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I have an extra copy of Despicable Me 2 on Blu-ray to give away. Just leave a comment on this post and I’ll select a winner and send it out by December 26. North America residents age 17 and older are eligible. So yeah, this is open until December 26 when I’ll close the comments…
I (finally) started playing Borderlands 2 yesterday. The original Borderlands was easily one of my favorite games in the last few years and I was looking forward to Borderlands 2. Thing is, I didn’t want to buy it when it first came out because I knew there would be a version of the game coming…
Yesterday came the news Peter O’Toole had died. This was sad news, as it is when any great actor with a long career that has touched many lives is. There are plenty of tributes to the man and his work. I’m not going to try and touch on those. I simply don’t have the authority…
Just a couple of pictures this time. Last night was the winter concert for several grades from the kids’ school. I blurred out the other kids, but you should be able to see Déla and August pretty clearly. Here’s Déla singing with the 3rd grade. She’s in the middle. August in in the upper left. He…
What do you mean I haven’t ripped my Aretha Franklin yet? If you’ve been reading my blog since the beginning in 2009, which, according to the numbers you haven’t, you would know that ripping my CDs to MP3 format is a multi-year process. We’re coming up on 5 years now. And today I learned I…
Every year I participate in an exercise – Beatles Week. No, it’s not like NaBloPoMo, an organized event for bloggers, but it should be. At this point I’m the only one who does it. Originally created by Mark on his personal blog in 2008 I followed suit in 2009 and have been “carrying the torch”…
Nope. No pictures of Thanksgiving. Remember when I posted about Déla’s gymnastics championship? This week the next quarter of gymnastics started up and the final standings were posted. Her team tied for first, but for some reason was awarded second place. Note some of those great team names. Also this week at gymnastics Xavier was…
I’m putting Xavier, age 3, down for nap yesterday afternoon. I wasn’t looking forward to his waking up with a Pull-Up full of solids.