MN Birth Certificate here

Yippee! Michael now has an official MN birth certificate with his new name Michael Paulson Frey. I was beginning to wonder if it would ever come. Guess, where I'll be on Christmas Eve? Over at the local SSA office getting him a SS # and card. Then I can finally open a bank account in his name. After that, I can work on savings bonds. I'll also be prepared come tax season. Anybody know a good tax preparer? Between the adoption, the stock market and daycare deductions, I may throw in the towel on doing my own.

Temp Location & budget passed

Yahoo! We get to have a temp location. No trying to answer phones while jackhammer's hammer away. Been there, done that and don't mind not repeating the experience.

Why?

Why does Proquest ask me to take a survey? I tried to fill it in 4 times. It didn't work. It told me not to respond to the email, but gave me no information on how to contact them that their survey was broken. Why?

Websites/Databases etc.

Why is it that I never notice how a database or website is so handy except when it's not working right? Ipage is finally working better again. It was up and down for awhile and driving me nuts. Titlesource acting up is even more devastating on my work flow. Since I order quite a bit it feels like I live on this websites/databases.

Lately work's email has been a challenge. Something got infected or something and the spam has gotten out of hand. I deleted over 100 messages on Monday. Today I only had around 4o, so that is some improvement. The email and IM have been going up and down like a yoyo while they've been fixing it. Hopefully it too will stabilize soon at least for awhile.

It's a short week and I've actually had time off the desk. Now if I could just get all that snow shovelled, life would be good.

Holiday question to ponder

Why does it only take about 12 minutes to return the empty holiday boxes to the basement, when it took over 30 minutes to get them from the basement into my office during Michael's nap? I can't believe that not putting the tree back in the absement took that muych more time.

Oh well, the tree is up. My front door is officially blocked until the tree comes down. Nobody better ring the broken doorbell. Most of the decorations are up. The cards are pretty much written, addressed and stamped. I just need to verify they have enough postage to mail. I know the European ones do not. I think the only thing left to do, is dig out the holiday music, bake the goodies and wrap the presents. Yes, the presents have been purchased.

I started early this year since everything takes a bit longer when you only have acouple hours when you know who is sleeping/napping to get things done without help. I'm not sure if I'll keep the baby-gate up in front of the alcove where the tree is. It kind of ruins the effect and Michael does wander downstairs when it's not at the top of the stairs. I tend to like to have him on the smae floor as me. We'll see.

In Service Day & 23 Things

Well, More Things on a Stick are coming supposedly in January of 09. Yikes, I do not remember all those passwords and accounts. A few I kept using using, so I changed the passwords etc. to things I'd remember better. Some I haven't gone back and looked at since I signed up for the account. Hopefully they purged me after I did not come back so I can sign up for new accounts if I need to. I won an address book to put all those passwords into. Oh joy. Now if I could just remember them to begin with.

Online photo site for Michael's pictures

Well, I finally put an online album up. I had played around with Adobe's site, but was not comfortable with the fact it creates an url that someone could stumble accross and get access to my pictures. I used Flickr for 23 things and it was ok, but I wasn't impressed with the albums. I glanced at Picasa, but really didn't another prgram on my computer.

I went with Canon. I had purchased my camera from them and they offered me a trial. I can put photos up for an album. I can chose whether or not to password protect it, I also can chose whether others can easily print/download the photos. etc. It's easier to use and access than Adobe, with less chance of someone stumbling across it due to the password possibility.

So if you are interested in seeing photos of my son Michael, send me an email with your name and how I know you and I'll consider sending you the url and password. I figure most of the people looking at it will be relatives...