Happy Mother's Day

We had Mother's Day lunch and dessert over at K&L&I&K's place. Here are some visual memories we all shared.

I think Bella is thinking "Nana, are you going to eat that?"

GrandDad and GrandMom spending some time with Kendall

Kendall told GrandMom a funny joke.


Three Grecian Urns


I'm OK!

Smaller Stuff

Smaller photo and smaller granddaughter. OK, ZW, let's try a smaller version of the mosaic. That program I used saves the output as a PNG file at 90MB. That was waaay too big. So, I resaved it as a JPG with MED quality, but it was still 10MB. Here's one less than 5MB. Can you see me now?

I don't know if K&L have taken any videos of Kendall cooing, so I took it upon myself to capture some. Here she is enjoying Winnie the Pooh and friends.

Here's Looking at Me, Kid

I found one of those packages that uses your (actually, it used mine, not yours) photos to create a photo-mosaic of any chosen picture. It took several hours (after all, I am at around 11K pictures), but here it is. The mosiac contains 1600 images. Can you see me?


Wait a minute. Am I supposed to rename my blog, too? It seems like everyone else is. Well, everyone that still blogs. I'll start thinking about it.

Kendall and Isabella are spending the night with us. When Kyle and Lyndsay dropped them off earlier, I caught some footage of the way a two-year-old calls animals. Here, our cat Chino decides not to stick around to see why Bella was calling him. Well, what would you do?

Finals and Endings

Well, in my Java class, the prof gave us the option of taking a test over the last 2 chapters AND the final, or just the chapter test and take the final next Thursday. I wanted to get them over with and even more so when he said he pulled the questions from our previous chapter tests. What? That was exactly what I had studied to prepare. Let's do it! On the chapter test, I did a 32 out of 40, my worst performance to date. And as usual, the ones I missed should not have been hard. On the final, I also missed one that should not have been missed. It was what the declaration of a main method starts with. How could I miss that? The answer was shown on several of the later questions. Oh well. I got 92 out of 94 on it.

I was perusing job posting this morning and came across one: I can haz dream Job? My rezumez! let me showz u thm" That's the subject line of a cover letter sent by a job applicant to I Can Has Cheezburger, one of the premier sites for so-called Lolcat pictures. Don't think the letter will be rejected out of hand — bad spelling is no obstacle to a job in Lolcat world. It may even be an asset.

So, I kind of like the idea of changing English so that the letter z is how make everything plural. Words like skillz, carz, zebraz, pluralz. After all, we use that sound when we sing wordz that end with s. The only timez I think it would be a problem is situations such as a room full of Elizabethz. Would they be Lizz or Liz'?

I think I want to talk about the wordz that we use to denote a group of something such as a murder of crowz. Remind me to do that soon.

No job yet. I am subbing 4 dayz next week. Fourth grade, Fifth grade and Art. I talked to my prof last night about job opportunitiez at ASU where he workz. They laid off 4 IT people last week and the school facez a 12 million dollar deficit this year. Hmm. Doesn't sound good, does it? Just think how much trouble I would be in if there WERE a recession.

Girlz are spending the night tomorrow night. I'd better clean up a bit.

Rain and Suns

Nope. There was no precipitation in Phoenix today. However, there was Rain.


This Beatles tribute band came to Chandler for the evening and Kyle, Lyndsay, Alison, Kathie and I attended. I have written before about seeing a different band, Beatlemania, but this was our first time for Rain.

Playlist: All My Lovin', I Want to Hold Your Hand, This Boy, I Saw Her Standing There, Hard Day's Night, I'm So Happy Just to Dance With You, Yesterday, I Feel Fine, Daytripper, Twist and Shout, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, A Little Help From My Friends, Strawberry Fields, When I'm 64, Sgt Pepper Reprise, A Day in the Life, Hello Goodbye, I Am the Walrus, Girl, Mother Nature's Son, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Come Together, Get Back, Revolution, Give Peace a Chance, and Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End. Encore songs were Imagine, Let It Be, and Hey Jude. It lasted right at 2 hours of music, with a 15 min break in the middle, between the Sgt Pepper era and Flower Power.

I queried the family. Kathie, Kyle and Lyndsay preferred the show and cast of Beatlemania. I prefer Beatlemania for the show and John's character, and Rain for Paul's character. Alison said Rain was a better concert and Beatlemania was a better show. This show included a lot of multimedia with pictures of the cast mimicking famous Beatle's photos and a lot of 60's photos. Between some sets, they also showed some 60's TV commercials, including one with Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble praising Winston cigarettes (this is on YouTube). Another difference: kids can attend this one, whereas they cannot go into the casino where Beatlemania performs.

