Ran across this link today on Ipaulo. Independent news is an important reality check.

Caught this set of natural pest fighting techniques over on You Grow Girll. Mostly linking them up so as not to forget.

Last weekend we took the Milliken clan up highway 101 to Santa Maria to celebrate the birthday of a friend. The drive up the coast right now is stunning. If you have been thinking of going, now is the time. While we were there we got invited to use a vacation home in Cayucos. Cayucos is a funky little beach community just north of Morro Bay. We spent a nice evening in a tiny coastal town listening to the rain on the roof and a Sunday morning walk along the beach. Conrad, being two, made several dashes for the Pacific Ocean. Please. Do yourself a favor. Drive up the coast.

Poet's Against the War

Ok. I've been pretty diligent about exercising since the first of the year and this morning on my run I hit a milestone of sorts. 1.5 miles in 20 minutes. I'm slowly trying to increase my run time to 30 min and then I'll just try to increase the distance covered during that time. I've lost 5 pounds and I feel great. It's one part of my three pronged attack on quality of life. Adrienne came up with some interesting word combinations this weekend that I wanted to put up here so I didn't forget them. I think each is a story/painting/poem or something... Velcro Jesus. Window in the Waves. We met with a financial advisor last night and opened up a couple fo Roth IRA's. Trying to get that 4.3 million I'm going to need to retire at 60. LOL!

I'm not sure if this is a hoax, but apparently our shrubby little president will be giving the go-ahead to developing a nuclear based rocket which would effectively cut the travel time to mars to 2 months. I'm speechless. He's moved down from a 10 to a 9 on my moron meter.

Our beloved Sheila has jumped into the web log sphere in a big way. Check her thoughts, and pictures. Thanks for giving us the window in...

Happy New Year everyone. Gail and Alan had their baby! It's a girl. Sydney! 7 pounds, 11 ounces, born 12/27/2002, and beautiful. Guy and Natalie had theirs too! This on our answering machine - 12/30/2002 1:39pm "Hey this is Guy. We...uh..had the ...uh...baby. Luke William. Obviously it's a boy. Luke William Duncan. 8 pounds, 6 ounces. Good looking kid. He looks solid. So you said to call, so I called. We had to move out of our room because there's a tornado warning, so we are in the interior of the hospital. Anyway, have a good new year. Bye."

Yeah, This about sums it up

Today Connor would have been 4

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Ladies and gentlemen: Opera Baby. (Non Parents: Move along. Nothing to see here)

If you are unsure how to celebrate Halloween, Here are some ideas from your Irish brothers and sisters.

This article is on the memory development of 2 year olds. Apparently longer term memory begins to develop during the terrible two's. Yikes I seriosuly need to work on patience and my potty mouth.

Happy Halloween

Hehe. There must be something wrong with me, but I find this hilarious.

I'd seen this before, and thought it was funny. Behold the plush Cthulu

Does anyone else think priorities are a little off when stores will sell video games where you attack people with axes but draw the line at nudity?

Flea pointed this article out to me about a business philosopher name Flores.

Found a decent article on resolving 2 yr old <--> parent conflicts.