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Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day
Yar, it be September 19th, I suggest ye navigate over to talklikeapirate.com or else walk the plank!
Robert Jordan, author of the *extremely* long winded Wheel of Time series died last weekend without finishing the last book in the series! This was a set of 11 enormous books, some in excess of 1000 pages, each one more boring than the last. All the time I invested in those books and now I have no closure! Plus I met the guy in person and he was a jerk.
Do yourself a favor and go listen to Chris Cornell covering Billie Jean by Michael Jackson. One place you can hear it is here. I like Michael Jackson, but I think Chris Cornell’s version is better!
I’m Micah
Okay, I don’t know how I got this from the way I answered the questions, but I think it is creepily correct…
Test courtesy InteractiveReader
Your Score: Micah Sanders
You scored 58 Idealism, 33 Nonconformity, 79 Nerdiness
Can we play Scrabble tonight? Congratulations, you’re Micah Sanders! You’re good-natured, intelligent, perceptive, and naturally inclined toward technology. You’re also quite innocent and loving. You’ve got a fondness for computers and Scrabble. Your best quality: You’re extremely perceptive Your worst quality: You can be a little demanding at times
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New Developments
So Evie had her one month check up today. Remember how the doctor was worried about her weight and we had to take her in for a weight check? Yeah, doesn’t seem to be a problem now! She went from 7 lbs. 0 oz. to 10 lbs. 1 oz. in a month!! I don’t want to call her a little piggy (I’m no Alec Baldwin) but that is pretty impressive!
And speaking of eating, I gave her her first bottle tonight. It took two tries (not too bad from what I hear) but after that she took to it like a duck to water. But then again, after the previous paragraph, maybe that is not too surprising! So looks like mommy doesn’t have to worry when it is time to go back to work!
Lots of visitors this weekend, but we didn’t really do anything. The weather was really nice, but we only really got out once for a walk. I did manage to grill out about 3 times, so that was good.
Just as a side note, there is now a billboard for TMZ.com on my way to work. Doesn’t it seem weird that a website is advertising on a billboard? I should climb up there and try to double click it.
Okay, okay, enough with the small talk…make with the ha ha’s!
I’d like to address this one right away. It is a “gourmet” candy bar that consists of a bacon center surrounded by chocolate. Got Book wants to know if my love of bacon overcomes my general disgust of mixing sweet and salty things? The answer is no, absolutely not! I think that question has been asked and answered with the bacon snack bars and the bacon caramel. Why would I want bacon and chocolate mixed when I could have bacon and chocolate separate? I do not even like to get syrup on my bacon or sausage!
Now, I think this is an ingenious idea! It is an alarm clock and when it goes off it runs away from you! Then it randomly changes direction, so by the time you catch it you are awake. Watch the video to see it in action. It will even jump off your nightstand!
Now finally, this isn’t exactly a game, but I was curious the other day how fast I could type. You, dear reader, should try this out and tell me if it seems accurate to you. I was typing on the Wizard of Oz text. I messed up some at the end so I think I could do better, but I guess I did pretty good. I don’t really know what the average typer types?
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Net Speed: |
81 WPM |
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Accuracy: |
97% |
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Gross Speed: |
83 WPM |
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Sara!
Not too many plans for her birthday. We were going to try to go out to eat, but now as it gets closer we are too nervous about Evie crying and stuff I think. So I don’t know what we’ll do.
I haven’t had much of a chance to post in here lately…we’ve been pretty exhausted. We’re still getting used to things and not sleeping as much as we are accustomed to! Nothing new to report really…he days sort of run together!
What happened since the last update? Sara’s mom stayed with us for a week and helped a lot with the cleaning, laundry, meals and dishes. She also found time to do a lot more sewing! What’s left you say? A window seat for the baby’s room, sewing the edges of tons of flanel squares for wipes, re-sewing by hand one of the curtains, and making several throw pillows.
Two Sundays ago I went to the Cubs game for a friend’s bachelor party. Well, I should say I *tried* to go. We saw 3 innings and then stayed in the rain for 2 hours before the game was canceled. There’s $80 down the drain! One friend collected up all the ticket stubs and is going to try to sell the rain checks together, so maybe we will recoup some of that. It wasn’t all bad though, it was fun hanging out with everybody and being inside Wrigley Field for the first time.
Last weekend my mom came. I was worried she would try to steal Evie when she left! 🙂 She obviously enjoyed her time with the baby and also helped with meals and dishes and helped me clean the condo from top to bottom (including bathrooms!). She also made a cake for Sara’s birthday that was delicious. I hope she has a chance to come more often but she is always so busy.
Okay, so let me clear out some items I’ve been saving up.
First off, the British military actually had to send out a press release denying that they released man eating badgers in Iraq!
UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: “We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.”
Second, this is a little old. Read this article about a bank scare in the computer game Second Life. It is a very strange/scary article because if you ignore the picture it sounds like it could be happening in the real world. But it is a video game!! I don’t know, I just found it odd.
Finally, this is pretty funny. It is 2007 football standings predicted in the form of assigning a Star Wars character to each team. For example, Cleveland is likened to Jawas because “They are small, brown, and constantly trading for junk.”
Shane Halbach 