My sister, Shannon, was married this weekend. It was a fun wedding (with excellent BBQ for the reception!) and I’m so happy she’s gotten hitched to a nice fella ;)
While I didn’t take a lot of pictures, there are some, collected over in a flickr set.
I go in and out of watching Sunday morning talk shows. They tend to get in a rut after awhile, but with a new president coming in and everyone fresh from their Christmas breaks and the general news slow-down that seems to come with all that, I’m hoping they’ll get fun again.
To that end, I clicked on Meet the Press this morning, and low-and-behold they’ve picked a permanent MC: David Gregory. Good for him.
Of course, I can’t resist being a smart-ass:
It’s no Internet lie!
My dad also always enjoys pointing out that he didn’t get a tax deduction for 1976: a joke I never understood when I was a kid.
People always ask me if it sucks having a birthday on the 1st. For one, they say, you might get gifts bundled into Christmas (true). Or, they might say: everyone is hung-over and many places are closed (yup).
But, never having had by birthday on any other day, it all seems normal to me. Not to mention that I alwas have a party to go to and I have the day off.
Of course, waiting 45+ minutes to eat brunch-cum-lunch kinda sucks.
— Post From My iPhone
While here at the inlaws over Christmas, I’ve watched a ton of this kid’s show called “Avatar: Last of the Airbenders.” It’s a pretty complicated Kung-Fu serial about a world that seems divided along elemental lines: fire, earth, water, and air.
The kids love it!
And why not? The whole premise is that this pack of about 4 teens (who act like Tweens) have special powers and have to go trough a seemngly endless picadoric quest that finally ends in a big, movie length fight with “The Fire Lord.”
Legendary!
In the meantime there’s all sorts of Nick-level romance: a quick peck here and there, often after some shassy remark, with the recievier of the kiss getting that Anime wide eyed look of astonishment. Also, there’s a whole succesion to the throne fight throughout, all 100 Years War style.
The last interesting aspect is the mixing of what looks like Chinese, Indian, and Native American cultures and races; I’m sure I’ve missed some other ones.
As I recall there’s a whole card game that goes along with Avatar, and these dudes would be insane not to have video games to go along with it too.
Michael and Kim are up early in the morning to drop the dogs off at the boarder’s house. They discuss conversational etiquette, which includes a long description of the inner workings of “small talk” by Michael.
We recorded early in the morning, so it’s a bit dark at first. Do not adjust your set!
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