Mixed bag

So, I have a completely mixed bag of stuff to present:

1. Went to dinner with the fam last night, actually dragged another family along with us after the 10 (yeah you heard that right 10) of us went to see Pirates 3. So, get done with our Asian repast, friends' wife reads her fortune: "If the shoe fits, its' probably your size."

WHAT?!?!?!?

To which my 6 year old daugher replied, "my fortune says 1, 12 22, what's that number daddy?"

Hysterical!!!

2. I lived with my Dad growing up and would go visit my Mom on holidays and during the summer. For those of you old enough to remember, V the mini series had come out a few months earlier and Mom and I had enjoyed it immensly. One day we are playing dominoes at our table, listening to the TV. Moms' face was kind of shiny, but I didn't think anything of it, until I look back from the TV and she is PEELING HER FACE OFF!!!!!!!!!!

I actually flew out the door, meaning my feet didn't touch the floor, so Mom was pretty amazed, I also learned about facial masks that day.

3. Wow, I know pageant entrants have to have thick skin, but this had to have sucked.
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/007615.htm

4. This is totally my type of guy. I have several unfavorable opinions about modern day men and what we are teaching our children in general. And I may not agree totally with this guy, but he saw something that needed to be done and did it, and doesn't want any reward for it.
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/29/video-ft-dix-six-tipster-revealed/

5. In honor of Min over at Mamadrama

Cows:

Here is a sample

I started this blog for several reasons.

1. My family (both immediate and extended) has a habit of saying strange things. For example, my wife was getting dressed and I was typing up an email for work. She comes out of the bathroom, pounds her hand on the dresser and says, "Dang, I need a cloth napkin and a mug." She then went back into the bathroom. This is enough to cause a cerebral hemorrhage.

2. The ladies at mamadrama have been a huge inspiration. Go see Mama Drama one of my favorite posts of theirs is The Zombie Post .

3.The things that people say around me disappear so fast I wanted to capture some of these moments cause I can't remember them all. For example, my kids, I have 3, were convinced that the credit card sized metronome I have was actually a monster detector and I would scan their closets to make sure there were no monsters present.




Recently, I was working for Covad and they hired me as a product manager. I was living in California for 4 months and it was fun, but my wife decided she wanted to stay in Texas and I resigned for personal reasons. My VERY loving wife flew out to San Jose, Ca and we drove back to Texas.


This was a totally draining trip, but we did stop and have some fun, we did get to visit some friends in Phoenix and got to talk a bunch. We also saw several interesting things.



At just the point we were driving through LA, they had this massive fire in the hills near the Hollywood sign.


We kept seeing these signs all over California. (It says Speed Enforced by Aircraft)



Which caused us to wonder, how the hell do you pull over a car from a plane.

"Hey you, pull over ..."

rrrrrnnnnnnnnn!!!!! (plane goes by the car circles back 5 minutes later)

"Grab the ticket from the basket as we come by ... "

We laughed about that idea for days.

We saw wind turbines for literally half the trip:

And then I saw a very serious sign, that we didn't get a picture of, that said, turn off your air conditioner for the next 10 miles. And 2 miles later, and every 1 mile after that, these two items. (It says radiator water ->)

Of course there are tons more picture, like the highway sign that says Welfare 1 mile. Or the sign that says Lights ... that's all, it is right near the border of New Mexico and Texas on 10 and all it says is Lights. Guess NM can't afford camera and action.

Or the picture of all the cows near the border as well. Just miles of cows. Lots of pre hamburger.

But I have to say, my favorite picture of the whole bunch was: