Watching Murderball on AE right now. Quadriplegic rugby is a tough sport. They use these ultrafast wheelchairs that are built like battering rams. Not a sport I’d like to play, but interesting to watch.
Rocky Top you’ll you’ll always be….
Imagine somebody with talent singing that. 🙂 Congrats to the Lady Vols for winning the SEC championship.
Laser Monks
CNN Money has an article about LaserMonks.com a group of Cistercian monks that sell toner, ink, etc.
The best quote from the article, “We’re monks,” McCoy says cheerfully. “We do monk things.” 🙂
The iMac is dead, long live the mini
The hard drive on my iMac died, it would have cost $300 to fix. So instead I went on eBay and got a G4 Mac mini for $500 including shipping. I could have gotten a new Intel Mac mini for a little more money, about $100 more. I thought about it for a while but the mini is just a replacement for what I had before, not really what I want. So cheaper is better. I really want one of new MacBook Pro laptops, but that’s more money than I want to spend.
Another reason I went with the G4 mini instead of Intel is that I know all my current stuff will work. Until all the software I use runs natively on Intel I’ll stick with the G4.
The American Library Association has absolute power
According to PABBIS (Parents Against Bad Books in Schools) “ALA will soon have absolute power in deciding what is appropriate in English class and the libraries for all America’s children”
ALA and absolute power? Clearly these people have never been to any ALA meetings. I for one welcome our new librarian overlords. 🙂
For those of you out of the overlord loop, here you go. Overlords can be anyone, not just librarians. 🙂
Hospital Photos
I almost forgot about the pictures of Lisa that were taken by the hospital folks. The password is greene
If you want to order photo packages, calendars, or any other stuff the code you need is msr-12449
Pictures of the cutest baby ever… mine
Pictures of Lisa are now up on her website.
Lisa is here
Announcing the birth of my daughter,
Lisa Dawn Greene.
She was born on Wednesday February 22nd
At 11:57 pm
Weighed in at 6 lbs 11 oz
And measured 19 3/4 inches long
More later….
Daytona 500
There’s a Daytona 500 Preview video available for free at the iTunes Store. Mostly interviews but hey, it’s free. 🙂
In other news Tony Stewart will start 15th in the 500 Sunday.
You really should get that looked at…
Last Tuesday I started having really bad stomach pain at about 4 in the morning. By the end of the day I had a fever and I was vomiting. I just thought I had the stomach flu. Wednesday I was feeling a little better. But by Thursday I was feeling rough again. Stephanie got me to call my mom Thursday night and then I called the after hours student health nurse. She told me to go to the ER, and that I might have appendicitis.
Several hours later, after drinking lots of contrast dye and getting a CAT scan and an ultrasound it was determined that my gall bladder needed to come out ASAP. So I got admitted to the hospital and on Friday afternoon my gall bladder was removed. Apparently it was very infected and very nasty, the surgery took twice as long as expected.
Stephanie’s mom came up from Arkansas Friday to keep Stephanie company. I stayed in the hospital until about 8 pm Saturday. Since then I’ve been sleeping a lot. Stephanie’s mom left yesterday, thanks for helping out, Dee.