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| Wild Blue Yonder | Posted: 11/08/12 @ 10:51 pm
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By: Steve Hoffman
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So I'm currently cruising along at 36,000 ft at roughly 500mph enjoying a Miller Lite (for $6?!?!)...and for some reason I was excited to have internet that's only a hair better then the 56K modem I rocked back in college...
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SPAM...Be GONE!!!
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Posted: 06/21/10 @ 9:08 am
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By: Steve Hoffman
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For all of you out there that run your own mailserver and have lost the battle to fight spam...I highly recommend Postini as the solution. We run our our mail server from home so we have total control over everything (mailbox size, shared access, attachment size, # of accounts and email addresses, etc) but I have been losing the battle of spam fighting lately and just don't have the time to tweak and tune mail rules...Outlook does a pretty good job of catching what I missed but by the time outlook downloads the message it's already run to my phone which checks more often then outlook so I get the spam briefly then it's gone. Well since I signed up for Postini yesterday I have received 0 spam's and Joni only had two false positives (which were spam in my book). So if this sounds like you...for $12/year/account...you can't go wrong.
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All packed
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Posted: 02/26/10 @ 9:58 pm
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By: Joni Hoffman
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We are all packed for our trip. Zack is so excited that he gets to ride on an airplane tomorrow, and, of course, watch his movies! He wants to watch Jungle Book and Monsters, Inc. After being burned on a trip to Vermont not long after Zack was born, we learned from our mistake and packed enough of Steve's snowboarding stuff in our carry on so that if our luggage gets lost he can just rent a board and go. This trip should be so much fun!! Now, we are just hoping that they get all the runways cleared in Philly so that the flight my family is on takes off on time and they don't get stuck in the airport for a long time.
I know that I say this a lot but Zack surprised me again tonight. We were on our way home and he was talking to himself. Out of the blue he says "the big one is called a quarter Mommy." I said, "Yes it is. What is the baby one called?" Without any hesistation he tell me "A dime Mommy!". So, pushing my luck I ask him what the middle one is called. Again, he resonds without hesistation, "A nickle! Just like the piggy bank." Whenever we have silver change we let Zack learn to save money and put it into his piggy bank. We would discuss what all the coins are called as we put each one in but he never had any real interest in tellng me what they were. Before bed time Steve had some change that he let him save. As Steve held up each coin Zack told him what each one is called. He stumbled a little on the nickle but knew right away which ones were dimes and quarters. Read entire post
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Sneaky, Sneaky
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Posted: 02/25/10 @ 10:12 pm
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By: Joni Hoffman
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Today was quite a day for Zack. It was his first day wearing a tie to "work". Ok, let me take a step back and tell the story. Steve was getting dressed this morning when Zack said that he wanted to wear a tie. He asked me to pick him up so I did and we waited for Daddy to come pick out the "perfect tie" for Zack. He repeated this continuously until Steve picked out one of his ties (the oldest one I think) and put it on Zack. The knot came to the middle of his chest and the bottom of the tie came below his knees. It didn't matter to him though as he was so very proud of himself.
Zack would not take the tie off when it was time to leave for school so I let him wear it figuring that I'd take it off of him once we got to school. At school, I took off his coat and he said to Miss Lisa "I wearing my perfect tie". I washed his hands and took the tie off but he turned to look at me and started crying like I just slapped him so I put the tie back on him. From what I was told tonight he wore it until one of the other kids pulled at it and then they took it off of him. He put it back on when I picked him up and wore it until I changed him for bed.
Steve had to work late tonight so we called to tell Daddy night night just before bed time. I heard Daddy ask Zack if he was wearing his tie. Zack responds "I wear my perfect tie. I wear my tie just like Daddy." It was so cute! I already had the feeling that I was going to have a mini-Steve before much longer but I think that this proves it.
When I was talking to Miss Lisa this morning she told me more about the peas from yesterday. Evidently after Miss Dawn noticed Zack giving his peas to Cale, Lisa moved them farther apart so that they would each eat their own food. She was across the room watching them out of the corner of her eye when she sees Zack take a pea and put it on the table half-way between he and Cale - in the perfect position for Cale to get it. She turns around and gives Zack the look that says "are you supposed to be doing that?" He sees the look so he reaches his hand out, covers up the pea, and slowly slides it back to his plate. As he knew exactly what he was doing Lisa told me that he was being sneaky - which of course he picked up on and started saying "I neaky, I neaky". I told him that it wasn't nice to be sneaky but I have the feeling we will be having that conversation more than once as he grows up. Read entire post
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