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Don't get too excited, Brig isn't back to post his opinions on the Big 12, Big 10, Pac 12, or the even lamer Longhorn Network. He thought about it, and we talked about (believe me, not many weeks go by that I don't have to hear about the latest sports related scandal), but nothing got blogged.So onto the boring-ness. I've had lots of friends ask me how we got rid of cable and use a PC as our DVR

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I posted my quick take on LeBron last week (which you may have missed if you only link to me on Facebook), and other than the Game 7, I think I will stand by it.  Here is my blurb, before my additional thoughts: "Lebron James I think LeBron is a tool.  I hope the Dallas Mavericks put them down in 7 games.  I want it to go down to the wire, and I want the Mavs to take them in Miami.  I want

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I wanted to post a little about the NFL Lockout, because I really don't think it is a bad thing.  In the end this is a labor dispute, management and labor fighting to keep as much of the pie as they can get, and both sides should keep on fighting. That is where the easy part ends.  For those of you that need something to fall asleep to tonight, I'll give a recap of the dispute: 2006, The NFL

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I hate to use a string of tragedies to start blogging again, but as football season approaches, I finally hase some opinions that I am going to share with the world whether the world reads them or not.  Each of my topics below warrants its own post (or 5 posts in a couple of cases) but here are the highlights. P90X First, P90X started out great, I averaged 4 days a week and had only 1 glitch, my

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Holy cow, 4 days in a row.  Although tonight was the 90 minute YogaX, I completed a mere 40 minutes of it, so basically I did YogaJ1/2 (seriously do the math).  Yoga hurts. So many of you are wondering how it got this bad.  Well, it is a long story that can be summed up in this one picture. Now, lest you think that I have just let myself go without a thought or care, I did put a lot of thought

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I just finished day 2 of P90X for about the 7th time.  I made it 45 days the first time I tried it, but since then it has been like 3 weeks max.  This time I am going to attempt a 60 day run...  No excuses. So that is about all of the optimism I can garner for 1 day.  60 days is a long time, especially since I haven't made the commitment to work out in the mornings, which is really the only time

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Twin#Troubl rockin' the mic like a vandal.Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.7

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The wonder twins pretty much stalked the neighbor girl saying "ooooooooh", "cooooool", "wow" and presented other fawning gestures until she basically had no choice but let them take a ride. I have to say that it was the most polite car-jacking that I have ever seen, but I must admit that I have not been witness to very many car-jackings in my day. Twin #Trouble took the first ride and since

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Little guy had to take his class pet (stuffed frog named Leah) around with him everywhere this weekend, which I think is kind of creepy, but whatever. So on Saturday afternoon when we went to the driving range and forgot to take the frog, we HAD TO go back later in the evening and do a dramatic recreation of the event.  I was glad we did go back though, Little Guy found his swing. I'll repeat

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What else can be said but "Holy Crap, that was the Best College Football Weekend Ever!!!"  This is true, mostly because I said it, but I'm pretty sure everyone else believes it too, even Boise State fans have to agree with this one, despite their loss (to be explained herein). This weekend had it all, close overtime last minute upsets, usual suspect winners, heartache, bliss, tears of joy,

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I know that most of you think that I could give a rats behind about the NFL, and generally that is true, but this year I think I ate something that didn't agree with my brain and all of a sudden I find myself actually rooting for the Cleveland Browns. I will admit to having lived in Cleveland (of course I got my attorney's consent before I made that admission).  I can't imagine living there

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I saw a story on the news last night that talked about the inappropriate things people say about their jobs on Facebook and blogs.  Those people are stupid, but they did get me thinking, do my readers really know what I do? After reading this very misleading post, my goal is that you are even more clueless than when you started.  However, I decided to attach a picture of my workspace to give you

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No rousing commentary this week, just the Brig Poll.  At least I finally have Oregon ranked, they finally played enough quality games to qualify as #24 this week.  Giddiup.

