Author: McAdmin

A Bit of Cabin Fever

Post author By McAdmin
Post date January 17, 2010

I haven’t blogged lately… I think I got out of the habit when we were in CA and haven’t felt much motivation to resume. Also, we’ve seemed to have some different types of colds around here, so regular life was on hold for a bit.

Last winter, I was basically prideful about how we seemed “immune” to getting sick, because we didn’t have any problems at all. But this winter, I’ve been humbled… While we’ve been sick, we’ve pretty much stayed home, inside… which makes for some craziness around here. But I am very grateful for my helpful husband and also a great Mom-in-law who has been over several times to save the day!!! Even though I feel like kind of a wimp, it’s sooooo nice to be “rescued” sometimes!

Tech

Help our store out

Post author By McAdmin
Post date January 12, 2010

Hey, want to help out the store Joy and I own, but you don’t want to buy anything.. that’s understandable. We’ll take a link instead!

Use one of the links below to link to us from your website:

<a href="http://www.ldsstock.com/ctr-rings/" title="My favorite place for CTR rings">CTR Rings</a>

<a href="http://www.ldsstock.com/lds-artwork/" title="Awesome LDS artwork, at an amazing price!">LDS Artwork</a>

Respectively this generates a link like this: CTR Rings or this: LDS Artwork

Ok, but why? Well, while we would love you to buy stuff, truth is, we wouldn’t charge you very much b/c you are our friends, and we’d have to pay taxes, bleh! If you put a link like this on your website that has the text “CTR Rings” or “LDS Artwork” and then google sees that, google says hey, LDSstock.com must be a good place for CTR rings and LDS Art. Then it moves LDSstock.com up the search result list when people search for those words. Helping us move up the search list is the best gift you could give us.

Oh I saw your site listed when I searched for CTR rings, so I clicked on it a bunch of times! Isn’t that great!?

No. No it’s not. One of two things happened, either you clicked on my ad a bunch of times, costing me money. Or you clicked our site a bunch of times and then didn’t go to another page, so google thinks you didn’t like the site. Either way, you didn’t help me.

So if you were wondering lately what you could do to help us out.. I’ve just answered your question! If you are really feeling generous you’d tell you friends about LDSstock.com, or even write a whole blog post about how awesome CTR rings and LDS artwork from LDSstock.com are.

Just FYI, THANKS!

UPDATE:

As requested I made some image links, respectively:

Let me know if you want a different size for your sidebar/content, I’d be happy to whip one up.
And here is the code to use one of these:

<a href="http://www.ldsstock.com" title="CTR rings, LDS art, and other LDS products at 10% or more off retail"><img src="http://www.ldsstock.com/badges/ldsstock125.png" alt="LDSstock.com" height="125" width="125" style="border:2px solid #3C4A64;" /></a>

<a href="http://www.ldsstock.com" title="CTR rings, LDS art, and other LDS products at 10% or more off retail"><img src="http://www.ldsstock.com/badges/ldsstock250.png" alt="LDSstock.com" height="110" width="250" style="border:2px solid #3C4A64;" /></a>

Family Fun

Family Pictures

Post author By McAdmin
Post date January 10, 2010

As usual, Joy wanted a family picture at Christmas, after 30 minutes of attempting we had the following to show for our efforts. ENJOY!

McVideos

Chase’s 4 wheeler

Post author By McAdmin
Post date January 10, 2010

While I doubt it is as powerful as Nathan W’s super powerwheels, Chase had a blast riding his 4×4 that Grandparents T got him. Check out this video Grandpa T whipped up:

Chase 4×4 from Pace McCulloch on Vimeo.

Powerwheels are good

Also, this video is embedded using vimeo.com instead of youtube, do you like it better? If you want the video click on it and you can download the original video from vimeo.

Charlotte McVideos

Rejected

Post author By McAdmin
Post date January 3, 2010

Luckily Rachel is getting married and therefore hasn’t faced rejection her entire life, but check out this video where Charlotte completely rejects Rachel on the high five. Classic.

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Surround yourselves

Post author By McAdmin
Post date December 31, 2009

So remember that conference talk a while ago about surrounding yourselves with good things. We took that to heart in the McCulloch household, and got rid of our Asian influenced decor in the living room and put up a picture of the Oakland temple. We also made sure to have lots of pictures of Christ around, to help us remember our Savior. Well, we liked our temple picture so much, we’ve started selling them on our online store, LDSstock.com. We have all kinds of images from temples, to Christ, to Book of Mormon, and Pioneer themes. Check em out.

Yes, of course there is a HUGE discount for all McBlog readers:

Size	Price
25×32	$150
24×47	$205
32×42	$215
30×47	$220

Size	Price
10×13	$45
14×17	$55
15×30	$105
19×25	$105

Just shoot me an email saying what size you are going to order and I’ll setup a discount code for you.

Charlotte

Charlotte Noel = a One Year Old!

Post author By McAdmin
Post date December 29, 2009

Charlotte turned one on December 27th! With both Chase and Charlotte, I’ve felt a sense of accomplishment when they’ve made it to age one, all in one piece. 🙂 It might be partly because that’s when I start to wrap up the nursing era, or because I think the sleep issues will come to an end. With Charlotte, I definitely feel like the time has flown by! Overall, Charlotte is a calm baby girl (unless she’s screaming in the middle of the night) who really, really enjoys eating and drinking. A LOT.

She also currently likes to: be held, wave, empty the contents of my purse, say “uh-oh”, smile contentedly, scream at Chase when he smothers her, pretend to talk on the phone, and “drive” things on the floor by pushing them around.

We love our sweet baby Charlotte!

Tech

Monday Morning Movie

Post author By McAdmin
Post date December 14, 2009

Iron Man vs Bruce Lee from Patrick Boivin on Vimeo.

Public Service Announcement

Facebook defaults to public

Post author By McAdmin
Post date December 9, 2009

FYI for all you Facebookers out there, the default privacy settings are about to change. What happens when they do? Well your photos and status updates will go live over the internet, and most likely WILL be found since facebook made a deal with search engines to super charge site search. So just so you know, check in with your privacy settings and set them to whatever you feel comfortable with. I’ll be keeping mine set to friends only for everything.

Read the details here

Tech

Chrome for Mac (BETA)

Post author By McAdmin
Post date December 9, 2009

So Chrome has been out a while now for PC and yeah it’s pretty snappy, I admit it’s as fast as Firefox, and on some pages faster, but it has no extensions. Well the Mac version was released yesterday, and Holy Hold on to your mouse Batman is it fast! This Beta version zips through pages that are properly coded, and SMOKES any google app (gmail, cal, docs, picasa, etc). Now I’m not going to jump ship from FireFox to Chrome, mainly b/c I’m building stuff and FF has SO many tools to help with that, BUT if I were just a run of the mill internet user, I’d be all over Chrome. So if you are looking for the fastest browser on the Mac, go grab Chrome for Mac. If you are still looking for the most polished and useful, and still pretty fast browser, grab Firefox.

UPDATE: Ok the BETA seems to not be a marketing ploy, but really serious. There are a couple or quirks with this right now, most of you might want to wait for the stable release and the GUI has some things to get used to, like the magical status bar at the bottom that shows up only for certain actions, and the lack of any settings or bookmark menus.