Jason & Lynn's Web Page

What the Hey!

JwH — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:00:55 GMT

Yeah, ok, so I didn't update at all during August. Lets see here... we've had a few visitors. Ruth Pedrick and Fran Kulesza headed out to the coast for a few days, helping us with the kids and taking a tour of the Astoria area. Lynn, the boys, and I have been busy ourselves. Two weeks ago, we went hiking around the Silver Falls loop. Its about 8 miles total. Not a lot amount of elevation, but still a nice hike. William did it all himself. What a trooper. We had to feed him some M&M's and trail mix to get him going again. Towards the end, he started running ahead on the trail. Its a wonder what Chocolate can do to a little boy. Last week, we went camping at Cape Lookout. It was a fine time, besides the mosquitos and the micro climate of fog & clouds surrounding the cape. We had a great time exploring Tilliamook and the immediate area. William started preschool last week. I (Jason) accompianted him on his first half-day of school. I think he's going to have a good time with it. Some kids seemed a bit nervous leaving their parents... William was like "See you later!". Who would have guessed? :-)

This weekend Lynn, the boys and I headed down to Mt Angel. Its a town started by a bunch of German immigrants, so yearly they throw a "Oktoberfest" celebration. We hit up mass in their beautiful church, then afterwards, we ate cinnamon rolls and had beer sausage for breakfast. Had German cheese fondue and beer for lunch. We were home by 2 :-)

Pics to follow!

Track & Field

JwH — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:54:48 GMT

Hillsboro Parks and Rec is holding a open track & field event every Wednesday night for 6 weeks in the summer. They have open events for all age groups. Lynn thought it would be fun, so we headed on over. Lynn had to take off early for work, so it was just the boys and I. William did the softball throw, the long jump, hurdles, and the 50 yard dash. He did well in the Softball throw but had some slight trouble with the long jump. It was more like a long run through the sand instead of jump. After that we hit up his true calling... running for short distances. He lined up for the 50-yard dash for 3 year olds, got ready and....

He won second place! Very exciting. I think he enjoyed that much more. Next time we'll put him in the 3yr old's 100 & 200 yard dash. Let me know if the above video didn't work. I'm trying out something new. Put the cursor over the left corner and a play button should appear.

Enjoy!

Picture Gallery Fixed!

JwH — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:27:32 GMT

Yeah! The Picture galler is finally fixed. I had to re-install it on top of the old, broken one. It took some time to work out the bad stuff out of the database, but all worked out ok. I have to give it to the open source "Gallery2" software. All worked like a charm.

A beautiful weekend in Hillsboro, Oregon. ~70, dry, and sunny the whole weekend. L,W,M & I spent the majority of the weekend in downtown Portland. We rode the MAX into downtown Portland, then we hit up the farmers market. After purchasing some fresh cherries, we lunched on a slice of "Hot Lips" pizza, a Gyro wrap, and a Falafal sandwich. Overall, not too bad. Afterwards, we heeaded down to the "Sand in the City" event, a showing of sand sculptures in pioneer square. Some nice sculptures, you'll have to check out the pictures in the photo gallery section.

After that, we rode the MAX back home again and made homemade pizzas... not too bad if I do say so myself. A bit of fresh basil and wilted spinich does a pizza good.

Today we cleaned up our old couch and loveseat for sale on craigslist. Jason did an excellent job of vacuuming, was even able to get most of the dried milk out. We'll put it up in the next few days, so if you're in the PDX area and want a new couch, I'll put up a link.

Lynn's friends Mike & Laura were in town tonight on their final night of their Oregon trip. We headed down to Papa Hayden, an excellent dessert restaurant. Each couple split a entree and then ordered a full desert. It was excellent.

Anyways, hope you all had a great weekend and I wish you all well in the upcoming week.

Unhappy w/ Web Hosting

JwH — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:30:34 GMT

So last week you may have noticed that our web site was no longer working. Yeah, you may have figured, "Oh, the Horihan's web site is always down, this is just par for the course". Wrong. I had this site hosted on a professional host to relieve me of any issues like this. I was perplexed at the sudden downtime, so I sent them an email and my reply today was "Sorry, the server that your website was on has crashed. All backups were lost." So I'm at fault as well for not making a backup of my website, but honestly, any data center worth its weight in, oh, say, copper, would have a decent protection plan for its customers.

Oh well. I only lost the top three posts, so we're back to Mae was born again. I had said a bunch of stuff about new pictures... those are all dead too. What can you do?

Anyways, its hot here in Hillsboro. 90+ Hope all are well in the rest of the country.

Its a Girl!

JwH — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:47:15 GMT

So its been a few days now, but I'd like to congratulate my brother and his wife, Ryan and Kristen on the birth of their first child! Her name is Mae Rose Horihan. She was born on May 30th at 5:49 PM. She weighed in at 6lb 12 oz and was 19.25" long. Mommy and daughter are doing very well. All are home now and trying to get used to living together. Anytime you get a new roommate there is a "trial period" where people work things out. This is a time when you really learn that sleep is not a necessity... its a luxury. Gone are the days of sleeping in until 10AM!

Anyways, the real news that that I'm an Uncle (and Lynn is an Aunt). I'm a two time dad... everybody else is an uncle or aunt. Its about time I joined the club. For all of you thinking about me, I appreciate it. I'm feeling fine now. I was a bit excited about Mae's arrival, so I had to rest a bit. I'm OK now, thanks for your concern.

