tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64968272024-02-08T15:44:20.405-05:00Beebe's StuffRandom Stuff, Thoughts, Links (sometimes), rants. Basically whatever I feel like today.Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-78660673327128898842020-09-04T19:48:00.006-04:002020-09-04T19:54:34.856-04:00 Build Better Websites, and Funnels<p><span style="background-color: transparent;">In this day and age, any business that wants to thrive must go online.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">With so many things going on around the world, and global changes that will forever impact the way people live and do business, going online is no longer just an option.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Not only to maintain their success, but even just to survive.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Sure, there are tools that are already available that any business can use to run their entire company and processes digitally.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">However, any minimum amount of research will tell you that most of these products are expensive, complicated and limited in customization.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">In other words, not very user-friendly, and definitely not suitable for all business owners, especially those who are less tech-savvy and might even be on a budget.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">I mean, who can afford to invest thousands of dollars a month into a bunch of complicated tools, and on top of that, hire employees to manage the systems, right?</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Well, if this sounds familiar in any way, I have some good news for you.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">As an online marketer and blogger myself, I am always looking for new solutions for these everyday challenges we face as business owners.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Today, I am very excited to introduce you to my latest discovery.</span></p><p><a href="https://groovepages.groovesell.com/a/ufM7K0HhLPQg" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">GrooveFunnels</a><span style="background-color: transparent;"> is, by far, the best way I have found to be able to build websites, sales funnels and sell digital products online.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">The best part? It’s FREE.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">But the free value does not end there…</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">You see, GrooveFunnels is not just a website and sales funnel builder.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">The co-founder of GrooveFunnels, Mike Filsaime, is actually a veteran in the Internet marketing space, and has put all his experience and expertise into one of the best suite of marketing tools I have ever seen.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">I’ve also signed myself up for an account (it’s free), and for the past few days, I’ve had the chance to play around with it.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">And you know what?</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">I can definitely tell you that this 100% free tool is perfectly capable of running your entire business, maybe even better than some of the expensive complicated tools out there.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">I’m not exaggerating by any means…</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">From what I’ve seen so far, GrooveFunnels includes everything that I need to run my online business, all for absolutely free.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Here’s just a quick list of what I’ve gathered so far:</span></p><ul><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">FREE sales, page and funnel building platform</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Possible to build my own branded websites with full navigation</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Can integrate with my own custom domain name</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Able to sell my products with what they call a 1-click upsell</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Capability to integrate upsells, downsells, and order bumps</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Even has a way to create my own powerful affiliate program for my products!</span></li></ul><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">And that’s just for starters, because there is so much more for me to explore!</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">I’m not even joking when I say that I am planning to change my ENTIRE online business over to GrooveFunnels!</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">I mean, why wouldn’t I?</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">It’s FREE, and it’s probably the BEST suite of marketing tools I have ever seen in my life.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">By the way, there’s more…</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">I didn’t even mention some of my favorite benefits of GrooveFunnels.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">As a member, I’ve also received a TON of community benefits.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">I’ve been able to join their private Facebook group, connect with marketing experts inside, get help with all my problems, access private training within their own academy, ask questions through their helpdesk, and meet other like-minded entrepreneurs just like me to make the best use of these tools.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">So, if you’re like me… Striving to grow your business, looking to learn more about marketing and getting to know some of the best in the industry at a more personal level, then you won’t want to miss out on this opportunity.