Thursday, May 23, 2013

Here's Your Chuckle for Today

All at the expense of some cute little kids...


Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Who Doesn't Love a Flash Mob?


 

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

If You Have an Extra Two Minutes or So





Click Here


And if you have a couple of days......




Click Here 

Friday, April 5, 2013

If You Stick Around Long Enough

Look what you get!


Monday, April 1, 2013

I've Added a Couple More iDevices

Here they are:




My iPod


My iPhone


My iPad  




My iDrops


and...My iPatch

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Be Careful What You Say!


It was a bitterly cold Minnesota morning.A married couple went their separate ways to do their work for the day, He to a corporate office and his wife to her home office.
 
Soon the husband received a text from his wife:  WINDOWS FROZEN – CAN’T OPEN THEM. He responded: TRY POURING WARM WATER OVER IT AND SEE IF THAT HELPS  
 
 A short time later he got a reply text: DID WHAT YOU SAID. PC REALLY SCREWED UP NOW.
 
 
Moral of the story: Context is everything



Monday, March 18, 2013

Someone is Feeling Overwhelmed and Lined Up Some Help


You only get one guess as to who that someone is!

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Just Hangin' with my Homies



Sunday, March 10, 2013

Here's What Ellie Had to Say

About Leadership Day at her school. (She was one of a select group of kids who planned the event.)




"I had a really good day today. But it was also an exausting day since it was very windy and rainy.    The first thing we did today was a bunch of assemblys. Sofie and Jack performed, they were awesome! The next thing we did was tours, they didn't go so well because of the rain.But after that was awesome ! We did our big finally, we danced to a song called " Every Thing at Once", it was totally awesome! So today went pretty well. My favorite part was the dancing cause it was just totally, fantastically, cool, and awesome!"

I'm guessing she had a great day!

Saturday, March 9, 2013

This I Believe

An essay by Sara Adams on NPR's This I Believe series. It kind of sums up the way I feel about a lot of things.


Be Cool to the Pizza Delivery Dude

If I have one operating philosophy about life it is this: "Be cool to the pizza delivery dude; it's good luck." Four principles guide the pizza dude philosophy.

Principle 1: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in humility and forgiveness. I let him cut me off in traffic, let him safely hit the exit ramp from the left lane, let him forget to use his blinker without extending any of my digits out the window or towards my horn because there should be one moment in my harried life when a car may encroach or cut off or pass and I let it go. Sometimes when I have become so certain of my ownership of my lane, daring anyone to challenge me, the pizza dude speeds by me in his rusted Chevette. His pizza light atop his car glowing like a beacon reminds me to check myself as I flow through the world. After all, the dude is delivering pizza to young and old, families and singletons, gays and straights, blacks, whites and browns, rich and poor, vegetarians and meat lovers alike. As he journeys, I give safe passage, practice restraint, show courtesy, and contain my anger.

Principle 2: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in empathy. Let's face it: We've all taken jobs just to have a job because some money is better than none. I've held an assortment of these jobs and was grateful for the paycheck that meant I didn't have to share my Cheerios with my cats. In the big pizza wheel of life, sometimes you're the hot bubbly cheese and sometimes you're the burnt crust. It's good to remember the fickle spinning of that wheel.

Principle 3: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in honor and it reminds me to honor honest work. Let me tell you something about these dudes: They never took over a company and, as CEO, artificially inflated the value of the stock and cashed out their own shares, bringing the company to the brink of bankruptcy, resulting in 20,000 people losing their jobs while the CEO builds a home the size of a luxury hotel. Rather, the dudes sleep the sleep of the just.

Principle 4: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in equality. My measurement as a human being, my worth, is the pride I take in performing my job — any job — and the respect with which I treat others. I am the equal of the world not because of the car I drive, the size of the TV I own, the weight I can bench press, or the calculus equations I can solve. I am the equal to all I meet because of the kindness in my heart. And it all starts here — with the pizza delivery dude.
Tip him well, friends and brethren, for that which you bestow freely and willingly will bring you all the happy luck that a grateful universe knows how to return.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

I've Got a New Office Mate!


Guess who was smart enough to get his home office
 set up just in time to skip commuting today!

 And here's why!

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Floor Hockey Champs

Elizabeth's floor hockey team went winless in the regular season 0-9. There are only 4 teams so they seeded in 4th place. Wouldn't you know it they bump off the 1st place team in the first round in triple overtime. The championship was today amd they needed 6 overtimes to become champions. Way to go Mavericks.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

The Scoop from the Geographical Center of North America

The Rugby boys basketball team is going to the state tournament!

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Saturday, February 23, 2013

The Birds and the Bees in Pictures














Here's the News

End of February 2013

It's been a few weeks since I posted much on the blog. Life slows down in the winter and I've been spending my iTunes gift cards and watching the entire season of Downton Abbey, catching up on The Good Wife and rented a couple of movies too.

Snow is falling in Minnesota this morning and while I hear some grumbling on Facebook I personally think it freshens things up a bit.

Here's what I hear from the family:
  • Amanda is loving her astronomy class
  • Andrea has been quiet
  • Angelica has been quiet too
  • Arianna loves to get into trouble
  • Betty has started Sunday School
  • Brian is getting a man cave
  • Candy is busting people who don't know how to file  
  • Chris is going to Mankato with some friends
  • Elise is thinking about England
  • Elizabeth is having a sleepover tonight
  • Ellie is teaching Sofie to play catch 
  • Emma just got back from Chicago
  • Eric passed his math test
  • Jack has been pretty quiet
  • Kellie is painting her chimney "paprika"
  • Laurie scored at the antique store
  • Maura is sick of winter
  • Max (the kid) hasn't said a word
  • Max (the dog) is going to training and learning commands
  • Sam is incommunicado
  • Sofie is reading and proud of it  
  • Stan just got a new desk at Ikea



Saturday, January 19, 2013

The General and Sidekicks



Friday, January 18, 2013

Terra Cotta Stan



Monday, January 14, 2013

View through the Porch Window



Thursday, January 10, 2013

Somebody is Happy We're Home!



Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Sunday, December 30, 2012

A Cool Google Review of 2012


 I really liked this quick look at 2012 through the eyes of Google.







And in case you missed any Doodles - here they are:




Saturday, December 29, 2012

Friday, December 28, 2012

Here's Our Charging Station


iPad, Canon, Blackberry, iPhone, Kindle, Laptop

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Christmas 2012


for a quick review of Christmas 2012 in Minneapolis.

Friday, December 21, 2012

Thursday, December 20, 2012

This One's for Candy

Or any other kids out there...