Okay, we’re ready for sponsors now. Here’s a video of the last couple of days of Tru skating. First part is at our neighbor’s house, second part is at the skatepark. Last part of the video is the best, I think. He gets solid on his roll-ins and fakies off the transitions. Pretty cool.
Also, the board he’s riding was a gift from a friend of a colleague in Boise and his helmet was a gift from that same colleague in Boise. I think of these two gifts as Tru’s first sponsorship deal. 🙂
Tru’s been working on his skateboarding skills. We’ve been down to the skatepark a lot lately, and he won’t stop talking about it. He’s doing okay, I guess. He can stand on the board and push with one foot. His fakie is just as strong as regular. Today he started putting weight on the tail and learning how to kick turn a little bit. That was without coaching from me–I didn’t think he was ready for it, but he just started trying it out.
He’s also turning into a minor celebrity down at the park. The other day there were a bunch of middle school boys who were just fascinated by Truman. Wanted to know his name, what kind of board he rocked, how old he was, etc. As they left the park that day, they hollered, “See you later, Truman!” Yesterday some of the same kids arrived at the park. One of them spied Tru and hollered to his friend, “Jake, Truman’s here! Truman’s here!” Pretty funny…
I’m pretty sure that by the end of the summer Truman will be better than me.
Pretty funny. I just want one of the hats.
So. That’s it then. We’re grups. Or pretty close to it. Hmpf.
It’s time to upgrade and update this blog. I’m in the process of upgrading the software that makes this thing work, and at the same time I’m picking through a quick redesign.
Have a look at the latest incarnation and lemme know what you think. I know some of the text is hard to read–I’ll fix it. I’ve been working on content and layout so far…
Went the skatepark this morning with Darryl and I took Frodo along. He loved getting to run around and sniff stuff.
At one point, I was in the park just taking a breather and I saw Frodo up by the parking lot so I hollered to him. He came booking down the approach to the skatepark, just taking the straight line path towards me. What I could see, but he couldn’t, was that his path was taking him right over a 5 foot transition (basically a quarter pipe). There was nothing I could do to stop him, so I just watched as he ran up the small embankment to the edge of the transition and launched into the air. He basically jumped off a 5 foot wall at full speed. He was running at full speed, so his momentum took him out at least six feet from the edge. He made a nice four point landing, but collapsed under his own weight and slid another ten feet or so. When he came to a stop he stood up and kinda looked around, then trotted over to me. Apparently no worse for the wear! Wish I’d had a video camera…
The other day I was teasing Truman about something and Amy told him that I was just trying to get his goat. He immediately picked up the phrase and butchered it. Now whenever I tease him, he always says, “You’re just trying to throw me on the goat!”
Looks like Asher is officially walking. We’re grateful he waited this long–he’s 14 months. By comparison, Tru started at 11 months. Right now I’m watching Asher walk around the living room with a mouthful of banana (he’s a freak for the bananas). He was everywhere when he was crawling (lightening fast crawler), but now he’s really everywhere. Now the work begins.
Hopefully this year will mark the low point in our family Christmas history. Truman woke up this morning and was utterly underwhelmed by the magical glow of the Christmas tree lights on all the presents Santa left. He just wanted to lay on our bed and whimper–he felt sick. Asher wasn’t much better, but then again, one-year olds just kinda do their thing anyway.
After we’d coaxed Tru into opening all his presents, he flopped over onto the floor, head on his arm and muttered, “This was the best Christmas ever.” No emotion, no smiles, totally deadpan. Later, after unloading an intestine’s worth of yellow oil slick, he wanted to take a bath. At 9am. At least he played with his new dinosaurs. Post-bath, he put on his clothes, marched into the kitchen and puked all over the floor. I’m grateful it was in the kitchen and not on the carpet.
Once we’d gotten Tru’s puke cleaned up, Asher needed to get changed and dressed and lo and behold! He’s covered in red dots, from neck to feet! Looks like a rash, or maybe some kind of pox. Fortunately he has a regularly sheduled checkup tomorrow morning. Geez. It doesn’t help that his nose is leaking like a faucet. Every time I turn around he’s got big gobs of snot/spit hanging off his head or strung between his nose/hand/mouth. Gah.
Of course, Amy’s stumbling through all this herself because she feels under the weather too. Plus, she cut a big old chunk out of her finger last week, and had to have the wound cauterized because it wouldn’t stop bleeding, since she “nicked an atery.” So she’s operating on only nine fingers since the cut one is all wrapped up in bandages and unusable.
I’m feeling okay though. Knock on wood.
I’m done with Typepad. I had problems with their customer service in the past, which were quite frustrating and now the application has been down for many hours. And Slacker Manager is displaying content that’s two days old. I’ve had people write to me asking for the recent del.icio.us post and I’ve had to point them to Google’s cache or the AllBusiness blog. Not cool.
Once I can access the application again, I’ll be exporting all the entries and files and setting up a new WordPress blog elsewhere. Once it’s up and running and redirects are working, I’ll change the DNS entries and that’ll be that. Or maybe now is the time to just have one blog and let it be the AllBusiness.com one. I’ll have to think about that…
