Rebellion

I had no idea I was such a rebel.

"Blogging has become a socially accepted practice—just as are dating seriously too young, underage drinking and general misbehaving."

Link

Thanks to Kottke

Photos from Our Family Trip

I finally put some photos up from our family trip to Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park. Go to Flickr to see them all.

Growing Up

Lately, Pete's evening conversation of choice is to talk about how he's a little boy, and I'm a man, and when he grows up, he'll be a dad and have kids.

I asked him what he would do with his kids, and he said he'd take them places in the car. Places like Nana's house... or the State Fair. Whatever his kids want to do.

The other day, he says:
"It takes a really really long time for me to grow up, and I think I'm bored.
I think I want to be a grown up now, because I want to have kids."

Heather's response to me later: "It must look like we're having a lot of fun."

Chart Nerd #1

I know I've had nerdy charts on the site before:

Scrabble
Ascent #1
Ascent #2

But this is a new high. I was browsing the Bureau of Labor and Statistics website the other day,

(note my complete abandonment of pride and coolness)

and I realized that they keep track of all sorts of good stuff. So, I did what every excel geek would do, I made a graph showing the historical price of lettuce compared to the price of regular self-serve gasoline.



I may be imagining it, but there looks to me like there's a negative correlation between lettuce prices and gas prices. When gas goes down in price, lettuce goes up. It doesn't happen every time, but it happens sometimes. Check out 2002 and 2004. Maybe this is an investment strategy. Don't steal my idea.