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Sounds great, right?</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">But you might be asking… what’s the catch?</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">The catch is that GrooveFunnels is free, but for a limited time only.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">GrooveFunnels is in its pre-launch phase, which means that many of the products have still yet to fully launch.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">When they do, and as the products continue to get upgraded, GrooveFunnels may no longer be free anymore.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">This means that now is the time to sign up for your free account, which would also qualify you for the additional software upgrades that they make as time goes on.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Awesome deal, right?</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">It’s called being at the right place, at the right time.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">And that’s where we’re at right now :)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Don’t wait any longer, because I’m honestly not sure when this free offer is going to go away.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Do yourself a favor and </span><a href="https://groovepages.groovesell.com/a/ufM7K0HhLPQg" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">sign up for your free GrooveFunnels account</a><span style="background-color: transparent;"> right now, and I will see you inside of the Facebook group.</span></p>Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-66564631161005747872013-05-07T15:04:00.001-04:002013-05-07T15:04:19.211-04:00So much for thatWell I thought I would try to do better at updates. Oh well. Not sure anyone reads this anymore anyway. Just a place to stash random ideas. Perhaps it will become something more one of these days. Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-22124126235644636622011-09-07T22:17:00.000-04:002011-09-07T22:17:04.310-04:00HmmmWell, it's nice to see this is still here. But then again why wouldn't it be. After all doesn't google keep everything?<br />
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I am not really sure what to put here anymore, that is something that I will have to think about. I have definitely fallen out of practice with posting here. I am also not really using Facebook or Google+ at this point, so maybe I can convince myself that this will be the place to put things. I will have to take a look around some more and see If anything has changed, ie Are there static pages? This might be a good place to build out a bit of a portfolio, I also like the idea of putting little snippets of useful information here so that I can find them again easier later. So we'll see what happens.Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-71580136176512484592010-12-29T08:58:00.000-05:002010-12-29T08:58:46.724-05:00Create a SHA1 hash of a stringThis function will take a string and return the hashed value<br />
<blockquote>using System.Security.Cryptography;<br />
public static string GetSha1(string value)<br />
{<br />
var data = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(value);<br />
var hashData = new SHA1Managed().ComputeHash(data);<br />
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var hash = string.Empty;<br />
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foreach (var b in hashData)<br />
hash += b.ToString("X2");<br />
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return hash;<br />
}</blockquote><br />
Thanks to <a href="http://www.kindblad.com/2009/03/24/how-to-generate-the-sha-1-hash-of-a-string-using-c/">Lars-Erik</a>Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-35272994344197494192010-12-28T21:37:00.002-05:002010-12-28T21:37:43.292-05:00Now workingAlright so now that this is working again, I can throw some new content up here. Over the next few days I will be putting up some code that I have found strewn about the internet, and I need somewhere to save it. So unless you can come up with a better idea I am going to be placing it here so that I can find it later. Enjoy.<br />
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PS if you do any ASP.NET or C# development you may find some of this stuff useful. Otherwise feel free to ignore it.Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-31356385298402047982010-03-17T22:17:00.002-04:002010-03-17T22:19:56.968-04:00Kansas CityWe made another fast trip to Kansas City this winter, at the end of January. This was one of the last times that we would be able to fly and have Raelynn ride on our laps. After this spring she will be 2 and that is the cutoff for "infant" though we got some funny looks when we told the flight attendants that she was only 1 and a half. Oh well. The trip went well, we got to see lots of friends and family while we were there.<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HKo9F04oCEg&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HKo9F04oCEg&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-23992247855963678402009-12-07T09:33:00.002-05:002009-12-07T09:41:34.982-05:00Joys of Home ownershipWell, how to start this, oh I know! I HATE BEING A HOMEOWNER. There now that is out of the way. I know it is the "American Dream" to own your own home, but it really isn't all it is cracked up to be, especially when you have a "pre-owned" home. Since purchasing our house, 4 years ago, our water heater died, and our sewer has backed up into the basement 4 times ruining the carpet down there. We discovered why the house is covered in wall-paper. It appears that it has lead based paint, so as we have been redoing rooms we have been removing wall paper and sealing the walls. UGH I didn't sign up for this, at least not knowingly. I am ready to be done with this thing and move somewhere when if something happens I call someone else and they come and fix the problem. What are my choices with this? Is it back to apartment living? Is this how most condos are run? I need to start researching my options.Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-27338829523342962832009-07-28T06:39:00.001-04:002009-07-28T06:41:12.972-04:00Raelynn and the Big Girl BedWell, the time has finally come, Raelynn has moved into a toddler bed. We made the conversion on Sunday night, and she slept the whole night in the bed no problems.<br /><br /><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5793712&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5793712&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/5793712">Raelynn and the Big Girl Bed</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1518967">Aaron Beebe</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-68875399043271069302009-03-31T22:27:00.002-04:002009-04-01T08:59:19.069-04:00More VideoWe finally got a video camera so now we can start having more videos of all the fun things Raelynn does. Here is a clip of her walking!<br /><br /><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3949923&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3949923&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/3949923">Raelynn Walking</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1518967">Aaron Beebe</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-14386281262887668162009-02-09T15:36:00.003-05:002009-02-09T15:43:34.289-05:00Raelynn and SpaghettiHere is the clip I was talking about.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uv1gbSDXPRg&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uv1gbSDXPRg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-72825143556749438122009-02-08T23:04:00.005-05:002009-04-01T08:58:29.273-04:00A long time pastWell after almost a year, I suppose it is time to break the silence, not that it was intentional. I guess I just went through this phase of who cares what I have to say, and honestly if you are reading this then that is one more person than I thought.<br /><br />Well as you can see almost a year has gone by, I would print exactly how much time but I am already too much of a nerd so I don't feel inclined to go figure it out. Raelynn is 9mo almost 10mo old and she is doing wonderful. No walking on her own yet but she can take you on a tour of the house as long as you hold her hands. She is a garbage disposal, she will eat just about anything that you put in front of her. Now that she has 8 teeth Precia and I are hoping that the teething is done for a little while, at least a month. She hasn't really stopped teething since she got her first 2 the day she turned 4mo.<br /><br />In this time, I have also discovered that I am a crappy parent, at least to my extended family. We haven't had any pro pictures taken of her, nor have I printed any out to send to anyone. That will be changing soon. This week we are going to pick out pictures and get some printed to send to family. If there are any on <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebeebes">Flickr</a> that you specifically want, let me know and I will be sure to include that one in the packet we send, otherwise we will just send a hand-full of our favorites.<br /><br />Well, that should bring us up to date for now anyway, and I will be posting more of the recent pictures and a video up on youtube. Once it is there I will post the link so keep your eyes here.Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-72610835919890422192008-05-02T15:31:00.003-04:002008-05-13T14:05:28.692-04:00She has arrivedRaelynn has arrived. She decided to grace our presence after putting Precia through 22 hours of labor and a C-section. She was born on April 23rd at 4:38am. Everyone is healthy and Raelynn is growing like a weed. Sorry it took so long to get this update here, but as you can imagine having a baby in the house can consume quite a bit of time.<br /><br />Everyone is doing well. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebeebes">Here</a> are some pictures of our baby girl. She had her first doctors appointment and had gained a pound and grew an inch after just 4 days.Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-22316952095922074102008-04-21T09:57:00.003-04:002008-04-21T16:58:14.323-04:0040 + 2Well, 40 weeks has come and gone, and we still don't have a baby. Things were looking up last night, however it all turned out to be false alarms as the contractions stopped when Precia switched positions. So we continue to wait. Hopefully we won't have to wait much longer, it is very difficult being patient at this point as we have waited so long. With as much as Raelynn is bumping around in there you would think she is ready to bust out at any given time, and that is what the doctors tell us. "It can be any day now so be ready." We have been ready since week 36, lets get this moving.<br /><br />All we can do is wait and so that is what we will do.Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-24570300668612109102008-02-22T16:31:00.001-05:002008-02-24T19:43:57.545-05:00The Return<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebeebes/2289343145/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3145/2289343145_411c26845f.