Jer979's Blog

For the first child, you watch every move and it's announced. "I've been watching her every moment!!! I think she could roll ov...

I was talking on my cell while driving when I noticed the flashing lights behind me. I stopped. The cop comes up and asks me through the wi...

One of life's priceless experiences, in my opinion, is how your young kids look up to you (literally and figuratively) for your approval...

I've been told by some that I can be abrasive and abrupt. Usually, I just shrugged it off and figured that the other person was being t...

One of the easiest ways for an individual to help another is through donating blood. 14 years ago today, I received my first blood donor ca...

Tomorrow is exactly one year since we became homeowners for the first time. We certainly have learned a lot about what that means in a very ...

Imagine this scenario in the pre-Internet world. You get a cell phone that is "locked" to a certain provider. What are you going t...

A hard lesson I’ve learned recently is that facts don’t matter. Well, they matter, but not as much as I though they do.   What matters...

People sometimes find it funny that my hobby is playing with technology…considering I spend a large portion of my day in front of a comput...

I said this to Calanit earlier today after she had fallen down while playing.   Then, I paused and realized that the same applies to m...

since I've been truly blown away by something I've seen online, but I've got to tell you that the new Live.com service by Micros...

I know it's obvious that when you don't have to pay for something, you're more than willing to consume more than you would if yo...

People sometimes ask why I feel the need to blog, publish my thoughts out where everyone can see. There are a few reasons. One, I kind of th...

I got Calanit a training potty via the Internet today. I've long loved the possibilities of the Internet as a platform but within the pa...

We need to find a new caregiver for 1 day a week for our kids and also a new person to help clean our house. We were at a lunch recently whe...

In college football, when a player makes a great play or contribution to his team, many teams hand out little stickers of a school symbol wh...

Seeing your kids move from stage to stage is clearly one of the joys of parenting. Sometimes, they happen all of a sudden. Sometimes, they s...

In game 2 of this year's World Series, an umpire made a call that a batter was hit by a pitch. As a result, the next batter hit a Grand ...

I had a big dental day yesterday which got me thinking about health insurance. First, a visit to the general dentist and then to my periodon...

We just got back from 2.5 days in Albany with Tamar's nuclear family. For many people, that's a couple of people. For us, that means...