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I’m really excited that they are finally releasing the movie The Work and The Glory 3 - A House Divided. I still love the books the Work and the Glory 100 times better than the movies, but I must admit that I think it is fun to be able to see someone’s interpretations of the books. I don’t like that they are releasing the movie in Utah first and then going to the rest of the US. My wife suggested we drive up to St. George to see it. That might be a nice idea, except I’ve pretty much sworn off going to movies with my son. I just can’t handle it. Either I or my wife wouldn’t get to enjoy the movie with my son there.

I guess we’ll just have to settle for The Work and The Glory 3 trailer until it finally makes it to theatres in my area.

A bunch of my friends from my previous job have put together a Fantasy Football league for us all to stay in touch. It’s interesting to see how we’ve spread throughout the country after graduating from college.

Well, I’ve been hating life this week and last week in Fantasy Football. I have so many people on their bye weeks that I barely have enough people playing. To add to my Fantasy Sports nightmare week, I’m stuck with 3 starting quarterbacks and I only need to start one quarterback.

Oh well, if you don’t know already, I’m very interested in Fantasy Sports since I’m working on a Fantasy Sports Fundraiser. Fantasy Sports is so addicting. My favorite part of fantasy sports is that I actually love watching almost every NFL football game now because almost every game has either one of my or my opponents players. What’s my wife going to do with me?

I’m an incredible BYU football fanatic. I absolutely love watching the games and reading all about the team. This year is looking pretty promising after we knocked off TCU at TCU. It would have been really nice if we could have taken down either Arizona or Boston College. We were close in both games, but couldn’t quite pull it out.

Well, this week BYU football has a bye week and so I have to find other sports to entertain me. Thankfully, this is a great time of year. The playoffs are the only part of baseball that are really worth watching other than watching the rankings of my Texas Rangers. I am excited to see that Detroit is up 3 games on Oakland. I don’t know why, but I’ve never liked Oakland and I like the makeup of this Detroit Tigers team.

Of course this weekend will have plenty of football. Plenty of drama last weekend with TO’s return to Philadelphia. I arrived in Dallas with about 5 minutes left in the game. I think all these Texas cowboys were going to beat me up when I cheered when Philly intercepted Drew Bledsoe. Too bad ESPN radio was junk the rest of my time in Texas as they talked about the Cowboys the whole time.

Basketball preseason is even starting up. Before long we’ll have both football and basketball to enjoy. That’s what I’m talking about!! My wife just loves this time of year. It’s like it makes ESPN’s sportscenter interesting again.

Also, what’s up with all this problems with planes in New York by sports professionals? Have you read these 2 stories?

A-Rod unhurt after private jet overruns runway
Lidle’s final maneuver is focus in crash investigation

When my previous Wordpress.com website got torn down because of a supposed TOS violation, I had to quickly choose a host of my own so that I could move my blog to a new place. Of course I didn’t spend the time that I needed to in order to select a reliable host. Of course after I’ve already chosen a host I found a place called Real Metrics (www.realmetrics.com) that does all of the testing for you. They measure thousands of things from a variety of hosts. It’s a great place to select a host from a whole variety of factors. My favorite measurement is how quickly support responds to you. That’s VERY important for you to know before choosing a host. You don’t want to be wondering what’s going on with your host.

Google has done a redesign of its groups. It’s pretty cool to see how Google continues to innovate it’s beta products which are as good as production. That’s pretty amazing that most of this stuff was created in the 20% of time that is given to Google employees.

The new features of Google groups is really a great enhancement that should open them up for more groups to finally use them. Before they seemed almost more like a spam area.

Tonight I was able to watch the Grey’s anatomy episode. I have to admit that it isn’t as captivating as it was last season. I’m quite disappointed. I’m not sure why. I think they just need to introduce some new characters that make the current characters more interesting.

The little girl that didn’t have pain was a really interesting story line. Having Izzy (however you spell it) stand outside the hospital was dumb. That’s crazy, unbelievable and boring. Tell her to get on with life or send her back to her room so we can stop wasting our time on her. Let her greeve in peace.

Buy Grey’s Anatomy DVDs, T-shirts, etc

If you didn’t get a chance to see the show then you can see the Episode of Grey’s Anatomy online at ABC.

It’s still worth watching, but they need to step it up or it’s going the way of many other shows.

Other Grey’s Anatomy News:
Isaiah Washington Off Grey’s Anatomy

I think that everyone pretty much knows about Dyson by now. They have done an excellent job on their commercials being something memorable. They also make the point clear that their vacuum cleaners are able to suck so much better than all other vaccums.

