Change of Venue

I am moving my blog over to a different site. Our lives in turkey and cake are long gone and so I felt impressed to change over to a new improved site with a more specific focus on something I enjoy talking about.
Update your links and meet me over at my new place residing at http://thegeeklet.blogspot.com

If for some reason you would like to read about our incredible life in the British West Indies you may do so by visiting our earlier posts located on the right sidebar.

update

So part of me really wanted to have a kid soon and I attribute some of those feelings to my accidental discovery of a Wired magazine affiliate called "Geekdad" which discusses all of the many things geeky that we can buy or create to make our children happier such as these lifelike hands that help the baby feel like it is being held by Thing from the Adam's Family. I have learned how to make all sorts of things from water bottle rockets to mousetrap cars. I am also completely up-to-date on all the new Lego's available thanks to the folks at Geekdad. What a great website.

I recently started looking up clothing available for kids and I hope to get one or more novelty clothing items such as these listed below when our first comes rolling into town. There are some hilarious clothes for infants out there, some had me laughing pretty hard.


About a month ago I also started reading a lot about pregnancy. I know that I know more about what is happening with Brynn's body than she does but I try to act ignorant when she is questioning the changes she is experiencing.
In all it has been pretty exciting to see so many changes and things happening and to get to see this little peanut growing inside my wife's lower abdominal area. I am sure it will become even more crazy the further along we get.

I have forgotten a lot since high school

This is a pretty fun game I found on a favorite website of mine. I am surprised how much I have forgotten since geography in middle school. After trying a few times I got to level 6. If you go to the website there are several other quizes that are similar but more location specific.

This Traveler IQ
challenge is brought to you by the Web's Original Travel Blog

I can't get this thing to fit. If you actually want to play maybe you should head to the site .

surgery

My most recent ACL reconstruction is going okay. I think this surgeon did a great job and I should heal a lot better and faster. Still, the recovery is going to be miserable and I have been in a lot of pain this last week. Here is a nice picture from today of the holes that they put in me.

This second picture is more of the wife's style but I had to put this up. I feel totally cheesy but that is a dang cute shot of the 2 1/2 members of the family.

You may have heard...

Then again you may have not, it has been quite an experience thus far. Find out what has been going on recently in our lives by clicking here.

C&H

This favorite daily comic was run daily starting almost 12 years ago. Now hear the real story behind Calvin and his tiger Hobbs.

Snorkeling and the blues

The two highlights of our Hawaii trip were snorkeling at Sharks Cove and then meeting with and hearing Ron Artis and his family including Victor, Ron, PraiseJesus, Stevon, Thunderstorm, and America play some crazy good blues music. You may wonder how I know all of their names. I didn't even have to look them up because they all personally introduced themselves to us and were so cordial and friendly. I was a little skeptical when we first met the family. I mean, it is a family band, they can not be that good. Well I was definitely not disappointed. I feel like the stuff they have on YouTube is great but nothing compares to their live music. Here is an embedded link to one of their videos. You may need to download the DivX plugin to see this one on the blog. Do it.

Hawaii

We just got back from Hawaii. The wife has not been enjoying her job so much and needed a break. I don't want to write about the trip because Brynn already has. Click anywhere on this post to be taken to her blog.

CAREFUL!

I played the Wii for the first time this last week. Awesome. I was able to try out some baseball, Tiger Woods golf, and the WiiSports Tennis. What a great gaming concept, I absolutely loved it. The only game that is comparably fun is Guitar Hero. Careful to those that don't work out, my arm was a little sore the next day from swinging the remote around.

Backbreaker!

Chiropractors - The quick fix.
I have very negative memories of chiropractors. During lacrosse in high school I had some serious back problems and went to several different chiropractors that told me I just needed to be "re-aligned." After many visits I never really got any better so I went to a Sports Medicine Doctor who took x-rays and discovered I had scoliosis and there was nothing I could do to fix it but that by strengthening my core muscles I might function better, which ended up being true. I also went with my father to a chiropractor once because he had a stiff neck and I really thought that my dad was going to slaughter the guy because of how much pain he was putting him through. What is up with the profession? Are chiropractors just dying for more customers and money or do they really think they have the answers to so many of these problems?

Am I too old?

The wife and I went to the Utah State homecoming football game last night and Brynn made the comment "we are getting old." I then thought about how I just got accepted to the local community college and don't start nursing school until January. Am I starting this path a little too late? Probably.

