Hanna the log thief
Hanna stealing our firewood on our September long weekend camping trip.

When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both. – James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union
Hanna stealing our firewood on our September long weekend camping trip.

Holy crap!
“Michelle Duggar just delivered her 16th child, and she’s already thinking about doing it again.
Johannah Faith Duggar was born at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday and weighed 7 pounds, 6.5 ounces.
The baby’s father, Jim Bob Duggar, a former state representative, said Wednesday that mother and child were doing well.
He said Johannah’s birth was especially exciting because it was the first time in eight years the family has had a girl.
Jim Bob Duggar, 40, said he and Michelle, 39, want more children.
“We both just love children and we consider each a blessing from the Lord. I have asked Michelle if she wants more and she said yes, if the Lord wants to give us some she will accept them,” he said.”
Link: CNN.com
Today is our 5 year anniversary of our first date. Tammy has posted a blog entry to commemorate it.
5 years goes fast when you are having fun. I still remember that day like it was yesterday. The nervousness, the jitters and butterflies. The wings… not such a good idea but it worked out in the end and I didn’t scare her off. It’s kind of fitting now that we are blogging back and forth on our life together considering how we met. 5 years down a lifetime to go.
I love you Tammy.
The driver managed to walk away from this one.

Congratulations to Tammy on receiving her P. Eng. (Professional Engineer) designation! More than a rubber stamp, new business cards or signing passports her P. Eng. gives her a new level of responsibility and stature.
Link: Tammy’s Entry in the APEGGA registry
I’m bored… I just needed a break. I wish I was Pat… he works at ATB. They got slammed by the latest Windows worm (see entry below). He’s at the mall now after being sent home.
I guess that’s the down side of having a Mac here at work for our email / fileserver…. it doesn’t crash or crippled by worms / viruses.
Tammy and I now have a new understanding… when I feel the need to rant I do it here rather than bore her on the car ride home. I joked to her today that soon she will have ‘blog’ written on her left palm so she can just hold that up when I start to ramble on. I never really know if people are really reading my blog or if the only ones ‘listening’ are all the search engines indexing my site.
Well we had our first annual garage sale this weekend. We made some pretty good money. Got rid of a bunch of crap and some decent stuff also. The highlights included:
– a young kid wondering what games my old school Motorola flip phone played
– the neighbor boy buying gifts for his mom’s anniversary
– the friendly people we basically gave stuff away to
– the rude people we made pay full price
– the guy I thought for sure was going to crack his skull test driving roller blades down our drive way
We also had a BBQ on Sunday night which went well (with our new 50,000 BTU/HR kick-ass BBQ) except for the rain. We all stood on the deck in denial as the rain poured down. Of course as soon as we finished dinner the sun re-apeared.