Birthday party for Jason

Jason had a pretty good time at the birthday party for him the other day on Saturday afternoon. Here you get to see him on one of his presents (which was put together). He helped in the construction.

Jason's Birthday today and been away lately

I am excited about getting back home. Today is Jason's birthday and he is two (2) years old! So I am trying my level-best to remind myself to call home around the time he will wake up and start his day to wish him happy birthday.

The past couple weeks have been exceptionally busy and I have been traveling about since my last post. In fact I had USAR weekend drill the past weekend and soon after that, I few out to LA to do some consulting. Its gone pretty well so far and I made some great progress in the project this week.

Looking forward to coming home and being with my family. Let's see what kind of seat I get on the plane today...

Finally received my replacement battery & Jason's Letters/Numbers game

A few weeks ago I discovered there was a problem with my Dell Mini-9's laptop. So I ordered a replacement battery and luck would have it, I found a larger capacity battery. On Thursday it arrived and it looks like it will do the trick, very well and much longer.

So I also loaded a couple software packages and I found one that Jason might like. Its called Linux Letters and Numbers (and its available as a Ubuntu/Debian package). Its works by displaying a keypad with the numbers and letters. When a key on the keyboard is depressed a representative label comes up with a picture and sometimes a voice announcement. For instance, "A" will bring up a picture of an apple, along with the letter A, and an adult's voice saying "Apple".

Jason liked it when I brought it out and he started pressing every key, many many times. However, when he found the Tux Penguin show up when he pressed the "P" key he was overjoyed. Here is a pic of him engrossed in the fun.