How do you know when it's time to tune your bagpipes?

Hello good people... I've got some links and things to share today and of course the Wednesday feature:
LIFE CHANGING TIPS AND TRICKS!!!!
How to Sleep Better, some really great tips and information about getting better quality sleep. Also, they changed around the How-To site I've been using it looks a lot nicer now.

Bargain Alert!! Here is a great deal on some Lego Sets.

• When I saw these, I thought "why?"... well the title answers the question, but it still left me scratching my head.
• I enjoy beer, and occasionally I'll creep out of my comfort zone brews to try something new... but this is just craziness.
• I SOOOOO want to get something like this... uber baby stroller!
• FUN WITH ELECTRICITY! (Don't try this at home)
• If you've seen 300 then this will make you chuckle.
• For that special emo in your life... CRAYONS! Not sure what emo is? Click me
• Here's a great commentary on the use of Voice Communications while playing online games.

Remember that fun with electricity link up there?? Well, here is some more fun


I watched Hot Fuzz the other day, so I'm going to try and write up a good review of it before the end of the week. Be safe and see you tomorrow.

Martin turns 30!

I could poke fun, I could give warnings, instead... let me comfort you with this thought; you'll never be as old as I am. Thanks for inviting us to your kickin' party.. Carson had a blast.

Saturday in the Park

We went to the "Meet PBS Kids" event at Veteran's Park on Saturday... afterwards we stopped in at the Indiana War Memorial which has a museum inside. Here's the photo album:

Saturday in the Park

A few of my favorites from the album:

Happy Birthday, Pops

Carson's Poppy got another year older last night... we had some friends over and got an "interesting" cake. Was a good time.

A moment of silence

My condolences to the Wagner family on their loss...

Jacob's Birthday Party

Jacob turned one! Carson had a great time with the waterguns and water balloons.

When French people swear, do they say, "Pardon my English"?

This day in history

1889: Flag Day in the US

In the United States, Flag Day (more formally, National Flag Day) is celebrated on June 14. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States, which happened that day by resolution of the Second Continental Congress in 1777.

In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation that officially established June 14 as Flag Day; in August 1949, National Flag Day was established by an Act of Congress.

Flag Day is not an official federal holiday, though on June 14, 1937 Pennsylvania became the first (and only) U.S. state to celebrate Flag Day as a state holiday.

Funny and Scary:

• Amp'd Mobile files for bankruptcy after 1/2 of their subscribers don't pay their bills
• Happen to need an industrial can-opener?
• I like a good thrill ride from time to time, but this is taking it a step too far
• Have you ever used PowerPoint? Ever been in a meeting where someone had BAD slides? This guy gives you steps on how NOT to use PowerPoint

Haffey came up big this past week with an OUTSTANDING link to a couple very useful sites:

• Windows XP Post SP2 Update Pack, which let's you update your media with the latest updates to save time after building machine by not having to patch them. It also has some other add-on tools that are pretty cool.
• The other site is tlbox, which is a great repository of various tools (in our link we have focused on System Admins, but there are others to choose from) that you can integrate into Firefox. Kudos to you, sir, for the awesome links.
  

I have some friends that are really into Guitar Hero, so the next two links are all about them. If you are into GH, you are welcome to enjoy them as well.

• Guitar Hero rocks the 80s?? Get out of town.
• How about using your Guitar Hero "axe" to make music you can save on your PC? Just, wow.

Apple iPhone... June 29th... 6pm... local time.

The Colts received their SuperBowl Champion rings last night.

Blast from the past:

I really wanna go see if there are some episodes of this I can get, I used to watch it all the time. heh

What disease did cured ham have?

What American accent do you have? (Best version so far) Midland ("Midland" is not necessarily the same thing as "Midwest") The default, lowest-common-denominator American accent that newscasters try to imitate. Since it's a neutral accent, just because you have a Midland accent doesn't mean you're from the Midland.

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I'll drop some more stuff in here a bit later.

Patch 'em

It's Patch Tuesday... make sure you get the latest updates. It's also a good time to check out your passwords and change them if they are getting old.

Today's Patches

My Daemon

Friday Family Fun

Another Friday filled with family fun!







Catch the whole album here (including a video of the monster truck in action):

Friday Family Fun

We're having a BOY!

Had the ultrasound today

and he showed his gender to the ultrasound tech


This one seemed just as uncooperative as Carson was during his ultrasound, but less dedicated to blocking the tech from telling if he was a girl or a boy. Now to start the name debate... heh.

Picnic @ Eagle Creek

Carson's daycare held a picnic for those families that may want to go... we had a really good time and Carson enjoyed playing with classmates on the weekend.

Nick turns SIX!!!

We got to go to Nick's 6th birthday party, it was a Harry Potter party...
Here's the album:

Nick's Birthday Party

In the interest of not having a hundred photo's link from here use the album to check out all the action, I am going to directly link my favorite part; potion creation.













And then close with my favorite photo:


Thanks for having us over to your house Nick, we're looking forward to a really fun summer.

Friday Goofing around

Here's a typical Friday at our house: