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The Hot Gay Sex Scene Embedded In This Dragon Video Game
While some video games, like The Sims, allow characters to engage in same-sex lovin', we believe BioWare's Dragon Age is the first that game creators produced an entire gay sex scene for. Between man and elf.
Well, it's the first we've ever seen.
We've never played Dragon Age: Origins (the "dark heroic fantasy" was just released this month), but from watching this clip we know characters are given a series of dialogue options when talking to other characters. And like a good Choose Your Own Adventure book, selecting the right choices will reap excellent rewards.
Like this Brokeback Mountain style romp by the fire, which, depending on the height of your cubicle's walls, may be NSFW.
And these two are supposed to be enemies. Aww!
A step in the correct direction. Video games have long since ignored a demographic that is quite loyal to well designed games.
Very hot! I too would have liked to have seen more. If this is available for PCs I am going to get it.
That was some scintillating dialogue as well….
There are also lesbian story lines in the game. I'm playing now as an elf lesbian.
…Antonio Banderas?
The game lets you choose the sex of your character so the storyline could potentially be hetero but its nice you get that option. I made a female and I dont see any potential love interest for me, everyone just thinks I'm a bitch right now.
This is not the first time BioWare has done this though, just the first time with the main character. I believe in their Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic rpg, there was a lesbian jedi.
I love following the romances, but I just can't get hot over 3D modeled sex scenes.
Also, unfortunately Zevran is a lot less hot in the game than in his concept art, in which he wears a nipple-grazing merry-widow/bustier type thing with bare tattooed shoulders.
GoKitty: As a female character you get to romance the adorable Alistair, you lucky bitch! You can also go for Leliana or Zevran, both of whom swing both ways. Morrigan is the only one of the love interests who doesn't like girls, and Alistair is the only one who doesn't like boys.
omg. all that is missing is a cig. i'm not a prude but I was a little shocked by that.
and it's an elf with a human. even more shocking.
"I just can't get hot over 3D modeled sex scenes."
LOL, so true. I know some gaymers get boners over shit like this, but I just don't get it.
I wanna see elf peen!
I was sure Michael Lucas would show up any second.
That was a weird accent for an elf.
In Dragon Age, elves are mostly a subjugated people. Except for the wild Dalish elves they live confined to ghettos in human cities.
Zevran has the accent of the human culture he was raised among after being sold as an infant.
The Christians were right all along. Man on Elf sex. That's not right!
@Tom #17: Speak for yourself, Tom. LOL I've done elves. You know, the bar is closing, the lights have come up. Oh, well, what the hell. LMAO
I'm a great believer in inclusiveness in video games but does everything need to be sexualized like this? Gay rights is great but let's not use it as an excuse to lower the bar in terms of sexual explicitness.
What was too gay for even most of us gays. Gay sex in a video game. Wow.
Hee! I've just found out that Zevran takes a different role in the sex scene depending on your character's race.
With humans and dwarves he's a bottom, as seen above. But with other elves, he's a top, as seen here:
This is racism! Racist stereotyping in video games!
And it's inaccurate too — I've know many dwarfish bottoms.
Damn! I have to make a new character. Bye bye Elf Mage. Hello human. :)
@ Jason: these romance subplots are a major part of most RPGs; it's just that in all but BioWare's games, they're exclusively heterosexual. If they're going to include such subplots anyway, isn't it better that they're more inclusive?
You are right, however, that they're getting slightly racier, but that's happening across the board. BioWare's first foray into a same-sex romance subplot, in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, ended in a confession of lesbian love but no physical interaction whatsoever. Their first man-on-man romance (in Jade Empire, which also allowed a lesbian romance and a MFF threeway) was criticized because while all of the hetero romances ended in screen kisses, the gay male romance just faded to black. Their next major RPG, Mass Effect, didn't include any explicitly gay or lesbian romances, though it did include a possible romance between a female character and a female-like monogendered alien. And the romance climaxes were more explicit–basically just a roll in the sheets, nothing you wouldn't see on prime time.
In that regard, it looks like Dragon Age is just continuing the trend of racier romance subplots while restoring the trend towards inclusiveness that Mass Effect largely skipped over.
You know what's really sad? That's much hotter than most real-life gay porn.
This looked like a bit of muscular play between Alexander the Great and Samson.
Did the elf's accent remind anyone else of Antonio Banderas? Other than that, I also want to see elf peen!
So do orcs engage in homosex?
And what is this mythological land where people leave their underwear on while having sex?
I liked the gender-twist on "As the actress said to the bishop…".
"They do not come very often"
@ Jason
It certainly raised my bar.
"I was born of a whore and bred of an assassin." I was wondering why that elf looked like Carrie Prejean.
@ Distingué
Crap. I shoulda known. I always like the goofy straight guys. I was really hoping for some hot alistair-on-elf action.
oh and seriously? Leliana? I would have figured Morrigan as the hot-goth-bi-girl. huh.
Would have been hotter if the elf didn't look like Stephen Baldwin. Yikes.
this is hot.should be more gay sex scenes.how bout gay sex scene between a gay guy and a gay gorilla???.they do just about everything else,why not this??.
not hot
@Brian NJ: Hahah! Thanks for that!
hahaha there was a dude in the background after they had sex. was he watching the whole time?
They did it in Jade Empire as well, you could have a male/male encounter or female/female (as well as male/female).
Their games are also the best.
Woof! Woof!
I thought that the scenes were quite well done for the most part.
They're slowly improving the quality of such things, from the old style of just asking someone to sleep with you and going right to a black screen. But without being gratuitous.
I'm straight and into old fashioned romance myself, so the relationship buildup with Leliana was my favorite. But my gay friends have complained about how the same sex relations are a little stereotypical in what they've seen.
Alistair will only be with women, and gets the normal romantic, flirty, teasing relationship.
Morrigan only wants men, and she's the emo "love is a lie" type, who you basically have to have the sexual booty call with for a while before she will start to realize that she cares about more than just your body.
Leliana goes both way, but either way, you have to go through the romantic courtship. It's all emotional and loving and sweet. Giving her lots of flowers and gifts and a pet and all…
Zevran however, well, he'll sleep with anything. His character is raised by prostitutes, and brought up with the idea that sex is just good fun and should be enjoyed whenever, with whoever. There's not really any "romance" with him, and he's by far the easiest character to sleep with. He's also the one into BDSM.
Now, personally, I don't really have a problem with Zevran. But I can see how some might get annoyed that the gay man is the one who does "everything else". But considering that they only had 4 relationship characters, they had to sort out things somehow, and try to give as many different styles as possible.
I'm hoping that perhaps in their next game, they might still have 2 hetero characters, 2 bi, and 2 who are homo only. Because from what I've seen, they've never given that choice. They have people who will go both ways, but they've never had any exclusively gay characters.
@ No. 40
The thing with the Zevran romance is it does start out as a casual thing for him, and it is easy to sleep with him. However you can continue to talk to him and slowly he starts falling in love with you.
Eventually he will give you an earring as a sign of his affections. He will even refuse to sleep with you until he sorts out his feelings. At the end of the game he will want to stay with you.
i don't like it
Too Bisexual,GDMI
what the fog is that
they dressed too much,like a rice dumplings
i want to see that older guy open his Chrysanthemum
licd by a young short hair boy like brent corrikan
Not that Airport lady
foging team
go eat s***
yeah they are hot
but my little brother is freezing
Actually, Alistair does have sex with a dude.
Check out the video clip below:
there are mods available that
increase the possible intimate relationships to include just about every combination – any character can be intimate with either gender, pretty much
refine the rendering of the bodies, introducing not just genitals, but a choice of uncut or cut, hairy or smooth, and a variety of cup sizes for women
a growing collection of armor and clothing ranging from the practical to the salacious
Most importantly though – the general population of modders and players on forums for the game are pretty casual about the gay/lesbian story lines
The top was prety hot looking even if he did look like he had a hairy back
But did anyone else hear a lot of barking? Am I missing something?
You can find the nude modification files at Dragon Age Nexus for free. You just have to register (anonymously if you like). I'm not getting any freebees for sharing this, so don't kill the messenger.
The link is at: http://dragonagenexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=554
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Running back Rex Burkhead and strong safety Daimion Stafford are the only two Nebraska players taken in the NFL draft, making this the first time since the draft went to seven rounds in 1994 that so few Cornhuskers were chosen.
Burkhead went to the Cincinnati Bengals in the sixth round and Stafford to the Tennessee Titans in the seventh.
The last time a Nebraska player had to wait so long to hear his name called in a draft was 1970, when tight end Jim McFarland was picked by the St. Louis Cardinals in the seventh round.
