A Calvin & Hobbes after my own heart...

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"Nothing But Nets"

I generally try not to get my sense of social awareness and responsibility from sports magazines, but Rick Reilly had a pretty well-written article in Sports Illustrated about the United Nations Foundation's push for mosquito nets for Africa. Good (and a little hard) read. I have a friend in Africa now for a missions trip, so it stood out a little more.

Rick Reilly Article

UN Foundation Malaria Donation site

Zombie politics are the worst...

I mean, they start out with earnest debate concering relevant issues of the day, but then it always degrades back to partisan politics and brain eating. Kinda sad, really.

I can't drive 55

Do you ever feel like there are some days when everyone around you is driving even worse than normal? Today, on both commute to and from work, there were cars careening all over, and driving through lights or ignoring signs or switching lanes at random. I felt a bit more endangered than normal, and that's saying something. Is there a full moon affect for bad driving? I did manage to make it home safely. One of those days...

Fashion Advice from Men's Warehouse

	Keep Your Pants On
		Wearing a belt and suspenders is like wearing a Red Sox hat with a Yankee jersey. It's one or the other. Never both!

One word: Awesome. Right now I'm wearing a Red Sox hat with a Champion jersey, so I guess I'm good. Oh, and I'm wearing a belt and pants and no suspenders. But if I had no belt, there's no way I could keep these pants on.

They say nothing about selecting the appropriate buckle, so go with this.

Seriously

My room looks like a tornado hit it, and then a stampede rolled through and trampled what the tornado left behind, and then some guy couldn't find a dumpster so he dumped all his trash in the stampede tornado pile. And then the stampede came back to crush the trash out of spite. Anyway, I should clean my room. Or get a bigger stampede that will crush everything so small I don't even see it.

"Over here guys, there's a pile of papers and computer parts you missed!"

A few more pics

Great Falls (Not the Taylor's house)

 

Easter Dinner at the Taylors

An awesome time was had by all.

Final Egg count:
Brad: 5
Nathan: 1
Amanda: 6
Monty: 9
Katy: 7
Chris: 2
Kara: 7

Go me! And I didn't even have to steal one from Katy like I was planning. 

It's Empty

"Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen!"

Happy Easter indeed...

Taxes are funny

Chris' mom just saved me $8 on my taxes. Sweet. Federal is done but not sent, and state will be done soon. Yay taxes being nearly done!

Nothin says lovin'...

I work at a company with some very very smart people. Many of them are experts in their fields. And nothing gets these guys moving like an e-mail saying "Cookies in Rm 6709". I can actually tell when an e-mail is sent just by the rumble I hear down the hall. It's amazing.




And yes, I'm writing this as I chomp on some awesome peanut butter cookies.

I think a popular metaphor applies here, but I'm not sure which one...

Excuse Excuse

So this morning, I woke up, took a shower, got dressed, and then had to leave to get to church early. I had really wanted to shave, because I've got a bit of a fungus going, but I had set my alarm for too late and didn't have time. My excuse? I set it later than I should have because of Daylight Savings Time. I decided that this excuse should be used in everyday life. Late for work? Sorry, Daylight Savings Time. Forgot to do your taxes? I was gonna, but Daylight Savings Time messed me all up. I forgot your birthday, but it was Daylight Savings Time (you know who you are, so Happy Birthday!). I'm sorry I ran over your cat, but you know, Daylight Savings Time. In court, you'll be able to use the DST defense, and you'd probably be able to get off Scottrick free. Kids would never have to do homework again. "But Miss Howard, it was Daylight Savings Time!" "Well, okay Jimmy, I understand."

Actually, this was a pretty dumb and pointless TOLAS entry. I'm really sorry for inflicting it upon you. But it was Daylight Savings Time, so I'm still a little out of sorts.


From West Wing and Rob
Toby: "What kind of schmuck-ass system is this?"
Josh: "Great! That's PERFECT!....Can we have a civilization?"

Says Rob: They could only be talking about daylight savings time...

I have no pictures to go with this, so here are some random recent ones: