eternally chaotic

A technical problem has happened between the keyboard and the chair.  I recently discovered thanks to feedback from Tina, that our website videos were not working properly and were not viewable without being invited.  Well that certainly isn’t how its supposed to work.  Should YouTube know what I want and just do it for me in the first place.  Turns out I uploaded all but one of the videos we have published as private – meaning just that – we have to invite you to view or you can bugger off.  The problem has been corrected now and all the video from past posts should be visible.  Enjoy !!!

Last night though, Carol and I booted up the xbox, ready for another episode of Dr. Who, when were greeted with a message saying that the console had been banned from xbox live for violations of the terms of service.  Destroying any hopes of fixing the problem the last sentence of the message clearly stated “there is no recourse for a banned console” meaning – enjoy your brick, thanks for playing, have a nice day, oh and by the way why don’t you hop on down to the store and purchase a new one. Needless to say the discovery was frustrating.  Talking to a friend about the ban it looks like I wasn’t alone.  Other friends have had the same luck, others have not, but are waiting patiently for their turn at exile.

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Nobody likes to argue with their kids.  I know I certainly don’t.  Last night was different, at least for one conversation.  I was making the kids’ dinner and while waiting they became heatedly engaged in a conversation about precisely when Darth Vader had died.  I am by no means any sort of expert on Star Wars or Darth Vader but like many others grew up as a science fiction fan and Star Wars was certainly a topic always near the surface, regardless of my interest.  I was curious about what they were saying though and a thought hit me:  Did I just hear right?  Were the Jacob, Isaac and Piper discussing the finer details about the timeline of Star Wars?  Now granted that Piper has only recently come into this phenomenon, but the boys are knee deep in it.

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Calling all iPhone developers….read all about it.

Just like the other millions or so people around the world we love our iPhones.  The problem is, so do our kids.  And whats wrong with that…why nothing of course.  Who doesn’t want to play an endless array of free or inexpensive games to pass the time of a ride in the van, or listen to the discovery channel, or…well point made.  The damned thing is brilliant (or at least many of the apps are), but I digress.

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Princess Hell is no more.

The site has into evolved into something more grand – originally a place for tales about the girls – it is that and more now.  While there will certainly still be entries about the girls, there will also be entries about the boys, as well and Carol and I, perhaps Uno and maybe even some thought about all the stuff in between.

If the name wasn’t going to be Princess Hell anymore what should it be?  The dilemma of a domain name is not one easily solved.  Many names came from friends and family – some making fun, others serious.  Here are some of them:

• Im Not Yelling . com
• Stop Touching Me . com
• Isi and Carol plus 4 . com
• My Freaky Family . com
• Blissful Chaos . com
• Growing Pains . com
• Be Quiet Please . com
• Chaotic Bliss . com

On theme stuck though once we started going through the recommendations – Chaos – Our lives are certainly that.  Now we just needed something to put before or after to make it whole – our life as a family isn’t just chaotic – it is special…more.  We tried hundreds of permutations with the variations on the word chaos.  Most didn’t make sense or were taken – chaoticbliss.com was $2,000 – no thanks.  Then I got a message from Carol one day, completely unrelated, that mentioned the word “eternally” and within a picosecond the name popped into my mind – eternallychaotic – and about another picosecond passed before I had checked the availability of the dot com domain and registered it.  Ok well maybe it took longer than that….but not much…and the delay was in godaddy’s response time – and thank the stars the name wasn’t already taken, thus eternallychaotic.com was born.

If you didn’t get that you haven’t been around the house lately.  Carol and I have upgraded the processors in our head with a newer version that can spell, at high speed, most words, in reverse or decode an incoming message.  With our house having two that can and two that cannot spell we have had to take extra measures to make plans, impromptu comments, curse, or just say something that the kids can’t or shouldn’t here.

This has been fun, if tedious, to learn and do.  The more we practice the better we get at both at the reverse spelling and the listening and decoding.  Now if we could just add a cipher in there in case the kids catch on.  Maybe ROT13…they are still young…that should fool them for a few years.