More pictures are up!

We got some free tickets to the rams preseason game this weekend - so i went to my first and last NFL football game. The people who go to these games... biggest bunch of rude jerks i've ever met. I'll stick with baseball!

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Todays poll on the St. Louis Post Dispatch... I thought the wording was a bit strange:

Which side do you believe in the Kerry swift boat controversy?

52% JOHN KERRY -- His medals and his word are good enough for me

29% KERRY'S CRITICS -- Their story is too plausible to be made up

18% A LITTLE OF BOTH -- The truth is probably somewhere in the middle

The part I thought was odd was the ""His medals and his word are good enough for me"" thing. Since when is the strength of his argument just ""his word?"" How about 35 years of public record, the testimony of people ACTUALLY ON HIS BOAT and the fact that every single one of the swift boat liars has serious credibility problems (like their funding, or the fact that they've said the exact opposite thing publically in the past, or that they received medals for the exact same incident... etc.)

ok - the picture backlog will be rectified! I promise. Mostly.

oy - threw my back out two and half weeks ago, i'm just now becoming mobile. that's no fun.

Chili learned to clap last week. He claps (sometimes missing the target of course) and laughs and always looks around to make sure everyone is seeing this awesome display of skill. The other day i was sitting across the room from him and said ""Clap for me chili!"" He dropped his block and started clapping. Stunned silence ensued. At nine and a half months, he seems to understand what we're saying. I'm impressed at least.

One little battle we've had this week is the ""Give Me Back My Toothbrush"" issue. When i brush his seven little teeth at night he grabs the brush and refuses to let it go. I guess it feels cool to bite those bristles. He gets VERY angry when you take it away from him.