Well, it’s official — Kirstin is one month old now.

It really doesn’t seem like it’s been an entire month since she was born, but that’s the case (so the calendar tells me). With her being a month old, I started a new photoset on Flickr (her third of general pictures taken). She has most definitely grown in the last month, even though she was pretty good sized when she arrived. This is one of those times where I enjoy looking at the daily picture set, because over a period of time one can really see how she’s changed.

There was a baby shower for her today, and that was a good time. Got to see some people that I’d not seen for some time (including the gal from whom we bought the house), so that was fun. Had some good food, and scored some really cool stuff, too. Even better. 🙂 Jill and Lori did very well with everything there — it was much appreciated. Probably the most unexpected thing we got in the shower was some homemade items (bib and onesie) from one of our old insurance agents. They (a couple) retired at the end of the year (December, 2006) and were good for killing an hour whenever I stopped in to visit. Oddly enough, I spent more time in their office just hanging around than I think I ever did doing business. Regardless, it was a very unexpected gift, and really cool. It never even occurred to me that someone might actually make something like that.

I’m really not all that verbose tonight. I’m just a bit tired again (but I knew I would be — it’s been kinda a big day). We had some amazing weather today, and it’s supposed to be the same tomorrow. It was nearly 60 outside for a good chunk of the day. We actually had the front screen door window open and also the window over the kitchen sink. I’m pretty sure that the furnace only ran a little bit this morning, because it’s been a pretty constant 70-71 degrees in the house all day (the dining room thermostat said 73 most of the day). It was nice to get some fresh air inside, though. That’s always one of my more favorite parts of the spring (and fall).

It was nice enough today that when I went out to feed the dogs and give them some attention, I decided to take each one out for a little run. They’d not had that for some time (especially a run proper), so they were very excited about it. I actually did it for two reasons — one being a bit of an experiment (to see how they would handle a non-walk pace), and the other to see if we can over a period of time get them to the point where we can try both at the same time. The ultimate goal would be to get them working together and eventually hook them up to something (sled or cart).

But today I just took each one for about a 1/2-2/3 mile run. Good times. Koshka is definitely the better leader, but Kurva is definitely the better follower. That might not make much sense, but I think with some direction (and practice, more than anything), we’ll be able to get them to do something with their pent-up energy. 🙂

So anyway, that’s about all I’ve got to say right now. It still looks as though my video camera will be here on Monday, so I’ll have something new to play with at that time. I’m kinda excited. 🙂

I’m thinking that one of my projects for tomorrow will be to go through all of my nearly 75 posts here and do some categorization of them. I have to look at some of my trends for topics; then I can figure out how I can label/tag each post appropriately. I usually only use the labeling feature when I think of it, and that’s a habit I’d like to get out of. Especially as my entries get higher in number, at which point in time a more thought out set of categories would be a Good Thing for searching back.

I’d also like to actually make some DVDs tomorrow of the various bits of video I’ve still got on my computer. There’s something like 30GB of video I’ve captured that I’ve got sitting on my computer. I’m not pressed for drive space, but I’d like to burn a good master copy of some of the older stuff so that I can remove it just to clean up things a bit. Ideally, I’d also do some major backing up to DVD as well (data DVD). We’ll see how that goes. I’m sure a nap will be in order as well…

So anyway, until next time…

–MZ