May 12: Monkey See . . . Mokey Do
Teagan has FINALLY learned how to chew table foods (it is about time)! And since then, he wants to eat everything we eat. Which can be a bit of a problem when everyone has slightly different lunches, as was proven today at lunch time. I fixed Alex some Mac & Cheese for lunch and then Joseph and I had left overs (Joseph is working from home a few days a week since gas prices are high). While I was warming Teagan's leftover chicken pot pie, I was nibbling on the remaining mac and cheese (it helps hold me over till Teagan is done eating his lunch and I can start mine). Teagan started begging for some. So, against my better judgement, I gave him a noodle, it was love at first bite. He begged for more. Then we sat down to eat, Alex his mac and cheese, Joseph and Teagan chicken pot pie. Teagan wouldn't eat very much. He was very mad at me. I couldn't understand why. Then I realized he wanted mac and cheese for lunch too! So I put aside the pot pie and started forking in mac cheese as quickly as Teagan could eat it. He was very happy after that.
They grow up SO fast
They grow up SO fast
May 10: Father & Son Time
Alex and Joseph had an fun adventure tonight. They were off buying fishing supplies for Alex. They're going fishing Friday and Saturday at the Stake Father and Sons campout. Alex was very excited about his new fishing pool. He was yelling "Momma come look!" as soon as they got into the house. I couldn't get there fast enough for him to show me the lures and the rod. Joseph also is excited to take Alex out back to practice his casting.
Watch out fish, here we come!
Watch out fish, here we come!
May 10: My Love Bug
Teagan is my little love bug, and he loves just about everyone.
It was very cool to see the way he gave our Aunt Gail loves, and the last time Teagan saw her was when he wasn't even 2 months old. He is our little clown. He has the funniest noises, very similar to bird sounds, and he is always talking or singing. When he is happy, which is most of the time, his tongue is waving out the side of his mouth. Teagan is also growing up faster than Alex, he knows how to play with cars, and he even has a cute little engine sound. He is going non stop, I get exhausted watching him. I'm so happy to have him in our family; he's a keeper.
It was very cool to see the way he gave our Aunt Gail loves, and the last time Teagan saw her was when he wasn't even 2 months old. He is our little clown. He has the funniest noises, very similar to bird sounds, and he is always talking or singing. When he is happy, which is most of the time, his tongue is waving out the side of his mouth. Teagan is also growing up faster than Alex, he knows how to play with cars, and he even has a cute little engine sound. He is going non stop, I get exhausted watching him. I'm so happy to have him in our family; he's a keeper. May 10: Serious Potty Training
We have been casually potty training Alex for months now. Occasionally getting him to pee or yuck (poop, but yuck sounds better) on the potty. While we were at the beach Alex proved to us that he was ready but just to plain lazy. At the beach we left all diapers off while playing in the water and sand and he told us every time. But Friday we spent with my aunts and he didn't even want his diaper changed. All I can say was it was a mess.
So today we are serious about getting him potty trained and fast. So during Teagan's morning nap, Joseph worked in the yard, Alex and I went potty supply shopping. We stopped by one of my favorite store, Roses (it is so dirty cheap!) and picked up training underwear, and LOTS of cars to use as rewards. Then to Target to get a better on the toilet seat and some fun briefs. Alex came home ecstatic, "Daddy, Daddy, lots of stuff!" He was so excited we couldn't strip him and get him on the potty fast enough so he could pee. And so far, no accidents too! Knock on wood.
One day down and a few more to go (hopefully) and he'll be potty trained.
So today we are serious about getting him potty trained and fast. So during Teagan's morning nap, Joseph worked in the yard, Alex and I went potty supply shopping. We stopped by one of my favorite store, Roses (it is so dirty cheap!) and picked up training underwear, and LOTS of cars to use as rewards. Then to Target to get a better on the toilet seat and some fun briefs. Alex came home ecstatic, "Daddy, Daddy, lots of stuff!" He was so excited we couldn't strip him and get him on the potty fast enough so he could pee. And so far, no accidents too! Knock on wood.
One day down and a few more to go (hopefully) and he'll be potty trained.
May 9: Slice Host and rBuilder Online Images
I host this blog, as well as e-mail for dragonstrider.com and a host of other services on an old PC behind my cable modem at home. This has served me well for the most part, but it requires onsite maintenance when it goes down. This is bad when I'm at work, or vacation, as happened this week. So, I bit the bullet and researched some Virtual Priate Server (VPS) hosting providers.
