MileHiDad- Dad's Daily Poop a.k.a.- My Blog Log

A Record "Brown Trout"!

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:08:21 GMT

OK, I know the calendar says June, the grass is green with leaves on the trees, heck my Rose bushes even have buds! But why is it still so cold out? The first 4 days of June have been rather chilly, in fact so cold the pool hasn't even been open. I went this morning and it was cool and clear.

But not so cold and clear where somebody wasn't even able to make it to the bathroom! The had to close the pool because somebody launched a "Brown Trout" into the far end. Yep, your thinking right, they took a dump in the pool and by no means was it a small toddler size excrement, but adult sized. Nobody would admit it but I have a hunch it was the extra large young teenage boy in need of a bra who did it. You see he was floundering in that end of the pool the disappeared and was only too helpful to help the women lifeguards who fished it out, dump it from the net. I have no proof it was this kid but you don't need to be a rocket scientist to put two and two together. Where did this kid go while Miss Katy the guard saw it and fished it out? Probably to the men's room to finish up with the paperwork if you catch my drift. Why did he go back and volunteer to run the net? Heck this kid had a case of Plumbers Butt that would humble a true pro! Think about it, for a person to leave a poop in the pool with a swimsuit on, takes effort because well you know... If those girls had any Cajone's they would have put two and two together and figured out who did what and nailed this kid! But I am just a Stay at Home Dad who was catching up on some reading before swimming because my kid is in school today and good thing I read, because I might have got some on me!

Those poor girls didn't know what to do because Mr. Steve was at another pool today, good thing they called him because they put Danger tape, (although it was in Spanish) around it to close the pool and Shocked it and scrubbed the skid marks the load created away. I asked Miss Katy why they closed it, and she thought a second about the wording and while trying to be a big girl said there was feces in the pool while not trying to be too grossed out. These were just high school girls who guard in the summer for the awesome tan, not to pull teenage or adult bowel movement from the pool. I give these girls a thumbs up for their effort today!

5 Things to Never Be Caught Without For Your Toddler

Sun, 27 May 2007 03:35:59 GMT

1. Chewable fever breaker with sore throat reliever and cough suppressant (may require multiple meds). Make sure they are all compatible with each other.

2. Children’s Pepto, for the overindulgence of sweets, upset/sour stomach that can happen when you least expect it, a real lifesaver! Need I say more?

3. Pre-moistened wipes for those unexpected blowouts, either below the belt or when extra catsup is added when you are not looking. It is also a good idea to wipe the shopping cart down; especially during the cold and flu season.

4. Juice Boxes stashed in your car.

5. A pocket full of loose change, you never know when one of those gumball type machines at their eye level is going to disrupt your plans when you are jammed for time and you need complete cooperation. Who said 25¢ can’t by peace

Best Ice Cream or Custard?

Sat, 19 May 2007 02:53:09 GMT

So, we Stay at Home Dads are in a unique position where we get to relive all the good things we had when we were kids to pass along to our kids. One of my favorites is ice cream and frozen custard! What is your favorite taste? Thinking back on it, the old DQ was pretty grand, and then came along the advent of, drum roll please. At the no. 3 position Cold Stone Creamery and their high dollar treats, No. 2 Good Times with their Spoon Bender and the best from the Milwaukee area and my all time no. 1 favorite Kopp's Frozen Custard Flavor of the Day; all worthy competitors with an awesome taste!
What is yours?

