DIS Dads DDC XIII - Zerphonics spoken here!

[twokids0204]

Did they ever go through with the plans to make condos above the store?

The store just opened 2 weeks ago.

I don't believe they have started building any condos there (if they are).

 

[twokids0204]

Dateline: July 4, 2005.

Location: Chicago Suburbs

Headline: Middlepat Joins the Disboard Community

Nicely said ... << might be a thumb

 

[twokids0204]

Good morning, all.

Had a great weekend (even though I didn't play MW3 at all this weekend.) Saturday was filled with family fun and my nephew's 2nd birthday party. Lots of good, quality family time.

Sunday afternoon, DW met her parents in Terrell, Texas (an hour and a half drive) to drop the kids off to go have quality time with their grandparents this week. They are out of school this week, but DW and I are working - so her parents offered to have them come to their place for the week to have some fun. So we have the house all to ourselves to finish wrapping presents and stuff for Christmas. My in-laws will bring the kids back Friday and they will stay through Monday or Tuesday. I actually get along very well with my in-laws, so it's a GOOD thing.

While DW was doing that, I went to my mom's place (where we are storing Santa gifts) and I did the "some assembly required" on the Power Wheels Barbie Jammin' Jeep. Wow, that took about 2 hours - and I am normally good at putting stuff together. But it is all done now - thank goodness I didn't wait until Christmas Eve to do it... I would have been up all night.

Last night I took DW to the gas station for our Anniversary dinner. Our 3rd year in a row to eat there. It's not just ANY gas station - it is a 5-star dining establishment that happens to be in a gas station. Here is the website. It was featured on Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives a few years ago (in fact, the crew was in the DFW area last week and had to stop in to eat there while they were in town.) Also, the Bread Pudding has been featured by Paula Deen. So it is a neat (and delicious) place to celebrate our Anniversary - we have started a tradition with it.

Afterwards, we picked up the movie Crazy Stupid Love to watch. Pretty good chick flick - worth a watch. A couple parts had us ROTFL.

We exchanged Anniversary/Christmas gifts. I got her an Android-based tablet (ASUS Transformer with keyboard dock) and she got me some new headphones I have been wanting (Sennheiser HD280 Pro). We both loved our gifts - something that doesn't always seem to happen.

And I didn't even spend any time with my crack, I mean MW3, addiction. (But I have a feeling I migt get some game time in a few nights this week.)

Hmmm... if ever in Texas, I am going to have to check out the gas station.

 

[twokids0204]

Any DISdad's use E-readers?

I just bought my wife a Kobo Touch.

I am thinking of getting one myself, but then realized if she buys a book, I can't put it on my reader.

Anyone figure out how to do this?

 

[oXar]

greetings and salutations Dad's, just wanted to pop in and say happy holidays, I know it's a little early but it will probably be a hectic week. We've got dinner reservations at Akershus for Christmas eve and hoping to catch the candlelight procession before heading home and assembling toys all night. Whatver you guys celebrate, I hope it's great..

 

[RodBelding]

Dateline: July 4, 2005.

Location: Chicago Suburbs

Headline: Middlepat Joins the Disboard Community

Wow, I can't believe that its been 2,359 days since I first joined the Dis. Given that this is my 1,000th post, apparently I don't have a whole lot to say for myself.

What I would like to say is thank you. Thank you to this special group of men who have given me more that I can ever give back. You've provided a place to come for support, a place to share joys, and a place to just be. I've been fortunate to meet a few of you in person and I hope that I have only begun to scratch the surface in meeting more of you as I've enjoyed everyone of the DisDad meets I've had. (Even including the 2 hour wait for pizza at Lou's)

This is a very special group and even in ouf hour of conflict, I have been impressed with the way all members have moved on without grudge.

A few things that I have taken away from this group that will always stay with me are the following:

1) Open and respectful exchange of ideas: I don't recall if this was last year or the year prior (and I'm too lazy to look it up) but the discussion about everyone's views on Santa Claus really opened my eyes to the way people can discuss different beliefs without getting nasty. When the topic was first raised I recall thinking, "Here we go" as we head down the path of such topics of strollers, bus riding and school skipping, but everyone involved in the discussion stayed on topic and was very respectful of varying ideologies.

2) Dad is an honored Title: As many of us here talk about trials and tribulations with raising our kids, I can't help but parallel to real life where rarely I find groups of men willing to get into the daily grind of working through family issues they way this group does. Thank you all for this and the support that you all lend to this honored position in life. It is with great pleasure that I can count myself among those called DisDads.

3) Language: This group has also taught me about the various uses of language and the creative ways that we can use our words. Up until a few years ago, I would have thought peanut butter was a spread put on bread, Beverly was a woman's (and soft drink's) name and Nemesis meant motral enemy. As we all know now, Nemesis = good friend, Peanut Butter & Beverly = razafrazzin gobblety-gook. Oh, and this may or may not be a thumb. (I thought about trying to say something about Zerphonics, but I couldn't do it justice)

So if you're still reading this (I'm guessing not) Thanks to each of you for being part of this great group of Dads and for everyone's contribution to the whole. This group is truly the textbook definition of the whole being greater than the parts.

