To cell or not to cell.

I keep toying with the idea of getting rid of our "land line" phone and switching to all cell phone usage. The question is how much time do we spend making local calls per month and how much would that increase with the use of a cell phone. I hate doing research like this! But I'm starting to get to the point where I think a cell phone would be very useful. I've always shunned them. I don't know. This will probably another one of my many little projects that sits virtually idle for months.

Rain Delay

This summer has been nothing but hot, hot, hot weather. We finally plan a trip to a baseball game and it rains. I'm so dissapointed. The kid is all decked out with her baseball hat and shirt. She loves sports and I think we would have had a great time. Now I don't think we'll make it to a game until next year! Gotta go. She's serving up tea in her playroom.

The stuff sucks!

I get free computer equipment from work, it is generally slightly used but it should be in good working order. It sucks. I hate to admit it but it does. My wife believes that all our problems would go away if we only had a Mac. I'm not sure if that is true but I can't prove that it isn't. The real problem is that all of the equipment is made by my company and I think we are making poor products. I want to recommend the stuff to my friends and family but it is getting harder and harder to do.

McFunny

Yesterday I witnessed a Chicken McNugget eating contest. The winner ate 61 McNuggets in the allotted 35 minutes. Second place ate 54 and the third and final contestant ate 41 and in the end he left most of his Nuggets in the parking lot and behind the bushes. I personally ate two as I watched and that was more than enough to know that I would be pushing my luck if I ate more than ten of those horrid little things. There were probably about 10 or twelve of us there to witness the contest and one guy even video taped it. When entry number 3 "hurled" the crowed went wild. The whole event took me back to a time in my early twenties when I used to hang out with a lot of guys. I forgot how fascinated and excited we can become when we are in a mob. Things quickly degenerate to the lowest common denominator and we love it and we keep pushing it lower and lower. After all that excitement I couldn't wait to get home and tell the CEO all about it. I should have quickly keyed in on her look of disgust but I guess I held out hope that the punch line of it all would drag her in and let her see the humor. "...and one guy lost it, he threw up all over the parking lot and in the.......you don't think it's funny?" I guess I can understand where she's coming from but for me be it sophmoric, childish or whatever I still think it was hilarious.

Yahoo! News - CBS Newsman Mike Wallace Issued Summons

Yahoo! News - CBS Newsman Mike Wallace Issued Summons: "'60 Minutes' correspondent Mike Wallace, who was placed in handcuffs and taken to a police precinct in a dispute with city parking enforcement inspectors, says he wonders why anyone thought that he, at 86, was a threat."

OK, so this might not seem like my regular blog entry but I'm experimenting. I added the Google toolbar to my browser and it has a button called "blog it" and if I like some web page I see that I'm on I just click this button and it creates a blog entry. It also imports any text from that web page that I have hi-lited. This seems like it might have some cool uses. We'll see. I' probably stick with the blogging I've always done, for the most part. And there is also the fact that this seems like a pretty funny story.

Oh yeah, I did see that the Radiers of The Lost Ark scene for scene remake was recently show at Coolidge corner in Cambridge MA. I hope it gains more momentum.

Our poor little doggie.

For years he has slept in our bedroom. Occasional joining us up on the bed, for an extremely restful evening. However for the past couple of months he has refused to join us. The CEO has put her finger on the problem. He's is afraid of the air conditioner and it doesn't even have to be running. He has always been an oddly observant dog. There was that one time when he noticed that some Christmas cards had been taped to one of the walls in our apartment. No he didn't like that, he had to scoot by the wall in a hurry then quickly turn and bark at it. However, that incident like many others passed as he got used to these inanimate objects. He doesn't seem to be getting used to the AC and I don't know why.

The kid is up.......

Here I sit once again "speechless" so to speak. Just coming off a big couple of weeks with my Sister In-law (blog name: SIL) and her kids. What can I say about it that the CEO hasn't said in her email. I think what I focused on as one of the stranger, or perhaps silly parts of the visit was the food. My SIL kept saying "my kids will eat everything, they'll eat anything." This was often in response to us asking if we should cook this or that or if we should eat out at this place or that place. And time after time the kids wouldn't like certain things. Don't get me wrong they are good eaters but like most humans "they don't like everything." I think the 5 year old summed it up best when I was telling our friend about this issues in her presence. She said "we eat everything that we like." Finally the voice of reason.

The kid is up.............

Silence.......

Our visitors have departed.
Our house is quiet again.
What a busy time.
We had a great time with all the kids and my sister in-law. However, it is always nice when you get your space back. Now we all have to reset ourselves. The whole time the gang was here I was going to bed between 11:30 and Midnight. We were eating dinner between 7:30 and 8:30 and then I would often clean the mountain of dishes that would easily take about and hour to clean the kitchen. It was interesting to have older kids around. I forgot what it was like to be ten. It is great to be a kid. I gotta go. The blog is alive again. I hope I haven't lost my massive audience.