Fringes' birthday, Marian's anniversary, and Lex pooped on the potty at home for the first time. Congratulations to all!

Just too much awesomeness smacked side-by-side on my calendar! March fourth is my second favorite date, the only one that is also a command. Everyone knows that Monstro's favorite date is May fourth, as in, “May the fourth be with you.” Yeah, that never gets old. But the bestest day on the calendar is Fibonacci day. Got to teach my students about Fibonacci last week and used a snipped from the movie “Pi: Faith in Chaos” to illustrate. Damn, that's a good movie.

Ramble on and March Fourth, people!

What are the, I ask you, what are the odds that JAKE SHIMABUKURO, ukulele guru, whose work I've admired for four years, would be coming to my town for a concert the night of my five year wedding anniversary???

I told Monstro he could pick the dinner as I've picked the entertainment. So he did.

So you know I've been blogging (as such) since 1995, and you probably know that I have my blog archives up at my www.motormouth.com domain space, and if you know that, you also know that most of the pages looked like hell. So I spent a bunch of valuable kids-are-napping time today making them at least readable, to ease the eyes of the Guinness folks. See for yourself here: http://www.motormouth.com/blogs/blogs.html. Everything's up except for 2003, which at this moment I can't find, but will hunt down asap.

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OK, I just checked the Internet Archive Wayback Machine for motormouth.com. I think I don't have a 2003 archive compiled yet because there are 27 articles I need to compile and archive! Ugh!

Oh, and that archive only goes back to 1998 because that was when I had to change domain names from what I had (due to “trademark infringement.” Whatever) to motormouth.com.

Starburst jelly beans are far, far, far superior to Jolly Rancher jelly beans.

How is it that even though I'm awake nearly 20 hours of every 24, there is never enough time to get everything done?

Miss Ella-Bun is having surgery tomorrow. I don't know her, but I've followed her blog for a *long* time and she is one spunky little cookie, let me tell you. Prayers appreciated!

Baby is six months old today. Congratulations! Sure wish he'd start sleeping through the night, or at least stop waking up 3+ times/night. I'm aging two years for every three months of his.

“BART holdup victim grabs knife, kills robber“

Awesome!

(For those of you not familiar with the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, they're commuter rail trains. The Fruitvale station has been plagued with violence. The kicker is, the holdup victim was on his cell phone shortly before the attack, told his buddy, “I have a bad feeling about these two guys behind me,” and then left the phone on during the subsequent attack.)

So the owners of the best florist in town, Nuttelman's, go to our church, and they're lovely. And they just proved how lovely they are by sending an adorable, happy, yellow/purple/white arrangement in a yellow smiley-face latte cup. The card stated that they are “praying for sleep.” Yup, me too. 🙂 Thanks, Mary and Chip!