We’ve been home for a week with the new baby and are doing pretty good. She sleeps really well and is rarely fussy. Getting her to eat is quite the challenge, but she is eating. On a bad (good) note, momma was a little tired and decided my 15″ Macbook needed a Dr. Pepper bath. I managed to get a new 17″ out of the deal, so all is well that ends well.
We finally made it home this evening. I have to say that we have some of the best friends and family in the world. We were caught off guard by her arriving (who isn’t) and a bunch of people stepped up to the plate to fill in for us. We had family fetch food, buy essentials, bring movies, stand watch, etc with no questions asked and no complaining.
We had friends go by the house to supervise contractors doing last minute construction, fetch food on the other side of town and provide ridiculous amounts of moral support.
Thanks to all and if you need anything at all, just ask.
At 2030 last night we welcomed Allison Chartlotte into the world. 5lbs 14 oz’s. Momma and baby are doing fine but a little stir crazy. Waiting for the BP to come down and then work on recovery.
I’m sure most of us have gone through this train wreck before, but I couldn’t seem to find any buying guides or reviews more recent than March.
Last week we bought the InTouch from Giant digital picture frame. It was only 7″, but it had a touch screen that I was adamant for. Amazon had really good reviews on it and it seemed to be a top seller. The device arrived and ran VERY sluggish. Apparently that’s the way it’s supposed to run (Windows CE). It has a ton of features, but poor execution.
The biggest headache of the product was using the FrameChannel. Documentation was awful, customer support was non-existent (opened a case last Monday, still haven’t heard back), and it is poorly documented.
This evening we bought the HP DreamScreen from Best Buy and we are pretty pleased thus far. It uses the Snapfish service which is rock solid and fast. It has a remote to make simple tasks and setup much easier and the screen is a million times better than the InTouch one.
Finished CIPT training today and now it’s time to build my lab. I have had a VMWare environment running for a while, and now it’s time to start putting it to use.
Hopefully I will be able to have CUCM, Unity and ties to Exchange.
I just need some phones now. Any leads?
In training this week on how to administer CallManager 6/7. Pretty decent so far.
Here are some of the links and posts that appear to be pretty damn handy:
It’s been a long time since we have posted anything and we are hoping to change that real soon. With trying to fix up the house and the baby coming, we have been pretty swamped.
I hope to follow up this week with new toys postings, projects and neat tips/ tricks that I have come across over the past year.
I finally got off of my butt and posted pictures of the new house. As we update and start doing things around the house, I’ll post more.
Thanks to Scott Lowe’s tip, I have been immersing myself into Colin McNamara’s blog. It is well-written and full of really good tips and tricks. Check it out.
He made it to the Network World list of Top 20 Cisco Useful Websites.
Sorry it’s been a while. It’s been a hectic several months. Here’s a recap in a nutshell:
New House
Another new job
New laptop
and a few other new things.
I hope to update soon with pictures of the house and other stuff.