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I’ve been an official Nerd for a year now.
This past Tuesday marked my one year anniversary at The Nerdery. It’s hard to believe it’s been a year, and it’s also hard to believe how much I’ve learned.
When I started I was a little nervous. It was my first time starting a new job in 6 years. I was excited though as it brought me back to web development. Did I know SVN? Nope. jQuery? Nope. But I knew how to code HTML and CSS along with some PHP & JavaScript.
Here comes the holidays, ready or not.
I’m not exactly sure where all my time goes. Last I knew it was Halloween and now Christmas is just days away. I have so many movies to watch and things I want to do, but I’m about out of time.
Thankfully I have all my Christmas shopping done. I did most of it online again this year, but I tried to buy stuff in stores. It just seems like so much work. Plus I went to Wal-Mart this year. It just amazes me how such a big and popular retailer can have the worst stores. Even the new ones are dirty and I feel like I’m going to catch something just walking down the aisles. The downside to online however is that my packages haven’t all arrived yet. Soon though.
Welcome Home Troops
In October, the president said that troops in the Iraq war, nearly 40,000, would be coming home; and they’d be home for the holidays. Keeping right on his word, the troops are coming home.
The greatest thing a family can hear from their soldier is “I’m coming home” and lots of families are getting that gift this year.
Welcome back and thank you for all you’ve done.
Daycare: In-home, at home and now a center.
Daycare Day
Lily started her new daycare today and she was very excited. It was a bit like sending your kids off to school as she had her little backpack, supplies and some new clothes. She was going someplace new with lots of other kids, toys and the unknown. Ok, so maybe it was more Mom and Dad that was nervous about the unknown, Lily was just excited.
Cupcakes, Cows, Presents & Water
Our little girl is now two years old! What better way to celebrate than with two parties and doing all the fun things she loves to do.
It started out with Uncle Josh visiting on her birthday. That’s pretty special as he was in from California. Josh gave her some plastic food so she could feed her dolls and pretend she was cooking like Mom.
Uncle Josh
Then she had the weekend with just Mom and Dad. She got plastic plates, bowls and cups to go with her plastic food and she loves to play with them. She also got some Elmo things and other fun toys. Plus we had ice cream cookie sandwiches!
Lily has completed her first swim lessons.
Swim Lessons Certificate
Today was Lily’s last day of swim lessons.
The 1 month program was just to get her comfortable with the water. She learned some things and got exposed to quite a bit.
She even got dunked under the water a few times. One of these days she’ll learn to close her eyes and mouth first, but that hasn’t happened yet.
The next stage of swim lessons isn’t until she’s like 5 so we might re-do this class in a year or two just so she continues to learn.
TwisterMc – New for 2011
As I posted a few days ago, a lot has changed around here. Here’s a quick rundown.
First off, the design. You’ve probably already noticed it. That is unless you only read this via an RSS reader. The new design is focused more on CSS and less on images. The images that I do have are mainly CSS sprites. The fonts are bigger, there is more white space and the focus is on the content.
Hello? Is this thing on?
If you can read this, then you’re now connected to the new TwisterMc.com. Lots of things have changed in the past week and I’m excited for them all.
From here on in, it’s all about simplification.
More details to follow, but feel free to take a look around and let me know what you think.
Cleaning up the database.
I never fully realized how bad WordPress’ database gets after a while. Plugins leave all sorts of junk behind and it’s just a huge mess. So I started deleting information. Hopefully I didn’t break anything.
This all started because my site got suspended yesterday for using to many server resources. I thought that was odd as I didn’t have a spike in traffic or any new posts. So I started looking for other possibilities.
When looking though the site I found that my subscribe to comments plugin (the original) was capturing thousands of spam emails. I had over 6000 and I think spammers were just attacking it.
Don’t trust iPhoto with your Flickr photos.
I found out yesterday that iPhoto, when integrated with Flickr, alters your sets based on iPhotos limitations and doesn’t let the user know.
I’ve been using Flickr for years and have been very happy with it. Once Lily was born the number of photos I uploaded increased dramatically. I’ve now got nearly 900 Lily photos, all in one album.
A while back I got iPhoto ’11 (v9) and was very excited for the Flickr integration. I hooked it up and realized that iPhoto allows a max of 500 photos for a Flickr set. This meant I couldn’t use iPhoto to continue adding photos to my Lily set. I was disappointed, but I left the integration anyways as the backup was nice.