And without further ado, I will complete my 1,000th post with the following:

If you ever need to improve a food, add either bacon, cheese or chocolate and if you're from Wisconsin and you ever find yourself in a shop with a bacon-cheese-chocolate fudge know that you have found nirvana.

Now pull my finger.

Great post. Congrats on 1,000

 

[BigTex71]

I hope you got battery charging on the power wheels.

Yeah, I plugged it in and asked mom to unplug today at noon.

The gas station dinner sounds like an awesome tradition.

The reason why it is in a gas station (if you didn't get the back-story from the website): the owner and his wife wanted to open a restaurant, but with the extremely high number of restaurants that fail, they were not approved for a small business loan. But he was approved for a small business loan to open a gas station. SO it is a gas station with a restaurant in it. That is using your noggin'! (And it has been very successful.)

 

[BigTex71]

Brian, great post for number 1000!

 

[AJRitz]

Any DISdad's use E-readers?

I just bought my wife a Kobo Touch.

I am thinking of getting one myself, but then realized if she buys a book, I can't put it on my reader.

Anyone figure out how to do this?

Not sure how to deal with this on a Kobo Touch. That's one of the benefits of using a Kindle or an iPad. On a Kindle, a purchased book will appear on each device that is tied to the same Amazon.com account. With an iPad, books show up on each device that shares the same AppleID (so my books sync instantly between my iPad and iPhone. I primarily read from the iPad, but it's nice to be able to pick up where I left off on my iPhone if I need to kill some time standing in line or something).

 

[Cinderella's Fella]

Any DISdad's use E-readers?

I just bought my wife a Kobo Touch.

I am thinking of getting one myself, but then realized if she buys a book, I can't put it on my reader.

Anyone figure out how to do this?

Not sure how to deal with this on a Kobo Touch. That's one of the benefits of using a Kindle or an iPad. On a Kindle, a purchased book will appear on each device that is tied to the same Amazon.com account. With an iPad, books show up on each device that shares the same AppleID (so my books sync instantly between my iPad and iPhone. I primarily read from the iPad, but it's nice to be able to pick up where I left off on my iPhone if I need to kill some time standing in line or something).

I use a Nook and like the Kindle anything it's tied to get all the books in the account. I use it with my Droid and PC.

 

[afwdwfan]

A mechanical machine has no business depending on a computer to tell it how to work. All they do is take a perfectly good, working machine and make it junk.

Crud. Beverly. Peanut Butter.

That is all...

 

[Captain_Oblivious]

Not sure how to deal with this on a Kobo Touch. That's one of the benefits of using a Kindle or an iPad. On a Kindle, a purchased book will appear on each device that is tied to the same Amazon.com account. With an iPad, books show up on each device that shares the same AppleID (so my books sync instantly between my iPad and iPhone. I primarily read from the iPad, but it's nice to be able to pick up where I left off on my iPhone if I need to kill some time standing in line or something).

I have a Kindle, and was actually able to get a book from my wife's account fairly easily. You de-register your device, register it under your wife's account name, download the book, and then de-register and re-register under your own account. The book you downloaded stays on the device.

 

[AirGoofy]

Finished lunch task - FRY BACON Smells good.

Dateline: July 4, 2005.

Location: Chicago Suburbs

Headline: Middlepat Joins the Disboard Community

Wow, I can't believe that its been 2,359 days since I first joined the Dis. Given that this is my 1,000th post, apparently I don't have a whole lot to say for myself.

What I would like to say is thank you. Thank you to this special group of men who have given me more that I can ever give back. You've provided a place to come for support, a place to share joys, and a place to just be. I've been fortunate to meet a few of you in person and I hope that I have only begun to scratch the surface in meeting more of you as I've enjoyed everyone of the DisDad meets I've had. (Even including the 2 hour wait for pizza at Lou's)

This is a very special group and even in ouf hour of conflict, I have been impressed with the way all members have moved on without grudge.

A few things that I have taken away from this group that will always stay with me are the following:

1) Open and respectful exchange of ideas: I don't recall if this was last year or the year prior (and I'm too lazy to look it up) but the discussion about everyone's views on Santa Claus really opened my eyes to the way people can discuss different beliefs without getting nasty. When the topic was first raised I recall thinking, "Here we go" as we head down the path of such topics of strollers, bus riding and school skipping, but everyone involved in the discussion stayed on topic and was very respectful of varying ideologies.

2) Dad is an honored Title: As many of us here talk about trials and tribulations with raising our kids, I can't help but parallel to real life where rarely I find groups of men willing to get into the daily grind of working through family issues they way this group does. Thank you all for this and the support that you all lend to this honored position in life. It is with great pleasure that I can count myself among those called DisDads.

