Category: life

  • Nightly stuff

    I’ve been meaning to write a little post here for awhile, but it just keeps avoiding me. I have various things that I have wanted to mention, but I keep not posting. I’ve been meaning to save them somehow, so that I can post about them eventually, but I keep not doing that either. I’m…

  • ARE YOU READY FOR SOME CHRISTMAS!?!?!

    We are. Or rather, we were. In fact, we declared the Christmas tree post-mortem at a whopping 10:57 a.m. this morning. Yes, that’s right, the Christmas tree is already down and put away. This is not due to us being Scrooges or anything – we are still holly and jolly. It was a combination of…

  • Darth Vader

    Ever wonder what it might be like if Darth Vader had his own blog? Yeah, me too

  • High Comedy

    To paraphrase Bill Simmons, there’s high comedy, there’s transcendent comedy, and then there’s Marty Brennaman reading off the Reds‘ trivia question and pronouncing The Notorious BIG as The Notorious “big” Which is all not to mention his deadpan reading of the various rap song titles and lyrics, which was also quite classic. It scored at…

  • forte

    Did you know that the word forte, when used to mean a strength of someone, should actually be pronounced like fort (as opposed to for-tay, which is how you pronounce the musical term that is spelled the same) I did not know that till today

  • Jeopardy

    So, I caught the very end of Jeopardy today. Missed the final answer but the 3 responses were Cinncinnatti (sic), Cincinnati and Council Bluffs. Certainly somewhere on the Internet (Edited to add – of course) somebody has to be keeping track of these things, but it makes a somewhat interesting game to play – what…

  • Diaper problems

    So last night I was putting the kids to bed. I was upstairs reading books and then went to put them to bed. Scott had pooped, so after I took Amy to bed, Scott and I went downstairs and I changed his diaper, then took him back upstairs. All good, right? Except for this morning…

  • Rebate game

    Browsing around on some coupon message boards as I frequently do, I came across this link to an article called When to play the rebate game. Moderately interesting, but what was more interesting was this quote: According to our resident Shopper.com shopping expert, Dan Miller, THE PEOPLE MUST HAVE THEIR DAN MILLER!!!

  • Pope Spam

    Just after the Pope died, I was wading through my spam filter and saw some spam about the Pope (gold commemorative coins maybe?). Nice to see I was not the only one http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20050412/D89E07K80.html

  • Free throw shooting

    So I’ve been out shooting free throws on my new bball hoop. I’ve been aiming for 70% in clumps of 20 shots. Sidenote: I suck at free throws. I actually made it once yesterday (for the first time). I actually made 16/22. The real question is, statistically speaking, how often will someone that has a…