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This weeks Strong Bad E-mail was very funny. Best one in a long time. The Cheat apparently got a new iMac.

I was really tired today. Caleb woke up at his normal 6:30AM, but this morning he went into the other bedroom and woke up the Noah and Dawson. I barely managed to change diapers and make some drinks. I'm usually pretty lucid in the morning. Sarah had a migraine, but I had to get her up because I was just not together.

Since we were all up anyway, we loaded everyone up and went to Farm Fresh. They have carts with a plastic car cab in the front. They boys always pick one out and stay pretty happy the whole time. It has two steering wheels and places to sit, so Caleb and Noah can "drive" at the same time. They also like swapping seats without getting out. They all had breakfast at the store while we were shopping. Bananas, pretzels, grapes, and goldfish are always great in the morning. Dawson was shocked by the salt on the pretzel, but in the end he was covered in brown slop.

I tried a POM tea. It's pomegranate juice and black tea mixed. I thought it was okay. I usually get a pomegranate/cherry juice at Farm Fresh, but I thought I'd try something else. I don't really care much for the other POM juice mixes. Blueberry and mango with pomegranate just don't work for me. I do like the pure pomegranate juice is pretty tasty. It's expensive stuff though -- $4 for a 16oz bottle.

My mom gave us a blender, so Sarah bought tons of fruit to make smoothies. Noah will eat them, so she's going to try getting him to eat some fruit by sneaking it into one. Either way, I'm sure Caleb and Dawson will eat all of it.

We tried to go to IHOP for pancakes afterward, but we ended at Lone Star. They are supposed to have a kids eat free thing on Saturday morning, but apparently you have to order them an actual meal on the kids menu. We just got them milk and some french fries. That's cheaper, but we would have had to get a more expensive kid's meal for it to be free. Good stuff.

We just hung out for the rest of the day. We had a little nap, watched some TV, played in the pool a bit, etc. I had to add some water to the pool because the other day Noah and Caleb tried to climb out of the pool at the same time on the same side. They weigh just enough together to make the side squish down and dump out the water. They had a blast playing with the hose. I wish I'd taken pictures. The baby and I sat in the swing some. He was pretty tired all day.

The nanny was supposed to watch the boys tonight while we went over to some people's house for a worship and prayer get-together. The nanny's mother showed up in town today, so she called and canceled. Tomorrow we're going to the evening service at church because Georgian Banov is going to be there. He's a great guy. If you don't know him, I couldn't describe him fittingly. He's nuts in a good kind of way, and he really knows how to worship.

On to the rambling...

The tire blew out on my car last Friday, so it just sat in the work parking lot until today. It didn't have a spare because it hit a pot-hole, or more correctly a large section of road that had collapsed, and dented on of the steel rims. A brand new, un-dented steel rim was sitting the trunk, but it had no tire on it. This is partly because I'm a very busy guy and partly because the car dealership that supplied the rim wanted way too much for a new tire.

I had a new tire put on the rim and was amply prepared to put it on the car today, but after my wife dropped me off at work with the tire, I realized that I was wearing light khaki pants and a light yellow shirt. So I'll put it on tomorrow.

Sarah's new computer was finally delivered today. We kept missing the Fed-Ex chic for one reason or another. I'm getting all of her data moved over tonight. She's excited. She's been using my older 15" PowerBook since I got my new computer. She prefers having a smaller one she can tote around the house easily.

We took a few cute pictures of the kids tonight, so I thought I post a couple.

The Date.

My wife and I are out on a date at Panera bread. We chose the venue because they have WiFi. We're blogging and stuff. Very romantic, eh. It's pouring rain outside, and some light jazz is playing in the background, so the atmosphere is nice and relaxing. Our new Nanny is watching the boys for a few hours. That sounds rich and snobby :-D.

I'm enjoying myself. I always miss my children, but I'm glad to be out alone with my wife. I love the way she looks tonight.

Nothing is quite like certified organic, low sodium, non-bioengineered microwave dinners.

Since I have higher-than-desirable blood-pressure, I try to avoid eating too much Sodium. It's actually fairly difficult to eat low sodium unless I cook absolutely everything myself. Fast food is right out. For example, a Wendy's grilled chicken sandwhich and a side salad with honey mustard dressing adds up to 1450 milligrams of sodium. One is supposed to eat less that 2300 a day, and apparently the American Medical Association was a bit liberal with that number. They actually wanted to lower it to 1500 fairly recently. That particular fast food selection is actually fairly low compared to some other places. So if I ate that one day, I would have to eat nothing but no-salt peanut butter and plain raw veggies with no dressing for the rest of the day. I know the food industry uses salt to increase shelf life and generally make food taste better, but gee.

The other day I noticed Amy's Kitchen meals in the organic section. These were much more reasonable with sodiums levels like 300-700 mg for a meal. They also make even lower sodium versions of their products, but sadly these aren't sold at Farm Fresh. I had a few burritos and Indian Vegetable Korma (no, I don't really know what Korma refers to), and I was happy with the results.

My doctor gave/lent me a blood-pressure machine. He actually said I should use it an return it when I'm done, or if I don't, who cares. One of my co-workers had been to the hospital after being shot in the foot, and had found out his blood pressure was really high. He thought it was because he had just been shot, but later it turned out that it's always extremely high, so he started checking with my machine. Another coworker found out his was high too. they both went to the doctor. One ended up on really strong medications and is undergoing tests. The other one is currently trying to control his with diet and exercise. They've both decided, jokingly, that it's my fault they have high blood pressure.

First Post. I suppose I should write something introductory here. I thought I would, perhaps, confuse the people who are unfortunate enough to read this weblog with some of my disjointed, tangental musings. I suppose sharing such things with potentially everyone on the planet sounds pretty silly, but it seems to be the thing to do.