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Ethan and Friends Comic

2010-02-07T23:41:03Z

by: Ethan Warnick

Here is Ethan’s first color comic that he did all by himself. The topic of the comic is courage.

Christmas

2009-12-26T05:40:25Z

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Here is Kathy (Tam) and Mette at the In-laws. Christmas was good this year, but I am glad it is over. Now I just need to get the T.V. room fixed up so I can get the XBox back up and running.

New Camera.

2009-11-10T05:54:57Z

A few weeks back Gareth did something to our camera and it stopped working. Will today we finally got a new one. It is a Nikon CoolPix S630. So far it is a nice little camera. And the pictures are nice. Here is an example of one.

This is Gareth fast asleep in the middle of the hall. That is where he was when I got home from Tae Kwon Do. No nap today wiped him out before dinner.

Memories of past Sundays

2009-09-06T21:27:01Z

Here I sit in the kitchen of my own home and daydream about when I was younger. No worries beyond what I needed/wanted to do right then in the moment. I remember not wanting to take a nap on Sunday afternoon and so we (me and my brothers) would build forts in the living room with the rocking chairs, couch cushions, and all the blanks that we could find. You know I remember building the forts and taking them down after mom and dad woke up, but what we did in them I don’t remember much.

Then I remember as a teenager I looked forward to that Sunday afternoon nap. It was a chance to do nothing but sleep in the middle of the day for 3 or 4 hours at a time. Then I remember spending all evening sitting in the den playing what ever computer game we had at the time. The games I played the most where the Dragon Lance games Champions of Krynn and Death Knights of Krynn.

Now sit in my own home and just try to relax. I am thankful that I can do that. I don’t know how my parents ever trusted me and my brothers to leave up alone while they took a nap. I am almost sacred to think of the condition the house would be in if I left my four kids alone for a hour or so.

OK that is enough rambling for today.

First Web Site.

2009-08-05T05:23:57Z

Ok so now I have published my first public web site. GFBlends is now up and live.

Still needs some work. I am not happy with how the footer is currently set up. But I have not had the time to sit and work out a better solution. I really want to make the footers dynamic and fit to the content that is on each page.

Oh well. And I need to get better pictures of the building and the process floor. I might have to wait until Rachel comes home for a visit then she can take some pictures with her good camera.

Family update.

2009-07-21T02:20:01Z

Not much to update right now. Work on the house is slowly going forward. The hole in between the two halves is 60% done. The ceiling in the quiet room is mostly taped (still have to do the corners).

My wife decided that since we where having turkey meatloaf for dinner that we needed to have pumpkin ice cream to go with it. Yummy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will hopefully get better at posting updates here. And maybe I might post something worth actually reading.

Carol Powell Mette’s Grandmother.

2009-03-25T05:51:35Z

Mette’s grandmother passed away yesterday. Here is a photo album of her.

Carol Powell

Day one out of 18

2009-02-24T06:01:03Z

Started the one hundred pushup challenge today. Arms are sore. will see if I can make it.

onehundredpushups.com

Sonnet 106

2009-02-12T07:09:33Z

When in the chronicle of wasted time
I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old rime
In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,
Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best,
Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,
I see their antique pen would have exprest
Even such a beauty as you master now.
So all their praises are but prophecies
Of this our time, all you prefiguring;
And, for they lookt but with divining eyes,
They had not skill enough your worth to sing:
For we, which now behold these present days,
Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.

This is not mine it is William Shakespeare. I just picked up a book of his poems and sonnets off the book shelve and started read while waiting for Mette to finish balancing the check book. I read this one and thought it was nice so I wanted to share it with everyone.

Ethan playing with Photo editor.

2009-02-11T06:36:41Z

I edeted this pic. It looks funy. ethan

(Update: Ethan created the photo and this post. OGW)

New Kitchen

2009-02-11T06:26:47Z

Well the new kitchen is almost finished. It will be nice to have our own kitchen again and not have to eat out or at the in-laws every night. I will have to post pictures of it all when it is done. It is already looking a great and there are still some things to finish yet. Can’t wait until it is done.

Got the new TV

2009-02-01T06:59:18Z

Finally got a new TV!!!! 42” VIZIO for a good price. Man Star Wars Force Unleashed looked great. Now I need to play Fable 2 on it. Can’t wait. Mette may never get me out of the basement again.

Mistborn

2009-01-18T02:55:39Z

Just finished reading Brandon Sanderson Last book in the Mistborn series. What a wonderful ride. I am really looking forward to when he finishes the last Wheel of Time book. He may not be Robert Jordan but he can sure spin a great story. It was amazing how he was able to tie small things from the first book into the an important piece of information in the last book. It is nice to read such will write stories.

Window 7

2009-01-14T06:38:37Z

So here I am sitting with a clean install of a new operating system. So now what do I do? I guess I need to start installing tools and app that I use. How do I test this thing out. Why do I feel the need to test it out. I just want to use it. Oh well don’t really have much to say right now, I am just to tired to really think hard. I stayed up way to late.

And here I am up late again. This time it is not playing with a new tool that is keeping me up it is watching Eureka with my wife. It is such a fun show. I really miss watching the Sci-Fi channel. But it keep me up to late at night most of the time.

New T.V.

2009-01-10T03:47:00Z

So now I have enough money saved up to buy a new LCD TV. But what do I bu? How big of a TV...oh and I can't forget the sound system what good is a big TV if you can here it! I guess I need to start doing some research in to TVs.
( off subject) I need to see if I can link twitter and my Zune and XBox and Last.fm stuff to this. Maybe on the my main site page. I will have to may be write some thing to get and show the rss feeds on the main site, and a tool to post entrys from there too.(ok back to TVs)
I think I want something around 42" 1080p then a nice sound system with it so I can shake the floor. Well I am off to do some reading
Until Later.

Start.

2009-01-08T06:13:00Z

OK I am going to work on moving my blog here from the old one that I had hosted from home. I am going to need to figure out the hosting of the main site. But that will have to wait.

Dinner with family.

2008-11-11T19:22:24Z

It can be amazing how adding three kids to dinner pushes the volume level up 10 times. I hate eating alone. Even eating in a full restaurant is not the same as eating with ones family. I will have to post later a video of Gareth eating mashed potatoes. I am glad to be at home.

Far from Home.

2008-11-05T20:34:42Z

Here I am stuck far from my family. It has been hard the last month only seeing my wife and kids on the weekends. But I am glad to still have a job. It would suck more to be at home without a job. It is nice to have work to do and to accomplish stuff.

It really cracks me up when I hear people call a spreadsheet a database. That is not an effective tool to store data. It can be a great tool to manipulate, and report data but actual database engines are much more effective at storing data.

Well this is enough random mind puking for tonight. I am off to bed. I am looking forward to going home tomorrow, just hoping that it is not through snow that I have to drive home.

Family Photos

2008-08-27T21:59:40Z

Here are some of the famliy photos from this summer.

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some new videos

2008-07-12T14:52:52Z

This first video is of Gareth Laughing. He has a very unique laugh like a squeak toy.

This next one is of Ethan on the swing in the back yard. He is wearing a blanket as a cape.