{"id":1385,"date":"2008-11-01T20:26:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T03:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2008-11-01T20:26:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T03:26:14","slug":"grandnephews-baptism-and-a-nice-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1385","title":{"rendered":"Grandnephew’s Baptism and a Nice Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This morning Nina and I went to the north end of Pocatello (into Chubbuck, actually) for the baptism of my eight-year-old grandnephew. James was so excited to be baptized and really looked sharp this morning. Mother and dad drove over from Soda Springs and went with us to the baptism.<\/p>\n

Dad came without his glasses. Somehow yesterday he lost a lens out of his glasses and neither mother nor dad could find it. He was out in the shop when mother came out to say, “Come quick!”<\/p>\n

He dropped everything and hurried (as fast as he could) after her into the house. The emergency turned out to be a mouse in the mousetrap downstairs in the storage room. Dad collected the mouse and took it out to the trash when he discovered the lens in his glasses for his best eye was missing.<\/p>\n

The both searched … dad not very effectively with his vision and mother’s isn’t all that much better. The lens was not to be found. After the baptism my sister Terry (and James’s grandmother) and her husband Allan went to Soda Springs to finish up some work they had started a week ago. Terry quickly found the lens in the shop on the floor. Dad then regained his vision so he could watch the Jazz game tonight. Dad is a major Salt Lake City Jazz<\/a> fan. In fact, dad’s whole world seems to revolve around either the Jazz or Rush Limbaugh<\/a>. He’s very concerned about the election next Tuesday and is sure the world will end if Barrak Obama<\/a> is elected.<\/p>\n

I’ve been sorting through pictures from the trip. Sure wish there was an easier way to put together picture collections. Time to start looking around for a better way. The current version of WordPress<\/a> look like it’ll take big pictures and resize them automatically. Need to test that out. Next version will have some pretty good additional capability, it appears. We’ll see in December when it’s finally released and stable.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, next week the blogs are going to move to a new server at BlueHost<\/a>. I’ve been testing the move process and it seems to be working well. When that happens, the blogs will be in read-only mode for a day or so while everything settles down. Then I’ll get out of the business of running my own servers. That’ll be interesting as I’ve been running Linux web servers for more than ten years. Now I can have someone else do that for me and save money in the process. My how the cost of technology has changed in the past ten years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning Nina and I went to the north end of Pocatello (into Chubbuck, actually) for the baptism of my eight-year-old grandnephew. James was so excited to be baptized and really looked sharp this morning. Mother and dad drove over from Soda Springs and went with us to the baptism. Dad came without his glasses. … Continue reading Grandnephew’s Baptism and a Nice Saturday<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-ml","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}