Make-up Disaster

For Katelynn's birthday, she received money from different grandparents. She used some of that money to buy a make-up kit. We were such good parents to allow such a purchase. What were we thinking? Kate had some messy fun with a neighbor boy with all the make-up but never got out of control.

The other day Jen and I were talking about grills that we could do the 4th at and I thought there was one in the back behind our house. Jen wasn't sure so I went to Kate's window to see if I could see one. I saw Kate out of the corner of my eye and teased and said, "Who is sitting in the corner there?" She sheepishly said, "Me." I thought nothing of it, looked and saw no grill and went back to Jen. Jen asked what Kate was doing and I said playing, although disclaimed I only saw her out of the corner of my eye. Jen decided that she needed to investigate and this is what she found.


Kate decided that all the make-up needed to cover her entire body. And the carpet. And some doors and walls. This stuff was oily and took lots of soap, water, and elbow grease to get it all out.


She got an immediate bath obviously.

That'll teach us.

My Father's Day

So this is a little late but I wanted to express the appreciation I feel for how good a Father's Day I had. Jen and Kate made it such a great day for me. Here are the cards Kate made for me for Father's Day. She wished me a happy Father's Day for at least a couple days after.

Recently Discovered Websites

Okay, so I am a tech geek (I claim other areas of geek as well) but I thought these things were really cool and I think everyone, or at least many people, would find these at least interesting.


The WolframAlpha seems like it is just another search engine like Google and they just name it a something-other-than-search-engine name, in this case they call it a computational knowledge engine (like Bing did, the new search engine by Microsoft, they use the stupid term "decision engine").

But it really is different. It doesn't search for websites that have the term(s) you are searching for. It calculates things for you, it is a really big complex calculator. But this doesn't do just arithmetic and calculus or even physics and statistical. It can do all sorts of calculation and data finding. Like you can type in your name and it tells you the current popularity of the name, how many people are in the US that have the same name, most common age, etc. Put in your birthday and they tell you all sorts of things for the day. They have a whole host of questions that you can ask. I have used it as a financial calculator, but also to figure out what 90 days after a specific date. Jen's cousin, Wes, is in a chemistry class and when I showed it to him he got excited over the information that it gave him on different compound's data.

Just try it out real quick. It has an element of novelty that I saw in it at first as more of a toy. But I am starting to see a practical side that would make it very powerful and useful in the future. Keep in mind they opened this up just a few weeks ago and are growing and building new things in all the time.
Wolfram|Alpha

US Debt Clock
This one is not nearly as cool but it is neat to see the numbers. I have seen other ones but this one is pretty comprehensive on the debt of the US.
US Debt Clock