The last time the Huskers had only two players taken through seven rounds was in 1990 - but the draft was 12 rounds that year and there were a total of five Huskers selected.

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Setting up and supporting a workgroup in Windows — such as a network without a domain controller — can be difficult, even for seasoned IT professionals. HomeGroups, which are new in Windows 7, simplify connecting Windows 7 PCs and sharing resources on a local network, making life easier for small businesses without a server. Domain-joined notebooks can be added to existing HomeGroups so users can access resources on home networks. You can create HomeGroups in Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise SKUs of Windows 7, but any edition can join a HomeGroup.
The simplicity is impressive. Windows 7 HomeGroups provide a sleek method for sharing files and devices between PCs without requiring any technical know-how. Even if you need to talk to an IT professional to set up your HomeGroup, it should take only a few minutes. Although you can't add pre-Windows 7 machines to a HomeGroup, you can share Windows 7 libraries with Windows XP and Vista. One limitation of HomeGroups is that all devices must be on the same local subnet, but that shouldn't be an issue for small office or home networks.
One of the biggest headaches of Windows workgroups networking is the reliance on NetBIOS name resolution. Understanding NetBIOS name resolution — and Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), if you have more than one subnet — requires some technical know-how and can be difficult to troubleshoot. While Windows 2000 reduced the reliance on WINS by making DNS the primary name resolution standard for Active Directory, it's not until Windows 7 that we see a move to deprecate NetBIOS name resolution for basic networking.
So how do Windows 7 HomeGroups locate other resources on the local subnet? Though DNS is an improvement over Microsoft's proprietary WINS, it requires a server for name resolution. Based on IPv6, Peer Network Resolution Protocol (PNRP) uses a link-local cloud to group names on the local subnet. PNRP name resolution is beyond the scope of this article, but a PNRP ID is resolved to a certified peer address (CPA) from a hash table distributed across active nodes connected to the subnet. The table is updated dynamically and immediately, so there can be no stale records, making PNRP particularly useful for locating devices that change network location frequently.
When a Windows 7 machine is set up for the first time, if it detects a network connection and the user identifies it as a Home network, a HomeGroup is automatically created and enabled on that device. Alternatively, you can create a HomeGroup at any time, provided the device is connected to a network designated a Home network in Windows Firewall.
If the computer's network connection wasn't initially designated a Home network, change the network configuration to Home network and you'll have the option to create a HomeGroup.
Figure 1 – Windows 7 Network and Sharing Center
Figure 2 – Sharing defaults for Windows HomeGroup
Figure 3 – A Windows HomeGroup password
In the Network and Sharing Center, you'll notice the active network is now joined to a HomeGroup.
When you connect a corporate notebook to a home network and set the location to Home network, you will have the option to join an existing HomeGroup.
Once the notebook is joined to a HomeGroup, it can access files and devices that other members of the HomeGroup have shared. But this is a one-way agreement, and nothing on the domain-joined notebook can be accessed by other members of the HomeGroup.
Unlike previous versions of Windows, the default configuration in Windows 7 allows standard domain users to designate a network as public, home or work, assuming it isn't already set as domain. You can change this behavior to the pre-Windows 7 default in Group Policy by enabling the Require domain users to elevate when setting a network's location setting under Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | Network | Network Connections.
The Music, Pictures and Videos libraries are shared with other members of a HomeGroup by default, and Documents library sharing is optional. You can easily change the folders shared via Windows Explorer, and you can grant Read or Read/Write (Full Control) access to files and folders. Additionally, you can opt to share files with specific people, rather than all machines that belong to a HomeGroup.
Figure 4 – A HomeGroup computer in Windows Explorer
Printers installed on machines in the HomeGroup are automatically installed on all HomeGroup members if the driver is signed by Microsoft as part of the Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) program. If not, users must give their consent before the driver is installed.
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Hello everyone. I just have started learning OpenGL, and i have a problem. I am reading OpenGL SuperBible, i have all sample code, models, textures and other stuff from that book. I just have reached topic about textures, models and everything is okay, but models in samples are in "SBM" format, and textures are in "KTX". All i want to load models in other format(obj,3ds), and load textures in png or other popular format. How i can do it? Please, give me some code or something. I have downloaded all samples from here: openglsuperbible.com and I am programming with C++. Thanks for help!
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if you want to load obj format, you can write your own parser. it's simple. Google obj specification.
You could try freeimage lib for texture loading.
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you can give a try at soil lib for image loading and assimp for models loading.
Unluckly, opengl is not a full framework like DX, it only cover the rendering side of the whole thing. You have to do yourself everything else.
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… and load textures in png or other popular format. ...
Don't confuse "popular for the web" with "popular for 3D". Notice that PNG and similar popular image formats are for other, typically general purposes. Not all of them support an alpha channel (PNG does, e.g. JPG does not), only a few allows to store HDR images, nearly none of them allows to store multi resolution images, nearly none of them allows to store MIP map levels, nearly none of them allows to store array layers, nearly none of them support storing of multiple faces natively, probably none of them allows to store image data pre-encoded with a GPU friendly compression, and none (to my knowledge) of them allows to do all at once. The reason to use especially KTX is that it is one of the very very few public formats that allows for all of that. For example, to represent a 1024^3 texel cube map with pre-computed MIP mapping, you would need to use 6 faces by ld(1024) = 60 (!) PNG files where a single KTX file would be sufficient (this is, of course, a strong example, but nevertheless not unrealistic).
A usual way of handling texture resources is to let the artist store the asset in an appropriate format. This may be PNG or the like as long as the format would preserve all necessary features. Professionally formats like OpenEXR are more likely to be used when the demands grow. The resource processing then will read in images in the chosen format and convert / integrate them internally to a texture. Insofar your request for loading other formats is not untypical. However, don't be trapped in thinking that textures are like "ordinary" images; they are not! They are special!
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Or if you have time, start parsing a .FBX or .DAE file format. It will be a good learning exercise.


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BEDMINSTER — A car crashed into a guardrail on Route 78 in the township earlier Tuesday, according to fire officials who responded to the scene.
The crash occurred on Route 78 East, east of Exit 26, Rattlesnake Bridge Road, the state Department of Transportation reported around 11:49 a.m.
Fire officials said the driver was able to get out of the vehicle before they arrived, and while emergency responders from Somerset Medical Center were on the scene, the driver declined to be transported to the hospital.
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The Westfield girls gymnastics team gave head coach Melissa Greenwald the best retirement present she could have ever hoped for; a North Jersey, Section 2 title.
Westfield overcame strong competition to win a title for the first time since 2006, finishing with a final score of 111.025. Bishop Ahr finished in second with 110.650 and Scotch Plains in third with 103.825.
"It's been my goal for seven years now to take the title back to Westfield," Greenwald said. "I'm just speechless we were able to do this in my final year."
On October 18 Greenwald announced that she would retire at the end of the season. Amanda Diaz is taking over for the veteran coach who spent 14 seasons at the helm of Westfield gymnastics. After it was announced that Westfield had finally taken the title back, Greenwald was overcome with emotion as her gymnasts surrounded her.
"I am in total amazement my girls worked so hard today," Greenwald said. "I wasn't even sure we were going to get it but the last fourteen years coaching have been amazing and the fact that these girls brought it home to me is just amazing."
In addition to Jenna Rizkalla, Abigail Cook and Mae Devin, teammates Hannah Goldring Jessica Keenan, Carlie Fasano, Christana Psyhojos, Alaina Brotman, Morgan McAlister, Hannah Prieto, and Megan Melillo also contributed to the team title.
"From the beginning we were doing this for our coach to get the title back so we came in here with the mentality that we were going to work as a team," Cook said. "We're just speechless we were able to do this for her," Rizkalla added.
Rizkalla said that Westfield will use the same tactics to try and have a similar showing in states.
"We plan on doing exactly what we did today in states and plan to work just as hard in states." Rizkalla said.
Bishop Ahr, behind sophomore Julianna Drapkin who took first place in every event and won individual overall for the second season in a row, will still advance to the NJSIAA team championships in search of an illusive tenth state title.
"It feels great to come out here and win again," Drapkin said. "I did better in my events this year than I did the previous year."
Drapkin added two new tricks to her routine, a double pike on floor and a toe shoot catch on bars, that helped her score higher in the events.
"I felt confident coming in here with my two new tricks," Drapkin said. "I was able to improve a lot which feels good, especially being able to qualify to states I plan to just hit everything in my routines."


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"I told them in the huddle that the game was right there to be won at that moment. I said to them that this was the time to step up and go for it right at the moment, and they responded."
