Raise the flag!
On our trip down to LA last month, I neglected to bring my camera, so I had to solicit the help once again of the Clevengers' neighbor and friend, Joyce, to take a picture of the recent addition to the front of their house:
They put up the 2 blue flags shortly after we discovered the genders, and we got to see them as we drove up from the airport.
Keeping busy
Robyn returned home today from spending 3 weeks at Math Camp. (For those of you who weren't aware, the answer to your question is: Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like.) It was held down in Corvallis, so she was able to come home on the weekends. Going a week without watching the boys grow made their weekly growth that much more dramatic when she came home, especially today.
For the past few weeks I've been keeping myself busy with a laundry list of things I've been meaning to do for quite some time (not the least of which on the list: laundry). When she took off, I had a stunning realization that I might not have as much time as I'd like to get to these things in the course of the next year, which got me motivated. So I've spent the last 3 weeks organizing junk, getting rid of junk, putting up shelves to store junk, and putting up curtains to hide junk. I can happily report that I can now easily get around 45% of our basement now (yes, that is an improvement thankyouverymuch). Robyn's task over the next couple of weeks will be to get the nursery all ready to go. The crib, in particular, has become a holding cell for new trinkets. So, unless they're going to sleep in the bed with us (and I know 2 furry animals who wouldn't take too kindly to the invasion of their territory) she'll have to get on that.
Statistical proof of excitement
One of the joys of running your own webserver is looking at the server logs. I can't imagine how dorky that must sound to the casual reader of this site, but I stand by what I said. I'll give you an example:
That's the graph generated from my server logs for the month of July. Notice the peak of the 6th bar from the left? That represents the web traffic put out by my server on July 6th, the day after we announced the genders. 3,363 hits. And around 1,000 on the day before and the day after. Wow! (A "hit" doesn't necessarily indicate a unique visitor, but reflects the number of web pages that the server has sent out to various users. Also, I should qualify those numbers with the fact that the 2 computers that make up the bulk of this server's traffic are Robyn's computer, and Robyn's mom's computer.) In terms of web servers, that's not a very big number at all, but in terms of the circle of friends and family who watch this site, it makes us very happy to see so much excitement!
Something else the server logs keep track of is the search terms that were used to find this website. This has been a steady source of amusement for me, so I thought I'd share. Few people actually find this site through a search engine; most hit a bookmark or type the address themselves. However, there were a few search terms in the logs, and these caught my attention:
- "icelandic names for a boy" (Thank you Jamie for your post on May 17th!)
- "names that go with edwin as middle name" (Yeah, that one really surprised me! I mean c'mon; how specific can you get?)
- "keith beeber" (I was confused as to how those terms would turn up this website until I realized that it was due to Robyn's mom, who has signed several posts as "Grandma Beeber", and that the word "Beeber" is probably one of the few words that hasn't seen much use on the internet.)
- "names rhyming with cindy" (Ok, to whomever plugged those words into a search engine: First of all, the name you're looking for is "Mindy", or possibly "Mindie" if you spell it like our friend who posted recently. If you needed a search engine to help you discover a name that rhymes with "Cindy", you might want to re-consider the value of education. Second, naming your twins Cindy and Mindy is not cool. At all. Period. No one thinks it's funny. No one thinks it's cute. So don't do it. Robyn's friend and former roommate Jo had friends in high school who were twins named Cindy and Mindy. I don't know the entire story, just that it was awful for them.)
from Grandpa Rose on 2006-09-02 08:05:39