Stay at Home Dad Product Review: InStep Tag Along Bike

Fri, 18 May 2007 02:39:34 GMT

The InStep Pathfinder is a bonus compared to other tag along bikes priced more than double in price. You've no doubt seen this type of thing being pulled more often than not by a mountain bike, it connects to your seat post, has a third wheel, a seat behind a set of handle bars and pedals to push. This hybrid has no brakes and free wheels backwards too if the rider does not want to pedal they can cruise, but pedaling is encouraged.
Sticker price of $119.00 but it was on sale for $79.00, dad's bonus shopping thanks to a Miss Debbie(of the Y) tip at the clubhouse when she asked what we were doing for the day and I went off on an overpriced tag along rant.
My son graduated to his second bike with training wheels this week even though he still goes about 1 mile max, and he goes so slow I can't keep my bike balance but he rides faster than I can walk which was causing us problems and the balance I provide him will only help him, or so I hope.
Last weekend we went for a big family Mothers Day ride along the Spring Creek Trail in Fort Collins and we were able to borrow an older model InStep that my son desperately wanted to ride on but was a little intimidated and rode in a Burly with his younger cousin the first 6 miles. At the 6-mile mark I stopped with the tag along still attached to my bike and waited for the Burly to catch up and when we pulled up I said "I sure need help pedaling uphill wanna ride and help me out?" He said sure and unbuckled to get out and climb aboard my rig while wearing his helmet. We took off slow, I kept asking/telling him to hang on, which he did, and soon we were at the end of the trail ready to turn around for the cruise back down to the east. The ride was uneventful other than my son getting cramps in his hand from holding on tight for so long but I heard him singing as if I have never heard him sing before as he pedaled while loving life.
Getting back to the PF 250, setup was minimal out of the box and after a couple of test rides around the block we got the seat height right and the handlebars in a good forward position. I did have to fiddle and play with the double directional knuckle pivots the PF 250 uses when negotiating turns a couple of times. I was a little concerned about the seat post mount to my bike and the way I had to torque it down, my seat rotated as I negotiated turns but I fixed that by tightening the lever for the seat to make it tight and loosened the knuckle even further. I looked at the REI brand of tag along on their web site that runs for $159.00 and it had all the similar critical components. It had the quick release for the handlebars his and my seat post mounts where the PF 250 had Allen Bolt patterns at these locations; but hey, for $75 bucks I can turn some bolts!
In this dads opinion if you don't need a splash guard to protect junior when there is water at the curb and don't mind spinning a wrench if you change bikes (you can get an extra mount of the InStep web site for 8 bucks to eliminate the wrenching) this tag along is well worth the money! I bet we outgrow it by the time all the new tire nubs wear out and by then it will be garaged sale sold a couple of times. Time will tell, but I also have an InStep Jog Stroller that has been to Disneyworld and back while being put through our paces, miles and Sippy spills and still runs strong. I did not even blink twice about the brand in my 10 minute in and out of Target!

Talking Common Sense with a Four Year Old

Tue, 01 May 2007 15:10:37 GMT

Kids Are Smart!

After a couple weeks of a living Hell , it seems to have worked so far as long as I keep reminding him of what he's doing.
Last night after a couple weeks of thrash, This Stay at Home Dad sat down with my four year old while I tried to gain his attention. I wasn't too sure I had it, but I kept talking about what big boys do and how their parents react, and what he's doing now and the way I am reacting. He was looking away but listening to me, mark a small victory for me!
I kept going, pointing out his behavior and comparing our life to a big kid's behavior and what their parents did as a result. We were starting to make small brief eye contact, mark a small success for me!
Slowly, I had his full attention as I continued with I know you are a nice sweet boy because I have seen it when we go out to the clubhouse, the store and Soccer, and everyplace else. What happens when we get home? He started to break away and look for anything else to look at but me as I continued. He knew I was on to his game, mark another small success for me!
This morning dawned early as usual for us at 6:45 with him calling for his mom who had left for work 15 minutes earlier, and I yelled back telling him "Mom was at work already" as I jumped out of bed and took a quick three minute shower before my thrash continued for yet another day. I got dressed, he called me into his room, I said "why?", and he said, "Because I want you to". So I went in and he just said "I want my Mommy", I told him, "Mom was at work already but I'm here" as I went back to comb my hair. He got up and went downstairs acting like a changed man, he was polite and considerate this morning he didn't even demand his toast shaped waffles or a Sippy of Milk right away, I poured his cup of Milk and delivered it as I was guessing he was developing his game plan to reek havoc in my life today. I went to turn on his shows before clubhouse preschool as I fired up my trusty Dell laptop to check my e-mail and yesterdays web stats. He started asking for some waffles and I said in just a minute, he asked again so I jumped to make them and tame the evil spirit before he made an appearance.

