Warioland Shake It…

This is a fun way to promote an upcoming Wii game:  Warioland Shake It.  Watch the YouTube page get destroyed and look out for cracks in your screen!  Enjoy!!!

Charlie & Wyatt Juggle at Rail Fest 2008!!!

Charlie and Wyatt continue to share their juggling talents with their latest performance at Rail Fest 2008. These young men have worked hard, and I’m sure they will be invited to entertain in the future!  Enjoy their Saturday morning performance during the hobo contest at the Rail Fest activities in Cody Park below:

Part of the 4th and Summer Vacation!!!

Part of our 4th of July was spent watching the hotdog eating contest.  This is time we will never get back, but we just couldn’t seem to look away!

I am off to vacation with my family for the next few weeks.  We have plans to travel the Oregon and Mormon trails through Nebraska and Wyoming and will spend some time on the Missouri River in far southeastern South Dakota.  The best of our time will be visiting grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins (especially Noah!!!).  If we come across an interesting tid bit I will share here.  In the meantime hang out with your family and friends! 

Ronan 10

My son Ronan turned 10 on June 2nd! One decade behind him and a whole lot more ahead! Ronan is a very humorous and funny guy. He makes me laugh, and I really like that about Ronan. He cares about other people and how they feel. He is sensitive to other’s needs, and can be very compassionate when he knows it is needed. He had a wonderful fourth grade year with an awesome teacher that made a huge difference in his life!  Thanks Ms. Brinkmeyer!!!!  Ronan is another of my great teachers, and I look forward to continue learning from him for many years to come.

I love this clip…

H I T Blog Anniversary

Last week was the one year anniversary of this fledgling blog that has become a wonderful personal resource and has seemed to help a few people along the way. It seems that life has been so very busy as of late that it is difficult to keep up with posting interesting tidbits, but I keep plugging away and manage to get things that are of at least value to me published here at H I T. I am very appreciative of my encouraging and faithful readers who share more with me than I can ever imagine sharing with them. My RSS reader is full of great content every day and with this busy life I find myself unable to keep up with that either! It is time to simplify a bit, reorganize, and focus. Thanks again to all who come this way from time to time, and may peace be unto you all forever.

New Tales

My daughter Heather and I have continued our podcasting adventure with two new tales for your listening pleasure. The purpose of this is two-fold: Heather and I are having fun sharing our tales for posterity, and we are providing some examples for a creating and publishing online media class! I plan to tweak these podcasts using Audacity and spicing them up a bit with music, pictures, etc. We shall see what comes to pass. The fun part of publishing online is the ability to be creative with what you want to share and how you want to share it. For instance, an actual “Heather Tale” web page or blog would be a great repository for these tales. The whole idea is to generate ideas with your “stars/students” and audience; so, let Heather and I know what we could do to jazz up our podcasts, and in the meantime enjoy our raw, unedited tales as told in real life!

A Brand New Heather Tale (As of about 9:30 p.m.)

Heather’s Tale

Daddio’s Tale

Tales

I’m off to Kansas City for an Infinite Campus “meeting” (I have to travel on Super Bowl Sunday & will miss it!!!) and am placing a couple of podcasts here for my Heather to listen to while I am away! Heather’s brother Nicholas and I began a tradition a few years ago of making up and telling dragon tales for our bedtime stories. In recent years Heather has added pony tales to the mix. We have begun to record our tales as they need to be saved for posterity and for the listening enjoyment of others! We are simply using a Video iPod and a Griffin iTalk to record our tales. I load the .wav files into iTunes and convert them to mp3; so, nothing fancy here as of yet. Enjoy!

Heather’s Tale

Daddio’s Tale

Funny…

Right Brain vs. Left Brain Creativity Test

The following link is to a fun Right Brain vs. Left Brain Creativity Test. Enjoy!

Pumpkin Patch

This evening we ventured out into a local pumpkin patch to fetch some pumpkins for carving. The corn is tall and dry, the pumpkins orange, and the leaves are quickly changing in this part of the world. A cool breeze brings the chills of fall and winter is just a few weeks away. This is a wonderful time of year, and I look forward to the holiday season in our new home. We have met many new friends, and we have been welcomed with open arms in our new community. We hope we are making a difference for the good with those we mingle with each day, and we know we are better for coming here. It has not always been an easy transition, and our hearts are often tugged by those we left behind, but we are happy to be here. There are times in our lives, as Yogi Berra once stated, when you come to a fork in the road, take it! Taking the road less traveled is not the point as Frost would share. Sometimes you just choose a fork and take it, and a whole new world opens up that you never dreamed may have happened if we hadn’t taken the chance and been willing to grow. We took a fork, and what an adventure it has been. We look forward to many more wonderful days here on the prairie. Peace!

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Holy Cow, Cubs Win!!!

“Cardiac Cowboys Best Bobcats, 34-33″

ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — “Devin Moore rushed for 198 yards and a pair of touchdowns, and Karsten Sween passed for two more as Wyoming rallied to beat Ohio 34-33 Saturday.

Sween was intercepted four times but connected with Michael Ford on a 5-yarder with 2:02 to play to give Wyoming (3-1) its first lead since Sween’s 4-yard TD throw to David Leonard four minutes into the first quarter.

Mic Braunstein kicked field goals of 42, 27, 27 and 30 yards for Ohio (2-2). Brad Bower was 14-of-28 for 227 yards, including a 68-yard TD pass to Andrew Mooney for the Bobcats’ only offensive score.

The rest of Ohio’s scoring came on a 94-yard kickoff return by Chris Garrett, and a 30-yard interception return by Jameson Hartke.

Ohio’s biggest lead was at 23-6 after Braunstein’s third field goal, early in the third quarter. But then Moore scored twice in a little over six minutes.”

GO POKES!!!

Wyoming defeats Virginia 23-3

Go Pokes!!!

Cubs Win!!!