Sliding into March
This past weekend was kind of cool and very windy, but overall our weather has been great for the past week or so. Plenty of sun, highs in the 80s, just all around spectacular.
We took advantage of some of those pleasant temperatures last weekend to take the kids to the park next to The Boy’s school. It was a wee bit on the cool side that day, but it was still a pretty nice day to be outside. While we there, The Girl indulged her love of slides.
We didn’t do anything notable this weekend, so that’s why you’re getting a video from over a week ago. Well, we made a lot of breakfast burritos, but even I can’t squeeze a blog post out of that.
Actual items
Speaking of breakfast burritos, I made a pair of trips to the grocery store this weekend (once with the family and then a smaller run on my own). When I wasn’t running the gauntlet of cookie-hawking Girl Scouts, raffle ticket-pushing frat guys, and paper-pimpin’ fishwrap salesmen just to get into the store, I found some things that struck me as odd.
- Is it just me or is the phrase “meat wieners” kind of disturbing?
- Oh Drayton, anything for a buck, huh?
- I think we’re all familiar with Pocky, the chocolate coated stick confection from our friends in Japan. Until yesterday though, I didn’t know that certain flavors were gender-specific.
- I’m a fairly open-minded guy, but I can now think of two flavors that shouldn’t exist in pudding form.
Fries at the bottom of the bag
- This fine example of the English language was sent home by the people responsible for educating my son.
- The other day our local FOX affiliate froze up and displayed this image for about half an hour. I also declare that kind of disturbing, as it might very well have been footage from someone’s colonoscopy.
- And yes, even though it looks stupid, “FOX” in all capital letters is the appropriate way to display that network’s name.
- I think these guys are holding a telethon benefiting the wrong side of this battle.
- The Wife and I often play Scrabble while eating dinner. Last week, we had one game get off to an an awesome start. (The four-letter dandy was her doing.)
- For those of you with too much time on your hands, here’s the February 2009 photo gallery.
Listne, if you have the letters and no child to explain the word to, you can’t NOT play them. I’m just sayin’.
Hey, I got a fairly decent amount of points for that one.
Oh man. I played a lot of Scrabble while I was in California for a month last year. I applaud your efforts. It’s right up there on the Geek Scale with me and my mom doing the NYT Sunday crossword over the phone every week.
That image that FOX showed- wtf?