jonandnic dot com | 2007 January

A Moo Moo Here and a Bahh Bah there…

That title has nothing to do with this post, it’s just that I can’t get the words out of my head. You might be as surprised as me to find those annoying kids songs actually work on a newborn. Frankly any kind of noise works though. I guess they’re used to hearing background noise when [...]

Posted on January 21st, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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OK, OK here’s some more pictures…

Benjamin stayed with a babysitter for the first time last night! Our pastor and his wife very kindly volunteered to take our baby and send us out for a date night, and we weren’t about to say no!
We ate at a cool little inn, without stopping even once to burp the baby. And apparently he [...]

Posted on January 20th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Comin Home

Benjamin is cute and all, but he’s not always my favorite person… like say 4:30 in the morning. The last couple days he’s had a cold. We went to the doctor on Saturday who said it’s nothing major — but tell that to our baby, who figures a little snot is the end of the [...]

Posted on January 15th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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The Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can’t Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too

Benjamin working on his Zoolander/Brian Howe “Magnum” look for the ladies. He does this one a lot.
Little Ben also had his first real bath tonite, now that his umbilical cord has fallen off, and he did not enjoy it. So to punish mommy, he kept her up until 3:00am.

Posted on January 13th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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MacBook Pro + Parallels = Awesomeness

The MacBook Pro I have to use arrived yesterday and I set right to work trying to make it run both Mac OS and Windows. Things have come a long way in the past 6 months thanks to BootCamp and Parallels, but it’s not quite user friendly yet. I think I installed Windows 4 different [...]

Posted on January 12th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Wiiiii!!!!

OMFGRTFAROTFLOLBBQ!!!!!1
The Nintendo Wii is SO much fun!
I played golf last night in my living room, and I swear it was like I was really swinging a club. Then I bowled 120 on my first try… Tennis, I was not so hot at.

Posted on January 11th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Mark My Words

Apple is about to change the world again.
Today (as I type this) Steve Jobs is announcing a widescreen iPod, an Internet communicator and a brand new cell phone.
And they’re all in one device.
And it runs OS X.
The drool is pooling under my desk…

Posted on January 9th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Dear Benjamin

Two weeks ago you were just a writhing bump in my wife’s belly. Now you’re a squirming, crying, farting and cooing ball of life that wakes me up at night, makes me laugh out loud, and tugs at my heart with every seemingly random expression that crosses your face.
Two weeks ago your mother and I [...]

Posted on January 8th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Miracle on 146th Street

I didn’t coin the phrase, our pastor did, but I did get to be a part of making it happen…
Have you ever worked on something so hard and so furiously, that you don’t even get time to look up to see how it was working out? That’s what the new church campus has been like [...]

Posted on January 8th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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Deal or No Deal

This week I’m getting a MacBook Pro and a Nintendo Wii. I’m not paying for them, and I did nothing to earn them. Neither are mine to keep, but they both fulfill a want I have.
In my youth, if I wanted one of those things, I would have gone out and bought them. I would [...]

Posted on January 8th, 2007 by Jonathan Wise
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