Christine's birthday

Christine’s Birthday….

August 14^th is Christine’s birthday. Last year was one of those “big” birthdays, so there isn’t the adjustment that comes with one of those to deal with this year. I don’t want to say that it is a normal birthday, because there really isn’t such an animal. Birthdays mark that another year has passed in your life but it is also a time to realize, that you are lucky to be alive and have been blessed. It is a time to celebrate life, even if it isn’t a full-blown three-ring circus in honor of the event.

Last year since we both celebrated one of the “big” birthdays, we planned to have a bigger joint celebration between our birthdays, but it didn’t work out. So, this year we’ve decided that we wouldn’t attempt anything else so big. Christine’s mom will be here looking after the girls, so that the two of us can have our own quite celebration.

While Anna realized that her mom was having a birthday last year, it seems to have now sunk in with Sarah, that here mom is having a birthday. Sarah now seems to have “birthday awareness”. Anna’s birthday is 12 days after Christine, so August is a bigger birthday month for us (not to mention that we have several family and friends celebrating their birthdays this month). I think that it is special that the two of them share the same month but they each have their own days. Sarah’s birthday comes more than a month after mine, but within the space of a year is closer to mine and there is Christmas and New Years in between, so it seems pretty close together.

In honor of Christine's birthday I created several slide shows and have posted them to our channel on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/dcheronfamily). One of special note is one that I put together of the girls dressed as brides.

According to FamousBirthdays.com, Chirstine shares her birthday with David Crosby (of “Crosby, Stills, and Nash” fame), actor/comedian Steve Martin, novelist Danielle Steel, Far Side Creator Gary Larson, NBA star Earvin “Magic” Johnson, and actresses Susan Saint James and Halle Berry.

From http://www.paulsadowski.org/BirthDay.asp ...

Christine was conceived on or about November 21^st. In the Julian calendar here birthday is 2439351.5. She was born in the Chinese year of the horse. Her Native American zodiac sign is Salmon and her plant is Raspberry. Her birthday is 12.17.12.17.7 in the Mayan calendar. As of August 13^th at 2:02:42 AM EDT she was 21,562,682 minutes old. The moon’s phase was a waning crescent on the day she was born. In dog years she is 5.86066536203522 years old. (still chasing cats)

From http://www.kakophone.com/kakorama/EN/index.php ...

Also sharing Christine’s birthday but somewhat earlier…

1297 - Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan (d. 1348)

1642 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723)

1688 - Frederick William I of Prussia (d. 1740)

1740 - Pope Pius VII (d. 1823)

1777 - Francis I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1830)

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In the middle of vacation season

In The Middle of Vacation Season...

As many of my colleagues are currently on vacation (or will be shortly) it seems that anytime you want to get a hold of someone that they're on vacation. Also this got me thinking about the vacation we took to Austria in August 2006. So I decided to post a few pictures.

Interesting...

Barry Bonds Breaks Hank Aaron's Home Run Record

Barry Bonds broke Hank Aaron's home record on August 7, 2007 (story at Yahoo) in San Francisco against the Washington Senators. Mike Bacsik was on the pitching mound. You could say that Barry comes from baseball royalty being the son of Bobby Bonds, a distant cousin of Reggie Jackson (Mr. October), and is the godson of Willie Mays. Some people will say that this record is tainted because of alleged steriod use by Barry Bonds. Dan Wetzel
talks about how the new record is tarnished for this reason and how baseball has been plagued by steroid use since 1996 and has been largely ignored by the commissioner, owners, and the sporting world in general. He has also indicated how Barry Bonds isn't the hero that Hank Aaron was and still is. One of the problems with the media and celebrity age that we live in is that athletes and other celebrities are constantly under the microscope and it is hard for anyone to be a hero under all that scrutiny. It is also maybe hard to see a long-time record held by a legend of the game fall. Some records seem like there so far out of reach that they should never be broken, let along by mere mortals. Here is a column by Tim Brown he isn't as accusative as Dan Wetzel. Only time will be able to tell us how MLB history remembers Barry Bonds and his new all-time Home Run record and what will your average fan think of all this in 20 or 30 years.

Van Halen Going on Tour With David Lee Roth

It was announced at yahoo the other day that Van Halen is going on tour with David Lee Roth and Eddy's son on bass. The tour is currently only planned for the U.S. and given the history of Diammond Dave and the band, there is a pretty good chance that the tour doesn't happen or is cut short, but for Van Halen fans this is pretty exciting news. When searching on Wikipedia, there were 999 entries related to Van Halen including a discography, one on the band members, and so on. I haven't seen any statistics on this but amongst Van Halen fans there is a debate is to who is better David Lee Roth or Sammy Haggar. The Sammy Hagar era is often referred to as Van Hagar, Sam Halen, and others. For the Dave fans, this has to be pretty exciting. I have seen Dave in concert on his "Eat Em And Smile" Tour and I saw Van Halen with Sammy on their "5150" Tour and again on their "Monsters of Rock" Tour. I would love to see Van Halen with Dave. I hope that this really happens and that they're able to record together again. Van Halen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 2007 Van Halen joined R.E.M as the latest inductees. In addition to Dave and Sammy, Van Halen was also fronted by Gary Cherone. For those of you that have been following the band's saga more closely then I, are probably aware of the rifts between Eddie and Sammy and Michael Anthony and how Sammy and the band parted only to tour together and part again. Dave has long been rumored to be rejoining the band several times and he did 2 songs with the band on their Best of Volume 1 and appeared with the band on the MTV 1996 Music Video Awards. So it would seem that we'll have to see if the tour and any new recordings follow.

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Simpsonized

Simpsonized

I found out that you can turn photos into Simpson's characters. I first read about this here. So without further adieu here we are as Simpsons....

Intertesting

Wikipedia

Many of you are probably familiar with Wikipedia. It is a web-based encyclopedia edited by its users (here is the official "Wikipedia about"). This site is one of the more famous wikis. While this is not an academic web site, it is a handy place to get quick information on a subject. Posted towards the end of most entries are a list of sources used in that entry, so that you can probe further if you would like or maybe you might care to do some fact checking on the entry. This site has grown into one of the more popular ones on the net. Subject to the rules and conditions of the site, almost anyone can become a member allowing them to post and edit entries. If you know a lot about a subject and believe that an area of that subject is incomplete or inaccurate, this would be an opportunity for you to contribute. Some of Wikipedia's sister projects include the following sites: dictionary, news, learning, open content textbooks, quotations, free content publications, and media.

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