February 3rd.... The Day the Music Died

vkimo wrote :

February 3rd.... The Day the Music Died
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A sad day for music. So many ways this might never have happened... yet the only way it could, did.

So tonight I tried my hand at making balloon animals using a recently purchased balloon animal kit from Books-A-Million. I got the puppy right. But it is the easiest. It was the tiger I had some issues with. So, I just ended up taking two halves of two different attempts to make one, and tied them together. It looked like a cat with wings. Hey, creative license.

Later, my wife and I debated whether the phrase "worth his salt" was a real phrase, or if it was actually "worth his weight in salt". Being that she is normally right about these things, I started to believe that "worth his salt" was not a real phrase. But then I couldn't shake the fact that I was right, so naturally I Googled the phrase. I won a bet with my wife, and now she owes me a Jell-O cake. Yes.

Lastly, this has been the soundtrack to my entire night's sleep lately...



I found that video on YouTube after considering putting the same thing up myself. I own 3 Hankscraft models like the one in the video. No sound is more soothing to me. I am swept back in time to my sick days off from school, and remember actually looking forward to bed time, just so I could hear that noise. I have run my Hankscrafts on and off during the night for a while, but they tend to cause a lot of dust build up. This was the next best thing.

My football team won 4-0 on its first international match in more than forty years. I couldn't be happier (plus, it was an official match).

Silvervix wrote :

My football team won 4-0 on its first international match in more than forty years. I couldn't be happier (plus, it was an official match).
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Way to go Silv.

Just a surprising little numbers fact... I figured our uniques would drop off in January. I was wrong. RD actually had almost as many visitors in January (3,127) as we did in our biggest ever month, October 2014 (3,165). I was pleasantly surprised.

Vaporman87 wrote :

Just a surprising little numbers fact... I figured our uniques would drop off in January. I was wrong. RD actually had almost as many visitors in January (3,127) as we did in our biggest ever month, October 2014 (3,165). I was pleasantly surprised.

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AWESOME! Now we just need to keep those numbers growing

Vaporman87 wrote :

So tonight I tried my hand at making balloon animals using a recently purchased balloon animal kit from Books-A-Million. I got the puppy right. But it is the easiest. It was the tiger I had some issues with. So, I just ended up taking two halves of two different attempts to make one, and tied them together. It looked like a cat with wings. Hey, creative license.
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If you want to get serious about balloon art you can watch videos on youtube. I tried to make a balloon animal once. It came out horrible. It looked like a purse. So that's what I said it was. You can be silly and tell people you are good at making worms.

Today I'm going to apply to a one-year extracurricular course given by the local university. I had been already pre-selected, (which was a huge surprise and a morale booster), but this is the moment of truth... wish me luck, will ya?

Silvervix wrote :

Today I'm going to apply to a one-year extracurricular course given by the local university. I had been already pre-selected, (which was a huge surprise and a morale booster), but this is the moment of truth... wish me luck, will ya?
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Good luck Silv! Go get 'em!

Good luck, man!