This is brilliant. I love the internet.

It was 4 years ago yesterday that Becky Kumor married the man of her dreams, me. Happy Anniversary, a day late! Last night we celebrated with wine, roses, and handcuffs. Just kidding - I worked all night, and she read a book on her Kindle. We're so romantic.

Fun fact: In the picture, I think that's porn on the TV.

Holy shit, how great is this song??

NOT an actual photo of my car.

I went to my car this morning, and it had been broken into overnight! Very annoying and scary. The door was ajar, and everything rifled through - BUT, I don't keep anything in the car, so the would-be thief took nothing, but left my nose-hair trimmer and tums intact. He also did not nab my checkbook for some reason, nor the Oasis CD sitting in there, nor my Holy Name letter jacket in the backseat.

That takes some balls to walk up someone's driveway just to find some loose change. I guess I'm a bit freaked out because my car was parked right next to my door, and who knows if the dude tried to get into the house :( I hope not, that's second biggest fear (Obama's second term being first). Things were a lot worse downtown. The day after my wedding, both windows on my Civic were busted out. The month after, they were broken out AGAIN, and then one more time for good measure, the driver side window was busted. I fucking hated downtown.

Good golly, I am addicted to Gardetto's. I probably eat 2-3 bags a week. There is a definite pecking order though, and it goes (from top to bottom)- Bread thingy, sesame stick, pretzel twist, pretzel stick, fucking lame breadstick thing.

The rye bread chips are clearly the best - they even have their own side product, where it's just a bag of breads. I like to take a few, and see how long I can leave them savoring in my mouth before I chomp them.

The sesame sticks are what you go after when you've fished all the breads out. They are also great to suck on for a bit, like a salty, bready Jolly Rancher.

After you've raided those, you have a shit-ton of pretzels left. I like the twists because they're bigger, and thus more flavor. But, the rods are pretty good too if eaten 4 or 5 at a time.

After the pretzels are gone, you are left with about 700 breadsticks. They suck. Throw the bag out, or give it to some old guy who has no tastebuds. Gross. I'd rather eat the bag itself.

Fun fact: Liam loves eating Gardetto's with me because it's "boy food". He calls them "crunchies", and will not let Becky eat them because she's not a boy. He's the best :)

The new Lego Super Heroes sets are out, and in typical "please love me"-fashion, I've been buying all the sets for Liam. I did bring the larger "Hero Factory" toys to work though... unfortunately, we've lost a few parts along the way. So far, the sets are pretty cool. I wish there were more non-Batman sets. He's great, but a Green Lantern jet or anything Flash-related would've been cool. I also am not a huge fan of how the Hero Factory sets can't connect with any other Lego parts. Kinda defeats the purpose of Lego. Oh well, Liam likes 'em, and that's really all that matters.

First we have Batman, who of course has all his parts. Nothing can stop the Bat!

I'm not quite sure why this Batman has jagged wings and two swords. Perhaps he's a futuristic demonoid Batman. Perhaps his cape was dirty, and all he had were some extra wing-claw-things laying around. The swords make no sense though, but I guess kids like swords.

The Green Lantern didn't fare so well, though. I can't find his shin anywhere, so the poor guy has to make a cane construct just to stand. It's bad enough that he had a stinker movie last year, now I can't even be arsed to keep his body together. Poor Hal :(

Lastly, we come to the Clown Prince of Crime - The Joker. Sadly, I can't find his legs. In my mind, the Green Lantern wanted a new leg, so Batman used his swords to cut off Joker's, but the blood-types didn't match, so now Joker is a paraplegic, and Green Lantern is one-legged, and somewhere in Gotham lay two purple-panted legs. I can't tell if the expression on his face is happiness, anger, or cardiac arrest due to blood loss.

At least they let Joker keep his gun.

Hi, I'm 3 years too late - but Batman Arkham Asylum is such a sweet game. Luckily, now it's only $19.99. Some of the villians (Scarecrow especially) freak the hell out of Liam, but he overall thinks it's pretty cool. He was way more into the Lego version anyways.

Anything new going on? This weekend was low-key, but great because Evy's finally started sleeping through the night. Now me and Becky can slowly start to catch up on 7 months of sleep-deprivation. Had some delicious city-chicken at my mom-in-law's... my all-time favorite food (after dog).

At some point this year I have to get off my lazy ass and get to the little "projects" I keep thinking about. One, I actually did complete, and that was to create my very first WordPress plugin, which makes snowfall on a page (You can see it now at Meade Mix). It's just something silly - but if I can make some useful-enough WP-plugins, I might have a nice little side business. I need to start writing some content for SkepticalParent.com, some for 4bals.com. I also have a sweeeeeeeet comic-book app on the way.

ANNNNND on top of that, I have a new band. As of right now, it's called Aphrodite A, but I'm not too keen on that, so hopefully we can change it to something cool like Beefstick or Gart!! or any of the names on the "should be band names" list.

I'm also going to "theme" this site (finally), so the main page and messageboard have the same look and feel; I have to update the photo page to pull from Picasa (Flickr has outlived its usefulness).

A new year always brings the same "gonna pay off that debt" promise - so here goes again. I was doing well, down to about $11000 in debt, but then it jacked back up to about $15000 (having another kid is expensive!). I'd be happy just to pay off my student loans, currently at about $7k.

This post wasn't as funny as I was hoping. Here's a picture of Lynn Belvedere with a headache:

Wednesday night was karaoke night at West Park Station - and it was Finals time! Through some extraordinary circumstance, I was entered into the finals.

After a stunning rendition of "How You Like Me Now" by the Heavy - complete with sunglasses, hip gyrating, and some well-placed Prince-isms - the crowd erupted in orgiastic applause (people applaud at orgies, no?). The judges were stunned, and I was brought back for the final round.

The singers in the finals were all fantastic, I'm not sure I really belonged up there. But I chugged some lemonade (good for the throat), and sang "Conquest" by The White Stripes. It was literally a breathless performance, as I was having a near-asthma attack by the end of the tune (dancing and shouting is hard, I'm not sure how MC Hammer does it).

When the final votes were tallied, I took a personal-best THIRD place! I normally get a "thanks for showing up" pity prize, but now I've solidified my position in the top echelon of singers at West Park Station, at least for this week. I won a crisp $50 bill and a $25 gift card to West Park Station. Awesome!

Today starts my 33rd year on planet Earth.

Here's a photo of me eating poop! BONUS: My dad's sideboob.