Wed, 17 May 2006 Baby James Yesterday at 3:15pm Pacific (GMT -7) baby James was born.  He has blue eyes, is 22 inches long, and weighs 10lbs 11oz!!!!!!!!  Mother is doing very well and is in a great mood.  He has a slight heart murmur, but the doctor says that there are no ill signs and the baby is very healthy.  Either way, since I try not to ask for anything from my listener, I would like to ask that you say a quick prayer, or if you are not religious, please just close your eyes for a few seconds and think good baby thoughts. Other than that he is the love of my life, and a glorious addition to our family.  The thing my wife and I value the most. Thank you all, Brad the Dad Category: general -- posted at: 11:58 AM Comments[2]

Fri, 5 May 2006 Chapter 23 - He is Right Here With Us THIS IS THE CORRECTED VERSION OF CHAPTER 23.  The previous one had issues, and has been dropped in the trash.  Please forgive the previous error. Direct download: UPDATED_Chapter_23_-_He_Is_Right_Here_With_Us.mp3 Category: podiobook -- posted at: 4:14 AM Comments[2]

Fri, 5 May 2006 Correcting Chapter 23 Holy Shmoly!  Did I make newbie mistake!  I apologize to everyone for this bad mistake.  Just a heads up into the process that I go through with recording:  I record the initial reading of the chapter, which obviously includes a bazillion studders, stammers, and rereads.  I then go once over to take out said bazillion studders, stammers, and rereads.  Yea!  Then I go over the recording again to go over the timing of the speech.  Some of the words from this writer are hard to say (some I have not said before), and I have to say them v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y.  Then, thanks to the wonderful world of open-source computer magic (audacity), my sling-blade style speech can be crafted into regular human-speak.  Then I pump it out to MP3 (which is get's saved as .WAV when I'm working with Audacity).  During the last mentioned step, is where something didn't jive.  I was lucky enough to have one of the listeners contact me and let me know -THANKS DARYL!- ...and now I'm listening to a newly regenerated version that, so far has no hiccups.  I'm going to upload it as soon as possible.  Thank you, and sorry again for the screw-up.  I'm putting another step into my process here, and it's listen to the recording before I upload it.  Hey, what a concept! Brad the Dad Category: podcasts -- posted at: 2:15 AM Comments[2]