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Another milestone passed, the LandCruiser turned 200,000 miles. I know that sounds like a lot, but the fact is that the Cruiser has a lot of miles left in it despite the slanderous lies propagated by the spin-masters over at Witness to Insanity. From their account, the LandCruiser is a ticking time-bomb violently sucking money from the kind people of the Balboa household and dumping it into the

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So let me get this straight, the Republicans throw the Democrats a historic beating, giving the power of the house to the Republicans, and Harry Reid has the gall to say that what the voters really want is for the Republicans to stop saying "no" to all of the ridiculous policies that he and the President can come up with before the power transfer is made official in January?? Harry Reid is a

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The BCS is heating up and the fights are going to start getting more intense as 3 non-BCS AQ schools are in the top 5.  However, the BCS will get a reprieve as TCU plays Utah this weekend, one of these schools will get the boot, and the BCS football monopoly will again be in balance. Boise State however has no real challengers left, unless you think Nevada (who lost to Hawaii last week) is going

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That time came and left again, you guessed it, that time of year when I get to bring out the Balboa knife and carve some Pumpkins.   I am going to write really big so as not to bore you with the details.  You're welcome! This year we went to THE STORE and picked out the cream of the crop, not too big, but all with nice faces, perfect for carving.   We sat around the computer picking out

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RE-POST FROM WITNESS TO INSANITY If you do not have access to Witness To Insanity, click here. Trick Or Treat! My 3 Jedi Knights headed out to score some sweet candy. I couldn't resist their cuteness and handed out some candy before they left to get them started. I really wanted to let Twin #1 and Twin # Other One to be something cute this year. Maybe a Buzz and a Woody. (Or even a quick

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I don't blog a lot about Wife, mostly because it is hard to catch her on camera, so I thought I would do a post exclusively about her.   All Smiles Wife Wife has a great smile, but sometimes you have to catch her off guard by throwing pillows at her to get a picture of a really good spontaneous one (those are the best ones). I happened to catch her one afternoon crashed out on the couch surfing

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Wife and I decided to get crafty this week, and what a better week to be crafty than the week of Halloween. Earlier this week I was told that I would be making Jedi cloaks for Halloween costumes, because we have 3 little boys that are obsessed with Anikan and Luke Skywalker, and Obi Wan Kenobi. Surprisingly, they are not as hard to make as you might imagine.  And they actually turned out pretty

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No commentary, the Poll this week speaks for itself.

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Week 6 and 7 were pretty crazy, Alabama out, Ohio State in, Ohio State out, Oregon in? If that sounds like a joke to you too, then you are in sane company.  The Brig Poll promoted LSU to # 1, then immediately demoted them and promoted Auburn. I like Auburn, they are putting together a pretty nice little string of wins. For some reason, I am even liking Oklahoma, despite my lifelong goal to

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College football week 5 heated up with a lot of great match-ups. I didn't get to see any of them, as I was busy being buried with sand and tar balls on the beach at the Gulf of Mexico. The only game I got to see from the San Luis Resort in Galveston TX was the Utah State beat-down of BYU on Friday night, and we turned that off before it was over, as it appeared that BYU decided not to show up

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I know there is a big social stigma surrounding child labor, but you  have to admit, sometimes it is is kind of cute. Twin # Poker Face was just getting into trouble anyway, so I decided to put all of his energy to good use and have him work a couple of deals for me. It's not like I gave him anything really important to do, all I do all day is say "approved" or "denied" and I scaled it down a

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Great weekend for Football.  Alabama - Arkansas, need I say more.  What a great game, there I said more.  That game met all of the hype surrounding it and did not disappoint. Who did disappoint?  Texas, that was ugly, I actually felt bad for all of the Longhorns that I know.  Who thought the Horns were going to fall apart this early in the season, PREDICTION, they are not going to come back

