Keeping in contact with Critter

Well, it wasn’t really a mountain, but I still got beat.

Today, George, Bovis, Mike, and myself awoke early (somewhat) and headed down to White’s on George Street for a lovely breakfast.

After that we headed to BedgeBury for some mountain biking. I used a rental bike, which pretty much turned out to be a piece of crap. I basically had to do the trails in one gear. It was rough. The bike was such a piece of shit, I ended up dropping out close to the end and taking a different path back to the lake. I crashed out for a bit by the lake while waiting for them to arrive. When they got back we all had lunch by the lake. It was nice. Between the crap bike and us being out late the night before… it was a rough day… but it was still fun.

… more later..

I am still slightly exhausted, but getting closer and closer to full functionality. The trip over was pretty painless, as the plane was pretty empty. I was able to stretch out across the entire row. Sadly the plane’s entertainment system was broken, which made the flight seem annoyingly long. They did, however, replace the movie with free alcohol, so it was a bit more bearable. One thing that did suck was the lack of power ports on the plane. Seriously?? It is 2008 you know?! I could have at least watched a couple of the movies I had on my laptop. Oh well.

The plane landed at Gatwick around 6am. Customs gave me the 3rd degree about my travels. Totally my fault though. When I was initially asked what I was in the UK for, I responded “sin and debauchery”. They apparently didn’t appreciate my humor. heheh. From there, it kind of went downhill. I picked up my luggage and phoned George. He said he would be there in about 1.5 hours. No biggie.. I’ll just have a bit of brekky and relax for a bit.

My phone isn’t working over here. So George had no way of contacting me, but after about 2 hours, I phoned him back. It went straight to voicemail, but I left a message that I would be at the Starbucks, etc..

Long story short… after playing phone tag for a bit, George rang back and caught me on the payphone. That’s when we figured out he was at Heathrow. Doh!!

I ended up taking a train down to Hastings and arrived just before George did.

more later… I’m off into town for a bit.

And this made me laff.

It is quite possible I have what Phoenix had, although I haven’t broken down and cried. If this is what my little guy had *whew*… he handled it pretty well.. because it’s kicking my ass.

ugh. Phoenix is sick. He’s not miserable laying down all quiet sick. He’s more the … running around like mad with small break downs in between while his nose flows like a river sick.

I am pretty certain we will all have our share of it soon enough.

(I just realized I need to change is category from ‘Baby Phoenix’ to ‘Phoenix’… not really a baby anymore, eh?)

This morning as I was reading tweets that came in overnight on my phone, I came across this one from @abbyladybug.

When I first opened up the article, I have to tell you, my heart skipped a little beat! The image that popped up was awesome, and I thought there was a new product available.

I thought Vibram had come out with a dress shoe for the Five Fingers line. I was wrong, but it’s still a good article. Vibram does, however, have a new version out. They are geared toward keeping your five toes a tad warmer. I might have to pick these up for next winter.

In case you didn’t know, I have a pair of the ‘Sprints’ and I absolutely love them. They are the most comfortable shoes I have ever worn. I don’t think I can go anywhere without somebody stopping me and asking me about them.

I think the most asked question is “Isn’t it uncomfortable to have something between your toes?” You would think it is, but it’s really not. They are the next best thing to being barefoot.

Link (via @abbyladybug via BoingBoing)

As you can see, I have been changing things around a bit. The theme has (obviously) changed. In addition to that I have changed the blog engine itself so that I can support our latest release (more on that later).

But anyway.. pardon the changes… I will probably be switching out the theme over the next few days until I find one that clicks with me…

How else could they have gotten the idea for this comic strip?!?

Mate of mine passed this onto me… said it was “so Critter“.

He was right

I’m just getting around to having a few minutes to catch up on things. This weekend has pretty much flown by. Talon’s birthday was this past Friday. We had his party yesterday at Monkey Joe’s, and as always he and his friends had a great time.

We all walked into MJ’s wearing shorts and T-shirts on a bright, sunny day. When we left two hours later it was pouring down rain and about 10-15 degrees colder.

Talon received some great gifts for his birthday.. plenty of stuff to keep him us busy with

anyway… thanks to all that came out for his party…

This weekend was a district (?) scout outing for Talon’s pack. We camped out from Friday evening until this morning. It was a busy, but fun weekend. Our tent is pretty large (it has a porch, ha!), so Talon’s buddy, Tyler, and his father crashed with us. I have a bunch of pictures to pull off my camera and post to Flickr, but these from my phone will do for now

The porch area keeps the kids busy.
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Trying to keep warm at night.

Morning assembly.

Talon at the javelin toss.

Talon carving a shark’s tooth.

Trying to stay warm after the rain.

Getting ready to start the bonfire.

A pretty sunset

more to come…