Musings of a technophile

So this weekend was pretty nice. We kicked it off with some swimming at the pool on Friday night. It was the third time we had attempted to go swimming this year so far, and this time the water was acceptable, although still cold. Luckily Ethan this time seemed to finally remember his “swimming days” from last year, and was able to jump off the wall and swim to me again. I’m pretty happy about that since I we hadn’t seem him swim yet, and we were worried he had forgotten it all.

On Saturday we decided to go talk to the furniture people about our couch. It has a stain and, since the furniture people cannot get it out and we had bought the warranty on it, they owe us a new couch. They had sent out a Stanley Steamer truck that morning and even those guys couldn’t get it out. We had got the fabric protector stuff applied, so supposedly any stain should have come out of the couch – however we didn’t think it “really” got applied. Since I get a brand new couch after two years though – not like I care. Anyways, we talked to them for a bit (have to go back in a few weeks to buy a new one) and then headed over to Bubbalou’s Bodacious BBQ – undoubtedly the best BBQ joint in town (and from what Dad says – one of the best places he’s ever been to – and he’s been to a lot of BBQ joints). The boys like it there – it has a little train that goes around a track on the ceiling, so they like to look at that.

Next we went to Best Buy and looked at the TV’s and netbook computers. My wife is thinking about getting a netbook just because 1) they are cheap 2) The are extremely portable 3) she wants to get rid of her computer so she can move my PC into our bedroom in it’s place. We looked at the new OLED TV’s. At 3mm thick, it was like looking at a pane of glass – quite impressive (and equally expensive). They also had some surround sound speakers – two speakers @ $1,299 a piece – insane!

For our last stop we went to a plant nursery and butterfly garden. It was REALLY nice and all the plants looked very healthy. We wound up staying there for a couple hours while we browsed the selection. We got some flowers to make a little garden (where no sun shines in our yard in a certain corner) and some sod. Let me tell you – the Home Depot sod is like garbage compared to this stuff. Home Depot charges $5.00 for a 2 x 1 foot piece, whereas this place charge $1.39 for the same size. The Home depot grass is normally half dead as well – this stuff looked like they had just plucked it from the greenest field you ever saw like 5 minutes ago. We took all the items home and planted them all – Ethan had a fun time digging with the rake and shovel as it was something he had been looking forward to for a while. We rounded off the day with another trip to the pool where Ethan did even better than the day before.

On Sunday we went to Toys-R-Us and purchased a 6 foot around hard plastic swimming pool. I had to tie it to the roof rack (lucky thing I keep rope in my car!) and, after having to stop once to “enhance my rope placement”, we managed to get it home. We had a picnic in the back with some Publix subs and fried chicken we had bought on the way home. Logan went down for a nap, but Ethan was excited to go play in his pool. We filled it up and he had fun going down the slide that was built into the pool. After about an hour we got Logan up and tried to get him into the pool. He wasn’t into it much though as the water was too cold for him. Eventually we dumped about 15 gallons of nearly boiling water into the pool and, although that made it about normal temperature, we still could not get him in. We went ahead and put Madelyn into the pool to see how she would like it and she splashed a little before we had to get her out (Ethan was treating the pool more like a “wave pool”. Logan must have decided not to be shown up by his baby sister after that though cause he jumped right in.

All in all we probably stayed out there for like 3-4 hours; the was just a beautiful day and it felt so nice to just sit there and soak up the sun – I even dozed off a couple times heh.

It was just a perfect weekend really, and the weather just couldn’t have been any nicer. I did feel a little sad at the end of the weekend though because I just kept thinking about how the boys were growing up and how in a few years they just wouldn’t be content to just play with a pool for so many hours – no matter how big or how many “cool features” the pool had. Ah, life goes by so fast; babies grow up so quick.