Little Brats

The other day, my wife took the kids to the downtown library. As they walked in, a shiny Rascal sat plugged in by the wall.

Deegan, my 2 year old immediately ran over to check it out. His 2 older siblings ran over to stop him from touching it (and probably check it out themselves).

Not a moment had passed before a grumpy old man hobbled over screaming, "DON'T TOUCH! STAY AWAY!!!"

He then walked right up to my wife and yelled, "Keep your little brats away from my bike!!!"

As he walked away, Deegan looked at my wife with a puzzled look on his face and asked, "Bike?"

Pioneer Day

So here in Utah we celebrate Pioneer Day, or the day the Mormon Pioneers first came into the Salt Lake Valley. It's basically a carbon copy of the 4th of July, fireworks and all. So all those sparklers you didn't get to use on the 4th, can be burned up on the 24th.

Pretty Fun.

We bought the usual assortment of fountains, smoke bombs, snakes, and other kiddie fireworks (Utah law prohibits any projectile fireworks). My father-in-law showed up with a giant brick of a firework that looked like 15 fountains glued together with 1 fuse. Though the description screamed otherwise, he swore it was legal. We saved it for the grand finale, and at approximately 9:35 pm, it was lit.

The next thing we knew, there was a full on professional firework show going on right above our heads. All the neighborhood children oooo'd and ahhhh'd... until the 4th firework shot off.

For some reason the 4th firework shot horizontally and headed straight at us! Everyone screamed.

The fifth shot across the screen and slammed into our neighbors screen door, then burst into flames on their porch.

The sixth shot down the street at about 90 mph.

Luckily the rest shot back up into the air and we were kind of able to enjoy them (while checking to make sure no one had been hit).

Turns out this "legal" firework was purchased on a Native American reservation between Mesquite and Las Vegas Nevada.

Legal there must different than legal here. Sure made for an exciting night though.

Podcast Player

Found a great Podcast Player that lets you add podcasts to your web site. They also have a library of music that you can create your own online radio stations with. Pretty cool. All Free.

www.tornadostream.com

I'm Feeling Lucky

Does anyone really use the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on Google?

The only time you use it is if you are explaining Google to a newbie, you always say "and then if you click 'I'm feeling lucky' it takes you right to the first result instead of showing you the list of results." That conversation is about the extent of the button's usage. Plus - are there any Google newbies anymore? Not really. Therefore no one is using that button... not even just to talk about.

Google would be SO MUCH BETTER without that button.

Funniest story ever

So the other day my 4-year-old son Kyle was singing as he played with his pirate action figures. My wife peaked her head in and realized he was singing the opening to "The Hello Song" which is a children's church song.

You may recognze it. It's the one that goes, "Hello Hello Hello Hello we welcome you today". If you don't know it and want to hear it you can listen here.

So as I was saying, my wife hears Kyle singing the first part of the song and thinks, "awwww, Kyle is singing church songs." She peakes her head in to hear the rest and this is what she hears:

"Hello Hello Hello Hello, this is my EVIL BATTLE."

"What did you say Kyle?"

"Battle mom. This is my Evil Battle."

Classic Kyle-ism.

Potty comedy we may have missed

How did we never notice how hilarious Karate Kid is?

"Wax on. Wax off" uh... blatant potty humor there folks.

Also a web design teacher reported that upon asking his students how many of them knew HTML one of them asked if it stood for "How To Make Love..."

Am I still alive?

Yes. However lately all my creative juice has been going into a couple of side projects I've been working on. Namely myBlogTunes.

Thanks for checking it out and adding it to your blog :-)