Below is a picture of my new niece, Mae.

Anyways, hope everybody is having fun. Lots of clouds and rain in the Hillsboro area... don't you want to come and visit?

Ok, so maybe not 7 in a row...

JwH — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:20:52 GMT

Hey Hey Hey! So its been a while since I posted. I guess once we returned from Carol Stream, things got hectic again. What happened? Lets see here. We participated in the annual Jackson School HOA garage sale. It was fabulous! I think we sold $3 - $4 of merchandise. The only thing of value that I personally sold was a Wok of mine. I had it for sale for $5. Some old women told me she wanted it for $3. I was like, "Hey, $5 isn't that much." She looked like I insulted her, so I sold it for $3. Yeah, sucker. Our house was pretty busy as we also hosted our neighbors garage sale. They were pretty popular, as they had around 3 Gap stores worth of clothes for sale. Yikes!

Lets see here. Matthew is growing like a weed. He's already in clothes that William was in when he was 9 months old. William continues to learn and develop his fine skills of disagreement. Lynn is doing great, still teaching swimming lessons.

Jason is focusing on the garage and yard this summer. He bought a workbench and is preparing the garage to... wait for it... park a car! I'm also trying to get an area where I can work on all my man stuff. As far as the yard goes, we have to do some landscaping in the front yard and the back yard... I guess both sides too. Lots of work this summer!

We've got some new pics of Lynn/William/Matthew taken by a professional photographer in a tulip farm. Check it out.

L,W,&M in Tulips

The three day weekend was a nice time. A bit too much rain, but what can you do? Its Oregon! Have to wait until after July 4th for the really good weather.

We're back!

JwH — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:07:05 GMT

We're back from Carol Stream! We arrived yesterday afternoon. We had a great time in the Chicagoland area. I'll post some pics soon.

FiOS!

JwH — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:20:21 GMT

Step 2 of Jason's media transfer is now complete... we now have FiOS internet! (For those not-in-the-know, its Verizon's Fiber Optic Internet) Question... is it fast? Sure. Is it faster than Comcast? Ahh... Ehhh... probably not. Comcast (cable TV, Phone, Internet) have been loosing face value in my mind over the past year. Ever since we got rid of our Cable and stuck with the local channels (over cable), I've had a mind to drop Comcast. We tried their VOIP phone.. it was great until the intro price changed and added an extra $25/month. Yeah, pricey. So some dude stopped by our place and offered FiOS from Verizon and we took it.

The only complaint I have now is that they installed the biggest, ugliest box on the outside of our house... another box. Apparently when you get a service installed, they add a new box. When you get the service discontinued, they leave it there. I have a box from AT&T DSL, Comcast Cable, Old Verizon Phone, and now a new Verizon Internet box. They also drilled a hole through my wall and installed a big battery unit on the inside wall of my garage.. not the best place for it either. We'll see if we can do something about that later.

Tomorrow I embark for a flight to Chicagoland to head up Matthew's baptism. It'll be a few Horihan's and a bunch of Pedricks (and various derivatives and distillates of Pedricks). Should be a fun trip, although I think my short respite at home is the last bit of relaxation that I'll have in the foreseeable future.

Speaking of home alone, I was thinking about my weekend. I accomplished an enormous amount. I purchased both a Camelbak (as I had mentioned in a previous post) and a pressure washer. I completed a tough 6 mile hike, weeded my lawn, paid some bills, toured a John Deere dealership, purchased lawn chemicals, bought a metal cabinet for the garage, purchased a metal rack for more storage on the garage roof, and went to Church. On a normal weekend, I'd be happy to accomplish ONE of these tasks. The fact that I got all this done made me think about our government. Why do we seem to go nowhere? They all have families! Cripes! No wonder no big issues ever get debated. If we only could elect single people (men and women equally of course ;-)) I think we'd have lots of positive things happen. Anyways, point of story, single people get stuff done. No need to check home w/ the boss, point decisions. #1 is always you.

Hope all is well with all ya'll. Cheers!

Jason

Submission #2

Did I say the "next" seven days?

JwH — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:52:49 GMT

Oh! I really meant "7 days in the future". How about today? Great! We enter day 5 of Jason's version of Home Alone. Its not as exciting as I was hoping for, but I'm still getting more sleep. Lynn is enjoying her time in Chicago, meeting lots of friends and relatives. I've managed to stay out of trouble here myself, going hiking and keeping spending to a minimum (notice how minimum has no reference... mu ha ha ha).

Today my group from work is going hiking in the Columbia river gorge. Hopefully things go well, as I hurt my knee on Saturday hiking in the very same area. It feels pretty good today, so we'll see what happens.

Did everyone get their taxes done? I received an email from TurboTax this AM saying that Uncle Sam had accepted my submission. Whew! Just doing your taxes with that software isn't enough... you have to submit them too! Who would have guessed?

Anyways, I need to get going. I bought a Camelbak water backpack and I love it! If you want to go on any sort of long hike, get one!

-Jason

Submission #1

7 days of Updates

JwH — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:40:19 GMT

Hi Everybody. I'm sorry to say that I haven't updated the web page in some time again. So for the next seven days, I'll be updating this guy every day! Yes, get your fill of Jason's excellent stories and tips for life. Not tonight though.. I'm beat! Tomorrow is a new day.