife. It was super-awesome to get to see how excited he was about losing his first tooth. And he thought it was way-cool to see me in the video chat. To make it even better, as we were about to wrap up, his little brother came toddling in to the kitchen. At first, he was just really confused (having just woken up), but once he realized he could talk to me AND see me, he was grinning from ear to ear.

Technology rocks.


Thank you, Sprint. Thank you, video chat.

Cutting cords. Cutting costs.

High speed cable modem with VoIP - Check.
HD DVR cable box - Check.
Remote control - Check, Check. (Why did we have two remotes??)


We dropped off all our Time Warner Cable equipment and cancelled our service. So that's it. No more land-line phone. No more Internet. No more TV.

Well...not exactly! Enter Sprint, Roku, Netflix, and Hulu Plus. We got a 4G desktop modem from Sprint for our ISP and we've got a Roku box to stream Netflix and Hulu Plus. We're getting our basic TV over the air with a digital converter and antennae.

We've been thinking of doing this for over a year, but just haven't gone through with it. Finally, with a little inspiration, we've made the jump. It's not flawless; periodically we have some buffering and loading issues, but not that often, and it clears up quickly. A small price to pay considering this is saving us around $80 a month.

If nothing else, it has proved one thing. I knew that if I ever started watching Heroes, I'd be hooked.

Sooper Geeenyus

What I think they mean to say is that it would take a Genius to decipher what I'm trying to say...

Round 2

I am very proud and excited and tentative to announce that The Wife is pregnant! We go to The Dr. on Monday to get the official word.

It seems like so much else has happened that I haven't posted about. We moved to a new house. The Boy did not handle it well for the first 3 or 4 days. He wasn't sleeping or napping well, and was just all out of sorts. But he's settled in now and doing great. Except this week it seems like he might have allergies or a sinus infection.

Oh, it looks like he may be getting ear tubes and also possibly having his lingual frenulum snipped to prevent "tongue-tied".

The new house is great and we're slowly but surely getting things the way we want them.

I'm thinking of getting my MBA. I'm not sure now would be a good time - but I don't know if it will ever be a "good time".

Where's The Mouse?

The Wife taught The Boy a new game when reading Goodnight Moon. On a handful of pages, there's a little mouse.

He says, "Where mouse?" as he holds his hands out in a shrug. Then you can watch his eyes scan the page and his finger kind of drift around the page. Then he points, "There Mouse!".

It's just the greatest. There's just something about it that makes me realize how much I love him and how much I love being his daddy.

And In Bad

At those times when you're stressed to the max and completely frazzled and don't have any happy points left - How do you work together instead of turn on each other?

Shave And A Haircut, 2 Bits

I'm so proud of The Wife. She gave The Boy a haircut this weekend and it looks great. Until now, we had just trimmed above his ears and his duck tail once. But he got a full-on, real-life, haircut. She did a great job. Now he looks like such a little boy instead of a baby. Heck, once she cuts his hair a couple more times, she'll be ready to start cutting my hair too! :-D