Led by junior guard Edgar Garcia, the Ramblers (7-2) erupted for 30 points in the final frame and edged the Hawks, 60-54 in Downtown Jersey City, for their sixth straight win.
Call it seizing the moment.
Garcia posted a game-high 20 points, 11 of which came in the decisive fourth quarter when St. Mary's outscored Hudson Catholic 30-19. The 6-foot-2 junior has been on a tear as of late, dropping 30 against Secaucus on Saturday.
"Edgar's our most prolific scorer, and when we needed it the most he was the answer today, there's no question," said Lalicato. "He made some acrobatic shots in the fourth quarter that really stymied their comeback."
Despite his offensive output, Garcia doesn't consider himself a bonafide scorer.
"It's not really my role. If I see my man leaning off a little bit, I'll take it," Garcia said. "Coach gives me the green light, so I take it all the way."
Trailing 35-30 at the start of the fourth, the Ramblers used a 19-2 run to take control of the game. Explosive point guard Fransua Garcia came off the bench in the second quarter and chipped in 15 points, but notched eight in the final stanza.
Since the Ramblers' last defeat, a 71-64 loss to North Bergen on Dec. 23, Lalicato said the team's conditioning and overall chemistry have improved dramatically.
While Hudson Catholic dropped to 5-6 on the season, three of those losses have come to teams ranked in the top 15 in the state. Coach Nick Mariniello, in his first season at the Jersey City school, is putting a premium on patience with the young and inexperienced Hawks.
As none of his players have previous varsity experience, Mariniello has two freshmen, Travis Flagg (seven points) and Rakwan Kelly (16 points), in his starting lineup.
Mariniello knows a thing or two about building a program from the ground up. Prior to arriving at Hudson Catholic, Mariniello spent nine seasons at Bloomfield Tech, delivering four state championships and two trips to Tournament of Champions finals.
"We've tried to create a culture of accountability and discipline in the program and school," said Mariniello. "The wins and losses will eventually take care of themselves. I think the packaging of the program is definitely headed in the right direction."
As far as yesterday's narrow loss goes, Mariniello sees it as a learning experience for his youngsters.
"I think from a battle tested standpoint, this will be good for us down the road. We might not reap the benefits until the end of the year," he said. "It's a whole process. We're not looking at the little pictures, we're looking at the big picture."
Hudson Catholic 54: Marc Wilson 3-0-6-12, Travis Flagg 1-0-5-7, Nikko Velez 2-1-1-8, Rakwan Kelly 5-0-7-17, Drew Grapstul 2-0-1-5, Marc Levelle 0-0-1-1, Corey
Winston Jr. 0-0-2-2, Kyle McLeglan 0-0-2-2. Totals: 10-10-15-54.
St. Mary's 60: Edgar Garcia 8-1-1-20, Issiah Miles 1-0-0-2, Miguel Aviles 0-1-3-6, Mike Addison 2-0-0-4, Fransua Garcia 3-1-6-15, Jerry Thompson 4-0-1-9, Rahmire Vaughn 2-0-0-4. Totals: 6-17-7-60.
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"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," winner of the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, will be staged at the North Hall Arts Festival in Huntington on Sunday, Aug. 24, at 2 p.m.
The Tennessee Williams play is set in a plantation home in the Mississippi Delta.
Mitch Giannunzio, director and actor, said the the production is more of a "staged reading of the play," not a full production.
"It's a large cast with wonderful actors...Even though it is a staged reading, I knew it would be a good production to bring to this area of Massachusetts," Giannunzio said.
"We're hoping it will be quite powerful...It's all people who have worked together before, we know they can bring a performance right away...The production becomes very vivid with the right actors," said Giannunzio.
The production will include Sandra Blaney as Maggie, Jeremy Bobb as Brick, and Mitch Giannunzio as Big Daddy. Margery Shaw will play the role of Big Mama; and Dan Whelton as Brick's brother, Gooper. Other cast members will include Stephanie Carlson as Gooper's wife; Kenneth Tigar as Rev. Tooker; and James Emery as Dr. Baugh.
After the Williams' original production, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was adapted as a motion picture shortly after in 1958.
"After reading the play again I was amazed at how much more textured and layered it is than the movie. It's an excellent movie, but they has to cut out anything having to do with homosexuality or heterosexuality...the movie is classic but sanitized," Giannunzio said.
Williams has been recognized as one of the greatest writers to emerge from the American South post World War II.
Admission for the production will be free, however, seating is limited.
For more information, visit North Hall or call (413) 667-5543. North Hall is located at 40 Searle Road (off Route 66) in Huntington.


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The racial disparity of minority defendants "sharply distinguishes the military system from the typical civilian system" at a "magnitude that is rarely seen in court systems," researchers say in the study.
The study reports that 16 men have been sentenced to death by the military in the last 27 years; 10 of them were minorities.
Grosso said her findings suggest that efforts to reform the military's capital punishment system, begun in 1984 per executive order, may not have been effective.
"There are people in the military who care deeply about this issue," Grosso said. "But hearing findings like those presented here is never easy. I am optimistic that the military will seek to respond."
In the study, researchers suggest limiting military capital punishment to the most egregious crimes -- murder of a commissioned officer and a premeditated attack on U.S. troops resulting in death -- would mitigate racial prejudice.
Further reform would require another executive order or congressional action, Grosso said.
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November 27, 2008
Question of the Day
From Connor: "So, is Santa Claus bi-polar?"
Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!
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November 14, 2008
Life with my children
Me: Did it ever occur to you that I know more than you do?
Lachlan (age 6): No.
Lachlan: Um, Mom, um .... um ... I forgot ... wait ... (puts his fingertips on either side of his head, scrunches up his eyes) ... wait, I have to look inside my mind ...
Connor: Oh, you have to watch out for those decimals. Decimals will kill you if you give them 0.5 of a chance.
Why we get nowhere whenever we try to revisit learning Spanish:
(If you don't know any Spanish, it's supposed to go like this:
Person one: Hola! Como te llamas? Hello, what is your name?
Person two: Me llamo (name). Como te llamas? My name is (name). What is your name?
Person one: Me llamo (name). Que tal? My name is (name). How are you?
Person two: Bien, gracias. Adios! Fine, thanks. Goodbye!)
Me: Okay, Aidan, tell Connor "hello" in Spanish.
Aidan: O, hai!
Me: No. In Spanish. Say hello and ask his name, and then ask how he's doing.
Aidan: Hola! How is your llama?
Connor: My llama is in a coma. How is your llama?
Aidan: My llama is Aidan. How tall are you?
Connor: About five foot four. And how tall is your llama?
And that's about where I give up. Actually, that's where I gave in, and started singing "Llama in a Coma," but it's the same thing.
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October 31, 2008
I apologize for the picture quality. I've mislaid the good camera, and these are cellphone pics.
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October 11, 2008
Overheard of my 8 year old: "Egypt people didn't think the same way Americans do. When Egypt people made a mummy, they left the heart in. If Americans made a mummy, they'd leave in the brain."
Griffin explains feudalism:
"In medieval times, people were ruled by knights. Knights were ruled by kings. And kings were ruled by God. At least, that's what the kings said."
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September 22, 2008
Not the lesson I'd hoped he'd take away from the story ...
Today I read "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" to Griffin. He narrated it back to me - a beautiful narration.
Then I prompted him for the moral of the story, which he said was:
"Never tell the truth after you lie."
We always kind of pegged him to be the televangelist of the family. Maybe we should be considering politics, instead? Campaign management?
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June 17, 2008
How my kids spend their free time:
We played a game in high school history class, junior year, called "The World Game."* Did anyone else play this? We broke into teams and created countries. We earned points by creating different pieces of information for our countries, such as: climate details, history, government, constitution, national flag/anthem, educational system, etc. You can make treaties with other countries; natural disasters happen. In the end ...in the end you don't have to go to war, but my understanding is that our teacher never had a class that didn't. Jeff and I were in the same class. His group contained the two class overachievers. Mine did not. My country had a flag, an anthem, a complete history, and a fully-described educational system. His country had a constitution, and a fully-described military. My country fared badly in the world war.
Connor has spent this evening making a country for the world game. He's drawn up the basic geographical map and climate overview. He's chosen to give everything Arabic names, and has looked them all up to make sure he has the meanings he wants. Now, I think he's off designing the military vehicles.
Aidan, on the other hand, spent his evening making an Alien nest out of clay, complete with colonists in different states of being ... used ... by the Aliens.
*Yep, that was junior year history at my school. American history.
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June 3, 2008
I have finally figured out who Connor reminds me of:
I gave the child his clean laundry tonight. He immediately began struggling with it, and called out to me: "I'll hold them off! You make a break for it!"
