Words of Weezdom

So normally someone gets sick one time in the flu/winter season. Well unfortunately my wife woke up this morning with a fever!

I feel really bad for her, she’s been working so hard!

But the main point of this post is because of her.

I’ve been always amazed by people that work with kids, but none as much as my wife.

She has a way of getting kids to eat out of the palm of their hands. You might say “well she’s made to be a mom” but I’ve known many moms in my life…that sounds wierd, but this is different. She takes some of the simplest games or makes up one and the kids just eat it up! I’ll be standing there thinking “There is no way that a kid would go for this!” AND THEY DO!

There’s just something about Val…

But don’t think for a second this is me changing my mind about having kids right now. =)

I know a little more explanation on my Dogwood comment is probably required.

All in all we had an awesome time going to Branson/Table Rock/Big Cedar Lodge. We drove in Sunday and headed back Wed morning.

We did quite a few awesome and fun things, one thing I will say is I’ve never been a big fan of Mexican food until I went to the Cantina Loredo in Branson Landing! That was exceptionally delicious and great service! The Keeter Center was also very good and had great service too!

Now for the Dogwood story…

I had told Val that I’d rather not horseback ride this trip and she said that instead I need to go on a walk with her, since I would send her by herself otherwise… I knew there were trails around Big Cedar that we could have gone on but no I wanted a nice actual Park that had amazing trails. Low and behold there was one such park about 16 miles from us! Yay! I checked online and I check the information guide from the hotel and they both said Jan 1-Feb 28 open from 10am – 4pm. Great!I pull out Google Maps and punch in “Dogwood Canyon” it comes right up and we are off!

I will say that Google Maps has been great the entire trip…but when you put in Dogwood Canyon it doesn’t lead you to the park it leads you to the actual Canyon! and I came to that realization when we end up in an extremely narrow one way dirt road. Afraid for our lives since by that time we were in the Ozarks of Arkansas, I immediately turned around and put in “Dogwood Canyon Nature Park” in Google Maps and low and behold we were an HOUR AWAY! So after driving 1 1/2 hours out of the way we are to drive another hour to get back on track.

We near our destination and I turn to Val and say “I think we passed the gates!” We turn around and see the beautiful iron gates of Dogwood with a beautiful teal sign saying “Closed for the season”

All we could was laugh…

My wife and I are on vacation and I just wanted to drop a note to myself.

Note to self – Dogwood Canyon Nature Park is closed during Feb. Even if their website says they are open. Remember DO NOT take the 2 hour detour to have a nice leisure walk through the woods there…

So after trying many different colors (red, blue, green, purple, teal, blonde etc.). I’ve been wanting to do something that is completely white or platinum! Well the attempt is what you see up top (my banner).

I tried a different hair product (peroxide) and I got the highest concentration (volume 40) well I put it in my hair and after an hour and a half, I knew something didn’t feel right…that’s right I totally singed my scalp, it was burning so bad when i rinsed this stuff all out so until my scalp heals I won’t be continuing my goal of white.

I mean to say I’m going to wait a couple days see if my scalp is good and then bleach and then use a lower concentration peroxide…

So maybe the next picture I post I’ll be bald!

Some of you have emailed me and wanted me to show step by step how I set up my home system. This post is a part two of this post.

This setup won’t work for everyone because their TV might not support it. The audio issue lies with AT&T’s Digital Set-top box (DVR), there is a problem with their existing firmware that on certain receivers the audio from an optical cable will cut out every now and then.

My Solution -

1. From the DVR to the Receiver (using HDMI)
2. From the Receiver to the TV (using HDMI)
3. From TV to the Receiver (using Optical)

See my solution only works if your TV has an optical port OUT, I have a Samsung TOC and it came with that feature. So the HDMI cable is carrying both the audio and video from the DVR passing it through the Receiver and the TV take the audio and splits it out using the optical port. This method basically just by-passes the use of the DVR’s optical port (which as I said is the problem).

Of course the obvious another solution would be to buy a Receiver that handles both audio and video through HDMI, but I don’t feel like paying more money for a new receiver when I have a perfectly good one and I’m on a budget!

I hope this helps if you need more help just comment or email me.

My first Shocker game experience was tonight! I actually had an awesome time!

It was a very close game throughout. The last minute it was 59-60 WSU loosing. The last 25 seconds it was 59-61 WSU loosing. In the last 10 seconds WSU makes a three pointer and wins the game with 62-61!!

But the best part of the game was when WSU won, one of the players grabs the ball and launches it into the crowd from across the court. I don’t know where the lady was looking but Ryan Morris, Ryan Haug, and I followed the ball and it NAILED this lady in the head and DOWN she went…

I could not stop laughing…oh my stomache hurts still just thinking about it!!

Apparently they interviewed the lady here.