tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87809872012-03-21T05:22:29.884-07:00Blah blah blah. I'm the author of the (sort of) famous "Eric's Ultimate Solitaire." The sample version shipped on a lot of Macintosh computers. Come here to read about what I'm working on and what's goin' on with my family. Also. Things that are funny.Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.comBlogger1001100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-64583390013902027962011-07-25T23:14:00.000-07:002011-07-27T14:38:48.069-07:00

Fiverr.com is crazy. After being mesmerized by it for a couple days I just spent $20. I've ordered... A new logo for Sniderware from v3_lily on fiverr.com A video ad for my friend Drew's old old web site http://www.coolsciencefacts.com (it's super funny though!) A review of my FreeCell game to be sent to thousands of people on Twitter A banner ad for FreeCell I'll post what I end up getting once

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-81595178890157366122011-07-22T09:08:00.001-07:002011-07-23T22:50:55.231-07:00

I've started getting email from users about Eric's Ultimate Solitaire for Mac OS X Lion. The problem is that it's not compatible with Lion and they need their solitaire fix. I'm busy finishing some iPad contract work, but once I'm done I'm going to work full time on my own Sniderware games. There's a lot on the to-do list... One of the big items is writing a new Mac solitaire game based on my

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-25018653797461003282011-03-25T11:36:00.000-07:002011-03-25T11:43:23.035-07:00

My eye is crazy itchy. Someone in Jonah's class had pink eye a couple days ago. Do I have it? I'm always getting pink eye from the kids. Man. In other news... I'm trying to decide if I should be working on Mac solitaire or Android solitaire first. But really I'm busy with contracts so it's not that big an issue. Still, I'm excited to do something new. Jonah has started doing some programming

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-28794792423578954892010-12-27T22:16:00.000-08:002010-12-27T22:21:19.182-08:00

I just discovered Better Book Titles. It made me laugh out loud more than once. There's no writing to go with each one, which is different than one of my favorite sites, Cake Wrecks. But these are funny all on their own. This page is for people who have trouble slogging through the information on book jackets or feel intimidated by the title and cover itself. How many times have you perused the

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-11631196942865128762010-12-20T11:50:00.001-08:002010-12-20T11:58:07.222-08:00

Overall... 2010 was really good. Baby Colin is starting to sleep more at night and smiles a LOT. We all like Jonah's school pretty well now (we switched him to a magnet school, but it's farther away, but they don't hold him back like his old school). Ari is becoming a big kid, which makes us a little sad, because he's such a cute little kid. He's starting to read a little bit and that's exciting

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-87176808805268451002010-12-16T09:46:00.001-08:002010-12-16T10:10:10.328-08:00

We visited my Mom, Dad and brother David in Florida. It was super fun although also super cold. That was okay 'cause I don't like when it's hot and humid. It was ~36 degrees the morning that we flew home though! There was a leak in our roof while we were gone. It was right above my tiny desk, next to my new Hackintosh PC. Yikes. Luckily my nephew Joe spotted the problem and did a ton of good

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-35476112479987205662010-11-11T00:29:00.000-08:002010-11-11T10:27:33.331-08:00

It's been like a year since I wrote anything. Blogger changed up their stuff so I couldn't host my blog on my own site via FTP any more. I've been procrastinating since then about updating it so it would work on their site but finally made the move.I built a Hackintosh... a speedy PC that's running Mac OS X (2.8GHz i7 860 with 8GB of ram and cousin Joe's video card :) ). It's really cool

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-33698506378730546622010-02-09T22:47:00.000-08:002010-02-09T23:06:42.820-08:00

A raccoon woke us up a couple nights ago at 3am because the chicken it was trying to kill/steal/eat was so loud. We scared off the raccoon enough to find the chicken, decide it was too hurt to live, and then I got the job of killing it. So that all sucked. I fired up my MacBook Pro once we were back inside. I was either going to google up stuff about raccoons or maybe write up the story here. The

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-35300378529498675202010-02-04T10:43:00.001-08:002010-02-04T10:47:28.521-08:00

On the way to school today Jonah said if he had a wish he would wish for more wishes.Then he said he would wish for:Being able to eat all the junk food he wanted without getting sick and so he'd still grow and be healthyThat heaven was realThat he was a clone*The middle one there made me almost cry. We've had (grown up) friends who have died in the last few years and it's definitely gotten our

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-9802718635606436422010-01-21T16:22:00.000-08:002010-01-21T16:29:07.081-08:00

The word online from Amazon is they're intending to release an SDK (software development kit) for the Kindle digital book. That means it'll be able to run games and more instead of just being a fancy book viewer. That's cool... Maybe I'll port my solitaire game to it from the iPhone. The performance (aka speed) of the Kindle isn't great, but hey, I've written games for a long time, including on

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-88517004465809668452010-01-08T12:50:00.001-08:002010-01-08T13:00:42.625-08:00

Flash forward three months from my sort-of-weird calls from recruiters in India... That all turned out to be legitimate and not a convoluted Nigerian money-making scheme like I was predicting. In fact I'm still working on that project and it's going great. It's an iPhone app, but as is often the case with cool stuff I work on, it's secret. I'm going to stop drinking coffee. I don't drink that

