WHAT DO YOU WANT? Um, a sandwich? WHEN DO YOU WANT IT? Whenever's ok.

Here in the Metro Detroit Area, we are well familiar with the Labor Movement. Between the UAW, the different teachers unions, the Teamsters etc. we've seen strikes and threats of strikes for longer than I've been alive.
I can even remember my mother putting a sandwich board kind of placard on me when I was young to march in front of the Board of Education in my neighborhood.
Today is the first day of school for my kids. We were wondering if it would start because of the threat of a strike by the teachers. Now, I'm not gonna pick sides, cause I don't know enough about either sides issues, but last week on one of my favorite blogs, a cartoon about strike picketing was posted and I thought I would share it here with you:

Click to view the whole page and surf a bit!

Don't Beat Around The Bush....

HOW TO START EACH DAY WITH A POSITIVE OUTLOOK
1. Open a new file in your computer.

2. Name it 'Barack Obama'.

3. Send it to the Recycle Bin.

4. Empty the Recycle Bin.

5. Your PC will ask you: 'Do you really want to get rid of 'Barack Obama?'

6. Firmly Click 'Yes.'

7. Feel better?


GOOD! - Tomorrow we'll do Nancy Pelosi


Thanks Sis Kathy!!!!

Perspective....

keep watching...you'll see.

More Nerd Stuff

I've mentioned the Large Hadron Collider a few times lately. This weekend they actually start testing it out which is cool.
They are hoping to start smashing stuff and experimenting September 10th.
Anyways...if you want to learn a bit more about what the LHC is and what it's supposed to do, some nerds got together and busted out a musical tutorial:

I don't wanna grow up...

You should feel sorry for my wife.
No. Really. You should.
She has (has?) to live with me. Now, it's not that I'm just a horrible person...I don't think that's it.
I don't abuse her or the kids. I don't drink, smoke, do drugs...all that stuff so you don't have to feel sorry for her over that kind of stuff.
But, apparently, I have a hard time "putting away childish things" as Paul would say.
I love cartoons....love superhero movies...and now, am totally in love with a new toy model!

I saw this on Gizmodo today, along with a sweet review and starting drooling.
I've ALWAYS wanted a Millennium Falcon model (NOT TOY!!!! MODEL!!!!), at least since 1978 or so (the first time I saw Star Wars). But, they are all so expensive. This one is $150.00. For a toy model!
But, I can just see it now...sitting in our computer room, next to my Mustang Collection...[sigh]

Anyways...if you see my wife...pat her on the back, and tell her you feel for her.
Oh...gotta go...the New Wonder Woman DVD cartoon trailer is about to start!

Here's a more in depth review (video)

Legacy Collection Millenium Falcon from Jesse Alexander on Vimeo.
-Note the dude who is doing the videos' dogs names are George and Lucas

The cutest story you'll read today

No, seriously...this is cute. Click here to read.

Not sure what it is, but it looks cool

I've been reading about the Large Hadron Collider for the last few years. Now it's nearing completion.
Here are some pictures as it nears completion.

More pics at are here

4 seconds of fun, 1 hour of pain

Space-porn

I love pictures of outer space stuff...it doesn't matter what:
Planets, Galaxies, Suns and stars...whatever it is, I think it's cool to look at.
One of the blogs that I read recently posted pictures of Jupiter that I really loved...you should love it too!


Views of Jupiter

All of the above....

From "The Onion"

Dude...where's my car?

I told you not to park near the lava flow...but do you listen to me? Nooooo!

Reality.....

Saving a life.....

Ur doin' it rong!

Oakland Wins....

I've been tagged

Here are the rules:

1. Once you are tagged, link back to the person who tagged you.

2. Post THE RULES on your blog.

3. Post 7 weird or random facts about yourself on your blog.

4. Tag 7 people and link to them.

5. Comment on their blog to let them know they have been tagged.

Random Facts About Me:
1. I don't know 7 other bloggers!
Oh, wait! That'd be cheating!

1a. I've never been in trouble with the law, but I have had the police called on me. 10 or 11 year old me and some buddies of mine (ok, it was mostly me) were lighting fires in the alleyway behind some neighbors houses. One of the (mean) neighbors had the gall to call the police. I got away from the law, but one of the kids in the neighborhood saw it all go down and told my brother, who in turn told my mom.
It was the only time in my life that I can remember getting a spanking from my dad. PLUS I was grounded to my room for 3 straight days. I could only come out to go to the bathroom.

2. I've only been in one real fight in my entire life. I was in 5th grade and it was with Tommy Harding (I think). We both stunk at fighting so no one would have got hurt, except for Mike Riggits, who kept trying to kick me while we were rolling on the ground, but kept kicking Tommy. The thing about Mike is, he was the boy in school who wore cowboy boots. So he really got Tommy good a couple of times. Tommy and I became friends after that. I still don't like Mike Riggits.

