This is just wrong. Funny, but wrong.

Penny Arcade is apparently teaming up with the Seattle Childrens Hospital and Amazon.com to do a kids toy drive for the hospital. Their news post for today mentioned that the first batch of toys was supposed to arrive, but the mailman couldn't deliver them on his normal run because there were too many boxes to fit in the truck.

Marvel has put out a CD with the first 10 issues of 10 of their classic characters (Spider Man, The Incredible Hulk, Daredevil, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Captain America, Avengers, Namor the Sub-mariner, Iron Man, and Silver Surfer). Amazon has it for $19.99. That's less than 20 cents per comic.

I've actually been doing things but not writing anything here, so we'll do a recap of recent events.

This coming weekend: The Carolina Renaissance FestivalLast weekend: York, Pennsylvania, my cousin Wendy's wedding. Tracie and I drove up I-77 to I-81 through Virgina on Friday (about 9 hours). Saturday was the wedding in the afternoon/evening. ( Read more... )

My birthday is coming up wednesday, so I decided I'd use up some of my abundant vacation time and take the day off. Of course now I have to figure out what to do for the day. An idea springs into my head, why not go with Tracie to Carowinds (our local Paramount theme park located just to the south of Charlotte). "A great idea," I think, "the ( Read more... )

Scott is the #32 most common male name.
0.546% of men in the US are named Scott.
Around 668850 US men are named Scott!
source namestatistics.com

Ellis is the #114 most common last name.
0.077% of last names in the US are Ellis.
Around 192500 US last names are Ellis!
source namestatistics.com

One of my favorite authors, Raymond E. Feist has finally had his latest novel (Talon of the Silver Hawk) released here in the states. Of course it's in hardcover and I'll have to buy it like that to keep consistant in my collection.

Yes Dan, you can proceed to hate me for bringing it to your attention.

Okay for everyone who didn't know, on December 23rd I became the proud owner of a bouncing baby mortgage (and the house that goes with it). My phone number and address have changed, email me if you haven't gotten it yet and you want it.

I've gotten pictures from the ice storm uploaded.

Okay, so I'm back-dating this entry, but the power came back on a little after 5:30 pm on Friday. If it hadn't come on, we were going to visit Tracie's parents for the weekend with the cats to stay warm since they had power. Since it came back though, we got to stay home and have heat.