Notes from the crib

Sorry for the absence of blogging. I went away to Salt Lake City for a few days for a stamping convention. As a bonus, I have family there and it was wonderful to be able to catch up with them. Since returning home, I've been busy launching my business web site, getting the house back in order, and fixing a lot of broken equipment at work.

Plus, my hard drive crashed about six hours before I was scheduled to fly out. I lost everything! Luckily, we have backups of George's pictures and I was in-between transcribing projects so at least I didn't lose either of those. But so much else is gone. I'm using this as a chance to start fresh and keep my file systems better organized. I'm loving using Lightroom to organize my photos. I'm able to tag and sort them. Hopefully that'll help me when it comes time to make George's end of the year book. I'll just have to re-import all of the first half of 2008 back into my computer as I get time.

DH was so sweet when my hard drive crashed. He ran out to the 24 hour Walmart and bought an external hard drive. Then he took that apart and used the guts to rebuild my laptop so that I'd have it to take with me. He stayed up all night and finished the install at about 5:00 AM, a half hour before I left for the airport. So I was still able to video chat with he and George while I was gone, which really helped me with my anxiety about being away from my baby for so long.

DH and George appeared to have gotten along just swimmingly in my absence. They went to the pool, played video games, and read lots and lots of books. DH would send photos from his phone to mine to show me what they were up to. Here's a shot of George eating a dinner of beans, cheese, and taco sauce.