Ryan and Debi

Author: server_deity

  • Ubuntu: two versions of Firefox at once

    Ever since I switched to Linux I’ve been toying with running two versions of Firefox simultaneously, even though I now use Google Chrome as my primary browser.  Why two versions of Firefox, you ask?  It’s kind of complicated, but it boils down to: I use Zotero for my bibliographic management software but I have too…

  • Toren and Debi rocking and reading

    Here’s a cute little video of Toren and Debi in our rocking chair reading a book together:

  • Welcome to Florida – where contract killing is legal?

    I saw this sign on my way in to work the other day: I hope it’s a joke, but it is Florida.  And that means… Well, anything goes.

  • blinking to smile

    I told Toren to smile for these photos.  What did I get?

  • neighborhood activity

    Our neighborhood has seen a little activity of late.  Unfortunately, the father of one of our good friends/neighbors, Mike Leon, passed away last week.  Mike had lived with them for most of the past year and a half or so, so we knew him.  It was sudden, even though Mike was 85.  We attended the…

  • Toren update

    While I’ve been posting pictures and videos, I haven’t actually written much about what Toren has been doing lately.  Language-wise, he knows a few words that he repeats regularly – “dada,” “mama,” “bye,” “ball,” etc.  He also occasionally says words but rarely when we ask him too.  Tonight he said “parrot” after I told him…

  • shoes

  • Toren v. Colander

    One of the kitchen items we let Toren play with is a colander. The other day he came up with a new use for it:

  • Toren v. Cookies

    As a party favor for a recent birthday party we attended, Toren received some cookies.  He went to pretty crazy lengths to steal cookies: Here are a couple photos from a different night highlighting the crumbs all over his face:

  • Toren on the beach

    In early October we attended the wedding of one of my colleagues.  It was on the beach in St. Petersburg. Toren + beach = playing in the sand Toren also got to run around during the reception, but he wasn’t particularly disruptive, despite running all over the hotel. We spent the night in the hotel…