Monday, January 31, 2011

First bloody pinched finger.

Ouchy!!! Sam's first really bad pinched finger. I heard the hall closet bi-fold door and then Sam start screaming... I came out into the hall and Sam was standing at the closet door with the tip of his pinky pinched in the fold and he was thankfully just standing there and not trying to pull it out. He didn't get the bone, but he ended up breaking the skin though; about a quarter inch tear on the pad of his punky.

We put a bandaid on it and he sat on my lap for about 5 minutes counting to 10, somewhat successfully, while we iced it to help take down the slight swelling around it.

He is playing fine now, so it must not be bugging him too much; at least now that he is leaving the bandaid alone.
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Friday, January 28, 2011

More track

I have been wanting to get Sam more wooden train track ever since we got his first set for his birthday. Sam has gotten a couple other big add on pieces for his birthday and at Christmas but we always seem to run out of track to get it all connected. I didn't realize just how expensive the track was...like $50 for about 20-30 Thomas brand track pieces, if it was on a good sale, and the other major brands are not much better. But I was looking on Amazon for something else and came across some generic track that was like $40 for 100 pieces; 25 each of 6" straight, 4" straight, 6" corner, and 4"corner track. I was a little sceptical of the quality based on the online reviews and it is probably produced by some guy in his garage but I am impressed with the quality, even though the pieces seem to be a little looser than the other track we have. Some of the reviews were saying something about some plastic pegs that fell off within days but it must have been from previous version of this set cuz a you can see from the picture, they are all wood with slots and pegs cut from the wood. Looking forward to building some big tracks, although I have a feeling that I may think w e will need more other pieces now and definitely more trains.
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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Cool Android app

My current Heart Rate is 85bpm. Measured using Instant Heart Rate app for Android My Current Heart Rate

It measures the color of the skin on your index finger with the phone's camera and flash, as it changes as your heart beats blood through it.
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Friday, January 14, 2011

Sam's Tub delima

Sam had a very interesting bath last night. We got him in there right after dinner, figuring that he would get his bath, in pajamas and then we could play and hand out until he went to bed. Well, that was a nice plan, but not what happened.

Sam got himself mostly undressed by himself; upon protest from any help at all from us. He finally got undressed and I put him in the tub. Aimee was about to wash him when he said, "Poop. Sam Poop." So I asked if he wanted to sit on the toilet to go and he said yes. We waited for him to say he was finished and were actually surprised to see that he had actually peed. So he went back in the tub and I started to get his toys out of the tub caddy when he totally looses it; complete freekout.

I thought he had hurt himself with how much he was wailing. He was also saying something that was kinda hard to understand with his present state, but I finally figured out that he was saying "sock fuzz". I had a hard time not falling down laughing at his distraught reaction to seeing his sock fuzz floating in the tub water... he was clamoring around trying to catch the floating pieces.

We had to "catch" a floating piece of sock fuzz to allow him to calm down enough to get washed and out of the tub and then it took another half hour of putting on his pajamas and a new pair of socks for him to mostly forget about it. I guess he got a lot of energy out of him though, cuz he went to bed after everything was over with very little effort.

Here is the video of the event:

Thursday, January 06, 2011

PV system start finally

Finally the electric company got out to install the bidirectional meter and I turned on the system; generating about 1.4kw at 343V presently.
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