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May 20, 2008
Meanwhile, the younger children ...
... are teaching themselves to read via playing Munchkin.
It will be interesting to see the differences between them, and the children who learned via Calvin and Hobbes.
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If you want your children to do any schoolwork ...
Don't hand them Orson Scott Card novels. I don't think I've seen my older children since Sunday, when I handed them "Speaker for the Dead" and "Ender's Shadow."
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April 29, 2008
Is There Something You Want to Tell Me?
Lachlan (6): "Daddy that big freezer can hold ice cream."
Jeff: "Yes, yes it can."
Lachlan: "And a dead bunny."
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April 6, 2008
My Kids Crack Me Up
As we pulled into the parking lot of the Palace of Auburn Hills today, we passed the handicapped parking section. At the Palace, however, they call it "disabled" parking.
In a mock sad voice, Connor called out "Oh, noes!* Someone disabled the parking!"
Maybe you had to be there. It made us laugh.
We were at the Palace to see the Harlem Globetrotters. There's four hours of my life I will never get back.
* For effect, my children speak in LOLspeak. It's a phase. That's what I tell myself. Every day.
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February 18, 2008
This is what Six looks like.
He's cute, isn't he? Look at that. My BABY is six.
Two weeks after my oldest child turned six, I had my fourth child. How very odd to have a six year old with no younger siblings.
He wanted a "soldier" birthday, as you can see. A soldier birthday, with a Death Star cake. So here you go:
But I assure you that this is NOT as cool as the first cake was. This was a last-minute job, and does not include the additional "blackness of space" cake. But still, it looked great on fire:
(I apologize for the quality. I was using my camera phone.)
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February 12, 2008
A Whole New Meaning ...
Connor lay on the ground, twitching and jerking.
Aidan: Brutus! He's having a Caesar!
Connor: No, I'm not. I'm playing House!
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February 7, 2008
Nothing To See Here
Our computer had a glitch. The casualty? The pictures from the birthday party. All of them. No other pictures - just those.
(If you listen closely, you can hear me screaming.)
I made a Death Star cake, for crying out loud! It was cool! The Alderaan pinata was completely awesome! Argh!
Let me describe the cake: I made a one-layer, rectangular cake, and frosted it black. It was space. We put metallic sprinkles on it, and gold and silver star candles.
Rising up out of the blackness of space was a sphere of grey-frosted chocolate cake. From a dish near the top of the sphere, six green birthday candles angled into each other to form a single point - which was really cool when they were all lit.
It was a Seriously. Cool. Cake.
And the pinata was amazing. It looked like a real planet. It was especially amazing considering that I didn't touch the thing. The kids did it all (and Jeff did the spray paint base).
It figures.
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January 30, 2008
Party Update
It was a blast (ha ha ha). Due to a little teeny tiny technical glitch, I don't have the pictures yet. But the cake was fairly awesome, and Alderaan was fantastic. No, the candy hadn't melted (although Alderaan had a giant rift crater courtesy of the fire).
Pictures as soon as my computer cooperates.
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December 19, 2007
What My Kids Are Playing Tonight
Tonight, my kids are playing a game of President and Secret Service agents, in which the football keeps getting stolen.
Don't ask me. I have no idea.
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December 5, 2007
Overheard at my house ...
Me: Griffin ... are you writing with your left hand?
Griffin: Well, Mom, it's one of my favorite hands!
Lachlan: (near to tears) Mom! Nearly all of my favorite dinosaurs are extinct!
Griffin: I have a soul!
Aidan: Whose?
I was trying to creatively inspire the younger children to do their chores:
Me: Even the Jedi had to do chores. Who do you think cleaned up Anakin's room at the Jedi temple?
Griffin: Anakin didn't live at the temple, Mom.
Me: Well fine, who do you think cleaned his room, where he lived?
Griffin: Padme.
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September 13, 2007
Some Kids Say "Yes, Ma'am"
My kids say either: "Yes, Lord Vader!" (to which all the other kids yell out, "Lady Vader!")
Or: "Yes, Scary Mommy Bird!"
Actually, barking out an order and hearing the response "Yes, Lord Vader!" is not bad. Not at all.
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August 24, 2007
We've Created a Monster
More than one, likely.
Tonight we watched the first two episodes of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." We've never watched this series, but at this point I'm willing to watch anything Joss Whedon has done. Heck, I'm willing to watch dramatizations of the notes Joss Whedon passed in junior high. We were not disappointed. I am told the series gets way better than the first season would have us believe, but we enjoyed these first two episodes. Our two oldest kids watched with us. I suppose that in many homes "Buffy" is not standard fare for the under-12 set, but, well, it is here.
The thing is, see, that several months ago we introduced our kids to Mystery Science Theater 3000. And they loved it. Which means that anything they watch is now instantly ... what's the verb here? I'm going to go with "MST3Ked." If you've never seen MST3K, it's basically a human and a couple of robot characters who watch really bad movies and make funny/sarcastic comments throughout said movie. So now every time we watch anything, Connor does a running commentary. Which would be annoying, except that I think he has a gift. He's good at this! He's funny! What have we unleashed on the unsuspecting world?
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June 6, 2007
One Day, They Want to Direct the Military
I took an afternoon trip to Animal Control yesterday (will explain in another post). I knew I would be back too late to get dinner started, but I also knew that I had at least three capable teen/pre-teen types in my home.
So I called said capable children, and gave directions to the one who answered the phone: "I want you to get out five potatoes. Not the sweet potatoes, the regular ones. Wash them. Chop them up into big pieces. Put them in a pot, with just enough water to cover them up. Then put them on the stove to cook.
Also, go to the freezer, and get out a pound of ground beef. I'll make Shepherd's Pie."
Simple, right?
I called back 15 minutes later, to see how preparations were coming along. "How's it going, son?"
"Oh, fine, Mom! The poatoes are on the stove, heating up."
"Great! How did the chopping go? Did anyone lose a finger?"
"Uh ... we were supposed to chop them?"
So I reiterated the instructions. "Yes, chop them," and "Did you find the ground beef?"
He assured me that everything else was fine.
Fifteen minutes later, I was home. And in the kitchen I found, cooking away on the stove, a HUGE pot full of ... can you guess? Chopped sweet potatoes. And a pound of whitefish. Which was even labeled with a picture of a fish, for those not quite literate.
We didn't exactly have Shepherd's Pie.
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April 20, 2007
Shameless Brag
I just want you all to know that it's 8:30 am, and my two oldest (9 and 11) boys are awake. They are dressed. They are eating breakfast. They have already done their morning chores, which they did on their own, without any reminding or prompting from me.
This happens nearly every morning.
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April 12, 2007
From the "Thank Heavens He Has No Idea What He's Saying" Department
We spent last weekend travelling. At one point we stopped for a meal at Cracker Barrel, where the kids love to play with the toys while we wait for our table. Apparently one of the toys is a rubber chicken, which my six year old loves.
As we pulled into the parking lot, he became excited. "Yay!" he exclaimed. "I want to go play with the toys! Now I can choke the chicken while we wait for our table!"
It was ten minutes before we could get out of the car with anything approaching a straight face.
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February 20, 2007
Clean up, quick! Zeus is coming!
I just walked in on my 5 and 6 year olds chanting "All hail Zeus!" so I decided I ought to see just what kind of a game they were playing. They had most of the pieces of a Star Wars chess set lined up on a box. This, they explained to me, was the war.
A few other chess pieces were on a white cushion. This, apparently, was Heaven. Sometimes the spirits of the people in the war drifted upwards and came to Heaven. In Heaven they apparently had a big party ... but they cleaned up quickly before Zeus came back. If Zeus found Heaven a mess, he'd shock them all with his thunderbolts.
I don't know whether to be proud or worried, but you can't say they're not creative.
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February 7, 2007
The Breakfast Cereal of Sociopaths
This is my kids' favorite cereal. Look at it.
That's right, it's shaped like people.
What was Kashi thinking, do you think? What is the thought process involved in deciding that you're going to make your new kids' cereal in the shape of human beings?
Does no one on their research team have boys? Do you realize what boys do with this cereal? Breakfast isn't just breakfast any more. No, it's a massacre every morning, complete with little screams as the little people get devoured.
"What do you want for breakfast this morning?"
"I want to eat the little people! Can you hear them? AIEEEEEEEEEE! Don't eat me!"
Betcha the Kashi people had some beautiful ideas about health and world peace when they made this cereal. The Kashi people have never met my children. Obviously.
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January 10, 2007
I don't think this is what Mufasa had in mind.
Connor: "But Mom, I have to annoy my brothers. It's a circle of life thing."
