7pm. Order pizza/ start making cupcakes

7:30 Eat pizza and watch Sixteen Candles

9ish: Eat cupcakes, Open presents, Start spa-time

10:00: Do nails while watching Steel Magnolias

1am: Go to bed.

After I went to bed they decorated my house in streamers and balloons and all sorts of funness. It was the best birthday I have had in years! Thanks gals! I love you both!

Tyler went to Beach Retreat for two weeks! LUCKY! This is him about to eat a minnow.... glutton for punishment.

This is Tyler playing a space pirate inn Second's VBS, which lasts THREE WEEKS!

Stoney abuse.

 Funtime in the pool!

Tyler had a surprise bday party for me while he was at beach retreat. This is the cookie cake that came to my party... "a note of thanks??" 

Serious Stoney.

Garden That Grows from Tyler Newberry on Vimeo.

We as a nation are fat in every way. We have everything we need. All of our nations problems are resolvable. All of them. Granted, most of them never will be, but they could all be fixed. A few weeks ago my pastor said, "If you have integrity nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity nothing else matters." Drop a dose of integrity and wisdom into our nation's engine and it'd run much smoother. 

Anyhow. Apple computers are great. I've used them since 99 and have been happy with all of them. I'm pretty grossed out with this stat I just read though. Apple has, get this, $29 billion in reserves. RESERVES.

I just wrote all that and I don't like it.

Apple has $29 billion in reserves. The world is hungry and Apple has the guts to hold it hostage. I understand capitalism, but really?

Am I off base or it that OK?

Aevyn and Stone were great. There were no issues at all. Confidence be loosed. Except that Stone kept 4 brutal poopers in the silo for me to experience. Need I say he likes grapes? I mean, 4 "dirties" in 25.5 hours. Is he an alien? Speaking of, Aevyn likes to add, "and poop" to "Jesus, thank you for Stone and mom and Carmel." I never thought to thank Jesus for that.

Last night we strollered to the Town Center. I actually bought a shirt. It's been over a year since I bought a new shirt, so it's a pretty big deal ok? It rained on us, that was exiting. On the way back from the mall we threw rocks in the lake and vainly looked for turtles. I didn't point it out to Aevyn, but there was a dead one stuck in a drain from a recent flood. Sad.

We came back and wrestled, ate dinner, then they hit the hay. That's when it hit me. I can set up my webcam in front of their rooms and watch them while I work up in the studio. It was so satisfying to discover a new use for iChat.

Today we went to "Chick-a-lay" for lunch and got to pet a Flemish Giant Bunny, a loaner from the Houston Zoo. We had fun. There was a snake too, but the old lady from the zoo said I'd have to become a volunteer for the zoo to get to hold the animals. Pfshhh.

We got home then I put them down for a nap. I set up my newfangled video surveillance and got some work done. 

Don't tell Les but it was no big deal. I think I told Les it was a terrible weekend and she can't go anywhere again.

Here's a clip from a recent documentary about the song-poem industry. It is escentially when your poem is submitted to a company (for a fee) and they turn your lyric into a song, no matter how rediculous your poem may be. You might have even seen an ad in the paper like, "See your poems published!" or "Want to be a song writer?!" It's hilarious. There is something mesmorizing about the whole thing. If you don't believe me check this clip out. I edited this two minute clip so you could understand your need to watch the whole thing. The artists that you'll see had submitted poems but then decided to take the music on the road for themselves...for a one concert tour. The first 5 minuets of "Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story" is pretty insane. You can find this in it's entirity at hulu.com.

"And now I'd like to introduce Gary and Josh." [applause]

Except Hulu.com.

Hulu is a website for free tv shows from the newly added Charles In Charge to (the-should-be-illegal) Family Guy. Let me just say, while I wasn't allowed to watch The Simpsons, I grew up with that being the quasi-edgy program on TV. The Simpsons is to Teletubbies as Family Guy is to Penthouse Magazine. ANYWAY. Hulu is a great stop shop for all kinds of random clips and old shows. Think YouTube without idiots...unless you count Dennis Rodman's board room scuffle on this season's The Apprentice. I wish Jesse James was my neighbor. I think I'd actually be him were it not for Grace. Disgressing...

I am a documentary fan. I'll watch a documentary on just about anything. I wanted to highlight Hulu to merely show you a great documentary on the current music scene. It's called, "Before the Music Dies." I'll caution on you on the language, but if you're a musician you must watch it. It takes a look at the current (lack of) health in radio and major label trends starting back in the 70s. It is inspiring to say the least. Just watch it. Christian radio, take notes please. There's no difference between you and Clear Channel.

You will after this:

Any thoughts? Does this change the way a believer should live...or is it unrelated?

It's raw, unfiltered, (and sometimes uneducated) thinking.

We often find ourselves with only people like us. Not that there is a tremendous amount of wrong there, but a healthy dose of opposition does a body good. Oddly enough I learned about the site on Jay Leno's, The Tonight Show. The infamous Rainn Wilson (better known as Dwight Schrute) advertised an at-the-time unreleased website, Soul Pancake. I signed up to be notified when the site would open. It opened grandly two Sundays ago. I have thoroughly enjoyed it.

You can enter your own questions, answer someone else's, or discuss a subject designed by the Soul Pancake staff, including the site's founder/dreamer Rainn himself. If you're in need a kaleidoscope of opinions on god, God and creativity get your soul flipped > here.

Here's an example of the creative power of code. For people like me, with little knowledge of how code functions, this site is magical. Even cooler is that the images that the codes create fall under a Creative Commons Attribution license. In other words, the image belongs to you for you to use, even in money making applications.

It's super easy. Just follow the instructions on the home page and Create your own.

For day one, check out Wordle.

Stone and Aevyn just woke up from their naps. Aevyn had stinkin' poop in her "nap diaper."

So what does one do when faced with this situation? Well, I know what Stone would do:

He'd pick up a marble sized piece of dump and chew on it.

(Pictures will be posted later).