I was walking down the halls of the university I work at and saw this drawing on a faculty member’s door. I am not sure if this is Clay’s drawing or this is a portrait or Clay, but I think someone has some explaining to do.

So I was gonna pick up some headphones for my Xbox 360 so I don’t disturb other’s who REALLY enjoy sleep, I found a great pair that got really good reviews, and then I read the description..

It’s 2 AM. You’ve just made it to the next level of your favorite Xbox
game, when suddenly Mom appears at your bedroom door shouting, “Turn it
down!” What do you do now? Just reach for your Ear Force X1 headset, plug it in, and Mom won’t need to complain about the noise.

I am a 12 year old.

I wanted to be able to update my Twitter status with my xbox live account status (or gamer tag) and here is how I managed to do it:

Your twitter will now be updated when your gamer tag is updated.

Yesterday Andrea and I volunteered at the Renewed Life for Greyhounds “Shades of Grey” Greyhound reunion at Helder Park in Holland, Michigan. It turned out to be a great day, with a little rain rolling in right as things wrapped up.

Here are some photos from the event.

I picked up an xbox 360 and a copy of Grand Theft Auto 4 the other day, and I am addicted. After playing the system for a few days I can’t believe I didn’t own one sooner. The online play is amazing.

And so that leads to my nerdiest post ever. There is an easter egg in the game where you can fly a helicopter to the statue of liberty, and find a hidden door you can go in, climb up a ladder to see the beating heart of Liberty City. I was so geeked out when i found it I took a picture of my TV. Yes, yes I know, I am a nerd for doing this, but anyway I have to get back to dusting off my lord of the rings figurines.

I have a robin that is repeatedly flying into my bedroom window. I know that birds often get confused by the reflection and run into the window thinking it’s a tree or whatever.

We have put up decals, colorful paper, etc to no avail. He seems very purposeful about what he’s doing as he is not flying full force into the window. Rather, he sits on the tree branch, flies up to the window and “thuds” into it. Then he goes back to the tree, looks at the window and does it again. Besides the annoyance of having the robin doing this at dawn and dusk every day, he is also conveniently located above our patio and patio furniture and is making a big mess.

If you have any suggestions, I would love to hear them! If not, please feel free to forward this on to family and friends for a good laugh, which is what I would do.

Thanks,

Marianne

Friday after work Andrea and I went to Big Bob’s Pizza in Gas Light Village. This could be one of my new favorite pizza places in Grand Rapids. The pizza was excellent, they have Oberon on tap, and they have Monica’s half baked cookies. My mouth waters just writing about this place.

Saturday Andrea did another round of recycling awareness in Grand Rapids, while I did some small things at the house. Saturday night we met up with a group to watch Roller Derby. Girls bashing each other around the rink, byob, mullets, and breakdancing… it doesn’t get much better.

Check out the photos from Roller Derby

We have been taking walks along the river at lunch. I snapped this photo of window washers on the Bridgewater Place building during one of our walks.

We needed a new lawnmower and in an effort to be more environmentally friendly Andrea wanted to get one of those push mowers - the ones with no motor - like from the 1920’s. I said there was no way I would cut the lawn with one of those and Andrea said she would do it if we got one. I thought this was an excellent deal so we picked on up today and Andrea cut the front lawn. She said it was a bit more work than she thought it would be, but it was “fun”. (I put the receipt in a safe place.)

Organic Fertilizer : $170
Motorless Lawn Mower : $130
Wife cutting the lawn : Priceless

Friday night Kelly & Shannon came over and we played a few games on the Wii. Saturday Andrea and I brought my niece, Kahlan, over to the Mack’s house for a few hours so she could play with the other kids and enjoy the cook-out. We brought Kahlan back to her mom & dad and spent a few more hours at the Mack’s, where Brian and Matt got into “the position” and Jeff, Dave and Brian did a little Native American leg wrestling. In the photo above you can see Jeff losing a second time to Brian. Sunday we got up late, put the bikes on the Clubman and went to to the White Pines Trail where we rode our bikes to Rockford.