Just Plain Chips

As I downloaded the pictures I took for my last post I noticed I had some pictures from March in my camera. What could those be?

Well, they turned out to be from my last day in Montana. Emily and I went on a hike up the Storm Castle, or Castle Rock. It was a beautiful day and we talked about all sorts of stuff. A perfect send off for me. I had the camera along and took a few pictures, and here are a couple of them.

This is a view from the top facing East South East. There’s lots of mountains around there.

Here’s me, standing atop my last mountain for a while.

Someone already called me a “horrible uncle” for not having pictures ready after 1 day of knowing Elaina. But I have a few from tonight. My nephew is very excited to have the baby around and has been very good with her so far. He’s even been a little over protective at times when other people want to hold the darling little girl.

Here is Luke giving Elaina a nice gentle kiss.

Here is Luke and Mom admiring their new family member. Luke is telling Elaina that he’s her big brother.

I put a couple of blogs up in my “Blogs I Read” section, but I thought I would call them out specifically.

If you are a fan of Star Wars, you should read “The Darth Side”: Memoirs of a Monster. It is a blog written from the perspective of Darth Vader during The Empire Strikes Back. It is pretty darn hilarious. The comments can be funny but a few people get a little crazy about it.

If you are a fan of the Minnesota Twins (and maybe even if you are not) you should read Bat-Girl. Most of it is really funny and excellently written. I thought that the post about yesterday’s game was especially good. It explained, in metaphysical terms, why the Twins can’t get a hit with the bases loaded. Good stuff.

Today is a day that only happens 12 times a century: the month, day, and year numbers in today’s date are all the same. I suppose it becomes a little passe, since it has happened the last 4 years in a row, and will happen for the next 7 years. But I think it’s pretty cool. When I was born in 1976 this hadn’t happened in 64 years!

A consequence of this that I just thought of is that the date reads the same here as it would in Europe. I suppose people who have to deal with that on a daily basis don’t worry too much any more, but it confuses me for a second when I read dates written over there, especially if it is before the 13th of the month, when it becomes obvious which number means what.