Get Physical

Today we had a family games night. The kids picked out Apples to Apples for us to play. Normally we play the junior version because the words are easier. This time we used the big cat version. Kit Kat won after 30 minutes of play.

Momoko had set aside 1 hour for us to do games. What were we going to do with the extra time? Kit Kat wanted to play on the Wii. I suggested we spend a little while exercising.

At the beginning of this year, we exercised regularly as a family. We got it up to 30 minutes of exercise a day. This was mostly Momoko, Kit Kat, and myself. Somehow we got off track around March. Momoko and Kit Kat said I was the reason we stopped. I cannot recall the details. However if I was the reason for the stop, I will make it my business to start it back up again.

Nobody likes to exercise. It is no fun. It hurts. But you know what they say? No pain no gain. I told the family we could start small and exercise for 5 minutes. How could they say no to that? They tried. But I insisted. We ended up exercising for 7 minutes. Tomorrow I plan to make the family exercise for 6 minutes. Who knows? We might even go longer. The only trouble is that we have 3 exercise machines. I think we can find a way to get a 4th machine. It is a little tight on space in the basement. But for a healthy family, I think we can find a way.

Theme Park Adventure

My company had an employee appreciation day this weekend. They rented out a theme park for us. I only got two tickets. So I went with Little Kat. The traffic to get there was terrible. I almost turned around and went home before arriving. However we charged on. It was raining at our house. However after 2+ hours of driving, we found the theme park to be sunny weather.

Little Kat and I made a bee line to the go karts. He came in first place after the 10 laps of driving. It took over an hour in line to ride the go karts, But it was worth it. By the time we were done there, we were starved. Luckily there was free food in the pavilions. Little Kat and I loaded up on food. I was disappointed they had no free burgers. Little Kat was more disturbed that there was no chili for his hot dogs.

Next Little Kat tried to get me to ride some crazy spider looking spinner. No thanks. I held his bag as he went on it alone. We searched for some bumper cars next. One was closed for the summer. The other was for little kids. Little Kat tried to win a Domo stuffed animal by playing some carnival game. No luck there. We returned to the go kart. It was fun again. We grabbed some free soft drinks. I was worried about the drive home. So Little Kat bought some souvenirs and we went home.

The drive home had a lot of bad traffic too. However we got home in around 2 hours. Grabbed some burgers at Burger King. After dinner it was time to go to bed. It is a school and work night.

Dotty Dots

I visited the Dotts Dots site. Had them generate a logo for Chinwagger. Now the image above is nothing special. But if you go to the Dotty Dots site itself, you will seem some interesting effects if you move your mouse over the logo. The dots fly around to avoid your mouse. Note that this does not seem to work with Internet Explorer. You have to use a browser like Firefox to see the site.

Story About a Missing Cat

You got to read this story I found online. A woman who works as a secretary has lost her cat Missy. She enlists the help of an artist to create some "Lost Cat" color posters.

Big mistake. This artist goes off on a rampage of awesome posters, none of which help to find Missy.

I found this poster with the giant cat to the left to be the best. You could almost believe it being the poster for a real movie. Ha ha.

Family Workers

Yesterday I had the family come outside and help me with the yard work. Little Kat had his friend spend the night. So his friend came outside to help too. Momoko did not want the friend cutting the grass with the lawn mower. So he had to pick up stick and bag the grass.

I chopped up a huge pile of sticks and branches. Bagged them all. They filled up 4 trash cans worth. Momoko took the hard task of cutting the grass on the treacherous hill. Kit Kat finished up her part of the work then went to the movies with her friends.

With Little Kat's friend going home, and Kit Kat gone for the night, I asked Little Kat where he would like to go out for dinner. He wanted to go to a Mongolian BBQ place. The price was high. I called around and found a Chinese buffet that cost less and provided soft drinks with the price. We went and Little Kat found that the Delicious Chicken was not so delicious. He also did not care for the stuffed mushrooms. But everything else was great.

Lazy Weekend

We made it to the holiday weekend. The kids scheduled up a bunch of activities themselves. Kit Kat went out swimming with her friends late last night. I went out to eat with a college buddy. Today Kit Kat and Little Kat are about to go shopping with some friends.

Little Kat was watching some TV. His friend was late to pick him up for shopping. So Little Kat called him up. Looks like Little Kat was too lazy to hold his cell phone while he called his friend. So Little Kat placed the phone on the couch, and laid his head down on the phone.

Next Little Kat lost the laziness. He pulled out the Wii Fit and did a bike riding exercise. Little Kat's friend called him back. Did Little Kat stop his game? No way. He picked up the phone, kept bicycling, and talked with his friend. Amazing.

My bro is about to come over and watch some movies with me today. They are from Netflix. But they seem to be B movies. I don't really care. No work on Monday. Yes.

Some Shed Issues

I shopped around a bit for somebody to bring me my shed. Personally I like Home Depot. There is just one problem. They require you to have a location chosen that is flat. My shed needs to go in the back of the yard. And our yard slopes up on that side.

Now I guess I could hire somebody to dig out the back side of the yard. But that sounds expensive. Another idea is to hire some guys that would build the shed right on the hill. But that might also be very costly.

The only option could be to build the shed myself. That might be the most painful option. However it would be exactly what we want. And I could teach Little Kat a thing or two about assembling buildings. We shall see.