Posting Problems

Amazingly, in the past day, I was able to get Jeff to write a new post for our blog (which, as some of you know, is a remarkable accomplishment). But alas, Blogger is not posting it. Never fear, though, we are working on the problem.

Special Delivery

So last weekend I was supposed to go play Halo at the church building for Tim's last deathmatch in VA. I was running a little behind, and as I walked out the door I realized my keys weren't in my pocket. Doh. So I use a neighbor's cell phone to call Javaboy, The Cole, and Clay/Angie. None of them are available.

Instead of waiting around while my wife was out with the gals, I decided to walk about 1.5 miles to the shopping center up the road. At the very least I could watch a movie if I couldn't get to the church building. And then it hit me...pizza. I strolled into an Armand's Pizzeria and asked how far they delivered. It ended up that the church was just within their range. So I asked if I ordered two pizzas for delivery to the building, could I tag along and be "delivered" too. The supervisor said that if the driver was ok with it, so was he. Interesting...

However, while I was waiting for the return of the driver, I tried calling Javaboy again. He answered and ended up being about a mile up the road, which as most of you know is a little out of the way for him and his wife. They swung by and gave me a ride to the building for an evening of Halo. So I didn't get delivered with the pizza, but I could have.

True story.

Happy Birthday Jeff

Today is Jeff's birthday—Yeah!

And to learn more about this day, here is some interesting facts (from Wikipedia)....

Events
1297—Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots led by William Wallace defeat the English.
1789—Alexander Hamilton is appointed as first Secretary of the Treasury.
1941—Ground broken for the construction of The Pentagon.
1962—The Beatles record their debut single, Love Me Do.
2001—The September 11 attacks destroy the World Trade Center in New York City, part of The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and crash a passenger airliner in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. In total, almost 3,000 are killed.

Births
1182—Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun
1913—Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach
1958—Roxann Dawson, American actress
1967—Harry Connick Jr. American singer
1979—Ariana Richards, American actress

Swiped from Dave's Blog via Elise's Live Journal

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.

I just finished reading this book, and I am hopefully going to be starting the third one in the series soon, once Jeff finishes reading it. Hmmm ... might be a while.

"The surface of the mountain had been made too steep and smooth for a dragon to land upon it, and the very top of the fortress—the only level place—was too small and too well-defended to be accessible by Dark-tainted dragons. The only access to the fortress was up a long narrow causeway that led to the outer gates. The causeway was so narrow that only one cart could travel up it at one time, and at need, the defenders had a hundred ways of rendering it completely impassable."

Zits and Blogging

Jeff's dad sent the above Zits comic strip to Jeff a couple of weeks ago, I believe to encourage Jeff to update his blog. I thought that some of you might enjoy reading it, especially since Jeff hasn't updated in a really long time. Instead, Jeff is now allowing me to make posts.

Captain Picard's Blog

I just found Captain Picard's blog! In it he and several other Star Trek universe characters post journal entries...fairly amusing. I suggest starting with the following post and browsing to the main site if you're interested:

Laundry Breakdown on the Enterprise