Get Ready to Pee Just a Little

For tonights thought, I would like to mention an event that happened a few years ago.  My Family and I were vacationing in Hawaii, and one day while we were all hanging out, we broke a knife and came up with an idea on how to punk my brother.  After an excellent setup, we convinced my brother that I was accidentally stabbed.  Well, my brother went all hero, and I think I deserve an oscar...I must warn you that there is some swearing, but watch the video and enjoy!

My Favorite Part is at about the :57 mark when he goes all "Hero Pose" then panics and is back into action!

Keep God Out

Now, I am not trying to make this a religious blog or anything, but for this next account, I need to point out that my family is a religious family with general Christian beliefs.  One day a great deal of time was spent trying to explain the concept to one of my boys that we believe that Jesus is God and he is the "Son" meaning the Son of God.  Well, after we felt the concept had be basically understood, we let the topic close and thought little of it until...A few day later we were driving down the road and as we crested a hill, the light of the sun hit the windows of our car, and my son, who we had been talking to earlier, said "Dad, could you tell God to stop shinning in my eyes!"

Less is More

While I am not one to focus on the myriad differences between men and women, I would like to mention one slight thing that was once again brought to my attention today.  It is the fact that men can use very few words to communicate with women, and in spite of the few words spoken, the women hear paragraphs and full conversations...and most likely their version and understanding of the conversations they "hear" are almost always far different than the intended meaning of a few words spoken by the man in some barely intelligible half mumbled sentence.  For example, when a man responds to a request to complete some little chore with the sentence "Later", what he is really saying is "I think what you are asking is stupid and I am currently very comfortable doing nothing.  I hope if I put it off long enough, you will become so exasperated with my inability to act that you would complete the task yourself without sacrificing future "alone" time as a result of my failure to perform said task."  I think that is perfectly clear and should be understood by all parties present.  However; in spite of the perfect clarity, the convoluted message that the woman hears is "Sweetheart, I am busy right now but I will do what you asked me to do later."  See...they put so much of the wrong meaning in so few words.  Imagine what they heard in a sentence as simple as "I do"....

It's a Bird...It's a Plane...Blah Blah Blah

So I was sitting on the floor of our bedroom one day, watching TV, and I heard my son, who was watching TV from the bed begin to move around and make some noise.  Without warning, he jumped from the bed up above me and landed, full belly flop, on the carpet right in front of me.  He sat up off the floor and with tears filling his big brown eyes, he said in the most disappointed voice possible "Dad...I can't Fly!"  And then he started crying.  Not because of the pain, but because of the dissapointement that flying like superman was not an option.

Snacks for Tacks

So the other day, it became important to impress a group of 14 year old boys who look up to and respect me... the above video is the result.