Monkinetic Weblog

Well, the Ivy family is adjusting to new realities. Jodi and I are running on between 2-4 hours of sleep for the last two nights, and Adelina has not had much more than that. Jet lag, plus adjusting to new places, new foods, new everything has left our poor little girl a little worse for wear. But when she's doing well, she's truly a joy. :-)

See the news here... W00t!

A co-worker just sent me this: BSB Want It That Way.

My Linguistic Profile:

Creating Passionate Users: Kill the television, keep the shows

Trying out a new browser: Flock

It has some interesting features: built in blog editor, del.icio.us integration, flickr integration.

Technorati Tags: browsers, del.icio.us, flickr, tagging

Ok, I finally got around to combining my love of music, particularly R.E.M., with my love of tinkering, in this case with GarageBand:

Not sure if this is new in iTunes 6, but on whim I tried dragging a link to Merlin's new podcast onto the "Podcasts" group in iTunes. Boom - it subscribed to the podcast and started to download the most recent show. Apple rocks.

Heh. I found this on Dreamhost's Goodies page:

I just saw one of the new Napster commercials. Slogan: "Own Nothing, Have Everything". They even do that cliche'd "brain-washing" Outer Limits thing.

I took a few minutes to google 'deaf blogs' today, trying to find somewhere to help me understand a bit of what my amazing, beautiful, hard-of-hearing soon-to-be-daughter may go through growing up. (If that was a bit hard to follow, sorry - it's the head space I'm in right now.)

I've just uploaded more pics to our picture gallery on |Jodi|'s site. Check 'em out.

Seeing as I can't seem to put together a coherent post recently, and all the interesting information is on |Jodi|'s blog, I added a "Quick Links" section at the top of this page, for those bits and pieces that I find interesting but can't seem to come up with a good "post" for. Oh, and there's a feed too if that's your thing.

Well, |Jodi| has the happy news... we've found our (Lord-willing) daughter-to-be!!

Hi all, from our flat in Kiev, Ukraine! Our flat is right about the middle of this map, on Zhytomers'ka. We're about a 15 min. walk to the main Independence Square downtown.

Well, I've been pretty quiet lately, especially given the momentous process |Jodi| and I are in the middle of. It's now T-2 days until Jodi and I get on a plane bound for London, then to Kiev, Ukraine, to find and adopt our first child! Remarkably, I'm not stressed too much. If you've not been following along, have a browse through Jodi's Adoption Week-by-week posts to catch up. This has been a crazy year, but we have been surrounded by friends and family who have been simply amazing - the level of emotional, spiritual, and financial support has blown us away. Our child will be brought into an environment that is primed and ready for him/her! God is so good!

I'm a total sucker for song covers. I've suffered this affliction for years, but it's only been since discovering various... *ahem* alternative *ahem*... sources of music ^[1(#f1) that I've been able to fully enjoy my addiction.

|Jodi| and I went to see Spielberg's new movie, War of the Worlds last night. I wasn't sure what to expect, and had tried to stay away from spoiler sites (which are generally a guilty pleasure of mine). I read the original novel by H. G. Wells in an anthology I got as a kid, and also had heard the Orson Welles 'Mercury Theater on the Air' broadcast on cassette tape as a teen. Speilberg's vision borrows from both, and exudes the hopelessness and desperation that Orson Welles' interpretation captured so brilliantly.

Today is my 34^th birthday. Yay! :-)