How to report the news

I founds this to be very informative.

Goal for the week

Wow, I need to stop talking about it but I haven't blogged since the 24th! Where has the time gone? It didn't seem like it was that long ago when I did blog. I have a bunch of pictures that I have failed to post so this week my goal is to try and blog every day. We will see how long it takes for me to fail. I'm guessing I'll forget to post on Tuesday. Pat, feel free to start a pool.

I'm so proud of Louisa. Here she is watching some Sports Center. I'm thinking she will be kind to her younger brother and let them watch sports shows instead of tying up the tv and watching cooking shows and TCL.

Here is Louisa in the car. I can't remember who took this picture, all I know is that she looks so cute.



And for my last picture, Kayleen and I stopped at KFC and ate. When we left I saw this and thought "What did someone do to my car!!!!"

After the initial shock I then realized that my car is the car beyound that car. I was thinking about sending this picture to my mom but I didn't want to give her a heart attack. Your welcome mom.

Busy week

I always seem to be making excuses as to why I haven't blogged. Really it's because I keep putting it off, but this week it seems that Louisa has been taking up all my time.

Louisa and I spent a lot of time saying lines from our favorite movies. Here she is doing the scream from Home Alone. (To be fair, Louisa was more acting our movies that I knew about and am assuming she will like one day. We have not been having her watch hours of tv everyday.)

Here I'm training Louisa to be a formidable xbox player. She really needs to practice more and spend less time eating the controller. I don't think xbox expected their controllers to need to be drool proof.Lastly we took photos to see what Louisa would look like with a huge body or what I would look like with a small head. Not really sure. I just know that it's weird.

My Child Prodigy

I bought some blocks for Louisa today and look what she did with them!

I may have helped a little.

I'm doing all I can

Kayleen likes donating as much of me as she can so yesterday I went and gave blood. (Not only because Kayleen wanted me to but the blood bank would not stop hounding me for my blood. I'm hoping it's because they could actually use it.)

Here is my precious blood going bye bye.

We also volunteered to clean church this week. At our church if you are strong enough to carry a duster, you are strong enough to work. We don't really care about child labor laws so we but Louisa to work dusting the church. She did an ok job for her age, but we are hoping she improves as she gets older.

Technical Help

Well I guess I need to be a little more careful on the tags I put on my blog. My last entry I put a tag saying "Job Search" and I think some guy did a web crawl for blogs with this in their tags and automatically posted to my blog. I thought the blogger server required people to enter in those messages to prevent people from doing something like that. Oh well.

Also, I saw this Dilbert comic and it used to make me want to get a job in technical support. I can safely say that after a job at Safeway and in my latest contract position, any such dreams have quickly died away.



Mostly they died away because I would never be able to give advice to people. I'm also afraid that I might tell people they have an ID-10T problem. A guy I worked with told me that tech support people would tell people they had an ID-10T problem for special cases. (Like not being able to find the "Any" key or needing help turning on their computer.) Well one guy lost his job after a he told a customer that she had this problem. She wrote down ID10T (Well, when she wrote it, it may have looked more like "IDIOT"), paused and then hung up and called again to talk to the guy's supervisor.

I'll throw in this Tech support cartoons as well.

My little sassy girl

Here is our little "Sassy" girl.

American Idol Hopes

I'll have to wait for next season of American Idol for a singer that will sing my kind of songs. Tonight on American Idol the theme was songs from movies. I sat through the whole show hoping that someone would pick the big song from "The Secret of My Success." But alas, no one attempted "Oh Yeah" by Yellow. Couldn't you imagine someone choosing it?



My brother has dreams of trying to get onto the American Idol by singing "The History of Rock and Roll part 2"

Oh no! Two losses

Well the mariners are back to the mariners of last year. They blew two games they could have won. One of them was on they should have one. They should have use Felix. After his first game he was projected to win us 162 games! That would have been awesome, although making the year a little anticlimactic.

Here are the season projections for King Felix after the mariners first game.

