Future Poltergeist

Ask and you shall receive .

I just discovered that a drink carrier from McDonalds somehow ended up in the downstairs crib. Some people say that there's a kitty to blame, but I know...it's my own darn fault.

About this time every year (after a long brutal winter) I start thinking of packing up and finding someplace better to live. One site that I visit is Find Your Spot . It has a quiz that helps determine what kind of town you want to live in (climate/size/type of community, etc.). It ehn provides additional information about the cities as well as links to real estate listings and employment opportunities. My list has changed a little over the years but there have been several cities that have been consistent. My top ten: Tacoma, WA Olympia, WA St George, UT Provo, UT Billings, MT Anchorage, AK Kent, WA Bellingham, WA Greenville, SC Ogden, UT

What a fun movie! The plot is pretty straightforward, a teenage girl accidentally becomes pregnant. She leans towards aborting but becomes convinced to go full term and allow the baby to be adopted. This film shows that journey and on through the birth. What shines here is the writing. The stars are witty and clever. This is especially true of the parents (Allison Janney and J.K. Simmons). The best line of the movie comes from Simmons and involves a synonym of 'hot-dog'. The other thing that makes the movie is the soundtrack. All very folk-indie, with bare guitar and vocals. The FP Gal loved it so much that we ran out and bought it. Best picture worthy? All comedies suffer in comparison to dramas when it comes right down to it. I'm very willing to suggest that it was the best comedy (highbrow division) of last year. I think people will remember this film fondly for years to come.

I did mention that I enjoy this show didn't I? The clip shows Jeff and his extreme nervousness with women.

"Yes, when it's time to kneecap a giraffe, Mommy is the one to go to."

Relia is in her bouncer ( immortalized in video here ) and is (finally) happy. While I was working to convince her to enjoy bouncing, I shook a little bunny and put it on a little shelf near her. She's trying to reach it but it's juuuust out of reach. Not that that's stopping her. She bounces closer and closer...and then the spring moves her back away. She bounces back...and it happens again. Very cute.

Sad news .

Most of the landscape/nature photos that I post are ones that I've found online. This one here is the best photo I've ever taken. Anything better than this isn't mine. This was taken in Burnsville, summer of '04 during an unusually outstanding sunset. Not sure just what happened to combine the light that way but it was breathtaking. Absolutely filled my apartment with gold.

'Snatched in the Night' Um, yeah. I'm sure this is exactly the position that her lawyers must take. I'll hold my sympathy for people who are actually wrongly convicted, thank you.

So without any prior warning, they went ahead and played a real baseball game (counts in the standings and everything) this morning in Japan. The Mighty Mighty Red Sox beat the A's in ten innings . Man, this snuck up on me. I've been following spring training but I didn't realize they were starting actual games yet. (This just shows how my ESPN viewing has dropped. Not sure if I blame wife, baby or crappy product.) But did that really make today Opening Day? This guy says no and I think I agree with him. Depending on your tastes, Opening Day is up there with or demonstrably better than (the correct answer) Super Bowl Sunday, the first day of the NCAA Tournament and other great one-day spectacles of sport. More than the World Series, more than the All-Star Game, it's Opening Day — almost everyone's team in action, hopes undimmed for all — that is baseball at its inclusive best. However, when baseball deigns to kick off the season on the other side of the worl...

"Daddy's excited for you to have a sippy cup. That's the one thing he wanted to register for." "I registered for lots of things. That's because I had the gun." "That's why they do it that way, so men will take some interest in registering." Pause while I was thinking, "Maybe they should make a Wii registering game."

Megan McArdle writes about the worst movie ever and her prime example is 'Road to Wellsville'. I've seen it on cable and it really did seem like an awful movie. But I've seen worse. In fact I've paid full price for worse movies. Some examples: Star Trek V The Mummy 2 Thin Red Line In the Mouth of Madness City Slickers 2 Man, that list makes me shudder just to look at it again. I was tempted to put 'Eyes Wide Shut' on it too, but the movie kept me interested at least. Honorable mention should go to 'The Crying Game' which made for the most uncomfortable mother's day movie ever (in retrospect, not the movie's fault just a really bad circumstance). Other nominations?

One of the hardest tasks of my daily life is getting a pair of pants on a seven month old girl. First one leg and then try the other. At which point she's kicked off the first one. Continue and repeat until cross words are spoken (usually by me). I'm trying to figure out what kind of job this is preparing me for: Bomb technician Cattle rustler Pro golfer Swami Whatever it is, it's not 'travel agent'.

Ok, I'll admit it. I don't care for ' Jon and Kate, Plus Eight '. I find it stressful. Taking care of one baby is enough work without watching eight of them running around. Plus, I don't find it all that 'real-life'. It's hard for me to believe that the special things they do during certain episodes aren't thinly veiled supplier freebies. Also, I don't like the way Kate treats Jon. Cut him slack! That's all.