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I had plenty of time to update the football poll on Sunday, and maybe even a few minutes to recount the grid iron battles on Monday, but I didn't.  Then everything hit the fan, and now it is the Day after Wednesday. Last week football was very uninspiring.  There were some good games, but nothing ground breaking, in fact, the best thing that happened last week was when the Ohio University Bobcat

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Labor day is one of those odd holidays that seems to come out of nowhere and smacks you in the face.  I'm not even sure what the point of the day is, other than national retail chains use the fact that "you" get the day off, to have sales on all of their "wares", forcing their own employees to have to work overtime so you can celebrate the fact that "you" are not working by forcing someone else

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This was an exciting week for college football.  There were a couple of key match-ups, some juicy BCS drama, and my own inner conflict about supporting local college football teams. First, The Ohio State University put to rest all of the Miami (FL) hype around payback and blah blah blah surrounding this supposed rematch of the January 3, 2003 National Championship Game.  The picture to the left

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So this is my annual rant about college football, the NCAA and the BCS, in addition to my weekly ranking.  This year however, I am including for your reading and debating pleasure, my College Football Manifesto. First, the rant. The NCAA should be charged will criminal conspiracy to commit fraud.  They have conspired to perpetuate a fraud on all college football lovers. I really don't blame

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So this weekend could not have gone better.  I got up early Saturday morning and took little guy golfing in perfect weather. By the time we got done, Little Guy noted that he did not even break a sweat. My reply to him (that I really wanted to say but didn't say because my new CPS case worker might consider that "mean") was that maybe he wasn't working hard enough to hit par on every hole and

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So I wanted to let you all know that it has been a good ride, and I appreciate all of you for reading this blog for the last 5 years. However, it has come to my attention that my mother-in-law is coming into town this weekend, and I might just NOT "live to post another day." Don't get me wrong, I have the BEST MOTHER-IN-LAW IN THE WORLD, it's true, just ask me. But, as many of you know, as much

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You know things are going to go wrong when you let the 4 year old take the wheel, especially when you let them take the wheel of an Audi S4, and then you step on it.  Needless to say, Wife is not happy. Literally, I let the Little Guy take over driving the S4, and just as he pounced on the gas, it flew off the track and I stepped on it.  Call it just plain bad luck, call it not paying attention

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So Twin #1 had an exciting day yesterday. He came bounding down the stairs bright and early, and as he was climbing up the side of our bed to give mama-bear some snuggles, he slipped and fell and cut his ear pretty badly.So wife yells out to me as I was walking out the door to head to work, I run back and get there and Twin #1 was crying a little but, but not freaking out. I grabbed a wash

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It is all to often when Little Guy does something that really impresses me (which is probably a direct result of recently implementing a plan by which I continually lower my expectations). Saturday, however, he actually blew me away! It was a normal boring Saturday, I was just doing nothing basically, and wife was trying to get Little Guy to stop whining and clinging to her leg, when she

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So Little Guy and I have been hatching another evil plot to hook him up with a mohawk.  The timing just never seems right though. Every time we suggest it, Wife decides it is time for the annual Balboa Family photo-shoot again. The odd thing is that we bring up this mohawk idea every couple of weeks or so, so I have begun questioning the use of the word "Annual". That said, this dome whack

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So you may not believe that the Balboa family knows how to rough it, but I thought we did a pretty good job for our first family outing to a real farm.  As you can see from the pictures below, we dressed in last years clothes (as wife didn't want to ruin anything that actually fit right now, which I don't understand because it is not like any of the current duds are going to fit in 3 weeks

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So I got home yesterday, kissed the wife, you know, one of those 1950's walk in the door in my brown Tweed 3 button suit, dip my fedora to the lady with one hand, and scoop her around the back with the other while spinning a 3/4 circle lowering her into a medium dip and planting on her a soft, children on-looking appropriate, soft kiss to the lips. Upon finishing my best "Leave it to Beaver"

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What do you do with a 4 year old in the afternoon while working from home when the wife is tired b/c she had to deal with one of the twins that has a 104 temperature and slept on dad's side of the bed all night while dad slept on the couch? You go to the "super-secret drawer" and pull out the PSP, that's what.  Then you make sure that you have a movie that the kid has never seen, but are pretty

