Joe, Sarabeth, and Jillian

I’m sure SB will have more pictures to post, but for now here are a few videos.

They really meant it. Jillian is starting early it looks like.

When it’s snowy and nasty out, I like to think of better weather times. Like the time Aaron and I went down to VA and showed up at Josh’s house for camping and paintball!! This was not that long ago, September 18th. We had been planning this for quite a while with Josh’s wife and he was totally surprised when we ran into his house with our Shindig jerseys on.

Here’s the pics and such that never got posted before. Enjoy! I hope more people can make it out next time, see all the fun you missed? That means you JJ, Ziggaman and Jimbo!

Outdoor World is Bomb                         Josh thinking about getting a pocket knife

Fist pumping like champions!                 Wendys after paintball

Chilli dogs and scary Josh                      Aaron chilaxing by the fire

These two pics are kind of funny. You have no idea how dark it is in the forest at night until you set off your camera with the flash on right in someone’s face. What ensued after both these photos: “Gahhhhh what are you doing?!?!”

Yes that is an air mattress. I took one. I slept on one. Best night of sleep I ever got.

Awesome time, awesome friends.

He just might be. I may have come out of the posting drought that has been in effect ever since the great blogging of the birth of Jillian.

What is on the chopping block today?

First of all, Tiger Woods? Is he a sleaze-bag? Yes. Plenty of men in their lifetimes have been sleaze-bags, and that’s all I want to say about that. I despise celebrity gossip like you wouldn’t believe, so everybody just drop it already.

Secondly, it’s getting to be Christmastime around here, and there’s no snow! It’s not like I’m complaining, I enjoy getting to work in under 3 hours. I’m just saying enjoy it while it lasts, or I might just have to move on down to Florida or something.

Modern Warfare 2 has been a blast! I certainly don’t enjoy the server-less aspect of the game, (lag off the bat, the need for host migration) but the fact that I have been actually playing with my clan mates instead of against them has been awesome. It’s really easy to find really good matchups online. The perks and everything are pretty awesome. Recently I’ve been favoring the P90 red dot with sprint, lightweight and improved melee combat. It’s a good kit for me. I haven’t had a lot of time to play, but when I do I really enjoy it.

I’m looking forward to Jillian’s first Christmas, I’m not sure if she’s going to even know what it is, but we’re thinking it’ll at least be one heck of a photo-op. SOO, this has been a popular topic of discussion: Santa. Do you feed your kids the lies of the bearded saint that comes down your chimney? In some neighborhoods you might get shot coming down a chimney, especially on Christmas. I’m pretty sure I’m just going to flat out tell Jillian there isn’t a Santa. Hate me all you want, I just don’t see the point in lying about something a trivial as a fictitious non-reason for the season.

I think that’s quite enough spouting for one evening to be considered “back”.

Yes, yes it has. I haven’t actually brought a legitimate update since, vacation? Yikes. I figured since I’m waiting for my virtual SCCM lab to be built that I’d do something that doesn’t require much processor and update you all on what’s going on in my life.

It’s been an interesting few months, lots of visits, lots of new technology, lots of life changes.

Grandpa Joe passed away not too long ago and we all miss him a lot. He was my namesake, and I always felt somewhat of a special bond with him because of that. It was wonderful to see all the extended family, I wish under different circumstances, but it was still great to see Jimmy. It had been 2 years since I’d seen him, and he finally got to see Jillian. He even “saved” her once, because she was crying upstairs and the baby monitor ran out of battery, so he brought her down to the basement to me and Sarabeth, holding Jillian under her shoulders and proudly exclaimed “I saved her!!!” which I thought was both funny and cool at the same time.

I got the Droid. Yes, yes folks I did. Let me give you a rundown of my favorite apps:

• Shop Savvy – Scans barcodes, Live internet pricing comparison
• Key Ring – Scans in your keyring cards like giant eagle, so you can your phone instead of the cards
• PhoneFlicks – Manage my Netflix queue
• Pandora Radio – streaming internet radio
• SNesoid – SNES emulator
• Google Maps – featuring spoken turn by turn directions with phenomenal voice command integration
• RemoteDroid – Allows you to use the droid as a touchpad/keyboard for any computer on the same wifi network.
• Twidroid – Twitter updates

Yep, quite a selection. That’s just some of my favorites, and I’m discovering new ones every day. I haven’t bought one yet, but am looking to buy one soon.

Jillian Jillian Jillian. That little girly has absolutely stolen my heart. I love it when she starts falling asleep on me like she did today, just relaxing nodding off, then comfortably stretched out on my shoulder.

I have to cut it short because it’s getting late and I have ADD, so it took me like an hour to get this far. Hopefully next week I’ll have some more big news to report.