I ended up choosing Slice Host as a no-frills, just the tech if you please, Linux/Xen-based VPS host. Their entry level plan (slice) gives you 256 MB RAM, 10GB storage, and 100GB of bandwidth for $20/month, and you can scale it with a reboot up to 4GB/160GB/1600GB for $280. /proc/cpuinfo shows that the host for my entry level slice is a two way "Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2212" operating at 2.0 GHz. There's a separate swap partition (so swap doesn't count against the 10GB limit), as well as web based management tools for rudimentary Name Services, starting, stopping and rebuilding your slice, a web console (in case ssh isn't working for some reason), some statistics and reporting, and my favorite part, a rescue mode.
Rescue mode lets you boot your slice in a rescue environment, mount your root file system in an alternate location, and do what you want (or need) with it. This makes it pretty easy to run your appliance from rBuilder Online on a hosted slice. Here are the steps to get this working. Choose a Xen Appliance Image (32 or 64 bit, though 64 bit is preferred) that is a single file system image.
At this point you can do any additional configuration you wish, such as adding additional users, making sure that openssh-server is installed and configured to start on boot, etc.
When that's done, shutdown, exit rescue mode from the Slice Host panel, and log in to your new appliance.
There is quite a bit of noise when the slice boots up with an rPath Linux based appliance because the kernel in the image isn't used for booting, and modules.dep isn't located for the booting kernel, but that seems harmless.
Now to build an appliance to run on the thing... I used the rPL 2 beta 3 text devel image as my image while developing this HOWTO.
I ended up choosing Slice Host as a no-frills, just the tech if you please, Linux/Xen-based VPS host. Their entry level plan (slice) gives you 256 MB RAM, 10GB storage, and 100GB of bandwidth for $20/month, and you can scale it with a reboot up to 4GB/160GB/1600GB for $280. /proc/cpuinfo shows that the host for my entry level slice is a two way "Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2212" operating at 2.0 GHz. There's a separate swap partition (so swap doesn't count against the 10GB limit), as well as web based management tools for rudimentary Name Services, starting, stopping and rebuilding your slice, a web console (in case ssh isn't working for some reason), some statistics and reporting, and my favorite part, a rescue mode.
Rescue mode lets you boot your slice in a rescue environment, mount your root file system in an alternate location, and do what you want (or need) with it. This makes it pretty easy to run your appliance from rBuilder Online on a hosted slice. Here are the steps to get this working. Choose a Xen Appliance Image (32 or 64 bit, though 64 bit is preferred) that is a single file system image.
- Create a slice (doesn't matter what kind, we're going to blow it away anyway).
- Reboot your slice into rescue mode
- SSH or console in using the password mailed to you (yes, rescue mode gets started with a randomized password)
- wget -O - <link to the rBO image> | tar -xz # This downloads and extracts the filesystem image
- dd if=<path to filesystem image file> of=/dev/sda1
- e2fs.ext3 -f /dev/sda1 # This forces a file system check, without this check the next step will fail.
- resize2fs /dev/sda1 # Resize the file system image to match the available size
- mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
- copy the following networking configuration files from your rescue image to your new slice image mounted in /mnt
- /etc/sysconfig/network /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/resolv.conf
- Edit /etc/sysconfig/network to fix the hostname to the desired value
- chroot /mnt
- passwd # changes the root password since the rBO images ship with root's password blanked
At this point you can do any additional configuration you wish, such as adding additional users, making sure that openssh-server is installed and configured to start on boot, etc.
When that's done, shutdown, exit rescue mode from the Slice Host panel, and log in to your new appliance.
There is quite a bit of noise when the slice boots up with an rPath Linux based appliance because the kernel in the image isn't used for booting, and modules.dep isn't located for the booting kernel, but that seems harmless.
Now to build an appliance to run on the thing... I used the rPL 2 beta 3 text devel image as my image while developing this HOWTO.
May 8: Guilt
I seem to have the desire to do more than I'm actually able to do. I had the desire to make photo card to send to all the women in Alex, Teagan, Joseph and Mine lives. But now I don't know if they'll get done. If they do, they'll be late. What is happening to me? I'm always early when it comes to stuff like this? I must be extending myself too much. But with me home schooling Alex in preschool, will it get better?
