http://www.blogrilla.com The big scary monkey of blogs. Striving to bring you the best of what's what. Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:39:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I found out that our polling-place, the kids' elementary school would be open at 7am, which allowed me to get there before work.  Sort of.  I showed up at 6:55am and go the last parking spot in the place.  I walked inside and was greeted with most people and longest ... http://www.blogrilla.com/2008/11/04/voting/ Friday night we had some friends stay over.  They brought their three kids and two dogs to visit as well.  Let me just say it was a BUSY house!!  Holy cow.  Seven kids, four grown-ups and four dogs.  Wow.  At times it felt like even more, but mostly it was ... http://www.blogrilla.com/2008/11/03/it-was-a-good-weekend-2/ So on Saturday morning I dropped Ben off at the Danvers Fish and Game club to go camping and shooting with the boy scouts.  The place looked fine, it was all set up to accommodate campers and, in fact, I noticed that our group of boy scouts was not the ... http://www.blogrilla.com/2008/10/27/camping-and-lasertagging/   Get the word out! http://www.blogrilla.com/2008/10/27/i-think-ive-had-this-conversation/ Scouts Tomorrow morning I have to drop Ben off at his boy scout camp out.  The kid got lucky:  the low is only supposed to be in the mid-40's with a high in the low 60's!  It could have been MUCH worse.  They're going to a gun-club and will shoot ... http://www.blogrilla.com/2008/10/24/the-upcoming-weekend/ Get the word out! http://www.blogrilla.com/2008/10/24/rogues-and-misfits/ By now, I'm sure you've seen the video of Sarah Palin answering Katie Couric's question about which periodicals she reads - "All of'em." But this is a different angle.  Hilarious.  Too funny.  Pay special attention around 45 seconds in to it. Reading Is FundamentalGet the word out! http://www.blogrilla.com/2008/10/24/a-microcosm-of-america/ So after some negotiations with my son, Gabriel we decided to have him start taking one of our dogs, Buckaroo, to obedience classes.  I would supervise, but he would be in charge of training him.  I thought it would be fun and Gabe would get a sense of accomplishment and ... http://www.blogrilla.com/2008/10/23/dog-training/ Mostly, things are fine.  The weather stinks today - 45 and rainy - but you can't have everything right?  Work got a little weird yesterday.  Over the last few years my employer spent lots of money to buy up companies that would complement their business.  The basic idea was sound, ... http://www.blogrilla.com/2008/10/22/raining/ The weekend went very well. Yes, my mother-in-law was here – she arrived on Saturday near lunchtime. We had time before she got here to do swim lessons at 8am followed by lawn-mowing. I hate my lawn-mower. It took me two hours to do my yard – and its not a ... http://www.blogrilla.com/2008/10/15/weekend-round-up/