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Recently I got myself a Zoom H4 portable multi-track recorder so I could start recording the progress of my ukulele playing. I tested it out by recording my rendition of Eric Clapton’s “Wonderful Tonight”…

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No, seriously, it’s burning.

This was taken by a friend of mine a couple hours ago (click it for a bigger view).

Apparently the flames are threatening to burn down a few major studios. Does this mean we’ll all be spared from having to see the remake of Teen Wolf?

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Yes, this is another post about my daughter talking. My son talks too, but she seems to do everything first.

So tonight my wife is trying to put my daughter’s shoes on, and the little munchkin keeps struggling. “Hold still,” says the wife, “It’s so hard to get your shoes on your squirming little feet. Good god!”

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Then you have to teach it to be quiet.

Our kids are talking a lot these days. A lot of their speech is combined with sign language that we began teaching them when they were newborns, and now at almost 19 months they’re picking it up like crazy. They’ve been talking for a while now in single-word statements, but lately their vocabulary has really gathered momentum. We’ve been writing down things as they say them, and so far they know over 50 words and signs. I have to give a lot of credit to the signing — it really gave them an early aptitude for language that I believe they might not have had otherwise.

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Today my daughter pointed to Bill Clinton’s autobiography in the bookcase and said “Da Da!”

I think it’s time to start dyeing my hair.