“Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?” — George W. Bush
Guys I finally got around to updating the links to all the photo galleries. I also added the Honeymoon gallery. It has a bunch of pictures from our honeymoon.
Hopefully later this week I will add some more photos. Oh yeah if you didn’t know I started a new job about 2 weeks ago. It seems pretty awesome. Lots of cool perks from this company, plus no dress code. I have been wearing shorts and t-shirts to work everyday. Very nice!
Here are some updated pictures of Daphne at 4 months. She is doing good. She just graduated her first puppy socialization class. She is now in the Puppy Graduation Class.
I was reading through something today and came across this blog describing the job of a Software Engineer. I thought it was really interesting and show what we do. Like the article says most people that know me probably think i fix computers or something like that, when in fact i don’t ever fix computers unless it is at home or if i am doing it for a friend or relative. The blog describes what we do.
Picked up our newest member of the family yesterday, Daphne. She is a beautiful miniature schnauzer puppy. Only 6 weeks old she weighs in at 3.3 pounds.
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Cubs fans are probably going crazy like the “Girls Gone Wild” videos because their team finally made the playoffs. I remember, i think my sophmore freshman year of college, when the Cubs made the playoffs. It was really crazy at ISU. People were rioting in the streets and burning couches and what have you the whole night. It was pretty ridiculous if you ask me. Cardinal fans are so used to making the playoffs and having a successful year that its not that big of a deal.
If the Cubs somehow ever win the World Series I would not be surprised if they burnt down Wrigley Field and most of the city. Anyway congrats to the Cubs. Heck they ended the season like one game better(which is not good) than what the Cardinals did last year. I highly doubt they have the same success in the playoffs though.
Well as some of you may already know, I applied for a new position within the same company. I had the interview and everything went great. The new position would be in downtown St. Louis right next to the new Baseball Stadium.
The verbal offer has come in and im still deciding on if I am going to take it or not. We already have a few people that have decided to go over. The new project that i would be working on is expanding a lot. Within the next year they want to add about 100 people which would double their size. There seems to be a lot of growth opportunities there. Not much opportunities here at my old position.
So I have a huge decision to make. Kinda scary if you ask me.
In other news me and Erin are in the process of looking for a puppy. We are wanting a miniature schnauzer. We want one that is a female and is salt and pepper color. Since Erin is allergic to dogs we decided to go with a dog that doesnt shed. She still has a schnauzer that lives with her grandparents and it doesn’t give her any problems, so we thought we would stick with the same breed. If anyone knows anyone who will have a miniature schnauzer puppy available soon please let us know.
We made it back from our honeymoon alive. We went to Stingray City in the Caymen Islands and we survived without getting speared by a stingray. Erin was scared before this excursion even started. Ever since the Steve Irwin incident she has been scared to do it and said she would just stay on the boat and let me do the excursion. I have to say she sucked it up and jumped in with them, even though she was looking every direction for them. It was a great experience and she is glad she got in with them. We also did a dolphin encounter in Roatan Island, Honduras. It was pretty awesome. I wish we could have went for a ride on the fin but they didn’t allow that at this place.
In Belize we did a Cave Tubing Excursion. This included a 45 minute hike through the Rainforest. In the rainforest on our way to the river we say a tarantula in a little whole in the ground. It was kinda neat and i wanted to get a picture but he went down into his hole and we could only see some legs and part of the body. Once we got to the river we jumped onto our tubes and just floated down the river though the caves. These caves are really long and they are pitch black. Luckily they gave us little head lamps, but it was still darker than shite. They said the water was as deep as 35 feet in some parts of those caves. It’s kinda freaky not seeing anything in the water like that, especially in Belize which is known for its crocodiles, plus we were in the middle of the rainforest. After the cave ended we just floated down the river to the ending point.