Well, it turns out Dyson has put their sucking machine to good use by creating the Dyson Airblade hand drier. It will allegedly dry your hands in 10 seconds and uses up to 83% less energy doing so. Has anyone ever used one of these? I know I hate using blow driers in batherooms because they pretty much are useless. They don’t dry anything. I don’t mind drying with a paper towel and then doing a blow dryer. However, having a blow dryer that works would be such a novel concept.

I’d love to hear some people talk about their experiences with Dyson products. They seem well made. Anyone swear by it?

Benji Schwimmer is still going strong (at least until the So You Think You Can Dance Tour ends). Although, by that point the next season of So You Think You Can Dance will have started and he’ll be made popular by the next season of So You Think You Can Dance.

Until then, enjoy all these videos of Benji Schwimmer.

Everyone should know by now that I’m pretty involved in the PayPerPost era of blog advertising. It’s been fun to be apart of it, but some people are so against it. Take a look at this and this blog post. Well, let me answer a few questions PayPerPost asked in regards to these blog posts.

Do you guys think you are creating SPAM?
I am not creating SPAM. I’m creating original posts that relate to my life. People can choose to read my blog or not. One simple look at my stats reveals that people are reading a lot. That’s proof enough for me that my blog isn’t just spam.

Do you think we[PayPerPost] are slimeballs?
I might agree with this assertion that you are slimeballs. Although, it has absolutely nothing to do with the reasons the blog posted. Nor does it have anything to do with PayPerPost. I think it has to do with you not sending me a t-shirt of PayPerPost.

Isn’t it up to you to choose what you write about and if you disclose or not?
This is all up to me. Although, if PayPerPost could build in a new feature to the system that types out original blog posts for me that incorporates all of the advertiser requirements then I’d greatly appreciate it.

One of the coolest videos I think there is out there is the LDS video out of the mouth of babes. In fact, I think that they even put out a second video. It’s amazing hearing what children will say when you ask them serious questions. They give the funniest answers. I love how innocent children are. I think that we could all benefit from being a little more innocent. I guess that’s why the bible says to become like little children. Being that innocent and loving is a part of what it’s referring to.

Well, in honor of out of the mouth of babes, here’s a good one with children talking about mothers. Enjoy!!

Why God made “moms” answers given by elementary school age children to the following questions:

Why did God make mothers?
1. She is the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
2. Mostly to clean the house.
3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?
1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.
2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.
3. God made my Mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.

What ingredients are mothers made of?
1 God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world and one dab of mean.
2. They had to get their start from men’s bones. Then they mostly use string, I think.

Why did God give you your mother and not some other Mom?
1. We’re related.
2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people’s moms like me.

What kind of little girl was your Mom?
1. My Mom has always been my Mom and none of that other stuff.
2. I don’t know because I wasn’t there, but my guess would be pretty bossy.
3. They say she used to be nice.

What did Mom need to know about dad before she married him?
1. His last name.
2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he get drunk on beer?
3. Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs and YES to chores?

Why did your Mom marry your dad?
1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my Mom eats a lot.
2. She got too old to do anything else with him.
3. My grandma says that Mom didn’t have her thinking cap on.

Who’s the boss at your house?
1. Mom doesn’t want to be boss, but she has to because dad’s such a goof ball.
2. Mom. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the bed.
3. I guess Mom is, but only because she has a lot more to do than dad.

What’s the difference between mom s and dads?
1. Moms work at work & work at home, & dads just go to work at work.
2. Moms know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.
3. Dads are taller & stronger, but moms have all the real power ’cause that’s who you got to ask if you want to sleep over at your friend’s.
4. Moms have magic; they make you feel better without medicine.

What does your Mom do in her spare time?
1. Mothers don’t do spare time.
2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long

What would it take to make your Mom perfect?
1. On the inside she’s already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of plastic surgery.
2. Diet. You know, her hair. I’d diet, maybe blue.

If you could change one thing about your Mom, what would it be?
1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I’d get rid of that.
2. I’d make my Mom smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it and not me.
3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on her back.

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THE MOMMY TEST

I was out walking with my 4 year old daughter. She picked up something off the ground and started to put it in her mouth. I took the item away from her and I asked her not to do that. “Why?” my daughter asked.

“Because it’s been lying outside, you don’t know where it’s been, it’s dirty and probably has germs” I replied.

At this point, my daughter looked at me with total admiration and asked,”Wow! How do you know all this stuff?” “Uh”, I was thinking quickly. “All moms know this stuff. It’s on the Mommy Test. You have to know it, or they don’t let you be a Mommy.”

We walked along in silence for 2 or 3 minutes, but she was evidently pondering this new information.

“OH…I get it!” she beamed, “So if you don’t pass the test you have to be the daddy.”

“Exactly” I replied back with a big smile on my face and joy in my heart

When you’re finished laughing, send this to a Mom.