Monday, April 24, 2006
01:47 p.m.
My neice arrived last week, here's my sister's email:
Hi everyone! I'm sending this to everyone who I have not contacted yet---we have a new arrival as of April 11th at 1:57pm---!!
Olivia Shae
she was 9 pounds 12 oz!! BIG BABY!!! They just keep getting bigger!!
19 1/2 inches---(short like her mom!)
The labor went really well and her 2 big brothers are very excited!! We are very blessed and excited to have a girl in the house! There is PINK everywhere!!
I'm going to try to attach some pictures---we have no idea where the black hair came from---either grandpas we think!!
My sis is obviously excited. If exclamation points were $1 each, that message just cost her $18.
Ah, well. She deserves it. We'll give her a freebie on this one.
Here are the pictures:
I have a new phone, so I'm back with the real world again. I also have web access on this phone, so I might actually be able to keep up a little better.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
04:06 p.m.
LIVE ON CNN.COM
If you have a few seconds, check out our live feed from ISU tonight! For the next few hours, click on cnn.com and look for "Fit Nation" under Pipeline.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
12:24 p.m.
Jim Doblin's
"Slices of Life"
Stories from a Freelance Network TV Producer
Part One - Brian Zembec, the man with the $100,000 Breasts
My friend and colleague Jim Doblin has a long history of telling these crazy stories about covering crazy stories.
For a guy who lives in Kansas, he's a great New Yorker (in the way he tells stories). Part one is about Brian Zembec, a Vegas gambler.
You will need a Flash Player or a video player available at video.google.com to view this clip.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
07:55 p.m.
SMASHED PHONE
I smashed my phone yesterday, and I won't be able to see anything, who called, who texted, what you texted. So please stop texting me everybody... PLEASE STOP TEXTING ME.
I can still answer and dial the phone, and pick up voicemail. But since I don't have any chances for even a few hours off, it will be a while before I can get a new phone. I will post when I have the new phone.
Oh, and one more thing. Please stop texting me.
Friday, March 24, 2006
09:45 p.m.
GOOGLE VIDEO TOTALLY ROCKS!
I just uploaded two videos, one of tornado wreckage in Sedalia, MO.
The other video is of snowmobiling in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
You may need to download the video player from video.google.com to view the videos!
Friday, March 24, 2006
12:12 p.m.
Another Gem
While working with a friend and colleague of mine at at UMD hockey game, Dale Storey said he had bumped into another guy I worked with about a decade ago. Ray Higgins, a man of many talents and an encyclopedia of knowledge is also a guy who spews severely profound statements. They are words of wisdom, and they are metaphors for life. Here are a couple of the gems I've been lucky to hear:
"Never venture far into the world... without baked goods."
-Ray Higgins, 1994
"A well-fed crew is a happy crew."
-Ray Higgins, 1995
"Television is the Hotel California, Baby."
-Ray Higgins, 1999
I sure hope this guy writes a book someday. I'll be the first in line to have one signed!
Thursday, March 23, 2006
06:42 p.m.
Jackson, WY trip was Awesome!
I have a lot of things to tell about the Jackson trip, and have a lot of pictures and videos to post. But first, a friend of mine sent me this funny thing:
Go to Google, and type in your name, and "needs" in parenthesis. So for me, I type in "Sam needs" and I get:
Sam needs an Angel.
Uncle Sam needs you to speak Korean.
Sam needs to polish his image. (thank god they said "image")
Uncle Sam needs that extra shovelful.
Anyway, here are some Jacson pictures:
Me, Michele, and Chad pose up at a bowl of snow near Togwotee Pass in Wyoming. The snowmobiling was incredible, with more than a five foot base and powder every day.
It doesn't take long for the sheer vastness of the space to turn you into a dot on the horizon.
That is equally cool, and equally scary.
This is Chad and my second year at Jackson, and we stayed with Michele and her roommates just outside of the Jackson city limits. We made it out Friday and Sunday night, and Chad was on his own Saturday night. A mixture of altitude sickness and being deliriously tired from my work schedule, the long drive, and lack of good solid sleep had me seeing double. So I took the night off. Sadly, it was on St. Patrick's Day and I missed a bunch of the fun, apparently. I guess it's a sign that I'm getting older!?
It's always a good sign when you get stuck, because that means you've found the good snow. Underneath some of the crustier snow lies a good deal of packed, rolling snow called "corn." It's like trying to get your sled out of a bin of corn (or styrofoam beads if you're one of those city-fied people).
Chad was stuck the worst. His Polaris 900 RMK (That's snowspeak for big ass sled.) has 18 inches of travel, meaning to get it unstuck, we had to dig down 18 inches to get to the bottom of the track. And the sled is about as light as a mother cow about to give birth.
It was awesome.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
06:56 p.m.
Storm Season
Sunday and Monday were the night for storms. And it would appear that it's snow. But you would be wrong. It is hail.
Here's a closeup of the hail my Dad captured with his camera, while I was gone. By the time I was home all of the hail had melted. The rain did cause a couple of gullies in the yard. They will be fixed some time in the next month or so.
A friend of mine had much worse luck at her house in Lawrence. A 40-foot (or so) Hackberry tree is not so gently "leaning" against her house. And last I heard, she had to go to a hotel with her dogs, because they didn't think she was safe, should the tree shift.
I received some really bad news this last week. A dear family friend, a childhood friend, Darek was found last Tuesday after he took his own life. My parents and his parents all had their first teaching jobs together, and lived across the street from each other in Stanley, WI. And our families remain friends, even after all this time. (Because they met years before any of us kids were born.) I always looked forward to going to Stanley to visit the Judnics, in part because Darek was my age. He was a good friend, a good person, and I'm sad that I didn't take the time to find out how good a man he had become.
