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Andee has been out of town for the last 5 days attending the big MOPS convention in Nashville.. So I took the week off, and have been playing stay at home daddy.

The kids are getting tired of bacon and eggs for breakfast and Homestyle bakes for dinner, but other than that all has been well.

Went to Valleyfest today. It was pretty fun, but the STA shuttle service stunk and we probably wasted more than an hour waiting to get there and back. Julia caught a fish, and gave it to the Union Gospel Mission.

Idaho is down 17-0 to Oregon State so far.. It isn't halftime yet.

Got wrapped up in a interesting discussion on the Monday Morning Insight blog the other day. It always troubles me how good Christians can assume the worst about each other without investigation.

Started teaching some chess to Julia's classmates. That is interesting. I taught Julia a few weeks ago, and she loves it. She is learning fast.. May give me a run for my money in another few years. I played quite a bit in Junior High and High School, and really liked it. I was good, but not anywhere near unbeatable.

Got stung by a yellowjacket yesterday. We where at Felts field, and I put Nathan on my shoulders to see an airplane lift off. I tried to secure him by grabbing onto his feet, but apparently he had a bee on his shoe.. Ouch!

Found a private pilot's video course at my public library. It is quite good, but also quite boring.

Andee should be back tomorrow night after dark...

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Gloat Mode! Idaho got one of its rare wins... Granted it was a weak win over a 1AA school, but hey, a win is a win...

NCAAF - Idaho State Bengals/Idaho Vandals Recap Saturday September 16, 2006 - Yahoo! Sports

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Apparently NBC's version of "The Veggie Tales" has been stripped of any "God talk". Phil Visser is quoted as saying that he is only continuing to work with them in hopes that some parents pick up a real veggie tales movie at WalMart.

Bozell's News Flash: NBC Slices and Dices 'Veggie Tales' | NewsBusters.org

It’s truly sad that this anti-religious hypocrisy would emerge. Today, no one in network TV fears what the children are watching – unless it makes them think about God.

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I am a lousy speller... The lack of integrated spell checking has been one of my pet peaves with peeves as well as Movable type. Now there is SpellingCow, which allows you to have a gmail-like spell checker in any form by pressing on a shortcut on your bookmarks bar.

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Look out WAC, Idaho is much better than the pundits have given credit for.

Michigan State 27, Idaho 17

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So, here are the items in my Nerdy Pipeline:

I switched over to Comcast Digital Voice. Comcast is offering TV, Internet and Phone service in my area for 33 bucks each for a year when you buy all 3. This isn't too nerdy, but it is new. I got to torture my poor wife by making her watch ultimate fighting with me.. (She actually was on the phone the whole time) I am canceling my ViaTalk service. Their service was fine, but it is not necessary since my Comcast line has unlimited long distance.

I have been working on a program to compute trajectories on long range shooting. Not sure I would be able to miniaturize it to the point that it would be useful in the field, but it is a fun programming problem to de-rustify my skills.

Julia starts school Next week, and I have volunteered to help facilitate their chess club. I started teaching Julia to play chess when she was 3, but we lost momentum pretty fast after she learned the names of the pieces. Her school has kids K-3, but everyone except the Kindergartners already know how to play.

I am getting ready to test out Gmail for domains on one of my community websites. That should be an adventure!

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