Ingredients kid hose sprinkler yard wife who doesn’t want to get wet step 1 take the kid outside to play in the sprinkler step 2 immediately get wet with the water that’s still in the hose and warmed from the sun step 3 get the kid soaked step 4 take the sprinkler off of hose step 5 show kid how to drink out of hose, hand him hose. Make sure to hold onto a length for crimping

Whew, it’s been a busy year. Back in 2005 I wrote a list of things I’d like to do eventually that I’d be able to do if I had the time and resources that winning the lotto would provide. I’ve made a positive step towards realizing a couple of those. Family The big change this year was the addition of Ian. We didn’t get off too well in the beginning, but we’re doing pretty good now.

So I just realized that I’ve become uber busy as of late. My current side projects look like this: – Warhammer Army builder for ChrisP written in Ruby (on Rails) – reviving radio.morgajel.com and rebuilding my stream (RoR, again) – SecretWord module and Logging for Ziggy (Perl + Po::Co::IRC) – ImportLDIF plugin for Luma This isn’t including the miniature painting, work, or Ian. The weird part is it feels nice to be busy- but only when it’s busy on my terms 🙂

So Ian was born at 5:02am on monday (Fed 26, 2007). 7lbs, 15oz, 20.5 inches long. He is already carrying on the fine Morgan tradition of being an asshole.

So I was in a Gamestop yesterday buying an extra nunchuck for the Wii (I plan on getting Wii Play which comes with a remote), and I overheard this conversation: [GSEmployee] Ma’am, you do realize that Call of Duty 3 is Rated T? [Lady] I don’t know, is that appropriate for a 13 year old boy? Is it violent? as a side note here, this lady was completely clueless that call of duty was a WAR gam, about WAR, where you SHOOT people.

Doing another annual recap this year like I did last year. 2006 was a pretty rough year- move from DC Metro back to Grand Rapids, got a crappy job, found out jackie was pregnant, got laid off from crappy job, spent 3 months unemployed, and at the end of November was offered an awesome new job in Troy, MI (the other side of the state). Other than Ian, and the new job, the best good news is we finally have a decent couch- two of them, actually.

Jackie and I finally agreed on a name a week or three ago- “Ian Hawthorn Morgan”. We also bought the domain IanHawthorn.com for him- figured it was something he could take over when he’s old enough- it’s also gonna serve as a news center for family and friends. Jackie’s already set up a wordpress theme and started posting emails we’ve received and other such details. I’ve revised my categories on this site and added one for ian when I mention him.