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Congratulations to Ricky Anderson! In honor of this momentous occasion, I gave him some tips on what to expect regarding the delivery room. Go over to his blog and read it.

It’s March, the start of the spring quarter. I didn’t have any good ideas that related directly to spring, so here’s a painting-related WordPress theme.

As is usual, it’s not really a new theme – all I did was replace the images. It’s supposed to look like paint dripping.

Anyway, here’s a slightly new look. Expect some tweaks in the days to come.

One of the pieces of schoolwork that Alpha brought home this week was a March calendar. They were given a number of events that would be happening in March and they filled them in.

Click on the picture for the full thing.

What I noticed first was that the school (or his class at least) celebrates Dr. Seuss’ birthday. I never knew when it was. Now I know, although I don’t know what good that does me.

But the second thing I noticed was his editorial note on March 9 – a day of no school. He drew a frowny face to denote his sadness at the prospect of no school.

I remember liking school. I liked summer break, but I also enjoyed the start of fall and going back to school. I could start waxing nostalgic here, but I’ll skip it. All that to say this: Alpha really does like school.

Beta, on the other hand, has been sick this week. He missed preschool on Monday. Tuesdays he doesn’t have preschool anyway. On Wednesday his cough was still prevalent, so we told him that he would be missing preschool again.

His response?

“Yeaaaa!”

They may look similar, Alpha and Beta, but looks can be deceiving.

Subway is falling behind again.

Subway never used to offer to toast my subs. Then Quizno’s showed up with their toasted subs and Subway quickly followed suit, in order to negate any marketing edge that Quizno’s might have had.

Now Tubby’s has raised the bar. Here’s an ad from a local Tubby’s Sub shop:

Subway offers only meats, cheeses, and vegetables. They offer only non-alcoholic dressings too, like mayo or mustard and such. This ad says, to me at least, that Tubby’s offers beer and wine in their sandwiches. How can Subway compete with that?

Click on the image to get the full effect of the ad.

Plus you get the context that shows maybe, just maybe, they might mean the beer and wine are inside the store, not inside the sub.

Have you ever read the lyrics to the song “Goodbye Hello” by the Beatles? Those have to be some of the most worthless lyrics. It’s like listening to grade-school children argue “Did not!” “Did too!” for a couple minutes. It gets old very quickly.

That’s why I’m writing this post – to give you the background for the song. Maybe the song will make a little more sense after my explanation.

A lot of people think the Beatles were good musicians, but a little-known fact is that they started out as stock traders. They did not do very well with stocks (they were a bit clueless about the concept), so they switched over to music.

Here is one of the songs they wrote about their stock-trading days. The lyrics were changed by their producer, but I have unearthed the original lyrics:

You say yes, I say no
You say stop, and I say go, go, go
Oh, no
You say good buy and I say sell low.
Sell low, sell low
I don’t know why you say to buy
when I sell low.
Sell low, sell low
I don’t know why you say to buy
when I sell low.

You say high, I say low
You say why, and I say “I don’t know”
Oh, no
You say good buy and I say sell low.
Sell low, sell low
I don’t know why you say to buy
when I sell low.
Sell low, sell low
I don’t know why you say to buy
when I sell low.

This post was inspired by some questionable enunciation during American Idol last week. Not everyone can cover Beatles songs well.

It may have been 9 below zero this morning, but spring training has started so I know winter’s demise is imminent.

I don’t really follow baseball, so I’m surprised that I know that spring training has started. And you may be surprised to know that I got a sneak peek at the new lineup for the 2011 baseball season.

That’s right, I have the exclusive scoop on who will be starting for Detroit. Without further ado, here is the starting lineup for the Detroit Tigers.

Click on the picture for a full-size version. It’s much easier to read.

And sorry about the verse – there are lions in the Bible but no tigers.

Last week, I was in an area store. I was with some of the family, and they wanted me to buy some things. In general, I like to please people. And if those people are my offspring, then I definitely want them to be happy.

But while we were walking through the store, discussing what I could buy to please them, I noticed that pleasing my family was forbidden.

If that’s not what the store meant, then that’s a bad sign. Perhaps they could use some punctuation. Or perhaps they could use complete sentences, but that also would require punctuation.

There are a number of ways they could have written that sign better:

• Please, employees only
• Employees only, please
• For employees only
• If you are not employed here, do not use this ladder