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One of the best things about Texas is that the Government, every once in a while, and throws us a bone and/or a couple of acres of "green belt" for us to play with.  And then every so often, we get an amazing sunset that makes us feel that the scraps of dirt allotted to us for our enjoyment have been noticed by the heavens. Sunday, the day of rest, or in our house, the day of lots of rest

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It is sad to say, but this might have been the last round of golf that Little Guy and I play with Zane for a long time.  As most of you probably don't know, my brother Zane (husband of newly minted PhD. Docta' Jill, wicked smart but not a rapper - weird I know) is moving to Georgia to fulfill his lifelong fantasy of retracing the steps and career of his long time favorite band R.E.M., or

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Holy Cow, that was a rough climb.  I knew it would be hard to get up the tallest mountain in the lower 48, but I never would have guessed that the altitude would affect me that bad.  When I say I barely made it, I'm not kidding.  It was that hard. I met up with part of my climbing crew at the Mt. Whitney visitors center in Lone Pine CA at about 5pm last Tuesday evening.  They arrived about an

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Little Guy has been learning about dress shirts and ties lately.  For this shot, we tried out a big fat Full Windsor knot in his tie.  I like it.  Wait for the upcoming shots of his new black dress shirt, we will throw it up as the backdrop to this tie, it is going to rock!  I just learned how to make sleeve plackets last night, so hopefully I can finish the shirt tonight.  Stay tuned.Twin #1

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As the head of the "Balboa" family, it falls upon me to ensure that momma Balboa gets time away from the craziness of the rest of us so that she doesn't leave us indifinitely. So as part of that strategy, I took the boys camping. We roughed it too, as we clearly took charge of the situation and after checking to make sure that our cooking area was clear of flammable debris, we ordered "Mighty

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This week is just going to get better.  Now that the experts have failed to stop the gulf oil spill, Obama is starting to show his desperation by asking anyone that has either seen a real gulf, or played one on TV to come down south and throw out ideas. His latest idea was to get James Cameron to help.  Cameron did Avatar, so he knows how to work in 3D environments, unlike BP that apparently

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I thought I would share this as I know many of you have been contemplating getting a new gold or platinum grill. Now, you know that I have never been one to tell people where to go and not go to get fitted for a new grill, but I think I owe it to my readers to tell you that this is DEFINITELY the place for you. If you are trying to look like Slick Rick or Flava Flav, you may want to know that

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The birthday celebration for the twins continued on Saturday, basically it was just an excuse for Wife to try out her newest cake idea, The Monkey Cake. Wife made 2 [pretty decent (I don't like cake, so when I say pretty decent, that is really good)] banana cakes in big glass bowls.  After we added the fudge stripe cookies for ears, she showed me what they were supposed to look like after they

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So it begins, a birthday, some presents and then all Hades Breaks Loose! I was shocked that the headlines weren't that bad after all.  In reality we had a really fun little family birthday party for the boys.  I came home early from slaving away for "The Man", helped wife clean-up a little bit, and then I went upstairs to get the little monsters boys up from their naps.  They were still a bit

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So another Mother's Day has come and past. Wife got a pair of flip flops and some new sandals (somehow these are different things) and this awesome card. Happy Mother's Day!

