Tubby Time

Start Your Engines!

Now everybody rev up your internal engine...get into the spirit of things.

OK, the 500 mile challenge officially started on Sunday. I have Jennifer (and from what I can tell from Alan's comment) and Alan participating along with mom and dad. Sara, I am challenging you, too. I have an extra pedometer for you. This way you can really get competitive with Josh and be a sexy beast when he gets back. :)

Sunday and Monday I logged in 10,884 and 9,065 steps respectively. Monday was my kick-ass day. 20,094 steps baby!!!! I was doing some heavy house work and taking some of Dad's advice. When I was putting away clothes, instead of loading up the basket and making one trip per family member to put away, I was only taking 2-3 items at a time and making several trips. All those little trips add up!! So, so far I have logged in 20 miles. Now, you guys have a chance to catch up! I got my portable EEG put on today so until it comes off on Friday, all of my walking is either going to be in the house or in the backyard.

To calculate your miles, we're just going to use the average. 2000 steps to a mile. You get take it to the 10th decimal place. (ie- 10.2 miles) E-mail your weekly miles and I'll post everybody's progress no later than Tuesday.

Good Luck!!!!

If I were Brian, where would I be?

I have been thinking on this one for a while. So, just where has Brain been? I couldn't tell you all the countries (becuase it's too hard to keep track of) but I can tell you how long he's been gone.

We signed into LRAFB November of 2002. In that time Brian has had 13 deployments/TDY's. Including the current one in Alaska. His TDY days number 53 and his deployment days number 719. Since there are 365 days in a year, that puts him 11 days shy of having spent 2 full years in the desert.

Let's break those 719 days down even further to put it into perspective. A soccer game lasts 90 minutes. That's equal to 11,504 soccer games. It takes about 10 minutes to read Houston a bedtime story. Brian has missed out on 7,190 minutes worth of story time.

719 days is the same as 17,256 hours, or 1,034,360 minutes, or 62,061,600 seconds that Brian has spent in a war zone.

For anyone who wants to complain about their spouse being gone on business (mom is exempt...she's put in her time and then some), think about all that time that Brian has been gone. And he hasn't been gone nearly as long as some guys have.

Competition Time

I have signed up for this years annual Family Circle Walking Challenge. But I was thinking today that I need to make this challege a little more fun. This past 7 days I walked 34.7 miles. At that pace it is very easy to walk 100 miles in 3 weeks. Here the challenge to all my family and friends out there.

Let's all put our pedometers on and see who can log 500 miles first. To give everyone a chance to read this post and get a pedometer (Wal-mart sells them cheap), let's start the competition on Sunday, the 25th.

Let me know who all wants to participate. I'll figure out a really cool prize for the winner.

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Family Portait

Bye Bye Birdie

We left Friday night/Saturday morning for Texas (Mother's Day weekend) and my friend, Sara, watched the dog for us and was also kind enough to be on bird patrol. When she came over Saturday she looked at the nest and it was very very empty. So, being the sweet wonderful person that she is, looked around for any dead birdies. (remember, the nest was built about 6 feet above a concrete pad). No dead birdies. When we got back Monday afternoon the nest was still empty. The babies are no longer babies, but big grown up birds who have officially flew the coop.

The really dusty pictures are the back windshield of Brian's Mazda RX-7 that he is rebuilding. (when he gets around to he will be posting pictures/updates of his project on his blog Crowdaddy's World). Anyway, using my most superior deductive skills I have deduced that these markings were made my baby birdy wings. The car is next to the nest sight. They look like wing prints to me. I figure that this is where they practiced before they took out on their own.

Now that the nest in empty I did remove it an throw it away. Brian really needed to get to his ladder. We learned that unless the nest is dirty with fleas, mites, or other yucky bugs the mama will lay another clutch of eggs (that would be the technical term) pretty much as soon as the babies leave the nest. We really didn't want to do that. Sorry mama!! She should have her new nest built by now. I caught her and the daddy bird having sex in the front yard. I had the camera with me, but by the time I got it set to video mode, the daddy bird had already left leaving the mommy bird going, "wait, that's it?"