I don't have any pictures of Louisa to post. I guess I can just give a story from today. As a new dad, I find that babies are naturally very expressive. Louisa tells us a lot by crying, but you can also look into her eyes and you can tell when she is angry with you. Today we went grocery shopping and our goal was to shop while Louisa slept in her car seat with a blanket covering her. Well, this worked at our first stop but not so well at our second stop. Louisa started to cry and the only thing that would calm her down was to be swung in her car seat. Every time I tried to stop she would start to cry again. A few times I would peek in on her, she would be staring strait ahead and had this look on her face. I could tell she was very upset that her nap was being interrupted. She seemed to be thinking "I'm going to make you bounce me in the car seat the whole time we are at the store for punishment for interrupting my nap!!!" I hope Louisa doesn't develop a rebellious teenage attitude before she turns 1.

Also, any prayers for my grandma would be appreciated. She is in the hospital right now.
This is Kayleen and me with my grandma during Thanksgiving break.

Sleepy time

How do you get a baby to fall asleep? This may be a little unorthodox but we figure, if it works, what could be the harm?

Ever had that temptation?

Have you ever seen something done in a cartoon that you were tempted to do? Just wondering. Here is a random cartoon.

(I have been told that I need to clarify that I am posting this without the permission on my wife.)

What to do?

Well, as we approach Louisa's due date I have been trying to think of what day would be a good day for Lou to be born. It just doesn't look like Lou can be born for quite a few weeks. Just look at the next few days:
Tuesday: American Idol Kayleen watches this show and also geema watched the show so she wouldn't be able to come to the hospital.
Wednesday: Same thing as Tuesday.
Thursday: The Office is on. Both Kayleen and I like to watch this show so Lou can't be born this day.
Friday: Psych is on and we keep forgetting to watch the new episodes.
Saturday: It's the weekend and I need to blow off steam by going to the bar. Since I will be a little inebriated, I wont be able to drive Kayleen to the hospital.
Sunday: Kayleen would be happy if Lou was a Sunday child but only 4% of babies (according to Kayleen) are born on their due date. Some people might call her strange.
Monday: This is a possibility but I'll have to look it over just to make sure.
Tuesday: Now we get back into the television schedule. Darn Tv making it so inconvenient to have a kid.

Baby coming soon!

We have been waiting for this baby to come now for two weeks now, well really for almost 39 weeks now but I say 2 weeks because that is when the doctor said that it was going to be any day now. It's been a little annoying because we have panicked a little bit and hurried to make sure that we were completely ready for little Lou. Now that we are, we are just laying back and waiting for Lou to decide that it's the right time to come on out. One thing that we did to get ready was getting phone numbers of people to call to let them know that Lou has been born. One way that we may decide to save money is to make collect calls like this one:

Except we would of course change it to "Mike wehadababyitsagirl"

The wife asked

Kayleen is trying to get people to write down 20 random things about themselves on their blogs. Since she asked nicely, I decided I would grant her request.

1. I am very competitive. So competitive that I plan on not just putting down 20 random things but insteed I will try to get 40 really random things.
2. I can sometimes get obsessed with rodents. Mostly squirrels. That's because I think squirrels are rodents with excellent PR.
3. I have a twin. This isn't really unknown fact but it is a fact non the less.
4. I had a paper route when I was younger. Well, I never officially had the route, it was always in my sister's name.
5. I have been to Canada. I would write something interesting about Canada now, but the truth is that there is very little that is interesting about Canada.
6. I was homeschooled for most of my schooling.
   
