Sunday morning we were rushing around trying to get to Church on time (as usual).  I put Nate into the car and noticed all the stuff from our glove box emptied out on the front seats.  When I went back in the house to get Cam, I asked Mic why she left everything in the open for people to see.  When she said she hadn't, we both had the same thought go through our minds.  Was anything missing?  Was the GPS still in the console?

When I headed out with Cam to buckle him in, I took a look, and sure enough - no GPS.  Crap.  Oh well - that sucks.

As it turned out, we had left the doors unlocked.  We got home early Saturday afternoon, and thinking we would be heading back out, we didn't lock the doors.  We ended up staying in, and so, never gave it another thought.

We headed into Church counting our blessings that at least nothing was damaged.  I decided to file a police report just to make fencing it that much harder.  I doubted I would ever hear anything about it, let alone see it again.  When I headed into the station to make a report, I was told that the officer I should speak to would be back on duty at 7pm Sunday evening and I should call him to file the report.

Sunday afternoon, after a bit of running around, we came home and ran into our neighbors.  Rick told me what happened - he saw the guy in our car and called the cops.  Rick then followed the guy until the officers showed up.  Awesome.

At 7, I headed into the station to make the report after the officer called to say he had our property and to come in to claim it.  The GPS wasn't out of the car for 24 hours!  Amazing.

So, thank you Rick, and thank you DRPD.

Just to record this day, we are running from a new server out there.

I broke down and bought some space in the cloud, let's see how this fairs from shared hosting and VPS.

So far, I am pretty impressed.  The cost vs performance and control is just great!

Root!  Woot!

I'm stubborn.

Very stubborn.

Trouble is, so are my kids.  That is where we clash a lot.  If I tell them "No, don't touch that." - just once, then I have to keep telling them that.

Nate has discovered this weekend that I actually mean it when I tell him to stay off the living room end table.  I keep telling him (and so does Mic) over and over all weekend until I have to get up, pull him down and place him in the chair for a time-out.  3 minutes of sitting there without getting down.  After the 15 or so minutes of starting over because he constantly gets down, he is finally let down.  What does he do?  GOES RIGHT BACK ON THE TABLE!!

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Up at David's there is still a lot of snow.  More snow than I have seen here all winter.

We took the boys up there to romp around on Feb. 27th.  They had a blast!

I love posting these.  My Dad comes up with great solutions to minor problems all the time. The shame is that not a lot of people get to see how creative and ingenius he is.  This is just another example of that.

He just bought himself a new laptop and doesn't like the touchpad, so he got a small mouse with it.  Now, however, it no longer works well as an actual "LAP"+"TOP".  So, he made a portable desk for it.

The side mousepad folds up.  It even has a slot carved out for the mouse!

Since it is one of the new small netbooks, the whole thing folds up and fits into a normal laptop case with the PC tucked safely inside.

My Dad sent me a photo of his latest invention.   It seems to be some form of thermal recovery device.

May you wonder no longer where I get my creative geekyness.

Thanks Dad!