We are not amused

Over the past few days, The Girl has discovered how to use her hands more effectively. It all started with some general arm flapping last week and now she’s figured out how to move her little fingers independently, meaning she can now grab things pretty well.

She’s become an expert at removing her pacifier and does so frequently and quite enthusiastically. She has yet to figure out how to put it back in. This combination makes for a lot of unhappiness.

She’s also decided to become a difficult eater, something that may or not be tied in with the prodigious amounts of gas she’s producing. I also think her little gums are starting to notice that some teeth are down there somewhere. All in all, it’s kind of been a fussy couple of days.

On the flip side, though, she seems to be getting a little bit of blonde hair around the sides of her head. Her brother is willing to watch Baby Einstein videos with her. She’s become good friends with The Cat. And she’s got a Bumbo, meaning she can now sit around on her own to her little heart’s content. Things could be worse.

That does not compute

Our local Apple retailer seems to have really gone downhill in the past year or so. For someone selling such pricey equipment, their level of customer service is marginally better than what could be provided by a class of preschoolers or a slightly melted cheese sandwich.

Waaaaaaay back on March 20, the main computer I use at work crashed. As you can imagine, trying to do web design without a computer is fairly difficult, so I’ve been using my own personal laptop in the interim. A replacement machine was ordered through our local Apple place.

I just got my replacement machine late last week (five weeks later) and that took constant harassment from myself and couple of other people in my office. Turns out they had lost the original order after we had placed it. Nice.

So today I actually had time to set up my new rig. When I tried to register the AppleCare Protection Plan I purchased to cover it, I couldn’t. Why? Because the nor-so-diligent folks at the local Apple place had given me an AppleCare package for a completely different kind of Mac. Well, they may be bad at what they do, but at least they’re consistent.

Some people actually flip entire houses

This weekend, The Boy took a major step towards becoming a man – we flipped his bed from it’s babyish on-the-floor configuration to it’s super cool manly fort-of-awesomeness configuration.

The Wife was (and still is) concerned that it’s too high and he’ll break his neck trying to climb the four-foot high ladder. The Boy, who does actually kind of have a fear of heights, showed some tentativeness at first but he’s now decided that it’ll work for him. I’m extremely glad, because there’s no way I’m ever switching it back.

Unfortunately, I discovered as I trying to convert it that I had put the whole bed together incorrectly two years ago. When it came time to switch things around, there weren’t holes for the ladder rungs and nothing seemed to line up correctly. So what should have taken about five minutes ended up taking about thirty and there may have been some colorful metaphors involved. Oh well, all’s well that ends well.

Fries at the bottom of the bag

• The Boy’s game got rained out on Monday and we were supposed to provide snacks. Anybody who wants Capri-Sun and crackers is welcome to stop by and help us liquidate stock.
• Watching Larry King do live primary election night coverage is truly painful.
• Everyone must pray for Chone Figgins. He’s single handedly keeping my fantasy baseball team near the top of my league and I can’t afford for him to go on the DL right now.
• With only two home games remaining, it appears that 2008 will be the first year that I haven’t attended an Aggie baseball game since we moved back to College Station.
• I was recently exposed to this video, which is awesome for many reasons. Then the whole German connection reminded me of this song, which was a big hit with our German class back in high school.