Catching up...

Just a couple pictures from Easter. Sierra looked very pretty in her Easter dress, although we don't go to church anymore, we dressed her up for the family dinner. The bunny brought her a tinkerbell Easter basket with tinkerbell toys, plastic toy kitchen utensils and blocks instead of candy.

Friday it snowed again (so much for being the second day of spring) and on the way into work about 3 car-lengths in front of me a pickup truck wiped out which gave me quite a fright. He was traveling quite fast in the left lane, pulled a "Dale Earnhardt" crossing traffic in the right lane, hit the guard rail head-on, bounced off and came to rest in the median of the interstate highway just before the exit I was about to get off. My vehicle was untouched and I was able to slam on the brakes and make it through, although it could have just as easily been a 6+ car pile-up. Right then after everyone had come to a halt a 20-25 foot diesel truck came barrelling through, narrowly missing the pickup truck which already had its front bumper smashed off.

To make up for the loss of Friday's post, here's the Friday Video. My workload at the job has increased so apologies for the relative inactivity, but essentially I'm pretty overwhelmed now with work. Right, here's Black Kids with "I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance"

Everyone hates a tourist, especially when it's all just a laugh

I was going to do a whiny blog today about how Mother Nature is an Ice-hole after stepping in one today and falling on my knees on the ice and the time that it took to scrape the windshields and car windows. But I'm not.

Instead I'm sharing with you my plans and all of the touristy things if I'm ever blessed with enough cash to take a month-long holiday in Great Britain.

Day 1

• Arrive at Heathrow
• Take the tube into Central London to hotel
• Try to contact Surviving Grady mate and author of Borrowed Philosophy for a pint at the pub

Day 2

• London Eye
• Globe Theatre
• Tower Bridge
• Tower of London

Day 3

• Westminster and Whitehall to Trafalgar Square (Big Ben, Parliament, 10 Downing St)
• Picadilly Circus
• Oxford Circus
• British Museum, time permitting

Day 4

• Abbey Road
• Notting Hill
• Putney - search for Cromwell's pub (ok I know it probably doesn't exist any longer 500 years on and all - maybe I'll settle for a nice curry while there)

Day 5

• Take the tube back to Heathrow, rent a car
• Drive to Windsor- Windsor Palace
• Stop in Slough to take photo of office building from The Office

Day 6

• Up the A413 to Aylesbury
• Search Hartwell cemetery for grave of Sir Richard Ingoldsby
• Back on the A413 to Buckingham
• Seek out if Lethenborough Manor (Lenborough Manor) still stands
• contact Jayne and pop into a pub for a pint

Day 7

• A421 to A428 to Cambridge
• Cambridgey stuff (walking around the campus, punting on the Cam, Oliver Cromwell artifacts)

Well, that's it for the first week, tune in again and I'll cover the next seven days sometime soon.

No Place Like Home

We made it home safely. The timing of it all was great - we travelled the three hours down between the storms and back again on Monday after the second storm. Some thoughts on this weekend:

1. It's amazing how one can get used to a screaming baby in the car for 45 minutes straight.

2. Those push-snowblowers are harder to operate than they look.

3. When loading the car, walk carefully down the steps when they're icy (my hand and back are still thanking me for that one).

4. When people offer you food just after saying you need to exercise more, politely decline. This is a test.

5. Passive-aggressive people are less so when they're hosting holiday parties at their homes.

6. I almost got my face chewed off by the chupacabra pup. Errr, I mean licked off. Quite the nicest pup I've had the pleasure of keeping warm with. (It was wicked cold, he gives off beaucoup heat.)

Ice Ice Baby

photo by: AP photo/ news.yahoo.com