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-76472303199988932702009-10-14T13:41:00.000-07:002009-10-14T13:58:48.274-07:00

I'm never super excited talking to job recruiters. I understand their jobs are hard. But any job where the person is paid based on commissions makes me suspicious of that person's actions. Sales people who work on commission don't want you to buy something and return it, but other than that they get rewarded for selling you things that you keep. It doesn't matter much beyond that. Like whether

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-75049243251557676722009-09-26T23:19:00.000-07:002009-09-26T23:59:23.994-07:00

I paid a company ~$600 to restore a crashed hard drive of mine. It had all our honeymoon pictures and more on it. I'm a lot better about doing backups now... Anyway I need to start gettin' some value out of this rescued drive so here's a story with some pictures from the trip. Kelly and I went to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico for our honeymoon. We have some great stories and pictures. But

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-53353567988384719582009-09-25T21:37:00.000-07:002009-09-25T21:54:56.128-07:00

Hey, my game developer friend, Oliver, just finished a really fun Flash game -- Vector Conflict: The Siege. For you old timers it's like Battlezone (1980), but an order of magnitude more fun and you don't have to drive a tank around. That's BattleZone to the left. I played Vector Conflict on "Medium" and it was fun, but very tense at times. The levels are really well designed. Once you master

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-26186956938613882922009-09-21T11:25:00.001-07:002009-09-22T16:04:44.962-07:00

I just checked Apple again to see if my iPhone solitaire game was approved. I check every 9 minutes. It's said "In Review" the last 1000 times I checked in the past 11 days. I've been dreading the email that would say "Sorry, Solitaire wasn't approved because we don't allow applications to include images of clouds." Or something nutty like that which would mean another round of fixes and

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-63530667542453757962009-09-16T21:06:00.000-07:002009-09-16T21:09:30.106-07:00

I'm working on some iPhone programming and had a question about something. Google didn't turn up anything great so I just searched for help in the Apple Developer Forums. I searched for opengl view tabbarcontroller and the forum page offered this helpful advice: Did you mean: openly view Tabasco

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-5871198466625921092009-09-14T19:04:00.001-07:002009-09-16T10:38:26.606-07:00

Yeast is weird, and cool. At least if you're baking with it. I made bagels from scratch yesterday and they come out really really good. I used our bread maker to do the mixing etc, but I boiled 'em and baked 'em. Anyway, here's the bread-machine bagel recipe. The bagels came out better looking than the picture. Kelly and the kids were napping when the bagels were done. I tried the most misshapen

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-23517694129817563082009-09-09T13:13:00.000-07:002009-09-09T13:21:41.327-07:00

I've been making pizzas with pre-made dough from Trader Joe's in the last couple months. A few came out amazing, but many came out just okay. It turns out our oven is crappy. It's this weird little European one that only goes up to 450 degrees and only has a burner on top. A combination to ensure our pizzas are never very crispy or cooked quickly. Anyway, I was googlin' up some Alton Brown* stuff

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-3932387778882112012009-09-08T22:21:00.001-07:002009-09-08T22:59:33.052-07:00

Seriously. Ad Hoc Distribution? I hate it. I've wasted so much time with it. Apple has such tight control over distribution to iPhones and iPod Touches that you can't just download and install an application on your device. More importantly my testers can't install my game without having things just so. There are all these hoops to jump through to set up provisioning files etc. It's not super

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-33190680125876935632009-09-01T13:50:00.000-07:002009-09-01T14:01:41.668-07:00

Gmail is down so I'm reading my email with the webmail browser for my site. It's not-so-good. Also, apparently GMail filters out the spam that normally gets delivered to me but now I'm stuck reading it. Today's spam highlight: Hey We have hijacked your baby but you must pay once to us $50 000. The details we will send later... We has attached photo of your fume "We has attached photo of your

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-42883813846173209042009-08-21T16:08:00.000-07:002009-08-21T16:30:53.381-07:00

My Palm OS Treo 680 is failing. The case is cracked, there's dust behind the screen and it has lost its mind. Sometimes it just doesn't respond or takes a minute before doing anything. Sometimes it doesn't want to talk to T-Mobile any more. Also. It's a little shaky on letting me send text messages. Sometimes I can, sometimes I can't. Weird. I used this Treo a LOT though. Every day for years.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-44107917475168543722009-08-20T10:28:00.000-07:002009-08-20T12:05:13.766-07:00

I got some email from someone at DeMatteo Monness a month ago. They're a "a boutique primary research firm and full service broker-dealer serving the institutional investment fund community." They were looking for someone with expertise in the things I know about (board games and porn?*). I spent 20 minutes with my initial contact there talking about my experience, what I know about the things

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-92142833844940716992009-08-04T15:00:00.000-07:002009-08-04T16:05:54.497-07:00

Our old camcorder stopped auto-focusing. And it doesn't have manual focus. It's kind of "Random Focus" now. Theoretically we could run around and change the distance to what we're recording to put things in focus (or yell to the kids "Run, fast, closer!"). But then it would react to that and refocus on something random ("No, stop, okay go way back! Go go!"). Kind of a Schrödinger's cat deal.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-12457267502115598252009-07-16T14:06:00.000-07:002009-07-16T14:15:12.182-07:00

