Paul Gray

Following on from the last post, here’s some Desktop Art using Homer and his Spider-Pig.

Now my desktop (both real and virtual) are often quite untidy, although not quite this bad.

Photo Credit: http://flickr.com/photos/danpat/262640851/

So the people who are able to get their desktops looking like these are amazing.

Photo Credit: http://macenstein.com/default/archives/1280

Tonight I installed the vPIP plugin so that I could start to include some video in my posts. I’ve just done a post using it, which seemed to work out well, apart from not being able to see how Thickbox works – it’s set in the Options page, and I couldn’t see anything for it in the Write Post page, but it doesn’t seem to appear on the published post. I’ll have to look into that one later.

Also of use was this little bookmarklet – Get YouTube video – which I came across thanks to Geeks are Sexy. This will now allow me to keep a local copy of the video – handy for those occasions when YouTube videos suddenly go missing, and also when I want to use a video at school as often these things are blocked.

After reading about how Google asked for stories about how people are using Gmail, I watched the video below (included) and got inspired!

I immediately set up a Google account and Gmail address for both Thomas and Lachlan.

I, too, will give them the password when they’re older to enjoy reading what our thoughts were about them throughout the years.

If you’d like to take part in this little project, contact me and I’ll give you their email address so you can participate.

Luci was telling me that she was sitting on the lounge with the boys today, when Lachlan let out a little quiet fart. Luci leaned over and told him to say “Pardon Me.”

Lachlan said “Pardon Me” very quietly.

At this point Thomas chimes in, rather loudly, to tell Lachlan, “No Lachlan, you have to say it loud enough so your bum hears!!”

Luci caught the boys playing nicely on the computer together. They do look cute, don’t they? I like their ingenuity also, with the selection of their chair.

PS – They’ve been known to do this before.

Thomas had his first soccer game today.

We think he might have been a bit over-awed by it all – with all the extra players, and not to mention all those spectators and mums and dads watching along the sideline.

He got a bit upset by it all and came over just before half time to “have a rest”. The second half had him having a bit more of a go.

Thanks to Nanny, Poppy, Gran E and Grampa for coming along to watch the first game.

Watch some short snippets of footage from his first game (10Mb):

Luci tells me:

Outside we mixed together one box of (out of date) cornflour with some water and then the boys picked red food colouring to mix in.
After mixing it all together we got some kitchen utensils to play with our slime. Thomas and Lachlan called it “Icky wicky goo”! They had such a good time sharing and mushing! The photos are actually of when we just finished and about to wash off in a bucket of warm water. Lachlan is washing Spiderman clean first!

I think I was glad I wasn’t there to see all the mess.

We signed Thomas up for Soccer this year – he’s playing for South Dubbo Wanderers in the “Fury” team. Today was his first training session, which he seemed to enjoy. Mind you, the shorts seem big, the socks seem big, and boy oh boy, the shirt was big too.

Lachlan sat in his pram and watched, eating his afternoon tea, while Thomas trained, then at the end (last photo) he had a run around with Thomas also. I do like the second photo, where Thomas is checking out his new boots.