Europa Oil Family Idiot Apples

We visited the Church orchard a few days ago to pick some apples. I didn't know apples could get sunburns, but they do. (You just never see them at the store.) They look like a bruise, but they're not, they're just a discoloration. Still tastes fine. Mmmmmm.   =)

We watched the 2006 Europa Super Show yesterday via the live webcast. We caught about ½ of the pre-judging round and most of the men's finals. If you missed the show, check out the free replay online. Congratulations to Toney Freeman on his victory!

Well, round 7 of Oil Fight is coming to a close, and I'm not doing well. I'm still battling for the #25 slot. I did much better last round. Sigh.

We had a nice family visit this past from Darlene and Bonny. They came up to spend a few days, and hang out before school starts. They also enjoyed the orchard and the State Fair (as mentioned in a previous post) with us, amongst other fun activities.   =)

Oh, and I'm an idiot about the Google ad problem I mentioned in my last post, as it was just my FireFox Adblock extension filtering out the ad. Duh.

Newcombs Pass Basque Pluto Gas

A few weeks ago, we enjoyed visiting the San Inazio Basque Festival in Boise and meeting Terri Lamb, a distant family member on Misti's side. It was very hot that day, however, so we didn't stay too long.

We also enjoyed having the Newcombs (Chris, Sarah, and Aiyana) over for dinner recently. We enjoyed a great dairy-free dinner (for the most part - Sarah, would you like a glass of milk with that?), and played "It Came To Pass". Good times.

Something weird has happened with my Google Ads (AdSense) box on the sidebar. Everything's fine in Internet Explorer, but it doesn't seem to want to display in FireFox. Nothing has changed on my end, so Google broke it. Sorry.

Gas prices are sure high lately (even more so than usual), at an average of $2.99/gallon. Ouch. And if stellar gas prices aren't enough, it now appears that there is some debate over the new, proposed classification of planets. Instead of going from 9 to 12 official planets in our solar system, we may kick out Pluto, and revert back to only 8. Which would you prefer?

Uma Brimley

We watched two new movies (new to us, anyway) over the past couple of nights: "The Avengers" (1998; Sean Connery, Uma Thurman, Ralph Fiennes), and "A Place To Grow" (1994; Wilford Brimley), both on fullscreen DVD. In all actuality, they were both kinda weird. I guess that's why they were in the cheap bin, hmmmm.

Fair Edge Walls

Well, my cheap Wal-Mart "geek" calculator watch unexpectedly took a dump this past week, so it's now comfortably installed in the local landfill. In a freak turn of the wheel, I reached exactly 85,000 miles (136,794.24 km) on the car odometer as I pulled into the garage a couple of nights ago.

We watched "The Cutting Edge 2: Going for the Gold" (2006; Stepfanie Kramer, Oksana Baiul, Christy Carlson Romano, Ross Thomas) on fullscreen DVD recently. It's a good sequel to the original, even though the original actors aren't in it. (The replacement actors are a good match.)

Misti has painted the house interior over the past 2 weeks. Replacing the stock white walls are now the following colors: royal blue (master bedroom), banana yellow (kids' room), pink (extra room), burgandy (living room), and beige (kitchen). Very colorful! It's funny to see how color can increase or decrease the apparent size of a room.

We went to the 2006 Western Idaho State Fair yesterday in Garden City. Wow - lots of smells! (Bleh.) And the sheer amount of unhealthy food walking around on sticks was absolutely puke-forming. I couldn't believe all the people just going crazy over the "bucket of fries" and foot-long corn dogs. Combine that with the hot, steamy cow patties, and the sweaty B.O. wafting around, and it's quite the experience on a hot day.   =)

Opera Planets

Here's a funny screenshot from the Opera browser update checker:


It's actually supposed to be Opera 9.01, not 90.1... Opera 90 will hit when I'm approximately 60 years old!

In cool astronomical news, three new planets/plutons will soon be officially added to our solar system roster (for a total of 12 instead of the historic 9): Ceres, Charon, and Xena. Nice.

OpenIHOP Hendricks MooZoo

On Saturday, after having an enjoyable breakfast at Perkins (including a free birthday slice of peach pie for Mist), we enjoyed the zoorific offerings of the Boise Zoo. The kids loved the animals, of course, especially the penguinos.

We also did some shopping on Saturday in downtown Boise, including grabbing some delicious ice cream treats from Maggie Moos, including one very delicious Strawberry Fields Fruit Smoothie. Mmmmmm.

We had an interesting time trying to eat at IHOP (International House of Pancakes) also - we went in, were promptly seated and given menus, and that was it! We sat for ½ hour just talking and helping the kids color their menus, etc., and still no waitress to take our drink orders or anything! Very bizarre! So we walked out.

And it's not like they were short-handed or anything. Other people around us came in after we did, got their drinks right away, and even started eating. It's like we were just plain invisible. Very weird. We ending up driving around looking for somewhere else we could handle eating at, and oddly enough ended up at another IHOP down the road - but this time we actually got to order! Yeah!   =)

In other news, the Hendricks came over for dinner last night. We enjoyed a wonderful turkey meal with red potatoes, and a yummy chocolate cake ala mode for dessert. Mmmmmm.

Of interest only to techies, it turns out that OpenOffice is more susceptible to virii than MS Office. Super lame - although not surprising, really.

BodySpace!

So, we launched a new feature at work, called BodySpace Beta. Check it out - it's like MySpace on steroids! Here's my profile.   =)

Brad Loves Juggling!

Gorilla Tough?