Jen heard about this on the radio this morning. I had started to hope that maybe we as a society were starting to move beyond idiocy like this. Guess I was wrong.

Read this article from the Los Angeles Times.

Red haired kids… beaten up… because they are red heads. Nice, huh?

I have red hair ya know.

I saw the South Park episode. It was friggin’ hysterical. Especially the part when the ginger kids discover Cartman isn’t one of them and turn on him. Vengeance is pretty freakin’ sweet… and funny.

The idea that someone… anyone… would be so retarded as to think that something on South Park was worthy of imitation in the real world is simply proof that some people should not be allowed to breed as their children will inevitably be too stupid to function in a civilized society.

The idea that someone… anyone… would be so retarded as to think that it is okay to discriminate against someone based on how they look, or the color of their hair, or the color of their skin… but that’s America for you I guess. Where everyone is free and equal so long as they look and think and act exactly the same as you… right?

I thought we were moving beyond this idiocy. Wrong.

We re-viewed the small three bedroom with the cemetery view. This time we had Jen’s mother and step father with us. This house did not get the seal of approval. Things that were wrong that we missed the first time were not missed by Sherman this time.

The other house we went to, the one Jen and I first looked at last March, is still just as awesome as it was the last time. The big difference now is that it’s a short sale. It’s a really nice place though.

What to do, what to do.

So I have lost the ability to read a calendar. When it says that your friend’s three year old daughter’s birthday is on Saturday, that means it is on Saturday. Not Sunday.

We made it for the last hour which included presents. At least we had that.

On the upside, it meant we got to see my nephew, my niece, and my friend’s daughter all in the same day.

The same calendar day, as it were.

That was very nice. We are all exhausted, but it was a very good day.

Tomorrow has us viewing houses. Another very good day, I’m sure.

Lazy Saturday doing laundry, watching television with the kids, going to my parents for some baby time and spaghetti.

The Penguins of Madagascar is a freakin’ awesome show.

You are going to have to click on this one to blow it up and get the full affect of it.

This appears to be how the NHL calculates suspensions. I think it’s a very accurate depiction.

I saw this on twitter today but lost track of which user posted it. Sorry about that.

Aren’t folks in Southern California supposed to be mellow? This is a star-of-the-game ceremony in Anaheim. Watch the fans closely after Scott Niedermeyer hands his stick over the glass.

I am afraid to say anything… I am afraid I might jinx it… but that thing that I mentioned yesterday that was on my work calendar that I really really really didn’t want on my work calendar… is no longer on my work calendar. Christmas might be coming early this year. >fingerscrossedfingerscrossedfingerscrossedfingerscrossed<

The Bruins won last night. Can I have a hallelujah? We watched most of the game. Blowing the two goal lead was painful. Blowing the one goal lead in the last minute of regulation forced me to change the channel and put on Smallville. It worked out well. On the one hand, the Bruins won in the shootout. On the other, Lex Luthor appears to be getting more evil with each passing episode. Awesome

Question for the religious folks in the audience: In the Bible, doesn’t God promise that he will never again use a flood to destroy the Earth? If that’s the case, how do we explain the Downpour of Biblical Proportions that I just had to drive through to get to work? What else could it be, besides God telling Noah that it’s time to get building that boat. In the immortal words of Bill Cosby, “What’s a cubit?”

And on that blasphemous note, I will sign off for a while.

Go Bruins!

Today is another big NASA 40th anniversary. On November 19, 1969 Apollo 12 landed on the moon.

Now that we now there is frozen water on the moon we should probably go back and check it out, shouldn’t we? So much to learn, kids. So much to learn.

There was something work related coming up that I was really unhappy about and did not want to do.

I don’t want to jinx it by being specific, but I think some one else just volunteered to take it off my hands.

OhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygod
fingerscrossedfingerscrossedfingerscrossedfingerscrossed
ThiswouldmakemewickedhappyThiswouldmakemewickedhappyThiswouldmakemewickedhappyThiswouldmakemewickedhappyThiswouldmakemewickedhappy

Okay… back to Earth now.

PleasePleasePleasePleasePlease

Okay, now back to Earth for reals.

Can the Bruins right the ship tonight against the lowly Atlanta Thrashers? What? The Thrashers are two spots ahead of the 11th place Bruins in the Eastern Conference?

Oh my God the Bruins just suck. It’s so painful. At least we have a chance to get Lucic back tonight, and there are also rumors that Savard will return tonight too. Not holding my breath, but those would be two very, very good signs. We might actually have an offense… probably not though. Marc Savard is fantastic and all, but I don’t think he can carry the whole load by his lonesome. Patrice Bergeron has been doing all right, but I think those two together might still come up short.

