Belts, Summer
The whole family (well, except for Dot) tested and earned their next belts this past weekend in TaeKwonDo. Whacko is now a green belt, Yakko has his yellow, and Mom and Dad are senior green. UPS didn’t get the new belts to us in time for the awards ceremony, so we have no pictures.
Whacko, as a new green belt, got fitted for his pads and sat in on his first sparring class. He was a little more tentative than we thought he’d be, but that’s probably just as well. We were worried he was gonna tear into the kid lined up across from him, but he was more preoccupied with how much his helmet itched.
Yakko is done with school as of yesterday. Because there are three kids to watch instead of two, that makes life harder on everyone except me. Not having to get him to school, I get to either sleep later or have extra time to get more accomplished in the mornings. I intend to do the latter, but will probably wind up doing the former.
This also begins Whacko’s last summer as a free kid. Kindergarten starts for him in the fall. We’ll hope he handles it better by then than he did at the meet-and-greet a few weeks ago. Growling at your kindergarten teacher might be an amusing story years down the road, but it’s not an optimal first impression.
May 25th, 2007 - Posted in Homelife | | 0 Comments
The “ease” of the online bracket
Yakko wants to fill out a tournament bracket online. He sees the ad that you can do it for free on SportsLine. He even works hard to get ready for school early so we have about 20 minutes extra. It turns out that signing up for the bracket is “easy.” All you have to do is:
1. Go to sportsline.com
2. Click twice for the same action (the link on the front goes to a page that contains nothing but a link to the actual game).
3. Enter your sportline ID
4. Except you don’t remember your sportsline ID, or even if you have a sportsline ID, so sign up for a new one
5. Except the username you chose is already in use, more or less confirming that you have already signed up at some point
6. Search gmail for your welcome email from sportsline. Fail to find it.
7. Go back to the sportsline tab, and have them send you the password, which apparently you didn’t get to pick because it’s not something you would ever have purposefully made your password.
8. Finally get signed up and go through to the bracket (interesting to note that you can’t continue signup without inviting at least one other email address to receive unsolicited mail from sportsline)
9. The text says you won’t get a “save” button until after the entire bracket is complete. But then after you fill out the whole thing, you find from reading the info box at the top that it doesn’t think you’ve filled out the first region, even though you have. Thus, no save button.
10. Take your son to school, hoping you can get it figured out when you have more than 20 minutes to spare.
This is why there will always be a demand for paper copies of tournament brackets.
March 12th, 2007 - Posted in Homelife | | 0 Comments
Pick ‘em
family picks for the big game:
Yakko: Colts 38-35
Dad: Colts 31-17
Whacko: “neither one” (apparently expecting some sort of disaster event)
February 4th, 2007 - Posted in Homelife | | 0 Comments
Happy Dance time!
“Fall TV, Falll TV! I Love my Fall Tv” Sing it with me now—”FallTV…..” I’m so excited. The season premier of Prison Break was on tonight. That is a brillaint show. I admit it is frastrauting at times. But I love hanging on the edge waiting to see what will happen next. I think this will be a great season.
Soon Veronica Mars will be starting too. My other shows will be coming too. It’s just so wonderfull to start having all my old friends back.
On the subject of TV. I reccomend to everyone to watch Meerkat Manor on the Animal Planet Channel. We started that this weekend. The whole family loves it. It has everything, romance, comedy, suspense, it is just great entertainment. It’s a half hour show taken from three years of scientific footage that followed a clan of meerkats around out in the wild. It’s amazing the social infrastructure that makes up this meerkat clan. I have heard of ants dividing up jobs and everyone working together but the meerkats are just amazing. The family dynamics of the clan are so engaging. It is as interesting as watching a prime time tv show, reality or fiction. Everyone should check it out. Check your local listings for times. The new shows air Friday night at 8pm on Animal Planet. You’ll love it. I promise.
August 21st, 2006 - Posted in Homelife, Parentgeekness, TV | | 0 Comments