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />As I was leaving work today, I decided to stop at my LHS and see what games they may have that I had not played yet. As Precia and I are really just starting to enter into the realm of hobby style games the list is quite vast. As I was browsing the aisles of the store one box stuck out at me and I remember hearing about it on <a href="http://revision3.com/diggnation/">Diggnation</a>, a weekly video podcast of the top stories on <a href="http://www.digg.com/">digg.com</a>, the game, <a href="http://www.sjgames.com/munchkin/game/">Munchkin</a>. So as I was pondering which edition to get I asked the salesman there if they had the original version of the game, unfortunately they were sold out. He recommended a couple of the "expansion" boxes to me. I use the term expansion loosely as many of them can be played without having the original version of the game. So I picked up Munchkin Impossible, a fun little twist on the Mission Impossible and the James Bond style spy movies.<br /><br />Our friends Rachel and Amanda had been on a trip the past week and had just returned on Thursday night so we had planned a night of games, pizza, and catching up. So I thought well it should be fun to break out this new game and give it a shot. Upon opening the box we were greeted with stacks of cards a standard D6 die and what appeared to be a page of direction folded in half. Upon closer inspection it was actually 4 pages of directions that although humorous left us a little vague on exactly how to play the game. Oh well, playing is the best way to learn right. After about 20 min. We had the basic game play down and the first hand lasted just a little shy of an hour. Not bad for play time when you have no idea what you are doing. The second hand, even though we knew what we were doing and perhaps for that reason, lasted a little over an hour.<br /><br />The game play itself is a little bit of a mash-up between games I liken the battle system to Magic and the overall game play to a simplified Killer Bunnies. It is incredibly fun and quite humorous once everyone is involved. We all quite enjoyed it. So if you have a few extra dollars to spend, it cost 25 at my LHS, and some friends to play with, the game is playable with 2 people but the more that you have the more fun it will be, I would definitely recommend it.Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-12771053745884322332008-02-21T10:20:00.003-05:002008-02-24T16:47:02.219-05:00Week 31.5 - Baby, and Room Update<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebeebes/2281876178/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3169/2281876178_6ffb0c8b57.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />So we had a very busy weekend. We meaning Precia, our friend Joe, and myself primed the baby's room and were also able to get it painted and put up the wallpaper border. So now that those steps are completed we can move on to putting the baseboards back on and getting all of the furniture moved back into the room. So if all goes well, short of haning the curtains the room will be finished this week. YAY!<br /><br />We also had another ultrasound yesterday and we found out that she is still a girl so that is good news to mom who had a girl shower planned and there was no going back. :-) We also found out that Raelynn decidied to co-operate and turn over so she is no-longer breech YAY!(and there was much rejoicing) This means that Precia will get a shot at natural birth which is what she wanted in the first place. If Raelynn had remained breech then Precia would have been scheduled for a C-section. All is well with both mom and baby and things seem to be progressing nicely.Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-58247208081794987312008-02-09T23:17:00.000-05:002008-02-09T23:21:25.292-05:00Baby UpdateToday is the beginning of week 30. Wow it doesn't seem like that much time has actually passed. The big day is officially right around the corner and there are a number of things that need to be done to get ready. We now have all of the wall paper off of the walls in the nursery and I think that we will start priming the walls for paint tomorrow, by we I mean me, and maybe dad if I can con him into it with a free lunch. :-)<br /><br />Precia is doing much better now, though entering the 3rd trimester has been easier than the last two people keep telling us that it will not be that great by the end. Oh well it was fun while it lasted.<br /><br />Stayed tuned for more info in the coming weeks.Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-72933155557749741672008-01-04T20:38:00.000-05:002008-01-04T20:49:24.273-05:00Introducing BABY!Here is the first shot of our baby Girl. Her name is Raelynn and is due April 19th.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebeebes/2167713968/"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2267/2167713968_93669c349b.jpg?v=0" border="0" alt="" /></a>Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-32463600958071206602007-12-11T23:25:00.001-05:002007-12-11T23:34:40.821-05:00Windows Live Writer<p>Well based on the tests you saw earlier, the program I am using is the Windows Live Writer. It is a free download from Microsoft <a href="http://www.windowslive.com/">here</a>. It is a very straight-forward text editor with built-in blog uploading. I would call it "syncing" except it can't get my template from blogger, so if there is a way to put the template in manually that would be a welcome addition to the software. But apart from that it seems to be a very robust piece of software. It is easy to insert links, just a couple of clicks, and it references your Internet Explorer link history so you can just start typing and it will auto-fill the rest of the URL for you, which is nice.