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Things, Goings On, and Stuff I write

Booked

We are so booked this trip to Texas. I’m working, which has to be a priority, but on top of that we’re also trying to visit and see as many people as possible. I’m just hoping for a few minutes of actual down time to get rest. I don’t expect it but I’m going to be an optimist.

Also, I’m wondering how I’m going to bring everything with me that I’d like to bring – it seems that I have too many things to bring, some work related, some personal, but all seem important. I will, however, only be bringing my Bible with me and a few books to bring to some friends that I’d like to share.

Should be fun!

Holy Percussive Ingenuity Batman!

We just got back from Stomp. As I expected I was impressed. There was a lot of stuff that I remembered from the first show I saw around 6 years ago, but also a lot of fun new stuff – and, since it had been six years there was plenty of time for me to forget some of it so it could be new again. There was a lot more comedy than I recall from before so that was good. I was also good to hear our friends the Kaes laugh as well and I’m sure that Kailey and Trystan are just hungry to start their own Stomp routines.

Good stuff! Definitely worth going to see if they come to your area. Sell and organ if you have to. Organs aren’t as cool as drums anyway 😉

Happy Marriage Birthday John and Becca

Happy anniversary to my brother and sister-in-law! They (amazlingly?) allowed me to be in the wedding as the best man. Of course already being married to the grooms sister qualified me for other perks such as playing a brief practical joke wherein I lost the wedding ring for the bride.

Thanks for not killing me after that little stunt 🙂

Red, White and Itchy

So, last Wednesday I did a brilliant thing: I went riding my bike for one half hour. Exercise is good. I did not wear a shirt because I wanted to keep my fantastic physique off white (darker than Michael Jackson) rather than white, whiter and whitest. I didn’t (and here’s the stupid part) wear any sun screen because there was no reason to because I wasn’t going to be out that long. Don’t even get me started about how dangerous that was in the skin cancer department because I was just trying to darken up a little for a boat party next weekend.

So, now I’m rather itchy on my back and last night I couldn’t sleep for a while due to feeling like I was going to go jump off of a bridge [with lots of water under it], a small chair and the bottom step of my stairs so that I could end the agony. Jessica helped me make an oatmeal bath and I was finally able to rest.

However… the itch is back on my back – why did I have to try to beat the white by going red?

Labor and Delivery Video

No, I don’t have one. Yes, people are hitting my site whilst searching for the term on the ‘Inkernet.’ Who, in their right mind, wants to watch that? If you are pregnant, looking for that video, please consider going to a pregnancy preparation class or checking your local library. Labor and Delivery is often long and if you downloaded a real time video of that on the Internet it would take a long time. Secondly, being in the same room with my wife as she labored to get our little pumkin girl was really intense – you wouldnt’ want to see that.

In fact, while my bride was huffing, puffing and blowing the hospital down she got this look so intense on her face that I was litterally scared. I thought, “Self, if you ever see that look on her face in a non-labor and delivery situation – run. FAST!” This is because inside of Jessica muscles were doing things that were so intense that only Arnold Schwarteneiger and a small handfull of body building men could possibly understand: she was pushing with all of her might. Of course it was all worth it when the Abigator came out – but dont’ look for those sorts of videos online. If you have to check out Yahoo’s nifty online video search.

What to Wear in Court II

Some time I wrote about a site that allowed folks to put captions on things and the entry had the title: What to Wear to Court. Bad move on my part. Now folks are coming to my site looking for clothing advice. If you’re reading this looking clothing advice, you’re on the wrong blog. I recommend the following outfit for 99% of your life: T-Shirt (white, black or possibly blue) with Jeans (blue, loose fitting preferred). When you go to court, you can wear a button up shirt, but don’t lose the jeans! Clothes in court are half of the battle. The other half is whether or not you’re the guilty one or not. If you’re a juror, make sure you wear your sunglasses in so that they don’t see you looking at anything but the person in the stand or the judge or attorneys.

Oh, and make sure you have on clean underwear in case the defendent escapes and kills you – your mom will be proud 😉

note: this is a joke article and if I’m ever called to a jury I will do my civic duties with pride and honor – attorneys please don’t weed me out because I like to laugh

The Sound of Music

So today at lunch I ventured outside (which is rare for me, I live in the basement usually most of the day whilst I code) and took a bike ride to try to get a bit of a tan for next week’s outdoor adventures in Texas. I saw a doe. Unless is was a gay buck, but I digress. How cool is it to see wildlife? I was close to the Cherry Creek Reservoir, so it wasn’t as if the doe was in my front yard.

I asked the doe to please stay where she was at because I found her appealing and attractive. She looked at me and said, “you’re not my type,” and then ran away. I get this reaction from lots of folks so I wasn’t too worried. However, a female counterpart of the humanish species was walking down the street and threw a glass bottle in front of me! She was young, and her parents should probably be jailed for letting her out unsupervised at that age, but she threw it down on the road in front of me. Fortunately it did not break, but I was ready to call the cops and have her hauled to Juvinile Detention for assault and bottlery.

Anyway, I was pleased to see the doe and hope that I see more wildlife on my lunch adventures in the future.

Wake Up!

I stayed up late last night working on getting the StatTraq 1.b update out. This morning around 6:15 Abby woke up and came in and made huge amounts of noise trying to get me to wake up. She even managed to whack me in the face with a book several times.

Eventually I woke up and was rewarded by needing ot go to the store. However, God, in His infinite wisdom did reward me: King Soopers was running a special on Cliff bars at 50 cents each. I bought a box.

Then, I got online this morning and was told to ‘Wake Up!’ by a co-worker in Texas. There’s a theme here 🙂

Pardon My French

The title of this post accurately reflects my knowledge of most languages actually, not just French. I could say pardon my Spanish, Russian, Yiddish or any other language. I’m bound by the silly English languish. However, I’ve managed in the last 5 or so years to learn various programming languages at least well enough to get things done in them. Why is it that programming languages are simpler than spoken languages to learn? Often because they’ve got similar syntax or a similar approach to things.

Right now I’m learning C++, a language written in what seems like the dark ages after having used Java, but I’m catching on and I think that its going to prove useful. Its a lot faster than older versions of Java and it can be written rather efficiently as well since many function names are terse and remove all vowels. Of course without vowels you have to play a guessing game about what things like the following mean:

atoi
memcmp // oops, they left a vowel in that one
strcmp
strcpy

However, there’s a secret decoder ring that came with one of my books so I was able to figure those out 😉

If You’re Happy and You Know it: Stomp

This weekend I’m going to go see Stomp. I haven’t seen them since the 90’s but I’m quite looking forward to it. I believe we’ll be passing Abby off onto someone else because it will be too loud for her, but I’m very excited. Saturday may lead to another day of working on ‘home things’ but Sunday night is going to be intense! I was blown away by the quality of the percussion rhythms and the diversity as well since to most folks drums have about 6 different beats in the music they listen to. Being a drummer in Jr. High and High School I just loved it and I bought the DVD for my collection – I pull it out every once in a while to enjoy the fun.

Have you seen Stomp, and if so, what did you think?