Rant Archives

As you may have noticed, I have added the Family~Album tab to the menu.  The page will eventually be where you will be able to find pictures of us.  At the moment I have placed a test player for our short movies.  I decided to use YouTube at the moment for our videos.  I created a YouTube account, uploaded movies, and placed a YouTube Player on our website.  I like the way it handles videos.  It converted all of our .MOV files to flash so that most any browser can view them. 

I had my worries about placing family video's on the web at YouTube, but after thinking about it for a while I came to the conclusion that since I don't post our address, and I am not typing in keywords; first not many people will even find our video's amoungst the million some other videos, and second, if they do find them, they won't care, or be able to figure out who we are or where we live.

With today's internet, honestly if someone wanted to find you, and or bug you, they could.  Having come to this reality a long time ago, I have decided to place some of our family videos in a public place so that I can have the functionality and ease of presenting those video's on our website.

Please feel free to look at the Family~Album page and view our short videos.  I am going to be making a page just for videos, but I haven't gotten there yet.

I hope you all enjoy!

MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

Yesterday was a hectic day.  As you all know, Elisha's birthday was the 7th of February.  We decided to celebrate her birthday yesterday because the family for the most part was sick last week.  Elisha wanted to have a sleep over and invited two of her friends.  So on the way home from work, I stopped by Costco to pick up a cake and Papa Johns to pick up pizza.  I also was having the Missions Secretary over to help create the Missionaries Page for our churches website.  All in all it was going to make for a hectic afternoon.

Papa John's pizza was awesome as always, and the "Missionaries Page" is off to a good start.  It isn't finished, but will be in a week.  The Missions Secretary's next job is to round up pictures of our missionaries.  Our churches website isn't a big site, but I feel blessed to have had the chance to design it and help build it for our church. 

Elisha had a blast, and enjoyed her first sleep over.  The two girls who came over were very well behaved and it wasn't a lot of work for Jessie.  Elisha is looking over my shoulder and she says the funnest part of last night was opening presents.  I am glad she had a good time.

I guess I don't have much more to say.  Oh except Elizabeth has a new word.  (ewwwww)  I put a lot of w's on the word because that is how she says it.  I will have to record her and put a video up on the website.  The funny thing is she even knows when to say it.  She is a cutie!

MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

I am sure everyone is aware of yesterday's Super Tuesday Primary Elections.  I don't know about you, but I was glued to the radio listening to the results last night.  It made falling asleep impossible.

Okay to be fair it wasn't only the radio.  I came down with a cold a couple days ago, and Jessie insisted on putting vapor rub on my chest, feet and back last night for bed.  Do you know how hard it is to sleep with sticky vapor rub on your back and chest.  The T-Shirt I was wearing irritated the heck out of me.  Having something stuck to me drives me insane.  Well needless to say I did NOT get good sleep last night.  Now to be fair to Jessie, I am very happy she loves me enough to take care of me when I am sick.

Okay now back to Super Tuesday.  I am sort of bummed that McCain won so many states and delegates.  McCain in my oppinion has been too liberal in the past and is only changing his views to be elected.  I worry about 4 years of him as President.  I feel very similar about Romney.  There are a few things I don't like about Huckabee, like his tax plan, but I think I would rather see him in the White House than any other candidate. 

Now having said the above, I still would vote for any of the Republican candidates over Clinton or Obama.  Dr. Dobson had been reported to have said he would not vote for McCain if he was to win the parties nomination.  I love Dr. Dobson, and think he has done some great things, but I think he is foolish to not vote at all.  The one thing that I know about all three of the Republican candidates is they are pro-life.  I think if Dr. Dobson doesn't vote, along with many of his supporters, it could be allowing a Democrat of whom we KNOW is pro-choice to become President.  I beleive the sanctity of life is more important than many of the other issues.

I guess that is it.  I usually don't like to talk about politics, but this race has me a little concerned.  If you want to comment on any of what I have said feel free to comment below.  If you are not a registered user here at SilvaMoose, I will have to approve any comments.  This is just so people we don't know can't just post comments.

Talk to you all soon,
MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

Well Praise God!  I was having issues uploading pictures into the blog.  I was kind of worried and I prayed that it wouldn't be a big issue.  After that I just restarted the server and it seemed to fix the issue.  Before I prayed I was looking at the logs of DotNetNuke and didn't understand what the errors were telling me.  I am glad God knows what the errors are.

Now I can upload pictures again into the blogs.  WooHoo !  This is especially good because I told Jessie she could and even should her how.

I guess that is about it.  I don't have anything else to say.  I will talk to you all soon.

MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

Today has been pretty uneventful.  I did spend about 30 minutes on the below pictures so that I could post them on the website.  I hope you guys and gals enjoy them. 

Elisha and I went to the story (Albertsons) tonight so that she could buy Gabriel a late birthday present.  She wanted to go out on Tuesday night but she was sick, and then we had church last night.  She ended up buying him a little plastic plan that shoots 20 feet.  Gabe is excited, and Elisha is happy she got him something.  On a side note, Gabe is also very excited about Saturday.  In the Silva house when you are ten years old you are allowed to have one cup of coffee with dad on Saturday mornings.  This saturday will be his first Saturday cup of coffee with dad.  I think I am as excited as he is.  We got him a wolf coffee cup for his birthday because of the event.

Well that is about it.  I hope you enjoyed the pictures.

MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

Today was a pretty good day. 