May 8: Youngest Moe's Employee
We went to Moe's for dinner, I couldn't think straight after so many loads of laundry. Alex started yelling "welcome to moe's" only it wasn't exactly that. It was more like "welcome to oooes." then it transformed into "welcome to mmooooo-es." Many were laughing including Joseph and myself.
May 8: Family Vacation Part 2
I change at the beach, I get extremely relaxed and giddy. And EVERYONE can tell. (this should explain the last posting quite well [I just finished speed reading Horton Hatches an Egg to Alex].)
We had a most delightful time relaxing at the beach, it must have been the crash of the waves. Alex was so excited to be at the beach, that during the first few hours after arriving, he jumped in fully clothed and shoed. It was a sight to see Alex proud march back to the beach condo, jean short sagging top crumbled in Joseph's hand and partly covered in sand to announce, "Momma, swimming." Teagan loved the water, but thought it was a bit too cold. I wish I remembered to put my camera back in the beach bag for this picture: Joseph carried Teagan out into the water about hip deep. Teagan's bottom half curled up as tight as possible as not to touch the cold water. I was laughing the whole time.
Both Teagan and Alex LOVED to play in the sand building and destroying. I love collecting seashells like always, but my test in shell have changed. Now I look for the small and flatish ones so that I can glue them onto a scrapbook page. And we did many walks on the beach just to enjoy the beauty.
On Tuesday we went to Fort Fisher's aquarium with Grandparents Jackson. But to get there we rode the ferry. Everyone LOVED the ride. Alex even dared to hold up some food to let the birds eat it for his hand. Then the second time he resorted to throwing it up to let them catch it. The aquarium was fun for everyone. Alex loved the frogs and alligators in the fresh water exhibits. And liked the sharks in the salt. The HUGE Moray Eel was also a fun sight to see. Though my favorite was the cuddlefish. Teagan loved the reef fish, bright and always moving.
We had a most delightful time relaxing at the beach, it must have been the crash of the waves. Alex was so excited to be at the beach, that during the first few hours after arriving, he jumped in fully clothed and shoed. It was a sight to see Alex proud march back to the beach condo, jean short sagging top crumbled in Joseph's hand and partly covered in sand to announce, "Momma, swimming." Teagan loved the water, but thought it was a bit too cold. I wish I remembered to put my camera back in the beach bag for this picture: Joseph carried Teagan out into the water about hip deep. Teagan's bottom half curled up as tight as possible as not to touch the cold water. I was laughing the whole time.
Both Teagan and Alex LOVED to play in the sand building and destroying. I love collecting seashells like always, but my test in shell have changed. Now I look for the small and flatish ones so that I can glue them onto a scrapbook page. And we did many walks on the beach just to enjoy the beauty.
On Tuesday we went to Fort Fisher's aquarium with Grandparents Jackson. But to get there we rode the ferry. Everyone LOVED the ride. Alex even dared to hold up some food to let the birds eat it for his hand. Then the second time he resorted to throwing it up to let them catch it. The aquarium was fun for everyone. Alex loved the frogs and alligators in the fresh water exhibits. And liked the sharks in the salt. The HUGE Moray Eel was also a fun sight to see. Though my favorite was the cuddlefish. Teagan loved the reef fish, bright and always moving.
May 5: Family Vacation
I love life. My sweet Grandparents Jackson rented a beach house and invited us to use it. We have had so much fun. We have spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday just relaxing and taking it easy on the beach, and in the house. Alex and Teagan are loving the beach, but who couldn't. It is relaxing just listening to the waves pound the beach and all the ocean fowl. It reminds me that I could easily live here and be very happy just sitting on a porch in a rocking chair and listening to the waves sipping lemonade.
Apr 29: Who's the Parent here?
Alex has picked up my disciplining vocabulary. He now tells us "wait here, I'll go get the water" before bedtime. Then today in Home Depot, a new saying popped out. We were along the sink repair isle, and I was wondering looking at the faucets while Joseph looked for a piece to repair one of our bathroom sinks. Alex decided I was too far away from the cart. "Momma, get back here right now. One. Two. Three. Four.... Good counting." I was stumbling with laughter on my way back to the cart. Though I usually only count to three.
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