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December 13, 2006
The Gingerbread Man - Gone Wrong
I've never tried to link to a YouTube video, so here goes nothing. If it works, this is the video that Connor, Aidan and their partner made in their clay animation class. They used the Digital Blue Digital Movie Creator.
Not bad, eh?
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December 9, 2006
The Benefits of a Classical Education
This morning I asked Aidan to tell me what was happening the last time he read in "Black Ships Before Troy."
"Well," began Aidan, "Paris got killed ...."
"Yay!" Connor interrupted. "Paris was destroyed!"
And then they both got a light in their eyes, and yelled, in perfect unison: "Paris delenda est!"
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November 15, 2006
These Are My Feet
... in Connor's shoes.
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October 26, 2006
I missed posting about Griffin's birthday. He had one, though, and now he's six.
Here's the cake he requested. They wouldn't let me decorate it this year, though - they did this all themselves. Yes, it's being attacked by Captain Jack.
Yep, he's six, and he astounds us every day with how big he is. It still catches us by surprise. I think we have a tendency to treat him as a younger kid. He won't stand for that much longer, though. He's a big kid. He takes karate. He's learning arithmetic.
He seems to have decided that his position in the family is that of class clown. I truly think this was a considered decision on his part. And he works at it. He wants, more than anything, to be funny. To make people laugh, as only the third child can.
And he's a sweet, sweet boy.
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October 21, 2006
Things My Kids Will Never Forgive
I didn't realize, until just now, what I have done. I imagine Aidan will remember this for the rest of his life, and never forgive me.
Aidan is getting braces. I scheduled the appointment for ...
do you believe this? ...
Oct. 30.
Do I break it to him now? Or wait for him to figure it out?
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October 20, 2006
Overheard In My Car
Connor: I am NOT a Trekkie.
Me: Yes you are.
Connor: No, Aidan's a Trekkie. I am not a TrekkIE, I'm a TrekkER.
I'm doomed.
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October 18, 2006
How To Be Moral
At a den meeting this week, the leader asked the boys what it means to be "morally straight."
My 10 year old's response: "It means not running around being like Hitler."
There you have it, folks. Moral = not Hitler.
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October 1, 2006
Weird People/Embarrassing Kids
Another strange thing about Michigan: People say things to my kids when we're in the store. Things that my kids just do not get.
Today Lachlan was sulking in the cereal aisle, as the permitted-cereal negotiations were not going as he had hoped. A man walking in the same aisle stopped to stoop near Lachlan's ear, and told him: "Hey, I just saw Santa Claus over on the next aisle!"
It took me several seconds to understand what he meant. We do have Santa visit us at Christmas, but do not use him as a bribe for good behavior. Lachlan just assumed the man was insane and resumed his pout.
But soon, a cereal was agreed upon, and the rest of the family joined us in that fateful aisle. All of the children simultaneously opened negotiations for cookies, but I was feeling unilateral and smacked that idea down.
"Please can we have cookies?" begged Griffin.
I swear that as I said "no," talked ceased in the aisle. I'm quite certain they all paused for a moment of silence so that they could hear my child's next words clearly. Would he yell? Would he throw a fit? Would he say "That's okay, Mom, I'm sure you have excellent reasons for not allowing us to load up on sugar right now?"
Not my kid. No, my kid, my new six-year-old giggled at me, and then, as the store held its breath, yelled out: "Awww, you bastard!"
I may never be able to shop there again. What do you think Santa thought of that?
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September 22, 2006
Overheard at My House
Me: "Aidan, go get your Latin book."
Aidan: "Computer, end program! End program!"
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September 16, 2006
Conversations with the Older Children
The older kids are supposed to be going to bed. Instead, they keep coming down with questions. Tonight, I'm not sure I want to know where these questions are coming from:
"What are narcotics?"
"Mom, what is a mortgage interest deduction?"
Are they doing drugs, or trying to buy a house? Both? Maybe looking into selling drugs to finance the house? Should I be worried?
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September 14, 2006
More Conversations With the Four-Year-Old
"Lachlan, what are you doing?"
"Lachlan, what are you doing?"
"I don't have any knives."
"Mommy, Griffin's not smart."
"What do you mean? Griffin is smart."
"Mommy, am I smart?"
"Is Griffin smart?"
"Oh. Well, that explains it."
And don't miss Mary Had a Little Egg.
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June 16, 2006
The Bird Who Lived
Yes, we got another bird. We actually brought it home a scant 24 hours after the first one died. I was afraid to mention it earlier, though, in case, you know, it died too.
It has survived nearly a month. Jeff wanted to name it Canary Potter, the Bird Who Lived. But Connor chose Dread Pirate Birdie. (My son, though gifted in many areas, has never been one for creative naming. For evidence I offer you his stuffed raccoon, which he named "Raccoony.")
We just call him Birdie. It seems to fit him more than "Pirate."
We even took the bird to the vet, which is ... well, look, we don't even take the cats to the vet. We took the bird to the bird vet. We brought the bird vet little samples of bird poop, to see if it looked good. The bird seems fine, and we are not, apparently, serial bird killers. Yet.
They never tell you, when you become a parent, just how much of the rest of your life will revolve around poop. Kid poop, cat poop, bird poop. Everyone poops, indeed.
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May 13, 2006
I've been given the bird!
I hesitate to say this, but ... we got a replacement budgie.
As of a couple of hours ago, it has survived slightly longer in our house than birdie #1 did. Hopefully this is a positive sign. It may help that half the boys are at Scout camp this weekend. Yes, they brought home a new bird and left it here. With me. Me, the one who found the last bird dead in its cage. No anxiety here, nosiree.
Birdie #1 was active and curious. It would sit on anyone's finger and climb all over them. It wanted to explore. It was downright gregarious.
The new birdie wants nothing to do with us. It does not want anything to do with anyone's finger. It has, at times, turned its back to us on its little perch. It's still alive, though. (Maybe I should go upstairs and check?) It sits on one particular place on one perch and that is it. I can tell that it's been elsewhere in its cage, but it has never let us see it off its perch. Except that earlier today, when I was talking to it in what I hope was a soothing way, it suddenly climbed off its perch and walked all around its cage. Then it leapt onto the cage walls and clawed its way around the bars. It chirped several times.
Then it got back on its perch.
I'm hoping the sudden trek around the cage is a good sign?
The boys are having a blast at camp. Tonight they made marshmallow blow guns out of PVC pipe. You have never seen happier boys.
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May 11, 2006
All right, now I'm really pissed.
We figured that just in case this bird had an undiagnosed illness, we'd better take it to a vet and see if we can determine whyit died. If it had an undiagnosed illness, then the birds back at the store may be ill.
I made the appointment with the vet first. Then I called the store to let them know we'd lost the bird. Since the bird died within 48 hours of leaving their care, I thought they'd like to know.
The owner answered the phone. She was all about her liability. She assured me the bird almost certainly died of stress, and that if we want to she'll give us half off another. And we need to tell her our decision by tomorrow, because she can't hold the offer open past then.
Screw that, I don't want to give her any more of my money.
I want my son to feel better. I want to know why the bird died. If it did die of stress, I want to know how we can do better next time. I was actually worried about disease spreading to the rest of their stock. Yes, it would be nice to be offered a refund, or something, but that is not why I called.
How far it goes to be kind and sympathetic to people. It doesn't take much. Instead, I get told that it was likely our fault and receive a grudging offer off another bird? Bite me.
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May 10, 2006
Damn, damn, damn!
The bird is dead.
Lachlan came to get me this evening. "Mom, you gotta come upstairs and see what the parakeet is doing!"
So I went. When I walked into the room and didn't see the parakeet in its cage right away, I didn't want to look more closely. It's my constant fear as a mother, that when I look in the cage/bed/tank/jar, whatever it is will be dead.
The poor thing was lying on its side on the bottom of the cage.
Connor is devastated, but he's handling it far better than I thought he would. I am so sad for him. Griffin is taking it very hard too. Griffin's feelings run deep, and he thinks a great deal about death, anyway. He doesn't understand it, and he doesn't like it.
We'll take it to the vet tomorrow. Since it had a 72-hour health guarantee from the store, we have to get it a birdie autopsy. I hope it had some kind of illness, and that it wasn't anything we did.
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May 8, 2006
Bird Brain
I may have lost my mind.
A few weeks ago our oldest son began lobbying for a parakeet. He's wanted one before, but this time the boy was serious. And he had the allowance money to prove it.
I told him he'd better read up on parakeet care first. So he did. He read every book on parakeets he could find at the library. And he begged. And begged. And begged.
Out of the blue one day, and email landed in my inbox that mentioned the existence of a bird store which sells hand-raised parakeets, just a couple of blocks away from the doctor's office. Aidan had another appointment today, so I thought we'd just see what they had ...
Meet our new parakeet. He doesn't have a name yet. Actually, we don't know if it's a he or a she, yet. I know nothing about birds, except what cats do to them.
It seems like a sweet little birdie. Please tell me these are very easy pets and we'll have no trouble keeping it alive. Please?
Connor, on the other hand, we might have to beat. He won't allow us to make any loud noises, in fear of startling the parakeet. I was not allowed to take the picture with a flash. We're not to turn on any lights in his room after dark, for fear of waking the bird. He has a strict cleaning, socialization, and training regimen planned out. Me, I have cats, and "benign neglect" is one of my favorite phrases.
Next year, Aidan is determined to get a hamster. We convinced him that it's best to wait until we move again. Then we're doomed. The cats will either be irritated and frustrated that we're housing birds and rodents, or they'll see it as a challenge ...
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May 4, 2006
More Songs of the Four-Year-Old
P-I-J-O-O and Plasmo was his name-o."
Don't ask me. I have no idea.
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Better News
Aidan's sonogram was fine. They found no problems with his kidneys. Which is great! On the other hand, it means that I don't think they have any idea why he's suddenly running fevers and vomiting consistently every evening. Just in the evenings. And he complains of back pain. He's fine during the daytime. When I had those symptoms, I had a kidney infection.
Hopefully we'll know more on Monday. But at least his kidneys are fine.
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May 1, 2006
I never realized, when I was younger, just how little my Mother could actually do for me when I was sick.
Aidan's purpura is flaring up again, and evey evening he is sick. He hobbles around, because his feet hurt and are swollen. He's nauseous. Sometimes he vomits. Sometimes he has a fever.
And all I can really do is to tell him that I'm sorry, and get him some ice water, and help him to lie down comfortably.
It's the most frustrating thing in the world, knowing that there is really nothing I can do.
We're taking him for a sonogram of his kidneys on Thursday, because the doc was not quite happy with what he found at our follow-up appointment today. Think happy kidney thoughts for us.
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April 23, 2006
When Four-Year-Olds Sing
"No more monkeys jumping on the bed
No more monkeys jumping on the bed
No more monkeys jumping on the bed
That is what the German said."
Those Germans are just no fun.
"Rock, Paper, Scissors, Juice!" Um ... who would ever lose to juice?
(The older boys say "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Choose!")
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February 26, 2006
More Joy of Children
Four Year Old: (Poking at my stomach) Mommy, your tummy's squishy. Why is your tummy squishy?
Mommy: Because I had four babies, and when a baby is in there, it stretches my tummy all out. Then when the baby comes out, my tummy is squishy.
Four Year Old: And your butt?
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February 8, 2006
Overheard at Our House
... the following conversation between the 5 year old and the 3 year old:
"Okay, now he comes back alive."
"Now he has three heads!"
"Eight thousand! Twelveteen!"
"He can make a nest for his babies. He's a good guy snake now."
"I said he's a good guy snake now!"
"Oh. Then let's play something else."
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February 6, 2006
The Real Joy
... of shopping with a four-year-old, is when you pass the display of bras and he yells out excitedly:
"Look! They sell breasts!"
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February 5, 2006
The Party is Over
The party is over. And it was a success!
I hate putting together birthday parties. This year I held it at our rec center, in a room off the pool. Good idea. The boys (and girls!) ate cake and then splashed around, some for hours. What was left of the party migrated to our house, and finally broke up around 10 pm.
That's a party.
Not only that, but everyone who was invited came, except for one family who I knew was having a very busy weekend. I think we had ... 11 guests, plus our four (for a joint Connor/Aidan party). For a socially-challenged and party-phobic mom, that is not bad at all.
I'm so glad it's over.
Most importantly, the boys were happy. More than happy. They beamed the entire day. Success!
Lachlan is getting a quiet cake at our house for his birthday (gulp) in ten days. Thank goodness that a cake will thrill him to pieces.
We packed 22 boxes today. I had forgotten what a tiring, dreary pain it is to pack. Twenty-two down ... 500 to go?
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January 31, 2006
My baby ... my baby is 10 years old today.
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January 23, 2006
Gaul is for the Birds
Aidan had to translate a sentence in Latin today. The sentence was this:
Galli navigant.
He melted down into a little puddle of frustration because, he insisted, it made no sense!
I calmed him down, and asked him to tell me why it made no sense. He finally managed to explain that it made no sense to say that birds sail. You know, galli, gulls?
"Galli navigant" means "the Gauls sail."
I'm afraid that all this time he's been thinking that Caesar conquered a bunch of seagulls.
Poor kid. Just wait until we get to the Angles.
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January 19, 2006
Sunday at Our House
Child: Oh, it's Martin Luther King's birthday.
Me: That's right. Do you know who that is?
Child: Yes.
Me: Who was he?
Child: He's the guy who started Protestantism.
(Did I mention that I prefer teaching ancient and medieval history to modern?)
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January 15, 2006
Bionicle Monopoly Instructions
Here is the original post on the Well-Trained Mind board.
We worked out a system of property improvements. We have little plastic discs in four colors, red, green, blue and yellow. Once you own a monopoly, you can start buying "elements" in a set order (earth, air, fire, water, each one corresponding to a different colored chip). Rents are higher based on which element is on the monopoly.
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January 14, 2006
The Birthday Present
There's a mom who goes by Peek-A-Boo on the various homeschooling boards, and she's a genius. All I had to do was to copy her work and creativity, and voila! My kid got a very cool birthday present.
I give you ... are you ready for the coolness? ... the homemade Bionicle Monopoly game:
And the very happy birthday boy:
See how cool this is? See? See? Peek gave me her original idea, plus her layout of the squares and properties. Jeff designed a template for the properties and cards, which we'd gladly share if anyone wants them. We used a Create Your Own Game kit; you could just as easily use a create-your-own Monopoly kit, or draw a board from scratch onto posterboard.
There were some awkward moments, as we're not very Bionicle-literate. I wanted to draw a "Kohlii staff" on the square marked "Kohlii Arena." So ... er ... yeah. A Kohlii staff. I flipped through the guidebook and picked a likely staff-like picture, rendered it in black Sharpie and prayed. But the next morning they spied the square and cried "Cool Kohlii staff, mom!"
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January 9, 2006
Eight Years Ago
Eight years ago I was not yet having any contractions nor any other sign of labor, in spite of the fact that my baby would be born in five hours.
Aidan's birth story is the fun one. It has everything: The calm midwife assuring everyone it would be hours, and telling me to take a bath to relax. The warm bath speeding labor along. The frantic call back to the midwife informing her that no matter how calm she was, we were on our way. The breakneck drive down the Dallas North Tollway and through downtown Dallas at 4 am. He was born ten minutes after we pulled up to the door of the birth center, just before the sun rose on his Daddy's 29th birthday.
And now he's eight.
(Pause to contemplate the marvel of how quickly the time goes.)
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January 1, 2006
A Couple of Solstice Pictures
All the boys ... and geese
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December 27, 2005
We tried to get a nice Christmas picture ...
This is as good as it gets ;-)
I'll post Solstice pictures later. Photobucket assures me it has resized my pictures, but it hasn't.
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November 2, 2005
The Crew
And an extra shot of that darned cute, fully-clothed, Sheriff.
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October 15, 2005
Creative Phys Ed
Whyever was I worried about the boys getting enough exercise? It struck me today that in reality, they probably walk several miles a day.
You see, most of the toys live in bins in the garage. We simply don't have room to keep them in the house.
Part of the older boys' day always includes cleaning a room. Which takes a remarkably. Long. Time. It takes a remarkably. Long. Time. because they employ the most labor-intensive practices known to man.
They pick up a toy.
They take it, across the entire house, to the garage.
They return, across the house, to the room.
They pick up a toy.
All. Day. Long.
I figure they're logging a couple of miles a day. What do you think?
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Paging Uncle Brian
Said by the youngest one tonight, with a very sad face:
"I have a grandma, and a grandpa, and a Brian. But he goned away."
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October 10, 2005
It's Sort Of Fall
Thanks, all of you, for your fantastic comments. I'm printing them out to address them properly. And that should happen tomorrow, when the blinding headache subsides.
Nice day today. Fall is here, which means that daytime highs are only in the 80s. Still, that's mild enough to go outdoors while the sun is out.
