Stars for Nathan
Nathan is making his first trip with me to New York today. I'm looking forward to all that I get to show him around the city. We have many good ideas so if you have any that you think a 9 year old would like to see, please give some input.
update: We've made it to NYC and found ourselves very whooped after getting unpacked and cramming some fragments of food into our mouth after not eating all day. Nate is loving NYC so far and can't wait to see what it looks like in the daylight.
Thanks for the comments, more input if you think of anything more or different. We are going to just go down and see what looks interesting to him with the week we have here.
update 2: A new Map at Wayfaring to keep track of it all.
update 3: If Your trying to find an address in NYC, Google Maps is obviously the best solution.
If you are trying to find your way from point A to point B in NYC via Subway then the Interactive Transit Map is the best solution.
If you want to Mark these places off so you can best plan a course of travel around NYC, Wayfaring is the best solution.
I just really wish someone would combine these great tools into one. Seems like it's not a hard stretch since they all use the Google Map API.
Time and Temperature
okc : 1:11pm 103 F (39.4c)
nyc: 2:11pm 79 F (26.1c)
Today it is supposed to reach 108f (42.2c) making it the hottest day on record. Oklahoma was on the news today as being the hottest state in the US this week.
All American Beef
A&W is running adverts here in Oklahoma slamming on Burger King (and others) for testing out the use of Australian Beef here in the US. Says the ad spokesman; "Nothing against Australia, I just think that an American burger should contain American Beef". The fact is, it's been going on for a while due to a shortage of lean beef in North America and honestly, I can't taste any Australian in them Australian Burgers any more than I can taste Freedom and Apple Pie in the beef over here.
In a statement sent to TruthOrFiction.com, McDonald's says it is the biggest buyer of beef in the U.S., using more than one billion pounds per year. (Burger King is second biggest.) McDonald's says that any foreign beef purchased is 100% USDA-approved and inspected. According to the statement, most major quick service restaurant chains including Taco Bell, Wendy's, and Carl's Jr. have used or are now using a significant percentage of imported beef, up to 50 percent.
Stop making it a freaking patriotic issue.
Today in the car
nathan: "Oh bother."
me: "heh, who says that?"
nathan: "Winnie the Pooh."
(pause)
nathan: (cracking himself up laughing)
me: "what?"
nathan: "I said poo(h)" (more self cracking up for about 5 miles)
Yea, good times.
Thank You
Whomever paid for my renewal to my dot mac account, I want to say thank you. You are a kind person.
Forgiving Zidane
What a load of crap in the New Yorker. He lost his head, He should have known better, it cost him and his team greatly. And how did this get turned into America Bashing as well? AGh!
Walking and Drama
Nathan and I have gone walking every day this week, First a mile, then two miles and yesterday we walked 4 miles along the NW Expressway. He has been pround of the accomplishment but made me promise today we could just "take it easy".
Nate's friend Ryan doesn't like me anymore, and not suprisingly since I have this way of confusing people of my intentions even when I explain them strait to their face. I once told Ryan when he was coming over everyday that I wanted some time alone with Nathan, not all the time, but sometime. Like when we go outside and play ball, I don't want EVERY time to turn into a group activity. Now Ryan won't acknowledge me and never comes over to ask Nate to play when I am here. This has now progressed to the point of Ryan's dad sneering at me at Ryan's birthday party the other day as Beth and I pulled up next door and I waved with no response back. Que Drama.
Yes, ladies and gentelmen, I am now passively pissing off a target audience in the 10-13 year old age range as well. Soon my plans to piss off the whole world with unknown contempt at me shall be realized! MWahahahahaha!
independence
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity - Henry Clay
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin
I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag - Craig Washington
I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation - Dr. Carl Sagen
A Constitution should be short and obscure - Napoleon Bonaparte
Happy Independence Day America.
