Pics from my cell phone

I got a new phone last year but wanted totransfer all my old pictures from it, so after several long phone calls to Verizon I got them all uploaded to their picture hosting site. A few days ago I get a notice that they have all been deleted, so a long phone call and half a day later I was able to get them back. I'm not sure this is the best resolution that is available, so just squint a bit and the pictures will look better. Most of them are of Jesse when he was just over a year old.

Blatant Plagiarism!!!

I'm copying this straight from my brother's blog because anything that I might add would just distract from it.



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St. Patrick's Day vs. Easter

A few days ago Melissa looked at the calendar and realized that Easter is only 6 days after St. Patrick's day this year. The big question was "Which one should we decorate for?". I don't know that we even have a shamrock or a blarney stone, so Easter will win out easily :) It made me think though why Easter is celebrated on different days each year. It turns out that Easter is a moveable feast that isn't fixed on a Julian or Gregorian calendar but is determined on a lunisolar calendar, like the Hebrew calendar. Thank you wikipedia. The simple answer is Easter falls on the Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring equinox, which is March 21st. Boy, those geniuses at the Nicean council really knew how to make a holiday. Why not just pick the first Sunday of April? Anywho, this means that Easter can be as early as March 22nd or as late as April 25th. This year is the second earliest it could be, in 2011 it will be the second latest. The cycle of Easter dates repeats after exactly 5,700,000 years, with April 19 being the most common date, happening 220,400 times, or 3.9% compared to a mean for all dates of 162,857 times, or 2.9%. So there you have it, please celebrate accordingly.

Down with the Sickness

It started Saturday night with an innocent cough. I'm thinking that since the inversion is here (what happens when cold air traps pollution in the valley) that I'm just feeling it a bit. Sunday was more of the same except Melissa had a fever in the 103 range. To make a long story longer, each day we both got progressively worse. Melissa hasn't gone to work at all this week and I've only done about two days worth of work. I'm just very lucky that neither of our kids have gotten sick. Owen seems more energenic than ever and Jesse has done a great job with helping out at night and getting himself ready. I've let him play my Nintendo DS before he goes to bed. He loves playing the new Mario Bros. I've wanted to add more entries to my diary but I just haven't felt like making the effort to type. I'll try to wrap up a week's worth of thoughts into a paragraph or two.

First thing's first. My wife got me Guitar Hero 80's edition and a wireless guitar. Awesome!!! My favorite song hands down is Only a Lad by Oingo Boingo! Next thought, with the new Indiana Jones movie coming out in May I would hope that all my friends and family that read this, yes all four of you, that we do this thing up right. That means a midnight showing with all the fun stuff that we've done in the past with the Star Wars and Lord of the Rings movies. I love big movie midnight premieres. The crowds always have a lot of fun energy, there are lots of people that dress up and then you get to watch a great movie. So I'll take the lead on this one and find out where and when. Just email/call/text me if you want to go. Next up, I want to echo the remarks found in Brad's blog about 101.9 The End. Chunga aka Brett Smith is a loser of epic proportions. I would encourage everyone that listens to that radio station to stop immediately. And lastly, this is a guilty pleasure of mine: Ask a Ninja. Check it out.

The best reason to buy a PS3

I like Star Wars. I like Fighting Games. Soul Caliber IV for the PS3 will have both. Xbox 360 owners get Yoda. Ha ha ha.

Happy Valentine's Day! Here is my list of chick flicks for dudes.

Chick flicks are my wife's favorite form of movie. Not mine so much, but because I try to be a good hubby I'll watch them with her. Fortunately there have been some that I've liked, so here is my top 10 list of chick flicks that dudes can watch and still feel manly. Enjoy.

10- Legally Blonde Reese Witherspoon is a blonde babe with uncanny lawyering skills. Interesting note: Melissa went to school with Matt Davis, the boyfriend that Reese starts the movie with.

9- Sweet Home Alabama Another Reese movie, this time she plays a high powered New York fashion designer that has to go home to Alabama to resolve her past in order to continue with her future.

8- Fools Rush In Salma Hayek and Chandler fall in like, get prego, then fall in love.

7- The Lake House Whoa, it's like Speed but without the bus. Just kidding, but Speed co-stars Keanu Reeve and Sandra Bullock team up for a unique story of friend two strangers living in the same house but separated by time.

6- Kate and Leopold What happens when you go back in time and bring back Wolverine? Appearantly elevators break and Meg Ryan finds true love.

5- Serendipity Ever since Better Off Dead John Cusack has had a special place in my heart. Here he tries to discover if Kate Beckinsale is really his one true love, or should he stay with his fiancee.

4- Miss Congeniality Ah Sandra, While You Were Sleeping would have made Melissa's top 3 but here you'll have to settle for #4. This is really a great movie with fun humor and a nice ending.

3- Just Friends Ryan Reynolds and Amy Smart star in this romatic comedy that I found to be very humorous. Well worth a rent, especially during Christmas time.

2- The Notebook This is perhaps the most tearjerking movie I've seen in a long time. It's a great love story with touching characters and a lot of emotion.

1- 50 First Dates I'm sure you're thinking "Your #1 Chick Flick movie for dudes is an Adam Sandler movie?" and the answer is yes. Of course you have your funny parts, but the over-arching story line is someone that loves someone else so much that he helps her fall in love with him all over again every day. It didn't have the normal Hollywood ending where everything is just fine in the end, he has to do this EVERY SINGLE DAY! I just thought the movie was touching, cute, and shows someone that works on a relationship, not just takes it for granted.

So enjoy Valentine's Day with someone you love, and if you're single, tell your mother that you love her.

I Am Legend vs. The Omega Man

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Thanks to Netflix I recently was able to watch The Omega Man. This was actually the first remake of the movie Last Man on Earth based on the book I Am Legend. The book was originally written in the 50's and was more about zombies and vampires. Having enjoyed the Will Smith version of it (I Am Legend) I thought that the Charleston Heston version would at least be amusing to watch. I was wrong. The Omega Man was a terrible movie to sit through, and though CH has had some great acting performances, this was not one of them. He just seemed so self absorbed it was ridiculous. Then there is the dialog in this movie. It makes the script in Star Wars Episode 2 seem like Shakespeare in comparison. I was able to see a few similarities between the two movies, but hands down "I Am Legend" was so much better. You cared about the Will Smith character, it made more sense how cautious he was during the night, whereas with Charleston you just wish he'd die so you wouldn't have to hear his self-important speeches. And for heaven's sake man, put on a friggin shirt! Uggh, shirtless old men wearing jogging pants should be banned. So there you have it, I Am Legend beats The Omega Man in a landslide!