Thanks to Everybody

For being a part of my life in 2007.  I've had an incredible year up here in Seattle, thanks mostly to my wonderful friends and family.  We just returned from Christmas in Omaha with my family, it was fantastic.  I miss those guys so much but we crammed a whole year's worth of laughter, games, love and fun into five short days thanks to Rachel making sure we could get there to see them....

Happy New Year!!!!!

Subway Sandwich Gives Local Man Hiccups

Or hiccoughs if that's how your roll.  I was studying for my art history final at the campus cafeteria today and stopped for a lunch break.  I bit into my footlong turkey on wheat Subway sandwich  and swallowed.  I was immediately afflicted with a crazy case of hiccups.  I realized at that moment that though I rarely get the hiccups, I do get them EVERY SINGLE TIME I eat a Subway Sandwich, strange huh?  I was so confident that this was a testable, repeatable hypothesis that I briefly scoured the net to see if I was alone.  It turns out I am not, though I am the first one to make the connection

From a chatroom thread titled "What did you have for lunch today?":

"A subway sandwich and a sprite (It gave me the hiccups)"

From a thread discussing a video of a girl with terrible hiccups:

i remember a teacher told me along time ago that you couldnt have hiccups for a very long period of time like years and $hit. and then i saw some story on some dude who still has hiccups after eating a large subway sandwich

And finally, I staged a google fight between subway sandwich and hiccups and guess who won?  You guessed it......Subway sandwich, proving I am right beyond the shadow of a doubt.......it's "science."

Come to me my animal friends!!!!!

Saturday we had a surprise visitor to our backyard pond. A Great Blue Heron showed up to investigate the waterfalls and see if I had stocked the ponds with any fish. Check out the photos and video courtesy of Rachel and her brand new digital camera:

Finally.....

Well, it took a three day weekend for me to get the time to post those Halloween pictures I promised. The party was VERY entertaining.

Ridiculous

A little tidbit from the UW technology newsletter today, this totally shocked me.....what a waste of resources:

In September, 90.6% of the 137,001,383 email messages processed at the UW were classified as spam. Think that's high? A Help Net Security article reports that in the third quarter of 2007, global spam levels reached an all-time high of 95% of all email.

Unbelievable....
Halloween Pictures are on the way, we have a relaxed weekend so i should be able to post them tonight or tomorrow. Happy Friday to everyone!!

Danny's a Daddy

Congratulations to my best friend Danny boy and his wife Erica. They had a baby boy this morning at 6:12 AM. I don't know why those babies always wait until the middle of the night! Rachel and I are heading over there after I get off school today to meet the boy, Kerrig James......

I'm Happy.

It's Friday, I had a great week at school and THE SUN IS SHINING! It's a perfect fall day outside and I am just about to take the beast to the dog park. But first, we have no plans this weekend so I will likely be putting the garden to sleep for the winter, so I thought I'd take advantage of the sunshine and snap a few shots of this year's garden in its final days....