Burning The Ground, I Break From The Crowd

I'm a nerd and a geek. I'll be the first to admit that. And as you can see, I'm getting Savannah started early! Either that or I'm setting her up for an awesome career in music... If you haven't noticed, almost all of blog titles are pulled from songs. Go ahead. I'll be here as you go back and check.

Welcome back. You were missed. I promise. On to business then. What business is that you ask? Why the business of....business... Yeah. Now that the awkwardness is over let's talk about all things geek!

First, get a Nook. Seriously it's great! Each one can hold something like 3500 book. Plus there is a slot for a 2GB MicroSD Card capable of holding an addition 3500 books. Cait got me one for Christmas and I love it! I've got 9 pages of books that were given to me, and that's not even all of them! When I'm done, I'll have 13 pages! I'm thinking that 13 pages is a bit insane and I'm know Cait thinks so as well. If the nook is not your flavor, I have also heard really good things about the Amazon Kindle. But moving on. On to video games! Let's look at my current favorite games.

Some of you might recognize this gentleman. Some of you wont. It's okay of you don't, I'll still like you. I promise. But, if you haven't already, you need to pick up a copy of Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. It is an amazing game, and features a very unique multiplayer mode. In this mode, you are given a target to assassinate, while you yourself are a target for another assassin. It can get pretty nerve racking, especially when you don't know who is hunting you or where they are.  The solo campaign is amazing as well. Ubisoft added an amazing level of detail and gameplay into this installment of the Assassin's Creed line. And for those of you who don't know, the gentle man pictures is Ezio Auditore da Firenze.

 Let's move onto Cait's latest obsession. For those of you who don't know what the logo on the right is, it is the logo for a website called StumbleUpon. Based on the preferences that you set, it will show you unique and random we sites across the Internet. It's pretty good. Both Cait and I have signed up. She has a lot more liked pages than I do. You can follow her here: Cait's StumbleUpon and you can follow me here: Brent's StumbleUpon. I'll work on my stumbles. By following StumbleUpon, Cait discovered another amazing site.
Instructables. This is an amazing site for DIY projects, How-to instructions and all sorts of things. I'm pretty sure Cait spends an equal amount of time between StumbleUpon and Instructables. I know that there are a lot of different and unique projects on there. How would you like to learn how to make a Keyboard Circuit Sheet Lampshade? Or how about a Voice Controlled Robot? Those are only a couple of examples. You really need to check this site out. For my final portion of this blog, I am proud to report that since the beginning of 2010, this blog has been viewed in 13 countries around the world and in 25 states in the US. Thank you for your support as I work through this blog! And with that, I leave you with this: 




 - Brent

99 Luftballons

On July 29, Cait celebrated her birthday (as some of you know). For her birthday, Savannah got her a nice ring and I planed out and entire day away from the baby. A couple of things to note. First, I spent a good two weeks planning the whole thing. It's hard and pretty stressful to organize a day of events and a party without Cait finding out. There were so many things that could have gone wrong. Second, for her day away, I put a group of items that represented different activities to do through out the day. With that in mind, let's get this day started! We started the day with some breakfast. That's usually a good thing to start the day with. After breakfast, I went and got the babysitter (which was also important to have). Once I got home and made sure that everything was ready for our departure, I collected the birthday girl and we set off. First stop, the jewelry store to pick up Cait's gift. Can you guess what I got her? Here's a hint: it's in the picture above this writing... on the right...did you figure it out? No...it's not a new ear...but rather the ear rings! Yay for me! It's even better because they have become her go-to ear rings.

After the jewelery, she wanted to go to the beach. You can see how well that worked out... On the recommendation of a friend, we went to Historic America Beach on Amelia Island. What I forget, was that she told us to go to the parking lot down the street. The road itself literally stopped at the beach. And as you can see, the HHR isn't for driving on the sandy beach. After I pushed while Cait backed it out back on to the pavement, we found the parking lot and walkway down to the water.

And this is what we were rewarded with. Sadly, this did not set it self up. That would have been nice. But it was worth it. Unlike Fernandina Beach, America Beach has facilities for changing and showers so that you can rinse off. It was nice being able to rinse off the sandy feet before getting into the car. During the time at the beach, we walked along the surf, sat and soaked up some humidity, and passed around the bottle of sparkling lemonade. All-in-all a good time.

The next stop that Cait selected from the bag of stops was Doing Dishes. It's a paint you own pottery studio. I've been wanting to take Cait to one for some time now and it seemed like this was a good time to do it. Only a couple of problems with this. First, this place is in the ghetto. I mean it. There was a shoot out across the street from them a couple of months ago. So, yeah. Ghetto. The second problem was that there was too much pottery to choose from. I think we spent a good 20 minuted just trying to figure out what we wanted to paint. I settled on a pen/pencil holder and a spoon rest. Cait went with a plate to hang on the wall. Once we decided what to paint, now we had to figure out what paint to use and how to paint our pieces. It was a pretty fun time. I'll post completed pics later. After all was said and done, the day was starting to wind down. Time to catch a movie and relax (as if we weren't relaxed to start with...). We headed over to an AMC theater and saw the Sorcerers Apprentice. It was OK. If you haven't see it, wait until its out on HBO or Redbox. I don't think it was worth the $20 that we spent on it. But once that was done, time to head home. Now, I'm not too good at keeping secrets, so it was almost impossible to keep my mouth shut and my excitement in check as we headed to Cait's surprise party.

I'm still not too sure how I pulled this off. With as many people as I told, Cait didn't even know what was going to happen when we got home. All she wanted to do was relax and play the Sims 3. Not today. There were a few friends waiting for us and a cake large enough to feed 40 people. Needless to say, we had plenty of leftovers. And although I didn't mention anything about gifts (I think I even said to not worry about it), she got a gift certificate to Game Stop, Michaels, and a smell good box from Bath & Body Works. She definitely had a good time. Well, that's it for this post. I leave you with this: Old Spice Guy being remixed!!!!