3) Language: This group has also taught me about the various uses of language and the creative ways that we can use our words. Up until a few years ago, I would have thought peanut butter was a spread put on bread, Beverly was a woman's (and soft drink's) name and Nemesis meant motral enemy. As we all know now, Nemesis = good friend, Peanut Butter & Beverly = razafrazzin gobblety-gook. Oh, and this may or may not be a thumb. (I thought about trying to say something about Zerphonics, but I couldn't do it justice)

So if you're still reading this (I'm guessing not) Thanks to each of you for being part of this great group of Dads and for everyone's contribution to the whole. This group is truly the textbook definition of the whole being greater than the parts.

And without further ado, I will complete my 1,000th post with the following:

If you ever need to improve a food, add either bacon, cheese or chocolate and if you're from Wisconsin and you ever find yourself in a shop with a bacon-cheese-chocolate fudge know that you have found nirvana.

Now pull my finger.

Well said, and doesn't smell so good now. Somebody light a match.

Good morning, all.

Had a great weekend (even though I didn't play MW3 at all this weekend.) Saturday was filled with family fun and my nephew's 2nd birthday party. Lots of good, quality family time.

Sunday afternoon, DW met her parents in Terrell, Texas (an hour and a half drive) to drop the kids off to go have quality time with their grandparents this week. They are out of school this week, but DW and I are working - so her parents offered to have them come to their place for the week to have some fun. So we have the house all to ourselves to finish wrapping presents and stuff for Christmas. My in-laws will bring the kids back Friday and they will stay through Monday or Tuesday. I actually get along very well with my in-laws, so it's a GOOD thing.

While DW was doing that, I went to my mom's place (where we are storing Santa gifts) and I did the "some assembly required" on the Power Wheels Barbie Jammin' Jeep. Wow, that took about 2 hours - and I am normally good at putting stuff together. But it is all done now - thank goodness I didn't wait until Christmas Eve to do it... I would have been up all night.

Last night I took DW to the gas station for our Anniversary dinner. Our 3rd year in a row to eat there. It's not just ANY gas station - it is a 5-star dining establishment that happens to be in a gas station. Here is the website. It was featured on Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives a few years ago (in fact, the crew was in the DFW area last week and had to stop in to eat there while they were in town.) Also, the Bread Pudding has been featured by Paula Deen. So it is a neat (and delicious) place to celebrate our Anniversary - we have started a tradition with it.

Afterwards, we picked up the movie Crazy Stupid Love to watch. Pretty good chick flick - worth a watch. A couple parts had us ROTFL.

We exchanged Anniversary/Christmas gifts. I got her an Android-based tablet (ASUS Transformer with keyboard dock) and she got me some new headphones I have been wanting (Sennheiser HD280 Pro). We both loved our gifts - something that doesn't always seem to happen.

And I didn't even spend any time with my crack, I mean MW3, addiction. (But I have a feeling I migt get some game time in a few nights this week.)

This year's Christmas presents are assembled and hidden in the trunk of the car in the garage. (The one we don't drive). I will share DW's Christmas present after the weekend. She still reads here and doesn't know what it is.

Thanks. Maybe I should quite multi-quoting and increase my post count that way.
:

Get you a phone. I can multi-quote on the computer but the phone screen is too small.

 

[RodBelding]

A mechanical machine has no business depending on a computer to tell it how to work. All they do is take a perfectly good, working machine and make it junk.

Crud. Beverly. Peanut Butter.

That is all...

This doesn't sound good... Hope it worked out ok...

 

[theduck619]

To all of the dads in the great plains, I hope you make it through the blizzard they are predicting

 

[AirGoofy]

Prayer ownage.

To all of the dads in the great plains, I hope you make it through the blizzard they are predicting

Friends of friends driving from San Diego and have been FBing about keeping ahead of the storm. Prayers for all driving and living in those areas.

 

[afwdwfan]

This doesn't sound good... Hope it worked out ok...

Just something wrong with the words "computer" "software update" and "recalibration" being used to explain a problem with a diesel engine. What happened to the idea of turning a screw on the fuel pump and getting back to work? Now you get to shut equipment down for a day and a half waiting to pay a shop fee and mileage so some "mechanic" can plug a computer into it and hope it still works when he leaves.

I hate technology about as much as I love it.

 

[twokids0204]

Smoke detector's beeping...

Kinda like batteries dead indicator, but it's hard wired.

Any experience?

(where is Zerf when you need him...?)

 

[scott2997]

Smoke detector's beeping...

Kinda like batteries dead indicator, but it's hard wired.

Any experience?

(where is Zerf when you need him...?)

You try resetting the breaker?

 

[twokids0204]

You try resetting the breaker?

Nope - figured it out.

It wasn't the smoke detector afterall.

It was the carbon monoxide detector right beside it.

It got unplugged....