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Just so you know, I am still alive, good news to all of you who are not beneficiaries on my life insurance policies.  For the last week I have been really busy losing 10 pounds and working on my new shirt project.  I promised pictures for the 3 of you who care, so here they are. It actually turned out pretty good for my first shirt.  After about 10 more, they might be marketable.  And you have

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I'm just venting here, but if you are all mad because your 401k/pension lost a ton of money (which basically means that the "defined benefit" plan that you were under is probably going to get dumped by your current provider onto the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and your benefits will probably get cut), why get mad at Goldman Sachs rather than getting mad at the idiots that run your

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This weekend was crazy.  There were random family get togethers with a long lost sister, in which a brother was now long lost.  Boardwalk trips with cousins, sleepovers and of course, late night Rock Band Jam Sessions! I'm not one to brag, but I was laying down some track that even Snoop himself gets goose bumps listening to.  You can see my passion for flair as I belt out some of the great

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In light of my spotlight this week for Twin #1 (Brooks Brothers) I thought I would share some of this weeks highlights of him, these were just too good not to share.  Enjoy. Brooks Brothers gets his own Big Boy bed, now whether he can figure out how to use it is another story entirely.  This week I have been spending a lot of time in the room at bedtime working with them to stay in their beds

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Lately I have been working on new nicknames for the boys and they keep getting shot down in committee, so I think I need help trying to find the right nicknames.  My latest nickname for Twin #1 is "Brooks Brothers", mostly because he can rock just about any outfit including Urban Cowboy.  Just to be clear, he makes Brooks Brothers look good. I know, not exactly a cool nickname like Skippy or

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So, I told you how I was personally inaugurated into the Radical Right-Wing Conspiracy (RRWC).  What I didn't tell you was that I have to start out as a low level grunt operative.  I'm not sure of the details, but they did send me and instruction manual that came in the mail last week. It was even signed by the architect himself, who I think is the president of the Conspiracy, but it looks like

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Is it really necessary to pay kids to do things they should do just because it gives them a little bit of motivation, and me a little bit less headaches, and less visits from CPS?  Personally, I think my boys should just praise me when I walk in the door each night showering me with hugs and drawings depicting their gratitude for day in and day out keeping a roof over their heads and food in

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Is it really that time again?  The twins are getting so big! Wife and I decided that it was time for The Other Twin to move into a Big Boy Bed.  This is a big deal, and it was a tough call because Twin #1 is doing just fine still chilling in his kid cage crib. The Other Twin however, has been jumping out of his crib for months, but recently he just wouldn't stay in it, so we were at the point

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Have you ever had one of those days when you work all day long only to come home to your wife folding laundry in the formal dining room that has never been formally dined in? Well, welcome to my world yesterday. So this is what I have to put up with when I get home.  I literally could not stop laughing when I saw this.  I felt so bad for wife.  I guess she just could not get anything done with

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I think there might be a need for an intervention at my house. Wife has been on a perpetual Diet Coke buying binge and for some reason she keeps blaming me for it. I'd like to note, for the record, that I don't think that I have ever purchased a 24 pack of Diet Coke, let alone 5 of them. I'm certainly not saying that I do not joyfully partake in the sweet heavenly diet nectar of the angels (

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So I am tired of being limited by the free market when it comes to dress shirts.  So I have decided to Implement the MASTER PLAN and go it alone and make my own. I figured that if I could master collars and cuffs, I could probably pull off an entire shirt, then I can order fabric from some decent textile shops in the UK and forever distance myself from the centrally controlled dress shirt cartel

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Giving yourself a haircut is just par for the course at our house.  So when Little Guy took the shears to his own hair, nobody even blinked. Wife thought Little Guy just snuck off to eat some recently looted Easter candy, little did she know that he was in our bathroom trying to get the hair out of his eyes (full disclosure, his hair was nowhere near his eyes, but it was touching his forehead

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What an awesome Easter Weekend.  I think I am going to let the pictures do the talking today, but you can only imagine what I would have to say, if I was inclined to tell you all about how I drove 2 hours just to have some over-sized gang-bangers dressed up as boy scouts block our entrance to E-Rock based on some arbitrary volume limits. I could also tell you all about how hot wife was giddy to

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So as you can see I've taken off a little bit of time from updating the blog, at first this was unintentional, and then there were just too many things to write about, and then there was nothing that seemed worth writing about, and then I just thought, wow, this little break is nice, I could get used to this. However, I feel now that rather than going to see an overpriced therapist who will just