When I'm working I listen to music with the web site Pandora. You create a free account, pick some songs or artists that you like and it makes music channels based on those. It's a cool way to find bands that you've never heard of or forgotten about. I kept hearing that they were going to go out of business. Because it costs them money to play all these songs for free. They pay fees to the music

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-29058315537726021162009-07-12T19:20:00.000-07:002009-07-16T14:05:49.066-07:00

We bought a citrus juicer, like this one. I think exactly this one. It looks like the Alien from the movie Alien... Or maybe like ET. It gets bad reviews on Amazon, but we paid $1 for it from a neighbor. It's been awesome for juicing lots of lemons. And since lemons are falling off our tree like rain it's helping a lot. We're drinking a lot of lemonade and eating lemon sorbet* between all meal

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-22981491527105111802009-07-09T21:44:00.000-07:002009-07-09T22:25:15.528-07:00

Andy's done a ton more fantastic art for my iPhone Solitaire game. The game is starting to look really good. It's been cool working with Andy. He's in Hong Kong so we end up talking when it's morning there and dinner-time here in California. The coolest thing is I wake up in the morning and there's new art! Nice.I'm working on the Settings screen now. It's all custom-drawn in Open GL instead of

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-25182205204201330092009-07-04T15:37:00.000-07:002009-07-12T19:42:32.799-07:00

1) Kelly bought an inflatable (but kind of hard-core) pool for $30 used (it turns out it was $150 new + all the chemicals and more came with it). We set it up in the back yard. I thought it was an "8 foot" pool. But it's 13 feet. It's kind of huge considering our small back yard. Anyway, it's fun. I get to do all the cool stuff my dad did with our pool when I was growing up. Like use the cool

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-10975101547083709242009-06-24T21:34:00.001-07:002009-06-24T21:41:43.812-07:00

I'm a big board game geek I don't like boring American games like Sorry, Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit or Candy Land... I like designer/Euro games that are really good. Like Ticket to Ride, Diamant and For Sale. Since I'm a board game geek I like to learn about board games. I like Scott Nicholson's Board Games with Scott . Check it out. Scott's really funny, plus you'll learn about some cool games.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-78590323055399437842009-06-23T14:37:00.000-07:002009-06-23T15:26:52.809-07:00

Kelly's Kindle 2 Kelly's Kindle 2 (e-Book from Amazon) is broken. Well, the screen is broken. The upper-right corner looks all jumbled and there are some stray vertical and horizontal white lines too. I accused her like 7 times of dropping it or doing something bad. But she denied any wrong-doing. I googled around and the same thing has happened to other Kindle owners. I wonder if the screen is

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-10028659250828908032009-06-22T15:45:00.000-07:002009-06-22T16:02:53.281-07:00

I've tried a lot of iPhone games. Here are my two favorites. The Creeps! There are lots of Tower Defense games for the iPhone. This is my favorite. Cartoony monsters try to wake up the sleeping kid. You have to stop them. There's no scrolling or zooming, everything is on-screen. There are multiple modes and lots of levels for each that offer a good variety of game play. The best game design

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-41148996786978029702009-06-19T08:50:00.000-07:002009-06-19T10:08:02.108-07:00

The casual game I was working on at PlayFirst, DinerTown Tycoon, finally shipped! I finished fixing bugs early and moved onto the web version of the game. Unfortunately I was done with the web game super early (normally that's good), but then it was canceled. I'm bummed they didn't cancel it before I did the work. It's sad to see your work thrown out. Then I helped out on the SDK and with other

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-59206269518650146252009-02-23T21:12:00.001-08:002009-03-29T23:18:04.707-07:00

So far it's been a pretty stinky year, 2009. I won't go into the details onacounta who knows who reads this blog. Maybe I should password protect it? Sell subscriptions? Then it wouldn't be weird to cover what's what. Then again, maybe I don't need to. Most anyone who reads this (Hi Dad and Mom!) already know everything crappy that's happened this year. I've been making progress on solitaire for

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-51292703678158670482008-09-29T08:33:00.000-07:002008-09-29T08:42:12.659-07:00

I finally gave in and ordered an iPod Touch. I had lunch with my friend, Bob, and he graciously offered to use his Apple employee discount. I had been holding out for a while because I like to buy used things instead of new for a bunch of reasons. But the deals on used iPod Touches (That sounds a little creepy) were not-so-good. So soon I'll be the owner of a brand new one with a warranty and

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-31560810557039209572008-06-27T11:04:00.000-07:002008-06-27T11:14:11.476-07:00

My phone says it's time to post to my blog. And if I don't then I'll snooze the reminder until it reminds me again next week. And so on. So instead I'm going to write some stuff. Right now! I've been working a lot but just hit a big milestone for my game at PlayFirst so that's great. I can relax a little. Plus right now I'm working on a really fun part of the game. Jonah's birthday is coming up.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-14593055292054471242008-06-08T14:59:00.000-07:002008-06-11T11:11:56.954-07:00

