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And a Good Time was Had by All…

A full day at Space Center Houston, and we had a great time. Even took some photos that will end up in the Pixelog. I called Chelsey before we left the house to see if she wanted to join us, but she had other commitments. Her son didn’t though. He is almost 12, Jason is almost 10. I told her I would pick up Jordan & bring him along. She gave me full rights to beat him if necessary, so what more did I need? Ok, ok, I didn’t beat him. Actually, things went really well, much better then I could have hoped for! Nothing like Grossology (the *impolite* science of the human body) to entertain 2 pre-pubescent boys. That and the hour-long movie on life in the Space Station produced by the Discovery channel that I dragged them to. They were upset that they couldn’t play longer with the Fart-maker. Oh well. After we left the museum we headed back to Chelsey’s house for dinner. She had whipped up some tasty chicken fajitas for us. Then we zoomed home so that Jason could get to bed so he wasn’t grumpy at school tomorrow. By the time the fun was over I have the beginnings of a migraine. I took stuff for it, but it’s only been an hour. I take Excedrin for them, it works great normally and is all I need. Plus I bought a bottle of 875 the last time I went to Costco, so I have a lifetime supply. If necessary, I take Motrin 2 hours after I took the Excedrin. Perfect every time…

Earlier tonight, Doug said to Chelsey (both non-bloggers, the losers!) that I was just a “Power User”. Then I started babbling about Blogomania, DNS, Unix, Linux, Apache … and somewhere in there he said he was wrong and I was a geek after all. I just hide it well.

I wrote to Robyn about some other info and about fell off the couch laughing when she wrote me back and pointed out this post on Chris Pirillo’s blog. Irony? Yesterday, while Jason & I watched the Friday episode of Call for Help, I went to the TechTV site and showed him that my blog was listed right there. As a 9 year old geek-in-training, he was amazed and thrilled. (The TechTV article was another part of the conversation that prompted Doug to confirm I was a geek after all.) By the way, Chris? I actually OWN Styx albums. Vinyl. Too bad I don’t have a turntable anymore!

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It’s Time for Lift-off!

We are heading out for an afternoon of fun and adventure down at Space Center Houston, The Official Visitors Center for NASA’s Johnson Space Center! The main reason we are going? The Grossology exhibit! Yes, yes, soon I will know more then I ever wanted to about all sorts of gross things! With such highlights as walking through a giant nose, visiting the Vomit room or playing in Toot-Toot Town to learn about the physics behind gas. Human gas. Or how about the 30-foot long slide tour of the digestive system? A giant version of the game Operation? Oh yes, this will be tons of fun! (Seriously, I am looking forward to it and I know Jason will have a blast!)

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Don’t Look Now…

Remember how we all worried on December 31, 1999 that something really bad might happen at midnight as all the computers in the world crashed or something? Well here it is, the true reason why nothing really bad happened … Sock monkeys saved the world from Y2K!!! (Yes Todd, that was posted just for you.) [via Megan’s Biography]

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TAR 2!

I’m so psyched! The Amazing Race 2 begins March 11th! Hey Meryl, we’ll still be at SXSW then – so we could watch it together! They changed the time to 9pm CST, at least for the season premiere. whoo hoo! The Amazing Race is back!

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Yesterday & Today…

First things first. I forgot to mention yesterday that I owe Jennifer a huge thank you for her creation of the Blogomania site design. Once again, I think we did a great job collaborating and I love working with her – and in the end I was speechless with the design. THANK YOU Jennifer! YOU ROCK!!!

Last night after working with Jason (or trying to make Jason work, however you want to look at it) on his science fair presentation boards, I turned on the TV. Know what I realized? I miss the Olympics. I know, I know – it’s corny. But I loved watching the people win their medals, the joy that they have when they do. Then again, I have missed regular TV and had actually saved things on the Tivo from the week before the Olympics so I would have something else to watch. So now it’s back to the usual routine.

Good thing I watched TV last night so that I could find out that today it was going to be COLD. Sunday it was t-shirt and jeans weather, maybe even shorts. Sunny day when we were at the musuem. Last night a “Blue Northern” came through town, they say it’s in the 30’s out there now and will freeze by tomorrow morning. Gotta love Houston.

On the agenda for today so far:
– Client Meeting, 10am (outside of office)
– Client Meeting, 2:30pm (outside of office)
– Finish client proposal #1. Client must have today for decision tomorrow.
– Finish client proposal #2. May have to postpone until Wednesday morning.
– Work with Jason on Science Fair Boards.

And with much excitement and glee, I am off to tackle that list!