The Cramer Family

We had a good time the other day flying Jeff’s new remote control airplane.

With all the extra time I’m getting each day (Ask me about my commute time and I’ll say “not much too say, cause it’s so short”) I’m going to try to get back in shape. And yes, round is a shape, but I was thinking of something more in the triangle family. A man can dream can’t he?

Well, we are now officially homeless and living with my parents. Granted, it’s only for two weeks, but it will be nice to live in our own house again. The boys are being relatively good and actually took a nap today. Thank goodness for small miracles.

We’ve had a lot of good memories in that old house in provo and we are going to miss it. It’s were we learned we were having twins. Were we spent many a night trying to rock two screaming babies to sleep. The home where the boys took there first steps and there first falls. In that neighborhood Owen and Braeden started to ride bikes and run like crazy men.

We had outgrown the space, but not the area. We had some great neighbors and it will be hard to leave them in Provo, but we are very excited to be moving on to the next chapter in our lives. It will be so weird to have our own house. There will be a sense of privacy and isolation that you just can’t experience in a townhome.

So we are sad and happy and excited and scared all at the same time. Isnt’ that a weird jumble of emotions?

Found out about a new site trying to be the next flickr for videos.

Check out a video of the boys opening presents

Today is the last time that I need to commute to work for Theradoc. Can I just tell you how excited I am to get 1.5+ hours back each day! It is going to be sooooo great.

I’m a pretty loyal Bloglines user, with over 300 different subscriptions through that service. I’ve tried some of the other websites out there, but nothing really fit my workflow the same way. That being said, I’m very excited about FeedLounge. Unfortunately it is a closed beta test right now, so all I have are screenshots to go off of. But they look great.

I’ve been happy with Bloglines, but there are things that are missing in it, and it is occasionally very buggy. I look forward to trying out this new service. It looks like it looks great and here’s hoping it has the function to match.

And it runs WordPress

One of my past projects at Theradoc has been to create a system for delivering lab results to physicians pagers. The project has been labeled “High Volume Alerts” because of the large number of lab results that are received each day. We needed a system that would correctly format the results into a compact, readable format. It was a realatively straight forward project, with only a few gotchas, including tweaking the message to get it to look just right.

During the course of testing I was using the companies pager to receive the alerts and check their formatting. The thing was constantly going off and giving me plenty of samples to compare for accuracy. I would frequently fill the pager memory to capacity and have to delete all the messages out to receive new ones.

The project finished and was added to the new release and I didn’t think anything more of it until the other day. My supervisor in passing asked me if I’d heard about the last pager bill. “Nope” I replied, not seeing the connection that you have probably already made (given the title of the post and the fact that you probably think of these things). “It was $500 for the last month.”

*blink*

*blink*

*swallow*

“WHAT!?!?!?!?!”

Yeah that’s right, it turns out that the pager provider that we use has a limit on the number of messages that you can receive each month. The cap is 300 messages and then it’s $.15 per message after that. That means that I sent over 3,333 messages over the limit. Did I mention that it was a High Volume Alert? Well after giving me a few moments to worry about a $500 deduction from my next paycheck my supervisor assured me that it would be allright. They are going to dispute the charges, but even if that doesn’t turn out it is a good lesson learned. So besides being the butt of the jokes around the office for a few days (or longer), everything is going to turn out fine. Sure I’m embarressed, but it was an honest mistake and will NOT be repeated. (I’ll find something else to be made fun of)

Just goes to show you. Don’t go over your limits!

We have TON of boxes in our house right now. It turns what was an already small space into a very small space. Combine that with the boys getting sick, and it gets really easy to go stir crazy.

Only 10 days till we move!

I’ve been bad about updating the blog with what’s been going on, but it’s been a crazy last month. Here’s a sample of some of the things that have been going on

• Sold our townhome
• Spent several full days in Salt Lake looking at houses
• Torn between two homes we liked and not choosing either
• Made offer on the third home on the list and were surprised to have it accepted
• Packed up 1/3 of the house but still living in it

So as you can see we are getting ready to move. I’m going to be 15 minutes from work which is going to be SOOO nice. Especially with the year long construction project that is starting today on I15 in Utah County. I will not miss the hours in the car that are just wasted. (No offense Ken and Tim).

If you click on the pic above you can see the pictures that were taken for the listing of the home. They are all pretty low quality, but something I can point out is the Big Screen that was included with the house! Yeehaaaw! Of couse, I would have prefered to choose which type of screen to put in there (I don’t think it’s HDTV for example) but it is still super cool and we are so Excited to have an actual home!

Can you tell what movie we are excited for here at work?

I’ll give you a hint…it’s not ‘Because of Wynn Dixie’.

My brothers are going to be at the midnight showing tonight to see this thing first hand. Given the fact that the last time Robert did this he fell asleep in class, I’m hoping they are skipping school tomorrow.

Not sure when I’m going to get the chance to go. We had the couple set up an appoint for tomorrow to come and sign papers for an official offer. That would be sweet