3. I've a penchant for saying (what can be interpreted as) inappropriate things in public settings. Now, mind you, I (almost) never mean to be mean or inapproriate...things just pop into my head as funny, clever or some combination of the two and that little guy in your brain that looks at things that you say before you say them, giggles and says "Um. NO!" is usually on a bathroom break when those things pop into my head.
If you know me, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.

4. Most of the people that I truly admire probably don't have any idea how much I admire them. I'm REALLY bad at the whole emotion thing. Seriously. I'm pretty sure if I started telling them (and you don't know who you are!) I'd start crying and stuff. So, instead, I just end up feeling like an insensitive jerk because I have a hard time with this. This mostly applies to guys more that the gals. Not sure why, but it's pretty much always been the case that I can talk to women about my 'feelings' more than I can guys. So, if you think I'm a jerk, chances are, I really look up to you!

5. My all time favorite song is Turn The Page by Bob Seger. When my twins were wee little babies and my wife had the temerity to leave me alone with them, I would pull out my Live Bullet album and put Turn The Page on Repeat in order to get them to take their naps. Let me tell you, it worked EVERY time.

6. I, like most people who frequent the internets, have a routine when I log in: First to Google for My Bookmarks. Then, right click and open in a New Tab in this order: AskMen.com, ATT-Yahoo (for Comics), Dilbert.com, iWon.com (more comics...are you sensing a trend?), KevinAndKell.com (yet another comic). Next I check my blogs if any are on the RSS: Holland and Eden, io9.com, Whatever, XKCD, lol-cats, Wil Wheaton, Indexed Photobasement Daniel Negreanu Dr. Horrible and every Friday, Freakangels. Then it's time to work!

7. I don't have a tattoo...however, if I did, it would look like this:

Monday Moanin' Blues

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15 years ago...

I hear Leesha
Singing in heaven tonight
And in between the sadness
I hear Leesha
Telling me that she's alright
        -Micheal W. Smith

It's been fifteen years since we lost our first child, and I can still remember so much, so vividly.

• I remember telling my wife Yes. She could stop taking the little pill everyday, cause it was time to get pregnant. Her smile is still burned in my mind.
  
• I remember my wife coming to the bowling alley, telling me she hasn't felt the baby move in a while. But that happens, right? I bowled a 300 game that night. It really wouldn't bother me if I never bowl another one.
  
• I remember hearing nothing on the fetal monitor at the doctors office.
  
• I remember putting my hand on her stomach on our way to the hospital, praying the most fervent prayer of my life....it went unheard.
  
• I remember watching the ultrasound monitor I'd watched so many times before, except there was no flutter in the heart.
  
• I remember remembering that during the child birthing classes, they told us coaches to remind the mothers that it'll be worth all the pain of childbirth and it'll all fade away when you hear that baby cry....I had to think of something else. Couldn't.
  
• I remember one of the doctors, who had recently found out she was pregnant herself, coming into our room in the middle of the night, sitting on the edge of my wifes bed and crying for her.
  
• I remember holding my lifeless daughter in my arms and thinking she had the most beautiful lips. Ever.
  
• I remember thinking no one should ever have to hold their lifeless daughter in their arms.
  
• I remember making the worst decision I've ever made in my entire life...and likely ever will make. I wish we would have buried her ourselves.
  
• I remember going to our apartment by myself the first time afterwards, and walking into the nursery...I've never cried so hard in my life.
  
• I remember walking down the hallway with my wifes cousin, and him telling me if I needed to talk, he was there for me. This was/is way out of character for him, and probably the most compassionate thing anyone has ever said to me.
  
• I remember wishing I could take him up on his offer.
  
• I remember coming home from the hospital with my wife and walking into the nursery with her....that was the saddest moment of my life.
  
• I remember feeling so very helpless.
  
• I remember my wife telling me that it hurt so bad, when she drove down the road she just wanted to drive into a tree to make the pain stop.
  
• I remember feeling so very, very helpless.
  

I don't know why, but this year it seems that Julie has been on my mind so much more than in recent years. This week, and all it means to my wife and I, has been on the forefront of my mind for the last month or so.

After 15 years, the pain has dulled. The sadness has receded, but not left.
The three children we have are a salve to my soul.
But even so...I still miss her.

Lolsquirrels?

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Could be....

I saw this today under the heading:
Quite Possibly The Luckiest Kid in the World


It just made me laugh....

The Preferred Version

I never really liked this song until I heard this version, but ever since, I've loved BOTH versions: