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ralphhogaboom — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:02:00 +0000

Towel is a five-letter word

ralphhogaboom — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:39:00 +0000

Just minutes ago, I was getting Nels out of the tub. Sophie, already out, was running down the hall naked to pick out her own jams. This is something she gets to do since she’s the big girl, and Nels is just the little brother. I picked Nels out of the tub and put him across my lap on a fresh towel. “Towel,” he said.

Honest to dog tears welled up in my eyes.

I remembered when Sophie was his age, a book she had that listed various bath toys. Towel, Ducky, Soap, Faucet. I was overwhelmed with nostalgia for just a few years ago. In Kid Time, though, those years are uncannily light-speed. I mentally flashed-forward to Sophie, a 20-something parent of her own, and me trying to tell her about that book and the word “towel” and how she said it. I wondered why my own parents don’t relate these little memories of growing up. Then I was struck by fear that these moments dissappear; that memory is incorrect, that this memory will soon be gone. That’s why my parents don’t tell me. They don’t remember.

I was suddenly sad, but my son was already down the hallway and picking out his own pajamas, and there was no more time for nostalgia.

Pointless Post

ralphhogaboom — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 14:02:00 +0000

[8:48:22 AM] Doc Golbeck says: Hey, I am trying to get a pw and this is what I get:

Server object error ‘ASP 0177 : 8007007f’
Server.CreateObject Failed
/lib/libhogaboom.asp, line 24
8007007f

[8:48:41 AM] Hoss says: Yeah, hang on 1 seconds … I’m working on that right now …

[8:48:49 AM] Doc Golbeck says: oh, ok

[8:49:19 AM] Hoss says: You can get it from my machine for right now.

[8:49:28 AM] Doc Golbeck says: Thanks!

[8:50:13 AM] Doc Golbeck says: can’t resolve by netbios name, what’s the IP?

[8:50:29 AM] Hoss says: .187.

[8:50:37 AM] Doc Golbeck says: thx

[9:06:39 AM] Hoss says: I rebooted that server on Saturday. It did have SP1 on it …. it came up from reboot just fine. BUT – apparently, there’s something in in that stops ADO connections, like what I use to access an Access database.

[9:06:56 AM] Hoss says: SO – for now, it is broken. I’ll let you know when I get it back up.

[9:08:59 AM] Doc Golbeck says: k

Update: And for the record, installing SP1 and rebooting the application sererfixed it.

Yesterday morning Sophie was kissing me goodbye as I was on my way out to work. She said, very sweetly:

“Daddy, can you bring me some claws home from your work today?”

She’s been fixed on dinosaurs as of late, which I’m guessing is the source of interest in natural defense. So I made her some claws.

She played with them off and on last night for quite awhile. Then said:

“Daddy, would you make me some scary teeth?”

I Had A Baby Today

ralphhogaboom — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 08:20:00 +0000

It’s a boy!

Nels Hogaboom (no middle name as of yet)

born 8 lbs, 7 oz

21 inches long

home birth in the tub — water baby

The birth experience was really, really nice. I couldn’t imagine wanting to have a baby in a hospital again. Now that I’ve been all the way through the home birth, I can appreciate how — mundate — it is. It’s not some crazy, we-need-professionals-in-sterile-rooms Serious Operation. It’s a thing the woman’s body was meant to do, the body excels at doing. DLR said it best: might as well jump.