Hoos Coming for Dinner?

Mrs. Hatter was gone at Super Summer last week, leaving me all by my lonesome. I was fortunate enough, however, to have several opportunities (when not at work) to spend time with some friends that I don't get hang with nearly enough. So, wherever you are out there, thanks fellas.

Tim Challies has a friend that makes homemade jewelry, and I happened upon her site last week. One of her pieces struck me as one that Chelsea might like. So, I procured this one-of-a-kind necklace for her. Fortunately, she likes it! See?

Isn't she pretty? I'm glad she's home.

Achtung!

A quick addendum to today's thoughts: I love my wife! She's great!

Firefox 3 Download Day

Today is Firefox 3 Download Day, an international effort by the Mozilla Corporation to have as many unique downloads of the brand-spankin'-new final release of the third iteration of the popular open source browser as possible. Prepositions, anyone?

So, chuck Internet Explorer and download Firefox. It's better. For those belonging to AppleNation, the Firefox team has apparently spent much time and effort on Firefox 3 for Mac in order to improve performance and, perhaps more importantly, the look and feel of Firefox for OS X, which hasn't felt like a Mac program in the past. I am, however, still a fan of Camino, the Mac only browser built on the same Gecko engine used by Firefox. It's limited in some respects, though, so we'll see what end up with for my everyday browsing.

You may now return to your regularly-scheduled avoidance of this "blog."

Hijacked!

Hello all, Chelsea here. I am hijacking Kyle's blog because he has no time to post anything and won't for a few weeks. So, to show him that I love him, I'd like to post one of his favorite You Tube videos.

This little guy likes to write songs, and we like to watch videos of him. This is Kyle's favorite. I hope you all enjoy as much as he does!

What's your function?

I have to work all day today, but I'd rather be at home watching cartoons...like this one.

Flashbacks

Legal ones.

I'm amazed at how certain stimuli can trigger memories. I'm not even talking about significant memories or memories that bear any sort of meaningful impact...just everyday things.

Last night, Chelsea had her entire iTunes library on shuffle, which kicked out a number of "interesting" tunes. Lots of stuff from the 90's, most of which needs to stay in the 90's (in my opinion). At one point, the speakers started belting a song from Switchfoot's 2003 album The Beautiful Letdown.

I immediately hurtled back in time and was walking north on Goodwin Ave. in Champaign, then cutting behind the Nuclear Engineering Building, angling toward the Digital Computer Laboratory. It was pretty weird...it felt like I was on my way from ISR to DCL to work on a project. I distinctly remember listening to that album on my iPod (back when it was new, shiny, and would play for longer than an hour) while making that trek across campus.