I just heard the news from my friends, Mary and Joe, that my friend, Erick Wujcik, died. I'm really sad. Erick was so nice and smart and just so wonderful to talk to. He was always supportive. I wouldn't be at my current job, which I like a lot, if he hadn't given the company his seal of approval. I ran my (grown-up) nephews through Erick's first published role-playing game, Sector 57, about a

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-4623666392550543002008-05-09T16:30:00.001-07:002008-05-09T16:30:55.573-07:00

This is take 2 of trying to post to my blog from my phone.Hey! It was "Crazy Hair" day today at Jonah's preschool. He was alittle worried and wanted to know what his friends hair would looklike. I explained the girls would mostly have lots of crazy pigtailsand the boys would have hair that was sticking out all over.So Kelly made his hair stick straight up. It was awesome.At school everyone loved

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-70373329396727988692008-05-05T12:26:00.001-07:002008-05-05T12:35:57.541-07:00

I just wrote a message about Baby Signs to some of my friends on dan&eric (a mailing list that, amazingly, is still around and grew out of a bulletin board from CMU made up of, well, me and Dan's friends and their friends long long ago). A lot of them are busy reproducing and this came up. So here it is in case some person stumbles on my blog and wants to read about Baby Signs... "Baby Signs"

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-83523470663377156012008-04-28T09:15:00.000-07:002008-04-28T09:28:29.214-07:00

Sheesh. It's been four months since I posted anything. That's no good. So here's to not worrying about posting important things, and to just trying to post more often. Everyone's been sick over here on and off the past month or two. It's ridiculous. Although mostly Kelly doesn't get sick, or she gets sick at other weird times, like when we're not relying on her. It's probably a special mother

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-74373719423259157032007-12-18T10:08:00.000-08:002007-12-18T10:28:49.310-08:00

Another battery has stopped working on Kelly's MacBook. Apple replaced the last battery a couple months ago which had the same problem. It wouldn't charge any more. It just showed a black x in the battery icon in the menu bar. Great.The good news is we paid for the extra two years of Apple Care. (Yay?) The new battery failed in just a few months... I suspect we will have two more years of

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-87307553148699622692007-11-06T21:49:00.001-08:002007-11-06T22:03:24.917-08:00

Apparently iSight cameras are worth as much as gold now. Well, sort of. Apple discontinued making them and now they're going for $200+ on eBay. I paid $100 for mine when I was an employee at Apple. Actually I bought two 'cause they were such a good deal.Our MacBook has a built-in camera so we don't really need an iSight any more. And we definitely don't need two. So I put up an auction to sell

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-69892433394579731302007-10-29T09:30:00.001-07:002007-10-29T09:42:37.738-07:00

Last year a raccoon came in the middle of the night and killed one of our chickens. It's a funnier and longer story than it sounds involving Kelly, barely dressed, battling the raccoon with a pitchfork while I was sleeping, or at least trying to sleep.A few weeks ago I went to play video games with some friends. A pretty rare occasion. I got home late, and everyone should have been sleeping. But

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-18225738231109587732007-08-15T22:56:00.000-07:002007-08-30T09:42:38.776-07:00

I'm in a stinky mood. Anyway, hey, we had a Tanker Truck Explosion party for Jonah's birthday! We were celebrating a couple other things too, but the theme came from Jonah. I asked him what kind of cake he wanted for his fourth birthday and that's what he asked for. He wanted it like the tanker truck that exploded in Oakland and melted the bridge. I said "Yeah, we can have yellow icing for the

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-65430898412641600812007-07-30T18:42:00.000-07:002007-07-30T18:49:32.718-07:00

A very nice Russian cleaning lady who used to work for us made this for us a couple times. Here's my version of it. It's really good.Tanya's (Imitation) Crab Salad1 lb. Imitation Crab 2 cups Yellow Corn (frozen, canned, whatever) 2 cups Green Peas (see above) 1/2 - 1 oz. fresh dill, chopped 4 hard boiled eggs, chopped Mayonnaise (add later, to taste) How to make itCut or tear the imitation

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-76682902317552953312007-07-27T09:56:00.001-07:002007-07-27T09:56:40.188-07:00

This isn't really mobile. But I'm testing it out. Supposedly I can email go@blogger.com and it will post things to my blog. And you're all going to like it because I'll write from the train or from the back of an elephant. You'll see.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-43838451267648918402007-07-26T19:53:00.000-07:002007-07-28T11:26:38.336-07:00

I heard a man and woman talking on the bus today. I'm sorry I missed the beginning of the conversation because it was so wild. They didn't know each other and mostly the man was talking. He went over how he and someone else were dragons. Well reincarnated dragons, and it went on for a while. I was thinking "Oh, okay, I didn't spot these two for geeks, but clearly they are either role-playing

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-63021445271182938742007-07-25T09:45:00.000-07:002007-07-25T09:52:47.597-07:00

I'm busy working... but I wanted to mention that the Mac/Windows game I've been working on, Wedding Dash, is shipping. Check out the 60 minute trial. If you like Diner Dash you'll love it.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-61087931404925586652007-07-19T23:07:00.000-07:002007-07-19T23:13:48.817-07:00

