The Busiest Weekend

This past weekend has definitely been my busiest weekend of the year and I wasn't even at all of the events. Faith had more going on, I just had to watch the kids for a while. Here is the recap.

Friday
Started with Mark coming over for dinner and an EDGECORE Meeting (Thats Youth Leadership). We transitioned into Fantasy Baseball draft for about an hour and then back to more Youth Meeting. That all completed around 11 PM and then we hung out for a while and Mark and I watched the new James Bond Movie - 'Casino Royale' Very good movie.

Saturday
Slept until 10 and and went to help my friend with his computer wireless network problems until about 1. Rescured Ephriam from the baby shower that Faith was at and went home and he took a nap. Hung out with Mark for a while and watched 'SWAT' while Ephriam slept. Gave Ephriam some lunch when he woke up and waited for Faith to come home from the party. When Faith got back, I headed out to get the oil changed and make a little run to the grocery. I returned in time to pack the car back up with the children to go to my nephews' combined birthday party. We all finally returned home about 10 PM and crashed.

Sunday
The kids were sleeping in so Faith went to church and I stayed home to take care of the children. After church I got some work done in the yard before Faith went to do the real grocery shopping. Ephriam napped while K.C. played on the floor and I worked on some things in the house. She went down for a nap and Ephriam woke up so we went and played outside while I got the grill ready to cook steaks for dinner. We ate dinner and then left to drop the kids off at Matt and Heather's before heading over to Youth Group. We had Frontline Bible study and finished up the series on the Wheel. Then for the EDGE we all walked down to Flubs and ate ice cream. Picked up the kids around 9 and returned home around 10. Bathed the kids and showered then we crashed too.

All in a full weekend let me tell ya. Hopefully most weekend will not be this busy.

-c

Baseball is almost here!!!!

I am very psyched up this week because Friday is my Fantasy Baseball League Draft night. I will spend the next several days creating my draft sheet to determine who I want to draft for my team. A little more than a week after that is Opening Day. I will finally have a sporting event to look forward to. My Bearcats were a doormat this year and didn't make any tournaments. So they were done for this season about the time that they gave Huggins the boot. I look for them to improve because Mick Cronin is a good recruiter, but it will take some time. It was just weird not following college ball this winter. At least the tournament has been putting up some good games to watch.

But now it is time for Spring, warm weather, popcorn, peanuts, and cracker jacks. I can honestly say I don't care if I ever go back. So bring on the big leaguers and hopefully I will have a good draft on Friday.

-c

Spring Cleaning

If you are like me, you actually look forward to Spring Cleaning. I may not like the cleaning part so much, but I like the warm weather returning and I like to open up my house and make it smell nice again. Its time to shake off the stanky Winter. Here is an article about different things that you should remember to do when doing Spring Cleaning.

How to Organize Spring Cleaning

Springtime is the traditional time to remove the winter blues from your home and make it ready for the long days of summer fun. It's also a good exercise in taking stock of your home and its contents. Just make sure that you share the work--and the credit for a job well done.....more

Neflix Hackers Article

Here is an interesting article that I came across about The Rise of the Netflix Hackers:

In less than 10 years, Netflix has grown into a $700 million DVD rental
powerhouse, shipping more than 1.5 million DVDs a day to its base of 6.3 million
subscribers. But the very systems that have made Netflix so successful --
everything from its sophisticated recommendation engine to a profit-maximizing
formula that determines which subscribers get movies first -- have proven
irresistible to hackers, who are constantly looking for new ways to crack,
manipulate and reverse-engineer the company.

Case in point: Just weeks
after Netflix took its first, long-awaited steps into the digital delivery arena
by rolling out its Watch Now
instant viewing feature, which allows users to stream some movies and TV shows
over the internet, one hacker claims to have figured out how to bypass the
mechanism that tracks and limits a subscriber's viewing time.

Read More Here

MidWeek - Summer trying to return.

Not a whole lot to report so far this week other than Summer decided to return here temporarily. It was 79 degrees here yesterday and they are calling for a chance for snow this weekend. The whole family went for a nice walk yesterday after dinner. K.C. took her first ride sitting up in the double stroller. She really enjoys being outside. Ephriam had fun too. He is going to be a lot of fun to play with outside this year. The other day we kicked a ball around outside while I was manning the grill. He just gets a little bit excited. Well I will enjoy the warm weather while it is here. Hopefully the warm weather will return quickly.

-c

Is it Springtime yet?

So we are only a few weeks from what I consider the unofficial beginning of Spring - MLB Opening Day. As far as I am concerned, if Baseball is being played, then it is Spring. Now I just want it to get warm and it is going to start kicking into the warming trend around here this weekend. It is supposed to hit 60 this weekend. I am really looking forward to Sunny with a high of 75, but I will take all that I can get in the short term.

My fantasy baseball draft is coming up here soon. Hopefully I can make a good run like I did last year only I won't have to win my way through the playoffs. Its always a lot of fun until your team is stuck in the basement. So at least it is fun until June for most of us.

So here is to warmer weather and cookouts........

-C

I'm Back!!!!!

Ok, so it has been several days since I wrote here, but for a change I actually have a good excuse. Last Thursday, I logged in to blog about something and it would not let me because my blog had been marked as a spam blog. It would only let me write drafts. So I had to wait 2 days for Blogger to examine my blog and then unlock it. So Saturday it finally unlocked, but I was way too busy this weekend to to update anything, so now you get this and hopefully more later.