You can see a little about them at rainthebeatlesexperience.com.


This is a good time to remind you of this photo. We even made Kyle go barefoot like Paul.

Also, the Suns won today. I fear this may be too little, too late.

BSing Again

That's right. We are BabySitting again while Kyle, Lyndsay and Alison go to a movie. No, I don't know which one. Kathie and Bella are outside and I am rocking Kendall. Actually, I am manually pushing a swing whose mechanical propulsion system has malfunctioned. With no job, and unknown prospects on when we'll have a third grandchild, I am not sure we want to purchase another one. So, I push it.

Tomorrow night, we go to see Rain, a Beatle's Tribute Band. That should be fun. I think you can find some of their stuff on YouTube.

Here's another little video reminder of grandkids (well, for some of you it is still kids).

When Will I Grow Up?

Tonight, at chorale, a lady reached up and held my head still so she could see around me during practice. We are practicing in a different place than normal, and the director is not on a podium. I decided to move so I would not block her view. Not bad in itself, but I said "Let me just get completely out of your way." I got upset for no reason. Then, I left before she could talk to me. OK, I did not feel good due to allergies, but that was childish. I'll contact her before our Friday concert and apologize.

A friend at Univ of Phoenix is circulating my resume. The job situation is certainly weighing on me. Still....

Jesus, What a Savior, a song by Shannon Wexelberg says what I wish I could live out.

You are my strength when all my strength has ended,
and You are my hope when all my hope is gone.
You are my joy when my world is full of sorrow,
You are the peace in my tomorrow,
for I know that You'll be there.
You are my song when my melody has ended,
A light in the storm when I can't find my way.
You are the One who gives my life a reason,
Someone to believe in
You help me carry on.
Jesus, what a Savior You are
You are my Rock when I need a place of refuge,
A hand reaching out when I stumble and I fall.
You are my all in every time and season,
You are all I've ever needed every time I call.
Jesus, what a Savior You are.
You heard my cry, You answered my plea,
Gave up your life, gave me everything.
Now, forevermore, I'm devoted to You
And that's why I sing my praise to You.
Jesus, what a Savior You are.

Hit and Miss Family

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends."
--Herbert Hoover, thirty-first U.S. president

Ain't it the truth? Anyway, take a look at these shocking findings as to when the WEBNET family members last updated:
Alison - 19 Apr
GrandMom - 17 Apr
Brenda - 15 Apr
Lauri - 12 Apr
Lindsay - 11 Apr
Kara - 7 Apr
Caleb - 23 Mar
Stumpy - 13 Mar
Lyndsay - 10 Mar
Zachary - 1 Mar
Justin M - 29 Jan
Katie - 23 Nov 2007
Denise - 10 Oct 2007
Carey - 15 Mar 2007
Leigh - 16 May 2007

I suspect some of you comment more than post, but I am not going to take them time to research that. Be that as it may, it does not give the rest of us any hint as to how each of you is doing. Come on. Get with the program.

It looks like we know someone who starred in the movie Hairspray. Lyndsay's brother, Casey. Well, that's what Bella believes. Have a listen.

Thank You, Come Again

Kathie and I just got back from a baby shower for Mihir and Hetal, two friends of ours from India (well, Indian descent anyway). We had a good time and I saw many friends from my US Airways days. They already know it's going to be a boy.

OK, some photos.


Kendall ate her first cereal this weekend. She seemed to enjoy it once she figured out to mush it around a bit and then swallow. Kyle is still learning how to do that, so we thought she did great.


Here she is enjoying her Bumbo seat. She likes sitting up, so it was fun for her until she got tired. So did I, so we both took a nap after that.


Who's there?

God or the Devil

So, you hear about people saying that God led them to their mate or their job or their new home. All sorts of things. Do you believe it? I do. I've felt that leadership before.

Today, though, I found a job that the Devil calls people to. Working an elementary PE job, outside, in the heat of Phoenix in the summer. OK, it's not summer yet, but it was already too stinking hot. Two of my Kindergarten kids even threw up. Why would I think it was from the Devil. Come on. Think about it.


Hmm, what does a two-year-old have going on that requires such a pensive expression? This was a few weeks ago over at Faith and Grace's house. Bella likes to get duded up for playing with chalk.