Please Bruins, remove yourself from this cosmic schnide you’re on! When you score goals your defense is rotten, when you keep the other team from scoring your offense is pathetic. Put it together guys!

Oh the pain.

I still have a cold. It comes and goes. Mornings are by far the worst part of the day. I am starting to clear up a little now, but I will be sniffling all day. What’s worse than that? My Bride now has it too. It’s all my fault.

We are planning on looking at two houses this weekend. Both are very high on our we-want-that-house list. We may go to an open house to see a third as well. To offer or not to offer, that is the question.

I can’t think of anything else. Maybe after 366 consecutive days of posting I am burning out? HA! Don’t you wish!

Here’s a turkey day cartoon to go out on. Good Day

One year ago today I was farting around online and decided, for no apparent reason, to stop posting my pointless drivel of blogged uselessness on myspace and start posting it here. I still don’t know why. It seemed like a good idea at the time… no scratch that, it seemed like a retarded idea at the time but I went through with it anyway.

I wrote this in the first post:

I am going to try to write to this a lot. Possibly even daily. Not that I have anything all that important to add to the universe, but just because I kinda like it.

(do you see what I did there? I just block quoted myself. How’s that for narcissism?)

Well I did it. I posted at least once a day for a full year. I think it was last March when the question of informational security came up and I split this page in two. Because of that you can’t necessarily see that I posted daily, you have to take my word for it. Everything posted prior to the split went to the private page and everything that mentioned kids by name or gave to many specifics on locations and such were removed from the public page. As a result you kinda have to look at both pages to see the unbroken string of posts… so like I said, take my word for it.

Over the course of the last year I have gone from happily engaged to happily married. I’ve gone from “mom’s fiance” to “step dad” in the eyes of two incredible kids. I’ve become an uncle twice while two other friends had their first child, and a third friend is only a couple of months away from his first child. We agreed to buy a house, lost the house, decided not to buy a house, and decided to start looking at houses again. We traveled to Florida, Maryland, Washington DC, Pennsylvania, New York, California, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and all six New England States.

If proof of nerdiness is needed, I have a total of 894 public posts and 540 private posts. Many of those prior to the split are on both pages so I don’t have an actual total, but an excess of 1000 seems a given. Probably an average of three per day. Yeah, I am the nerd king all right.

So happy bloggy birthday to this page. Go eat a piece of cake in it’s honor, or something. Maybe a Suzie Q or something. (oh my god, I had a Suzie Q the other night. It really is the most heavenly manufactured snack food ever created by human hands.)

Back to reality now. I am still dealing with this frick-on-a-stickin’ cold. It won’t go away. To make matters worse, Jen is catching it too. I don’t know if there is enough kleenex on the Earth to handle this crisis. We have to be better by Friday so we can take the kids to see the babies. We have to!

On the house hunting front, there was an interesting development this morning. Here is a little back story…

Last March when we first started looking into buying a house we checked out a ton of places. There were three that we really liked. One was a HUGE five bedroom place with a cellar that was so big it seemed to tunnel under the whole neighborhood. The place was just plain colossal. It was a little bit out of our price range and it needed some work so we didn’t make an offer, but it was an awesome house. The second was another big house with a huge hard, a pool, an awesome deck attached to an awesome three season porch. It also had a barn that was converted into a humongous garage that included a loft that was flat out ginormous. This place was also just a little bit out of our price range but it never left our thoughts. The third place was the three bedroom that we put the offer on and were screwed out of by an idiot seller. For the record, the price they eventually sold the house for was almost $30,000 less than the offer we made that they accepted. Frickin’ twits, for sure.

Anyway, the five bedroom place sold and we know the sad story about the place we offered on, but the second place has yet to sell. Today Jen got an update from one of the real estate sites she uses saying that the asking price had been dropped from just out of our price range to well within our price range.

We had developed enough interest in another house near our neighborhood that we have asked some family members to come along with us to see it this weekend. Now we’re thinking of adding a second look at this other house to the agenda. I’ll keep you posted. This is stressful as all hell, but it’s fun too.

Finally, in celebration of the page’s 1st birthday and the fact that the site I used to use to make free flash mp3 players doesn’t seem to want to work today, I am trying out a new flash mp3 player from flash-mp3-player.net. The test song is “Here it Comes” by Mission of Burma. Possibly the best B-Side of the 21st century. I hope this works.