World Water Day

The DJs on the radio were trying to figure out Google’s logo today:

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Kathy and I looked at it and decided it had something to do with water… perhaps conserving water. Later Kathy figured it out and sent me this e-mail:

I found that when I put the cursor over the Google the bottom of the screen explained what it means: World Water Day.

How is that for free advertising for Google? A bunch of DJs talking about the logo for more than a minute. Then they started trying to look up funny word combinations to see how many hits they got.

Shock Treatment

DC, KEC, and MCC have all been hit with injuries, taking them out of baseball and soccer. Mary Claire strained a muscle in her upper leg and had to be carried off the field. She could hardly walk for the next two days. After about 8 days, she was finally able to go out, warm up with her team, and play just as aggressive as ever.

Kelly hyperextended her knee last week and also had to be carried off the field. She was able to play only briefly in her game this weekend because her leg is still sore.

Danny tore a muscle in his back-left side in practice. (He only practices pitching.) He was unable to pitch his next game. With the mounting losses, the coaches sure want their starter back. One advantage to being a varsity player is the special attention he gets. The coach sent Danny in for some special treatments including heat therapy and, on Friday, “shock therapy”. The therapist hooked up four wires to Danny’s back and turned on the juice. His arm and back twitched uncontrollably. The wires were placed on several parts of his back and the shocks repeated. Danny said it was really strange.

Saturday morning, Danny felt noticeably better. He may be able to pitch as early as next Saturday.

Dogs Pick Top 7

Kathy is an American Idol addict. Every year we all clear our schedules and sit down as a family to watch and debate who is going to win. Danny and I can’t help but get sucked in. And now the two dogs have been sucked in.

Claire came up with a scientific test to figure out who is going to win. Imagine a large piece of paper on the floor with a grid of dog bones, each bone having a name written under it. Claire recorded all of this in a lab notebook and performed several tests.

Kathy (a.k.a. circleskirt) posted all of this on the American Idol forum. So far there have been 81 responses. The weird thing is, it could very well go the way the dogs voted. Of course the other weird thing is that this is all going on as I come home from work….

Excerpts below. Oh yeah… what’s the opposite of cirkcleskirt? (Get it?)

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Bones On Paper

A colorful piece of construction paper was in our kitchen. Kelly had glued bones to it. She had dissected an owl pellet. Pellets are spit up and out by owls.

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I’m not sure what the scientific notations in this photo mean. Kelly will have to explain:

10G keal kcal vole herbivore

1,000 keal kcal grass producer

Spring Opens With Wins

Kelly and Danny both opened their seasons with wins today.

Kelly played forward for her soccer team. The three forwards did a lot of passing, enabling each girl to score one goal. Final score was 3 – 1. Kelly was surprised her goal went in. She reported that it stayed on the ground and kind of curved in. Bend it like Kelly.

Danny took the mound to open Brookwood’s season. Brookwood went ahead early by 2 in the first inning. His first inning pitching was four up, three down, with one strike out and a great pick-off at first. The second and third innings had a little more excitement, with the other team getting 3 runs on Brookwood’s 4. His fourth inning was short. A one pitch grounder to the first guy. A one pitch pop to the second. And a two pitch pop out to the third for a total of 4 pitches. The fifth inning was his last, which included a visit from the coach, but he pulled off a three strike-out inning, allowing only one guy on.

The closers did a good job, and the game ended 5 to 3, with Danny recording the win.