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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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Ted's Hero
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Charlie has always been Teddy's hero. In the past, Ted always admired Charlie's sleeveless t-shirts. Today, Teds has one of his own. He came downstairs with a spiderman sleeveless t-shirt he made himself. Now I have to confiscate the scissors before he does any more tailoring. EDIT: To answer nayrb's question, Of course there is a picture! Not much happens around here without a picture getting taken. Take a look here! |
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| thus voiced Mrs A @ 3:46 PM | |
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
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From the mind of Chaz...
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So Chaz, Tessa and I were driving down to Marlboro Ma., this morning to go check out the big gun show that is there this weekend. We turn off of the highway and onto RT20, a secondary road that leads to the exhibit hall where the show is held. There are lots of industrial parks and hotel/trade center type places along this stretch. We roll to a stop at a red light, right in front of one of the hotels. In front is the big sign with the name of the place, and one of those light up marquee signs for posting messages. The sign reads: "Good luck Roberto, we'll miss you!!" Tess spots the sign and reads it out loud. Without a moments delay, Chaz comes out with "What happened to Roberto, he get deported?" |
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| thus voiced The A, Mistah @ 8:36 PM | |
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Sunday, January 20, 2008
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Coincidence?
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The church we attend has a pretty typical Sunday schedule for similar churches around here. Sunday school for an hour on Sunday morning, followed by a more-or-less one hour morning service, winding up about noon time. Later in the day, our evening service begins at 6PM, and ends around seven. Nothing unusual about that. Until this morning. It was announced that on Sunday February 3rd, we will be deviating from that routine. That day, we will have our regular morning schedule, but immediately after morning service we will be holding a pot-luck supper, and that will be followed by a "time in the Word and singing", and there will be no evening service that day. Now ignoring for the moment that there is nothing "pot luck" about the meal (You're asked sign up for what you are bringing, sort of a "rigged" pot-luck), I could not figure out what would bring about this radical change of schedule. Being an engineer and naturally curious, it occurred to me that something like this happened last year, and the year before, all about the same time. Hmmmmmm, it seems that this just happens to coincide with the Superbowl game! Coincidence? Perhaps, perhaps not. Would the schedule really be shuffled to accommodate a football game? Doesn't sound like something our church would do, but who knows? It was not stated that was the reason, but then again nobody said it wasn't. So for the sake of discussion, let's assume that the Superbowl is, in fact, the reason for the schedule change. Why hide the fact? We're not likely fooling anyone.I propose that we make it the centerpiece of the event. I think that next year it could be announced as the: Super Bowl Super Sunday Super Service!!! Imagine the possibilities. For the real die-hards, there could be some tailgating in the morning, with the mini-muffins, yogurts, grapes (separated into tiny bunches of 5 grapes each), coffee and juice (for the young-uns, ya know...) set out on the back of a few pickups. We could burn some books in barrels to keep warm. After that we could head off to the standard morning activities, but would lift, for this day only, the normal ban on face painting and giant foam "we're #1" hands. After the morning service instead of a rigged pot-luck supper, we could substitute a "half-time show" maybe featuring some singing or drama team from one of the local boarding schools that seem to have an ample supply of such troupes, and maybe a marching choir. That would be followed a half time recap by a panel of experts critiquing the morning message, and trying to predict what the pastor will come up with in the "second half." Perhaps the folks in the assembly could be given a certain number of "time-outs" that they could call if the message got too dull or controversial, or they could try to sack the pastor, while the ushers tried to block. The possibilities are endless. Done properly, I'll bet everyone would pretty much forget about that football game. I'm expecting a call from the church's activity planning committee any time now. |
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| thus voiced The A, Mistah @ 9:06 PM | |
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008
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Digital pictures, etc.
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Like most people these days, my picture taking is pretty much 100% digital. I tend to take LOTS of pictures. While digicams are way cool, they do have the issue that if one does not keep up with backups and whatnot, it is possible to lose years worth of photos in a flash. So I tend to back up to multiple hard drives and make occasional transfers to CD or DVD and an added safeguard. While this can be a bit of a chore, it does prompt you to thumb through your old photos from time to time. The cool thing about that is that you occasionally stumble across a picture like this: Click me! |
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| thus voiced The A, Mistah @ 10:10 PM | |
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Sunday, January 06, 2008
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Poor Mrs A.
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She won't admit it, but it seems that she is not sleeping too well these days. I know because of the books she has been reading lately. They are clearly designed to help one get to sleep. A month or so back, she was reading all of these books about the development of various mundane commercial products. Now don't get me wrong, I read a fair amount of books about industrial history and such, but she was reading a book about the guy who invented shortening, it was called "The Count of Monte Crisco" or something like that. When she got to the part about how he bubbled hydrogen through the animal fat to make it thick, she could not put the book down in spite of the fact that her eyes kept closing and her head bobbing back. She followed that with the story of the development of the Three Musketeers candy bar, and then some book about a crazy lady who tried to start an airline, called JaneAir. Sheesh! Since then, it has only gone downhill. She has broken out the atomic weapons of the insomniac book industry, the Jane Austin books. Yikes. Not only that, she is whipping through them in high speed serial fashion so that when they come on PBS Masterpiece Theatre starting tonight, she'll have read them before she sees them. I get drowsy just looking at the covers on those books, and slept for nearly three hours in the middle of the day last Tuesday, when I accidentally read the first paragraph of the "preface". As a matter of fact, I vaguely recall that they tried to force me to read JaneAir in ninth grade. I could not get through it, and after reading the Cliff notes, I did not wake up until sometime in the middle of my senior year. Imagine the power of watching hours of them on TV. Sort of makes you wonder how the cast of those movies stayed awake while reading the script and filming the show. Caffeine alone could not possibly do it, they used some sort of illegal drugs, no doubt. So please go easy on my poor, tired wife if she seems a bit on edge. She just needs a few good nights sleep. |
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| thus voiced The A, Mistah @ 11:17 AM | |
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Tuesday, January 01, 2008
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| HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! | |
| thus voiced The A, Mistah @ 12:07 AM | |
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