This is the coolest thing on the web I have ever seen. Google Maps is awesome. Come on. Look at this. Satellite Photos! For crying out loud. LOOK AT IT! Then click on the top right where it says Maps and it switches! Unreal! Here is the house I grew up in. My High School.…
I left to go to work at 8:30am and arrived home at 4:55am. That’s over a 20 hour work day. I am pretty tired, but I feel that tomorrow I will feel worse. We got out most of what we wanted, but missed a few details. It’s always hard to struggle to the finish line…
I just read about the Supreme Court decision to keep IRA accounts (Individual Retirement Accounts) safe from creditors in case of bankruptcy. The thing that really annoys me is that people (the plaintiff, I guess) actually thought it would be a good idea if someone declares bankruptcy to take away their life savings. I bet…
UPDATE: Image has been lost. Sorry. 🙁 How did this guy park this thing on his lawn? This is the best example of parallel parking I have ever seen. This was done a couple doors down from our friends, the Gladstone’s house. I have no idea how they managed to do it. In work related…
A wise man once told me, “You know the rule of IF? If Grandma had a dick, she’d be Grandpa.” Wisdom is where you find it. I was just thinking, If I had a dollar for every time: – I crushed a cheerio under my foot on the carpet.. – I heard “Daddy” more than…
I was just reading about Teri Schiavo in Florida. Just for the record, so it’s written down somewhere. I do not want to be kept alive by a feeding tube for years and years. Ok, whew. Glad that is out of the way. Can someone notorize this blog please?
Israel Kamakawiwo’ole (pronounced ka ma ka vee vo olay), or Bruddah Iz, wrote a Ukulele version of somewhere over the rainbow. You might have heard it, it is in alot of movie soundtracks. Katie and I have been listening to it. The song is beautiful. Bruddah Iz weighed 1000 pounds when he died in 1997.…
The Shield is back on and, of course, it is great. Here is my quick prediction: The sting operation of the russian kingpin will yield evidence that implicated Vic and co. in on the Armenian money train robbery. ba-Bam! Love that show. I gotta work in Excel now for Katie. Glen’s Computer Rule #1: I…
I had a dream about a work related thing. I try to keep work stuff to a minimum on the blog. After all this is a public record and you never know who is reading it. I think this somewhat limits the blog as a journal for my kids to read one day. It would…
Surprisingly, the Ukulele that Katie got me is pretty easy to play. My father thinks I am tone deaf, but I think my problem is more that I can not sing any notes. They are correct in my head though. Anyway, I know four chords. F, D, C, G7. And I sort of know G.…
Katie and I just watched Napoleon Dynamite. I have to say: This is one of the most original movies I have ever seen. It was bizarre. It seems every thirty seconds, I was boggled. Great acting. Very funny and yet somewhere in the whole thing was a sweet message. I am not sure what the…
Last night Katie took me to Chez Panise. The downstairs restaurant, not the cafe! She also got me a ukulele! It’s hard to tune, but I think I am getting used to it. Its pretty easy to play and the kids like it. Right now, my fingers hurt and my wrist is cramped up, but…
I started reading From Beirut to Jerusalem, by Thomas Friedman. It starts off in similar fashion to The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang and At the Hands of Persons Unknown by Philip Dray. My jaw continually drops when I read about the sheer brutality that people can perform. Hobbes’ State of Nature is interesting…
I finally finished the book. I don’t even know where to start. First of all, this book is a perfect example of why I love non-fiction. The author conducted 522 interviews. A bibliography that goes on forever. 100 pages of abbreviated notes. 1100 page opus. It was magnificent. It was a masterpiece. It deserved the…