Ambrosian Scripture : Personal

Moving Blog...

Ambrose — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 22:46:00 GMT

For those of you strange enough to read my musings, I invite you to meander on over to my new blog. That will be my primary pad for communication with the rest of creation going forward.

OT: Son Has Arrived!

Ambrose — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 19:53:00 GMT

Just a quick note. Yesterday we had a new addition to our family--our son, John Dominic Anthony Little.

Born: 10/4/2004 4:35 PM
Weight: 10lbs. 3.2 oz.
Height (or length, if you prefer): 22 in.

Updated: Added more pics and a movie. Just click on John's name above to see them.

Pimp My Ride!

Ambrose — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 23:08:00 GMT

So I finally took the plunge and forked over the dough for some custom rims on my 6th generation Celica (much better looking than the 7th!). After a few hours, the look of the ride is sooo much nicer. Check it out here!

OT: Ambrose and Frances Get Acquainted

Ambrose — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 20:47:00 GMT

So I'm actually in the worst of the hurricane so far (here where I live). Winds up to 60mph, they say. I guess I'm lucky, being in a newer part of town, new apartments, and right near big power lines, so I haven't lost power yet. In any case, it's pretty amazing seeing the strong winds blowing the rain and trees around. A little earlier, I braved the storm to bring you some on-location coverage [Download ~1MB Movie]. You can see the wind starting to pick up a bit, but the video doesn't really do it justice. Being here in the midst of it, it really is impressive.

Of course, in any case, I'm not seeing the worst of Frances, and thankfully, she seems to not be doing so much damage as Charley. She's a lot bigger and slower, but the winds aren't nearly so bad. I don't want to make light of it for those who are losing badly in all this, but I think a lot of people are relieved. Nonetheless, there is still a lot of need, so if you feel moved to help the many people in Florida hurt by these last two hurricanes, you can help out here. Many companies, like my employer, are matching donations to help out the victims.

It's a Boy, As They Say

Ambrose — Tue, 11 May 2004 20:00:00 GMT

We had our 20-week ultrasound today for our bun in the oven. Turns out the little whippersnapper's gonna be a boy. We're quite happy, especially me because that'll balance out the estrogen in the house (and he'll carry on the name, blah blah blah).

His name is John Dominic Anthony Little (yeah yeah, "Little John"...), which are mostly the names of saints we have a particular affinity for, but John is also my late paternal grandfather's name. I admire St. Dominic for what he did for the Church. St. Anthony's more my wife's pick cuz she loses stuff a lot, and St. Anthony helps her find it (so far he's batting 1000). John, on the other hand, is not so specific--there are tons of great saints named John, though I do favor St. John Chrysostom because of his written legacy.

The only other significance, that I'm aware of, is that he has the same initials that I have--JDAL. Most of you know the AL part. If you want to know the JD is in my name, you have to ask really nicely or, better yet, send $20 to my PayPal account.

By the way, this is being posted via an as-yet unreleased posting tool being written by Chris Frazier. I probably wouldn't post this to the main feed and will try not to using the 'post w/o publishing' feature. His app doesn't have the ability to specify not publishing on main feed yet (nor do any I'm aware of), but I do think he is planning on supporting the .Text API (don't quote me on that), which will enable such niceties. I do like it better in most ways than BlogJet. In any case, I think he wouldn't mind some other testers (don't quote me on that, either). If you're interested, contact him via his blog.