Skyler's Shots

Skyler has liked taking pictures for a long time. Unfortunately for her, we had only given her some piece of junk Hello Kitty camera for Christmas a few years back. Recently, we have allowed her to use our old camera. She has started to get pretty good. I have added a link to her pictures on the sidebar, and have included some of my favorites of her most recent work below. I will upload her pictures to her link as she takes more.

March Madness

Just in case anyone is interested, I have set up a NCAA bracket group in Yahoo! sports. You can log in to Yahoo! and then click the following link:
http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/t1/register/joinprivategroup_assign_team?GID=96146&P=hoyamania

Good Luck and Happy St. Patrick's Day(said from the cockpit of my time machine set to yesterday).

The Clippers Experience

I don't recall if I mentioned it, but Skyler was awarded Student of the Month a few months back. As part of her award she was given a free ticket to a Clipper game of her choosing (as long as the opponent didn't expect to draw a big crowd. Of course, if somebody wanted to take her they needed to buy their own ticket. So, it only cost us $20 to sit together and share some tissues for our bloody noses. So, we watched the Clippers lose to the Minnesota Timberwolves last night.I'm pretty sure she didn't like being at the game, and I can't say I blame her. The view wasn't exactly great, and she didn't really like basketball to begin with. I was a bit frustrated myself. It seems as though the Clippers are trying to find ways to lose. They led throughout most of the game, but decided to start passing to the other team in the final minutes. That wasn't the worst part of the whole night. The worst part was by far the half-time "entertainment". I took a little video of the experience. See if you can figure out what it is.



























If you guessed a full court of people doing Jazzercise, you are correct! Seriously.

Bodie update

Somebody requested some updated pictures of Bodie. Here are a few. Just a quick update, he is doing perfect health wise. He does find great pleasure in keeping me from getting sleep, but I am sure that is hereditary. He likes kickin' it in his swing, pooping in his pants and hanging out with the family. He has started consistently sleeping through the night, as long as I stay up with him until past midnight. He was blessed last Sunday. Here are some recent pictures of him, his family, and his twin cousins.

Daylight Savings Time

I figured since I am already losing an hour of sleep, I should add to it (plus I want to see Vampire Weekend perform on SNL). It has been quite a while since my last post, but it is tax season (which reminds me that I need to talk to the founder of Mr. Sasquatch about the time of year it runs). So here are just a few random things:

You know how people will tell you that it takes a lot of hard work to become a millionaire. They were definitely telling the truth. Apparently, you are required to do multiple crimes and then in the midst of one of those crimes get shot at 120 times by police. Not only that, you then have to get hit by 9 of those shots and survive. That is how you make 1.3 million dollars. The story didn't say, but I'm guessing that Winston Hayes is not a college graduate. So, I guess the whole college education thing is a myth. Am I the only one who sees something very wrong with this?

I am officially done with the T.V. show Lost. I will still watch if it happens to be on, but am no longer going out of my way to keep up each week. Once the show finally concludes, I may rent the DVDs to see how they finally explained the reason for misleading me throughout the show. I really enjoyed the first couple of seasons, but after that they starting doing things that the creators had told us they wouldn't. I kept watching because I felt like I had already invested too much time to give it up and I was sure that they were going to start giving explanations. In one of my economics classes I recall learning that, "sunk costs are irrelevant." This means that you shouldn't continue with a bad business venture just because you have already spent so much on it. All you are doing is wasting more money. And that is what I am doing with Lost. I was trying to explain it to a co-worker a couple of weeks ago and realized how ridiculous the show sounded. A smoke monster, polar bears on a tropical island, sharks with logos on them, the hatch, psychic powers, and now time travel and island adultery. It's just too much for me to accept. Good job on stringing me along for as long as you have. And now goodbye Lost.

One last thing. I don't know if this situation will ever present itself, but if you are ever in a situation where you are required to drink your own urine I would recommend that you request a box of Golden Crisp Cereal. I have eaten a wide variety of cereal in my life and Golden Crisp is the only one that I can tell exactly when it is leaving my body. It has a very sweet aroma, which is not exactly common with urine. So, I hypothesize that it probably would not taste as bad as regular urine. Keep that in mind, just in case.

Enjoy your daylight savings!