As of 9 AM this morning, mark a small victory for this Stay at Home Dad in a lifetime of kid conflicts to come!
Just try talking to your kids! They're listening!

The Golden Sound of Silence

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:06:52 GMT

Or Another Sign of Aging

Do you remember those days not so long ago when if there were dead silence it would send you into a tizzy while scrambling for something that produced some sort of sound? I know it did this Stay at Home Dad. Maybe it was the stereo or radio in the days before the Ipod revolution, as long as it made sound it worked. Do you ever drive whatever it is you drive without music on? This was me till about six months ago; always playing some kind of music wherever I went, and now I relish driving someplace by myself, solo, while listening to nothing other than my automatic transmission shift while accelerating. The sweet sounds of silence!

While this stay at Home Dad was sitting in the kitchen at his Dell laptop relishing the sweet sounds of nothing it dawned on him, in the immortal words of Jimmy Buffett, I grew up into one of those people my parents warned me about. OK, not really but you get the idea, I am just as if my folks were when I was young and I swore it would never happen to me!

However, tonight after a full day of my preschoolers thrashing and ordering me while demanding me to do things I would not do; of which I ranted about here yesterday, 26 Apr 2007. I sat here and relished calmness to the dull redundant hum of the refrigerator as I knocked back the only beer in my house, a 24 oz. Miller High Life Light as I typed this Blog to post in the morning and boy, I wish I had another. In the modest words of Pink Floyd, am I comfortably numb? I don’t know but it feels good hearing nothing as I do something.

Thinking back on it, I am comfortably numb while being the person my parents warned me about!

Take Me Back to Yesterday

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:17:37 GMT

When Terrible Twos Wasn't So Terrible

This Stay at Home Dad wants to go back to yesterday. Take me back to yesterday and I will tell you about the good old days of changing multiple diapers a day and the only resentful thing said to me were about his bottle of milk being empty.
Sometimes it feels like my world's gone crazy when dealing with the attitude, fingers and mouth of a four-year-old, please can I ever go back to yesterday?.

Other Moms and my sister used said me in my early days of being a Stay at Home Dad, just wait until the terrible twos arrive! Well sister those days have come and gone; can we go back? When the F***ed Up Fours arrived, life really started to suck!

The F***ed Up Fours Thrash

When my son turned four my life really got f***ed up trying to meet his needs thinking that this phase would pass next week and the next phase would raise hell on my life. My son's identity really started to surface and I was tested on everything, from launching his 100s of Hotwheels cars across the kitchen for the mere sound of them crashing into the cabinets to, being asked all day long if his friend Sadie was home from school yet starting about 9AM.

Up His Nose It Goes

Then when his shows are on TV, it is like a magnet; his finger goes from its new home of being in his nostril straight down to his mouth, I jump his shit over this and his response is "well Evan says it's OK" as he picks his nose again. Evan is his preschool bud and I am told Evan knows more than dad does, just ask my son as he kicks over a portable tray table for the umpteenth time today just for the sound it makes while hitting the floor. Please can this Stay at Home Dad ever go back to yesterday?

I Ruined His Life

I am told multiple times a day that I ruined his life, that I am mean and that Evan knows more than I do. I cannot get a break no matter what I do, but I am Dad, a dad who has done that Stay at Home Dad gig now for over four years. I love doing what I do while at the same time longing for a job where I can drive in rush hour traffic while listening to music (my music) , worry about corporate downsizing and go more than a couple of hours without a finger going from up the nose it goes to in the mouth it went. This Stay at Home Dads only fear of downsizing these days is my longing for my life as it was when it had some sanity to it. I know that this phase will soon pass and it will seem simple compared to what we will face when my son is 16 and wants the car on Friday night. Please can I ever go back to yesterday? He is only four years old and has more girlfriends than boy buds, what is it going to be like in 12 years? Please can this Stay at Home Dad ever go back to yesterday?

Girlfriends and Boy Buds

Speaking of boy buds, I know they are only four but when I pick my son up from school, Evan comes running asking him "where's my hug?" Then they give bear hugs to each other while little Miss Ashley tell me she is my sons friend. I know there only four but I would sure feel better seeing him giving Ashley a hug than Evan, but what is it going to be like in 12 years? Please can this Stay at Home Dad ever go back to yesterday?