7. I know the lyrics to many many Irish drinking songs. This talent has proved to be very useful now that I am of drinking age and can get into the local Irish pubs. I know most of the Irish drinking songs that the local bands are singing.
8. I cannot see dead people. After seeing the Sixth Sense, I have found it necessary to make sure that people know that I do not posses this skill. Most people were not interested to learn this fact about me. I hope you appreciated it.
9. I own a very shinny black button up shirt. I don't wear it very often, sometimes it's because Kayleen wont let me be me, but mostly because the shirt makes me look very metro sexual.
10. At times, I can be very sarcastic. Kayleen is always afraid of things that I put on my blog because she is afraid that if her friends read it that they will not understand that I am joking. (For example, I am not allowed to say that I plan on sedating our kids if they start getting too hyper. In all likelihood I will not be allowed to go through with such plans, I still like to keep them as possibilities.)
11. I never dated until I was in college. I have heard the number of guys that Kayleen dated and I told her that it isn't fair that she dated so many more people than me and that I should be able to go on a few dates to even it out, but she does not seem to like this idea at all.
12. I have only been married once in my entire life. Umm... I know this is a cheap one to put in here but I'm only up to 12 and I'm running out of random facts.
13. I have a social security number and it is ###-##-####.
14. I am through the first season and half of the second season of Heroes and I am not entirely impressed with it. The story is kind of catchy but the acting is not so great and some of the stories don't make sense to me.
15. I have learned TOO MUCH about the birthing process. I am going to scar my brother by telling him everything that goes on.
16. I have been electrocuted by an electric fence for a dairy farm. (Thanks Pat. It was all your fault!)
17. My brother tells me "IHY" all the time. (I believe "IHY" mean "I Heart You." Yes, I know. My brother can be a sweetie sometimes.)
18. I know how to country swing dance.
19. I know how to do the local dance of a country that I have roots to.
20. I know how to mix concrete.
21. I buried a deadman. (Note that a deadman is a land anchor. A family friend of ours that we worked for had us put in a concrete anchor to keep his generator from sliding down the side of his house. It's just a fun term to use though and it makes me sound creepy when I tell people that when working for a friend of ours that we buried a deadman.)
22. We were not fed strawberries and cream when we worked for this family friend of ours. My brother and I had very different experiences when we worked for this friend of ours. When they worked, they got to take a break and eat strawberries and cream. My brother and I on the other hand got to use stuff that said "Highly toxic! Burn clothes if contents come in contact with clothing. Pray to God if injested, inhaled, or comes in contact with skin." Good times, good times.
23. I posted more random facts on my blog than my wife did. Well, I'm at 23 so I have officially posted more facts. I just have another 17 to go.
24. I've never had a body part if mine pierced.
    
25. I've never dyed my hair.
26. My favorite alcoholic beverage is probably a gin and tonic.
27. I have thrown up in a car or bus 3 times. All due to car sickness. Actually, all of the cars I did throw up in were really just small buses. They were large vans.
28. I have never played in a professianl sports league. I have been tempted but I can't leave my wife at home by herself. That is one of the only reasons why I have not gone into professinal sports.
29. I am not a nerd, even though many of my friends insist that I am. I guess it shows how much my friends really know me.
30. I know how to solve the rubix cube. The 3x3 that is. I've heard that the 2x2 and the 4x4 are actually harder than the 3x3. (This fact does not make me a nerd. It just happened to be the next thing I could think of.)
31. I used to be able to bench more than my body weight. That was when I took a class at BCC that required me to go to the gym.
    
32. I was in Civil Air Patrol in my younger days. Then the wing became corrupt and I had to get out. That or I had scheduling conflicts and could no longer go.
33. My favortie animal growing up were bears. Patially because my brother would sing me to sleep with "Go to sleep, Michael Bear, so I can shave off your hair..." in tune with the lullaby song.
34. In highschool, my favorite time period in history was the civil war. My favorite historical movie was Gettysburg.
    
35. My favorite movie from the 1980's was Short Circut II. You go Johnny 5!
36. I have never killed anyone.
37. I never commited gand larsony.
38. I never framed my brother for fraud. Even though he may have deserved it.
39. I have wasted peoples valuable time by creating long a silly lists.
    
40. I may have made my wife sorry that she asked me to write a list of 20 random things.

There, 40 items! I hope you appreciate all my hard work and time. Also, I hope I get a job soon so I have a better way to use my time.

Now we can have the baby

Kayleen and I are finally settled into our place and Kayleen feels like we can have the baby now. I in the other hand was not ready until Lou had some home made hats. Luckily we got these hats made, Kayleen added the pink ribbon to the blue hat to make it more girly. These hats were made on Kayleen's new loom set that I bought her for Christmas, so I guess I kind of had a part in making them.

Also, I thought I would post these videos of the GI Joe public service announcements. At the end of every GI Joe cartoon they would have a public service announcement telling kids to not take medicine without their parents knowledge and not getting into cars with strangers and other things like that. Well, some guys recut these endings and re-dubbed them and came up with some very interesting clips. (Just a warning, these is some swearing and also, if you are not interested in silly internet videos then you would probably not be interested in these videos.)



And here is part two:

Seattle Sports

We have had a very sad year in sports in Seattle. Here is a video from ESPN about our poor sports season.

