This morning the girls offered to be my servants for the day, so I didn't have to "do anything". First up was breakfast. Nella took the order and Elise was the chef. I had toast and jam, then a bowl of cereal then an apple. Next up was planning the meal for the day and of course for that, you need a menu! Elise asked about Juice, so I helped her spell that one, but all the other she did herself. I believe for lunch we are having tomato soup and for dinner, scrambled eggs....

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I am not writing enough of this stuff down. For a writer that is pretty pathetic. Let me tell you about Elise's creativity. It's bottomless. The other day she made a board game that involved rolling a dice and landing your player on a letter. The alphabet was all mixed up on the game board. You have to draw the letter and then make something out of it. For example, I had the letter T and I made it into a clothesline. Elise drew a lower case m and turned the m into the humps on a camel....

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I had read that if you encrypt your iPhone backups, when you restore you won't have to re-enter all your mail, wifi and other passwords. So I dutifully encrypted the backups. And then I forgot the password. I didn't really want to have to redo all my app organization and settings the next time I needed to restore my iPhone. Thought I'd post the steps to remove the encryption in case others need to do this: 1. Jailbreak phone 2. Install OpenSSH 3. Mount the phone on the desktop (I used...

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So we could celebrate our 11th (holy smokes!!) anniversary, my parents took the girls overnight yesterday. We hadn't made any plans but we decided, on the spur of the moment, to go to

Bumbershoot and to spend the night in Seattle. After finding an amazing deal on parking (only $10 for the day), we got in around 1:30 and sat by the fountain to figure out what we wanted to do/see/hear. The band that was playing while we were planning was called Whalebone and they were just OK…a good...

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