Hugo's Christian Business idea

Okay since I am digging a hole (no pun intended) in regards to google and my bathroom related hits, I have a blog post you need to read. Check out Hugo Fitch's post on a new business idea he has. I have to admit, I would buy into his business idea for at least one roll. Go check it out.

pilot fun

I found this link on the PalmTree Pundit's blog. Make sure you visit the link. It is funny and serious all in one.

from work to pee pee

What a crazy week. On Monday when I got to work my boss assigned me a project and told me it had to be done by the following Monday for an acceptance push. When I took a look at what had to be done I told him that it was totally not doable. I wasn't able to get a feeling for how long the project would take because I was just barely familiar with the three applications that had to be modified and on top of that I did not know the inns and outs of the object model I was going to have to program against. All I knew was that it was a lot of work.

In spite of knowing I could not get all the work done I decided to try to get it done anyway. I even stayed at work on Thursday night until 10:30. As of the end of the day today I think I got about 1/3 or a little more of the way done. Luckily today my boss pushed back the deadline another weeks, which is nice because I had planed on working this weekend and now I get the opportunity to spend some time with the family.

It does look like I'll have another week next week like the one I did this past week. That being the case I probably will not be doing many posts next week.

Enough about work! This week John David went pee pee on the potty two times. It is amazing how a little pee pee on the potty can stir up a whole lot of different thoughts and emotions. From sadness about him growing up to selfish disappointment because I realize that it is going to be more work to get a little one to the bathroom on time than it would be to just change a diaper. But, he is in no way potty trained yet, he's just starting out. I don't guess I need to over think it right now.

Way off topic: I was kind of reluctant to share the above paragraph because for some reason this past month google has started to think our website has a lot more to do with bathrooms and diapers than it does. In the month of April I had over 500 hits from google and other search engines regarding either: diaper changes, bathrooms, potty, bathroom etiquette, and several other related things. It's strange how google pulled content from three or so posts to come up with the impression of this site. On the other hand I have gotten close to 3000 downloads and about 5000 hits on the Schnappi song over the last 2 to 3 months. Who knows maybe google thinks they are related. I hope not. ;-)

Well, it is close to midnight and I am really tiered from the long week. Later.

busy spell

I have been extremely busy at work here lately, and I have not been getting home until 7 or so, which is not conducive to blogging. I hope to get back to it by the weekend.

International Museum of the Reformation

Over the last few years I have heard about places I want to visit the next time I end up in Europe. So, in an effort to remember them all I am going to start keeping a record here on my blog.

My first entry of places I want to visit is the International Museum of Reformation.

For all of you reformation fans out there, there is a new museum that opened up in Geneva, Switzerland on the 15th of April. The International Museum of Reformation has over four hundred objects such as paintings, books, manuscripts, gold and silver, and medals on display. It is the first of its kind. Well at lest that is what they say. It documents the reformation and the role it played from 1536 to the present.

It should be worth the visit. If anyone has a chance to visit it and then stumbles across this blog entry, then please leave a comment and let me know how you liked it.

Napolean Dynamite and Good Bye Lenin!

Update

I was thinking about this post this morning and what it was that I liked about Good Bye Lenin. I think it has to do with the character development that took place in the movie. There was just more to the movie than what appeared on the surface. I don't want to ruin the movie for you if you have not seen it but it was interesting how the son grew up to be a liar and an activist just like his mother. Even though no one knew she was living a lie. I think what it is that I like about foreign films is that compared to the vast majority of American films they are more akin to reading a book. There is just a depth to the movies that leaves me thinking when the movie is over.

While doing this post I realize that I should have taken a few more of those liberal arts classes in college. Does anyone know what the term is that describes the relationship between characters in a story that goes beyond just the plot? I guess I'm talking about the one that describes the second meaning in a story or reading between the lines.

End Update

It had been a while since Leslie and I took the time to rent any movies and since our schedule had cleared up a bit Leslie sent me on a mission to pick up some movies from Blockbuster. The two movies I picked out, I picked out after reading about them on a blogs.

The first one I got was Napolean Dynamite. I could have sworn I read about it on Michael's blog, but after searching his past posts I could not find it. It seems rare these days to have a movie that is rated PG. In my opinion they try to throw in nudity and language just to get the R rating. I think they figure that a PG movie just does not have the draw that an R rating does. Napolean Dynamite was a funny movie and worth renting.

The second movie we rented was Good Bye Lenin. It was a really good film. I decided to rent it after reading this post on the D'oh's and Woo Hoo's of Life. There was one brief nudity scene in the movie and a few choice words that could have been easily left out but over all it was a good movie. I would recommend it. I guess I could give a bit of explanation of the movie but I would just be repeating what was said on D'oh's and Woo Hoo's of Life so you can just go read it there.

I'm not sure what it is but Leslie and I just love European films. I'm not sure we've ever seen a European film where at the end we did not have to stop talk about it. They just seem either intelligent or thoughtful. I'm not sure I could put it into words exactly what it is, but there is something different about them.

I was talking to Ben at lunch today and he thinks it's because the only foreign films we see here in the states are the films that were good enough to make it here. I'm not so sure he's right. Though, he might be. I think it might have more to do with the fact that they are not trying to create the next big block buster with every film they make. I think when you are not focusing on throwing millions of bucks at special effects you can take the time to have a good story. I don't know. Does anybody else have an opinion?

playing catchup

It has been 17 days since my last post. I think I've just set a new gid record, hopefully not to be broken again. Being that it has been so long let me do some catching up with this post.

We went to North Caroline for the mini family reunion. Here is a page with some pictures of the highlights.

Once we got back John David and I got really sick. I think he ran a temperature of 102 or better for about 4 days. John David and I had some good bonding time as we snuggled up together sick in bed. I took a picture of him right before we went to bed one evening. He just looked pitiful. Here is a picture to prove it. Poor kid!

Last weekend the River Chase subdivision had a garage sale and we decided to sell a few things. At midnight on Friday while Leslie and I were setting out the things we did have to sell, we broke out into laughter when we realized that our garage sale was so pitiful that it looked like we had already had the garage sale and all that was left was the junk. It was very funny. Though, it might have been that it was midnight and we were delirious. Either way, I think we made about 40 bucks. It was totally not worth the effort especially with taxes being due. I think I spent about 3 nights in the garage trying to clean it up, which was not a total waste of time considering it needed to be done.

After the garage sale we went on one of our embarrassingly under funded, under planned, so lame that it was fun family dates. Here are some highlight pictures: Leslie and I , John David, and Elliot. That reminds me; did I ever put up any pictures of our Thanksgiving dinner at Shoney's? Our trip to Shoney's for thanksgiving dinner is probably the preeminent example of “it was so lame it was fun” family times. Someone remind me to post those pictures if I haven't already.

Well, because of the lame mini date the night before Leslie and I decided to grill some hamburgers on the back porch since the weather was nice. We had such a nice evening that we decided to eat out there again on Monday night. We were both feeling very thankful to the Lord for a home with a screened in porch that we could have a relaxing meal on. Picture Here

Oh yea, on Monday of last week Jason and I met his brother (one of the ministers at First Centenarian) for lunch at the University Deli. We had a good time. We even ventured into a little bit of discussion about theology, which was interesting. Here is a picture of Jason and his brother.

On the way back from lunch I happen to spot a treed opossum in the middle of downtown Chattanooga it was a very nasty creature, but worth the picture. That reminds me, when I was a kid I had a baby opossum as a pet for a few months. It used to wrap its tail around my finger and hang out. I remember being really sad about it when it died, but I don't guess I will ramble on about that.