In all honesty, I got him in preschool for the social interaction of being around kids his own age knowing full well that he would pick up such flattering habits as his nasal snacking, and me getting called a poopy head when I ruined his life again today; this is starting to take its toll on me. Please can this Stay at Home Dad ever go back to yesterday?

My DVD F***ed Up Fours Thrash

This kid has quite the DVD collection from Cailou and Baby Einstein collection to Curious George, Nemo and Infinity and Beyond if you catch my drift, anyway these videos get tossed and scratched after his mom gives them to him to play with to settle the spirit. Then It's up to me and myself only to perform a faith healing to make them one again and play, I am only a Stay at Home Dad, I am not superhuman!

My Anti-Child F***ed Up Fours Thrash

Then there was last night after my 4 year old goes through this nightly rage from 5-7 PM when he is seemingly transformed into the anti-child! He refuses to nap and it shows in this timeframe when an all-new level of ugliness takes his face and wreaks havoc in my life; there is no pleasing this person even when he gets his way! Please can this Stay at Home Dad ever go back to yesterday?

He is in preschool 2.5 days a week, Monday Wednesday and Friday mornings, these days go all too quick for me and my haunting comes on Tuesday and Thursdays along with the weekends. "Well where his mom" you ask? I will not even go there. Please can this Stay at Home Dad ever go back to yesterday?

I know this is only an F***ed Up Fours phase and things will get better, but will this phase ever end? This is only one day for tomorrow brings on a new F***ed Up Fours Thrash.

So There I Was… Sanctimommies, Oh Please

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:49:49 GMT

So There I Was… Surfing Stay at Home Dad Blogs, checking out the latest and greatest about our unique profession currently had to offer when I came across this new word I had never seen or heard of before. I’ll let that sink in a moment, Sanctimommies.

Sanctimommies, have you heard about it before? Do you even know what one is? I didn’t so I Googled it and everything returned as needing a “momtimi” but no actual definition. Are you a Sanctidaddy? I sure hope not, I am not even too sure it’s even genetically possible. Sanctimommies is a god awful word and finally I found a definition. What the hell kind of person even drinks a “Momtini”? Better yet what the hell is a “Momtini? Must be something to do with PMS. A cold Micro beats whatever the hell this concoction is, hands down!

Definition: Sanctimommies

What is a sanctimommy? The term gets its roots from being sanctimonious -- being excessively righteous and judgmental. A sanctimommy tends to deliberately compete; she thrives on instilling guilt in other parents; she builds herself up while tearing other parents down; she judges regularly; she smugly instills a sense of inadequacy in others. This may be done directly via comments such as "I can't believe your son is still in diapers." Or, it may be done in a more cruel fashion under the veil of Internet anonymity.

These sanctimommies often gather on parenting sites such as www.urbanbaby.com . Lets hope we never become a Sanctiparent, this sure sounds like a PMS thing to me, so I am not entirely sure dads can be this, it has distinct gender markings from the preferred beverage on down! So Sanctimommies come from the dark side?

At this Stay at Home Dad site we tend to call a spade a spade from the get go and if you don’t like it you sure know how to leave and you sure as hell don’t have to come back if you don’t want to.

Comments gentlemen?

This Stay at Home Dad’s Blockage de’Blog

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:21:45 GMT

Should I see a Gastroenterologist?

Kind of sounds like it, huh?

I’ve had quite the blockage lately when it comes to inputting words on screen so this morning the concerted effort I began typing these random thoughts.

· Why is it my Comcast.com cable Internet connection only goes away during the weekday work hours of 8 to 5? It goes down at 10 till 8 this morning after being down yesterday afternoon and mysteriously reappears at 5:10. If I call the laimo tech support and they say “all is OK on their side of life wherever they are, more than likely Bangladesh India that it must be on your end, we can have a technician at your house in two or three days, can we schedule a meeting between 8 and noon or 1 to 5?” Then I say “no, I’ll just reset my modem and do an ipconfig /refresh and renew at the prompt and then wait till 5 or so and it’ll be back.”

