Pain-tball

I went paintballing for the second time ever yesterday. It was a lot of fun and I got my pants dirty. No, not that kind of dirty. Just regular grass and paint stains on the knees. We played outdoors in a grass field with a speedball configuration. I got shot a few times but the paintballs didn't break so I was able to stay in the games. I did manage to shoot myself in the facemask once. It takes mad skills to do that and I don't recommend you try it. I took out a few of the other players with some lucky shots and spent a lot of time just hiding behind some of the bunkers (hence the knee stains). I enjoyed it a lot and hope to go more often than once every 14 years. In case you are wondering, I am smiling.

Jaxon's Scooter Skills

Wanting to be featured on the web, Jaxon shows off his scooter skills.



Impressive, I know.

Jayden doing a flip

Jayden learned how to land a flip on the trampoline a few weeks ago. Here he is:


Ta da!!!

Mason's Displeasure

The dangers of home...

My body is older than my age. Like Indiana Jones said, it's not the years, it's the mileage. Unfortunately for me, I'm not getting any good mileage on my body and I don't have a cool hat like him. Some of the recent bad mileage is as follows:

Yesterday I heroically sprained my left ankle while doing the dangerous task of carrying our baby to the van. No, not through some pot-hole riddled parking lot but rather in our garage. There just so happens to be a one inch lip at the end of the garage (to keep water out I guess) and I stepped on that and pop went the ankle. Heroically? Well, I didn't drop the baby!

Three weeks ago I hurt my right knee. How you say? Playing football? Basketball? Jumping over a fence? Nope. I gracefully slipped on my living room floor and smashed my knee into the edging between the laminate floor and the carpet. Big ouch. My knee was very sore for a week but has been upgrade to mostly sore since. My knee-cap is still tender but I'm hoping it will be fine w/ more time. I hope there wasn't any permanent damage to the knee though it is still uncomfortable to kneel on that side.

I must add that it was a smooth move. I caught some serious air and Tara thought I was faking the fall because the thud of me landing was way too loud to be real. I had been playing with Big J and was keeping an unopened bag of Doritos away from him. When I fell, he happily let me lay there in my agony while triumphantly snatching the Dorito bag from me and claiming victory.

I'm not paranoid, but I think this house is out to get me.

Less is more...

Center Mass

I went to the shooting range today. I did better than expected. All shots were on the target, most were in the torso area. I even hit the center X a few times. Here's the target one of my friends used. He shot 11 rounds at this target and did not miss. You do the math.

Proper use of earmuffs

Here you go. If you ever wondered how to properly use earmuffs, wonder no more.

60 Minutes for all demographics.

I'm the dude...

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This is halloween, halloween, halloween.

Have a spooky halloween!

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Geocaching

The kids and I have gone Geocaching a few times. Lots of fun. I bought a used Garmin Etrex Legend C about a month ago and it's worked very well. It gets us to within feet of the caches.

It's a fun outdoor activity and weather permitting it can be done year round. The kids really enjoy getting out and searching for the caches. I think they just really like to play w/ the GPS receiver. It's fun to find caches in places that you might have walked/driven by hundreds of times.

Anyway, just thought I'd mention it. You might want to give it a whirl. Use the geocaching site and see what caches are in your area.

Aun mas weedeeos

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Mentos Commercial featuring Van Damm in Bloodsport

Beer Canon Montage

Everyone needs a little canon

Here, have some. Get your canon here.

Kids are in school

Both our kids are now in school. One in PK and the other in K. So it's not "real" school yet for both, but it's getting there. Time sure has gone by fast. Before we know it, they'll be writing term papers and going to prom. I hope we as their parents and the school system teach them how to write better analogies than these.

Super Mario Music

The secret is finally out. This is where the Mario music comes from. No, not really.

Do google's work for them.

Ever wondered what it's like to work for google? Me either. However, they can't take over the world without your help. Really! They need your help. So to my two readers, I present you with this cool little game that allows you to label images for google. The catch is that someone else is labelling the exact same image at the exact same time and your labels need to match in order to get points. I present to you, Google Image Labeler. Go crazy.

http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/

Why the Daily Show is a must see.

Take 'em out

I have an xbox. I have Halo 2. Jayden has played it a couple of times. Today I was reading on Wired magazine about a kid who is 5 and is a professional Halo player. Well, Jayden heard me telling Tara so he got to talking about Halo.

A little later, Tara tells me about the how the conversation went:

Jayden describes many different types of weapons on Halo and their pros/cons etc.
Tara: Jayden, I don't like you talking about that game.
Jayden: Why not?
Tara: Because it's about killing.
Jayden: Would it make you feel better if I said "take 'em out" instead?

That makes perfect sense to me. How about you?