The Johnson Blog

Now that David is quite proficient in crawling all over the place we decided it was time to put up one of the baby shower gifts - the Supergate V.
What makes the Supergate V so unique is its extra wide spanning capabilities, up to 5 feet.   Too bad we have a 6′ doorway!  Upon discovering [...]

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Johann wrote a post this morning that caught my interest so I thought I’d reply here:
First, let me be clear that I don’t care if you speak ill of the Olympics But I did find your post interesting.

On Rooting for U.S.A.
I think that most Americans are able to separate their love of country [...]

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Tonight I fired up Axialis Icon Workshop and thought I’d check for updates since I haven’t run it in a while.  After installing the latest version, I looked for any new object packs which are just sets of icon building blocks their software allows you to quickly piece together.  There were two new ones out, [...]

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Yay for pillows.

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Jay and Katherine are finishing up their packing before moving into a new house, and Jay just called to let me know that he powered down his end of the link.   So as of noon today, the Transpalisades network is no more. 
It turned out to be a great network and a fun learning experience, now [...]

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With just a few minutes to spare, David is 8 months old!

View them in Gallery.
It was pretty challenging this time, now that he’s mobile he doesn’t quite sit in one spot very long.  Sure makes lighting difficult

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Hi everyone, sorry for the blog outage that started around 11am today.   The Comcast borg decided I didn’t need an internet connection and unprovisioned my cable modem.  But that was just the start of things.
As you regulars know, I’ve been very annoyed with Comcast of late - from the flakey internet connection to the more [...]

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Today we had such great weather that we decided to head to the 2008 Illinois State Fair with David.  I figured he would only last a short time before getting tired, but instead he had a blast and we were there for nearly 4 hours.

Click here for a photo tour of his trip!.

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