Milhous Ink

Who Who?

By milhous.30, on May 8th, 2012

So, I have been teaching Addie jokes for a while. She has a hard time remembering them, so I have to refresh her memory. One of them was about an owl. It goes like this.

Knock Knock Who’s there? Who. Who who? I didn’t know there was an owl in there.

When she retold my . . . → Read More: Who Who?

On April 4th (a dooms day) I successfully defended. It was a lot of work, but I am finally done. Now we are getting our house ready to be sold. We have all been sick for the past week, which makes packing and sorting all the more difficult.

I will protect you

By milhous.30, on March 30th, 2012

Lately, Keagan has been becoming more “boyish”. He likes to dig, take apart everything and he has turned his drills into guns. Although, he still likes to carry around Barbie dolls as he is influenced by his big sister. He also loves his mother. When given the chance, he will choose Beth over me almost . . . → Read More: I will protect you

Spinning Wheels

By milhous.30, on March 4th, 2012

Addie said to Beth “Are your wheels going down?”

I asked “Do you think mommy is tired?”

Addie said “Yeah”

“So you mean that mommy is winding down”?

“Yeah”

I guess sometimes idioms get jumbled up.

Another case was Keagan calling Addie a “funny rabbit”. The original phrase is “funny bunny”, which is common among . . . → Read More: Spinning Wheels

Thundercats

By milhous.30, on February 14th, 2012

So, my friend John tells the story of how he loved the tv series Thundercats when he was a kid. He then 20 some years later decided to watch the series, that he so loved, once again. When he watched, he was astonished as to how much he did not like the series anymore.

About . . . → Read More: Thundercats

Fun Days

By milhous.30, on January 31st, 2012

Today, I went to school as usual. It was also very warm outside. Addie and Keagan both took naps. Addie woke up and Beth decided that they could play in the sandbox. When I got home, both children were in the sandbox. They were having a grand old time. By 5:30 it was a bit . . . → Read More: Fun Days

Fix Greyed out USB device in VirtualBox

By milhous.30, on January 9th, 2012

I am running Virtualbox on Ubuntu (10.04) at work. I was tying to allow my windows XP virtual machine see my usb printer (Zebra). When I first started, virtual box did not list any usb devices. This is because this version of Ubuntu has an old version of VirtualBox. So, I uninstalled the repository version . . . → Read More: Fix Greyed out USB device in VirtualBox

Open windows program from url

By milhous.30, on December 30th, 2011

So, at work we need to open an explorer window from within a browser. I found out that you can register your own custom protocol handler in windows.

Here is my registry entry file that I created to register my protocol handler from within windows.

protocol.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\alert] @="URL:Alert Protocol" "URL . . . → Read More: Open windows program from url

Funny Story of Thanksgiving

By milhous.30, on December 19th, 2011

So, most every thanksgiving we go to Mitch and Rebecca’s house. They live 40 minutes from us, which is the smallest distance for any relative. This year we got there early, which is odd. We are usually late, as we take a while to get ready.

At one point in the afternoon, Anne Neilsen started . . . → Read More: Funny Story of Thanksgiving

Story Time.

By milhous.30, on December 9th, 2011

So, lately we have been having fun building little tents in the living room. I use the couch as one wall, two dining room chairs as the other wall and blankets for the roof and other walls. The kids throughly love building tents. They would rather build a tent before bed than read a . . . → Read More: Story Time.