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It makes me feel like a real man!

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On the 6/29/2008, Tammy and I were lucky enough to get another ULTRASOUND! She is 15 weeks, 3 days pregnant in the video. My sister hooked us up. She works at a hospital and got us a run on the machine. An ultrasound technician did it for us a little bit and then let us use the machine OURSELVES! Is that cool or what? Total video time is 30 minutes so it is divided in 4 parts. My cell phone made some noise in the videos - sorry ’bout that. For me, there are some really amazing moments in the video!

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Part 4:

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Here he is: Nike+ Mini.

It’s cute.  I wish I could just paste him in this document…  Grrrr…..

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I have been up since 04:00 this morning. The little dog woke me up and told me that she needed to go pp. I don’t push her to go back to sleep when she tells me because I can only imagine her bladder is the size of a pea. I reluctantly took them both outside. While outside, I heard a car alarm. I was not worried that it was ours because the keychain would also go off. I went out front to check what vehicle was going off and it was MINE! Darn it. The battery was dying since I have not been driving it. I guess the alarm notices a low voltage and yells until it cannot yell anymore. Tammy said that she heard the alarm at 03:00 so it had been going on for some time. Oops. I had to rush and get the charger to disable the alarm. It requires a full 12 volts to activate/deactivate the alarm. Sheesh. What a way to wake up. I’m sure the neighborhood loves me. So, the battery is fully charged now but I have been up since 04:00 running my head off.

We’ll see what the rest of the day has to offer! It’s been a boatload of fun so far… It’s nappy time (I wish)!

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The name is officially on her! Anneliese TT! TT is for Travel Trailer.

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I was watching a Discovery Channel podcast and darned if I wasn’t amazed.  I realize this dude needs to eat in the wild but he could have warned me that he was gonna WHACK this little fella on the TREE!

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It’s always refreshing to see a good review on something that you just bought.  It is a joy to drive.

Car News Blog at Motor Trend

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Here is a little video of me towing the travel trailer with the new Tundra. It did pretty good but the gas mileage stunk. It should get better as the engine gets broken in.

Towing the trailer:
161.6 miles @ 7.56 MPG (22.803 gallons)
137.8 miles @ 8.74 MPG (15.764 gallons)

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Outside view of the new truck and travel trailer. Also, brake controller and hitch images.

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Video of end of trip and my tired self trying to sound like I know what I am talking about.

I give you a quick tour of the inside of the travel trailer and a recap of events.

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I know there is a bug with the Flash video files on the main page of the blog. You can click each entry individually and see the files. I’m sorry but I don’t have time to fix that right now.

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It is in WalMart parking lot.

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Yay! More later. It’s nice.

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We got hungry while waiting for the truck. I asked that we just go somewhere close to the dealer. She selected Mexican. Ya-hoo! So, we are waiting on our table.

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Here we are. Our first morning with the awning out and computing away!

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Got to love the smell of Apples. I’m happy with Tammy’s choice (finally)!

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We are getting close to the end of the night.  We have had a long day with work and getting this thing set up and configured the way we want it.  It should be ready to take to Corpus with us next weekend.  So far, this thing is really nice!

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Ich denke immer an Sie Großmutter und Großvater.

Gruß Gott-mit hellem klang!
Unserem Ehrensänger Fritz Sponagel für 65 Jahre Mitgliedschaft

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Here she is. I have a bunch of work to do on her.

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Tammy wanted a wedge salad. Here we are. I am going to eat the grilled chicken as I have to drop some tons.
Earlier today, I arranged the weekend with the trailer place if my truck doesn’t make it here on time. I also had them attach the ball to the hitch since I don’t have a socket large enough. 1 7/8″ is a hard socket to find!
Oh! Steph’s car looks nice!

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Looks like she has had enough of looking at me like this all day. She wants to get Jason’s Deli for dinner. Time to go eat!

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Tammy wanted hotdogs. Sonic was the closest and fastest choice. As we got in the extremely hot car, Tammy changed her mind. So, Taco Bell it is.

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I have implemented Gravatars.  They are simple universal pictures around the interwebs.  If you make a comment or a post somewhere, they do a quick MD5 checksum on your email address and incorporate that in the URL.  So, your email is safe and it is a simple lookup.  Gravatars are free.  They just work when you make a post somewhere that supports it.

WordPress 2.5+ have built-in support.  It’s really easy to do.  Here is how I did it:

<?php 

  $gravatar_email = get_the_author_email();

  echo get_avatar( $gravatar_email, $size = ‘40′); 

?>

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I am in the office and Tammy is in the livingroom. We communicate via iChat video. Apple computers rule!

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We took on Stephanie’s car. Now grabbing a quick lunch. Her car should be done Thursday. Fast work.

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Since I have been putting videos on the blog, I have to create the Flash video, upload the file, find the embed string that I have to paste in the post and then put it in the post for viewing. I use a computer. Computers should do work, not me. I wrote a Finder plugin with Automator that does all of my stuff for me. I just right-click on my Flash video and then select the correct plugin action. It renames the file and uses the Transmit actions to send the file to the server. Then it opens a TextEdit document with the entire text to paste in the document. Voila! Done. OS X rules!

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Not only is this video really cool, it is something that I cannot do.  I can’t draw a straight line with a pen/pencil let alone with a computer.

Check out the video.

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Yea, I’m a geek. I’ll drink while computing. I have nothing better to do at the moment. Tammy is working on Stephanie’s car currently.
I just made a favicon.ico for tammyandtom.com. I will just sit here and nerd out a bit rocking some odd and off the wall music.

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Did you ever want to create a nice looking icon for the URL in people’s browsers? I do and I found a nice write-up here:
http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/jennifer/favicon.html

This is very thorough and easy to follow.

–Tom

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