This is my Journey, but you can watch.
Sometimes I stop by the office on the weekend to make sure everything is A.O.K. This past Sunday I stopped by with Charlie. As I was doing a quick walk through, making sure everything was locked up, the air conditioner was turned down, and the big freezers were running, Charlie was just roaming the halls.
Shortly before we left, I noticed he seemed to be acting odd and clutching his superfriends backpack a little tighter than normal (he sometimes wears his backpack because he thinks it’s cool.) I shrugged it off as daddy paranoia. He was fine. No problem. We locked up and headed for home.
As we pulled up in front of the house and I began unbuckling Charlie, he commented “Dad, I really really liked it.” He picked up his backpack and held it tight.
Huh?!?
“What did you really really like?”
“It was in Terry’s office, and I thought it was cool.” Clutching backpack even tighter.
Uh Oh, me-thinks my kid has sticky fingers at this point.
“Charlie, did you take something??”
“But, It was cool Dad!”
“Give me your backpack, and get in the house. We need to talk.”
I headed into the house opening the backpack. What could it be, what did he take? I began pulling toys, a change of clothes, and a plastic bag with a wet bathing suit in it (not smelling so good) out of his backpack. I wasn’t finding anything. At this point, Charlie was sitting on the couch staring at me with his “I’m sorry Dad” eyes.
“Charles, What did you take?”
“Maybe it’s in the bottom of my backpack.”
I dig deeper. More clothes, more toys, and then lastly in the very bottom of the bag, a single penny. Could it be? My boy stole a penny? I held it up and showed it to him. “Did you take this?”
“I’m sorry Dad, I really liked it.”
A penny. A 1976 penny. At least it’s an antique!
Well, it doesn’t matter what it is, you’re still not supposed to take something that doesn’t belong to you… Right?
So I went on and explained that was wrong to take the penny and that was stealing. He apologized, and I said I would take it back.
He looked at it and said, “Maybe you’d better hide it so I don’t take it again.”
Poor kid, I’ve given him a complete complex over lifting a penny from someones desk. arg. I explained to him that I trusted him, and I know he knows better now. I showed him that I was putting the penny in my wallet and told him that I would return it on Monday.
If he turns out to be a kleptomaniac, I hope he at least learns to take the silver coins! 
Ilana Yahav from sandfantasy.com. Very Cool
I was just minding my own business, browsing the web when BAM, I hit a website with this image and a link to the picklesickle website. WTF?
So, of course I had to check it out. Not a joke, completely legit. It seems that some lunatic in Texas decided to start serving frozen pickle juice pops to his skating rink customers.I pulled this phrase from the :
“This is one of those crazy ideas that should have died a quick and horrible death right from the beginning, right? But it didn’t. As a matter of fact, it is an idea that just wont die.”
It gets better. They have FOUR different flavors: Original Pickle Bob, Limey Pickle Lisa, Lemon Lime Pickle Larry, and Cherry Pickle Charlie.
This might be a great way for me to get rid of those extra pickles I have in my fridge.
My first inclination was to say gross and dismiss these pickle pops, but now I’m curious. So I think I am going to have to get a case to try before judging.
Pickle Sickle Juice Pop Party at my crib… soon!
Who’s in??
Do you have a 5 year old with a limitless amount of energy?
Well, I’ve figured out how to knock that energy out of them!
Here was my 11 step plan!
1. Take the day off work. I took Tuesday off.
2. After breakfast, fire up the WII and play a couple of interactive games. We played the new transformers game. You could just sit on the couch and play the “couch potato” method, but if you want the best results, it’s important to jump around the family room flailing and punching wildly. Burn those calories baby.
3. Then we headed to the bowling alley and throw a couple of games. Charlie scored a 68 and a 69. He’s consistent!
4. Next, we went to the roller dome skate to bad 90’s hip hop music.
5. It was time for a slowdown, so we headed to the adrenaline pumping TRANSFORMERS Movie. Good flick, and the robot smashing insanity keeps the heart pumping for over 2 hours.
6. Next was dinner. We visited a new Thai place - “Switta Thai Cuisine.” Good food - I recommend it! Evidently our waitress noticed Charlie was starting to slow down, so she brought him some highly caffeinated drink. I was glad to have our waitress working against us.
7. After dinner it was time to head home to let the dogs out and run them for awhile. They needed to have a break from the cage.
8. 45 minutes later, we were off to the Go-Kart track. As we were passing the Wizards baseball stadium they started their fireworks display. We pulled off the road and enjoyed 15 minutes of free fireworks.
9. Next up was the track. We watched a couple of races and then dropped 10 bucks and raced twice. A quick note, go-karts don’t like to go up hills with 250 pounds of cargo. I hate getting passed by 12 year olds. Charlie loved the ride and kept throwing the hang-loose sign at Mom.
10. To finish up the night, 18 holes of miniture golf, complete with a fake erupting volcano. I started keeping score, then Charlie took over. I had a little trouble adding up the score at the end, but I think I got a 42.
11. Once we got home, it was straight to bed. I vaguely remember Charlie falling asleep as I nodded off.
Late Monday night, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) mandated that all Domain Name Registrars implement mandatory drug screening for all future and present domain name registrants which use the domain name system for hosting public web logs (blogs). The new policy is expected to start in early September.
Within hours of the decision, the internet population already began to speak out against what the blogosphere has already labeled a “tyrannical policy of censorship.”
Board members reported that their decision was spurred on by the rise in the number of blog posts whose content could only result from the presence of questionable substances.
Several examples were sited that were considered significant to the final decision:
