One Wild Day

Yesterday was pretty crazy.  VBS started and things seemed to be going pretty well until DeAnne called me around 10:00.  Each day they take pictures of the kids doing different things and then drop them into a slideshow that tells a story.  The problem is that the software that runs the show only displays the show on the primary monitor.  Our projection system is set up as a multi-monitor system with no way to really display the primary monitor to the projectors.  In the end, we had to go up to the church yesterday afternoon and I set up a laptop to be a second computer on the projection system.  It's not perfect and it messed up some of the settings on the main computer, but it works.  I'll just have to deal with getting everything back to the way it's supposed to be after VBS is over with.

In the midst of all that, DeAnne's mom and sister decided that they were going to paint the nursery for us but that they had to run back to Navarre and get some of Sara's stuff so she could stay longer.  To keep Liam on his routine, he spent the night with us.  He's been pretty good.  He didn't have a nap yesterday so he was a little ill last night, but he went down with no effort and is still asleep right now.

Finally, yesterday marked the start of both the annual E3 video game convention and Apple's annual developer conference.  Apple showed off some really cool stuff for the next version of both the Mac OS and iOS.  I was pretty impressed with what they've managed to accomplish.  iOS 5 is going to be a pretty big stab at both Android and may be the nail in the coffin for Blackberry.  They didn't announce any new hardware (iPhone 5), but the new iOS 5 is going to work on everything 3GS up, so hardware probably isn't a huge concern.  They'll refresh it when they have something ready.

The only real news I read from E3 was the Xbox presentation.  They're really pushing Kinect and it looks like it's going to be integrated into more and more games.  If anything, Mass Effect 3 showed that even if it doesn't allow for motion control, there are small things like giving your AI controlled squad mates commands and selecting dialog options by actually saying them that will make games more immersive.  They didn't talk about, or announce a new Xbox system though.  This isn't a huge issue, but looking at the games they showed, it seems that the Xbox 360 has probably reached the extent of what it can do graphically.  None of the sequels they showed looked any better than the previous games in those series.  They're pushing Kinect as an upgrade to give the system more life, but you have to wonder if a new system with Kinect directly integrated and better hardware isn't a real need at this point.

Anyway, yesterday was crazy and now it's Tuesday.  Hopefully it will be a little less crazy.

--Paul