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I found this amazingly addictive game called Desktop Tower Defense. It's sort of the reverse of Lemmings - instead of saving all the lemmings, you need to squash them all. There's an insane number of levels, and it gets really challenging really fast.
Highly recommended.
I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Memorial Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did. ~Benjamin Harrison
Today is Memorial Day and Missy and I want to thank everyone who has served our country and helped make it what it is today.
This afternoon Missy and I went to the Salute to Veterans 2007 Air Show in Columbia. It was really cool to look at some of the planes but the coolest part was playing America's Army Virtual Army Experience.
The game even had its own Anti-War Protesters:
Dang Hippies!
Here is a cool new game where you have to make the parajumper land in the target. Can you do it?
With tonight being the season finale on King of The Hill and 400th episode and season finale of The Simpson's I was really looking forward to the last Sunday of TV until this fall.
That was until I turned to KQFX and saw this on my TV:
So now instead of getting to watch my favorite shows I get to see some crummy power point slide. Someone at KQFX owes me an apology and a replay of those two shows!
Last weekend when I was cutting the grass the self propelled belt on my John Deere 14SB broke. So today Nick and I replaced the belt and the blade. The strange thing with the 14SB is that you have to remove the whole engine from the mower to replace the belt. I wasn't exactly excited about taking the mower apart but Nick was gung-ho about doing it.
After breaking a couple of blots we finally got it back together and it seems to work OK, but if I my lawnmower blows up I know who I am blaming.
Char-Broil sent me replacement knobs for our grill. I would normally have pictures but my camera is still with Eric!
Only 3 days left of work until this legislative session is over! I am really looking forward to taking a vacation and having some time off. I think I have enough time save up to take off 3 or 4 weeks this summer.
Missy and I would like to go to Key West for a vacation this summer but we don't know how things are going to shake out yet because we would also like to buy some new living room furniture.
I got back home around 3:30 last night and have been sleeping ever since then. The trip was pretty neat except the part where Nick almost hit a deer on I44.
If you ever get to Austin Texas you have to eat at the Salt Lick. It was some of the best BBQ I had ever had.
Since 3AM this morning we have been on the road to Austin Texas to pick up Kenny and get him home for mothers day. So it looks like we are going to go 1,700 miles in 48 hours with golf thrown in tomorrow morning.
So If my math is right:
1700/48= A sustained 35 MPH for the two days we will be gone.
Ok, so the flood hasn't been called off but it dose not look like it is going to come up as high or fast as they first thought. With the lack of rain it looks like it is only going to get up around 31 feet.
I just got this floodmap in my email and thought I'd post it.
It looks like it is going to get up to around 34.5
If you haven't heard by yet according to NOAA Jefferson City is in for the biggest flood since the flood of 1993. I was only in 8th grade during the flood of 1993 so I don't have a lot of memories of it except for staying in a motel in South County with my grandparents after the water got within a block of their house in South St.Louis City.
Hopefully this one is not as bad and will not stay around as long, but as long as it does I am going to try to snap some pictures and post them here since the Capitol Building is the highest point in Jefferson City I should be able to get some good angles.
Here is the first picture I got to day at the top of the House's parking garage.
This afternoon I turned on the grill to warm it up in order to cook some steaks for lunch after church. After about 10 minutes of preheating I came back outside to put the steaks onto the grill and the middle two knobs started to melt. When I tried to turn off the grill this is what happened:
Hopefully Char-Broil will come through with some excellent customer service and replace the two melted knobs.
After mowing the grass this afternoon I finally broke down and turned on the AC. It was just so hot and muggy today that it had to be done. Hopefully it will cool down and be cooler later this week.
I usually don't post work related stuff but this "12 Ways To Be A Security Idiot" PowerPoint presentation is great.
