Ryan and Debi

Travel, Tech, Thoughts…

  • NJ-High Point

    Summit Date March 5th, 2011; around 8:00 am Party Ryan Cragun Trip Report I drove from Hartford, CT to the highpoint.  For some reason I thought highpoints in New England would be accessible and not particularly cold in early March.  I was wrong.  High Point was covered in snow and the entire hill was blanketed…

  • RI-Jerimoth Hill

    Summit Date March 4th, 2011; around 4:45 pm   Party Ryan Cragun   Trip Report I was doing some work in Hartford, CT, and decided I wanted to see a little bit of the surrounding area.  As I hadn’t done any of the highpoint in the area, I figured I’d give it a whirl and…

  • Toren v. light toy

    We picked this toy up at the pizza place we visited in Utah – it’s a stretchy toy that lights up when you move it.  Toren’s really moving it in this video, until, well, you’ll see (about the 22 or 23 second mark): No permanent damage done!

  • Does the door insulator “ride”?

    This is another in the long series of objects Toren has tried to “ride” – our door insulator (a bag filled with beans we put along the bottom of the front door to better insulate it):  

  • Toren’s small steps

    For a while Toren was doing this little shuffle where he would take a couple of small steps, then stop.  The only footage of it I managed to get was while we were waiting for the neighbor to take Toren and I for a ride on his new cart.  While we waited for him, Toren was…

  • Toren running around the house

    I need to get better footage of this as I’m sure the cute toddling of toddlers eventually goes away, but here’s a shot of Toren running through the house (carrying his potty):

  • Something Interesting

    In case you were wondering what effect Obama’s health care legislation (Affordable Care Act) will have on Medicare (’cause I’m sure everyone was wondering this), I have some visual aids for you.  I create these for my Introduction to Sociology class for the chapter on aging.  But the change was so dramatic I figured others…

  • dessert at Romano’s

    We use our cashback bonus from Discover to go out to eat occasionally.  During this visit to Romano’s, we got Toren some ice cream, which he devoured (video 1): The dessert I ordered also came with ice cream, which he then stole from Debi (video 2):

  • Toren and Debi under the bed sheets

    One night while Debi and I were making our bed, I convinced Toren to lie on the bed while we put the sheets on.  He thought it was fun: (apologies for another crappy video; my phone doesn’t shoot good video in the dark)

  • Toren and the candy pig

    Candy pig?  Candy pig you say?  Yep!  Debi’s advisor gave it to her.  Apparently it’s a tradition in her Italian-American family (from her home town in NY).  It’s like a candy cane, but in the shape of a pig. No, I don’t get it either.  But Toren liked it: