This is, by far, my favorite picture of Troy from xmas morning:
He’s opening a John Deere tractor set. Thanks, Debbie!
Congratulations are in order
I have been slightly preoccupied with life as of late, and, hence, have been ignoring this blog. Very recently, however, our family received some great news. Just a few weeks ago, my brother-in-law, Chuck, proposed to his girlfriend, Becky. They are engaged to be married this coming summer.
I couldn’t be happier for them. They are a great couple, and I look forward to sharing many great moments with them.
Congrats!
There’s a bun in the oven
Yep, #2 is on the way. Kelly is 15 weeks along, and, so far, the little nut appears to be healthy.
Can’t wait to meet you, little dude/dudette.
Cartoon Network RickRolls the world
I somehow missed this, but the Cartoon Network float RickRolled the entire Thanksgiving Day Parade-watching world on Thursday. Have a look:
Well played, Cartoon Network. Well played.
Hamster on a Piano
Crank up the volume; you don’t want to miss this one!
It never fails
Some things in life are inevitable. I can’t remember the last time this didn’t happen:
- Let Homer outside
- Give him plenty of lead time to do his business
- Pick the poop up off the lawn and dispose of it
- Start mowing the lawn
- Homer pinches a loaf right in the middle of the uncut grass
Frickin’ dog. It’s like the First Law of Gastrointestinal Dynamics or something:
Picking up the poop leads to mowing the lawn, which in turn leads to Home-dog dropping a deuce right in my path.
That’s just the way it is. There’s no way around it!
And then he gives me that look, like, "What?"
MVP
Congrats, Dustin!
BOSTON — Just call him Mr. November. Or better yet, refer to Dustin Pedroia as the Most Valuable Player of the American League.
The second baseman of the Boston Red Sox continued his rapid burst into the national spotlight on Tuesday, when he was recognized with that impressive honor.
Though most pundits expected the race for MVP to be agonizingly close, Pedroia won in comfortable fashion, garnering 16 of 28 first-place votes. He also received six second-place votes, four third-place votes and one fourth-place vote for 317 total points. In an ironic twist, Pedroia was left off one ballot.
More from Pedroia named AL MVP.
Notice anything different?
Well, besides the sporadic outages over the past week.
I changed hosting companies, and one of the side effects was that the database that powers this blog was having locking issues. So, I upgraded to a better database engine, and, man, this site is now SNAPPY. Pages and posts load very quickly compared to when it was running on the old box. As cool as a self-contained, fully-managed, filesystem-based database is, it can’t match the performance of a server-based database.
Anyway, enough geeking. Back to your regularly scheduled lack-of-blogging-from-yours-truly. 
Excuse me a sec while I step outside; I need to go work on my blood pressure
I visited Yahoo! News this afternoon, and was greeted with this fabulous headline:
The Stink in Farts Controls Blood Pressure
I didn’t bother to read the article, but I’m pretty sure it says that the key to a longer, healthier life lies in passing gas more often, audibly, and in public places.
Stupid Goat
