My sister-in-law sent me this link to a Big Burger. Apparently this is real. Apparently these people have a death wish and want to die of a clogged heart within a day or so. If they don’t have a clogged hear their toilette will be after eathing that much meat.
Monthly Archives: January 2005
Almost a Funny Story
This morning I was supposed to lead music for the main service. I was also lined up to substitute teach for the 7-12 year olds because Craig Kaes, my buddy, pal and Greek teacher was sick. However, they changed the service order on me at the last minute and so I had to pass on doing the meditation song (which is basically background music while the folks read the passage we’ll be studying and then have time to ponder the passage before the teacher digs in and serves up a piping hot dish of spiritual food). So, I went down to my classroom and waited for my class to be dismissed from the main service’s family worship time [there was some music I wasn’t involved in, part of the jumbling of the service]. I waited. And after about 5 minutes realized that I had no students [there are usually only 4 or so students max]. I could have done the meditation song, I could have done a lot of things. I could have been a contender. Anyway, I got to go upstairs and listen to the main teaching in the sanctuary after that. Oh, well. It was going to be funny.
I hope that all is well, and make sure you check out the video files I posted yesterday!
Proud Uncle Post
This would be my super cute niece being sung to by her super cool brother Brennan, my super cool nephew.
It’s a super cool 8MB video file.
I guess that also makes it super large.
Here is a video of Hawley doing lung exercises.
Lessons in Swimming Part II
We went to swimming lessons again this morning and I learned something very important: don’t suck water into your mouth when attempting to breathe while doing the ‘Free Style’ stroke. Apparenlty sucking water into your mouth during other strokes is acceptable. I also learned that the ‘Back Stroke’ is not a massage technique and that it too requires some finesse. As you know I’m loaded with finesse so the swimming came quite easily to me. I was like a duck out of hell water there in that pool.
Apparently my old war injury in my shoulder makes it so that when I bring my left arm around something that resembles a really out of balance tire happens. There is no circle, it’s more like a wobbly limb waving around like a wobbly limb. I suppose it’s better than waving around like a wobbly lamb, but not much better. I was able to get the back stroke down all right after several laps. Unfortunately I’m so tired right now that the word plays above were actually funny to me. I suppose this is a good thing since my desk-jockey life involves as much exercise as that of a person who watches TV all day.
Next week we’re apparently going to be tackling the butterfly stroke. As graceful as that stroke is I’m sure that it’s going to look like I’m tackling it. On the football field. In swimming trunks. Wearing no goggles because the only good ones cost more than I’m willing to part with for the short duration of this class. Of course if I want to make the money we paid for this class useful I’m going to have to continue on with my swimming. I guess we’ll have to buy a house with a pool or a really, really, really big toilette.
The Shortest Point Between Two Distances
My buddy Jon sent me a link to this Microsoft Map helping a person take the shortest route between two locations. Or you’d think that by telling the computer to return those results you’d actually get a short route.
Welcome to Planet Earth Hawley Peterman
My niece Hawley [pronounced Holly, it’s apparently a family name in Shari’s family] Elizabeth Peterman was born this morning at 10:20 PST weighing in at a slight six pounds seven ounces. She’s nineteen inches long and is apparently doing well. When my brother Ed called he was just excited and emotionally in the same place I was when Abby was born. This is most likely a good thing 🙂 I hope to get pictures today to be able to post for all to see.
Super good news!
Brennan and Hawley Peterman photo taken by Pete Leonard.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
So last night I watched this movie with my friend Brian, it was a really freaky movie along the lines of Memento, and possibly sort of like the Matrix if you just count the philosophical parts and no action and no special effects, though there was some special effect work done. It had Jim Carrey being serious, Kate Winslet not hanging off of the front of a boat, and Elijah Wood standing the same height as everyone else. It also had the main male role from 13 going on 30 as well as Kirsten Dunst whom we all know from Spider-Man one and two.