I've been slacking on pictures of Jonah and Ari. So here are a few of my recent favorites.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-90508162753362857902007-07-19T21:15:00.001-07:002007-07-31T21:36:14.838-07:00

My train pulled into the train station and I was rushing to put my headphones and computer away. That's when I slid my computer into my backpack and heard a loud POP. I thought it was a plastic bag although what's a plastic bag doing in my backpack? It turns out it was one of our DVDs from Blockbuster Total Access. D'oh. It snapped in half.I signed us up for Blockbuster Total Access, it's like

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-13388374445865409212007-07-19T08:32:00.000-07:002007-07-19T13:26:14.033-07:00

I take the train to the city a couple days a week to go to work. I really like taking the train. I can work without anyone bothering me, I don't have to drive, and trains are cool. Plus, sometimes there's the super happy conductor. He's always so positive and happy it's awesome. Here's what he's like:Bienvinudo namaste What a wunnaful wunnaful day. (Pulling into station) What a beautiful morning

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-29919521588500896052007-07-18T21:47:00.000-07:002007-07-19T09:29:44.057-07:00

We always sing Jonah songs when he goes to bed. It's part of his bedtime ritual. Apparently every kid has some bedtime ritual. Some families give their kids a bath, read 7 stories, do a dance, drink some milk, sing songs, take another bath and then the kid goes to bed, maybe. Our kids are lucky to get a bath a month. They're not the cleanest children. But they're cute! Anyway, we'd heard of these

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-44602441807360673092007-07-18T21:21:00.000-07:002007-07-18T21:47:48.453-07:00

The video game I'm working on at PlayFirst is going to ship really soon. I really want a Nintendo Wii but a big part of that is just because they're so hard to find. Also. I don't want to pay extra. I want to pay the $250 list price. It seems like a scam from Nintendo... "Hi, yeah, the Nintendo Wii is only $250! Not expensive like the PS3 or XBox. What? Oh, sorry, we're out of stock. We

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-55248936285975450202007-07-14T22:31:00.000-07:002007-07-14T22:47:39.824-07:00

We were sitting at the dinner table tonight and Jonah started telling us to stop and go. He was pretending to be some kind of stop and go machine. So we were eating our food and he would put his hands up with his fingers spread and we'd all stop eating (except for Ari, that kid never stops eating*). He was pretending to be a stop and go machine. So he'd put his hands down and we'd eat. Hands up,

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-91888641850170406602007-07-13T16:11:00.001-07:002007-07-13T16:11:15.373-07:00

Please tell me this is working.Thanks,Eric

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-89593298640058143012007-07-13T12:57:00.001-07:002007-07-13T12:57:03.556-07:00

is this thing on?

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-5872322534618054282007-07-02T08:31:00.000-07:002007-07-16T10:29:49.257-07:00

Here's a message I just sent to Apple about their web site. I'm red/green "Color Blind" which mostly means I have trouble telling the difference between red and green sometimes. Anyway, as someone who is passionate about user interfaces and making life easier for users, I got mad when I saw Apple's iPhone availability web page. It made me extra mad because normally they know better than to use

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-34776551161890055432007-05-04T12:51:00.000-07:002007-05-04T12:52:15.463-07:00

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-46268091586463513952007-04-24T11:13:00.000-07:002007-04-26T15:31:42.865-07:00

It's been months since I worked at Apple. I haven't been able to tell anyone what I worked on there, until today! They shipped the iPod game I was working on this morning. It's called iQuiz. Check it out! Here's a review at iLoungeI work for PlayFirst! in San Francisco now which is an awesome place to work. Way more fun and rewarding than my time at Apple. But I'm so glad to see the game ship

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-23818888260182759792007-03-01T12:01:00.000-08:002007-03-01T12:37:06.515-08:00

We took a long (and mostly unpaid) vacation in Lake Tahoe with Jonah and Ari. Kelly rented a house for us which we will refer to as the "Snow House" from here on. I'll update this later with stories of injuries and board games. My friend (since 8th grade), Mitch, and his beautiful wife Pepper came to visit for a few days at the Snow House. It was great seeing them and I'm so glad they could make

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-2901853173550654292007-02-13T08:32:00.000-08:002007-02-13T08:54:58.893-08:00

I hurried this morning to get out the door with Jonah, drop him off at daycare and make it onto my bullet train to San Francisco. I made it with five minutes to spare. Nice. I felt sorry for a lady I helped in the parking lot minutes before. She asked me how to pay for parking. I pointed out the machine and explained she had to pay $2 and put a tag on her dashboard. No big deal but the train

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-69045647909072344922007-02-12T19:17:00.000-08:002007-01-27T21:04:23.672-08:00

Jonah and I played Cootie, the game for preschoolers. It was a lot of fun strictly because Jonah is so funny and nice. It's no surprise when I say Cootie is bankrupt of depth and fun. At least for adults. It does have plastic cooties though! And dice are good. There's nothing wrong with dice. Well, it has one die. So not "Dice" per se. Still though it has a die. Don't be confused when you read

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-21676634506460413452007-01-27T21:02:00.000-08:002007-01-27T21:04:20.856-08:00

Also - I guess I should share this photo of my good-looking girlie, Kelly. She's pretty AND she's good at holding babies!

