Cale Becomes A Pike!

Solo But Assisted

Cale did great as a Perch and has graduated to the next level of Pike. The boy who was very reluctant to get in the pool on the first lesson has become a big fish in the water. He loves the pool now and looks forward to each lesson.

Grandma & Grandpa gave the kids a great gift that they both really enjoy. Thank you Mom & Dad. They love the lesssons!

Check out more pictures of the kids swimming as well as some photos from the air show over @ Flickr. There are a few new photos on page 2 as well.

Cade Becomes A Guppy!

Just Chillin'

Cade also moves on to the next level after being promoted from Pollywog. He is now officially a Guppy.

His instructors said he has natural abilities in the pool and should move up quickly.

Both kids love the water and thoroughly enjoy their lessons.

Jerry Seinfeld's Bee Movie

I've always been a Seinfeld fan. Looks like Jerry is jumping into the animation domain with the support of Dreamworks (a la Shrek) in Bee Movie revealed HERE. The movie sounds interesting. You can find a little more info over at IMDB. I'm sure we'll visit the theaters when this flick is finally released.

ASCII Fun

ASCII Cade

What you are looking at is nothing more than text. There is a cool web site that will convert a picture into ASCII art. ASCII is really nothing more than letters, numbers, and symbols. Too cool!

The site converts portraits best. Check it out HERE if you are interested.

More ASCII Fun

ASCII Cale

Here is Cale done in text. The further away or smaller you make it, the better it looks.

These were done with colors on, but you can do it all in black if you want.

Cool Pumpkins!

Halloween Is Coming...

Holy cow! Back when I was a kid our pumpkins had triangle eyes and a jagged mouth. I've seen many new and creative things done with pumpkins since then, but this has to take the cake. Simply amazing! Check out a few others HERE.

FiOS Is Coming!

Back in the dial-up day I was drooling over cable and could not wait for it to make it to my house. Now I'm drooling over FiOS, which is fiber fed by Verizon.

Comcast has always kinda bugged me. First off, I couldn't stand the quality of the analog cable TV when I was paying for digital cable. Eventually I switched my TV services to DirecTV and have enjoyed it ever since. Then, to make matters worse, they charge me more for my internet and cripple my download speed. They infuriate me, so I'm jumping ship to FiOS ASAP.

Current Comcast TV & Internet subscribers get 8 Mbps down and 384 kpbs up.

As an Internet only customer, I get 4 Mbps down and 384 kbps up and pay more for it.

With FiOS, I can get 10 Mbps down and 2 Mbps up for less than what I am paying now! I really want a fat upload pipe to stream media and other things from my house to me remotely. FiOS will give me that flexibility.

Today I happened to see them running cable out back, so I stopped by to talk to the installers. Sure enough, they're running fiber for Verizon. Hopefully within the next few months I'll be sitting on a new ISP with some insane internet speeds.

Look for an update in the future. :)

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