I have to say that all three excursion were very different for me and I had a great time on all of them. The other stop we went to was Costa Maya, Mexico. Here we didn’t do any excursions, we just shopped the whole time. Plus they had a nice swimming pool with a swim up bar right in the middle of the shopping center. I bought some cheap rum, a t-shirt, cuban cigar, and a really nice hammock.
tThe cruise ship was really nice and the entertainment was outstanding. Me and Erin went on a cruise two years ago with her parents and this ship was pretty much the same layout as that ship. I played a lot of blackjack, almost everynight. Overall, I came out ahead about $100, and I got to meet and talk to a lot of people while playing. One thing that kind of annoyed me was all of the kids on the cruise. It seemed like this cruise had a lot more kids then all the other ones i went on.
Below are some pictures.
Dolphins in Roaton Island, Honduras
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Room on ship Carnival Valor Costa Maya Costa Maya1 Costa Maya2 Costa Maya Beach Costa Maya3 Costa Maya4
As most of you know, i got married on 07-07-2007. The wedding and reception were really nice and I think everyone had a great time at the reception. Pictures will be coming soon. Going on the honeymoon this Sunday. I can’t wait!
I also bought a webcam recently. It has its own IP address and everything. Right now it is watching my backyard. You can check it out at http://sethcrotchett.dyndns.ws . You will need the username: guest and no password to log into the camera to see the live feed. Check it out!
So last week I found out that my other neighbor ended up calling the dog catcher on the neighbor with the dog. I guess the lady threw a fit and came over and was calling the lady all sorts of names and even included the “N” word. Well the dog catcher got there and he told them to call the cops because i guess this lady was out of control and I heard the kids were throwing stuff at the dog catcher. Anyway the police came and i think wrote her a ticket for her dog (finally).
Then last friday i noticed that one of my beach towels was missing from my deck. I looked all over for it. Then noticed some items in my pool. So i put two and two together and I figured the neighbor kids came and jumped in my pool and used my towel and took it with them. So fast forward to Monday evening. I told Erin about the missing towel. She decides she will go talk to the neighbor and ask if they have the towel. When i got home i saw a kid with no shirt on standing out in my yard. So Erin goes over to the neighbor house and says something about our missing towel. I go to my back yard and see that they just got out of the pool. The deck was wet and the water in my pool was still moving. I also noticed a wrapper at the top of my stairs and then saw that they had stuck a condom on my door handle.
Meanwhile Erin is talking to the neighbor’s neice. The neighbor was working or something and the niece was babysitting. She goes on to tell us that yeah the 13 year old kid was swimming in my pool and that ever since his dad died he has been acting out a lot and causing a lot of trouble. She says the mom doesn’t know what to do with him and she kinda hinted at she wished they would take him away or something, cause she can’t handle him. Erin asks the lady if they have our other towel and the niece said she thinks she saw one like it. She goes and gets it for us. We then call the cops and they show up. The cop pretty much told us that they could do pretty much nothing to the kid since he was only 13. He told us to let this one go but next time we should press charges and what not. The cop told me to get No Tresspassing signs to put in my yard. One should know not to jump my fence and get in my pool and take my towel.
Anyway i talked to the other neighbors and they all seemed fed up with them too. We are hoping that they can’t keep the house and they end up moving(please god). Anyone got any suggestions on how to get rid of your neighbors?
Some of you already know by now but for those who don’t, I have started a Sports Forum website: www.SportsForumz.com
This site is exactly what you think. It’s a forum site that has categories for all major U.S. sports(NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, PGA, UFC, NCAA, etc…). If you think some need to be added please let me know. I am actually doing the Google Adwords for this one, to drive traffic to my site. Should be nice to see how that works and at what price.
I think the hardest thing for a forum site is to get it started. I need to have people who will post and post often. If someone visits from one of my ads then they most likely wont join because I don’t have that many users yet, so this is somewhat of a problem. The success of a forum site lies within the users and how active the forum is.
I am currently working on getting a Logo done for this site. Hopefully it will freshen up the page some and stick out. Please check out the forum and tell me what you think. Also if you know someone who might be interested in joining please tell them about it.