This movie is really weird because they play part of the end at the beginning, and then fill inthe middle, play past the part they played in the beginning and then finish the movie with the end. I appreciate a movie with an ending at the end, it makes a sense of completion possible. I will warn you that Jim Carrey is not overtly funny in this film and that the language, while being English, is full of words that parents don’t want their children to hear or use, and that if used any more than it was in this movie falls over the line of bad script writing. In other words, there’s a lot of prophanity in this movie and you shouldn’t see it if hearing it throws you into a fit of vomitting, temporary memory loss or back pain. Women under 30 should consult a physician before taking this… whoops! I got way off track.
I really liked the moral of the movie because it was that if you’re meant to be with someone you’ll be with them no matter what. However, 95% of the people who leave the theater, or finish watching the DVD, will not be thinking that. Carrey is serious in this movie. Really. Don’t come looking for an Ace Ventura, Bruce Almighty, or The Mask. Don’t come looking for The Majestic either, because this is not filled with the feel good stuff at the end.
The idea behind the movie is that a doctor in the area can erase memories from your mind. By the end of the movie a lot of memories are erased from a lot of minds leading to catastrophe. However, a majority of the movie is played out in Jim’s mind where he [some description that would totally spoil the movie if you were to watch it].
So, how do I rate this movie after rambling on so long with great discontinuity? On a scale from 1 to 13, with 13 being the best, I’d give it a 9. It’s above average, but due to some graphic scenes, vulgar language and silly kissing from Kursten Dunst, it can’t be a 13.
Windows Annoyance
So Windows Update triggered this morning to fix more problems with Internut Exploder as well as wanting to install some Anti-Virus type software. Well, the update finished (sans AV, which I’ve already got) and now every 10 minutes I get a little popup telling me to restart the computer. What the heck is up with that? Can I please reboot at my convenience? Sure Windows XP takes less time to reboot than Windows 2000 did, but why annoy me? I’m so going to switch over to Mac when I can.
Dental Update
As I know that many of the readers of this blog sit around thinking, “I sure wish Randy would spell check his posts,” or “Do my hands smell like bleu cheese?” I want to let you know that it turns out that my mouth is in much better shape than I had anticipated. Or the people at the dental office I just visited lied to me so that in about 3 years they’ll be able to say, “Randy, we need to replace your face, and we figure that since you don’t have dental insurance, it’s going to cost around $5,000,000,000.00.” However, I think it is better rather than worse there sense the staff is either really friendly or inhaling laughing gas between patients. I have no cavities and they really thought that the only way to get more money from me would be to use this technique called invisiline to straighten out my lower teeth and manipulate my upper teeth. In short the Dr. in charge of invisiline nirvana at the office told me it would be a mere $4,500 for the trays with a $500.00 initial ‘seed’ payment. So, if I want straight teeth I can go to the Orthodontist or the Dentist now, and I can pay a lot or pay a lot. Or, because I don’t care about how my lower teeth look I’ll go in every six months and have them clean them.
Thanks for asking the tough questions 🙂
Lessons in Swimming
Well, we had swimming lessons yesterday and quite the time of it, too. Apparently when you swim there’s this thing called ‘form.’ The idea is to have a consistant motion that propels you through the water. The instructor gave us tips on a swimming stroke called ‘Free Style.’ When it was my turn to show him my free style swim when I surfaced he said, “Good!” Then, in typical teaching fashion he kindly told me that every part of my stroke, movement and activity in the water was slightly to severly off with two exceptions: I didn’t sink and I didn’t drown.
However, I get the sense this morning that swimming is good for me and something I should pursue as a physical activity because I’m really sore in more parts of my body. I’m most likely going to join the Recreational Center so that I can get going and practicing my strokes, build large muscles and generally turn myself into Colorado’s next Gubernator.
In other lessons in swimming Abby had a nightmare last night and so came to be in our bed. We let her sleep in our bed for a bit so that she can rest and relax and fall back to sleep. Stupid. Why? Because Abigail was practicing her free style swim between Jessica and I. Arms flailed, feet flew about kicking both of us and her body writhed against us. The tough part is that she was asleep while all of this happens. I couldn’t be mad at her for intentionally kicking me in the kidney if it was an accident. So at around 3:30 as we started the second round of her swimming practice I carried her into her own bed to practice in a solo session.