Archive for month: March, 2006

My Report Card Is On Your Desk

Friday, March 31st, 2006 @ 6:45 am | Kids/Family | By: Midwestern City Boy

The girl got her report card for the third quarter Wednesday. She did well in all of her classes except one. It always seems like there is at least one class that she doesn’t do as well as she should in. And it’s never the same class two grading periods in a row. Its like [...]

HNT – 32

Thursday, March 30th, 2006 @ 12:00 am | HNT, Photos | By: Midwestern City Boy

Our theme for this week is basketball in honor of the Men’s and Women’s 2006 NCAA Basketball Final Four Tournament this weekend. Neither California Girl or I ever played organized basketball but we still have many basketballs lying around. Both of the basketballs in these photographs are Final Four promotional items that I won by [...]

Two For Tuesday – 24 Revisited

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006 @ 10:25 pm | Audio, Photos, TFT, Video | By: Midwestern City Boy

I finally figured out how to lighten videos. Now the only trick is determining how much. We are still experimenting; trying to find the proper settings. We may need to make some more movies. I mentioned when we first got our new camera that we had a movie of California Girl going down on me [...]

Why Do We Blog

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006 @ 10:00 pm | General | By: Midwestern City Boy

I first started blogging because, with the exception of A Perfect Marriage, most of the blogs I read by men that discussed their primary relationship did not say very good things about the woman in their lives. Since I really love California Girl, I thought that it would be good to post about a happily [...]

Two For Tuesday – 27

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006 @ 2:40 am | Audio, Photos, TFT, Video | By: Midwestern City Boy

Well, it took forever, but I was finally able to extract two short excerpts of a movie that California Girl and I made with our digital camera earlier today. The original video is about 25 minutes long and resulted in a LARGE QuickTime .MOV file. I don’t have all of the editing tools I need [...]

Life Is Good

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006 @ 11:15 pm | Love | By: Midwestern City Boy

California Girl land I have been working very hard recently but otherwise, life is good. We’ve even delved into some topics than we don’t usually discuss. We have a peace and tranquility that we don’t usually have. Some if it is because the kids don’t have as many activities as they do in the fall [...]

Our Photographic Equipment

Monday, March 27th, 2006 @ 11:35 pm | General | By: Midwestern City Boy

Several people had questions about our newdigital camera. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, we thought that we would post a picture of the camera itself in action. We usually mount it on a small tabletop tripod we have. This allows us to easily tilt the camera to the best picture taking position. [...]

Can Anyone Read Chinese?

Monday, March 27th, 2006 @ 11:30 pm | General | By: Midwestern City Boy

I updated our referral tracker so that it properly captures the titles of sites which do not use English characters. Now it shows real Chinese characters rather than just squares and squiggly lines. I can’t read Chinese and have no idea what the referring pages are except that they are some kind of search engine. [...]

Let’s Hear It For The Boy

Monday, March 27th, 2006 @ 11:05 pm | Kids/Family | By: Midwestern City Boy

I’ve posted about how good The Girl is in soccer. I also want to mention that The Boy was second team all league in wrestling. I am very proud of him; especially considering how tough of a sport wrestling is. He earned a letter for wrestling to go with his letter for cross country. I [...]

Too Cold for Soccer

Sunday, March 26th, 2006 @ 9:16 pm | Kids/Family | By: Midwestern City Boy

A cold wind was blowing but The Girl played her first outdoor soccer game of the season today; and it was not the best game that she has played. She made a “bad touch” when she was the last defender which led to a goal. And then she misplayed a two on one break which [...]