Monday, April 30, 2007

colostomy riddle

Spongebob: What is an ostomate's favorite punctuation mark?
Patrick: What's an ostomate?
Spongebob: An ostomate is someone who has an ostomy or an artificial hole in their belly from which waste is eliminated.
Patrick: Oh
Long silence.
Spongebob: So....
Long silence
Patrick: So ....
Spongebob: (yelling)What is an ostomate's favorite punctuation mark!!??
Patrick: Oh ... I don't know.
Spongebob: The semi-colon .. hahahahahahahahahahahaahaah!
Patrick: I don't get it.

zoo photos


penguin hugger


Statue riding


Goat

soccer photos




Lucy has played two soccer matches as a Hurricane. She has done much better than last year. Unfortunately we still need to get our zoom lens fixed. I borrowed my sister Ellen's camer to snap a couple of shots - and all the action was on the other side of the field.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

OK, GO Modestly


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My doctor

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So, I go to see the doctor (oncologist) who is very excited about my latest blood tests and not because it looks like he will get to make more money off me. He is excited because everything looks very, very normal. He is very excited until he gets down to my weight.
"The most common factor for the recurrence of colorectal cancer and breast cancer is," he says, "fat."
I kind of knew that and I kind of knew that I have been putting on some serious weight lately (the pants and the underwear don't lie).
"I want you to come to my office once a week and get weighed."
I'll do it as long as each time I step on the scale I don't have to cough up a co-pay.

German Food

The same day that we were in Columbus eating German food at Schmidt's Sausage Haus our friends in Germany were home eating, what is by default, German food. It looks familiar.

A little German Folk Music

April 30th is Walpurgis night, and all kids in kindergarten will have a witch party. The twins Jucy & Leah have learned a song for it.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Cake dance

The usual shenanigans

Hair Cut

Call me Sean

Easter Lilly

Our Easter Lilly has bloomed for the first time.

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Tom Graser as a promising young man



ya gotta click on this one to appreciate it.

I don't this anyone this skinny looks healthy.

Moby Dick Kills a Mockingbird




I just watched "Moby Dick" with Gegory Peck. Somehow I can't believe that Atticus Finch would've behaved that way.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Best Hockey Song Ever - You decide

There are great baseball books.
Hockey has songs.
Check these out and decide which is the best:











For the last one you have to click on this link

I bet you didn't I could come up with four.
I know three are from the same band ... but still.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

From our 10 movie project

I am trying to add a movie a day to my Revver account. The important thing there is to keep them short. So, here is one from our 10 movies in one day project that turned out pretty short

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

The Kiss Goodbye

Easter Snow

We had a little bit of snow on Easter. We stayed indoors mostly. But we did not get anything like my siblings in Colorado and Central New York.

Here are some photos from New York.:






And one from Colorado

Monday, April 09, 2007

Lucy and the camera

I think the Easter candy was kicking in.

Easter Mural

We are painting our bedroom. We tore off some wallpaper and now Lucy has a wall she can draw on.

Thursday, April 05, 2007

Help me fight cancer

Click here to visit my donation page

Relay for Life



If you are a regular reader of this page (and I know there are at least seven of you - Hi Dad!), you know that I spent most of last year being treated for rectal cancer.
It marked the second time in five years that I have gone under the knife for cancer.

This year I decided that something good should come of this. I volunteered to help out in the local American Cancer Society Relay for Life event.

I thought I would go to a few meetings and help with publicity.

After meeting with some of the volunteers I decided that I wasn't doing enough. So, I have formed a team and am now actively raising money for Relay.

I was talking with one of the organizers and she was asking me about my treatment. I told her that my chemotherapy was mostly a drug called 5FU (or Fluorouracil, but 5FU has such a better hidden message). She told me that 5FU was developed with money from the American Cancer Society.

That hooked me.

I formed a team at work, but because I work for a large corporation there are many restrictions in how I fund raise. I am really looking for help from my friends and family (again).

Click on this here line to visit my Relay for Life donation page and send a few dollars to fight a good fight.

Perhaps this will keep me so busy I won't have time for annoying videos.

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Hot Air Balloon

I can't believe this was really last fall.

We've tried nothing

Our parent-teacher conference is this week. We will undoubtedly find out that we could have done so much better with such a sharp little girl. But we have followed Homer Simpson's parenting philosophy: "Kid's pretty much raise themselves these days, what with the Internet and all."

Monday, April 02, 2007

Talented Kin

Marly has a small part in this one. He stabs a guy!

Memories

This just happened like this.

Lucy's Funny Math Problems

We re edited this with Lucy's narration. She is kind of hard to control.