The big boys had their first Boy Scout camp over the weekend, and loved it. Meanwhile I stayed home with the little boys, and realized how much more attention they need. Poor guys, they get lost in the shuffle. Of course I don't mean that to happen, but it does. So this afternoon I took them out for a walk, just the three of us. We wandered around the neighborhood, and ended up, of course, at the park. We hunt dinosaurs while we walk. Did you know that Texas is crawling with dinosaurs? It's true. Mostly T-rexes and allosaurs. Be careful where you walk.
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October 3, 2005
The Cake
You may applaud now.
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September 30, 2005
Changing the Sig Line
'Cause I don't have a four-year-old any more. My only PM baby, Griffin officially turned five 14 minutes ago.
We celebrated by letting him pick dinner (pizza) and activities (videos). Tomorrow we'll have his pirate party, complete with a pirate ship cake. It's half decorated, waiting in the freezer for sails, treasure, and pirates.
Tell me, how would you go about making a pirate ship cake? Would you read the directions carefully, mark of the dimensions on the cake and measure before you cut? Or would you ... ah ... look at the picture on the internet and hack away confidently? Did you know that if you end up with four pieces of cake at different heights, you can, eventually, make them look all the same if you use enough frosting?
There's going to be some kids on sugar highs here tomorrow, yes siree.
(Conversation heard earlier at our house: "No, Griffin, you don't want to make a cake entirely out of frosting. It would taste good, but after you ate a little bit of it you'd feel sick. Trust me, I know what that's like.")
Stay tuned to see how ambitious I get with the sails and rigging.
Griffin was my earliest baby (just barely 37 weeks) and my smallest baby (8 pounds, 7 ounces). We had planned a homebirth with him but my body (or his body) had other ideas. My blood pressure got dangerously high so we nipped into the hospital for an induction. We were lucky enough to have a great OB who not only gave us excellent medical care without unnecessary interventions, but treated us with respect and listened to what we had to say. In fact, Griffin's birth restored my faith in OBs. (That faith was originally shattered when I had Connor.)
Today he's a big, sweet, stubborn, dinosaur-loving boy, who uses his brain to figure out the world around him in the most amazing ways. ("Mom, is our Earth in space, inside a big giant brain?")
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September 9, 2005
Leslie, I don't know if you read my blog, but I just saw this post you made last month on the Well-Trained Mind board. Thank you. I wish I had stumbled upon it yesterday.
These boys ... Connor, at age 9, is an alien being to me. He is like his father, who is also an alien being. I don't understand how their brains work. I don't relate to how their brains work. I don't grok their thought processes. Connor is calm. He's easygoing. He doesn't show much emotion, until it suddenly erupts in a small explosion of absolutely stubborn unreasonableness. I don't see it coming. I don't know how it got there. I'm blindsided. And I know that what he says he's upset about is not what he's really upset about. I want to figure it out and get to the bottom of this. And he can't. Poor boy. He builds up emotions, erupts and then wants to just go quietly away. But Mom's rug has been pulled out and she wants answers.
Leslie's advice, in this wise post of hers, is to let it go. Treat the outburst like a storm. Take cover. Let it rage. Remember that they get overwhelmed, and often don't even know why. And then, later, talk. Yes, that's the advice I need. Let it go. Let it pass. Try to refrain from jumping in and grappling with both hands, beating and pounding until the storm looks like something familiar.
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September 8, 2005
Must ... have ... sugar ...
Yesterday, I bought jelly.
A little while ago I walked into the kitchen. The jar of jelly was on the counter, open.
It was half empty.
And there was a straw sticking out of it.
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May 30, 2005
Oh, the Technology!
So I have a cassette I'd like to listen to. However, there is no cassette player in our stereo. Nor is there one in my car. I had to buy a cheap walkman from Radio Shack.
My two younger kids just found it. They both exclaimed in wonder: "Mom, is this your new iPod? Can I play on it?"
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Bullon" <email@example.com> To: <email@example.com> > ============================================================= > The question I have about this is how do I tell if my ground is excellent > good or poor?? > If I just assume that I have poor ground conductivy here and use the max > length for 160 that is about 16000 ft of wire. > In another thread on here I believe the price of a 500ft spool of wire at > the big box stores was about $14 a spool that would make the radial system > cost about $450 dollars!!! and then there is all the time and work of > putting down 100+ radials > 73 > Rick > kc5ajx > The short answer to your first question: "how do I tell.." is that you can't, at least not easily. So you're left with some systems engineering kinds of questions. 1) You could measure your antennas feedpoint impedance over a wide range of frequencies and compare it to a very high quality EM model that properly handles wires in a dielectric (i.e. NEC4 and its ilk). Practically speaking, you'd probably spend more time modeling than laying the wires, and if you're buying 3 miles of wire, you can probably get it cheaper than from Home Depot (if nothing else, you don't want insulated wire, and you probably don't need AWG12). On the other hand, maybe the ground is frozen right now, and you've nothing better to do (or, at least more interesting) than to run models, so the modeling time is essentially free. 2) You could make a system tradeoff and decide that $450 in wire and tens of hours in labor might be better invested in buying a high power amplifier. Say some simple model (like the graphs in the ARRL antenna book) say that your antenna with the current grounding system might be 25% efficient, and going the full boat with miles of wire might bring you up to 50%. That's a 3dB improvement. Say you're currently running 100W barefoot into the antenna. You could go out and buy a 500W amplifier for the same general magnitude of expense as the wire (and a LOT less labor), and get a 6dB improvement. Sure you can argue about the accuracy of the model, and whether it's really 25% or 30%, etc., but, when all is said and done, that's arguing about tenths of a dB, and you can get twice the improvement by another means.. If you're already running 1500W, of course, then you're stuck with improving the ground. Even if you're at the 500-600W level now, the next bump in power costs a bunch more. 3) You could do some sort of incremental improvement strategy. Look for some low frequency beacons or AM radio stations in your general vicinity. They'll propagate by ground wave (during the day), and the EM properties of the soil and your ground radials won't be much different between those signals and the 160m band (esp for AM broadcast). Measure the received signal level of those stations (who cares if there's an impedance mismatch or the antenna's not tuned for the signal, you're doing relative measurements, what you're looking at is ground system losses, and those are non-resonant (to a first order) ). LF nav beacons (NDBs) are nice because they're constant power and not much modulation (during the CW ID). AM broadcast will vary due to the modulation, but with averaging it should work. Add some radials, and see if there's a noticeable improvement. If there is, keep going. If not, you've got enough, and you can quit now. 4) If your ground resistivity is high because it's dry, investing in sprinklers and water might be a better strategy. In Las Vegas, of course, this is probably going to incur the wrath of the water police, but in a wetter climate, or one with cheap (free) water. Turn on the sprinklers the week before the topband contest and soak that soil down real well. I suppose there's also the possibility of sowing the soil with salt but that has some other problems, although you could use fertilizer. Any ionic compound will help reduce resistance.. and fertilizer in ton quantities is pretty cheap ($10s of dollars/ton)). _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting Towers", "Wireless Weather Stations", and lot's more. Call Toll Free, 1-800-333-9041 with any questions and ask for Sherman, W2FLA. _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list email@example.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
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June 2012
Photo of the Day
Alex Avila scoops ice cream for charity
Baseball fans and ice cream lovers were invited to a downtown ice cream extravaganza today. The Hudsonville Summer Extravaganza celebrated the beginning of the summer and becoming the official ice cream of the Detroit Tigers at Campus Martius Park. Detroit Tigers catcher Alex Avila, Bree Worth, wife of Tigers infielder Danny Worth, and Bobbie Coke, wife of Tigers pitcher Phil Coke, joined the festivities by scooping and serving ice cream in exchange for donations to the Detroit Tigers Foundation. PAWS and the DTE Energy Squad were there to add to the fun and remind fans to send their favorite Tigers to the All-Star Game by going to tigers.com/vote.
Girls Just Want to Have Fun!
The ladies absolutely loved "Girls Night Out" on Saturday June 16th hosted by the Detroit Tigers and the Somerset Collection CityLoft. The evening kicked off with a pregame runway show in the Big Cat Court featuring feminine fashions from Majestic modeled by DTE Energy Squad members. Women who purchased "Girls Night Out" ticket packages were invited to a private VIP Party after the game in the Tiger Club with a DJ, complimentary drinks & hors d'ouvres, facials provided by Bare Essentials & massages provided by Origins. Tigers pitchers Phil Coke and Joaquin Benoit made special appearances for photos and a meet and greet with the ladies as well. Those in attendance also received complimentary gift bags from Somerset Collection CityLoft which included a certificate for an overnight stay at MotorCity Casino Hotel. Girls Night Out was definitely a grand slam!
