Baseball Season & Photo/Video Sharing!

Hey everyone! Today starts one of our favorite times of year: Baseball Season!!! The first game is a double header today (because of the bad weather tomorrow) and pre-game starts at 12:30. We’d love to see you out there if you can make it. We’ll be in the outfield! (Katie will meet up with me after she gets out of school).

Also, I’m looking for a good way to share videos & photos online: FREE. Any ideas? Flickr and many other photo sharing websites reserve the right to use your photos if you upload them. We don’t really like that. We are both on facebook, but I can’t link them back to the blog. Anyway, leave me a comment with your thoughts and let us know if you have baseball tickets!

GO HOGS!

Watch this Video!

‘The government is promoting bad behavior… do we really want to subsidize the losers’ mortgages… This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor’s mortgage? President Obama are you listening? How about we all stop paying our mortgage! It’s a moral hazard’…

Watch the Video! Could this be the embers needed to spark a real “REVOLUTION”?

Obama Supporter vs Repo Man

You MUST listen to this!

Download the MP3

I needed a good laugh today!

Here is the transcript if you can’t hear the above audio:

WOMAN: Uh yes…um… Y’all come to get the car? The car is not here. The car is in the shop and one part is at another shop. If y’all want it that bad, y’all can go pay that man to get it out and then pay the person to get the other part out. I mean, because y’all act like y’all couldn’t be patient. You knew that we was going to get it tookin’ care of. So if y’all want it that bad, y’all can go get it ya pay the man and the other man and you — we can we leave it as that. Cuz we not owin’ that much on the car. Y’all want to trip on it now, there… We only got, ahh — only a thousand or two thousand on it. So you know what? God bless y’all. Y’all can go pick up the car… So you know what? Give me a call back and I will give you the directions to where the man at, and I will let him know that y’all going to be paying him to get it out because y’all don’t be patient! We not rich like y’all. That’s one thing y’all going to have to understand. But one day — this year! — we will be, because we have Barack Obama! (slams down phone)

Surviving an Ice Storm

For those of you who have never been in a 100 year Ice Storm, I thought I would share some things I have learned in the two I have survived…

#1. Don’t doubt Dan Skoff. Dan is one of the better weather guys in our area about about 2 days before all this started, he said something like, “With all these variables this could become a pretty bad ice storm. We’re talking 100 year ice storm here!” I looked at Katie and said, “There’s no way. We’ve already been in one of those.”

#2. If you have trees buy a chainsaw, BEFORE winter… Every store ran out for days. We don’t have trees so this wasn’t a big deal for us. If all else fails, you can use an axe.

#3. Get some really, really good sleeping bags. That was our survival – 20 degree, down sleeping bags that we usually use camping. Also remember, the fewer clothes you weare in the down mummy bags, the more heat you will generate.

#4. Take the items from the fridge and keep them in your freezer (try not to open it very often). Take the items from your freezer and keep them outside as long as it stays in the 20’s and 30’s.

#5. Stock up on Oreos. After the roads got a little better, Katie and I got the munchies and went to pick up some cookies, only to find that ALL of the Oreos were gone! Unbelievable. Oh yea, some other things that the stores ran out of: Flashlights, Candles, Bread (even fancy breads), Milk, Cheese, Electric heaters.

#6. Descide if you need a generator in the summer & try to buy one then. Generators are not on sale in the middle of winter… during an icestorm… when all the power is out. But there will be a shortage of those too!

#7. Get a data plan. Katie and I didn’t have a data plan at the time so when the power went out… We were in the DARK… With everything! We didn’t even know if it was going to snow again? Were we the only ones without power? When would it be restored?

#8. If you don’t get a data plan, get a battery operated weather radio.

#9. And probably the most important thing you should know, have freinds who live all over NWA. Luckily, we were able to warm up by visiting some friends around the city who still had power.

Welp, that is about it for us. Any other suggestions?