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It’s official, with the latest addition to the family, Dawn and I are <gulp> Grandparents. Skyelar Elizabeth Melton-Pritchard was born at 12:46 AM on 17 June 2008. Pictures follow.  Click the title under the picture for a much larger image.

New mommy and little Skyelar

Skyelar’s first meal with Daddy

Dawn and Aunt Delainey (not the bug kind,the girl kind)

Grandpa (?!!!) and little Skyelar

Some of you may have noticed that my run log hasn’t show any distance for some time.  That’s because Runner’s World’s Training Log has not been calculating those distances.  I’ve since begun using Running Ahead for most of my Training Log entries, except for the personal bests.

That means that all of the miles I put in last year and part of this year don’t show up. I’m hopeful that there will be a method to import all of those miles in to Running Ahead.  We’ll see.

The Indy Mini is just around the corner. We’re really looking forward to it this year for a number of reasons…not the least of which is due to the fact that we’ve all run at least one of these so we know what to expect. Last year, I was dog tired at the end and was sick for about four days after that. I’ve run the Mini and two full marathons since then, so I’m a little more confident in my ability to run the thing.

Training is in full swing (check the run log…after I update the scripts) and my goal for this year is to run it in under two hours.

Check back soon.

If you haven’t noticed by my Gamercard above, I’ve been playing quite a bit of Rock Band lately (pitiful Gamerscore notwithstanding). It’s a great party game because you can have one person playing guitar, one playing bass (provided you have an extra guitar), one singing, and one playing drums. Good fun!

One major issue with Rock Band is that the drums are incredibly loud. As such, there are several mods floating around teh intarnets to help remediate this issue. Below are some of the ones that seem to be most accepted amongst the geek culture.

http://www.generationgamerz.com/v2/insight/time-for-rock-band-arts-crafts.php

http://www.metafluence.com/rock-band-drum-pedal-problem-turned-mod

http://www.metafluence.com/rock-band-drum-mod-round-up

There is an article at Boston.com about the imcompatibility between the PS3 Guitar Hero III controller and the Rock Band game. The long and the short of it is that Harmonix has a patch to make the GH III guitar compatible with Rock Band, but Activision wants…uh…compensation. It really is a great big crock of steaming BS, because the only people who are suffering are PS3 gamers.

In other news, Microsoft is laughing all the way to the bank because the Xbox 360 version of Rock Band works with the GH III controller. This is because, in order to get certified to work on the 360, Microsoft forces developers to make their controllers conform to a standard. That way, I can use my GH II controller to play Project Gotham Racing 3, if I choose (not that I have). On the surface, it seemed like a way for M$ to strongarm developers, but now, it seems like a brilliant move.