Do You Ever Check...

..your own blog to see if there are any new postings?  I do.  Maybe I think that I would have put a new posting up and totaly forgot it was there.  More likely I surf the net like a blind robot and just click on it out of habit.

The Verdict

After I posted this Lexi asked her father what his opinion on the matter was.  Being a very hands off kind of guy he declined to give his opinion saying he better stay out of it. 

Lo and behold two days ago a present for the new baby comes in the mail (ordered 1 week ago) a video baby monitor.  Funny huh.  I guess if I don't have to pay the $100 why not.

Babys Have Rights Too

Recently Lexi and I have a little debate about how much survelience is appropriate for the little baby on the way. What if the little tot wants a little privacy without big brother watching, really I should say big daddy I have put on a few pounds.

Actually the real debate is if a standard audio monitor is sufficient or should we go high tech with video or thermal monitors. For mothers out there shield your eyes from this next sentance, if you notice through a thermal monitor that your child is no longer emitting heat I'm sorry it is probably too late.

The real reason to have a monitor is to see if the child has woken up and is crying. Once you start adding video and more I think you begin to feed the paranoid side and you start looking at the monitor every 20 minutes.

So what is the verdict is it worth an extra $100 for a video monitor?

My Day, In Poetry

I was so bored while sitting through my required 80 hours of insurance education so to avoid dying I made a few poems. First the Haiku

1st Haiku

Slater School of Insurance,
life's longest eight hours,
I'd prefer water boarding.

2nd Haiku

The clocks hand it moves backward.
Has boredom ever killed?
let the lecturer die first.

3rd Haiku

Haiku hell, definition:
So bored I write this,
yet, Japanese poems fail.

After I told Lexi my Haiku she told me to try a limerick

The chances a limerick time will fill,
nine, nine, five, five, nein, no, never, nil
The meter its true
has something to do
with the speed arrived at boredom still.

THEY Created A Monster

I never really got the rivalry with Utah and BYU until I started going to the U. I grew up with a cougar football poster on my wall like every good mormon boy does but I have since seen the light. When every cougar fan hears I like the U or went there they all start trashing and belittling my alma mater.

Well, as of this year I still wish BYU well with their quest for the BCS but when we meet on the last game of the year I hope the crush their dreams because the Utes are a better team. The BCS rankings are determined by an average of 6 computer (unbiased) rankings, the AP poll, and the Harris coaches poll. Four of the 6 computer rankings are posted and I don't see BYU in any of the top 5.

But wait who do I see..... (click on the Poll names to see the complete rankings)



Colley
1. Alabama
2. Vanderbilt
3. Utah
4. Texas
5. Northwestern

Massey
1. Alabama
2. Northwestern
3. Vanderbilt
4. Utah
5. Boise State

Sagarin
1. Alabama
2. Utah
3. LSU
4. Boise State
5. Oklahoma

Billingsley
1. LSU
2. Oklahoma
3. Alabama
4. USC
5. Missouri

THE U WILL CRUSH BYU