storytlr isn't updating via launchd on the Mac mini. That's annoying. Having to figure out what the problem is, making sure it's available, worrying about security issues. All annoying. But probably isn't a service out there that'll take care of those things yet allow unfettered accesss to the box. But if there was, I wonder what the pricing would be on it. Took a long lunch today and met up with Russell at Duke of Perth. I like that place, especially the quiet on a Thursday afternoon. Rode my bike down, and in a show of how out of shape I am, my legs are sore because of it. That's just sad. Picked up Lucy after work, stopped by Treasure Island, of which I am the foursquare mayor. Got to do the bedtime routine with Lucy, except she wasn't really into it at all. But she still falls asleep by 9. So we got that going for us. Skipped dinner because of the late and big lunch.

Pointed lucy.abando.com to the storytlr version. I like it because it's actually timeline based on when things happened, like when Flickr photos were taken, not posted. Also going with Youtube for video posts, mostly because I found out how to make it iOS friendly. Which was necessary. I'd rather have gone with Vimeo, but embed didn't work automatically for iPhones and iPads. Next up is actually posting some videos, which requires some work in iMovie to edit some clips. Gonna be interesting to try it out via Remote Desktop. Would be nice if I had a fast and pretty iMac to do photo and video work on. Oh well. Tried out a new method for sleeping for Lucy, which didn't work out at all. Trying to get away from the SwaddleMe, but it just works. Maybe try over the weekend? Mom made dinner again, country ribs. Watched another episode of Eureka, and now I think anything we watch will be new for me.

Apparently time to go back on a diet/exercise/weight loss program. Tracy's getting serious, so time for me to support her in this endeavor. And it's something I should be doing anyway. So here comes some hunger induced irritability, some whining of soreness from exercise, and a decrease in talk about breakfast pastries and trips to Paciugo Gelato. Ugh. Not looking forward to it. I'm in for overnight Lucy feedings for the second night in a row. So after this means bedtime for me. I've been slacking on the Lucy website too, not quite keeping up with the updates or timely photo uploads, I'll blame the photo uploads on the fact that I can't upload RAW from the iPad after using the Apple Camera Connector Kit. of course, maybe I should start shooting RAW+JPEG, if all I'm looking for is speed of sharing, and I'm not even tinkering with the photos right now. I'd just get annoyed with the dupes on import to iPhoto. Oh well, guess I'll give it a shot. Next up for the new Lucy website is handling video. Gotta find an iOS friendly embed, then pick a service. Probably just go with YouTube.

Back to the Green City Market Saturday morning. Didn't get my preferred parking spot in front of delightful pastries, but did get a spot on the magical stretch of Lincoln that is free, as far as we could tell. Went to delightful for breakfast and pastries, and didn't even realize I had left my man bag there when we went to the market until Tracy wanted to take some photos of Lucy. But they had it behind the counter, so no worries. Saw my first up close and personal viewing of aniPad in public; the lady at the next table over had one in an Apple case reading with breakfast. Went to Target afterwards and saw Megan and Tony there, because that's how we roll now. Leftovers for eating mostly. Walked down to Crisp with Lucy on Sunday afternoon to pick up some Seoul Sassy chicken. Yum. Otherwise hung out on daddy duty. Took a nice nap with Lucy on the recliner in her roon. Got storytlr all set up, you can check it out at prn.eric.abando.com, and will be switching lucy.abando.com to it as soon as I make it pretty enough. Also planning on posting some videos to YouTube via Lucy's account. Getting more footage since she's starting to smile, giggle, and laugh, and going and cooing too. Very very cool. Lucy hung out most of today as well on Tracy's day off, so that was nice while I was working.

Yay. Weekend. Another day working from home. Brought Lucy over to Grandma's. Totally spaced this morning though. I did the nightly feeding, and Tracy worked early this morning, so when I awoke and didn't see Tracy in bed, and Lucy crying a little in the baby monitor, I was a little out of it. Had another ham, egg & cheese English muffin for breakfast. Leftover lumpia and a meatloaf sandwich for lunch. Took off a little early from work to pick up Lucy and hit up Paciugo Gelato. Feels like it's been a while. Good stuff. Wish I could have lots of it, just go through like 2-3 piccolos, just getting up and getting another after finishing one. Tracy made pork and beans, at least her version of it: pork chops, caramelized onions, and green beans. Switched over DNS for abando.com to DynDNS. Means more control. Which is exciting. And probably need to look into cloud hosting again. Maybe EC2 again? But new lucy.abando.com should be going up shortly. Just have to make it look pretty. Hitting up Green City Market tomorrow, gonna try and go early. Maybe hit up Target too. Tracy works Sunday so I'm on Daddy duty. Thinking of making a Crisp run.

At some point since I started my Eureka marathon, Tracy got sucked in. She was slightly annoyed that I had started watching an episode without her. Kind of nice that she likes it now though. Slightly worried about my data usage for Comcast. Right now hallway through the month, we're about halfway through our 250 GB allotment. Which seems crazy, but I did get a bunch of HD episodes of Eureka and Mad Men on sale, and theres the $4.99 iTunes Store movie deals. Enough to make me contemplate AT&T U-verse since they supposedly don't have caps. And the crazy thing? All of it is data that I've purchased legally. So I'll be annoyed if they throttle us or something. Apple is having some sort of press conference tomorrow about the iPhone 4. Most people think it's about the antenna and signal issues, I'm actually hoping they pull a John Galt and withdraw from the market. What would we have if not for Apple and the iPhone? Every phone has a physical keyboard of some kind, and still using java applets. And maybe Android is the market leader, instead of appearing to be a follower. Maybe they'll have a lineup of current cell phones on the market and show how to hold all of them wrong. But just have to wait and see. How about FaceTime standard adoption? FaceTime client for Android? Managed to get storytlr up and running again. Need to figure out dns before rolling it out. Dinner at my mom's tonight. And on daddy duty for nighttime feedings last night and tonight, because of Traxy's work schedule. Now gotta update the iPad to 3.2.1 and the iPhone to 4.0.1.

Didn't drop off Lucy this morning, instead got to pick her up and dinner from my mom's. Otherwise another Wednesday. I think I know why they discontinued the Keen Coronado Sandal, it rubs my left pinky toe knuckle raw. Figure I just need to callus up, and have no problems. Kind of hot out today. Played movies in the background while working. Different than when Tracy listens to the radio. Started with Predator, Real Genius, then moved to Running Man because of Arnold, then over to Demolition Man keeping in the theme of distopian futures. And plowing through more Eureka episodes. Made affogato today. Forgot how good plain vanilla ice cream can be. Oh, also got notice that AT&T U-verse is now available for us. Priced it out and cones out roughly equivalent to what we pay now, but probably slower internet service, maybe only upload though. Total Home DVR sounds pretty cool. But waiting and seeing on it for a bit. A little difficult to schedule a service switch since we both work from home.