A Picture's Worth 1000 Words

Check out http://www.worth1000.com/ for some pretty sweet photoshopped pictures.

Sweden Bound

I'm in the process of working out a trip to Sweden with my family to visit some of my more distant relatives (like my grandmother's cousin). Hopefully we can stay for a couple weeks and it won't be super freezing. My granny's talking about going north of the arctic circle. That sounds like an experience...maybe get to see the midnight sun.

I need to get a Swedish phrasebook or something. Rosetta Stone would be cool and probably the fastest thing to pick up the language, but also kind of expensive. (Speaking of Rosetta Stone, I lost my CD for Swahili and haven't been able to practice in quite some time...sad face). I was under the impression that everyone under 20 years old speaks English in Sweden, but that is apparently not true in some of the places we're planning on visiting.

Hooray for international travel.

Pick #180

Trophy Wifes - "Jesus, Bartender of My Soul"

I would love to get a copy of this song...I've only heard it performed live. Help me out if you can (Nick).

Barrel of Monkeys

Mani has a Barrel of Monkeys game at his house. I wanted to check the rules since I haven't played in a while (probably about 20 years) and I came across a very funny review of the game and rules. Read it yourself for a good laugh.

Puzzles

Check out this video about puzzles. I hadn't really thought about them a whole lot, but he brings life to puzzles.

Pick #179

Grant Peeples - "Real Country" from Pawnshop

I heard this song live and it was pretty funny. I think I liked the live version better.

listen here.

What-A-Weekend

Jensen & Shell came to visit me this weekend. They got here on Friday night and I had a quinoa dish waiting for them. Shell and I talked about making it into a paella type thing by adding chorizo and some other meats. After downing food, we went scooped Jamie from her house and went to the Sarah Mac Band concert with Grant Peeples opening for them. After the concert, we took Jamie home then went to the Leon Pub. Met up with Jeff then walked to What-A-Burger since J&S had never been to one. Randomly ran into Sarah Mac and Charlie (the guitar player for SMB) at the fast food joint. Nightcap at home and sleepy time.

Got up Saturday a little earlier than I planned b/c the City of Tallahassee people who were planting trees in my front yard felt the need to knock on my door to tell me they were there. Unnecessary. Anyway, would have been awakened a little later by an exploding transformer. I couldn't go back to sleep so I headed out for a quick run while J&S got ready for brunch with Jeff & Jenny's Lunchbox. After brunch, we went to the open house at the National High Magnetic Fields Laboratory and saw some cool demos. Paul Stolc was there with Phyllis and P. saw Shell and yelled her name out. Random. Later on at the NHMFL open house, we ran into Sarah Mac! Ha. After NHMFL, we went to the Rez to help out with a clean up, but they were pretty much done with the work by the time we got there. We tried to go to the overlook at the capitol, but it was closed. We went to Bread & Roses to grab some quinoa so that Shell could experiment with it (and I needed some other stuff too). We got some delicious vegan chocolate chips. We drove around campus a little then went home. J drove me to the Liquor Loft to get some beer for the night in so I decided to show him Proof. Ran into Drew, Laura, and Georgia. Drew knows J. We bought some Bulleit Bourbon @ LL. I've never had it before then, but it's really good. Back home, we made pizza, drank beers, watched some comedy, and played the Worst Case Scenario board game. Stayed up late talking.

Guests left on Sunday after a big breakfast. It's nice to have company. It was such a nice day that I had to run. I ran my 100th mile of the year today. Went to dinner club @ Georgia's for some really good chili. Developed a parameterization for my experiment that gives me desirable properties.