Monkey High Five

This morning Jesse came up to me and told me that the coolest people he knows are Gavin, Brody, Spencer and me. (The first two are kids his age, the second is a teenager that helped watch him yesterday) After he said that Owen walked by with his monkey in hand, hit Jesse with it, then walked away. Jesse's response to that was priceless. "I think Owen is cool too, he just gave me a monkey high five."

Draw a house

I heard about this website that allows you to draw a house and then you answer some personality questions. Go to www.drawahouse.com.

Return of the Nerd

A couple of days ago my work treated my team and me to lunch at the Cheesecake Factory. It was pretty tasty, especially the key lime cheesecake I had, but to my surprise, across the street was a Night Flights Comics store. While I've been to Hasturs, a place loaded with comics, it also has lots and lots of board/card game stuff there too. This place is strictly comic books and related items. Wow, I had a geek overload. I spent probably an hour in there looking at various titles, back issues, trade paper backs, omnibus collecitons and much much more. I really wanted to buy something but I haven't bought a new comic book in almost 8 years. I stay kind of up to date on comics by reading wikipedia but when confronted with comics hot off the press I have no idea what's going on. And to catch up on the stories I'd need to buy several back issues, but the stories I was interested in didn't have all of them, so dispondantly I was ready to leave there empty handed when I saw a new Spider-Man magazine. It's almost 100 pages of old and new stories with Spider-Man, FF4 and others. I bought it mostly as something I can read with my kids, but also to satiate the comic book nerd in me to read something new. With all the comic book movies coming out this year (the Hulk just came out yesterday) I've been jonesing to get back into it, but then I remember that in my hayday I was spending $20 a week on comics, and most of those have about doubled in price. You can subscribe to all the Marvel comics online for about fifty bucks a month, which isn't too bad of a price if you're a big reader/comic-bookphile.

Tom and Jerry

A few months ago we bought a Tom and Jerry DVD for our kids to watch, but it wasn't until last night that I actually sat through the whole thing. I can't remember the last time I laughed so much at a cartoon! And both the kids love it too! Jesse thinks it's every bit as entertaining as his other shows, Owen likes it because it has a cat. What really amazes me about these cartoons is they are well over 60 years old, but still hold up today. The animation is probably better than what you find with most modern cartoons, especially if you're not a fan of what comes out of Japan. But what I noticed last night more than anything is the music of Tom and Jerry. It's primarily classic music with splashes of Jazz, Latin, Big Band and even Opera. It's unfortunate that every iteration of Tom and Jerry since its initial run severly pales in comparison to the original series, but if you get a chance to watch the old stuff, you'll be very surprised by how good it still is.

Easy Like Sunday Morning

The Commodores had it all wrong. There is nothing easy about Sunday morning if you go to church and have kids. Period.