Happy birthday ND & CV!

My weekend? Beyond the blah-grumpies...

Tonight
CJ has his group karate class
CJ has karate demo practice at the same time as the tournament prep practice (whch I am skipping today)
Immediately following that, I have my blue w/green stripe test.

Saturday
Sleep as late as possible
Drive into Denver for CJ's green belt test
Find something to do for 4 hours while he tests
Dinner somewhere and then sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

Sunday
Chores
Chores
Sleep
More chores

Finishing up my semester's work, hanging with B&E, and not killing my uncle.

Tomorrow, we are meeting with a realtor to discuss getting this place sold ASAP. Then going to Goodwill to drop off a bunch of clothes, and out for dinner. Sunday, we drive to CT and talk to my family about possibly moving to New Orleans. Monday, Tom has a dentist appointment. (we both have the day off.) Also probably giving the NOLA company his decision.

So you finally got in touch with your Mom? Good to know. Hope the job works out for Tom. I'll be sad to see you guys go (my only Salem peeps!), but I know how much you want this.

It's so exciting to have a job offer in the place you want to move to! I have now relocated three times with no job, and it's scary....

OK, here's a random musing: Isn't it funny how different food fills you up differently? I had the frozen TJ's spinach lasagna for lunch, and it says it's only like 350 calories, so I figured I'd need a snack, but I'm so full right now! Hearty.

Tommy - softball games like that are SO hard to coach. When Kelly was in high school, the majority of the teams in their devision were like the two in that story. They always came out and played softball in their usual style in the first inning. It doesn't benefit the other team to completely play down to their level - how do they learn to improve? And it doesn't help our girls to not play at the level they can.

BUT taking advantage of every little mistake is not a reason to steal multiple bases. And as the innings progressed and our team hit the run rule limit, they would bring down their agressiveness at the plate and on the bases.

Even so, I remember one game where the score had gotten so crazy, our girls were trying to get out on purpose...stepping off base, not pushing to beat a tag, swinging at bad pitches, and such. Their girls didn't get it and wouldn't miss the tag or the ump would ignore things that should cause instant outs. It was crazy making. We just could not get out of the inning without scoring more runs.

Stranded at an airport but need to run Norway? There's an app for that.

Norway's Stranded Prime Minister Uses iPad To Govern From U.S.

An enormous volcanic ash cloud has shut down air travel in Europe, canceling flights and stranding Europe-bound passengers around the world.

But thanks to the iPad, stranded Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg hasn't had any trouble.

Stoltenberg, who traveled from Oslo to the U.S. to participate in President Obama's nuclear summit, is now stuck in New York City. Stoltenberg's press secretary told CNN that the prime minister has been running his government from Apple's tablet.

A photo of Stoltenberg on the Norwegian Government's official Flickr account shows the prime minister and his iPad under the (translated) title "The prime minister is working at the airport."

National Pickle Week kicks off

A very odd photo. They don't make bras like they used to.

heh ... years ago I worked for a PR firm and one of the clients was involved with pickles (trade association or something). As a result, one of our staffers ended up standing on a street corner clutching a thee- or four-foot-long plastic pickle. And trying to catch a cab.

It's Friday, so you guys need to talk more.