random 10 #117
10 songs that sum up your weekend… or were on your weekend playlist…
An eclectic mix that randomly showed up on the pod this weekend …
“Green River” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
“Last Night” – The Traveling Wilburys
“Pillar of Davidson” – Live
“More” – Bobby Darin
“February Stars” – Foo Fighters
“Thunder Road” – Bruce Springsteen
“Pride and Joy” – Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble
“Outta Here” – Kenny Chesney
“I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” – The Beatles
“The Bare Necessities” – Harry Connick, Jr.
…and one picture that relates back.
With an excessive heat warning in the St Louis area through Friday (temps at 100 with heat indices around 110), the ice storm of 2006 seems like a distant memory.
birthday greetings
Today is my sister’s birthday. Rochelle is seen here with her husband Steve and their daughter Jasmine when we were at Disney’s Animal Kingdom last May.
Happy Birthday Rochelle! 
flickr update
I’ve posted 2 new sets to Flickr: Disney Photopass and Ride Photos
Teny Jr, Simpsonized
I’m not a big fan of “The Simpsons”. I watched the first season, but I don’t really remember much from it. I do remember them when they were just animated shorts on Fox’s “The Tracey Ullman Show”. But since then, I haven’t watched any of the series because I just don’t have any interest in it (or in the upcoming movie). I will say SimpsonizeMe.com is pretty fun. I uploaded a picture of me, and the site transformed me into a Simpsons character. Afterwards, I tweaked it a bit to get it to look more like me. If you want to make yourself a member of the Simpsons universe, I recommend reading these tips to get the best results. I actually like this one better than my previous “Simpsons” avatar, which I manually created.
for Salem's Lolo
Salem keeping cool in his short fur
birthday
Happy Birthday to my wife Christine!
(seen here with Daniel on the Kilimanjaro Safaris in Disney’s Animal Kingdom)
I love you, Babe!
my Simpsons avatar
What I’d look like if I were on “The Simpsons”.
Create your own avatar here.
upload complete
Ok. I’m done uploading pics from our Orlando vacation. I still have to add titles, comments, and tags to the last few batches I uploaded this week. On a side note, some images from the Universal and Disney-MGM sets are somewhat fuzzy due to Jasmine spraying the camera with her cooling fan!
Magic Kingdom (part 2)
Pics from day 6 of our Orlando vacation
vacation pics update
I’ve finally uploaded day 5 of our Orlando vacation – Disney-MGM Studios
update 062007
Hmm… what’s going on? Busy at work, tired at home. I still have 2 days’ worth of pictures to upload from our vacation. I’m gonna have to better organize my time so I can have this done by the end of this weekend. Daniel returns home next week when my in-laws come to visit. It’s getting hotter outside now that summer’s officially here. I’m feeling the pressure and stress at work as the lab project is almost live (5 weeks away). Maybe once that’s out of the way, I can rest at ease, relax, and get back to some kind of normal in my job. I am happy to say that, today, my new manager announced to me that I would be getting a raise effective next pay period!
vacation pics – Universal
On day 4, we hit 2 parks in 1 day – Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios Florida.
Orlando – day 3
We took on Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
vacation pics
More pics to come soon!
long week
The 4 days of work this week seemed longer than the 10 days I was off. I’m so glad the weekend is here. Saturday, I plan to take Salem on a walk (he’s been without one for nearly 3 weeks now), then I’ll cut the grass. After the yardwork, I’d like to start working on journaling our vacation. I’ll be creating a new blog to house my recaps and our pictures. I’m still trying to sift through all the images; I haven’t had much time this week, but I’ll start uploading some to Flickr.
class of 2007
Daniel and his classmates graduated from 8th grade (and was “promoted” to high school) last night. We’re all very proud of you, D!! 
random 10 #106
10 songs that sum up your weekend… or were on your weekend playlist…
Tony Kornheiser’s podcast has rekindled my interest in what he calls “old guy radio” …
- “Cocaine” – Eric Clapton
- “When The Levee Breaks” – Led Zeppelin
- “We Are The Champions” – Queen
- “Trying to Get to You” – Elvis Presley
- “Fire” – Jimi Hendrix
- “Miami 2017″ – Billy Joel
- “Lyin’ Eyes” – The Eagles
- “Surfer Girl” – The Beach Boys
- “Roadhouse Blues” – The Doors
- “I Will” – The Beatles
…and one picture that relates back.
Cinderella’s Castle at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World (taken June 2005). We return to Orlando, FL on Saturday. This will be our 4th trip in 9 years. We can’t wait to be back in the Happiest Place on Earth
birthday greetings
Today is my father’s birthday. He’s shown here with my sister Rochelle, my mother, and me. Happy Birthday Dad!
random 10 #105
10 songs that sum up your weekend… or were on your weekend playlist…
- “Best of Both Worlds” – Van Halen
- “Stop This Train” – John Mayer
- “Strange” – R.E.M.
- “Sunday Bloody Sunday” – U2
- “Golden Slumbers”, “Carry That Weight”, “The End” – The Beatles (three titles, but counted as one great song)
- “Beauty and Sadness” – The Smithereens
- “Higher Ground” – Red Hot Chili Peppers
- “You Don’t Own Me” – The Lascivious Biddies
- “February Stars” – Foo Fighters
- “Since I’ve Been Loving You” – Led Zeppelin
…and one picture that relates back.
Where we ate for Mother’s Day. I’m not a big steak person, but this place has the best steaks I ever had.
18/365
warm and fuzzy
17/365 – my new cell
I got a new cell phone yesterday, an LG VX5300. Nothing fancy. It has a basic VGA camera with a flash. I am not a big fan of the cameras on phones, so this was no big deal for me. It does not record video, nor does it play video. It doesn’t even play MP3′s. Why would I need that on my phone? I have an iPod that does this already, so it would be a useless function.
This one is Bluetooth enabled, as my previous Motorola was not. Will I get myself a cool Bluetooth headset? Maybe, but I rarely use my cell phone, so that would probably be a wasted purchase. I do need a case or a belt clip (I can’t believe it didn’t come with one). I hate putting my phone in my pocket, and I carry enough crap already.
CL and D each got a RAZR, well, because they look nice (or as D would say, “cool”). We were told to steer away from them as people have said they’ve had problems with them. The way I saw it was, if we run into problems, we lost nothing really because the phones were free.
16/365
While Daniel and the other students in the 8th grade chorus perform their last Fine Arts Festival, the beginner’s band waits patiently for it all to end.
random 10 #104
10 songs that sum up your weekend… or were on your weekend playlist…
- “Pleasant Valley Sunday” – The Monkees
- “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” – The Beach Boys
- “The River” – Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
- “Rest In Peace” – Extreme
- “Miami 2017″ – Billy Joel
- “Mine Again” – Black Lab
- “You Don’t Know How It Feels” – Tom Petty
- “15 Beers Ago” – Deaf Pedestrians
- “Big Gun” – AC/DC
- “Ask” – The Lascivious Biddies
…and one picture that relates back.
Sunset at Carlyle Lake, taken in September 2003 on our last camping trip.
15/365
My poor puppy. He’s been going through some pain the past several days. We’re not sure what it is. Salem grunts or cries when jumping down off the bed, down from his window, or even going down the stairs. We try to keep him from jumping up (in a lot of cases, he can’t contain his excitement). We placed a temporary “bench” by his window so he can take it easy getting down.
He seemed to be worse this morning, crying when CL tried moving him on the bed. He was pretty mopey. He hadn’t gotten up to go out at all last night; we had to make him go before I left for work. Tomorrow, he sees the vet for his yearly shots; we’ll see what they have to say.