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Tigers fans in Boston and Chicago had the opportunity to meetup prior to the team's recent trips to Fenway Park and Wrigley Field
Over 100 Tigers fans in Boston attended the Tigers Tweetup at "Game On" near Fenway Park. Fans socialized and enjoyed prizes and giveaways including baseball caps, autographed Miguel Cabrera and Doug Fister photos, t-shirts and cheer cards. The Tweetup included both Wolverines and Spartans, and was organized by the U of M and MSU Alumni Associations of Boston.
In Chicago, a raucous, packed house at O'Malley's got the "Let's Go Tigers!" chants going early and enjoyed playing Tigers Twitter trivia in the shadow of Wrigley Field. The two hour event featured raffles for autographed items, T-shirts courtesy of Miller Lite and snapback caps courtesy of '47 Brand.
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Kipona, an annual event in downtown Harrisburg's Riverfront Park since around 1916, will be Sept. 1-3.
This year, it will include music, the Greater Harrisburg Arts Council's Artfest, the Native American Pow Wow on City Island, canoe races on the Susquehanna River, a karate tournament, street soccer and another fan favorite, the annual chili cook-off Saturday.
Kipona is free, but the Artfest section is not, charging a $5 entry fee that is good for all three days of Kipona. The money is used to support arts council projects, including scholarships for students in the arts.
Again this year, the cash-starved city will not use tax dollars on the festival, which last year was cut from three day down to two because of Harrisburg's ongoing financial crisis. This year's Kipona has been restored to three days, with private sponsors, including principal sponsor Pinnacle Health, paying the tab.
The city is still contacting businesses trying to raise some money just to have a cushion, according to the organizers.


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Remember that plan to drastically consolidate federal websites?
Progress on the initiative has been slow since mid-2011 when President Obama first highlighted dot-gov proliferation as part of his campaign to cut government waste.
As we approach the three-year anniversary of that initiative, though, the government has passed a milestone. For the first time in, likely, more than half a decade there are fewer than 1,000 unique top-level government Internet domains, according to a tally maintained by the project's managers.
There were 993 top-level government Web domains that didn't redirect to another site as of Tuesday compared with 1,500 such domains when the government did its first official count near the end of 2011.
The dot-gov consolidation program doesn't have a clear endpoint. Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel has spoken approvingly of a British government program to pare its Web presence down to two large domains over the course of six years. He has said it's unlikely the U.S. government will reach that level of simplicity, though.
An example of a top-level domain would be an agency's homepage such as State.gov. The links one can reach through that homepage such as State.gov/policy are lower-level domains. Experts have estimated consolidating federal websites is unlikely to yield any significant cost savings for the government.
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My mother taught me that what someone says can only hurt you if you allow it. Interesting that GLAAD wants to be hurt and give someone else power over them.
November 19, 2013 at 3:39pm
Nice try but everything you posted isn't even close to reality. Glenn doesn't do "man on the street interviews". You may be confused with Jay Leno or Jimmy Kimmel. You clearly have never even watched his show or listened to his radio program. Not sure what your posting was supposed to prove. People that know you are lying are going to dismiss this and those that believe the lies aren't interested in the truth to begin with.
November 19, 2013 at 3:33pm
Interesting that Hoda said "you see another side of him (Glenn)." The side they think they know is the one they created just to hate him and has nothing to do with Glenn.
September 8, 2013 at 7:32pm
My husband and I were privileged to make the trip to Utah for the experience that was Man in the Moon. Never have I been so at ease and open to listening and seeing the wonderful things Glenn Beck and CO. were offering. Glenn has helped me have a calmer life within myself. All the outside stuff still makes me crazy but Glenn has opened my heart to my soul and my husband. Thank you, Glenn.
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Have a daughter that had worked retail for 14 yrs. Retail is brutal. The managers usually kiss the butt of the regional manager while putting all the weight on the associates and assistant manager. The turn over in retail is ridiculous because you can't pay anyone enough to get crapped on daily by not only the customers but your boss as well. Good for the 3 that quit.
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Gross story but great comments. Thanks for the morning laughs.
September 2, 2013 at 4:38pm
Everyone of their mothers should have smacked them in the head for putting their feet on the furniture. It's complete disrespect for the persons(s) that worked for the money to buy (build, gifted) it.
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September 2, 2013 at 4:26pm
Does anyone who knows history ever remember this type of thing occurring under ANY other American president? I just got done reading Atlas Shrugged and seeing Lindsey Graham, John McCain and Obama agreeing is the premise of this book. The elite leaders have left the American people and they destroy the country because they are above us all and they know best.
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I am a rodeo clown for the rest of the week. Change your FB pic and support freedom of speech and expression.
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Just recently read an article talking about how most liberals are just downright "haters". I think the reaction to this young woman is a prime example of that. I am going to take the leap that most people that believe in creationism don't go spewing hate filled comments when someone states they are evolutionists. Why the vileness from these people? I can only surmise that they have such deep seeded issues that they can not allow themselves to face so they lash out.
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Why did she think that those people would give her any dignity. They are rats. When they have full bellies they are pleasant enough but when hungry they will eat anything wounded.
June 25, 2013 at 4:00pm
I'm shocked any of them knew who Eric Holder is.
June 20, 2013 at 5:50pm
My husbands as said this from the beginning. The Catholic church should not be so hard up for congregates that they keep this type of filth. She should be excommunicated.
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June 11, 2013 at 6:54pm
Oh believe me, I have definitely noticed and have been saying the same for years but more frequently of late.
June 6, 2013 at 2:31pm
Would SOMEONE check this guys meds!!!!!!!!!
June 6, 2013 at 2:16pm
How stupid is this man?!?! He apparently didn't get the memo that the Obama administration has changed the definition of "terrorist" to include politically active, law abiding American born citizens.
June 5, 2013 at 6:50pm
This is an example of the Total Lives System. True this is a policy that was in place before Obama and his hit woman Sebelius but it proves that for all their denials of "death panels", they already exist and will only become more numerous with MaxistCare.
April 17, 2013 at 6:48pm
Under her explanation, she obviously is not the brightest bulb in the hall so why would anyone be so stupid as to try and get an education from her?
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April 17, 2013 at 5:03pm
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April 17, 2013 at 4:41pm
With Reid voting this down we know that the other hand is up to no good. There is a play being made here. Have no doubt.
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BAY CITY, MI – More than 75 people gathered at the State Theatre, Friday, March 29, for a non-denominational Good Friday church service hosted by the First Presbyterian Church.
"It's something we've done for five years," said First Presbyterian Pastor Jeffrey Weenink. "We try to offer people a place to go for a service on Good Friday."
Good Friday is a religious holiday primarily observed by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death.
The service began with a hymn from the church's youth choir. Following the hymn, Pastor Weenink and other members of the church took turns reciting passages from the Bible that detailed events leading up to the crucifixion. Between each passage, Weenink would strike a wooden hammer to represent the nailing of Jesus to the cross.
The adult choir also led the congregation in several hymn throughout.
Bay City resident Al Thompson said he isn't a member of the First Presbyterian, but enjoys attending the Good Friday Service.
"I come here every year," Thompson said. "It's a very nice service to go to on Good Friday."


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Alec Baldwin Height: 5' 11" (180.34 cm)
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The futuristic F-104 made its first flight less than nine years after the end of World War II and was the world's first production aircraft capable of sustained speed at twice the speed of sound (Mach 2). Because of its relatively small size, slender fuselage and small wings, the F-104 was dubbed, "The Missile With A Man In It". A powerful J-79 turbojet engine, advanced air intake design, slim fuselage and thin wings were the keys to the Starfighter's record-setting speed and altitude performance.
The F-104A & B were single and two-seat interceptors flown by the USAF's Air Defense Command. The F-104C & D were single and two-seat fighter bombers flown by the USAF's Tactical Air Command. The F-104 also served with the Air National Guard, NASA and 14 foreign air forces.
The F-104C on display saw combat on its two deployments to Southeast Asia in the mid-1960s and was retired in 1975.
- Role/Category: Fighter
- Wingspan: 21 feet, 11 inches
- Length: 54 feet, 9 inches
- Height: 13 feet, 6 inches
- Weight: 19,500 lbs., Maximum Take-Off Weight – 27,850 lbs.
- Powerplant: One General Electric J-79-GE-7 A providing 15,800 lbs. of thrust in afterburner
- Speed: maximum – 1,450 mph (1,259 knots) or Mach 2.2 at altitude normal cruise – 593 mph (515 knots)
- Ceiling: 59,000 feet
- Crew: One pilot
- Armament: One M-61 20mm cannon
- Payload: two bombs or rocket pods on wing pylons, two AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles on wingtip rails, or one Mk-28 thermonuclear weapon on a fuselage pylon.


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