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Okay, this must be my cat in another life!  She doesn’t look that fat, but it’s only because she doesn’t have an unlimited food suply!  I can totally imagine her doing that!

In keeping with the animal theme, doesn’t this just totally creep you out???  Dogs should not walk!!

Aaaanyway, not much going on here.  Didn’t really do much for my birthday, just went out to eat.  Going to my mom’s for her birthday next weekend.  Sara’s parents are coming first week of Feb. and her sister is coming a different weekend in Feb.  Going to lunch with Dabuki tomorrow…havent seen her in awhile.  There is tons of stuff to do around here, but we just haven’t been able to get things done lately it seems like.

Great football games last weekend and this weekend!  That Colts/Ravens game was just fantastic.

Does drinking by yourself mean you are an alcoholic?  Even if it’s during the playoffs??

Long time no post

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As usual, this time of year is kind of hectic, so there aren’t many updates.  Well, due to some people demanding an update, here you go!

Three weeks ago my mom came to visit.  I forget what we did other than play Acquire all weekend.  I think we each won once too.

Two weeks ago we went to have Christmas with my Dad.  Relatively uneventful I think.  Sara had this idea to take all of my dad’s hundreds of pictures off of his old computer for him and put them on CDs.  Nathan decided to do that for him for Christmas.  So we tried to sneak down during the party and do it, but it turns out he had one of those old Compaqs that are impossible to do anything with!!  So we had to remove like every component of the computer in order to get the hard drive out.  I think we busted it beyond working condition.  Oh well.  Anyway, by the time we got the hard drive out, my dad was on to us so it wasn’t a secret anymore.

It was a good time.  That was actually the first time either my dad or I had been to a game at Lambeau.  If you have a snapfish account, you can see the pictures here.  We had a good time, but there was one near disaster.  So we wanted to go to the hall of fame first because it opened at 8 and the special tailgate that we had tickets for at the Brett Favre Steakhouse didn’t start until 9.  So we went to the hall of fame, but it’s inside the new Lambeau Atrium which means they had to tare our tickets to get into it.  I asked them if we would be able to leave and then get back in and they were like, “Oh yeah, no problem.”  So we went to the hall of fame (which was awesome, but I’ve been there before) and got done with that at 9:30.  So we were going to walk out of the stadium and I was like, “Wait, I just gotta ask…” So I asked a guy, “Now, they tore our tickets when we came in, but we’re going to be able to leave and then come back, right?” And he was like, “Nope.  That only works if you leave before 9:30 and seeing as it’s 9:30 right now, you have to stay in the stadium until the game starts at noon.”  I was pretty upset because I bought the tickets to that tailgate like a looong time ago and we were going to miss it.  But my dad was like, “No, there has to be someone we can talk to.”  So we talked to someone else who directed us to someone else who directed us to someone else who took us over to talk to someone else.  So this guy is aparently like the head of all the ticket takers, and he says, “Oh, no problem.  We’re done stamping hands for the day, but you can just give me your tickets and I’ll hold on to them and then when you want to come back in come and find me and I’ll let you in.”  We were like, “Okaaaay…” because it seemed kind of shady, but he was like the official guy that the official lady took us over to.  So we ended up giving him our tickets and we left and I thought, “We are never getting back into the game.”  But when we came back we found him right away and he gave us our tickets and let us in and everything was good to go!

So the tailgate was pretty cool.  I had 2 brats with sourkraut, a burger, some pasta salad and 2 cookies!  They had all you could drink of pop, beer, bloody marys and screwdrivers.  There was a DJ playing pro-Packer songs and they were throwing out tee-shirts and stuff.  We didn’t get any, although my dad did get some beads.  We also got to meet and get our picture taken with ex-Packer Gilbert Brown!!

The game was a good time too, although the offense was playing terribly.  Also there was some drunk guy a couple of rows up from us who wouldn’t shut up the whole time  It was a close one (10-9 at the end of the 3rd quarter) but the Packers ultimately won 17-9.  I know my dad had a good time too.

In other, more typically blog related news, here is a tower defense flash game.  It’s kind of slow at the begining but gets tough at the end.

On the other hand, here is a much more addicting time waster!  Basically you draw lines for your little sledder to ride on and make him do loops and stuff.  Check out the videos of other crazy ones that people have made!  They’re nuts!

Finally, you should really check out the Keith and the Girl podcast.  I’ve been listening to it quite a bit lately and I really like it, and I can’t get the opening song out of my head! (“Hey all you assholes, come and listen to us. It’s the Keith and The Girl show!”)  Remember that this is a podcast only, it’s not broadcast anywhere, so there are no FCC regulations.  Consequently, the language/content can be pretty bad!  Consider yourself warned!

Weekend Update

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Ah, Thanksgiving.  One of my all time favorite holidays!  I mean, obviously any holiday based on eating and football is bound to be good.  We ate like kings all weekend!  After we ate all the pies (I had 4 pieces for desert Thanksgiving day), Sara’s mom made blueberry cobbler.  After we ate that, she made apple crisp!  Also, she made ANOTHER turkey on Sunday since we had cleaned up the other one already.

Not much else to report.  We had a nice relaxing weekend.  Played Euchre, Spades, Mille Bournes, Acquire, Hands and Feet and some game called Oh Hell.  Sunday we raked the (large) front yard and I have some big blisters on my hands.  My back and forearms are killing me!  I’m not cut out for hard work! 🙂

Casey and Margaret had some news…as Sara said “I put this toenail polish on for their wedding and now they’re 8 weeks pregnant!”

I came across this story recently.   Just your average police busting up a stripper ring.  But the important part of the article was that it opened my eyes to the fact that there is an International Order of Old Bastards!

So if you need to kill some time, here is something sort of interesting.   It is a collection of photos by a guy who superimposes cheap souvenirs over the real thing. 
For example:

Ben Folds, pirate lover

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As you may know, I have been accused of being obsessed with pirates.  Well, the new Ben Folds video proves that I’m not the only one! 

My favorite part is when he plays the piano with his hook. 🙂

On a completely unrelated note, you’ve enjoyed fantasy football, now how about fantasy congress?

Just checking in…

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This was a relatively humorous article about what would happen if certain phrases that we use were literally true.  I enjoyed this one (slightly summarized):

“A watched pot never boils.

The generic “watched pot” will become the most destructive force in the history of mankind. It is unlikely that civilization could withstand it.

If the act of watching a pot of water prevented its actually boiling, here’s the scenario: By continually watching a pot of water on the stove or having teams of people – all enemies of freedom – taking turns watching it sequentially the water would never evaporate. It would simply continue to store more and more energy.

This is not me speaking; it is professor Richard Berg of the University of Maryland physics department. That pot, he said, could become so filled with potential energy that it would far surpass any diabolical source of destructive power devised to date. That pot – continuously watched – could be loaded onto a plane and dropped into an ocean. Watched by the bombardier all the way down, the pot would keep its hellish payload until it disappeared beneath the waves. At that point, suddenly unwatched, it would release enough energy to create a tsunami of devastating strength. Imagine, if you dare, the effect of coordinated pot-bomb attacks on America’s Eastern Seaboard.”