Category Archives: Holiday

Fourth of July

This is going to be an action packed blog entry… buckle your seat belts.

First and foremost, sixteen posts ago I passed the 100 mark for blog entries. Yay!

Second, yesterday was the Fourth of July… we invited some people over to my parent’s place for some swimming, cooking out, and a little fireworks fun. I captured some of the excitement with my camera. All the fireworks shots were from our neighbor’s later that night.

Alright, how about we drop some Techie news and a little “Haffey’s links” now…

.ʇı op noʎ s,ʇǝ1 ʇɐɥʇ ddɐ ǝ1ʇʇı1 1ooɔ ʎ11ɐǝɹ ǝɥʇ oʇ ʞuı1 ǝɥʇ noʎ puǝs 11,ı puɐ ʇuǝɯɯoɔ ɐ ǝɯ ǝʌɐǝ1 ‘uʍop ǝpısdn ǝdʎʇ oʇ ʇuɐʍ noʎ ɟı .ʎ11ɐǝɹ ‘uoıʇuǝʇʇɐ buıʎɐd sı oɥʍ buıǝǝs ʇsnظ ǝɹoɯ ɯ,ı .sǝɔuǝʇuǝs ɟo ǝ1dnoɔ ɐ ɹoɟ uʍop ǝpıspdn ǝdʎʇ ı ǝɹǝɥʍ ʎɹʇuǝ bo1q ǝɥʇ ɟo ʇɹɐd ǝɥʇ sı sıɥʇ

Happy Mother’s Day!

So we got a new van two weeks ago and last weekend Carson got a new bike with training wheels… Finally I took pictures:

From New Transport…

From New Transport…

Martin and Karyn’s wedding was a great time… We were at the “party table” and we did our best to live up to the title.










Link to the full album:

Martin & Karyn's Wedding

Finally, Happy Mother’s Day to all the mommas out there.

Wear green tomorrow..

Saint Patrick’s Day is tomorrow.

I’m going to be building Carson’s birthday present… a swing set/playset. We’ll see about getting some pics of that up here afterwards. Afterwards we’re going over to a friend’s place for some celebrating, should be a good time.

I got my new PC! It’s huge, I have named it BEAST. LOL Check out the pics.
Next to a normal PC.

From New Computer

It’s nearly as big as my son.

From New Computer

The color LEDs on the front and back are able to be changed in the BIOS… I went with blue.

From New Computer

Friday Funnies
Penny Arcade strikes again… ripping on Girl Scout sales techniques. Haha, I love that strip.

How about those Indy news reporters?

Happy Birthday to me!

Another year older…. *sigh*

Other’s of note born on this day:
1904: Singer, actor, dancer and the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz Ray Bolger born in Dorchester, Massachusetts
1928: Author and illustrator Maurice Sendak ( Where the Wild Things Are) born
1938: Baseball Hall-of-Famer Willie McCovey born
1943: Jim Croce born in Phildelphia
1945: Rod Stewart is born in Glasgow, Scotland
1948: Rock singer-musician Donald Fagen (Steely Dan) born
1949: Boxer George Foreman (oldest heavyweight champion at age 45 — 11/5/94) born
1952: Pat Benatar born in Long Island
1958: Singer Shawn Colvin born
1959: Rock singer-musician Curt Kirkwood (Meat Puppets) born
1979: Rapper Chris Smith (Kris Kross) born

Good fun.

LIFE CHANGING TIPS AND TRICKS!!!!
Todays tip is something that everyone should read: How to ask for a raise

So yea, lunch is here so I will probably update this again a little later.

OOH! It’s not funnies Friday, but check out Penny Arcade today… man those guys are funny.

Have a BaskinRobins? Get some cheap goodies.

…and we’re back!

Had some catching up to do with the house and work… so now that I’m pretty close to being caught up I figured I better put an update here.

While in Nebraska we went to Heather’s 30th birthday party, it was really fun seeing our friends and hanging out again!

From Heather's Bir…

New Year’s Eve was quiet for us, as more than half of the house was some kind of sick. We just stayed in and watched movies (and football). Which turned out ok given the 4+ inches of snow that got dumped, making going out less appealing anyway. Carson and I made time for a snow fight (since we haven’t really had any accumulated snowfall in Indiana).

From New Year's Fun

New Years Day was a great time for Carson to visit with all his friends in Nebraska. He really missed Jimmy and Bre and Logan (and baby Kilee too!).

From New Year's Fun
From New Year's Fun

Cool little tool for fixing “stuck” pixels on LCDs!

Merry Christmas (yesterday)!!!

We had a wonderful Christmas and Christmas Eve.. I’ll let the photos speak for themselves (also experimenting with listing the videos on PicasaWeb, let me know what you think).

From Christmas Day…

If the album link is hard to pick out, here’s another link to the album:


Blogger turns gold!
Since that is the blog site you are currently looking at, I thought a story about it coming out of beta was a nice add here. It’s been a really nice experience using this site and I would recommend it to anyone.