Hello?

Man, where have I been? Not blogging, that is for certain, huh?

Last Saturday was a busy day.
That morning, I was at the soccer fields helping get them ready for this years games. We were doing the initial marking of the fields, fixing bleachers, fixing nets, filling holes. I was there from 8 till 12:30, and I was one tired puppy when I came home.

That evening we had a Cub Scout banquet where my boy was suppose to get his Tiger badge, but because of a communication problem, they didn't get their awards. The promotion ceremony for the 2nd year Webelos into Boy Scouts was really cool.

Because of that, we missed the eclipse, but we did catch a really cool moon.



Work has been crazy, and I mean real crazy. So bad, I haven't wanted to go, but I have.

Hopefully, it wont be another week and a half till my next update.

Daughter Soccer

Well, today, my daughter had 4 soccer games (scrimmages). She played goalie at one point, and from what I hear, she got creamed. She got kicked in the ribs. From what she said, the girl that did it got carded (as she probably should have).

She is going to be so sore since she hasn't played soccer for about 2 years. She's only been to a couple practices. So, after 4 games (even short games, 23 minute halves) that's still a lot of running.

It was good to see her play. Especially since this is her senior year.

2 geeks in a pod

Friday night, my boy and I spent some good time together. My wife spent the evening hanging out with some of her friends. So, after we left the soccer fields (had a meeting), we stopped at the Jalapeño Grill and had dinner. We then came home and played video games.

When my wife came home she said hi and went upstairs and watched some TV. We went to bed about 1:00 AM!!! I couldn't believe it. He was playing his Nintendo DS and I was playing my new computer game (Vangaurd SoH).

We both had a good time.

He is so my clone!

Springtime in Oklahoma

It was a nice warm day today. The temperature was in the 70's. It was gorgeous!

As I was driving home, I smelled something that is unmistakably springtime in OK. Then, not only did I smell it, but I saw it.

Dead skunk.

Probably wouldn't have know what it was, if I hadn't have smelled it.

Since spring time is skunk mating season, you know why they are crossing the road... and they don't always make it.

Valentine's Day

Today is Valentine's Day... well, in the US. It's already tomorrow in Guam where my cousin lives.

Earlier today, I had a great post planned, but as I sit down to type it, it's gone. No where to be seen in my head.

My beautiful wife got me some new cologne and some cloths for Valentine's Day!

I'll just want to take a moment to wish my wonderful wife a very Happy Valentine's Day. I love you with all of my heart, and I always will.

Federal Refund

Friday, we got our Federal refund deposited into our bank account. Yea!

We aren't doing a lot of "fun" stuff with the refund, but doing stuff we need to get done. Eye Appointments, Dentist, gravel for the driveway, paying off bills. You know, that kind of stuff.

Smile

I just got an email that really made me chuckle. So I wanted to share and hopefully cause some smiles in the process.

1. At Lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
2. Page yourself over the intercome. Don't disguise your voice.
3. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
4. Put Your Garbage Can on your desk and Label It "In". (I've done this!)
5. Put Decaf in the Coffee Maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
6. In the Memo Field of all your checks, write "For smuggling diamonds" (this would be too funny!)
7. Finish all your sentences with "In accordance with the Prophecy." (Again too funny!)
8. Dont use any punctuation
9. As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
10. Order a diet water whenever you go out to eat.
11. Specify that your drive-through order is "To Go"
12. Sing Along at the Opera.
13. Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't rhyme?
14. Put mosquito netting around your work area and play tropical sounds all day. (I soooo want to do this!)
15. Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party because you are not in the mood.
16. Have your co-workers address you by your wrestling name, Rock Bottom.
17. When the money comes out of the ATM, scream "I Won! I Won!"
18. When Leaving the Zoo, Start running towards the parking lot, Yelling "Run for your Lives, they're loose!"
19. Tell your children over dinner. "Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go.

Super Bowl Ads

I'm not much of a Super Bowl watcher. The main reason I watch is for the commercials. Well, thanks to the internet, I no longer have to watch the Super Bowl to enjoy the commercials.

My wife told me they had a commercial on that said you could go to a web page and see the commercials, but she couldn't remember what it was. So, I did what any normal person would do. I went to Google and looked for it.

I'm not sure I found the one she saw advertised, but I did find one. http://sports.aol.com/nfl/superbowlads

Enjoy.

UPDATE:
I believe this is the site that was advertised on the TV. Last night, it was so busy, I couldn't get on.

State Refund

Saturday I filed our 2006 Taxes. I happened to check my bank account this morning, and I had my State Tax refund.

Woo Hoo!

I love E-File and Direct Deposit.

Microsoft Time Zone

While hitting the topics this morning before I get extremely busy, I saw a link to download Microsoft Time Zone. This app is cool.

Where I work, I deal with people in Australia, New Zealand, and TiJuana. My cousin currently lives in Guam. It's really hard to keep up. I'm always asking "What time is it there?"

