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We took Jacob to get his first haircut today.  There is a small shop called EJ’s Little People in Old Fair Oaks that is well known as THE PLACE to get your kids’ first haircut.  We got there to find the place is an absolute dump.  The front window is riddled with BB holes, the ceiling has multiple water damage spots, one of the windows on the side is boarded up and there is ripped wallpaper throughout.  I don’t know if it has changed ownership, but the place is definitely not the glorious first haircut destination people talk about.  We were already out there and Jacob was in good spirits so we decided to get his hair cut there anyway.  One neat thing they do is give you a certificate with a before/after photo and a lock of his hair.  Here are photos of JD’s first haircut.

If you read my favorite SuperBowl commercial list from last year then you know the E-Trade baby commercials were my favorite.  They’re back this year in easily the funniest commercial of the year!!!

It’s very rare that a network news writer is witty enough to make me laugh.  If you have watched any of the women’s gymnastics then you have heard about the controversy with rumors some of the Chinese women were under 16 years of age, the minimum age to compete in this sport.  MSNBC has an article about how Olympic athletes can move into reality TV and surprised me with this hilarious summary:

“Olympic athletes who’ve made names for themselves on Beijing don’t need to leave the glare of the television cameras. They could make careers on reality TV. How about Michael Phelps as “The Bachelor,” or tiny Chinese gymnast He Kexin as a baby on “Baby Borrowers”?”

Freaking hilarious!  From http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26254878/

I made the switch (finally!) from Dish Network satellite to AT&T’s new fiber based TV U-verse. The (second) installation took about 7 hours with 4 of those hours wasted because the installation tech went down the street to the VRAD to figure out why I wasn’t getting signal to my house. He discovered I was on the wrong port, whatever that means. After the signal came in the house they had to rewire a couple things in the house and I was off and running with the U200 TV package, Pro speed VDSL and the HD package.

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I completely goofed on my U-verse install date and got a confirmation on Thursday evening for a Saturday installation. I thought I scheduled it for Friday and I planned on going to the Sportmen’s Expo Saturday. Oh well, go with the flow. The installation was scheduled to start between 8am and 10am and the tech arrived around 8:30am. I was surprised to see only one tech, a nice guy by the name of Josh. Josh said it was normal to only have one tech out on installs, but I’m still not so sure. I showed him the layout of the house and where we want the receivers and talked about an additional coax drop we have to do into the office. After Josh was familiar with the plans he drove off to the local “box,” which I assume is the new VRAD systems AT&T is installing. After about an hour and a half I was suspicious things aren’t going well.

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I’ve been looking at the various monthly expenses the Mallory family enjoys paying and the one that jumped out at me the most is our home phone, Internet, and TV bill. We have AT&T DSL, AT&T landline, and Dish Network. The combination of these three services is more than I care to pay, especially because we don’t even need the landline, but it’s required for the slow DSL service we get.

I’ve been hearing a lot about U-Verse since AT&T seems like they’re spending billions on advertising. The features and price right now are unmatched in the television world. I’m getting more channels than my current Dish programming, HD in all rooms, a DVR, twice the Internet speed, and $100 back with the first month free. Not only that, but we can ditch the landline since U-Verse runs on a system that doesn’t require a landline! Installation is next Friday and I’ll report on my experience.

We just wanted to thank everyone for your support during our difficult time. We’re thankful to have such great family and friends. Hopefully I can post some happy news on here soon!

Alright so themallorysonline.com was stagnant for a long time. Well I’m shaking the dust off and will post some photos and updates here now that I’ve installed some blog and gallery software. Stay tuned for more stuff!