My Favorite Piece of Literature

I'm attending a baby shower for my cousin-in-law in October, which includes tea at The Brown Palace (where Eric and I stayed for our honeymoon). I'm excited for this fancy adventure. For this shower, the attendees are asked to give their favorite children books. Cute idea. Well, it took my about a nanosecond to figure out what I was going to pick:
Bugs Bunny; Too Many Carrots

My parents have reminded me often through the years about my love for this book. I loved it so much they had to hide it from me so they didn't get sick of too many carrots or reading to their perfectly delightful little daughter. I imagine that my crafty little self was successfully able to recover the missing property, because I don't recall this book ever missing.

A quick search on Amazon yielded the prize book. I bought two. One for the shower and one for future Brusvens. How could I not pass along this great read?

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

Eric and I enjoyed attending the Rockies game last night. The Rockies are still in the hunt for a wild-card spot, so every win is necessary right now. My principal set up the outing by purchasing a block of tickets for $10 a piece. There were about 30 from Chatfield (teachers plus families). The seats were in the upper deck, but the view wasn't too bad. I've done worse.


My friend Annessa and her husband Chuck, sons Dylan and Andrew:


The bummer part of the evening was when we returned to Eric's Jeep and found that it wouldn't start. We called AAA (thanks to Eric's parents for continuing to pay his fees) and they sent someone to take a look at it. In the mean time, some other fans returned to their vehicle in the almost empty parking garage and gave us a jump. We cancelled the AAA help. Luckily the battery lasted long enough to get us home. As soon as Eric turned off his car the battery was immediately dead again. He spent most of this morning and early afternoon taking out the old battery, hauling it to Sears, and installing a new battery. All is well again. I think it's time to transfer Eric's AAA subscription to Colorado and sign me up for an account as well.

Here's to Having a Happy Monday

Saw this on another blog I read:

TGIM: Dreading Mondays is a ridiculous way to spend one-seventh of your life, but that's the weird habit that millions of people have fallen into. Imagine this: Over the next five years, you'll receive the gift of 260 different Mondays, each one coming into your life fresh and full of promise. What kind of magic and miracles could you create with that kind of time? Why not be a maverick? Why not welcome every Monday with the same anticipation and excitement that most people reserve just for Fridays? (From the book "5")

So, may your Monday be as easy as apple pie.

A Little Sconnie Humor

At least they're not bitter:

"Computational Knowledge Engine"

Checked out a website today that intrigued my nerdiness: Wolfram Alpha. I first became familiar with Wolfram when we used their Mathematica computer program in calculus at ISU. Loved trying to program complicated 3-D images. This program could also power through derivatives and integrals at amazing speed, back in the ol' college days. Wonder what the latest version can do- I'm sure it has some pretty amazing bells and whistles.

Anyway... Wolfram Alpha is dubbed as not just a search engine, but a "Computational Knowledge Engine". It refers to its own Mathematica program when you ask it to do a math problem:

It computes and reports out so much more. Tested it with my name- all sorts of info about "Keri" was reported. I learned that the most common age for a person named Keri is 35 years old. I also enjoyed the graph of its popularity.


I think this will amuse me for hours.

Also amused by The Office bobbleheads:

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Squirrel

Saw this on the Today show this morning- it was found on National Geographic's "Your Shot" feature. Love it!

August 7, 2009
My husband and I were exploring Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park, Canada, when we stopped for a timed picture of the two of us. We had our camera set up on some rocks and were getting ready to take the picture when this curious little ground squirrel appeared, became intrigued with the sound of the focusing camera and popped right into our shot! A once in a lifetime moment! We were laughing about this little guy for days!
Photo and Caption by Melissa Brandts