WHAT YOU TALKIN' 'BOUT, WILLIS?

Election quizes and funny sites?

Anybody know of any funny quizes or election flash animations? I was looking for a good representation of sites by googling election flashanimations, but only found anti-Bush stuff. Where can I find more, including anti-Kerry and pro-thirdparty?

Rock Climbing

Here are some of my friends from church and I climbing last Sunday:

This was Lauren's first time climbing with Josh (they're dating!)

This was Sean's first time climbing on real rock.

Also present were Brett and Tim. Good outing!

forgotten foto

Here is one I almost deleted, then decided was worth keeping. What was I thinking?..
It is a little blurry..
Click for a closer look.

Vacation

Here are some pictures from our trip to Memphis and Dyersburg--the weekend we should have been in Florida basking in the sun, but hurricane Francis was pounding the coast.

This was actually Lake Winnie, the weekend before our trip.

Here is Jackson taking in some hay. HHHHEEEYYYY!!!!!

That hay was for the horses..

This is Jackson hanging out with his greatgrandmother, who is, well, pretty great!

After Dyersburg we went to Memphis and visited the zoo and Beale Street:

We had a nice room at Comfort Suites but Jackson had to do some work on the microwave:

We then visited our friends in Oxford, Mississippi, and visited the former home of William Faulkner.

This is Jackson happy as a clam, even though we came home two days early, didn't get to swim or see the ocean, and weren't even sunburned.

Cute?

Cute? Try cleaning this stuff off your floor and walls. Not too mention all the baby crevices.

"Hey Ladies!"

Click here to see some test shots from "Hey Ladies!" a film by Chris Willis, starring Meghraj Hazare.

another article

Here is another article of mine in The Pulse. I'm blown away by the enormous backpage ad for the Firefly Film Fest.

Weird Ebay stuff, Ambilight

Since I've been back online, I've been on eBay a lot. I've noticed a lot of weird stuff being auctioned and found this site with lists of weird finds.

My favorite is the bumper sticker and the invisible shirts.

In other news, I saw the ad for the new Philips flat TV with Ambilight and my tech-brain nearly melted.

Love Song

I think for the last 10 years, maybe 12 years, I've felt like basically the same person, a guy who likes to have fun and tries to do good things. Graduating college and getting a job and then getting married made some superficial changes to my life, but I've been basically the same guy.

Then Kerry got pregnant. Even though we planned it, it brought the fear: How is this going to change us? Can we change when we need to? You spend those nine months as a father thinking, how can I be a man, a Dad, when I feel like such a boy myself.

Then Jackson was born. And nothing happened. Like I expected some kind of morphing of myself into, well, into a real adult. But it didn't. For Kerry it did. The biology and chemistry that goes into mothering is staggering. She changed a bunch, and into the most caring, loving, incredible mother I could ever imagine.. not that I'm a slouch as a Dad. And she's been a "real" adult this whole time anyway.

But tonight it hit me. Jackson is 13 months old. I'm 30. While everything about my life is going as planned and the joy of my son is unimaginable, I realize I've changed, I'm changing, getting old. Maybe it's because we were having dinner at Piccadilly, which is very much like going to a funeral because it makes you think seriously about your own mortality (I saw an old man sheepishly cutting up bites and feeding his more feeble wife). At least it made me aware, I'm not a boy anymore. I'm a man.

Anyhoo. It's not sad, or uncomfortable. It just is.

"Let us go then, you and I..."

Back Online!

Got my new travelstar notebook drive last night and had XP installed and was back online within 3 hours! I had no idea I was so technically sufficient.. As a bonus for taking four months off our cable broadband bill I got myself a Wewa mp3 player.

Took a little while to get the wireless network up again, but was pleased to have figured that out pretty quickly too. Now I have to locate all the software I once used, figure out how to get Netdrive working again with my UTC netstorage, and figure several other quirks out.

Being hooked back up should keep me from wanting to buy this or this.

Grandbabies

I used to think parents asking their married children when they were going to have children was selfish. Now I think about my son and how happy he makes me, and that's what I want for him later--to be happy.

Pulse article

Here is a link to an article I wrote for The Pulse about the upcoming Firefly Film Fest.