decided to use my tablet as an alarm clock. (I’m looking for an alarm app that will ramp-up an MP3, but I haven’t found one yet.) The first few mornings went really well, so when I heard the tablet chime Monday morning, I rolled out of bed and into the shower.

After shaving, I headed to the laundry room to iron my work clothes. I was almost done when I heard someone ask, “Are you alright?” Brooke was looking very confused.

“Yeah.”

“Why are you up?”

My brain sputtered for a second before I realized what she meant. “What time is it?”

“3:00am.”

On my way back to bed, I checked the email widget on my tablet. Sure enough, I had received an email at 2:30am. I had mistaken the notification chime for the alarm. Oops.

e were Skyping with my parents. “You guys come home?” Yeah, in 18 months.

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After we toured Brooke’s parents’ new camping trailer. “Me wanna’ go camp’n.”

“You want to go camping?”

“No, me wanna’ go camp’n.”

y ASUS Transformer Prime finally arrived. I brought it home from work and promptly lost it to Isaac.

ou know how Mitt Romney is catching flak for strapping his dog to the roof of his car? Let’s hope Isaac never runs for public office.

e were a day late on celebrating, but that didn’t stop the local French bakery from baking us an enormous gallette. Miles won the crown, which means he gets to provide the food next year.

rooke broke up the monotony of her week by taking the twins to the Bean Life Museum on campus during her father’s lunch break. They were more interested in his “big tractors” than the taxidermied animals on display.

ahoo! Sports has an article extolling the Baltimore Raven’s Tight End for his clutch play this season. It’s not a bad article, but the writer understates Pitta’s college career:

Dennis Pitta was a fourth round selection by the Ravens in 2010 after a solid career at Brigham Young University.

 

Let’s review his accomplishments at the collegiate level, shall we?

Career Records
Most receptions ever at any position at pass-happy BYU.
Most receiving yards by a tight end at BYU.
Most receiving yards by a tight end in the history of the NCAA.

2009 Records
Most receptions by a tight end.
Most receiving yards by a tight end.
(Also third in TDs by a tight end.)

2009 Awards
Consensus All-American
First team Walter Camp All-American
First team American Football Coaches Association All-American

If that’s “solid,” I wonder what “exceptional” would be?

en’s first project in his new class was a triceratops in a TRON color motif. His class then held a zoo exhibit for families.

here are a lot of really great things about Western New York, but geographic diversity isn’t one of them. There are many things that drive me nuts about Utah, but the mountain views aren’t on that list. These are shots of our street here in Utah:

Reuters is reporting that the U.S. Supreme Court has issued a ruling in a case involving the boundaries of voting districts in Texas. The issue was whether a judge could correct boundaries he or she saw as illegitimate. Such an issue should be seen as seriously important to all American voters, but, according to the article, that’s not why people followed the case.

The dispute had been closely watched because it could help decide whether Republicans or Democrats gain as many as four seats in the U.S. House of Representatives in November.

 

So, it’s not important to me in a rule-of-law way, but in a does-it-help-my-team-win way? Nice.