What a fun day yesterday. After getting some work done in the morning, I dropped Abbe off at The Carriage Trade Cheese Shoppe for work, and I got home hopped on my bike and had a great time at Bub’s soccer practice.

Viv and I were running the bases at Brooks Field and Viv held the camera on herself to some hilarious results…

That afternoon, after getting more coding done, I picked up Abbe from work, we headed to Jo Ann’s to get her some materials to make hats that we plan on selling to raise money for the Disney Marathon, stopped at Target for school supplies for Van and Viv, and then rode our bikes to PJ’s for dinner. After dinner, we headed to the Sand Stand for ice cream, walked across the bridge to stare at Lake Aetna a bit, and then started to pedal over to visit our friends LarryMac, Sharon, and Tim. Hanging out at Tim’s place was a blast! Tim has a little tiny puppy named Angus…

See? He’s a dainty 160 pound (not yet full grown too!) English Mastiff – so darn sweet. And here’s Abbe vs. Angus in a tug of war… I think Angus wins this one.

Larry brought over his conga and Tim got his guitars out for an impromptu jam – what a blast!

Here’s the three of us making some noise…

Movie reviews…

The Runaways – this movie was decent, and really only flawed due to the acrimonious departures of some of the members of the band. Joan Jett and Cherie Currie’s characters were great, Kristen Stewart did an awesome job as Jett. The shortcomings of the film were the performances were dumbed down a bit (based on the raunch I’ve heard actually took place) and the other members of the band (most notably Lita Ford) were nearly absent from the film entirely. That said, this film was based on Currie’s book about the band and her relationship with Jett and Lita Ford apparently would not be involved with the film.

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Today, I’ve got myself a nice full plate: finish a couple prototype pages for a big project (somewhat unnamed project, but I can tell you I’m working with BLP and Marty on this one), finish ERDs for Knoxville hospitals project, record video for Jeff Buckley‘s Grace intro for Sean’s guitar lesson this week, send out end of the month invoices, record video for Wilco‘s Either Way for Jan’s guitar lesson this week, run to the bank, short bike ride, hopefully watch a little of the Phillies-Padres game this afternoon, and then watch some of Penn vs. Edgar II tonight (Go Frankie!).

Have I ever mentioned how much Yogi loves bananas? Well, here’s proof, Yogi even turned on his eye lasers…

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Yogi approves of Bubs’ new bed…

I wanted to take a second to congratulate my friends Jan and Tracy who are now officially triathletes! They both ran the Long Branch Tri this weekend, nice job ladies!

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Just some random doggy love…

Today, I’ve got a moderately busy day – teaching a guitar lesson, going for a run (probably a shorter distance around 3 mi), picking up a lawnmower for my mother that needs repairs, picking up some firewood from my mother’s house, and lots and lots of coding.

Last night Abbe was cut from work early due to it being slow at the Marlton Tavern, so we took advantage and went to grab a quick bite to eat at Ott’s. We ran into our friends Carolyn and Lee, had some yummy food, listened to a couple that arrived in a Porche have a miserable argument and ask for the check early, and also watched some of Oswalt’s disappointing Phillies debut. But hey, the food and friends part was great!

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Yesterday was crazy… I blathered about it in yesterday morning’s post, so I’m not running through my to-done list again (it all got to-done). Abbe sent me an MMS of this little fella on a light post while I was driving home from EMS… cicada meet cicada husk… my assumption is the green guy used to be inside that shell, but the way things are in this world, the green guy might be trying to have sex with that cicada husk…

And I really like this picture…

That’s Bubs and Yogi’s nightly ritual, after the kids and I read two books together in my bed, they go to their own beds to read for 20-30 minutes. Yogi (sometimes with his tennis ball as in this picture) climbs into bed and lays with my son. Sometimes Yogi stays there until Van Jr. is all the way asleep and sometimes he’ll hear me or Abbe get some ice cubes from the freezer and he comes running (can’t pass up an ice cube, I mean really…). I posted this on facebook last night and said this to a friend, if you ask my son about Yogi, he’d say that’s “his dog” and if Yogi could talk he would say that Bubs was “his boy”… Also, Yogi would also call Abbe, “his girlfriend” too.

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