If you haven’t, you should
I’m talking about reading the Dad Gone Mad blog. While not always appropriate for kids (which is probably why it’s funny), this post was especially humorous. Click image to read the post What guy can’t see themselves in the exact same situation doing the exact same thing?
Back to Midwest Juniors (again and again)
…meaning that both Hannah and Clare have accepted offers to play with the Midwest Juniors volleyball club this season. Hannah played with this club last year and gained a ton of experience while improving her game tremendously. With no basketball for the first time in a long time, this will be Hannah’s only sport during [...]
Gymnastics, too
With all the volleyball action, we must not forget about the competitive gymnastics season in which Clare is participating this fall. This is her first year in level 6 (last compulsory level), and, bluntly, it’s been a struggle. The new skills have been tough to master and put together in a meet in front of [...]
Text totals
The girls each received an early Christmas present of a cell phone and they were added to our family plan. US Cellular also offers a reasonably-priced family-wide unlimited text messaging plan so we signed up for that, too. We hadn’t really used text messaging before, but the girls used it a bit on their previous [...]
Marshall HS fall awards
We just returned from the Marshall High School fall sports awards and recognition night. There was much to be proud of as the football team was conference co-champions, the boys and girls cross country teams both went to state, and the volleyball team, um, played their hearts out all season. It’s for the final sport [...]
Freaky aerial view
Thank you, Google Maps, for reminding us that the works of M.C. Escher are alive and well. http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.758156,-73.977664&spn=0.002913,0.005997&t=k&z=18 The magic Google elves stitched it together quite well. Obviously, the angles just don’t work. But it looks really cool! For context, here are a few of Escher’s works:
Where do I vote?
Of course I know where to vote, but do you? If not, check out THIS LINK to a special Google Maps 2008 US Voter Info map. It will point you to the proper polling location for any US address. OK, so I only tried it with my home address, but it knew exactly where I [...]
WIAA football playoffs, round 2
After taking care of Random Lake last Tuesday, the Marshall Cardinals hosted the Cambridge Blue Jays in the second round of the WIAA Division 5 football playoffs. In a rematch against Capitol-South Conference regular season co-champions – Marshall won the earlier match-up, 18-15 – it was Cambridge coming out victorious this time. Although the score [...]