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So I have a son that is a total extreme sports fanatic.  He is constantly pushing the envelope and his comfort level with respect to risk is increasing. Lately however, he has taken one of my favorite sports, EATING, and found a new twist to make it even more dangerous than the State of NY thinks it is. Now you may have thought that I was talking about Little Guy, but I am really talking about

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Wife and I were sitting down together watching a documentary about Stephen Hawking and his Information Paradox (which you can watch at this link).  I thought we were having a good time but now I completely mistrust my judgment about what a good time really is. I mean it all started out well, she was folding some laundry, I was petting one of the dogs and using big words like Quantum Physics and

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So this has been a pretty bad month for my good friend Al Gore.  Fortunately, he has put together the greatest scam ever before foisted upon the world, and you can't even blame him for it (I'll get to that later).  This is part of my Radical Right Wing Conspiracy series, so if you get bored easily, you can stop reading here, I almost fell asleep two paragraphs down just writing this drivel.

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It is with deep regret that I inform all of my most ardent supporters that I will not be seeking the Democratic nomination to the United States Senate seat in New York.  I know that all 3 of you will be disappointed, but after recent conversations with President Obama and Karl Rove (detailed earlier), I have determined that my time would be better spent doing something else, like coming to grips

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So today I decided to take a stand, well, I decided to stand up and have my picture taken anyway, and that is kind of the same thing.  In fact, I was personally inaugurated into the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy by the Architect himself, Karl Rove! I was disappointed at the lack of a really cool handshake, as you can see here, this is just a normal firm business like handshake, one that you would

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Today was a pretty big day for me.  During the lunch Break at Blair House where President Obama was meeting with a group of angry old white men and Nancy Pelosi, the President decided to stop by my house for a quick chat about healthcare. The meeting went pretty well, we agreed on a lot of important points including that the bill was a very big stack of paper and didn't include nearly enough

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Didn't think there would be more to this story? So after Little Guy got home from school, we decided to go out and build a real snowman, rather than just enjoy the quickly disappearing little table center-piece that I had crafted earlier. As you can see, it took just about all of the snow from our lawn to build this beauty, and it was crazy heavy because the snow was pretty wet. The final

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Holy Crazy snow Batman!  We woke up this morning to a snowstorm, now this would not be that big a deal in Dallas where they routinely get like 5 inches on any given day, but this is Austin! I am seriously thinking about pulling out the snowboard and trying to find a decent hill. I resigned myself however to making a snowman and then trying to see if it would make a good centerpiece for the

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Little guy and I took a day trip out to Enchanted Rock and had a blast!  The day was met with adventure as well as mystery and tears. The day started with a quick drive out to Fredricksburg, the community festival capital of the world which displays for sale the best authentic old world German antiques and souvenirs that China can produce! Only 17 miles later to the North-West, we got to

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So it looks like my old surfing partner is going to be back in town soon.  This is bittersweet news.  Bitter because it is getting really hard to find the time to get down to the Gulf to go surfing, but sweet because I am getting better at persuading the wife into letting me go on my wild crusades. This is a crusade long past due.  Although the surfing in the Gulf of Mexico is not ideal, it is

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This year was a rough year for Superbowl advertisers.  After the game was over, wife (MBA, Marketing '05) came into the living room to re-watch the game, well not the game, but the commercials. She DVR'd the game so she could go back and watch the commercials?  Yes, that is exactly what I was thinking. She was spouting "who got the early spots" and "when are the commercial re-runs going to

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Avatar was a complete waste of $26 (yes, I took a hot date and yes, my wife was cool with it).  Let me get this right, there is one good 3D scene in the movie (the ashes falling part) and I am supposed to think that this is a theatrical revolution? Seriously, I think I saw better 3D effects watching PhilharMagic at Disney World last year, and that movie is probably 35 years old.  At least in

