A beautiful what?

We took a photo of the cousins together by our brick at Allen Fieldhouse. Marina's purse is resting on our brick, you can see my name is the last name on there.

***

Evey has had a couple good one-liners recently.

She drew a map of the planets for me, and started naming each one. Her planets were wildly out of order, but I couldn't put them in order either.

Evey was pointing out each planet to me.

"Dad, this is Mars... that's Neptune... here's earth... then Venus... that's Planet Druidia..."

So, I'm happy that Princess Vespa's home planet, from the movie "Spaceballs," made her list of planets.

***

We throw the term "brilliant" around the house loosely, usually in jest. I'm always coming up with brilliant ideas.

The other day I had a brilliant idea, and I shared it with Evey. Evey shrugged off my plan, and gave me her own. We agreed to disagree.

"Dad, my idea is brillianter than your idea," she told me.

That... we agreed on.

***

We were sitting at the dinner table and Evey started complaining about one of her classmates in her dance class. This mean girl, she told us, encouraged Evey to make the wrong dance moves.

"Which girl?" we asked.

"Well, she's the mean one. You know who she is. She has the beautiful retard."

Me and Adro tried to keep a straight face.

Turns out this girl had a beautiful LEOTARD... so she at least had that going for her.

Leotard is way brillianter.

Things me and the wife looked up on YouTube on our big screen while we hung out tonight

Smashing Pumpkins acoustic
NIN Lollapalooza 2008
Zero 7
REM acoustic
For Squirrels
The Sheila Divine
Radiohead Lollapalooza 2008
Thom Yorke Orpheum
Lemonheads
Cure covers

Comets game with the Johnson's and my Mom

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Say "cheese... burger!"

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The ewok is sleeping

Got the whole family out at McDonald's, got the Johnsons with us, too... Photos to come.

Right now, Boydie is sleeping in his bear costume.

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TGIF, from Boyd Atticus

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Solo on the news!

http://www.usd263.com/vnews/display.v/ART/4e3ee685f2223

Post something here, maybe about 11/11/11

What the heck happened?!? Where am I?

Sorry, folks. It's just that my favorite reader -- one Mrs. Adrianne Jones -- is currently on maternity leave. She's with me at home, where I work. 

I find less inspiration to post on the blog when my lovely missus is with me everyday, not checking her computer all that often. Sorry. I like you too, dear reader. Just not as much as my wife. You understand, right?

Things are good here. Boyd is getting good sleep. He's a good boy.

Evey has been gassy lately. Still sweet, but gassy. 

Dad has just been gassy.

Adrianne still glows as she walks on little cushions of air with every step she takes. Sigh...

Happy 11/11/11... and in 11 minutes, it'll be 11:11 on 11/11/11. I better dance, or something.

We can afford that stove

The Neutebooms came and visited us last week and even brought gifts for the kids and dinner for all of us! Very nice, thank you 'Booms.

Couple quick hits:

-- Evey has an alarm clock in her room now. She's really excited about this. I told her it's nothing to be excited about, it's actually quite sad that she's old enough to need one. But she's thrilled. She told her grandma all about it on the phone tonight, like she just got a new bicycle or something...

-- Adro was looking through the Pottery Barn catalog tonight and Evey saw a kid's play kitchen. It was really nice, and it was also $300. "Mom, I need that," Evey told Adro. "My kitchen is really old."

Technically, Evey, NOTHING YOU OWN can qualify as "really old," but she was determined to talk mom into this new play stove. Adro then tried to explain to her that it was way too expensive... mom and dad could practically buy a new fridge for what they were asking for this play stove. To drive the point home even more, Adro told Evey, "Listen, the money you've saved in the bank so far? It would take almost all of it to buy this toy."

Evey got excited. "Good!" she said. "I have enough to get it."

-- Boyd continues to sleep well. He grunts a lot when he sleeps, but he's not waking up, he's just grunting.

-- I've got Sporting Kansas City tickets for tomorrow night, just in time for the 40-degree drop in temperature and sleet. Great!

Halloween 2011

That was a blast!

The weather was perfect and Adro -- dressed as a witch -- came with me and Evey to trick or treat for a while. Mom went back home to give out candy (Boyd, dressed as a pumpkin, stayed back with Judy and Virginia) while me and Evey kept going on.

We must have hit 30 houses! It was just so nice out, and everyone was so nice and liked Evey's costume ("You're the only Spider-Girl we've seen!" was what we kept hearing) that we just kept going and going.

Evey's biggest concern -- and she kept asking me -- was, "Dad, are you SURE you know how to get back home?!?"

I'll post photos later, after they're downloaded.

Evey's Halloween costume

She's going as Spider-Girl! Her idea! Love it!

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Three weeks and a day

This is bullshit, Boyd has been around for three weeks now and I have more Peking Taste coverage on the blog than I do cute baby photos.

Sorry, son. When you get older, if you get the pleasure of enjoying Peking Taste buffet, you'll understand.

"Sonny," as we call him, is doing great. This photo was taken two weeks ago, so it's not the most current pic ever, especially when you're talking about 22-day-olds. But, he still has all his hair, steely blue eyes and an occasional smile. He's sleeping well, too.

I guess there's just not much to report on a three-week-old when it comes down to it.

And, in hindsight, I didn't start blogging about Evey until she was, what? Two months old?

Peking video gets some local coverage

Well then... while I didn't see that happening exactly, I was somewhat prepared for more than just the blog readers to see my video.

In case you missed it, on Tuesday morning the LJWorld.com posted the below bit about my video, along with a link to the video itself:

As I mentioned, the store is going into the former Pizza Street location, which of course, is a buffet business that is no longer with us. (Rest in peace mashed potato pizza.) Well, there appears to be one Lawrence resident who takes his buffet eating at Peking Taste very seriously. A colleague of mine found this video on YouTube and I’ve decided to pass it along because it was spurred by information first reported in Town Talk. The video was uploaded by Seth A. Jones, according to the You Tube information, and he says he is speaking on behalf of Concerned Citizens for Peking Taste Buffet. He goes on for about five minutes over his concerns that when Peking Taste reopens in the Louisiana Purchase shopping center that it will no longer have a buffet. Among some of the highlights from his impassioned plea are:

1. He said his wife compared Peking Taste no longer offering a buffet to Southwest Airlines no longer offering flights. “My wife is an accountant. If she starts making analogies, something is wrong here.”
2. “When I come to Peking Taste, I want all I can eat,” Seth says. “I want broccoli and beef, all I can handle, hold the broccoli.”
3. Seth says he doesn’t eat crab rangoon because he thinks it's gross, but his friends like it. “Don’t limit my friends on Crab Rangoons. They’re good people.”

Anyway, the entire video is here. 

Pretty cool to get your name in the paper sometimes, and this was a fun one. Almost unanimous positive reactions, which is a surprise. Almost 300 views on YouTube as of this writing.


I did get a call from my pal Copy Jesus about it... he told me he posted the link in the comments section somewhere on LJWorld.com, and that's how they got a hold of it initially. "I hope you don't mind," he told me.

Heck no I don't mind! I want CNN to come cover this story!

Concerned Citizens for Peking Taste Buffet UNITE!!!

Peking Taste Manifesto

It's been almost two weeks since I've posted, so............