Do You Twitter?

I recently came across this service thanks to Brook.  According to twitter.com, it is "a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?"  I use it as a microblogging service to supplement my blog with personal updates throughout my day.  It has been a cool way of connecting with various people all over the country.  The one person I had in mind when I signed up for this finally did, and this is what his first post was:

Can you feel the love?  Anyways, for those of you who want to follow my updates, you can do so at twitter.com/cjmills.  Even my smoking hot wife, who thinks I'm crazy for updating a thing called twitter, likes it....and why wouldn't she?  Now she can read my mind!

Trip Down Memory Lane

I was watching some of the videos I have on my computer of Jadyn a few days ago when I stumbled upon the video below and decided to upload it to YouTube.  I made this with a bunch of my high school buddies during a production class we were all in.  We had no script; just made it up as we went and actually won a national award for our work!  It is around 9 minutes long, so only watch if you have some time.

Am I Taking Coaching Too Far?

As you can see from my post yesterday, we did a lot of soccer outside. It was great to be back in a coaching role again. I was so excited about it that I totally forgot about CP's Council Meeting (sorry Pastor Gary!). Anyways, while I was outside, I grabbed some footage of my little soccer star grinding out the dribbling drills. I had to look like a total nerd with my mega camcorder in hand, chasing Jade all over. Anyways, it was well worth it as you can see below!

In case you wanted to hear more of the song:

Jadyn's New Swing

How sweet would this be? The swing is made from plastic with fibre optic lighting inserted.  Jade would love it, AND we could have rave parties after house....oh the possibilities.

I stumbled across this while browsing this blog...

Jade's first Video Conference

Today was a big day for Jade -- her first Video Conference.  Since I do a lot of work on my iMac, Jade thinks the only way to have fun with dad while he works is to jump on my lap and watch.  Most of the time she convinces me to open up PhotoBooth to watch herself on the screen.  Today, I caught my good friends Mark and Todd on iChat and invited them to share in the experience.  Don't you just love technology?!?

As a side note - now that both my computer and my wife's laptop have iSight cameras, I can now video chat with my girls when I'm traveling on business!

expertvillage.com - Are You Kidding Me?

There is a whole website dedicated to "how to's" -- anything from breakdancing to identifying birds to being a strong manager to planning a dinner party. This is craziness!!!

Size DOES Matter

I've been wanting to post about this since Monday, but as you can tell from my prior post, Jadyn's little accident did not allow for that.  Then the rest of the week turned into craziness so I had to wait....

Our need for a new computer was long overdue.  With me taking on more wedding jobs, editing video on a 12" laptop has not been fun.  In light of my recent promotion, we decided to celebrate and buy the 24" iMac.  I ordered the new addition to our family on the 25th and waited for it to come, tracking the status of its journey from start to finish.  I was alerted that it arrived on Monday afternoon and decided that I would leave work a little early (5:15) so we could begin the bonding process.  Jadyn was even excited as we tore into the box, yelling, "ooooooo, Daddy's puter!"

I haven't had much time to enjoy the full glory that it brings, but I'm sure I will over the next few months and years.  It's funny to think that messing around on the free macintosh computer provided to students at my elementary school (see photo below) would turn into the interest that I currently have for technology today.  I'm sure that in 6 months from now, Apple will launch a new desktop computer that is much cooler than I what I have now, but after 3 years of working on 12 inches of space, I'm sure glad we made the upgrade now.

Photo of my first Mac...my have we come a long way!