Another video to get you ready for the Christmas season

A friend of mine was telling me about this video, an of course since I have homework to do, I was able to put some time into finding it. It's the lost ending to the Christmas classic "It's a Wonderful Life."

Hiatus for a bit.

I've been busy as of late with a lot of homework beginning to be due now, so I'm not sure how regularly that I'll be able to post. I'll leave a quick post for today though. Yesterday we rented the movie "Little Shop of Horrors" because I had never seen it before. It was a musical made in the 80's with Rick Moranis (spelling?) and Steve Martin. It's a comedy and a very weird movie, but I enjoyed some of the songs, like this one sung by Steve Martin. (And his hair is BLACK!!! It's so weird to see him without his white hair.)

Guess what!

Guess who left someone home alone for the weekend? That's right, Kayleen has left me alone for the weekend. I'm still trying to think of what I should do. I guess if you want, you could leave a suggestion, mind you though, I don't have a car, so it should be something that does not require traveling. I was thinking I could:

1. Start up that squirrel army. There are a lot of them out and about here.
2. Run a marathon. It would get me out of the house, and help me get into shape.
3. Clean the apartment. This is here just to show Kayleen that I was thinking about possibly doing it.
4. Play video games. It will make the weekend fly right on by.
5. Play a trick of the squirrels by reburying their food.
6. Spend the weekend with the lights out, curtains closed and play very depressing music until Kayleen gets back. I may do that when she calls and just tell her that I've been depressed the whole time she was gone.
7. Succeed from the U.S. It will ensure us that we won't live in a socialist government, but at the same time, we will be a very small country that wont be able to sustain ourselves. I'm thinking this idea shouldn't be too highly considered.
8. Buy a badger for Kayleen. She was reading a book that talked about them and I think she was trying to hint that she wanted one.
9. Buy a ferret and have it try to kill some frogs. That would be in memory of those classic Budweiser commercials. The ones where the frogs just say "bud", "wise" and "er."
10. Listen to journey the whole weekend and see if I don't go insane. Speaking of journey, did anyone ever see this movie?
11. Try to start a new trend here on campus. (I may need help with ideas here. Something like a new catch phrase or clothing trend would be good.)
12. Write a list of ideas on my blog. This is so that I can say I did at least on item on my list.
13. Get a job at Safeway so Kayleen and I can stay in P-town.
14. Learn judo from Vladamir Putin.
15. Rush the field regardless of whether the cougs win or not.
16. Booby trap the apartment for any wet bandits.
    

I think I'll end with sixteen, it's a nice even number.

Well, I was watching this Mr. Bean clip that I remember watching many many years ago at my grandma's place and I was thinking to myself that it is probably a good thing that I'm not single. I was watching this and thinking that I very well could have turned into something like Mr. Bean. Scary, I know.

Well, probably not totally like him, but there were some parts in there that I may copy, like the counting sheep. I definitely would not use my toothbrush for the same thing that he does, that is one thing I can guarantee.

Christmas list ideas

I know Christmas is still 2 months and 8 days away, but I was at a store and they already have the fake Christmas trees up with quite a few aisles already stocked with Christmas items. Normally I wouldn't start thinking about Christmas shopping but today I heard about the best Christmas present EVER! (Steak may try to find something, but this is at least a top ten idea.) What could be better than an exercise DVD to learn Judo? Maybe an exercise DVD teaching you Judo by the one and only Vladimir Putin! I'm not sure if it's available in the US, so people may need to wait. You could just give your loved one an IOU one Vladamir Putin Judo DVD. It will truly make anyone's Christmas a special Christmas.

In case you missed it, I did at least, here is John McCain at the Al Smith dinner.


Also, in xkcd today, they came really close to getting Kayleen down. Her morning routine is 1, 3, 2.

Also, Ryan got the riddle correct. The way I answered was basically the same, but I wasted more power by turning on two lights, waiting some amount of time then turning one off.

I had a phone interview with a company yesterday and they asked me this question, let's say you have an array of n numbers. In the array of numbers, you have all the numbers from 1 to n-1 in the array plus one number is repeated. How would you find the number that is repeated? An example of what an array of numbers would look like, if you had an array of 10, the array could look like this.
[1, 6, 3, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 5, 2]
So the answer here would be two.