{"id":1345,"date":"2008-02-22T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2008-02-22T21:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T21:22:00","slug":"telmarine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=1345","title":{"rendered":"telmarine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rightjustify\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/old\/blog\/images\/macpro1.jpg\" alt=\"mac pro\" title=\"\" \/>Out with the old and busted; make way for the new hotness:<\/p>\n<p>At work, that is.  Got it in yesterday; just got it set up and everything transferred over today.  I use two computers at work: a Mac, for about 90% of the design work that I do, and a PC for using Solidworks (mainly instruction sheets).  Each computer has a monitor, one a flatscreen and one a CRT, and I place them side-by-side on my desk.  Today I discovered the video card on the new Mac happens to have two video inputs, and it came with adapters.  After a little finagling I rigged the monitors so that the Mac can use both simultaneously.  So the 90% of the time that I use the Mac I will have one double-wide monitor.  I don&#8217;t know if I could go back&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Luke&#8217;s first soccer practice was Tuesday evening.  The coach planned it for 5:40 p.m., a good time for him but lousy for us.  Still, with some creative rearranging we can make it.  This week Diane stayed home with Penelope, and Luke and I went.  His Coach Mark handed out t-shirts to him and the ten or so kids on his team.  They&#8217;re blue, he&#8217;s no.2, and they decided to call themselves &#8220;The Blue Dolphins&#8221; (a decision he had no interest in, by the way).  About half of Luke&#8217;s teammates are 4, the rest 3 years old like himself.  The boy\/girl ratio is similar.  Most of the 4-year-olds seem to know what the deal is, or at least have a grasp of some of the social concepts that playing soccer entails.  I mentioned to Diane after we returned home how many things we take for granted as adults, things many of the kids have no experience with, like standing in a line, or teamwork, or deference to an authority figure like a coach.<\/p>\n<p>But good gosh, was it fun to watch, and fun for Luke too.  He chased the ball around, nearly got stampeded by his teammates during warm-up drills, actually kicked the ball in the goal during one drill and loved wearing his uniform.<\/p>\n<p>His first actual &#8220;game&#8221; is tomorrow afternoon.  His mommy outfitted him with shin guards and new shoes, among other things.  Pictures and video to follow soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out with the old and busted; make way for the new hotness: At work, that is. Got it in yesterday; just got it set up and everything transferred over today. I use two computers at work: a Mac, for about 90% of the design work that I do, and a PC for using Solidworks (mainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}