I’m just testing this out to see what it looks like and how it behaves within Wordpress - I may be tweaking this around a bit, so bear with me guys (getting ready to start vlogging)…

Our little girl was born yesterday! April 26th… Anna woke me up at 09:00, by 10:00 she was having contractions every 3 minutes at 60 seconds a pop so I called her mom (to watch the kids) and the midwife and starting setting up the birthing area in our room… I laid out the flooring got the pool ready just as my mother-in-law arrived (at 10:35 or so), she took the kids into their rooms, and at 10:39, just as the pool was full enough to get into, Anna got into it and the baby was born two minutes later… Initially, the baby somehow turned last minute and her heel was showing (somehow stuck).  I pulled her heel back to expose the whole left foot and immediately the baby came out into my hands - IT’S A GIRL! Very cool how it happened! Our midwife must have been parking when the baby came out because she was in the room just a few minutes later… Anna and Baby (Alana) are doing very well. Alana was exactly 8 lbs and 20 inches long - the pic to the left was shot about an hour after the birth…

So, finally, bought a house in a central location. I can actually ride my bike/moped to most shows now. Cool…

So, finally, my wife is about to give birth to our #3. I can’t wait till the baby is here. Women don’t understand how hard it is to be the guy in this situation. Believe me, I know it’s all about you - don’t get me wrong here - but the waiting for the baby to come thing is stressful for us (guys) as well. Especially when you have a random schedule, with no backup, such as mine. Basically, I’m TD’ing a show for three weeks this month - my wife is due anytime, we do home birth (so I have to be there) and we need the money (so I have to be there too). I’ll be relieved when this baby is here!

So, finally, when all is in order, I will be able to start filming for my mauitech.tv idea. This weblog will become a vlog with a full-on podcast. The idea is to show the beauty of where I live, the customs and traditions, and somewhere in there I’m gonna show you everything about what I do for a living. I want visitors to my site to see first hand what equipment, venues, talent, and techs we have on the island - kinda like a living brochure…

For those of you who are missing my news updates, I’ll get them up sometime this week probably. I have a few months worth to put up…

My brother in laws birthday was a few days ago, my newphews was yesterday, and my wife and mom’s birthday are tomorrow. We celebrated my wife’s today - she wanted a day for herself…

Got my wife an iPod Touch. It’s a pretty cool little device. When I was doing the Lexus, all the guys who came in from out-of-state had an iPhone (and they constantly wanted me to play with it to see what hacks I could make for it); Rusty (the TD at the MACC) got one (and spent a litle time showing it off to me) last week; I’ve been trying to find a personal use for this thing but can’t think of anything other than the “cool” factor; but when I went to the local Mac store they had an iPod touch…

I instantly saw a use for it for my wife. It totally does all the stuff she needs something like that to do - and she doesn’t have to carry a laptop sized device around with her. Specifically, it can have all her calendars on hand 24/7 (she’s always asking me my schedule, now she has it every morning when she syncs), and her pictures will be on hand as well (she’s always taking pics and telling her mom about them, now she can show her). Those were two big things for her that this thing takes care of. Another thing she always needs on-hand is her address book and music - she’s always trying to refer to them and has to tell people she’ll get back to them when she gets home. She’s only had it for a day and she’s already using it like a pro - she’s very stoked on it - I think I just remedied a few things with this little device…

I, myself, have little use for one - but she definately needed it. I’m still using my 5th Gen 80GB Video iPod everyday and loving it, so everyone has what they need at the moment…

I, also, found it easy to configure to my wireless network as well - she won’t do anything which will require a password online with it, so it’s just for surfing the net on the rare occassion that she doesn’t want to do it on her computer…

All around, it’s perfect for her, I just wish it had more of what I need…

They’re just not there yet for my taste…

I want it to record audio and video without adding a single peripheral - for family (video) shorts at the beach, or (audio) recording a lecture…

I want it to take pictures without adding a single peripheral…

There’s no “Mail” App on this thing - what good is that? Giving me Wi-Fi without a Mail App!

I want all of the above to sink to and from my computer with no issues - both ways, not one. As well as Address Book and Calendar syncing to go both ways - this may already be happening but I would want to have one in my hand to assure that I could edit the Calendar and Address book and it would sync to my computer (and vice versa)…

The Hard Drive is too small - give me the 80GB or 160 GB HD in the iPod Touch’s body…

It’s way too small - I want the width and height of a piece of regular paper (8.5X11). Actually, even half that size (8.5 by 5.5) would be great! Should have though of that before - 8.5 inches by 5.5 inches is the perfect size - take a piece of paper and fold it in half to see the size I’m talking about. It’s big enough to get some work done and small enough to fit in just about any bag…

I’m bummed - so close, yet so far away still…