lazy day

Easy like a sunday morning

Bella laugh

one of her first laughing fits.....

Where in Minnesota?

these photos were all taken at the same place....can you guess where? Get it right and I will send you a beer.
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bug baby pic

Heather and Andy sent us a pic of our Bug as a pup with three of his siblings. Byron is second from the left. The two black dogs are female and the one to the far right is Parker. He was adopted by one of Anita's cousins.

Our deck is done party

The story of our deck is a short one....It was too small and got way to hot in the summer. We decided we needed a new deck to enjoy our time in the summer as Bella keeps us around the house more than we use to be. So....we called Pat Noonan. He designed the deck and put it up with his crew headed by Mike Noonan (who I played tennis with back in highschool) from wed to friday. We then had the crew over for a grill out on that saturday...

Out and About

Out and about is a whole different deal with Bella aboard the cruise ship svert. We have to plan around feedings and nap time. This leaves a bit of time to fit a walk, or a quick outing in the city. Today we went and parked on lexington and Grand, walked to Grand ole creamery and had ourselves a cone. I forget how big of cones they make and got a double. about half of my cone went into the circular file, but it was good. I got a strawberry custard and banana chocolate sugar cone.....yum! Most of our walk, we reminisced about where we use to go as we strolled Grand Ave. One of my favorite restaurants is now closed :( The Italian Pie shoppe. Man, they made good Za, but, I guess, much like my Kung-fu, not good enough. Billy's was looking pretty good to me...I remember only a year ago sitting with a reuben sandwich and a corona beer just soaking in the sun on the patio. Bella made it through the whole extravaganza without getting too cranky, so that was a rousing success.

my little twins fan

Would your car do this for you?

Don't piss of Kit

Practice?

Yeah....practice.

Well, your wolves have done it

Losing by 20 to the Grizzlies. Pathetic. I use to be a season ticket holder, but truly in the last couple of years I couldn't give my $100 per seat tickets away. No one wanted them, and now I don't either. Maybe I will get some gopher tickets next year, or Twins pack when they get the outdoor stadium.

Can Madsen make a 3?

The farce that is your minnesota timberwolves 06-07 season mercifully ends on wed. at the target against the league's worst Memphis Grizzlies. Minnesota, again like last year, is in a "must lose" situation. Last year Mark Madsen fired up 6 three point shot attempts. This year he needs at least that many so they don't blow it and actually win. They say it is hard to win in the NBA, lets see how hard it is to lose.

Fire Billy Packer?

I think not. Fag, just because it is used as a derogatory comment here in the U.S. doesn't mean it is used that way elsewhere. It reminds me of a conversation with a friend of mine who grew up and lives just in Manchester England. Mark, who had just quit smoking, and I were talking of cigarettes to which he said they were called "fags" most commonly. He had to laugh when I told him it basically was only a derogatory gay remark here in the U.S.. He said, so you wouldn't say " I am going to go outside and have a couple of fags?" No, that would be bad. Interesting that it would be a word that one could get fired for in this extremely p.c. world of ours, but I guess that's the deal. He was using it to say "tire, or bail out on him" and it is very clearly in context.

Mike Freeman is an idiot

ATLANTA -- Some people believe I am insane for even suggesting it. They are measuring me for a rubber room. They are laughing hysterically. They are all wrong. They are so wrong and stupid. They could not be more wrong and stupid.

I'm right. I'm right in thinking that the Florida Gators could probably beat five lower echelon NBA teams on a neutral court.

"I don't know, it would be a lot of fun," said Florida's Corey Brewer. "We'd be competitive. I don't know if we'd win, but we'd be competitive.

"What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it."

what is fit?

I pretty much only listen to KFAN...I know, a sad declaration, but sometimes it gets me thinking. One radio spot that runs many times a day revolves around Jeff Dubay pontificating about how we should all try this weight loss program. One that you can eat all you want and never excercise and still lose weight. I really don't remember what the stuff is, but a couple of years ago he did the same thing with "body solutions for men."
I get to thinking....he really doesn't want to be healthy. He cannot stop being a glutton or a lazy ass, he just wants to appear more slim.
So I think...what is healthy these days.... Lance Armstrong/Barry Bonds? Both appear very healthy, but what underlying liver malfunction is waiting. Model runway babes...while being very slim, go back stage and hurl while they smoke. Pooh likes to tout how thin is not always meaning healthy, but fat certainly isn't healthy.
I guess it is all about moderation. Eat moderately, exercise moderately and smoke...never.
Our society will always say thin is healthy even if you have to starve yourself and purge your food to do it.....

