So unbelievably out of it

The other night, we were chasing Frankie around the second floor of the North Market and we ran into some friends who were off to the movies. What are you going to see, I asked. "Million Dollar Baby", they replied. I had never heard the movie's name once.

I felt a little funny but not too bad, I guess. I'll bet they've never seen a Heffalump. We ALL saw it when it first came out.

Send Frankie good vibes, she's sick today. No Heffalumps for her today.

odds

The search term "pope odds" is a biggie today. Some believe the good money's on the next Pope being Venetian. Most of the sites, however, aren't this thoughtful, just cheesy gambling sites.

Think you're good at finishing a sentence? Try the prognosticating game. From Yahoo! daily picks.

$100 million!

Ohio State's tuition has climbed about as fast as prescription drug co-pays the past few years. Stashing away a comfortable monthly sum and drinking box wine for the next 18 years to provide for Frankie's future tuition are just a couple accomodations we've made because of this painful reality. Our salaries sure haven't jumped by 10% a year.

On a related note, conspicuously absent from today's OSU newspaper, The Lantern (but you can read about it here is a nifty prank played by an OSU student. He tried to auction off the president of OSU and the biggest shocker is she got bid up to $100 million dollars before the gag was pulled by Ebay!

Update Missed it, there was an opinion piece on it today in The Lantern.

Amusing classifieds

This one comes to us from today's OSU newspaper, The Lantern:

NIGHTSHIFT NEWBORN CARE FOR TRIPLETS. Worthington Hills Family looking for nursing students with infant experience for newborn premature triplet care. Start mid to late April until they sleep through the night-4 months.

4 months? ha, ha, ha.

the glass is now half full

To my 11, no 10 (the Dimebag post alienated at least one) daily visitors, thanks for your suggestions. Temporary lapse I guess. Maybe I'm just heady in the film crew's departure, but I don't think I could survive without a strange outlet like this. By the way, you'll probably see me discussing grilling sometime around tax time on FoodTV and ESPN (don't know about networks). I'm currently waiting on book deals and screening ghost writers. I'm kidding of course, but this was one heck of a fun way to use a vacation day! Thanks to the gang from Picture Show Films.

Dave's Beer Empty?

This domain has been my happy place since Frankie was born nearly two years ago. A place to blab about things I learn; to have a voice apart from my windowless, dark, oppressive day-to-day. However, parenting an extraordinarily active child (which actually gets more challenging by the day) and not being able to freely share her images, leaves me contemplating the end of Dave's Beer. It's been fun but it may end soon. There's tons of sites better than mine, you won't be at a loss.

The date (thanks Kevin).

Will it happen?

Over the past few days, I've eaten more ibuprofen than food and it seemed like everyone was getting better. The film crew is dropping by Monday night and Tuesday and this morning our girl has another (!) fever. Mom's taking Frankie to the doc today and we have the camera crews on standby waiting for the diagnosis.

I think grey, cold midwest cities should just shutdown in February and we should all hibernate.

No Fidgeting Lately

The entire household has been struck pretty ill. One after another, we're dropping like flies. The recovery is slower than expected and all this with the commercial shoot next Tuesday. Let's just hope we don't run out of ibuprofen.

The Fidget Diet

One of many reports this past week indicate the inability to sit still is a valid means of exercise. This happens to be a specialty of mine and I couldn't resist attaching myself to a pedometer for a week or so to make some measurements. It's not a high quality pedometer so I suspect it's inaccurate. However, it's a primitive mechanical device and I think the errors are likely reproducible, so the relative numbers should be meaningful.

I'll be wearing my pedometer for the first week with my normal habits and then next week, I'll be taking stairs more often and just doing everything with as much movement as I can. I suspect weekends (heavy duty parenting, outdoor activities, laundry, etc.) should be substantially higher than my M-F when I'm "using" my brain more than my limbs. My numbers will be listed in the side margin. I'll be wearing it from 7 am - 9 pm. I'm awake many more hours, but the activity kicks in during those hours. Should be an interesting experiment.