</p><p><br /></p> <p>Another interesting feature is on the right sidebar there is a history of recent posts that were created using live writer. Which when you click on them fetches the information from your blog. This is a nice addition to the application as well. All in all from the limited testing that I have done it seems like a great way to start a blogging application. As I use it more perhaps I will find more things to like or dislike about it and I will be sure to bring those to another post in the future until then I will be using this software to update this blog.</p>Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-50569003153237944442007-12-11T13:57:00.000-05:002007-12-11T13:58:36.083-05:00DNS<p>I don't know if my domain provider had a DNS hick-up or if it was Live Writer that broke it. But lets try again and see what happens.</p> Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-29133087870070754222007-12-11T13:41:00.001-05:002007-12-11T13:41:38.899-05:00Testing Post<p>This is a post to test some new software. Lets see how it works.</p> Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-24390369352698286222007-11-27T13:57:00.001-05:002007-11-29T22:39:38.143-05:00Baby Update<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebeebes/2069485626/"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2096/2069485626_0a4a0b2883.jpg?v=0" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Well, here is the latest with the new addition. This is at 19 weeks, and we will find out on December 12th what the gender is. That is assuming that the baby co-operates. This little thing is a pain for our doctors since it doesn't like the doppler machine. It will hide and keep the doctor from hearing the heartbeat. So they will breakout the ultrasound machine and get us a picture.Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-79714740674595912222007-11-07T22:11:00.000-05:002007-11-07T23:43:34.954-05:0016 WeeksWell 16 weeks in and Precia is still not feeling great. We have a doctors appointment coming up so hopefully they will be able to shed some light on the situation. If all goes well they will send us home and say keep doing what you have been doing. If things are not good they will send us to the hospital to get an IV to get some hydration.<br /><br />I still find it hard to believe that in just 5 short months I am going to be a father. I hope that I will do a good job. Precia tells me I will be great but I think she is required to say that. As Donny Baker would say "State Law or somethin'."<br /><br />I have been trying to get some new pictures loaded but they are not scanning as well as the first, I will keep trying when we get new pictures though you may have to wait until April to see what all the fuss is about.Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-80205109883339624602007-09-19T09:18:00.000-04:002007-09-19T10:41:46.795-04:00It is OfficialWe are having a baby! In an series of events over the past week, Precia and I ended up at the Hosiptal last night so she could get an IV and get re-hydrated. Once that was started they decided that they needed to check on the baby and make sure it was doing ok. So at 10:30pm we had our first ultrasound.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebeebes/1406872309/"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 0px; text-align:left;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1011/1406872309_a5f986e776.jpg?v=0" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />It was absolutly amazing to see those images on the screen and to hear our baby's heart beat 165 bpm, right down the middle for normal at this size. We found out that we are almost exactly 9 weeks along, so hopefully only another 3 weeks of this morning sickness stuff and then it will be smooth sailing, until April 22.<br /><br />We were discharged around 11:30 and made the long trip home. Precia is feeling much better today, better than she has felt since the morning sickness started. So now the goal is to stay hydrated and get through the next 3 weeks.Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-49898597373233791782007-08-02T23:14:00.001-04:002007-08-02T23:15:59.427-04:00WiiWe found a Nintendo Wii, and since we got it we can't put down the controller. This is one of the most fun systems to play in a very long time. Between the Wii and the 360, I am going to have a very hard time deciding which games to buy!Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496827.post-23294023009036914262007-06-20T16:04:00.000-04:002007-06-20T16:08:36.063-04:00Absolutely UnbelievableI read this today and couldn't believe that this would happen. Especially if the church is heading this up, an institution for acceptance and love is bearing down on a local library for summer programs that talk about and teach diversity. Come on now.<br /><br /><blockquote>A South Carolina library system has closed down its summer programs for young adults after receiving threats and allegations that it was trying to promote "witchcraft" and "drug use."<br /><br />The Pickens County Library System’s half-hour summer programs for middle and high school students were supposed to take a light-hearted look at the topics "Secrets and Spies: How to Keep a Secret by Writing in Code or Making Invisible Ink" and "What’s Your Sign?" Another program was to examine astrology, palmistry, and numerology; and others were to feature tarot cards, tie-dying t-shirts, how to make a Zen garden, and yoga.<br /><br />Now the programs are cancelled in the wake of phone and e-mail threats from the community, believed to emanate from a single local Baptist church. The astrology program was labeled as "witchcraft" by callers, while the Zen garden and yoga programs were objected to as "promoting other religions." The t-shirts workshop? "Promotes the hippie culture and drug use," callers said.</blockquote><br />You can read the rest of the article <a href="http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6453294.html">Here</a>.Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435739625330994241noreply@blogger.com1