Road Trip

I'm leaving for about a month to visit relatives. I'm departing on Monday after Super Bowl LX (Go Steelers) and will visit Jimmy and family for a week. We plan to remodel his bathroom (should be fun) and then celebrate his birthday. (All three of my children will be in the same decade.) Tiger is traveling with me, I hope he is ready for a long ride because it is about 700 miles from Jimmy's house in Arden, NC to Heber Springs, Arkansas where I will visit my sister, Diane, and her family. I plan to stay through the weekend and return to Jimmy's on Monday for a couple of days to rest up and then head down to Winter Garden, FL to visit Diana, Tony and Michael for a couple of weeks. I'll stop at Jimmy's again for a couple of days on the way home (sort of like a motel) and then home to NJ in early March. Hope the weather cooperates, it has been so mild in January that I expect it to be really cold and maybe snowy in Feb in NJ. With any luck it will get it out of its system while I'm gone. If anyone wishes to call me while I'm on the road, use my car phone, the number is: 484-574-1736. I'll have my cell phone with me too, if you want to call me when I'm not in the car (856-275-0138). Happy Valentine's Day to all. See you in March. I'll be here for Jennifer's and Samantha's birthdays.

Multiple Choice #9 - Technology

Well, we are coming down to the wire here... This quiz is about Technology. As always, good luck and don't forget to e-mail me at gleezus@hotmail.com (if the pop-up doesn't work just type my e-mail address into whatever e-mail program you are using). The next quiz will be Miscellaneous and the answers to this one are due by next Friday (February 3rd). Also, I want you to e-mail me two or three suggestions of categories for the next set of quizzes (i.e. Tom Hanks, The Civil War, Nasa, Disney, The Beatles, etc.) which are going to be more specialized quizzes. I will use two from each person to make the next 10 quiz round. Please send these suggestions to me by the end of February. Thank you, and have fun!

1. Which of these is NOT a simple machine?

A. Wedge
B. Screw
C. Gear
D. Pulley

2. What is the number 10 in binary?

A. 0010
B. 0101
C. 1001
D. 1010

3. Blue is what number on the resistor color code?

A. 4
B. 1
C. 2
D. 6

4. What does 'HTML' stand for?

A. Hyper Terminal Markup Language
B. Hyper Terminal Meta Language
C. Hyper Text Markup Language
D. Hyper Text Meta Language

5. How many bits in a byte?

A. 2
B. 4
C. 8
D. 10

Bonus - What is the number 10 in hexadecimal (hex)?

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D

Multiple Choice #8 - Literature

Yes, contain what little excitement you have... It's Trivia Time again! This time the category is Literature... More than likely you have at least heard of most of these books, authors, or plays... Take some wild guesses if you don't know, but as always good luck and don't forget to e-mail me the answers. The date that you have to submit your answers by is January 27th.

1. Which Shakespeare play included the famous line, "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse"?

A. Macbeth
B. King Lear
C. Richard III
D. Henry VII

2. In all of the Harry Potter books to date the name of Ron Weasley's rat has been mentioned, what was it?

A. Scratchy
B. Scabbers
C. Scrounger
D. Scrabby

3. Pip (Philip Pirrip), a boy that experiences the world one amazing moment at a time, and becomes an unlikely gentleman after receiving an inheritance from an unknown source. Which Charles Dickens novel does Pip appear in?

A. Modern Times
B. David Copperfield
C. Great Expectations
D. A Tale of Two Cities

4. In which John Grisham novel do all of these characters exist: Nicholas Easter, Lou Dell, Claire Clement, and Jacob Wood?

A. The Testament
B. The Runaway Jury
C. The Client
D. The Pelican Brief

5. What is the name of the ship from "Moby Dick"?

A. The Ahab
B. The Queequeg
C. The Melville
D. The Pequod

Bonus Question - What was the title of the first book of the Lord of the Rings trilogy?

A. The Hobbit
B. The Fellowship of the Ring
C. The Two Towers
D. The Return of the King

Riding My Bike!

I kept Samantha today and she rode her bike this morning for the third time. She is really learning fast, she can pedal and steer pretty well, which I think is quite an achievement for a child who is three months short of her third birthday. She rode her bike about three blocks down the street to play with a neighbor's children and then rode back an hour later. She rode a couple of blocks again when her mom came to pick her up to show her how well she can ride. (Jennifer was impressed.)

Multiple Choice #7 - Health

Time for another quiz. This time the subject is Health (no cheering now, Mom). Good Luck all and submit your answers to me before January 14th.

1. What is the more common term for Varicella?

A. Chicken Pox
B. The Pox
C. Smallpox
D. Measles

2. What would a doctor most likely be looking for if he tested your bone density?

A. Osteoarthritis
B. Bone cancer
C. Rhuematoid arthritis
D. Osteoporosis

3. What telling feature do you have if you are polydactyl?

A. You have extra long nails
B. You have unusually large fingers
C. You have additional fingers and toes
D. You have webbed toes

4. What is the scientific term for the "white of the eye", the part surrounding the eyeball?

A. Conjunctiva
B. Sclera
C. Albumen
D. Cornea

5. What is the name of the median wall that separates the left and right sides of the human heart?

A. Atrium
B. Septum
C. Epicardium
D. Pericardium

Bonus - Which of these common medications is NOT primarily used as a pain reliever?

A. Acetaminophen
B. Diphenhydramine
C. Ibuprofen
D. Acetylsalicylic acid

Bowling for Sammy

Here are the pictures that Glen referred to in his post. We asked for the ramp for Sammy to use and she did very well with it. She was using a 6 lb. ball and lifted it up onto the ramp by herself and gave it a push to start it down the ramp. John and Jennifer lined the ramp up for her and held it steady while she put the ball up. She almost beat Jennifer in one game.

Christmas Pictures... Finally

Christmas was good for Ryan (or so we assume). We went to Laura's parents house and Jennifer and John's house on Christmas Day and Grandpa's house on Christmas Eve. Here are some pictures (more are in the Flickr.com account).

Christmas Eve

Christmas Day

We hope everyone else had a great Christmas! I think he'll enjoy the coming years more and more and we are really looking forward to that.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!!!! I wanted to say that since this is the first post of the new year.
Laura, Ryan, and I spent New Year's Eve and New Year's Day with Grandpa and have lots of food and we even went bowling on New Year's Day (Samantha, Jen, and John came too) and I beat Grandpa in one game, woo-hoo! We took some pictures on New Year's Eve (big suprise, I know) and here is Ryan in his cute little tux outfit.