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-24905764285750032122007-01-27T20:55:00.000-08:002007-01-27T21:01:39.656-08:00

Here's some pictures of my family, by request of Joyce Coffee. Ari is 11 months old now, and Jonah is 3.5 years. Jonah is taking dance class with Miss Terri at Act 1 Dance Studio. He's REALLY good and he loves the noisy tap shoes. Happy New Year, everyone!

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-31430287624857097872006-12-13T15:11:00.000-08:002006-12-13T15:13:45.189-08:00

I ran into this weird funny thing related to online multiplayer games. It makes me laugh out loud. I'm busy right now, but I'll explain it a little another time. Encyclopedia Dramatica explanation of "I am in your base killing your d00ds."

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-65952273885422253482006-12-08T21:58:00.000-08:002006-12-08T22:24:43.835-08:00

I worked on the BoardGameGeek Gift Guide recently. As I'm always saying... BoardGameGeek.com is like the www.imdb.com of board games. Anyway, the BGG web site is awesome, but daunting for any normal person. They're getting lots of hits from people trying to find good board game gifts for the holidays. So someone smart suggested that us board game geeks should work together to make a gift guide to

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-86915227999404429672006-12-06T17:36:00.000-08:002006-12-06T20:09:35.897-08:00

I started my job at PlayFirst! on Monday. So far it's been awesome. From what I can tell already I have a lot in common with the people in this company. They're a start up in San Francisco that's doing well, and this may seem like a minor thing, but they have free snacks, and drinks, and medicine and Kleenex. I had to bring my own Tylenol and Kleenex to work when I was at Apple...But this story

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-30703332576133168752006-11-25T22:22:00.000-08:002006-11-27T12:11:35.317-08:00

Wow, I downloaded and installed Google Maps for the Palm Treo. It's awesome. It's easy to install and it's a native Palm application rather than a Java application. I know people love Java... but native applications can always be better because they can take advantage of specific system features.Anyway, Google Maps for the Treo is really nice. I knew finding directions on my phone would be

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-9089089437000533702006-11-25T20:14:00.000-08:002006-11-25T20:25:23.912-08:00

Slashdot is a cool technology/geek news web site. You can check it out at http://www.slashdot.org/ They cover the geeky stuff I like. Sometimes they're even too geeky for me (like when they cover crazy Linux stuff) and I don't know what they're talking about. But mostly they're cool.I'm always reading news on my cell phone (a Palm Treo 650). I've been doing it a while and realized that one can

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-53583653573983534632006-11-12T23:04:00.001-08:002006-11-28T11:52:02.699-08:00

(I fixed up some of the shorthand and added a few details, but I originally wrote this on my phone when I was flying home from Bgg.con 2006 in Dallas, Texas.)I'm on the plane from dallas to san jose on my way. I had a great time and met some really nice people at the convention. Since I didn't know anyone I had to introduce myself and talk to people. I arrived at the Dallas airport and couldn't

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1162103027134472142006-10-28T23:06:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:06:09.913-08:00

Kelly and I wanted to convince Jonah to stop using his pacifier (a.k.a. "Binky") at night. We managed to reduce the time he had it to just night time. So we went into negotiations with him. We hammered out the details and agreed that we would get him a remote control fire truck in return for him throwing the binkies out. And we went into specific detail about how they would be gone gone gone. He

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1160024166011386862006-10-04T21:53:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:06:09.781-08:00

I'm no longer at Apple. So bring on the jobs and the crazy business proposals. :-) Also. I just found out my pirate name is Dirty Tom Bonney. My pirate name is: Dirty Tom Bonney You're the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean -- not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate's

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1156254202227361902006-08-22T06:32:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:06:09.647-08:00

When I was in college my friends and I liked Andrew "Dice" Clay's nursery rhymes a lot. He took nursery rhymes and basically made 'em offensive, surprising and funny. A genius combination for us college-age kids. Here's the least offensive one I could find: Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet Eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider, Who sat down beside her And said, "

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1154760324519588252006-08-04T23:45:00.000-07:002006-11-14T14:39:01.640-08:00

At the mall...

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1154760309694321842006-08-04T23:44:00.001-07:002006-11-14T14:38:37.363-08:00

I couldn't believe this whole cute bookreading thing wasn't staged.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1154760294067713702006-08-04T23:44:00.000-07:002006-11-14T14:38:01.726-08:00

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1154759839749179942006-08-04T23:35:00.000-07:002006-11-14T14:37:30.819-08:00

Jonah has an ice cream cone in Pennsylvania with Grandpa and Mommy & Daddy

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1154188711279186462006-07-29T08:56:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:06:08.975-08:00

Jonah is almost three. Ari will be five months old in a few days. Jonah is like a grown-up now. We come home from work and he asks "So.... How was your day?" It's wild. Ari still barfs on everyone and everything. Well, that's not totally fair. If you're under one year old I think we call it "spitting up." Kelly talked me into getting central air conditioning in our house. Or as we call it "AirCon

