Here’s a blanket Martha’s been working on made from Tim’s old t-shirts.
For some reason today I was thinking about him again; reflecting on what a statement it makes about a guy’s life when the lives of pretty much everyone who knew him will never be the same when he’s gone.
(PS - excuse the poor quality of the photo, it was taken in a pretty dark room from my cell phone, so there’s only so much adjusting of the levels, etc. in Photoshop that I could do to get it to look decent).
I guess if you’re paying for trash service you may as well get as much use out of it as you can, and what better way to do that than to have the kids turn the recycling bin into a toy?
Just so you know, (in case you don’t have kids yet, or don’t remember being one) kids will find a way to turn anything into a toy, given enough time.
I walked outside and heard muffled voices, and went over and found Christian, his friend Blake, and Riley all stuffed in there.
Yesterday I finished putting in the flooring in the downstairs “game room”
Unfortunately, you can’t really see it in this picture (except for the very bottom), since Martha is now in the middle of phase 2: painting, so it’s mostly covered up.
I occasionally need to do stuff like this to remind myself why I really like the kind of work I do for a living. Maybe it’s psychological, but it seems like the soreness of being on your knees all day lasts a little longer the older you get…
are now up in my Flickr photos, tagged with “Fall Drive” & 2005.
Yes, that is my hand in the picture, taken on my cell phone. I did this to give an approximate size perspective to the pictures, and remember my hand is kind of big.
After we were tossing some rocks around in the riverbed, we noticed this spider crawling around, apparently trying to escape being squished (although if Kristi had anything to say about it, it still would have been).
There are more pictures of the spider as well as the other ones that I took from my cell phone, under the tags mentioned above (link to photos tagged with both “Fall Drive” and 2005).
I forgot that I wanted to publicly thank Randy for an emergency babysitting session on Friday night. It was kind of last minute, since I had to take Martha out to dinner to make up for forgetting to meet her for lunch, even when it was my idea and we talked about it that morning. doh!
As a follow up to my not-so-well-received prior article on eating establishment tips, I decided to do this one about fast food (prompted by my trip to Carl’s Jr. a few minutes ago). Hopefully this one will be easier to swallow (ha ha).
This one is much more simple, actually; it involves a hint for making sure your order is taken correctly. This is the first step in a larger process of making sure you get what you ordered, and the one you have the most control over. The other parts (the actual production and delivery fulfilling the order that is taken) are more difficult, but usually the only thing you can do about that is not order complex custom stuff and then just check the bag once they give it to you.
The main thing that people can do to ensure that their order is at least taken correctly to begin with (and therefore is at least possible to produce correctly) is to wait until the order taker finishes entering the first item into the computer before you tell them the next one. This is much easier to do in a walk up situation, where you can see them pushing the buttons, but in the drive-thru (unless they have one of those display systems) you just kind of have to put enough delay in it (picture yourself finding the button on the computer, assuming you don’t know where it is) and hope for the best. As a former drive-thru order taker, I can tell you that slow orders are slightly annoying, but as long as it’s not too drawn out (like people waiting to decide what they want until they get to the speaker), it’s not too bad.
“Now let me get this straight,â€? Judge Mithaqi (The lead Iraqi delegate, and a noted secular Sunni judge) said. “You are lecturing us about keeping religion out of politics, and then your own president and conservative legal scholars go and tell your public to endorse Miers as a Supreme Court justice because she is an evangelical Christian?”
I’m looking for some recommendations on online feed readers, since Google Reader isn’t all that great after all. If anyone (like Dan) can get me into the Feedlounge trial from Alex that would be cool, but I’m also just looking for general recommendations of any others out there that are already released. I’ve tried Bloglines a long time ago, but I’m sure it’s changed some since then.
To be realistic, I don’t really know whether any of the readers here use them or have tried them besides Dan, so this is probably mostly a question I could have just emailed to him, but I thought I’d open it up for everyone to comment.
Judging by the surprising number of comments I’ve gotten this morning on my Green Lantern t-shirt (people recognizing it just be the logo, since there’s no words), I’m going to reconsider a conversation I had a while back with some of you.
I remember saying something about how I always thought that it was common knowledge that Superman’s “real” (Kryptonian) name was Kal-El (even before the Nicholas Cage baby thing). Several people said that I only knew that because I was a comic geek, but I was thinking that most people knew this (even if they didn’t read comics, since it was in the movies).
So, now for a completely unscientific poll: How many of you knew Superman’s Kryptonian name was Kal-El?
