http://www.galacticcactus.com The life and times of a succulent in space. Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:44:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Early this morning, Brinestone and the kids left with her family to head up to a big family reunion up in Montana. They'll be coming home Friday night. That means for a whole seven days, I'll be home all by myself. (Note: I actually hate Celine Dion.) I was home ... http://www.galacticcactus.com/home-alone Yesterday was my last day of work. Today is our last day living in this apartment. Tomorrow we'll move into a new apartment, Monday I start school, and Wednesday I start a new job. As you can guess, between the new baby and all this, I've been a little stressed ... http://www.galacticcactus.com/then-we-came-to-the-end Here are the pictures, as promised. Newborn Duplo Brinestone and Duplo Brinestone, Duplo, and Jon Boy Lego and Duplo http://www.galacticcactus.com/pictures-3 Brinestone woke me up this morning at 6:00 to tell me that she was pretty sure she was in labor. She'd been having contractions all night, and they started getting much stronger around 4:15. We called my brother to come over and watch Lego, and then we grabbed our bags ... http://www.galacticcactus.com/and-baby-makes-four I've moved my store once again, thanks to Cafepress's high prices, mediocre print quality, and incompetent customer service. Now I've got a store with Spreadshirt. Their prices are good and their quality is fantastic (don't know about customer service, and hopefully I won't have reason to find out). I'm slowly adding ... http://www.galacticcactus.com/buy-my-stuff-please I really hate moving. Really, really hate moving. It wouldn't be so bad if we didn't have so much stuff, but it becomes a giant ordeal when you've got as much furniture and junk as we do. I really don't think it's excessive, but I've learned that even though we ... http://www.galacticcactus.com/moving-again Recently I had a run-in with Cafepress's customer service, and it was a surprisingly frustrating experience. I just wanted to share the love, so here's my email exchange with them. My emails are in italics; theirs are bold. Earlier today I tried to change my email address in my account profile, ... http://www.galacticcactus.com/customer-disservice It appears that my iMac at work is toast. We went out to lunch yesterday, and when we got back, my computer refused to wake up all the way. Instead it froze up and gave me a grey screen of death. I guess it was somewhat more aesthetically appealing than ... http://www.galacticcactus.com/blogging-from-cicadas-computer As part of the linguistics MA at BYU, I have to study two foreign language: one to the 300-level, and the other to the 200-level. One of the languages has to be non-Germanic and non-Romance, so that rules out taking French and German together, which would be my first choice. ... http://www.galacticcactus.com/picking-a-language-to-study I've decided that I hate trying to pick baby names. Boys' names, at least. Brinestone and I have had no problem finding girls' names that we both like, but there seems to be a great dearth of good boys' names. Last time, we finally settled on a couple of options ... http://www.galacticcactus.com/baby-names-pt-2