Ryan and Debi

Travel, Tech, Thoughts…

  • applying Valentine stickers

    Toren’s Granmary sent some Valentine stickers that Toren immediately wanted to put up.  Here’s a clip of him applying them:

  • chomp chomp

    Toren wanted me to film him chomping at a restaurant one day:

  • bubble wrap party

    One of Toren’s favorite activities is to pop bubble wrap.  Here’s a clip of him doing some popping, helped by Debi when he can’t quite finish it off:

  • Toren running up a slide

    I took Toren to the park one day and he showed off his ability to run up the slide:

  • cheetah party

    Debi just asked Toren what he wants to do for his birthday party.  His response, “I want a cheetah party.” Then Debi asked what you do at a cheetah party. Toren explained, “You just run, and you eat, and you play, ’cause cheetahs like to do that.”

  • Monster Toren

    Toren came up with a monster costume one night and wanted us to film him flapping his monster wings:

  • Alafia River Corridor hike

    We tried out another new hike from the Southwest Florida Water Management District’s website: the Alafia River Corridor.  This was one of the first hikes we’ve done here in Florida where I felt like I was really out in the middle of nowhere.  From the parking lot to the wider trail by the train tracks…

  • Weedon Island Preserve

    Having spent far too much time at Busch Gardens over the last few months, I decided to do some hiking with Toren on Sundays instead.  Last weekend we visited Weedon Island Preserve, just across the bay in St. Petersburg.  Toren wasn’t interested in hiking and rode in the backpack the whole time, but he seemed…

  • water breath

    Debi was complaining about my coffee breath this morning in front of Toren.  Toren thought it was funny, but he was clearly paying attention.  Just after Debi said that I have coffee breath, Toren told her, “I don’t drink coffee so I don’t have coffee breath.  I have water breath.”

  • Linuxmint or Ubuntu: Crashplan backup using headless Synology NAS

    If you’re using a Synology NAS box and would like to back up your files to offsite storage service Crashplan (which is relatively inexpensive), there is a relatively easy way to do this.  However, you need to think about the Crashplan software as having two components.  There is the backup engine, or the software that communicates…