Q: What is the grossest creature in creation?

A: The slug that was curled up on the knob on our gas grill.

Q: What is the best thing in the world to do on a Saturday evening?

A: Go to my step kids’ piano recital.

In history class you probably learned a little about a bit of Colonial American nastiness called the French and Indian War. You know the one. George Washington saw combat for the first time in that one. The novel The Last of the Mohicans centers around a battle that took place on Lake George in New York. You’ve heard of it.

But, did you know that that wasn’t the only French and Indian War? There were actually three others that happened leading up to the one we learn about in school. Thanks to wikipedia.org, you can learn a little about those too!

There was King William’s War (1689–97), Queen Anne’s War (1702–1713), and King George’s War (1744–1748), before we finally got to the French and Indian War (1754-1763). That war, of course, lead to the American Revolution.

Isn’t wikipedia awesome?

Want to hear something else? There was another war that took place before any of those. It was called King Philip’s War (1675–1676) and it was fought between an alliance of Native American tribes, and English Colonists in New England, along with their own Native American allies. In that piece of ugliness, many New England towns were attacked. Including places that I go to every day, like Andover and Chelmsford. Learning that makes me want to find out if those towns have any memorials, or preserved historical sites or anything like that. Maybe there’s a box of paper in a town hall basement or something that documents the events.

Stuff like this is interesting to me.

I have a new example of just how out of control the nerdishness is between me and my lovely wife. As Nerd Love goes, we truly are the top of the list.

Last night at around 9:00 or so, both kids were in bed. Jen and I were both awake but sitting up in our bed. We both had headphones on and were watching television shows via netflix on our iPads.

You may think that that is the nerdiest thing you’ve ever heard of, but wait until you hear what shows we were watching…

She was watching Glee.
I was watching the remake of Battlestar Galactica.

Nerd Love is the best love ever. Nerd Love FTW.

Oh, and everyone take a second to wish my brother John and his wife Mary a very happy fifth wedding anniversary! Happy anniversary!

Car accident right in front of me and the cop is blocking my left turn.

A few weeks ago, the Navy Seals finally caught up with Osama Bin Laden.

Last night the FBI finally caught Whitey Bulger.

I’ve also seen a couple of stories saying that OJ Simpson confessed to the killings. The first place I saw that was weekly world news, so you’ll forgive me for not jumping up and down with excitement.

What’s next?

Will those kids finally catch the Lucky Charms Leprechaun? They are always after his Lucky Charms, after all.

What do you think? Answer in the comments!

(yes, I am fishing for comments so feel free to add yours)

We are watching an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. The kids are seeing their first Mike Nelson episode (The Starfighters). They are very apprehensive.

I feel confident that they will grow to like Mike they way all of the rest of us did.

At least it’s not a Pearl episode.

What were they thinking?

Our street is a circle, and it’s a little less than .25 miles long.

On Monday night Jen and I went for a walk. One lap around the circle. On Tuesday night we went for two laps. Tonight we will probably take the kids with us for the two laps.

Oh, do my back and legs hurt!

We are going on vacation in a couple of months and I need to get my legs working and, hopefully, remove some of the massive bulk that is my gut. It’s time to get back on that wagon, people! Time to be a huge fat ass, but slightly less of a huge fat ass!

I can’t help it… I just love her like crazy.

Last night I finally got around to cleaning off the memory card on my camera. I dumped a bunch of pictures onto both flickr and facebook, and here I am dumping some of them onto you!

For my 40th birthday my wife brought me and most of my favorite people out to Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse in Boston. Little did I know that it is located inside the old state house.

I love her.

The Duck Boat driver asked me to take their picture. Far be it from me to ever say no to a Duck Boat driver.

We took the tram to the top of Cannon Mountain on Sunday and then walked a little way along one of the trails. We got there pretty late in the day and only had a few minutes between the tram up and the last tram down. It was fun. I hope we can go back again when we have more time.

Enjoy the photo spam:

The windows in the tram were a little dirty.

Okay, the windows in the tram were a lot dirty.

Outside, looking back down.

The trees were stunted, but still tall enough to get in the way. I could have cropped these but didn’t want to.

The best view we had in our brief visit required climbing over these rocks.

That road is Interstate Route 93.

The last tram of the day was about to leave so we had to head back.

It was a long drive followed by a short visit, but it was worth it.