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Happy Anniversary
July 06, 2007 Filed in: Personal
Happy Anniversary to us! It's number six!
Crystal and I both comment that it feels like we have been together forever, but in a good way. We have been in each other's lives since high school and started dating when we were sixteen and seventeen. Personally, I'm glad to be spending my life with her!
Crystal and I both comment that it feels like we have been together forever, but in a good way. We have been in each other's lives since high school and started dating when we were sixteen and seventeen. Personally, I'm glad to be spending my life with her!
It All Began with a Placemat
April 06, 2007 Filed in: Personal
So my wife saw this placemat at Kohl's the other day.
We had to go to a couple of different locations, but we tracked down enough cloths and napkins for our needs (which aren't much), but it didn't stop there. Oh no. This placemat was the harbinger of much larger things. Indeed, before long, the placemat spread beyond its textile confines and onto our barren walls.
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There you see my wonderful wife in full inspiration mode. This wasn't any ordinary placemat we acquired. Indeed, it contained the Color Scheme to Rule All Color Schemes. At long last, the wife had the focus for her creativity, and the great Painting Project of 2007 was born.
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Feet got messy, and the corgi was even intrigued by the process. Actually, he was surprisingly good through our project! No paint ended up on corgi paws, a corgi nose, or even in a corgi mouth. He stayed cleaner than either of us! Here's how things finally turned out!
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We aren't quite finished, but the house looks much more welcoming without endless seas of eggshell white to greet us or guests. I managed to paint parts of our ceiling, so that'll have to be fixed, and the entryway still needs a lot of work. It won't take long, though. As I've learned with other rooms, once the wife gets her painting bug, she has a hard time letting go until everything is squared away!
We had to go to a couple of different locations, but we tracked down enough cloths and napkins for our needs (which aren't much), but it didn't stop there. Oh no. This placemat was the harbinger of much larger things. Indeed, before long, the placemat spread beyond its textile confines and onto our barren walls.
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There you see my wonderful wife in full inspiration mode. This wasn't any ordinary placemat we acquired. Indeed, it contained the Color Scheme to Rule All Color Schemes. At long last, the wife had the focus for her creativity, and the great Painting Project of 2007 was born.
x
Feet got messy, and the corgi was even intrigued by the process. Actually, he was surprisingly good through our project! No paint ended up on corgi paws, a corgi nose, or even in a corgi mouth. He stayed cleaner than either of us! Here's how things finally turned out!
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We aren't quite finished, but the house looks much more welcoming without endless seas of eggshell white to greet us or guests. I managed to paint parts of our ceiling, so that'll have to be fixed, and the entryway still needs a lot of work. It won't take long, though. As I've learned with other rooms, once the wife gets her painting bug, she has a hard time letting go until everything is squared away!
Laptops Together
April 06, 2007 Filed in: Personal
Way back in January, we picked up a shiny MacBook Pro
to replace my aging PowerBook G3. I finally managed
to get ahold of my wife's digital camera to take some
quick pictures comparing the two laptops. The quality
of these pictures is evidence as to why the wife
doesn't let me touch cameras often...
First up, here we have the two laying right next to each other with lids closed. Even in its old age, the PowerBook has some nice curves going for it. By the way, if you look closely, you'll see that the MacBook Pro is facing the opposite direction! I made this mistake because...
... the PowerBook's logo is upside down when opened! Incidentally, my model of PowerBook was the last laptop Apple built with the "flipped" logo. Also, you can see that the PowerBook has a much taller screen, and the MacBook Pro's hinge is flush with the bottom of the computer.
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Stacked atop the MacBook Pro, the PowerBook exceeds the depth of the former but is not quite as wide. In the close-up of the hinges it's easy to see how much thinner the MacBook Pro is – only about as thick as the bottom portion of the PowerBook. (And the PowerBook is slimmer than many other laptops around!)
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The MacBook Pro's screen is much brighter and crisper, and the illuminated keyboard is great for working in low-light environments. Unfortunately, this picture doesn't quite show off the keyboard as much as I would have liked. Additionally, if these pictures were larger, you would be able to see damage on the PowerBook down by its smaller track-pad. (It took seven years for the case to finally begin to crack!)
That wraps up this picture post. The amazing thing about the PowerBook G3 is that I'm still using it to manage audio files for my music classes, programs, and choir. I wonder if my new MacBook Pro will still be useful that far down the line!
First up, here we have the two laying right next to each other with lids closed. Even in its old age, the PowerBook has some nice curves going for it. By the way, if you look closely, you'll see that the MacBook Pro is facing the opposite direction! I made this mistake because...
... the PowerBook's logo is upside down when opened! Incidentally, my model of PowerBook was the last laptop Apple built with the "flipped" logo. Also, you can see that the PowerBook has a much taller screen, and the MacBook Pro's hinge is flush with the bottom of the computer.
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Stacked atop the MacBook Pro, the PowerBook exceeds the depth of the former but is not quite as wide. In the close-up of the hinges it's easy to see how much thinner the MacBook Pro is – only about as thick as the bottom portion of the PowerBook. (And the PowerBook is slimmer than many other laptops around!)
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The MacBook Pro's screen is much brighter and crisper, and the illuminated keyboard is great for working in low-light environments. Unfortunately, this picture doesn't quite show off the keyboard as much as I would have liked. Additionally, if these pictures were larger, you would be able to see damage on the PowerBook down by its smaller track-pad. (It took seven years for the case to finally begin to crack!)
That wraps up this picture post. The amazing thing about the PowerBook G3 is that I'm still using it to manage audio files for my music classes, programs, and choir. I wonder if my new MacBook Pro will still be useful that far down the line!