Thanksgiving Recap: Double Stuffed

Everyone have a nice Thanksgiving? As I mentioned on the show we had a busy, but very enjoyable day.

It started at my in-laws for turkey dinner #1. A crisis was averted when after our youngest daughter, Sarah's bip was misplaced, I ran over to a nearby drugstore to purchase a new one.

I know, I know, not only shouldn't she have one by this point - she's almost 2 1/2 years old -- but this would have been a perfect opportunity to have her quit cold turkey. And, of course, quitting cold turkey...on Thanksgiving...it really was set up nicely for us.

But we couldn't do it. She mainly uses it when she's sleepy, and ready for bed. Judging by the mood of the room after a full plate of turkey, gravy, potatoes, etc., we all could've used a bip by the end of the afternoon.

From there it was on to my brother's house. He and his wife were hosting their first Thanksgiving, and it was a really nice time. Counting us, my parents, and his wife's side of the family, there were about 20 of us there.

Now, it just worked out that we arrived just as they were serving dinner, and not wanting to be rude, we, of course, had a plate of food. Again, it was all very good.

One of the highlights of the night was after dinner when several of us gathered around the TV to take a stab at playing the Wii. Bowling and Golf were the initial sports of choice.

Then, we discovered boxing. It's simple enough, in theory: Hold the two controllers provided, and make boxing motions during the fight. You actually can jab, uppercut, roundhouse, all the moves you associate with boxing.

Turns out, my daughters are a little better at it then I thought. Not sure if I'm happy about that, or frightened.

Our oldest daughter, Megan, who had never played the game before, proceeded to knockout my brother, a veteran of the game, in two separate matches.

Then I took her on, and got knocked out as well.

Of course, Sarah wanted to play also. The first go around, Megan dropped her like a sack of potatoes, as Sarah really had no idea what she was doing.

But...in the second fight, Sarah -- who was basically just moving her arms around without any rhyme or reason, but it was working -- took out Megan with a 3rd round knockout.

And, credit to Megan, who took it in stride, and was laughing about it, as she felt the same way we did after losing to her.

It was a fun way to cap off a great day. A day that featured a (ahem) 1-2 punch of turkey dinners that still has me feeling (burp) stuffed.

Here's me showing Sarah the ropes...



Megan tries to land a "right", moments before her Wii fighter gets knocked out by the Diapered Destroyer, Sarah...

Happy Thanksgiving

Gobble Up More Sarah Palin

*** Note: The video below is not for the squeamish, kids, or PETA.

Boy, Sarah Palin just loves to keep giving. Thanks for giving, Sarah. Gosh, what perfect timing! A "thanks" for "giving" complete with a turkey video below.

A very gruesome video, but, still.

It seems that Governor Palin had just pardoned a turkey for Thanksgiving, and while doing a followup interview, other, less fortunate turkeys in the background were getting their heads chopped off.

You know, as soon as the election ended, I was glad that, quite possibly, I wouldn't have to see or hear from Sarah Palin again.

Now, I'm changing my mind. As long as she stays in Alaska, and out of my way, I hope Palin stays in the news on a regular basis.

You really can't make this stuff up.

Pardon Me

Hey fans, I know things have been a bit slow around here lately. First, after blogging mostly about the Phillies' World Series run the last few weeks, I'm still trying to recover.

I've also been working on trying to launch a similar-style blog for my morning radio show, which can be found here.

It's nothing groundbreaking, but I'm trying to do a nice job on it, so feel free to rack up some traffic for me.

I'll get back to regular posting on here shortly.

Methinks I'll have some discussion of The Shield very soon.

The Definitive Phillies Video

If you're a Philly fan, you'll get a lump in your throat about halfway through.

Brilliant job by lukejohnson9 on Youtube.

Beware Of Antivirus XP

There's a pesky little virus/malware program floating around out there, and my home computer has it. It's something called Antivirus XP 2008 (or 2009).

If you start getting popups that you're not used to seeing, warning you that your computer is infected, and you need to download such and such program to get rid of the problem, that's either the virus trying to go onto your computer, or it's already on there.

It's not a particularly dangerous virus, so the experts say, but all I know is, my computer won't boot up now.

Just before we ran into the reboot problem, I was having a hard time running certain spyware removal programs, and when searching google for articles on how to fight back, several pages wouldn't load. It's like the virus knew I was hunting it down and didn't like it very much.

In fact, the moment that our computer "blue screened" us was when we were searching for what we thought was the corrupted file. In the middle of typing it in, it shut down. We got it to reboot that time. Tried to search it again, and down it went again. It never came back.

Most impressive.

Plenty of websites out there offer instructions on how to combat this thing once it's on your computer, like this site.

Keep your eyes open for this thing. Our computer is now in the hands of someone that we trust to fix it, and he says that none of our data will be lost, and we should be back up and running after he sprinkles a little magic dust on it.

But still, it's obviously a major pain in the hard drive.

Another Phils Video

The compilations are starting to accumulate. Kudos to those that have the time, and knowledge to put these together.

Keep 'em comin' boys.