Well, I build a desk last fall & it’s been sitting in our shed awaiting paint since then. I finally got around to painting it a couple weeks ago & I put the last layer of clear-coat on it this last weekend.

Last night, I wrangled it in the house & cleaned out enough space to get it in the office (which if you’ve been to our house, you know the cleaning out part was the hardest part of it all since out office is our unofficial junk room at the moment.)

When I re-hooked up the computer & all it’s peripherals, I also hooked up one of my old (and admittedly cheap & crappy) webcams. I decided it would be fun to put up a “current” shot ever now & then, so it’s over in the side-bar (if you’re Feeding my blog, you’d have to swing by to see). It’s nothing new, big, exciting, or even interesting, but it’s something I’ll update (hopefully) regularly.

Oh, I forgot to mention… Our poor point-&-shoot camera died… The last time I took some pics, it was fine. Nothing out of the ordinary happened. but when I picked it up next, it opened the lense (like usual, but then it made a noise you should never hear from a camera. Kind of like a mix between an old man’s grumble and an old alarm clock buzzer. (Go ahead, try to simulate those noises, then picture that coming out of your little camera).

This camera has served us well. It’s a Canon Powershot SD550 & we’ve been using it for pics for 2 years, and really started doing a lot of videos on it (VGA resolution) over the last year. Most of the pictures on this site since 2007 were taken on this camera & I’m starting to feel a little withdrawl. It’s not so easy to quickly snap a picture or catch a quick clip of the boys in action now.

I’ll try to see if we can get it fixed, but with the cost of cameras these days, I’m not very hopeful that it can be fixed for less than the cost of a new one. (Oh darn, I might have to buy a new camera…) Money’s a little tight these days, so I’m not really sure what I’m going to do. We’ll see.

I know I’m always complaining about my job… For those of you who’ve heard my moaning & groaning, I appologize. I actually have a job. I have no good reason to complain.

In any case, our company actually won a fairly sizeable bid to build over 4000 structures for Oncor to deliver power from the wind farms out in West Texas back into the power grid. This may not seem like big news, but it’s cool to be a part of a company that’s not fighting to keep our heads above water these days. Anyhow, Oncor held a press conference yesterday with our company President (my boss) and it’s kind of cool to see our company name on TV & I even heard a quick blurb about it this morning on my alarm radio (on KLTY).

Here’s a cut-down version of the press conference.

Welp, Bradey took his first step last night. He’s been standing up (from the middle of the floor, unassisted) for a few weeks now, but he hadn’t tried taking any steps yet.

We were hanging at the McSorley’s & he stood up & moved his little foot to take a step. Of course, he proceeded to fall flat on his tummy, but he took that step before taking the nose dive.  He did it again today @ home, so I’m sure he’s going to be flying arond here on his 2 feet in no time.

Bradey also learned another new skill. He’s been giving me raspberries on the cheek. It’s SO much fun! (well, when his face isn’t covered in snot to begin with).

Anyhow, we’re off to Target. I just had to share the fun news. (I’ll try to catch some video of  either of these activities to share with the world, but don’t hold your breath quite yet.)

This was just a night we were hanging out with the Choates (Melisa’s Sister & family) and we decided to eat out at a local BBQ place. Luckily they weren’t very busy & the people that were there were easily entertained!

I’ve got a couple of videos I’m trying to clip & get up on Youtube, so you’ll see a few pop up soon!

Some from Dec 2008 – Mar 2009, and a couple from Bradey’s birthday party. Sorry I’m not getting them up sooner, it’s just that I’m tired & I gotta get to work in the morning (praying the boys don’t wake up in the middle of the night after I finally get to bed)

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