About two weeks ago, I did something I very rarely EVER do. I broke my phone. 3 years – no drops, dings, nicks or bad scratches. Originally, I had planned on upgrading my iPhone 3G at the end of the month but I was shuffling some stuff around on my desk and the phone slid off the edge. Normally, it wouldn’t be a big deal – I’ve got a case for it and it’s only about a 2ft drop. Apparently this time it was enough. Phone fell flat on the front face. I picked it up an when I turned it on – white screen of death.

After a couple hours fiddling with the internals and some Google searching I had two options – hope the internal connection re-seating fixed it or replace the entire LCD screen and digitizer. Breaking it apart and putting it all back together didn’t work and I figured I was so close to swapping it out anyway, I might as well upgrade early. So after about 2 hours in line at the local Apple retail store that night, I walked out with a new iPhone 4.
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Not much new to report, just trying to get re-acclimated to the oppressive heat during the Georgia Summer while watching Maddie grow up.

• Madeline has pretty much given up crawling and is now walking almost full time!
• Apple just announced the new iPhone 3G S is set for release on June 17th – looking over the hardware changes … meh, I’ll keep my 3G and not worry about it. I don’t need a better camera, I don’t need more memory, I don’t need a compass and I really don’t care too much about voice control. It’ll be interesting to see what the performance differences are though.
• In conjunction with the new hardware platform, the 3.0 software set launches on the same day. This is what I’ve really been waiting on.
• Melissa’s birthday is coming up fast!
• I really like the Luminox 3000 Navy SEAL dive series but I like the Traser H3 P 6500 Type 6 even better. (Traser happens to license the P 6500 design directly to Luminox)

After several weeks of holding herself up, she final starting taking hesitant steps on her own. Everyday, she gets a little more confident and walks a little bit further. I have a feeling it won’t be long before she’s running around full speed.

Windows Media Player (higher quality): Madeline Walking

I finally had a chance to import the last of Madeline’s pictures over from the Gallery2 mod I was previously using to manage my photo albums. Due to the sheer volume of shots we take, I’m going to break up her photos by year. 2008 is up and complete, 2009 has some starter shots.

Madeline 2008

Madeline 2009

“No!” I exclaimed. Maddie looked up at me and started to giggle. She then proceeded to poke her finger back into the wall outlet. Apparently, it’s time to “baby proof” the loft.

Yea, she’s almost a year old and yea, she gets cuter every time I snap a pic. I’ve been so busy trying to get through Christmas and her upcoming Birthday/New Years I haven’t had much time to process the gazillion or so new pics we have but I promise – updated shots coming soon!