If you hadn’t heard already, I am a huge fan of High-Definition video, and everyday my 480p resolution DVDs stare and taunt me with their low resolution!!!!

It’s not actually that bad, but I’m having a firesale. All the DVDs must go! I have this cabinet full of DVDs from when I used to actually buy them, but we never watch any of them. There are some movies that I actually want to own like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and The Matrix, but by and large I don’t need movies like Weekend at Bernie, Outbreak, and Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.

I’ve put all 100 or so on Half.com, and already I’ve sold 12! Granted I priced them very competitively because I don’t want to still be selling these things 6 months from now. On average I should be able to get between $1-$3 for each of them, and then with that money I can buy some of the truly good movies in Blu-Ray!

In case you want to buy some of my DVDs, go visit The Blarg’s Store!

I put up a new header just for fun. It doesn’t match the site very well and looks like a big rectangular weird thing, but we had too much fun making it not to use it. I’ll revert to the old school blarg title eventually, but for now enjoy this one.

I’ve run out of exciting titles for posts of baby pictures. One of these times I’m actually going to post something like a thought, or what I’m up to, but for now it will have to be just another post of the cutest boy on Earth.

I know it’s been a while since this aunt got her picture on the blarg.

And in this one he is just downright cute. Since he’s smiling a little in this picture, I’ll say something about that. It’s pretty fun now because he’ll look at me or Stacie and smile when he sees us. It’s super cute and something he didn’t do even a couple weeks ago.

I’m planning to upgrade wordpress and make some nifty changes to the blarg to keep it fresh, but for now you will have to get excited about a new plugin I put on today.

I want everyone to post a comment to this post, because if you don’t, you’ll never see the new plugin! Right now you will have 3 minutes after you comment to change what you posted. All you have to do is click on your post! This should come in handy for fixing spelling mistakes or if you decide that cussing me out wasn’t a good idea (or maybe you didn’t and it would be!), you can now go back and edit your comment before it becomes final. After the 3 mins the comment becomes permanent, but it’s nice to have the opportunity to fix them.

So post a comment and try it! If you want to add this plugin to your wordpress blog, visit the WP Ajax Edit Comments page.

Edit: I went ahead and threw all three songs on The Blarg radio over to the right. Now you don’t even have to leave this page to listen to the music! Oh WoW!

Some music I like a lot. Stuck in my head mucho.

Anarbor – I’ll Stay to the West

Parade the Day – American Dream

Over It – Caught Up In A Rundown

The Blarg’s hosting service crashed sometime last night and was down about 12 hours. The hosting service went to a backup from the 21st, so my last post was lost.

The htpc is back up and running with the replacement hard drive. It’s getting a super clean reinstall of Windows and I just installed Norton Ghost to make a nice backup in case this ever happens again. I’ve gone to great lengths to set things up, so once I have a backup of the whole thing, I won’t have to go through all the hassle of setup (which really wasn’t that bad a second time around). I bought a neat little cooler that attaches to the bottom of the hard drive and helps to pull some hot air off of it. In my case the hard drive is sort of isolated and no air passes over it, so this is a really easy and quiet way to circulate the air. I’ve even seen a five degree drop in my video card temps.

I started to play Final Fantasy 7 from the original playstation the other night. I remember when Andrew and I got that game back in the 90′s. I think he beat it, but I never did, so I figure why not throw it in and see what I can do. It’s an easy game to play when the baby is lying on your chest. I know the game takes a long time to beat, and I’ve got plenty of other things to do, so we’ll see how long my interest lasts.

Baby is doing well. He’s sleeping longer chunks at night, and already he’s able to spend a lot of that time alone in his bassinet. Hopefully sometime in the next couple months we’ll get him moved to his own crib and a good nighttime routine will be established. Our friend Shannon who lives in Georgia was out here on vacation and stopped by today to see Luke. It’s amazing to see the little changes he’s going through already. You can tell his eyes are working better because he looks around. Stacie walked by him in his chair today and his eyes about rolled out of their sockets as he watched her go by. He does a little bit of smiling, but not a ton yet. I can’t wait until I can tickle him or give him a raspberry and he squeals in delight. Right now when I do it he just looks at me like “what the heck is that!”

The Dodgers beat the D’backs. Woot woot!

Tonight the blarg hits 50,000 visits! Granted half of those visits are from google images, but I will take credit for them! I’ve enjoyed the last 3.5 years of blogging since I started this site, and I look forward to many more years keeping in touch with people I otherwise probably wouldn’t communicate with much. See, the internet isn’t completely evil.

Today is 2 weeks from our due date! Something like 90% of babies are born during the 2 weeks before or after the due date, so we’re getting down to the nitty gritty. Since the baby could come any day now I have a bunch of lesson plans ready at work so I can be absent without warning. And because the due date is so close, the next picture you see might be the baby itself, so I figured I better post some final “before” pictures.

Every week we’ve been taking a picture of Stacie’s belly, and I turned it into a short video. You can watch the video of her tummy growing here. You have to enter a password which is babyblarg.