We were playing our own version of Scattegories around the dinner table last night:
Name a Japanese food that begins with the letter B.
Mike: B special!
Too much Tokyo Lobby…. :)
Category: General
I read this:
The stock market took a beating yesterday, and investors were sorely disappointed as the excitement surrounding the historic swearing in of Barrack Obama as the nation’s 44th president was greeted on Wall Street by the worst inaugural stock market performance in the nation’s history. Investors ran for the hills as the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 332 points, breaking the psychological barrier of 8000 on the Dow, and bank stocks in particular were hit MERCILESSLY.
Saw this on IndianaGrain.com:
Craigslist has been accused of single-handedly killing the newspaper industry by conditioning people to pay as little as zero for classified ads. The traditional lifeblood for newspapers for your used car is being drained dry by this international classified ad network and by slightly-more-expensive-and-more-complicated auction services like eBay. You can’t blame Craiglist for innovating. You’d have to blame the entire internet.
“OH, I think It’s an earthquake! An earthquake is happening right now!”
I was talking on the phone with someone in Riverside. In the middle of our conversation, he said his house was shaking.
I didn’t feel anything, about 60 miles away from him. Then about 15 seconds after he felt the earthquake, I felt a little jolt. I thought it was psychosomatic, but the rest of my family felt it too.
On Monday, we went to Mountain High to ski.
I skied vicariously.
I can’t remember when I last skied. I am sure I have not skiied since I had kids, which would be at least 21 years.
So on Monday, I experienced skiing again through my children as they skied for the first time. I…
“Vacation is like a bunch of Saturdays put in a row.” – Amy
It’s nice to stay home, stay up late, and stay in bed in the morning.
One more week left!!
One of the all-time favorites – Horton Hears a Who – now on DVD.
It was so good we watched it twice in a row.
Most notable are:
ASAP = Acts Swiftly Awesome Pachyderm
I meant what I said, and I said what I meant; an elephant is faithful 100 percent
I read this in Amy’s Social Studies book:
Many inventions of the Industrial Revolution simply made life easier. When Alexis de Tocqueville of France visited the United States in the early 1830’s, he identified what he called a very American quality:
[Americans want] to be always making life more comfortable and convenient, to avoid trouble, and to satisfy the smallest wants [desires] without effort and almost without cost.” – Alexis de Tocqueville, from Democracy in America.
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“Fort Lupton Municipal Judge Paul Sacco says his novel punishment of forcing noise violators to listen to music they don’t like for one hour has cut down on the number of repeat offenders in this northwestern Colorado prairie town.
About four times a year, those who plead guilty to noise ordinance violations are required to…
1. Tried a new recipe of mini pumpkin pecan pies. Let’s just say I am not going to make them again.
2. Stayed up past midnight 2 nights playing Ticket To Ride. The first game was won by the youngest in the family; the second game was won by the second youngest. That goes to show you…never feel you have to show mercy when playing games with kids.