Had another Fuze Health Infuzion: "Refresh" (Banana Colada flavor). Tasty. Misti and I counted the decorative boulders within approximately 10' from the curb on Gateway Dr.:



There are approximately 262 total; 115 on the west side of the road and 147 on the east, from where Offenhauser Dr turns into Gateway Dr, all the way down to South Meadows Pkwy. As Donkey (from Shrek) says, "I like that boulder, that is a nice boulder." It was 107*F today, although the news only admitted to 104*F - which I heard still broke records for this area. We wrote a family letter to Elder Dave for FHE on Monday night. And in reponse to Brad's aversion to healthy breakfast cereals, I bought some Grape Nuts cereal at the store and enjoyed (yes, actually enjoyed) a bowl as a late night snack.   =)

Long choir practice at Carpenters. Loose-meat sandwiches. "Car-dee-doo-chee". Hammy Giles. Paul (Dan) Giles - no one knew his name. Everybody laughed at me sneaking into cinema only to find that it was "The Horse Whisperer" (and that I ended up falling asleep and missing most of the movie). Everyone giving Jennifer, Emily Giles' sister, bad ideas. Matt Sadler almost killed his brother. Pinch on the back of the arm. Brad doesn't like Grape Nuts cereal.

Becky got a new bed. It's a toddler bed that is only about half the height of a normal bed. It's not twin size, it still uses a crib-sized mattress, but it's got a nice oak headboard and siderails (the latter so she can't fall out of bed). She loves it and is proud to have her own bed.   =)

Friday night and Saturday morning a bunch of us helped Sister Rubenaker and her kids move out of her apartment. The missionaries scored a new futon couch and a new full-size bed (not a twin). We used Brother Christopherson's trailer and Matt Blattman's green pickup, not a moving truck, so we made several trips. Most of their stuff was moved into storage, so we got to use the cool elevator at the hot storage unit (2nd floor, no effective ventilation, no light bulb in unit). After the move Saturday morning, Matt Blattman treated us to a round of drinks (sounds bad, huh?!) from 7-11, so I scored a free Fuze^TM Healthy Infuzions "Slenderize" (an 18 oz. sugar-free cranberry-raspberry juice loaded with only 14 calories per bottle, but 120mcg of Chromium, 120mg of Vitamin C, 400mg of Citrimax^TM, and 40mg of L-Carnitine - but *no Aspartame* [sweetened instead with Sucralose]). Mmmmm.

Last night we went to our ward's Pioneer Day picnic at Galena Creek Park (South entrance) up Mt. Rose Highway. The company was great and the food was tasty, but it started to rain after about an hour, and we finally got rained out after it really started drenching everyone. Becky was ecstatic to play with Abby Weckerly and Morgan and Mary Rubenaker. A few guys from the ward tried their hands in a few rounds of horseshoes while Tody slaved over the hamburgers and hotdogs with a camp fork.

Wow, my blog is beginning to feel like the dullest blog in the world. Hmmm.

Yes, the final 'installment' of the Brandt family's baptisms went well on Saturday. I played the hymns, and Elder Rutledge led the music (just two verses). Brad conducted the meeting. I've decided that PT Cruisers look like stink bugs, with their butts up in the air.

Was 104*F yesterday, but it cooled down a little after a little thunderstorm. Poor Sister Giles seemed like she was hatin' it at choir practice - too hot whilst pregnant. She looked a little more at ease after Brad grabbed a small fan and Emilie got her a glass of ice water. I think she's only got between 4 and 6 more weeks until the baby's due.

Been watching a lot of 'Charlotte's Web' lately. Oh, which reminds me, Betty brought a true 'ratly feast' to work last Friday: a smorgasboard (orgasboard, orgasboard) of deli meat, cottage cheese, couple different kinds of crackers, freshly picked tomatoes, tuna fish, punch, etc. for us to snack on.   =)

Well, not a whole lot has been going on. I've been beating my head against the CSS wall at work in dealing with browser inconsistancies in regard to font sizing. Had quite a few interesting and informative discussions in the ciwas (comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets) newsgroup regarding using multiple stylesheets (persistent, preferred [active], and alternate). Lots of fun. No choir practice last Sunday. Brandt daughter getting baptized this Saturday (previous baptism wasn't final one after all). Been doing some of the new member discussions with the Brandts - good times.

Yesterday when we went out to Dayton, Richard's family had a 4-wheeler and most everyone got to ride on it who wanted to. They told me I couldn't at first because I'm almost 6 months pregnant and they didn't want the start the baby coming early. But later in the evening, Richard took me out and drove around the roads. But, that loses excitement pretty fast so he took me to some huge sand pits and we drove up and down the sides and all over the trails and paths left by other 4-wheelers. It didn't bother me or the baby in the slightest until we started going over the little bumps along the trail. That was a bit uncomfortable because they caused me to bounce a lot in the back, so I drove and stood up until we were on smooth ground again. It was fun! Baby Jared had his first 4-wheel ride. Poor little guy probably had no idea what the heck his mommy was doing out there but he didn't fuss or kick about it so it must not have bothered him too much. Maybe he had fun too! =)

For The Fourth, we went out to Dayton with family and enjoyed some wonderful barbeque. Also enjoyed 4-wheeling, huge blue yoga ball, scored $4.9 million on Dope Wars on Shannon's Palm 515. Shannon, Glen, baby Ben, and Nicky were here from New York. Becky and Bonny petted a donkey and saw some wild horses up close. This afternoon we viewed "Two Weeks Notice" with Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock.

Baby Jared's ultrasound pics are now online in the photo gallery. Today Becky finally learned how to say "grandpa". Until now, she's been calling him "go-kah", even though grandma (Barnet) has been "gammy" and grandma Alice has been "ga-ma A-wis" all along. Misti and Becky practiced the differences and similarities in sounds between 'grandma', 'grandpa', and 'go-kah' until she finally made the switch.

Well, the more I really dig deeper into CSS-P (cascading stylesheets for positioning), the harder it gets. Inconsistencies amongst browsers is enough to drive you batty. Despite what everyone thinks, Mozilla does not offer the best support for the standards. I've found that Opera and K-Meleon are the best browsers (too bad I don't particularly like using either one, personally) for CSS support. What everyone does know is that IE 6 is not very good at standards (even in 'strict' mode) - the box model in IE is all screwed up. Mozilla is too slow and bloated - just like Netscape Communicator was 5 years ago. Even Firebird runs slow compared to the other choices, and all the Gecko-based browsers are riddled with bugs. Unfortunately, as long as 9 out of 10 people keep using MSIE, that's what I'll keep designing for. Yes, standards are nice, but right now they're too idealistic. The cold stark reality is that everyone still uses IE, and it doesn't appear like anything's going to change anytime soon, even though standalone IE development has been halted. Just a couple of years ago, who would've thought that we'd ever see the day when both Netscape and MSIE would both be dead. The 'browser wars' have become nostalgia.