Wow, sometimes I forget all these places

Ok, so I'm stealing this from Sneezes blog, who stole it from Bets live journal. Its a map of places I've been.



create your own visited states map


Anybody top this?

ELK!

That's right, Elk in Parker County Texas! Mary and I were coming back from Target, (where you can view all the stuff for little William by the way) and were driving by the old airport when we spotted the herd. There was a bull and a few cow elk just standing on the other side of the fence. We pulled over and I shot some video with my digital camera. Click the "Elk" link at the top of this post to view it, although sometimes it takes a littlewhile for it to load. In fact if you have a dial up connection, you're better off watching the sun burnout than trying to view it. You also need quicktime to view it, but should be no trouble. Anyway, thought it was cool and wanted to share.

Weekend Update, with me working my tail off

Well, didn't work my tail off the whole weekend. To tell the truth we didn't do a single productive thing on Saturday. We sat around, watched Discovery Chanel's "Deadliest Catch". Who thought crab fishing could be so entertaining. Later in the day we decided we had to get out of the house so we swung by Lowes and I bought a book on home electric repair. Yeah, it scares me too. Then Mary took me out to eat at On The Border. Good times for Saturday.

Sunday we paid for our play... I mowed, trimmed, raked, bagged, and fertilized the lawn. It actually looks like someone professional did a job. I'm so proud. I also got around to moving all my lawn equipment over to my small shed and put all my long term storage in my big shed. Mary did a ton of laundry and cleaned the whole house. She also got the urge to kill the clutter bug. She tossed a ton of stuff out of the house. Our garbage man is going to hate us in the morning, but thats what we pay him for. All in all I'd call this a productive weekend.

The Nemisis has an ally....

So I'm due for an oil change this afternoon and stop by the Wal Mart for an oil change and tire rotation. My wife and I had purchased a lifetime balance and rotation package for our vehicles. I was informed that the company which did the service work at WM was bought by WM and they would no longer honor these packages and that it would be $30 for my rotation and balance. I held back the comment about them rotating something somewhere and asked to speak with the manager. I presented this man with a receipt for my lifetime package, and wanted either a refund or for them to honor the agreement. He said since the company I bought the agreement from was now owned by Wal-Mart that he didn't have to. I said if the company was now owned by Wal-Mart and was not dissolved, then it still existed enough to rotate and balance my tires. He agreed and said this would be the last time. I expressed this would be my last visit to his center.

So now I'm stuck at Wal-Mart for the next two hours waiting for my car to be serviced. Let me tell ya, wandering around Wal-Mart without money sucks.

Wal-Mart managed to detain me until it was too late to apply my new best friend, the "Malathion PLUS". Hopefully its just chocked full of bug killing goodness. Now Wal-Mart and the Bag Worms have joined forces, I am not amused...

Freaking Worms
Freaking Global Retailers

Superman

I think we all see ourselves as unique people who can overcome most anything, and if we had a nemisis it'd be someone like Lex Luthor, The Joker, Lord Helmet. Do I get any cool nemisis? NO! I get moths. Thats right I said MOTHS! We have an infestation of what are called bag worms. (This would be my Lex Luthor.) Freaking moth larvae have killed one of my cedar bushes and are now covering my house with their cocoons. I spent this evening running around the house with a Wal-Mart sack pulling the little *&^%*^%# down. I go one circuit of the house, go in, eat dinner, and come back to find just as many on the house as before. I mean I had to have a couple of pounds of the little things.

I have sent a formal declaration of war to the common bag worm. Let him know that I will not adhere to the Geneva Convention. I will use weapons of mass destruction. I will use chemical, biological, nuclear, and if need be my boot to eradicate this invading army of trouble makers. Tomorrow I'm going to my local arms dealer ( Home Depot) and will be returning with enough chemical based insecticide (which is what I intend to commit, a mass insecticide) to make an organic gardner's head explode. I will be bring to bear such favorites as malathion, and if I can find a black market exterminator I'll get some DDT and wipe out all the garden and lawn pests!!! It's war and I have no intention of losing. I didn't start this war, but I'm going to finish it...

Freaking Worms.

Father's Day

Father's Day has taken on a greater significance now that I'm to be a dad. Mary and I went down to Little Lodge and had a great visit with my folks. Dad installed laminate flooring in the big house and it looks great. We ate too much, stayed up too late talking, and had a fantastic time.

While we were gone it rained about 1.5 inches here at our house. Hopefully this will knock down the fire danger. We also have a bag worm infestation that has killed one of our cedar bushes and is working on our other trees and bushes. We are spraying those little boogers tonight, and no quarter will be given.

Speaking of no quarter, I hope nobody was watching the last 3 Maverick games played in Miami. That was ugly. Mary and I have been staying up late and watching the series since game 2. They come home for games 6 and 7, and if they lose one more, Miami will win the championship. Pretty exciting stuff.

I hope to hear back from my electrician this week. Mary and I decided we should try to avoid electrocution and house fires by getting our wiring up to code.

Ok, I'm rambling and this update isn't making too much sense so I'll cut it short.

Wow, all those suprised please raise your hand, no, higher...

So it should be of no suprise that I am now 2 months behind on my blog. I have good excuses, but it'd take too much work to post them. Ok Spoiler Warning. If you like big huge suprises, and stuff just coming out of left field don't read anymore. I'm really serious, HUGE SPOILER AHEAD! Alright, you've been warned, scroll down at your own peril...













WE ARE HAVING A BABY, IT'S DUE 11-06-06, AND IT'S A BOY!!!

Ok, no bitching about not wanting to know, you were warned.

Now for the details. Today Mary and I went to the OB/GYN this morning with my mother in law. We sit down in the waiting room and wait, since thats what you do in a waiting room. After calling us back, for no reason, we were called back again, but it was the wrong Mary, and then we went into a dark room with lots of equipment and Mary was squirted with some goo on her belly. ( I know that is both grammatically wrong and I'm certain there are misspelled words as well, but I am just too lazy to push the backspace key that many times, tough it out and hang with me here) So there we were getting a sonogram of my wifes innards, and I'll be the first to tell you a black and white photo of something inside the body looks like a TV with static to me. Thankfully the tech was there to label and point out stuff for us.

So the tech points out a stomach, a spine, intestines, heart, arms, legs, in short every damn thing on the baby except the part I've been anxious to see since conception! So the tech puts the probe at an angle where we are looking at the baby's crotch.

I cannot express the pride I felt as my mother in law stood next to me in a dark room with a black and white TV showing her only daughter's and mine child, and that child has his hand on his PENIS! Tears of joy stood in my eyes and I watched my son to be playing with himself. That lady's and gentlemen, is my son.

Oh yeah other things have been happening in my life and I'm probably too damn lazy to let you know what they are before the kid gets here, but I'll try.

Love you all, and thanks for the hearty congratulations we've received.