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I discovered an article on OSOpinion.com today that discusses web sites where people share their thoughts and lives with the web world at large. They referred to these “Web Logs” or Blogs as the newest trend in the web today. Well, we are way ahead of the curve here, aren’t we? I have been blogging on SGL for over a year and a half now. That is ages in Web time. I am an Epoch ahead of everyone, apparently. It also mentions on the site that grammer is not necessarily strict for blogs and that you can have misspellings and stuff and it is ok. So kiss my butt – all you grammerical critics.

Min and I watched “Riding in Cars with Boys” today while we were babysitting the girls. Both of them slept for most of the afternoon so we had the chance to watch something other than children’s television. I also got the chance to check my email today. And to check the news. Boy do you lose touch after five days away from the internet. I hope that I get a chance to update the site today as well. I didn’t think that Riding in Cars was all that good. It was okay but I had a hard to connecting to any of the characters.

The Count of Monte Cristo is playing at the dollar fifty theatre just down the street so I am hoping that Min will want to go there. There haven’t been very many movies this year that I have wanted to see. However, Star Wars II, Austin Powers 3: Goldmember, Star Trek X and Lord of the Rings 2 are all going to be out this year so I very excited about this summer. Attack of the Clones opens in just a week and a day. Josh, Montana Bob, Phil, Kate, Loopy and I are all planning on heading out to Rochester to catch opening night. I have seen Jedi and Ep I on opening nights so I have to keep the tradition going. I saw Empire in the theatres but not on opening day. Scooby-Doo is also coming out this summer. That might be interesting. There are a couple of good people in it. It might turn out to be okay.

Min and I went to the Galviston Aquarium today with the kids. We had a good time but the aquarium is very expensive for being a pretty small place. Not very impressive but we had a good time.

Dominica and I are playing substitute parents today to Madeline and Emily. We have them all day to ourselves. Let me tell you, I am not cut out to have kids. They are too much for me. I discovered today that I am not able to feed an infant.

Lots of television, that is what we did today. In the evening, Min and I went out to see Spiderman. We had a good time, the movie was pretty good. Min liked it a lot more than I did but she is a comic book fan. After the movie, we tried to get some dinner at Lupe Tortilla (Yes, Loopy Tortilla) but they had closed just before we got there. We thought that Loopy would think that that was hilarious.

We are planning on taking the girls to the aquarium tomorrow. We will see if we can pull off a trip.

I actually ended up working a fair amount today. The phone was ringing off the hook for a lot of the morning.

Today we went to the Houston Zoo. I also got to see downtown for the first time. Houston is the fourth largest city in the US and it is really noticeable when you fly straight from Atlanta to Houston.

We had a good time at the zoo even though it was 98% humidity and 95 degrees. Hot, hot, hot. But the zoo was nice. Not as nice as Cincinatti but pretty nice all the same. The kids were pretty tired by the time that we decided to leave.

My first actual day in Texas. This is my first time seeing Texas in the daylight. Dominica and I spent most of the day catching up on some sleep that we needed after traveling all day yesterday. Dominica and Francesca spent the afternoon catching up while Bennie and I went out to he bar and shot some pool. We did some Italian for dinner. That was about the entire day for me. I am exhausted. The time change doesn’t help anything either.

Loopy called me today all excited about his new computer. He finally has it all together. That is three people who have them done now. Josh and I will have ours together soon. Loopy is very excited. I haven’t had a chance to talk to him since he has been playing anything new on his yet but he managed to score more than a 9600 on performance tests by overclocking his machine just a little bit. I can’t wait to try out some new games on it.

Bennie (Francesca’s husband) and I headed out to the pool hall to shoot pool for a couple of hours and get some drinking in. We won’t have much chance to see each other while Min and I are down here since he has to work all week. We had a good time. I am surprised that I am still able to shoot pool at all. It has been a long time since I did that at all. I haven’t shot any pool since the days of Eric and I playing at Classic Billiards in Greece.

Today we flew to Houston. That was pretty much our entire day. Dominica and I hit the road around noon to head up to Rochester to catch our flights to Houston. We got to the airport around 2:00 pm just in time to discover that our 4:30 flight, which we were already early for, was delayed until 5:10. Well, that didn’t seem so bad. Once we got to the terminal after having dinner at Philip’s European, we discovered that our flight was delayed until 6:00 because of a storm in Atlanta (where we were making our connection.) We finally got on the plane and flew the two hour trip to Atlanta.

Upon arriving in Atlanta, we were directed to the incorrect gate for our flight were they informed us that our flight was currently boarding at the furthest point in the terminal from where we currently were. So, we ran the length of the terminal just to discover that they had decided that, due to extreme delays, that they would no longer be updating their schedules and everyone had to just sit tight and listen for a boarding call! So, we sat. We finally boarded the plane and prepared for the 55 minute flight down to Houston.

After flying for about an hour, I looked out the plane’s window and noticed New Orleans glowing beneath us. Since NO is not on the flight path between Atlanta and Houston, I knew that this was going to take forever. The flight ended up taking two hours instead of less than one. So, it ended up being a very long trip. But we finally arrived. Houston was not as hot as I expected it to be.

Before we left this morning, I got the opportunity to download and play Microsoft’s new Dungeon Siege. DS is MS’s newest RPG and let me tell you, it is really exciting. The graphics, sound and gameplay are all really amazing. I just played the demo and I can’t wait to get the full game. It is going to be a lot of fun.