The first form of Blogging

Bathroom logs

Fatherly advise

Irony

Ever go to Menard's or Home Depot and check out how people park? They are all over the parking lot without much regard to proximity to the store. Now go to the healthclub. Everybody parks as close as possible to the club. People wait minutes to get a better spot. What the heck?!! Drive around the parking lot to get a closer spot so, God forbid, you will have to walk any distance to go "workout."

Best sports comment of the year

Steve Nash on Carmelo "biggest punk loser on a block full of punk losers" Anthony describing the gutless sucker punch and immediate pussy backpedal that earned bploabfopl a 14 game suspension.

“Typical NBA punch,” Nash told the Toronto Globe and Mail. “In hockey, your own team would beat you up for that.”

Top ten most annoying people

Troy Hudson The stress of both worlds....of which you suck at. From Ole defense to his rifleman offensive personality, he annoys the crap out of me.

Charles Schwab (for those commercials) Those partially animated spots where the person is talking about their financial annoying crap. I mean, how could you go from this to stupid animated people.

W: I thought I had GERD, but it was only when W would give that little smug smile after he had "answered" a question.

Kevin Mchale Let's quickly refer back to the place in our minds where we've stored the nightmares that are the Minnesota draft picks during the Kevin Garnett era. Two good picks, three bad picks, one mediocre pick, and one unknown. Let's see one of those drafts had two picks and.........there it is! It's the elephant in the room. What happened to all of those other draft picks? Well, we know that one was traded away in order to acquire Bobby Jackson, but the others are still unaccounted for. Here's what I'm getting at: Joe Smith and "debacle" aren't grouped together because they sound good. Apparently, the Minnesota brass, namely Kevin McHale and Owner, Glen Taylor, thought that it would be wise to put the "secret" illegal contract in writing. Brilliant! About a year later, the league somehow got a copy of the agreement and that was precisely the moment when Joe Smith went from "Ordinary Joe" to "Joe Smith Debacle." The Minnesota organization was fined a large sum of money, Taylor was suspended, McHale involuntarily took a "leave of absence" from his front office post, and the team was forced to forfeit five future first-round picks. So five first rounders for Joe Smith...One for Bobby Jackson (who we just decided not to sign) one for 1/2 a season with Marcus Banks and one for letting the Clippers take all-star Sam Cassell for something called Marco Jaric. So all in all, that is 8 first round draft picks for Bobby, Marco, Joe and 1/2 of Marcus. Now, people say to trade Kevin to rebuild....but I disagree. Not when McHale has control of the ship. We will probably get 1 first rounder and a couple more guards that are decent back-ups.

Chris Hawkey: Anyone who tries to act more dumb than the star on the morning show should be taken out back and beaten.

Bill Walton: enough of bill, please.

Puffy: How many weight loss progams that you "eat all you want and don't exercise" can a guy tout?

Any lifetime achievement award winner at any celeb award show (chewbacca excluded): Those 15 minutes I will never get back. No, I don't think you are a genius, you just try to act like one.

Jack Black: What other character does he play.

Tom Cruise:

In no particular order

dishonorable mention...sam jackson: narcissus

Days that blur

It is about time for me to go back to work again. The last 8-10 days have just been a blur. I usually get up and do the 4:00am feeding time with Bella, change her and then try to get her to calm down again and go to sleep. I am sleeping again, maybe, by 4:45am. It is a strange night now that there is a newborn in the house. I think neither Anita or I may get sleep in patches of about 4 hours at a time. I seem to be o.k. during the day, but mornings are a killer. Never enough things to worry about with the little one as well....is she pooping enough, too much, what is the color....yes most of the worry comes with the amount and color of poop these days.....what a life ey? But I wouldn't change it for anything....fatherhood is amazing!
here she is helping me blog