Wednesday, November 22, 2006

You can be a recording star!

You know I love karaoke, but never get a chance to do it any more. Well, I just came across this site, Singshot.com, that lets you make your own karaoke recordings and post them to the site. Spend a few minutes there and you might get addicted to it. There are some really, really bad renditions out there, but they are highly entertaining. I'll let you know if I start posting any. I can see Bigshow posting a few songs.

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Quick Thoughts 11/19

  • No points given up by the Bears today equals bear claws* Monday!
  • Today in the children's sermon at church they were learning about Thanksgiving. The question was asked, "What do you like to do on Thanksgiving," to which one elementary school-aged girl replied, "Go to the Doctor Who convention." I think I laughed for three straight minutes.
  • This weekend I was able to convert some audio tape recordings to digital format. Here are some recordings from this past summer for your listening enjoyment.
  • I suppose we're going to be seeing those annoying Lexus commercials again soon where people give their spouses a new Lexus with a huge bow on them for Christmas. Give me a break.
* After doing some calling around this afternoon, it seems that bear claws are hard to find. If I'm unable to locate any in town, I'll bring in apple fritters.

Friday, November 10, 2006

Busy morning

Holy cow, it's sloppy outside this morning. There was thunder and lightning to go along with the snow we're getting. It's hard to believe it was 70 degrees on Wednesday! The snow plows haven't made much progress on the roads, and the snow is really piling up. Holly and I went to the hospital this morning for an ultrasound, and after only 30 minutes there was at least two inches of snow on the cars.

Speaking of the ultrasound, we found out that we're having another boy! Everything looked good and he's still measuring for a due date of April 2, which is the same due date that Payton had. So now that we know for sure, we can start concentrating on coming up with a boy's name. Remember on Seinfeld when George wanted to name his baby "Seven?" I've always liked the ring that Seven Evans has, but I wouldn't consider actually naming the baby Seven. I'd love to hear any suggestions you have for names.

Friday, November 03, 2006

Quick Thoughts 11/3

  • You may notice that things look a little different on my blog now. I switched to Blogger Beta, which had some nice features such as labels for my posts. So over on the right-hand side of my blog, you'll see a few categories of labels I've given some of my previous posts. Also, there are some handy expand/collapse buttons in my archive section to make navigation easier.
  • The reason I switched to a blogspot hosted blog now is that I was having lots of problems FTPing to my Charter-hosted blog. I don't know if my blog was getting too large for Charter, but I kept getting FTP transfer timeouts every time I tried to add a new post. For someone who is already lacking motivation to post, I didn't need any more deterrents. After deleting most of the pictures from my Charter account, I realized that my blog still points to them. So a lot of my old posts don't have pictures with them anymore. Other than that, I think I'll be better off now.
  • I think the Bears are going to steamroll over the Dolphins this weekend.
  • People knock the Bears for their weak schedule. Is it really their fault though? A lot of people picked the Dolphins to be in the Super Bowl this year, but as it stands, they only have one win right now. People also thought Arizona would be good. So even the games that were supposed to be against good teams aren't all there. You can't fault the Bears for that. They just need to keep going out there a knocking off these teams in convincing fashion, one at a time. If the Bears weren't an elite team, they wouldn't be dominating the lesser teams like they have been doing all season long.
  • Hey, post some comments so I know that traffic is flowing to the new site!