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Thanks to Anne, who happens to be dating my good friend McGraw (who is coming into town this weekend, more on that later) I have come across a nice little site, world66, that allows you to make a list of everywhere you have visited.

First the whole world:

Then the US map:

Sherry has posted the pictures of our trip to see Sarah and Heidi. If this link is troublesome for you, simple go to the Yahoo photos link located on the right of this page.

we also primed the stairs, and Sherry is painting now as we speak (with help from the mother Pearl).

I am going to get a hair cut now, going to buy mulch tonight on my way home and spreading it when I get home so that Ivy will never live again.

After a semi-successful first round, ending in Sherry’s scarlet fever, the fearless McDonald’s got tricked into a decisive final battle with the neglected (read: overgrown) Ivy in the front yard, that had already claimed one crape myrtle and was threatening the dog wood and azalea bushes.

Our heroine started by simple pulling off the ivy from the dog wood tree, but her addiction got the best of her and before she knew it, she was returning to the site of the previous battle… the flower beds. Her trusty sidekick was soon called into duty (after successfully hanging two window flower boxes). Team McDonald was now at full power against the mighty foe, and easily took out the weaker flower bed… the Right One. The native Azaleans were very grateful to their rescuers and promised to bloom mightily next season.

With one enemy down, the McDonald’s turned their diminishing strengths toward the stronger of the two flower beds, the mighty Left One, where the carcass of the crape myrtle stood as an icon of the Ivy’s power for all to see.

At this point, the team was spilt when our brave hero suddenly remembered that he needed to return inside to tend to the stairs and apply the wood fill in order to allow it time to cure before the final sanding in preparation for the nightly painting. So our heroine was left alone to brave the terror of the Left One!

Fear not, she had a tricky secret up her sleeve. By being stricken with the scarlet fever in her last battle, she had grown immune to the dreadful scarlet fever attack of the Left One, and it’s power sucking scarlet fever had no effect on her this time. With it’s main weapon useless against Sherry, she was able to summon all her strength and eradicate most of the sprawl all by her lonesome.

Just when she didn’t think that she could hold it off my longer, mighty Ben came back to wipe out the main vine, which had wrapped around the light post and had in fact crushed the metal of the lamp post. Mighty Ben, sensing victory, took an axe to the root clusters that would not release it’s hold on the dirt surrounding the lifeless body of Mr. Myrtle, and the battle was won… but not over.

It turns out that the life of a super hero is not always so glamorous… And the end of the day, someone still has to pick up the mess that is made saving the world from overgrown ivy. But this in itself is no easy task, since ivy doesn’t give up, even when unrated. It will stay stiff and cling to anything present to prevent it’s lifeless body from being stuck into a plastic bag for disposal. But with persistence, blood, and sweat the ivy was vanquished forever, and now waits on the side of the road for it’s transportation to it’s final resting place… the dump.

Jack has been alive now for 1 year. Pretty amazing to watch the development of an infant and how fast it all happens. Jack can say “Ma ma”, Da da”, “uh oh”, and “va vo” which we take to mean Volvo, since that is what Shawn drives.

We got a late start today, but did manage to get the two doors hung last night, and cleaned up the nastiness which was sanding, and fixing a door so that it would properly shut (a little planing and sanding). The major thing that I did get done was to remove the awnings!!! Sherry and I love the house without the awnings but Pearl is still not to happy about it. Good thing it is our house 🙂 I personally thing it makes the house look a little bigger and shows of the dental molding under the roof line. Although it is dirty from the lazy people not painting under the awning the last time the paints (I didn’t think you were suppose to paint aluminum, but whatever.

A large part of Sherry’s family came over to see our progress after Jack’s birthday party so that was fun. Everyone seemed to like it.

I will be getting some pictures up shortly and plan on organizing the existing ones to show before and after better.

After taking a month long hiatus from working around the house, Sherry and I have decided to pick it up again. Mainly because we were inspired by Sarah and Heidi’s house.

I just got done chipping off all the old paint on the stairs and sanding them (with my new sander). I was going to sand the whole thing but even with 60 grit sandpaper it was taking forever so I used a razor blade scraper to get it all off and then sanded it. Tomorrow I am going to fill the badly chipped wood with wood fill, resand, prime and then paint.

Jack’s first birthday is also tomorrow, so we will be heading over there around 2 tomorrow.

I always wondered why society things that some rent-a-cop slacker could protect us from a serious threat. Do you think they would catch a smart terrorist?

I remember talking about this concept a long time ago with Drew back in the Telinet days… looks like someone finally did it. I don’t think that anyone would ever want to pay $300 to smell an odor that someone else has e-mailed you

The daily email feature of my site wasn’t working, but I have just fixed it… so if you want to get emails on days that I post my hilarious rhetoric, just enter your email in the box to the right.

Here is an interesting link from some Cal Tech student playing around with Flash and history:

Billy Joel’s We didn’t start the fire (with pictures)