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1137273170347220632006-01-14T13:10:00.000-08:002006-11-09T00:06:08.838-08:00

I gave up on the Slingbox package arriving. I took a shower and after I got dressed and opened the curtains to our bedroom I saw a white pickup truck out front. Weird. Nobody parks in front of our house. I could see our porch out the window and saw a package... from Amazon! Maybe the driver put my package somewhere weird yesterday? At someone else's house? And then returned in his pickup truck

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1137232340610018402006-01-14T01:38:00.000-08:002006-11-09T00:06:08.698-08:00

I ordered a Slingbox from Amazon.com and FedEx says they delivered it today. I don't have any way to know if that's true, because when I got home there was no package. Ugh. I'm hoping that tomorrow the driver suddenly remembers how he hid it under our house or something. But I have a feeling that's not gonna happen. The best guess I've got is that some hooligan kids in the neighborhood stole the

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1129511947132223902005-10-16T18:13:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:06:08.564-08:00

monday 12/13/04 - i watched jonah on the 7th night of chanukah. we did some runnin' around, playing with blocks, looking at the fan, reading books and he was gettin' kinda cranky. then boom he busts out with the "bath" sign. and i say "uh, you want a bath?" ('cause i don't normally give him baths. confidentially speaking i'm kind of scared of the water and swimming in general and being in charge

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1127940882500495382005-09-28T13:50:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:06:08.410-08:00

This post is dedicated to Alison :-) Kelly and I have been super busy with work lately. Our nephew Dan and his girlfriend, Kristen, came to visit. We're hoping they'll move out to California. Specifically... somewhere close. Now there are a lot of great reasons for them to move out, but a big one for me is that I can play board games with them. We played this game, Raj, which was a lot of fun. I

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1125725524211224602005-09-02T22:26:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:06:08.272-08:00

Sorry it's been so long since I've written anything. The news here is that I started working at Apple in April of 2005. Also. We have chickens. We had 5 hens. But then one turned out to be a rooster. He is no more. In other news, check out this guy's lego robot that solves rubik's cubes. Wait. There's more news. Jonah is 2 years old now. He's 95th percentile height and weight. I think he'll be

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1101851756941174832004-11-30T13:27:00.000-08:002006-11-09T00:06:07.999-08:00

I finally finished my Blackjack game for Palm OS devices. It's the best looking Sniderware game yet. Karen Paluska did all the artwork except for the cards and the casino shoe (That weird thing that holds the cards). Anyway, if you want Jonah to go to college then please buy a couple copies. :-) If you're not sure yet then download the free 7-day trial. It's fun. You'll see. Other Sniderware

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1101594868491231662004-11-27T14:31:00.000-08:002006-11-09T00:06:07.853-08:00

It's 2:29pm. We're in an MLM (Multi-level marketing?) shuttle van going to San Jose from SFO airport. We found the van at 2:15pm and waited for more passengers. :-) The good news is that the driver says the tire with a leak will probably make it to San Jose where we live. A college kid pointed out the leak. 2:44 dropped off first passengers. 2 more and then us. 4:18pm OK, we're home. We

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1100751939071821292004-11-17T20:19:00.000-08:002007-01-24T12:52:16.635-08:00

So there's a type of pancake called a "Dutch Baby." Look, I don't know why it's called that. It's got nothing to do with babies. Apparently the Dutch brought the recipe to America, but American pancake chefs weren't keen about the competition. So there was a law where serving or making foreign pancakes became illegal. Just like prohibition. So you'd go to a pancake speakeasy and order what was

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1099676344088427672004-11-05T09:36:00.000-08:002006-11-14T14:31:35.710-08:00

Jonah's favorite thing, his snuggly, is "Cow." He loves Cow. Cow is a wind-up musical box sort-of-stuffed animal. She (it?) was a gift from Timmer and Alisa. Beautifully it plays "Mary Had a Little Lamb" instead of say... a song that has something to do with cows. The thing about Cow is that there is only one. (Sort of a Highlander movie reference for you geeks out there.) We've looked for a

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1099509817524181142004-11-03T11:06:00.000-08:002006-11-09T00:06:07.260-08:00

I reread the Wired Magazine article and decided to give it a shot. So I signed up for freeipods.com. After giving them my name and email address they put me through a "short survey." It was 20 yes/no questions like "Do you want to answer surveys for money?" and "Would you like a FREE phone from T-Mobile?" "Are you SURE you don't want to answer surveys for money?" I clicked "No" 20 times and

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1099508650827716992004-11-03T11:00:00.000-08:002006-11-09T00:06:07.117-08:00

So is it wrong if I'm considering trying out this whole www.freeipods.com thing? Here's a Wired Magazine article about it. The basic deal is if you sign up for a promotion (like subscribe to Blockbuster's DVD rental-by-mail) and sign up 5 more people on freeipods.com you get a free iPod. Apparently the companies with the promotions pay high enough bounties to the people who run freeipods.com

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1099435506191115302004-11-02T14:36:00.000-08:002006-11-09T00:06:06.986-08:00

