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Shauna: "What's a 'family mission plan'?"

Me: "I dunno. Having kids far enough apart that you can afford to pay for them?"

Posted by Jesse | Filed under: Church, Tender Lumplings, Shauna on May 4th, 2008 at 3:02 pm | 1 Comment »

One of these is not like the others. 

Posted by Jesse | Filed under: Pictures, Tender Lumplings on April 30th, 2008 at 1:04 pm | 2 Comments »

Me: "I was really looking forward to eating dinner tonight"

Shauna: "If it makes you feel better, I haven't eaten either."

Me: "Why would that make me feel better? 'Oh boy, you're hungry too'?"

Stupid abdominal pains. More to follow later. 

UPDATE: After getting home at 6AM, the doctor couldn't really say more than "here, have a Lortab".

Posted by Jesse | Filed under: Health, Tender Lumplings, Shauna on April 30th, 2008 at 12:58 am | 5 Comments »

I've been talking about getting one of these nigh on forever and on Saturday, I finally took the plunge. Say "hello Moto":

Yes, it's really as cool as it looks. Camera, Bluetooth, GPS, full Internet access… it has the works at a very affordable $150 after a mail-in rebate. It's certainly a step up from the old crappy phone I had before.

Posted by Jesse | Filed under: Geek on April 29th, 2008 at 8:16 am | 4 Comments »

You may have noticed a few extra boxes over on the right for Sponsored Links and an offer to buy advertising. It's true: a year after we thought about it, we're sellouts. Don't worry: I don't feel any particular obligation to appease advertisers and the money is just a way for us to enjoy a meal on someone else's dime from time-to-time. It'll be the same old site with a few extra boxes.

The biggest roadblock was finding a workable platform. After playing around with WPAdmanager, it proved to be a total bust. The code was buggy, English was not the author's native language and I couldn't even figure out how to debug the thing myself. Enter WPTextAds. It has a very slick interface, an active support community and costs exactly zero dollars unless you need to go hog-wild with ads. I've only used it on a limited basis, but I'm certainly looking forward to seeing how it works out.

Posted by Jesse | Filed under: Website, Blogging on April 28th, 2008 at 2:07 pm | 3 Comments »

Only someone living under a rock wouldn't know about the grave injustices being done to the FLDS in Texas right now. Allow me to summarize for those of you not following the story.

• A woman claiming to be a 16-year-old mother named Sarah calls in authorities in Texas to report that her 50-year-old FLDS husband beats her on a regular basis.
• Texas rounds up all of the women and children, arresting none of the men at the FLDS ranch. No charges are actually filed against anyone.
• In the supposed interest of the children, they are all then separated from their mothers by force (including nursing newborns) without any evidence of abuse or neglect.
• In the process, they can't find "Sarah", the woman whose call triggered the whole event and they end up miscounting just how many children they have in custody.
• It's revealed that the call from Sarah might be a hoax perpetrated by a 31-year-old woman in Colorado.

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Posted by Jesse | Filed under: Politics on April 24th, 2008 at 4:00 pm | 6 Comments »

Something is rotten in the state of Utah. It seems that we can't go a week without some new controversy embroiling the Utah Republican Party. At the heart of it all is a political machine that would make Boss Tweed proud, a system of selection setup to allow the party faithful to anoint their leaders while brushing aside anyone who "isn't a real Republican". It appears that this is a systemic problem that won't go away any time soon.

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Posted by Jesse | Filed under: Politics on April 23rd, 2008 at 4:54 pm | 3 Comments »

As Jesse mentioned previously, we just celebrated our third wedding anniversary. Three years ago, Jesse and I came to the mutual conclusion that what really matters is the marriage and not the wedding so we invited our parents (Tuesday) to join us for an extremely small and private ceremony (Saturday). Since then, I think we have done a pretty good job of keeping true to our original intent: focus on the marriage and the relationship, let go of the silly things that ultimately don't matter (to us at least). Observe:

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Posted by Shauna | Filed under: Food, Jesse, Marriage on April 22nd, 2008 at 7:49 pm | 9 Comments »

Shauna and I spent the weekend in Las Vegas to celebrate our third anniversary (go us!) and had a blast. We stayed at the Venetian (A++ would stay again), ate at some awesome restaurants and saw these guys:

Holy. Crap. Why did we put off seeing this show for so long? I have no earthly idea. It's the most awesome show I've ever seen and yet, I can't really describe it. It's part performance art, part sketch comedy, part concert and all fun. The Guggenheim Museum and Sigfried and Roy's Secret Garden were mere time-passers by comparison.

I think I have a new appreciation for Las Vegas now that I've been a tourist and not a resident. 

Posted by Jesse | Filed under: Entertainment, Food, Marriage, Travel on April 22nd, 2008 at 10:18 am | 2 Comments »

As further proof in the power of the Interweb, online pranksters managed to Rickroll the New York Mets.

Don't know what a Rickroll is? The Wiki can tell you more. Or you can go to Youtube and see a Rickroll for yourself.

Posted by Jesse | Filed under: Entertainment, Tender Lumplings on April 11th, 2008 at 2:25 pm | 4 Comments »