· Same goes with my OneandOne.com web hosting service and getting beyond 3^rd grade database tech support, the person I talk to about this has no idea so they escalate it to the next level (more than likely their level 2 support is in the states) which is never followed up on, OUTSOUCED tech support is Lame! Tech support in general is lame, ever tried dealing with AOL support where they talk to you like you’re in kindergarten? Yes, I had to go with this in the infancy days of Broadband so I could connect faster than 48k in my telecom black hole of a neighborhood. It worked but was a humiliating experience!

· This Stay at Home Dad has got Sunrocket.com Telephony phone service which is Internet dependant so the phone goes out as well, no biggy because my Sprint.com cell is my old stand by. Only yesterday this Stay at Home Dad had all calls forwarded to voice mail (I attempted to remove the forward at 4:30 before we left for soccer as it can only be done over the web page interface) so if my wife got some employment inquiries from all the jobs she’s been applying for lately. She can listen to what they say first hand for herself, instead of me taking notes and then be wrongly accused by my wife that this Stay at Home Dad didn’t ask the one key question that she had that I didn’t know about, and get in trouble for not asking it, so having it go strait to voice mail is a no brainer for me. But I caught a ton of shit over it last night waiting for my son’s 5:30 Little Tykes Soccer game.

· Sunrocket is right on for phone service! Even though Comcast.com is the weak link here and leaves a little something to be desired!Well that’s it for know, my blockage is partially removed, I don’t know what Comcast.com anal problem is.; just as soon as my Internet returns I’ll post this!
I input this into a Word.doc at 8 this morning so I could save my thoughts in between my 4.5 YO toddler thrash, his preschool drop off and pickup with Coach Steve and picking up the never ending rain of M & Ms onslaught from the kitchen floor. So look at the Blog entry time/date posted which in all likelihood will be later this morning or god forbid, this afternoon.

The Top 3 Jobs Aside Being a Stay at Home Dad in America Today

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:12:06 GMT

The Top 3 Jobs Aside Being a Stay at Home Dad in America Today:

In no particular order

TV Weather Person
Hurricane Forecaster
General Manager of the Colorado Rockies

TV Weather Person

You get to stay clean, be on TV, hangout the anchor women, and most important you get paid and thanked for being wrong. If you call for rain and it doesn’t, people thank you. If you predict big snow and it doesn’t, people are happy. It’s like they expect you to be wrong!

Hurricane Forecaster

See TV Weather Person. Getting paid and accepted to be wrong.

General Manager of the Colorado Rockies

You take over a team that was leading the league in attendance and on the verge of being a respectable team, and who are moving into a new stadium. Life would be pretty sweet one would think, but if you get the team to be a bottom dweller in the standings and consecutive sell outs are a thing of the past and life gets even better! You get a contract extension and a raise. This guy, Dan O’Dowd doesn’t even strive for mediocrity, they just plain stink as a team. I would take his job for the difference in pay between his old contract and new and love my life. My team sure couldn’t do any worse and the Monfort’s who own the team would be saving big bucks!

Let’s Try This Survey Again

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:35:50 GMT

OK after a bunch of thrashing and language barriers with outsourced tech support folk I got a Stay at Home Dad survey active again. Today really sucked, between toddler wars and language barriers with folk who would admit no wrong, my database is working again so I am reposting. There were a few dads who took the survey and had no results post, would you guys be so kind as to take it one more time? My work will hold up this time, knock on Indian wood! Text from my previously deleted post is below.

After reading Mr. Baylies web site which has survey results from 2004 at http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/athomedad/index.blog?topic_id=17189 and thought we needed more recent data.

Survey link
Survey results linked there as well.

It now collects no user data after I saw what it did
with the first two submissions. I will now be working
on a web query to subtotal results.

At Home Dads Need to Get a life, Myself Included

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:54:02 GMT

In my ventures to other dad sites, particularly forum sites of one which I am a member, a battle is happening as we speak (I will not post links to this behavior), the Stay at Home Dad is a pretty brutal person, in particular towards other fellow at home dads.

