Decision

So, I decided to move to Lawrence, KS sometime very soon.  Probably as soon as I can secure a job.  I have a good friend at Garmin and they hire a lot of Rollites, so I have a good chance there.  I'm starting to get bored of Seattle (and I'm moving to Kansas?), and it's not working out job-wise anyway.  Also, someone has to train Kelly Jr in martial arts.  In any case, this is a nice city and I'm going to miss it, but I'd rather be close to friends and family.

So, anyone have any ideas how to move all my crap?

Act FAST for Stroke ... starring Riley!

I had to share the latest commercial that my department at work produced. A couple of years ago, we had a lot of success creating the black-and-white Act FAST for Stroke commercial (starring Nick, Ruell and Ned the Band) that played in movie theaters. This year for stroke awareness month, we are re-releasing the commercial in a colorized version. It is followed by an "outtakes" reel that shows local performers doing their own versions of Act FAST for Stroke. The one-and-only Riley makes an awesome appearance! Thanks to my hubby for sharing his mad drumming skills. Ned the Band and Nick Sibley make another appearance, too. This commercial will be airing at Hollywood Theaters for now. Enjoy!

Babyburger Update

Oh hai! Just thought I would send a quick update about Babyburger Jacoburger. I am 23 weeks pregnant, and he has officially reached the 1 lb. mark. I, on the other hand, have gained 15 lbs. According to my pregnancy book, I am supposed to have gained between 12-15 lbs so I am right on target! Yeah homemade ice cream! Apparently I am to the point that random strangers are no longer afraid to ask me when the baby is due (No people, I'm not just fat). However, I am thankfully not to the point that strangers want to pat my belly.

We have officially cleaned out our former guest room (garage sale coming up) and have put up a crib that we got second hand at a baby sale. It was pretty cool once it was put together because I had another "aha" moment in which it really hit me that I was indeed going to have a baby pretty soon. It's not that I forgot I was pregnant, it's just a pretty big thing to let sink in. Also, a student's mom gave me some baby stuff that she was going to donate. We now have a playpen, one of those little chair thingies that babies can roll around in before they learn how to walk, and a backpack thing you put your baby in (this one you wear in the front).

Still no news on names. We haven't really been looking much to be honest - we have time! Our plan is to bring two or three names to the hospital and see which one feels right after meeting the baby. I've had a lot of interesting suggestions though. Mykl's dad suggested several trekkie names - like "Jean Luc Bernskoetter," "Ricard Picard Data Bernskoetter." I think "Star Trek Bernskoetter" might be okay - albeit a little obvious, maybe. Kelly has been calling him "Kelly Jr." Any other suggestions?

COOLEST DAY EVER

Here are some pictures from my trip to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (or Rock Hall to insiders hee hee). These are from the new Library and Archives. I'm sure when they are done they will have the biggest LP, Album, CD any music form imaginable collection ever and I got to see it at the beginning, when it was just a baby collection.

Then we got to go to the museum. A WSU alum works as a project archivist for the Rock Hall and got us a VIP tour (normally this guy gets to charge $500 for 30 minutes while his boss gets to charge $1000 for 30 minutes). We got to go into the vault and see the stuff that is not on display. This would include things like Michael Jackson's cloths from when he was in the Jackson 5, one of Bob Marley's dreds, guitars from all sorts of bands and all sorts of John Lennon stuff. Yoko Ono opened her vault of Lennon's belongings to the Rock Hall some time ago and the curators got to go in and take what ever they wanted (as a result Paul McCartney gives them nothing). The curator who gave us the tour said they had, at one point in time, the paper bag with the blood stained clothing in it from the day Lennon was shot. They have since given that back. What we got to see were the handwritten lyrics to "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "In My Life." The latter will not be with us much longer sine he wrote it on a brown paper bag and the acid in the paper is eating the paper up (note to self, write famous song on acid free paper). Then we asked the curator what his favorite thing was and he showed us the guitar that Lennon used to compose "Give Peace a Chance." He said when he picked it up he had to buy the guitar a ticket and put it in the seat next to him. No checking this luggage.

We then had about 40 minutes to go through the museum. While this was not a lot of time, it was enough to determine that I need to go back there again. They had a Bruce Springstein exhibit on the top two floors and a reconstruction of "The Wall" on the fourth floor and "The Division Bell" sculptures on the third floor. I never made it to the second and first floors, I had to buy a t-shirt. All in all a COOOOOOL day.

Happy Birthday - Two Mom!

Time to eats cakes!

Hey Hey Hey

Hey everybody, I'm Joe Jacobs, homeowner. Yeah just signed today. I started looking back in October, and I found this house in January, now its mine, well the VA's until I pay them back. Its a nice one story three bedroom two bath with a two car garage, which I'm going to put Pauly in. It's also kind of new, it was built back in 05. I'll have some pictures here pretty soon, my camera is packed and I don't remember what box its in.

The Dark Side of the NES

Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon arranged for NES by Brad Smith. Created using Famitracker, sound rendered with NSFplug.