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I wasn't sure whether to just write my eulogy today, or save the time and watch some re-runs of the Andy Griffith Show.  It was a tough call, but without the guarantee that the episode would be from the Don Knotts years, I figured that I would just do the eulogy. As many of you know I have been climbing for nearly 20 years now, I have no plans to stop, but it is getting increasingly difficult to

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I have the pleasure of serving as Patriarch over a nuthouse.  I'm not kidding, consider the conversation I overheard during this little diddy of a breakfast: Little Guy (LG):  Hey Twin # Trouble, guess how many Cheerios I can stuff into my mouth at one time. Twin # Trouble (TT):  I have no idea, but I will stare at you with feigned indifference while you try to choke yourself on whole grain

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Everywhere you look is wrought with disasters, economic turmoil and strife.  But enough about my living room.  On a positive note, yesterday was Little Guy's first day of pre-school (again) and I will tell you, I have not seen wife this happy since the last time I let her hold my hand in public. Normally wife is trying to squeeze in a few minutes of Wall Street Journal/ New York Times reading/

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I decided to copy this post over from Witness to Insanity, our family's "exclusive members only country club style blog where only the individually selected fake champagne sipping uppity blogo-royalty can gain access into our gated blogging community."  But this was so funny, I thought I would condescend among the great unwashed masses and share a little glimpse into the lives of the solidly

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The last couple of weeks around bedtime, all I have had to do to get these two goofballs to come running into a trap their room to get on their PJs is just yell, "Let's Brush our Teeth" and they come runny like crazy.  They especially like it when I pull out the foot-stool thing so they can wet their own tooth brushes.  There is barely enough room on it for both of them, but so far they have

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Our bed has gone through quite a few transformations since I first built it.  In fact my very second ever blog post was about the new bed and how excited I was to get a compound mitre saw with which to build it. Then Wife had to have a fabric headboard inserted into it, no big deal except that then she wanted matching pillows that I then had to custom make.  No big deal because she also let me

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What a disappointment.  I thought this would be something revolutionary.  I even went home for lunch to watch the live blogging online. But all we get is the old person LARGE PRINT EDITION of the iPhone, without the phone. Here is my problem with it, how can you play games on it that require swiping?  Unlike the iPhone that you can hold with your index fingers and swipe with your thumbs and

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Brig Cooking, its just like Martha Stewart or Bobby Flay, but without the jail time or goofy smiles. This is not my creation, I ripped it off of a website that publishes PF Chang's recipes, so you know this is quality fake Chinese/ Chinese-American goodness.  I would definitely give myself a 10 for taste, a 10 for plating, and a monster 0 for originality. And I did want to note, for my mom,

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This past weekend was so good that I am probably going to be posting all this week about it, unless something else shakes things up. On Saturday, Zane came up with his little guy and went for a hike with my Little Guy and me.  We had a rough start trying to get them excited about walking through a drainage ditch, but as soon as they saw the "tunnels" they were really excited. On the other side

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I just wanted to throw in a quick update and show off the twins.  We had an awesome weekend including some building projects and adventures, as well as you will get to see some of my cooking prowess...  Stay tuned, this week is going to be good! Zane took these pics this weekend, I thought they were really good, so I decided to share.  He was using his new birthday lens and Christmas flash to

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So I am back. The rumors passed around by my mother-in-law were not true despite her long time wishes to "Trade-Up." Sorry Suzie B., I am here for the long haul. This is going to be a most excellent year, I can already tell. I am expecting lots of adventures, mis-haps probably a broken bone or two, I might go sky-diving, Wife might get a few days away from the crazy to read books on a beach,

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Contrary to the rumors that my mom is floating around, Brig is alive.And in a bit of investigative reporting, I found out Brig's take on the Bowl Game Bonanza. They were so uninspiring that he has nothing to say about them.I thought he could at least give me a shout out for the tasty treats I made him for the Alabama - Texas match-up. But nothing. Can you hear the crickets? I can.