Then I opened this mornings twice daily Google e mail about Blogs containing the words Stay-at-Home Dads and read this one teaser and link to Rebel Dads Blog where he says "Peter Baylies has continued his trend of actually talking to people to fill his blog, rather than mindlessly linking to the work of others." I had to rethink my thoughts that the vile posts were much broader than just the forums.

Mr. Rebel Dad, the reason I have mindlessly posted links and teasers to your Blog is, what you are saying in your Blogs is pretty relevant stuff for us At Home Dads and I was merely trying to spread the word because believe it or not, not every one knows of you! I have been very busy when not doing my dad and home thing, among my chores is to get my At home Dad Survey results to post its results to the web at http://milehidad.com/db/survey.asp and am getting pretty tired of dealing with my servers outsourced tech support folk in India, after all they can do no wrong even if their servers are mis-configured (UPDATE: Now posting results). I got on this idea after reading Mr. Baylies web site which has survey results from 2004 at http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/athomedad/index.blog?topic_id=17189 .

I am not lazy Mr. Rebel Dad, anything but, being a stats freak like you are I have just been trying to compile some recent data and when they were complete at the years end I was going to share them. I don't know if your Blog mean me at all I just took it personal. I was just helping spreading your words and keeping my Blog fresh.

So us dads in general let's make and be/keep friends not war!

It can get awful lonely in our lives when you go it alone.

At Home Dad Numbers Up Again!

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:00:14 GMT

At-Home Dad Numbers Up Again in 2005
By Rebel Dad(Rebel Dad)
I'll get into the numbers more later, when I have more time, but it's worth noting that the nearly worthless Census numbers nonetheless continue to show a growth in at-home dad numbers, to 159000 in 2005. In context:. 2005: 159000 ...
Rebel Dad: the stay-at-home dad... - http://www.rebeldad.com/index.html

See? I Told You My Kids Would Be Better Off If They Were Raised By ...
By Chag(Chag)
Since I am a stay-at-home dad and my children spend an average of fifty hours per week in my sans-mom care, that makes me a childcare provider who is making his children more aggressive and less articulate by his mere presence. ...
Cynical Dad - http://cynicaldad.blogspot.com/index.html

FWD: Top Ten Reasons Geeks Make Good Fathers

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:26:29 GMT

Top Ten Reasons Geeks Make Good Fathers

I have a Top Ten of Geekdom for you inspired by

Maryam's geek blogs: Ten reasons why Geeks make good fathers. http://imhelendt.spaces.live.com/

ManBoobs

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:42:32 GMT

Does This Baby Carrier Make My Manboobs Look Big?
In search of a way to carry his kid Bubba without straining his back too much, Chicago area at-home dad Howard Ludwig decided to check out a babywearing seminar at the local library. But unless you count a bunch of strangers ...
Daddy Types - http://daddytypes.com/

Check This Stat Out!

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:36:10 GMT

Check this out! Then come back and read this posting. I wonder what the average amount of time a full time working mother spends with her kids in a family where we dads stay at home being a Stay at Home Dad. I’ll just bet it’s a whole bunch more.

There are 24 hours in a day, granted, and assuming 8 of them are sleeping, 7 hours a week is an hour a day, puleeze! Unless these dads are100+ hours a week which I doubt is even a real possibility, these polled working dads are slackers, that’s right SLACKERS. Woo hoo an hour a day, that’s serious bonding happening. I wish for seven hours a week of dad only time while I’m awake. Sorry not fare here, my son is in preschool now but still, 7 hours a week? I wonder how many hours are spent at a happy hour. Sorry for the rant, but just 7 hours? Please…

New At Home Dad Convention Day

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:13:30 GMT

Mark your calendars now for November 3, 2007 for this years Stay at Home Dads Convention in Kansas City, Missouri. It's put on by 8 guys who are organizing this year's gig and according to Dayv27 they "are some of the greatest guys I have ever met". All are very open, friendly, supportive, and want nothing more than to help other Stay-At-Home Dads in their jobs. They are like all other Stay at Home Dads. All of us have fairly young kids, my son being 2, and I believe the oldest child of the guys is no more than 7 or 8. So if you're a Stay at Home Dad mark your calendars now and save the date for a weekend of camaraderie with people who live life as you do and if you're into drinking beers, you're not alone, read these dad posts about their favorite consumables. Don't get me wrong, this is much more than a beer fest all though it's rumored and more than a couple have been knocked back, it's a place where you can talk about obstacles we all face in our daily lives. Networking and camaraderie is happening everywhere. So mark your calendars...

