Hey y'all!

I thought I'd post a little something so people knew I hadn't completely dropped off the planet. Bethanie was nice enough to drop me an email just to check up on me since I hadn't posted anything in so long.

I had to drop in to share this finding. I have been attempting to expand my friends list on XBL to include more like-minded individuals who don't have a lot of time to dedicate to gaming, and aren't interest in screaming "NIGGER!" whenever possible. I posted on the Halo 2 Multiplayer Bungie.net board and someone sent me a private message to this site:

The Leage of Amateur Gamers

The tag line, "spawn. die. spawn. die." says it all.

While reading about the Google Mapping API, I came across this article titled "JavaScript Closures". If you've ever used or learned about Ada, it should seem familiar. To those who have never programmed in a language where a function can declare inner functions with closures, it will probably seem like the strangest thing in the world. :-) I had NO idea you could do this in JavaScript (or for the sticklers, EC

So what's up?

I decided that I was going to spend an entire week at work without my laptop on. This meant that I would be working, and only working while present at my workplace. So how was it?

Well, it was fantastic. My day went faster, I got lots done, and there were no distractions. Sure, I didn't get to follow everyone's journals, but I was much more productive. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that I got all the way to today without reading journals.

My wife and I have been helping out the VBS program at our church this year. She's been helping in the crafts department, and I've been working the recreational activity. Last night, we were playing a game (similar to Invasion, if you're familiar with it), and another teacher and I joined in the fun. I was running to the other side, and he was following. I slowed down to pick up one of the other team's balls, and he didn't. So he ended up smacking in to me and we both fell to the ground.

Looks like I might actually have time tonight to do whatever the heck I want.

So, for anyone in the circle who plays Live, I should be on tonight. Does anyone have Links 2004 or Burnout 3? If not, I guess it's back to Halo 2 for me. :-)

As you may or may not know, I have two young boys. I am preparing them, as best I can, to be men. In order to do so, I've developed the following required watching, which I will soon be purchasing on DVD:

1. The A-Team
2. MacGyver
3. Knight Rider

I'm thinking about throwing in Dukes of Hazaard also. Any thoughts?

(Yeah, I know Knight Rider might be iffy, but it served me well)

I am seeing Episode III tonight. I will be meeting stoolpigeon at a theater, so if you don't ever hear from me again, it's because he has hacked me up into pieces or something.

Far too many great movies get released and are never heard of again. What are your favorite underrated movies? In my top three would be:

Jaguar777 was nice enough to email this instructional piece on turning your hampster into a fighting machine.

Good stuff. And yes, I intentionally spell hampsters wrong because the right spelling is incorrect.

sp is the only one who will probably care, but I'm posting anyway. If not just to mess up your /my/amigos :-)

Georgian Democracy - Apparently, our own Arizona Republic needs a geography lesson.

Well, it happened. I never thought it would, but it did.

My wife just went to draw out the "weekly cash". The machine told her to take the money, and then gave her a receipt for the withdrawal. Only problem: no money ever came out of the machine.

I'm done, I'm done, I'm done.

I am officially finished with the semester from hell. I took 3 classes this year, two of which had an unusual amount of homework and projects.

I took my last final on Tuesday and turned in my Independent Research Study paper 5 minutes ago. Now I can relax for 5 weeks before my summer class starts up. :-(