Looking After Daddy

I came home from work yesterday with some kind of nasty bug. Big headache, aching all over, slight fever. I lay down on the couch under two heavy blankets. Corinna had to go to the store, so Alice and I watched one of her shows. Alice seemed quite concerned about me, but I explained that I was sick and didn’t feel very good. She went and got a piece of one of her puzzles (a pink pig) and gave it to me saying, “Here daddy.” I thanked her and told her that was very sweet, and that it made me feel better. So she brought me a little blue ball, “Here daddy.” Before Corinna returned from the store I had a little smurf, a small stuffed bear, and a small rattle as well. Alice is such a little sweetheart!

Trick or Treat

Alice was a gypsy for halloween; we’ve been preparing her for October 31st for awhile, and taught her to say “trick or treat”. On halloween, we went to Auntie Tammy’s house for a party. Auntie Chrissy, Uncle Norm and Cassie came too; and Nana Barb and Papa Doug. We decorated pumpkin sugar cookies with orange icing and black sprinkles. Luckily no black got onto any faces or clothing… ( ha ha). Once Uncle Steve got home from work, all the kids went out trick or treating; it was cute to see all the kids out together (Jack, Connor, Ryan, Alice & Cassie); we only went to a few houses as it was quite cold out. We came back to Aunties and had supper, then came home to see daddy. I think we have enough treats from Auntie Tammy and Nana to last us until next halloween….it was sure fun.

A Man and a Lady

Alice likes to identify things when she’s in the car; she’ll say, “look, cars!”, and identify the puppies, trees, grass, etc. Today we were at the drive-thru ATM (Mommy goes there often), and Alice saw 2 people walking by; Alice said, “look, Mommy a man and a lady!”. I looked over at the people she was looking at and saw it was a couple of scary looking teenage boys- one had long hair. We can’t fault Alice for thinking he was a girl, can we? Maybe if he knew, he might get a hair cut…

Counting to Nine...

Yesterday Alice was playing with Auntie Chrissy and Mommy while I was washing dishes. At one point Alice said to them “2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.”

Photo Friday - Innocence

Alice in her ‘Cosy Cottage’.

Twinkle Little Star

This morning I was driving Alice to the dayhome. We were only two blocks from home when she started to ask for her ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star’ book. It was so cute I simply had to turn the Slotcar around and go back home. Once she had her book we drove to the dayhome without any further delays. Alice sang, “Twinkle Star” for much of the trip.

Qmail Black Hole -- Part II

My previous attempt at sending mail to /dev/null was not successful. The following actually works for me. I created a new spameater account and have the extension address sent there. In /etc/qmail/users/assign:\=me-extension:spameater:UID:GID:/home/spameater:::Once this was in place I ran ‘qmail-newu’. So far, so good. The next step was to create a black hole .qmail file in /home/spameater:\# Throw messages away undeliveredTo test this I did the following as a regular user:``` mail -s “Qmail Black Hole” me-extension@domain.com < /dev/null

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Blueies

For some time now, one of Alice’s favourite foods has been blueberries. For breakfast she often has frozen blueberries (microwaved for 30s) with her Cheerios and milk. She mostly eats the blueberries and the milk. Corinna makes a smoothy in the morning with frozen blueberries, orange juice, banana and Balkan yogurt. Alice gets half a glass of this and drinks it with a straw (“dwaw”). When you’re two, it’s kind of hard to say blueberries. Alice calls them “blueies.” These blueies were fresh, not frozen. Alice had a pile of them for dessert tonight. Once she was asleep, I broke out my strobe, tripod, and a piece of white foamcore. These were shot with my shoot-through umbrella, at full power; the foamcore was used for bounce. Kind of makes you want blueies, doesn’t it?

Photo Friday - Girl

Alice lounging on the ottoman.

Qmail Black Hole

I have some qmail aliases which no longer receive useful information – just spam. To send them to a black hole, I merely created a /etc/qmail/alias/.qmail-devnull file which contains:| cat /dev/nullNext I added a new alias for the extension email address. For example, suppose ‘me-blah@domain.ca’ is the address we wish to black hole. In /etc/qmail/users/assign I add:``` =me-blah:me:UID:GID:/etc/qmail/alias:::

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