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Trying to catch up on my blog reading at the hospital yesterday while Skyler slept. All the fine folks on blog role are accessible, except for one... ;^) Must be all those posts about Milton Berle, huh Grant? Updated later: Sorry I pooched up the screen snapshot earlier, here is what is so funny!

Had a family photo taken up in Boulder at the Humane Society last week and just got the picture delivered. Unless you have tried this on your gaggle, you just can't imagine the fun of trying to get two dogs that are going crazy sniffing everything, and an uncooperative son to look forward and smile on cue! It's all for a great cause though, to help out the 4 footed homeless.

"No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes." Don Kardong, 1976 Olympic marathoner Now get out there and run off that Turkey people!

I have created a site that you can go to in order to keep up to date with what is going on with Skyler's back surgery on November 26th. Just click on the link below to check out pictures, what is going on, and background information. I won't be updating this too often as we go through the 2 weeks or so of the hospital stay, but will try and read you all as much as I can! Thanks a lot everyone, take care, Chris http://skylerspine.blogspot.com/

Here is a little quiz to take during those down times between eating and fighting with the family! ;^) Happy Thanksgiving all, Chris (Skylers dad)

Must be some old British show, pretty good.

There was a great story last night on the news about the mascot for the University of Colorado, Ralphie the Buffalo. Ralphie 4 is set to retire at the end of the year to make way for Ralphie 5. The team that handles Ralphie is working with the new young lady, training her to run the stadium before the game and at the start of the second half. It is a wonderful tradition at every home game, and if Colorado makes it to bowl games, Ralphie also travels. It is one of the best openings of any football game you will ever see, as Ralphie thunders down the sideline, turns at the end of the stadium and heads down the other sideline back into her truck. Click here to read the story, and check out the video, it is pretty cool! My favorite memory of Ralphie running the stadium is back in the 80's when Oklahoma came to town. They had a loud mouth linebacker named Brian Bozeworth that thought he would come out from the sidelines and stand in the way of Ralphie running. It wasn't until ...

I took this interesting quiz after a friend sent it to me last night. It goes by very fast, you only have 8 seconds per question to respond. It turns out that my aging brain cells are actually a bit smarter than average, which I was quite surprised by! Check it out .

Chris over at Some Guys Blog has a post about the different barbers that he has seen through time. This reminded me of a joke I have had laying around! A little girl goes to the barber with her dad. She stands next to him as the barber cuts his hair, eating a snack cake. The Barber says to her, "Sweetheart, you're going to get hair on your twinkie." She says, "Yeah, I know. I'm gonna get boobs too!"

I emailed this to some of you already, so sorry if this is a repeat. But there are some still photos to go along this time. Skyler took a tour of a local news station last week. The Meteorologist, Angie, is very nice and remembered him from a tour he took there several years ago. When he got there, she was going into the backyard to do the weather outside, and said to my wife Hurry up, we go on the air in just a minute. Then she wheeled him right into the shot! Pretty fun stuff. Sorry for the poor quality of this video, I don't have a decent digital video camera, so I had to video off the TV screen...

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A man moves into a nudist colony. He receives a letter from his grandmother asking him to send her a current photo of himself in his new location. Too embarrassed to let her know that he lives in a nudist colony, he cuts a photo in half but accidentally sends the bottom half of the photo. He's really worried when he realizes that he sent the wrong half, but then remembers how bad his grandmother's eyesight is, and hopes she won't notice. A few weeks later he receives a letter from his grandmother. It says: Thank you for the picture. Change your hair style... it makes your nose look short.

In case you missed it, this is the 25th anniversary of the march in Washington DC to dedicate the Viet Nam memorial, better known as just "The Wall". When the wall was dedicated there was a lot of vets who came to try and heal the wounds of the past, some to remember lost buddies, some to try and bring closure to what happened over there. Here is the video from the march back in 1982 when the wall was dedicated: When I entered the Navy It was 2 years after the war had ended, and I met a lot of guys who served during the war. One stands out to me, and I always remember him during memorial day and veterans day. He was the only friend I lost during my 4 years in the Navy. He was Lt Commander MacDonald, call sign Frosty. he flew S3 Vikings and I had the pleasure to control him on several occasion during anti-sub operations. Frosty was the CAG, or Commander of the Air Group and he was also from Colorado. He grew up in Vail, so when we met up off ship we got along well, even...

They recorded some shows for Skyler from up in Seattle and let him know they were sending the tape to him, so we left it in the mailbox for him to pickup!

I rear-ended a car this morning. So there we are alongside the road and slowly the driver gets out of the car... and you know how you just get soooooo stressed.. and life stuff seems funny? Yeah, well I could NOT believe it... he was a DWARF! He storms over to my truck, looks up at me and says... 'I AM NOT HAPPY!'.. So, I look down at him and say, 'Well, which one are you then?' ...and that's when the fight started

Will we ever learn anything from history? Somehow, I doubt it...

Pretty amazing set of pictures, forwarded to me from one of my old friends.

Has it really come to this?

Sorry I am late with this important advice on pool etiquette, but keep this handy for next summer! I sure wish I would have known about this earlier... Pool Party Dos and Don'ts on FunnyOrDie.com

A popcorn kernel popping at 5,400 frames per second.

"I live by this credo: Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Even in your darkest moment, you usually can find something to laugh about if you try hard enough." -- Red Skelton

Now this just freaks me out!!!

I saw this on Good Morning Silicon Valley, and thought it was a pretty interesting article. Here is a quote from it: "We've opened up a new front on the war on terror. It's an attack on the unique, the unorthodox, the unexpected; it's a war on different. If you act different, you might find yourself investigated, questioned, and even arrested -- even if you did nothing wrong, and had no intention of doing anything wrong. The problem is a combination of citizen informants and a CYA attitude among police that results in a knee-jerk escalation of reported threats. ... " The problem is that ordinary citizens don't know what a real terrorist threat looks like. They can't tell the difference between a bomb and a tape dispenser , electronic name badge , CD player , bat detector , or a trash sculpture ; or the difference between terrorist plotters and imams , musicians , or architects . All they know is that something makes them uneasy, usually based on fear, me...

"Said the guy on the reality show"... Nice save! OUT OF PROPORTION on FunnyOrDie.com

As I walked down the busy footpath, knowing I was late for an important meeting, my eye fell upon one of those unfortunate, homeless vagabonds that are found in every city these days. Wearing what can only be describes as rags, carrying every worldly possession in two plastic bags, my heart was touched by this persons condition. Some people turned to stare. Others quickly looked away as if the sight would somehow contaminate them. Recalling some long ago Sunday School admonition to "care for the sick, feed the hungry and clothe the naked," I was moved by some powerful inner urge to reach out to this unfortunate person. Yes, where some people saw only rags, I saw a hidden beauty. A small voice inside my head called out, "Reach out, reach out!" The doctor told me that with enough time and the proper physical therapy I may regain the full use of my arm and hand!