December, 2009 | Robert's Blog

December 7, 2009

a few random things

*the above video is a commercial that i think is quite cool. hd cameras sent into near space via balloon. for the fun of it they videoed a vintage chair the whole time. it makes for some amazing images. wait for the end when the balloon pops.

*i love my wife, which shouldn’t be a surprise. it thrilled me to read some of pamela’s thoughts on tapestry that she posted on her blog. you can read them here. i agree with everything she said except for the part about the preacher. i’m a little sick of hearing him.

*i read a statement today saying that some central african nomads value their freedom so much that they refer to houses as the “graces of the living.” i wonder if our lifestyles don’t function much like graves, trapping us into death.

*like an idiot i decided to go to the standing rock dog park yesterday after having “jumped” my car off. i was convinced that i just needed to drive my car a little while to recharge its battery. boy was i wrong. my battery was completely dead. it was bad enough being stuck 10 miles outside of town but even worse that i forgot the jumper cables and my cell phone. i couldn’t find anyone at the park who had jumper cables but i was eventually able to borrow a cell phone to call pam. why would i pay for a cell phone and not bring it with me? not one of my brighter moments.

*ROLL TIDE! ROLL! i’m enjoying watching bama’s season from afar.

December 5, 2009

the week in tweets – 2009-12-05

I just generated my #TweetCloud out of a year of my tweets. Top three words: love, time, tapestry – http://w33.us/2xg9 #
mhmmmmm! cold smoked turkey! #
@andylickel i've discovered why we haven't been killing any ducks. @pamelaaugust is praying for the ducks when i leave the house. #
http://twitpic.com/rzloh – i walked into the house to discover montana stuck in noah's new coat. 🙂 #
http://twitpic.com/rzu5a – finally we have a little snow. if it will snow like this on saturday for the frostbite 10 miler everything will b #
the base of my office chair just broke and i fell to the ground while i was on the phone. ouch! #
@bCodySmith – the "falling from the sky" part sounds foreign to me this year. in reply to bCodySmith #
@meganckelly – score! in reply to meganckelly #
@KenNichols – if you can do it before you leave turn on ESPN notifications – it will update you with scores. i use it alot up in the N. in reply to KenNichols #
@KenNichols – BTW ingram just caught a screen an ran to the FL 3. in reply to KenNichols #
@KenNichols – TD!!! in reply to KenNichols #
@KenNichols – halftime score FL 13 / AL 19 in reply to KenNichols #
@KenNichols – ok new score update – FL 13 / BAMA 32 with 13:48 left in the 4th. 🙂 in reply to KenNichols #
and that could very well be the game! ROLL TIDE ROLL! #
or not! #
and now i can say it again BALL GAME! ROLL TIDE ROLL! #
@exchangedliving – get over lsu losing and saban choosing a better team. 🙂 #
@exchangedliving – he seems to be doing pretty good with that sacrlet letter 🙂 i'm guessing he is glad he wears it #
what has gotten into nebraska? #

December 4, 2009

to place clothes on or not

last night i went to the wisconsin dells with pam for a conference that she was speaking at (yes, i am married to an impressive woman). if you have never heard of “the dells” you need to understand that it is the big vacation spot in the mid-west. tons of large resort hotels with indoor (for the winter) and outdoor water parks. anyway, pam was presenting a seminar on assisted living technology with the chair of her department and one of her students. so pam was going to be at the conference and since they provided a hotel for the night i went with her. my only goal was to spend the evening with pam without the boys and then i thought i might run around “the dells” during her conference.

well last night was a fun date. pam left in the morning for her conference and i prepared myself for a winter run. now you need to know my typical winter running attire. actually my tops don’t matter, it is what i wear on my legs that you need to know about. i am a little ashamed to admit this but i have been converted on windy winter days to just wearing running tights on my winter runs. when it isn’t windy or super cold i still just wear shorts – my legs warm up quickly when i start running. unfortunately they don’t warm up at all when it is super cold or especially windy in the winter. i have to wear tights then. at first i wore shorts over my tights. i changed when i realized how much unnecessary laundry i was creating. it was at that point that i decided to just wear the tights. after all it’s a pretty typical thing to see around the point area – you see winter runners in central wisconsin all the time wearing tights and a jacket.

so i was in my tights and windbreaker when pam called and said she needed me to perform tech support on her computer. they couldn’t get the projector and computer working that they were going to use in their lecture (rather ironic that no one in an assistive living conference could operate this technology). well this is part of my duties as the husband. pam regularly says that my job is to open jars, kill bugs, and keep the computers working. so i had to decide – do i run over to the conference in my tights to fix the computer or do i get dress in normal clothes first? it’s one thing to wear running tights for a morning run and only be seen on the street. it is quite another thing to wear tights when you are bending over working on a computer. of course the problem was that pam needed me to fix the problem before they started her seminar. i had to move quickly.

i will leave it to your imagination concerning what i decided to do.

December 2, 2009

now for something completely different

not really but i did see these two adverts today and they made me chuckle and think a little.

neither a can of beans nor a drive by pooping are your typical form of advertising and i am sure that there are some disadvantages in advertisements like this (credibility, etc.) but i personally respect people and companies that are willing to take chances and be abnormal in an attempt to grab my attention. at the very least you would have a great story concerning the can of beans you got for buying a house or the guy on the toilet that drove past you on i-39 and 70 mph.