Not Much New on the Blog Front

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:24:11 GMT

On this Stay at Home Dad Blog and Blog I, spent the better part of the day and evening in a deep Internet forum discussion at a dad web site with an individual who always had to have the last word and posted his remarks in a joking fashion, only I had no idea he was joking, a real comedian. It got ugly and in the process I was called a nitwit and he insulted my mom, lovely. So I will be back on my Blog comparison now that this issue has hopefully been put to rest.

Not Updated Score:

My Space 2 Pros: custom backgrounds and sounds, copy and paste from Word needs no cleaning up Cons: offline quite a bit on a Saturday

Windows Live Space 1 Pros: Real time updated globe map and links, pretty cool Cons: Copy and paste from Word needs cleaning up, no customization

-MileHiDad

Not Much New

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:04:53 GMT

Being a weekend I had to focus on family, so all I'll say is Windows Live Rocks more on stats seeing how it gives you the referring URL and daily plus weekly reads where My Space just gives read counts.

My Space 2 Pros: custom backgrounds and sounds, copy and paste from Word needs no cleaning up Cons: offline quite a bit on a Saturday, Stats

Windows Live Space 2 Pros: Real time updated globe map and links, pretty cool, Stats Cons: Copy and paste from Word needs cleaning up, no customization, adds a ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> on a paste.

Stay at Home Dad Blog Update 2

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:18:36 GMT

On this Blog I continued my theme creation and it’s now to my liking, for right now anyway. I had significant problems when accessing my Blog at My Space but it seems to be resolving slowly so good luck if you visit. At this point I’ve changed my Blog URL in my mail signatures to point to My Space as well as my web site links. I really dig the sound and graphics I got on my Blog as they really seem to compliment each other.

Updated Score:

My Space 2 Pros: custom backgrounds and sounds, copy and paste from Word needs no cleaning up Cons: offline quite a bit on a Saturday, adds a ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> on a paste.

Windows Live Space 1 Pros: Real time updated globe map and links, pretty cool Cons: Copy and paste from Word needs cleaning up, no customization.

-MileHiDad

Photo Album: Christmas06

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:31:14 GMT

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Photo Album: Denver's Monster Jam Photos at 'da Can

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:55:42 GMT

Denver's Monster Jam Photos at 'da Can

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Photo Album: 2006 Holiday Blizzard 1

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:50:45 GMT

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Custom List: Cool Dad Links

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:16:02 GMT

Cool Dad Links

DakotaBates.com
Dakota Jackson Bates - Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me
Babble.com
Babble, for the new urban parent
Kev, a Fellow Coworker of Mine
I’m Not a Slacker - Notes From A Guy Who Didn’t Outsource Parenting
MileHiDad.com
MileHiDad.com is a community for colorado based stay-at-home dads and fathers.
Proud Supporter of AtHomeDad.org
A community for stay-at-home dads, a site for fathers who are the primary caregiver in their family.
Because I Said So
James Grayson
Howard Ludwig, Stay-At-Home Dad
Howard is a former Daily Southtown Newpaper staff writer who traded his reporter's notebook for a diaper bag, becoming a stay-at-home dad.
Bad Hair Dad
Becoming an Expert on a Daughter’s Hair & Clothing
Cry it out: Adventures of a stay-at-home dad
“So sweet and romantic!” — Ayelet Waldman * “Nuptially retarded!” — Gawker.com
My Other Blog
My Other My Space.com Blog

Custom List: Quotes From a 4 Year Old

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:28:10 GMT

Quotes From a 4 Year Old

All Time Best
Dad!! I just Pooped!
When I tell him no, I hear this beween the tears and sobs as he has his hand over his eyes.
You ruined my life!