Ouch!

The first time I saw this video I laughed AND thought it was very cute. It's rare that those two things happen simultaneously. I think part of the magic for me is that it reminds me of my two little brothers. Watching the video was like be transported back to when we were young as I could EASILY see Kelly and Donald doing this.

Odyssey of the Mind

This past Saturday Natalie and her team of Odyssey of the Mind teammates competed in the Regional OotM competition at Dixie Heights High School. This was our family's introduction into OotM, and I have to say, it's a) exciting and b) weird. It's a creativity competition, and in many ways, though it's less well known than the Governor's Cup competitions that Meredith and Natalie have both competed in, it is in many ways a whole lot cooler. It's kind of complicated, though, so I'm not going to go into a lot of details, but you can read more about it by clicking here and by clicking here.

Natalie's team finished second at the competition and is now on to the state competition a few weeks from now in Bowling Green. If they finish in the Top 3 there they will head to the "World" competition, which is in Iowa this year.

I filmed their entire performance yesterday and had planned to post it on this website, but I learned this morning (from an email from the school sponsor) that posting performances to the web is forbidden by OotM rules until after the World Competition. So for now, here's video of Natalie and the others winning their ribbons at the award ceremony. Natalie is easy to spot in the video. She's the only girl with white lettering on her t-shirt.

Terrific Article

I think this is supposed to be a satirical article, but everytime I get a workorder saying that the Internet is taking too long to open up on someone's computer, and I go there and find that it's taking maybe 6 seconds to open, I start to wonder if this article maybe isn't satire and is reality.

Click here to see what I'm talking about.