Category: Life

There comes a time in every college student’s life when you must make a tough decision – should I study all weekend for finals, or should I go see the new X-Men movie. This weekend I faced that decision.

X2 was awsome. It’s definitely worth seeing if you haven’t seen it already (even if you do have finals next week). I really liked the first one, but I think this sequel is even better.

In other comic book news, yesterday was Free Comic Book Day. I was a little excited about this. I haven’t bought a comic book in years, but I used to be really into them. So I went to the website and found out that our local Hastings would have free comic books. The website lists a lot of free comics that would be available – Batman, Robocop, X-Men, etc.

Yesterday evening, Paige and I made the trip to Hastings. When we got there we had to ask if they had free comics. After a few minutes of waiting, the store employee came back and said “This is all they gave us” and handed us an Archie comic. Out of all the cool comics in the world, they only had Archie. I guess you really do get what you pay for…

Last Tuesday evening we took a walk around downtown Paris with our dog training class. This was the big test after attending class for several weeks. I brought the digital camera and took some pictures of Paige and Max around the old buildings.

Max was very well behaved for the walk. We stopped at corners and he sat most of the time. He didn’t even pull on the leash like he used to do. The only time he barked at anyone was when a stranger walked down the sidewalk in front of the old post office.

I added captions to these pictures so hopefully you can tell what’s going on. The sun was setting as we were walking so some of the pictures didn’t turn out perfect, but overall I think they look pretty good.

Today was my last official class day of this semester. All I have next week are finals and then I’m done with Spring. Taking three classes in one semester while working full time was a bad idea. Luckily, I’m only taking one class this summer and two in the fall. So, it’s all down hill from here.

I’m so relieved to be done with this semester that I’m starting to find humor in little things again. When my classes were over today, I drove through McDonalds and ordered a double cheesburger and fries. The girl at the window said “The fries are hot.” And she was right, my cheeseburger was cold.

Back on Easter Sunday, part of my family got together and had lunch at East Paris Baptist Church. We finally remembered to take the digital camera this time. I picked out ten of my favorite pictures and added them to the family gallery. Click the picture below to go to the gallery and see the rest.

Somehow Paige managed to elude the camera all afternoon, so she’s not in any of the pictures. I guess that means I’ll just have to try harder next time…

If you have a cat, you’ll understand this picture without an explanation.

Paige and I were looking for something in the living room the other day. I don’t even remember what it was now. Anyway, she lifted up the edge of the couch and told me to grab whatever was under there.

When I saw everything that was under the couch, I told her there’s no way I could get it all.

So, we ended up moving the couch, and this is what we found…

It looks like Sam has been busy lately knocking things around the living room floor. He just loves hiding Max’s chew toys where he can’t get to them.

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.