So, long story short, you set up Microsoft Time Zone with the Timezones you want to track. Then you right click the app in your taskbar, and click on Show My Locations, and all the locations you set up pop up, and you see the local time.

It also appears that you can set the timezone of your machine to these locations as well. But since I do little traveling, I don't think I'll use that feature.

Pretty spiffy. I think this comes with Vista, but since I don't see me installing Vista anytime soon, I grabbed it.

Sick Son

Day 2 of being home with my sick son.

I sorta feel bad because I didn't really think he was sick yesterday, but he gave me a reason to think he was faking.

Last Thursday, he came home from school early complaining about a stomach ache. I'm not sure about Friday. I heard no word about him not feeling good Saturday or Sunday. Come Monday morning, he starts complaining that he feels like throw up.

Well, to me, it sounded like he just didn't want to go to school. Sick last week, find over the weekend, sick Monday. Well, I decided that he could stay home from school, but no Playstation. I didn't want him to get use to the idea that faking being sick to stay home is a cool thing. Since he actually agreed to no PS, I got suspicious that he might really be sick.

Late Monday night, I was sitting with him and he felt hot. So I took his temperature. It was 101 degrees. Wow, he is REALLY sick! This morning he woke up at 4:45 complaining that he didn't sleep last night. I took his temperature and he had a fever of 101.8.

Called the Dr, and they tested for flu and strep. Turns out, he has both! Yes, that is right, both Strep and the Flu. Poor guy. About 6:00 this evening, I took his temp and it was up to 103.8 so he go some Ibuprofen. It was down to 101.3 about an hour and half after the Ibuprofen. At least it was down.

Go!

Today was the big race! You could feel the excitement in the air!

With the Tigers racing first, we were very excited. My boy ended up in the second heat. First up though was one of the other boys in our Den. He did very well ending up first in his heat.

The second Tiger heat was on, and he did ok. He took 3rd, 5th, and 5th. He was disappointed, but I was very proud of him. He ended up getting a participation trophy which is is very proud of, and he also got a display case for his car (which he is also proud of).

In a couple months is the Rain Gutter Regatta. We'll see how he does there.

2006 Taxes Filed

My taxes are filed! Yea! Now I sit back and wait for my return.

Last year when I filed, I used TaxSlayer to do my taxes. I had used them the last few years cause they are so much cheaper than TurboTax. Because of a mistake I had made several years ago, I was concerned about using TaxSlayer, so I double checked my return with TurboTax and had the same value, so I filed with TaxSlayer so it wouldn't cost as much to file.

This year, I noticed that when I entered my child care into it, my return didn't increase. I thought that was strange, so decided to double check again with TurboTax. I'm glad I did.

I had 430 larger return using TurboTax, and I also had a 111 larger state return. That more than makes up for the 55.90 filing fee for TurboTax.

When I help my daughter with her taxes, I'll probably still use TaxSlayer, since she is still using the EZ forms, but I my run them through both programs, just to make sure.

Get Set...

Tonight, we went and weighed in the car.

We got there right at 6 so we could weigh it in and have time to tweak it if necessary.

I ended up helping unload the track and getting it set up. Once that was set up, we checked in the car. Luckily, we only had to add a couple of BB's to make it hit the 5oz mark (and we didn't have to remove any... yea!)

We'll see how the race goes tomorrow.

Feb. 17, 2009

That is the day my friends.

The day that all the over-the-air broadcasts will go digital (AKA HD).

So, be warned if you are out buying for a new TV. If you get an analog (SD) TV, you'll need a tuner box after that date.

On your mark...

This weekend is the big Pine Wood Derby Race!!! Both my boy and I are excited.

Tomorrow night we go check in the car. He is only 7, so I used most of the tools in making this car. He did help though. It was his car, so what we did was up to him. I told him, if he didn't pick something, he'd race a rectangle down the track. So he helped with design, painting, color choices, numbering and some sanding. Assuming he is in Cub Scouts next year, he'll hopefully get to do more himself.

The race is Saturday.

Birthday Party Continued

Well, we made it through the birthday party last night. And was I exhausted when it was over.
2 of the boys were still awake when I went to bed at 11:00. They were watching TV, so if they would just be still, it probably wouldn't take them long.

Chuck-E-Cheese was a huge success, they all had a really good time there.

I'm up right now cooking bacon as their wake up call. I'll make pancakes when the bacon is all done.

Well, I guess I should get back to it.

Birthday Party

ARGH!

Birthday Cake 2.0

We are having my son's birthday party today no matter what. My wife said "Even if we have to rent a snow mobile we are having it!"

So, it was time to make another birthday cake.

I think it looks much better than his first cake.

New Cake:


First Cake:

Politics

Well, it is official.

I plan on being much more involved in the presidential election this year than any other year.

Why? Hillary Clinton is running for President. Even typing that is scary.

I plan on doing everything I can to keep that from happening.