The Aggie game by the way was just awful. Utah State really had the game won, but I have learned from my college years to never overestimate the USU football team. With 1:54 left on the clock and the team up by 4 I figured they had a good chance. San Jose then marched quickly down the field and had a long pass to a receiver on the 2 yard line. The throw was short and even the defender had time to stop and watch the pass coming. No attempt was made to bat the pass down or to intercept it but instead the corner gave the receiver a yard or two space and looked like he was preparing to tackle him once he caught the ball. HE WAS ON THE TWO YARD LINE. The receiver made the catch and then pulled the defender two yards into the endzone. I was dumbfounded. All I could think about was how in the hell did Jon and Jake not make the team.
Okay so then San Jose gets called for celebrating and has to kick from the 15 yard line. The kickoff goes maybe 35 yards and I swear the Utah State players were backing away to let the ball roll like they sometimes do on punts. Nobody went for the ball and it bounced back into the kickoff team's hands. Game over.
Luckily I wasn't expecting them to win but I really couldn't imagine how they were going
to pull off this loss. This Aggie football team just never ceases to amaze me.

On a lighter note, BYU looked fantastic.

Tasers are such a great invention

I despise fanatisicm. John Kerry visited University of Florida and he was pretty much heckled by this guy who eventually gets tasered.


This reminds me of when people protested having the Vice President speak at the graduation ceremony at BYU. Dick Cheney wasn't coming to speak on the Iraq war or politics, it was focused on graduation. I am a pretty right-wing conservative but I would love to hear President Clinton speak at my graduation. I think it would be an honor to hear someone of that caliber speak about goals and give some insights on life. Why are there so many idiots in the world?

Have you had your exam?

Origin of Smokey the Bear

new updates, new blogs

If you haven't noticed my wife has left the blogless and joined the bloggers. I added a link to her site a while back and if you want to know how our dog is doing, take a peek. I have also revamped this site to make it a little more geeky. I hope it is showing up correctly on everyone else's computers. Let me know if there are things that don't work so that I can try to fix them. I also added a movie review link on the right. I may eventually move it lower on the page but there it is for now, right on top.

I did not write any review for the movie Stardust but I would like to tell you about it now. Brynn and I were planning on seeing Simpsons Movie but arrived a little late so we decided to see Stardust, knowing almost nothing about it in advance. I thought it was another serious fantasy movie and was sorely disappointed during the first 15 minutes because of crappy special effects and no good storyline hook. I then began to realize that the movie was a comedy and from there on out I laughed many times and left the theater smiling and happy that I saw such a great movie. Robert De Niro and Nicole Kidman deliver great performances. Everyone needs to see this movie. It is void of profanity, language, and sex but still left me pleased.

-a blog for the blogless-

This post is for the outsiders, the select few that are blogless or the others that never use their blog but nevertheless participate in the world of online communication. One of you, known as D*Rock, created the idea that 'you' should all band together and create an open forum to share what you would like, when you would like. Because most everyone, excluding Eric, doesn't have a lot to write about every day it would be nice to have an open invite blog that everyone could post on when they felt like it. I guess I am just starting to notice that I have more free time and the internet at our house so I would like to have more blogs to visit and be able to read a little about what others are doing from time to time. Any one of you, maybe Kerbstreet, should start this thing up for everyone to join. I would love to occasionally read a post from the Bulldog.

...until proven innocent

I loosely followed the Duke Lacrosse rape scandal when it was happening but I guess I really didn't get it until last night. I was reading an article about the whole story in Reader's Digest last night and I was infuriated at how these honest, good men were treated after their annual party went bad. They admit that they should not have hired strippers but what group of close-knit, single, college kids haven't done something a little rowdy or scandalous? Curious after reading this story I got online and read a couple other articles and also watched a few YouTube videos of the players and coaches speaking and of a few news people commenting on the event. The one clip that totally blew me away was Nancy Grace freaking out about how horrible these men were. Nancy's outrageously narrow minded accusations were uncalled for, especially during a time when no proof was available to show that these men were guilty. A serious apology from Ms. Grace is warranted but I was unable to find any record of one.

Also, I would like to call out the erroneous ideas and statements of Duke University's president, faculty, and some of the student body. Groups spoke out about how these are just rich white kids persecuting other races. School groups even posted pictures of most of the lacrosse team around campus accusing them of their supposed horrible behavior. Shame on the media and the rest of the accusers for perptuating so many false ideas and destroying what could have been a great year for these outstanding Duke lacrosse players.

I hope that those players, their families and their friends can leave this incident in the past and continue their lives without suffering too many ill aftershocks of this travesty.

Three great videos: click here for Nancy's rant, Nifong's wrong and more, Jon Stewart's take.

NES

The nintendo quiz has been removed because of the music it plays and because I don't believe anyone else is going to take it.