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I predicted Cincinnati by 18 a couple of weeks ago, however I predicted that it would be because Tebow would fake a pulled hammy to stop the embarrassment brought to them courtesy of the Big East Champ.  They should have just stuck with my plan, it is much less pathetic. I had no idea Florida would resort to this. At first I thought, oh, Meyer is trying to preserve what he has left of his

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We had our pictures done a couple of weeks ago for our Christmas card.  Here's the preview.

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This was one of the most lazy weekends we have had in a long time.  Just about everyone in the house was sick at some point this past week, so it was nice to shut down for much of the weekend. Wife was pretty much down from Friday night through Saturday night (I slept for 12 hrs on Sunday), but performed like a trooper during the day on Saturday, mostly because she didn't trust me to pick out

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We decided to put up the Christmas decorations early this year, in fact we did it on the day after Thanksgiving after all of our guests left for home. We bought a pre-lit fake Christmas Tree on Christmas Eve last year, but didn't set it up as we already had spent 2 days wrangling lights and ornaments onto my old-school un-pre-lit tree.  But alas, the Wife and I bought a pre-lit and not

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There is a lot of animosity about the bowl picks this week.  I am not all that shocked or dismayed by the choices, I will say however that Boise State and TCU should consider their BCS Bowl games a gift.  I would not have been so kind.  Beat a few teams with winning schedules (who beat a few teams with winning schedules) and you will be considered legit, if nobody will play you because they

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Texas pulls off a miracle, Alabama shows Florida's true colors and Cincinnati shows that schizophrenia can win football games. It was an amazing weekend of football.  I was more than happy to see Florida fall from grace, as, in my opinion, they never rose to any grace in the first place. Alabama played a spectacular game, their offense came to play and executed against a Florida defense that

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Holy Crap.  When it rains it pours.  Long story short.  Nothing wrong with Cruiser except dead battery, so we had it towed for nothing, yeah.  Then, when I am at home for lunch so Wife can take the car to go get some milk and bananas, Twin # Trouble falls on a window sill and gets a cut next to his eye.  So while she gets an appointment to have him looked at to see if he needs stitches, Little

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In local automotive news, the Family Truckster LandCruiser failed to start yesterday.  What makes this especially rough is that Wife was on her way to the gym for the first time in about a week and a half because at least one of the little guys has had either a fever or a runny nose.  So this was her first chance to get some personal time. So, in a effort to be supportive, I came home at lunch

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So I know what you are thinking.  Brig is at it again, he is jet-setting to Europe on his private Gulfstreem G550, getting his hair cut by Angelo Rizza as he stops by Pamplona for a trim on his way to Prague for a 10 minute sit down with the Finance Ministry. Well, not this time.  This week it was Wife that decided she had to get a hair cut for our annual family picture for the Christmas card,

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I wanted to blog the post-Thanksgiving wrap-up and add a few of the details that often make their rounds "in-the-family" gossip circles, but never see the light of day.  Here is the true story of Thanksgiving! First, it is important that there be some drama to the weekend, otherwise you might as well just order a bucket of KFC and eat it alone in your bed, because drama is what makes us keep

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Check out this awesome time-lapse of my brother putting up his Christmas tree.  Unfortunately you actually have to go to his blogish thing to check it out as I can't figure out how to post videos with the new blogger editor, I seem to remember that I could do this in the old editor.  He set up his camera to take a picture every 20 seconds.  When you get to hi blog, click on the title

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The weekly Brig Poll is out.  Alabama holding strong at #1 with Texas keeping up at #2, Florida trailing, and the Buckeyes surprisingly not falling much despite not playing this weekend.

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I thought I would run down the stuff I'm grateful for, stuff that makes me feel like Sugar Ray Robinson looks!.  These are not in any particular order, that would take effort: 1.  Bonus Fries 2.  "Punk Rock Girl" by the Dead Milkmen 3.  3 sons that love "Punk Rock Girl" by the Dead Milkmen 4.  Wife's cute disapproving scowl every night when the boys and I jam out to "Punk Rock Girl" by the Dead

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