Category: Life

This has got to be one of the most interesting stories I’ve read in a long time…

A man started trading stocks two weeks ago with $800. His portfolio is now worth $350 million. Of course, he was promptly arrested for insider trading. When the authorities questioned him, he gave a four-hour confession.

He claims that he is a time traveler from the year 2256 who came back to get rich off the stock market. All he wants is to return to his own time. He will not give the location of his time machine or discuss how it works, but he has offered to provide “historical facts” such as the location of Osama bin Laden and a cure for AIDS if they will let him go.

The really interesting part is there is no record of this guy anywhere before December 2002.

April Fools day is always interesting for someone like me. Since I get most of my news online, I spent a lot of yesterday wondering if what I was reading was true or not.

Some of the funniest things I saw all day were at ThinkGeek.com. I’ll bet they got lots of orders on the Shrinter (combination shredder / printer) and the Executive Atom Collection (one atom of each elemenent).

For more funny April Fools stuff, check out the Museum of Hoaxes Top 100 list.

This last story isn’t a hoax, but it is a little funny – . According to a study, three-fourths of the security experts at major companies do not believe Microsoft’s products are secure.

We worked on another group project today in my Systems Analysis class. We spent about 30 minutes in groups working on a database schema, then in the last part of class he puts each group’s work up on the overhead and we all critique it.

Upon seeing part of my schema, the professor said: “If you do this on the test you will get a zero.” That’s his way of saying “Don’t do this.”

I am so glad this semester is almost over….

Back on March 2, I posted pictures of the snow and ice. Now, two weeks later, the tree in our back yard is in full bloom. Paige took some great pictures of it over the weekend.

 

We think this is a Bradford Pear tree, maybe some tree expert could set us straight. I’m using this last picture as wallpaper on my computer. I love the sharp white flowers against the blurry background.

Paige has taken so many pictures of the flowers around our house that I have enough to fill a gallery. I’ll try to get that added soon, along with a gallery of some of our cloud and sunset pictures.

Geoff and Tony stopped by for a visit during spring break. I somehow managed to take pictures of both of them without goofy looks on their face.

I’m getting much better at surprise photography.

Paige and I have the worst luck with restaurants. It seems like no matter where we go to eat, something always goes wrong. We haven’t been back to the “big cow” in years – not since Paige found a worm in her salad. Technically it was a caterpillar, but I won’t bring that up here…

Anyway, last night we thought we’d try the new place down the road from us called Wing-N-It. It’s a cute little burger and wings place that looks like a hanger. There’s even a dirty old airplane inside, raised on a platform that almost touches the ceiling.

We ordered two burgers without onions, two drinks, an order of fries, and an order of wings. Surely they could whip that up in five minutes. It took about 30 minutes to get our meal, and four different people came to the table to ask what we ordered and tell us that they messed up. It seems they gave our order to someone in the drive through – twice.

We did get some work done around the house yesterday. We finally dug up all of our rose bushes. They were mangled beyond repair. Here I am burning them –

That’s one of the great benefits of living outside of town. You can set things on fire pretty much any time you want.

I’ve been going through and cleaning up the galleries this evening. Making sure all the links work and all the pictures are in the right place is pretty time consuming.

As I was checking things, I found two pictures of Sam and Max that never made it to the front page. So, here they are –

 

I just love the one of Sam hiding out under the comforter on our bed. And seeing a dog and cat sleeping together on the same chair is always cute.

Anyway, I’m off to sleep now…

We just got through learning everything there is to know about making pizza on Food Network. Now we’re just sitting around listening to some Primus, so I thought I’d post a few pictures of last weeks ice before Geoff has a fit…

 

One more week until spring break from work. I am so ready.

There’s only one thing better than a day off from work because of snow… TWO days off because of snow. We got another little ice storm around here so I won’t be going back to work until at least Thursday.

I spent a while thawing out my car earlier today and even took some pictures. Once I get them uploaded, I’ll post them here.

We’ve added a Petfinder.com search bar to the bottom of the page. They have all kinds of animals up for adoption, everything from dogs and cats to horses, pigs, and reptiles. Paige even picked out some baby turtles for us earlier today. Just select what kind of pet you’re looking for from the drop down list, type in your zip code, and click Go.