Life

This is the end of New Year's Day 2012. There are no deep and moving or deeply though provoking things going on here, so read it at your own risk of bordem.

Today was almost a completely normal day where everyone is off from work or school. Almost in that Natalie didn't spend all day working on lesson plans and neither Sam nor Jake had a last minute project to finish. And almost normal in that I don't normally put away the outside Christmas decorations (lights and such).

Something new to the normal routine is Natalie sitting on the new recliner, playing with her new phone.

Natalie enjoys having somewhat different ringtones on her phone. For the longest time, her last phone had the opening credits music for Eureka as her ringtone. Eventually, she came to think that it was too hard to hear in her purse, so it eventually was something else.

Happy New Year!

May 2012 be better than the disaster everyone seems to think 2011 was.

Tonight, Sam had the hiccups. At the same time I was listening to the NOAA weather voice sing Deck the Halls, via io9  Sam decided to start singing, with his hiccups.

Natalie convinced him to let me record it. 

Hilarity ensues.

1. Deck the Halls
2. Silent Night

Share and Enjoy!

The audio was recorded on my HP TouchPad and converted to MP3 using Audacity.

This weekend we were able to make it down to the 38th Annual Neptune Festival Boardwark Weekend at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront. Sorry the pictures are a little fuzzy. I only had my cell phone to work with and I didn't realize the lens needed to be cleaned. We really enjoyed the sand sculptures, and the boys had fun either walking on the beach or walking on water in a large plastic hamster ball.

I am sitting in Virginia Beach right now, finishing up my work week.

I wish I could say that I was looking forward to the weekend, but that isn't true. Hurricane Irene is just starting to show up. The grey clouds have already started.

Today is definately different from the normal day. Every time I've been out of the house, there's been an ambulance rushing somewhere along the way I was traveling. Sitting in the living room right now, I was listening to what sounded like traffic in the distance.

The part of Virginia Beach I live in is about ten miles back from the ocean area. We are not a costal area or beach area by any streach. The flood maps for this spot suggest that it would take a category 5 storm surge to flood this property. Irene is projected to be category 1. Of course, that is still a hurricane. And we've seen non-tropical storms do enough damage to almost shut down the area.

We've been planning on having the same problems we had for Isabel.