At first I thought it was going to be bad, because I woke up at 5:45am and was going to be running later than I wanted for work.  I awoke to Jessie asking if I was ever going to wake up.  Then as I was opening my eyes she said, "It's already past 5."  At hearing that I sat up pretty quickly, but then she told me that it had snowed and all the schools were closed.  I checked my alarm and it was 5:45.  After having a look outside I decided that driving to work in rush hour traffic in the snow wasn't a good thing, so I opted to work from home.  The good thing about that is I don't have to commute and I could lay back down. 

Work started for me shortly after 7am, but before I knew it the family had decided they wanted to go sledding.  I ended up driving the van because I didn't want Jessie to have to drive in the snow.  While the kids were sledding I read a "Community Server" book I was supposed to read for work.  This was good for me because I could be there and still be working.

Anyway the kids had a great time and I got to read without interruptions.  After sledding we came back home and I finished up my work on my computer while the kids did school.  Here is a picture below that Jessie's friend took.

MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

With Momma's and Gabes birthdays coming up soon; Jessie's tomorrow, January 27th and Gabes on the 29th, we decided to go out to celebrate.  We went out bowling.  When we first started planning this trip, my mind was thinking of the old days of bowling.  I was thinking we could get in a few games, have some snacks and it would be a stress reliever.

I was a bit off though.  We had fun, but it wasn't much of a stress reliever.  First of all we had to get shoes for everyone except for Momma and I.  We have our own from way back when we had time to bowl together.  It was a good thing Jessie was there otherwise I would have NO idea what sizes were needed.

The next thing was getting all the bowling balls needed.  This wasn't hard because the kids were in charge of finding balls for themselves.  Well the big kids at least.  This took a little more time then I thought.  The children all wanting to get the best ball spent much time deciding.  You know it is less about weight and usability and more about getting the cool, or pretty ball in Elisha's case.

I think at this point we started to bowl.  Wait, Momma had to input all the names.  She did great and that didn't take too long.  Okay now we are bowling.  Did you know it takes a LONG time to get through 6 bowlers, especially when one of them is Hosanna.  The first ball she and Momma rolled down the lane got stuck half way down.  I had to find someone to retrieve it for us.  After that we helped Hosanna a little more by providing a hefty push, and by the end I was helping her roll the balls down my arms to gain a little momentum.

Okay, now about an hour into the game, and 5 frames we decide Elizabeth would do better with food.  I rushed to the resturaunt at the front of the alley and bought a "Pound O' Fries" and two drinks.  This helped Beth, but slowed our bowling process a bit.  The fries were great, and we were having fun.  The only downside to fries was the greasy hands, but we aren't pro bowlers so it didn't matter too much.

As the game got closer to ending we then had another issue.   Hosanna was getting tired of bowling and was getting distracted by the arcade games behind us.  The children were great and helped us keep an eye on the two youngest girls as they sat in a race care chair watching the video for a racing game.  Elisha and Momma ended up bowling for Hosanna torward the end of the game.  This turned out to be okay and sort of made up for the time we were using just keeping an eye on the girls.

Finally the game was completed.  Not 3 games, not 2, just 1 game a piece for each of us.  I guess I shouldn't complain too much.  At least it ended up being cheaper than paying for two right.

All in all we had a very fun outing and the kids had a blast.  Even though it wasn't stress free, we still had fun.  Praise God for allowing us to have time with our children who are a gift. 

MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

I am starting to have a little time to fix some of the mistakes I made on the site.  I think I fixed a bunch, but there is still a little ways to go.  It isn't perfect.  I want to create a couple very nice containers to hold the modules now.  I have some div based containers, but they don't seem to work very well all the time.  I might make a few table based module containers with div inards.  I guess I will just have to wait and see what is the best.

I hope you keep coming back.  I will be purchasing a picture module when we get income tax back.  It will allow me to start the photo gallery again.  I know several of you have asked about pictures.  Hopefully this will make you all smile when it gets done.  For now enjoy the kids blogs.  I am going to try and encourage them to post once a week at least.

They are all linked to RSS, so it is easy to keep up to date.

Thanks all for listening,

MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

I just wanted you all to be aware that I do know that I am breaking, or causing the Dad page to look bad.  I am using it as my test page for the containers I am making.  Yes the blue bordered containers.  I should really be messing on a page no one can see.  I might try that some day, but for now please bear with me.  (is that the right bear or is it bare.  Not sure if you know comment below.)

Thanks,

MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

I probably should go to bed now.  I have been working tonight on making the web site better looking.  Jessie wanted a banner for her blog page, so I had to rethink my design.  I hadn't made it very easy to change the banner.  I reorganized the layered PhotoShop document I created and sliced it up so that I could easily update the banner and save the image to files I could add to the "Skin" I created for this site.

I am not sure all that makes sense to anyone, but in short, I made the site prettier and easier to change banners.  That should make sense.

In the SilvaMoose home news, Elizabeth is sick.  She threw up in the van this afternoon, and again after dinner.  It doesn't seem to effect her, but we just don't like to see her sick.  If you could all say a prayer for her, that would be great.  Other than that, I think we are all healthy.  Isaiah was saying that his stomach was upset a little, but we weren't sure whether or not it was because he was in the same room when Elizabeth threw up.  I guess we will see in the morning.

That is about it.  I am going to eat the rest of my ice-cream, and then go to bed.

Good Night all,

MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)