Weeks ago Kelly and I signed up to permanently be absentee voters. So we can just vote at home and mail it in. Kelly's ballot never came. But she helped me go over the issues while I filled mine out. At one point we were talking about some local voting item, say #67. And she looked it up in our voting guide and started to say "67 Yes..." so I marked in Yes. Whoops. She was just reading the

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1099006050971970502004-10-28T15:38:00.000-07:002006-11-14T14:26:26.576-08:00

I've been playing an online role-playing game the last couple of weeks. It's called The Kingdom of Loathing. It's free. And it's really weird. But also super funny. The graphics are in a hand drawn stick figure style. This game helps prove something that I believe in... Games can be fun without super fancy graphics. Accordion Thief? Seal Clubber?Basically you create a character by picking your

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1098918777924637442004-10-27T16:06:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:06:06.753-08:00

We live near a school that has a kind of crazy/cool looking piece of artwork in the front. I always jokingly refer to it as the "Devil Gate." (See picture on right) I always wondered if the neighbors got riled up when it was first built and then accused the artists of being demon worshippers or something. As it turns out it's called "Spirit Gate" and the artists worked closely with students,

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1098826722260832322004-10-26T14:15:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:06:06.626-08:00

Jonah and I went to the mall to buy him some shoes. Apparently when your 15-month old walks around a lot you're supposed to put shoes on 'em. So they don't walk on glass or get cold or somethin'. We've done great at buying used clothes and getting hand-me-downs from friends. But we've been weak in terms of securing shoes for him. If you're looking to make any donations he wears a size 6. :-)

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1098550184564195002004-10-23T09:43:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:06:06.514-08:00

Wow, some of these are really good. They're similar to the Apple "Switch" ad campaign. All the people in the clips voted republican in 2000 and say they won't be voting for Bush in 2004. Click the picture to go to the page.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1098480917891716052004-10-22T14:25:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:06:06.383-08:00

I have a headache. But I had a gyro and an orange freeze (tastes just like a creamsicle) at Falafel's Drive In for lunch. They make really good banana milkshakes too. Like as good as when I was little and we made milkshakes at home with vanilla ice cream, milk, and banana. And we used a milkshake machine that my Uncle Bob gave us. With the big metal cups and everything. If you're near San Jose

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1098373768744315872004-10-21T08:42:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:06:06.232-08:00

Who needs dental insurance anyway?I'm going to the dentist today. Now that Kelly and I are "old" they suggested that we may not want to pay for dental insurance any more because it's less likely we'll have many more cavities etc. Yeah, well, Kelly just had a $1000 crown done (it's not even gold!). So at least this year we've lost out on that plan. So maybe we should have gone for the insurance.

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1098330497923225412004-10-20T20:39:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:06:06.100-08:00

Here are the shows I like a lot and record on our TiVo, especially now that it's working again. If you want to skip the list you should just record "Arrested Development" and you'll be ok. CARTOONSFamily Guy - Great cartoon that I'm sorry I missed when it first aired. They're showing all the episodes ever made and I heard they're working on a Family Guy movie. Aqua Teen Hungerforce - Crazy/

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1098290098389854382004-10-20T09:30:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:06:05.960-08:00

It hasn't rained for a while. And the baby is sleeping. Our satellite dish is not aimed correctly at the satellite any more. Against my better judgement I am going to climb on the roof, up to the peak by the chimney, and try to re-aim the dish. Unfortunately I can't remember if I need a screw driver or a wrench or what. Maybe I'll just load a bunch of tools in my pockets so I don't have to go up

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1098275769859977892004-10-20T05:26:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:06:05.833-08:00

I've been up since 5am. I've got horrible allergies right now. Runny nose and itchy eyes. Even the roof of my mouth is itchy. I've taken some generic Claritin every day for the last few days but it doesn't seem up to the job. Why am I so allergic now? Maybe it's all the rain? Or our heat is on... is there some kind of creepy mold in the air filter? Should I have changed the filter already? Does

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1098161488606230342004-10-18T21:15:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:06:05.596-08:00

Now I'm not saying it didn't help that suddenly the Board Game Geek web site is down. But after my previous post I realized maybe I'd better mention that I love my wife Kelly, and my son Jonah. :-) Here's Jonah sitting on the beach in Hawaii when he was 8 months old. He's funny. He's 14 months old now and walks. A lot. And he knows some baby signs (similar to sign language). He knows the signs

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1098158452156053992004-10-18T20:26:00.000-07:002006-11-14T14:24:49.658-08:00

Here's the thing. I love board games. Not your regular Monopoly/Sorry/Candy Land/Chutes & Ladders but games that hardly anyone has heard of, but are nonetheless really fun. And some of these games are easy to learn and normal people like them. Not just for board game geeks any more. What got me excited about board games recently was the discovery of www.boardgamegeek.com This site is to board

Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-1098149269529126672004-10-18T18:23:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:06:05.345-08:00

I have some web sites I've discovered and news to talk about. Maybe no one cares, but assuming someone does (maybe my Mom or Dad?) I'm starting this blog. :-) This is my first message and if it goes well then get ready to hold onto your pants 'cause I'm really gonna be showin' you how really somethin' super yeah whatever.

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