First of all, Happy 9th Birthday to Keegan!

As we wind up for birthday season Brie and I have a lot of things to do. This weekend we bought the new Bissel 2x Steam cleaner, our 3rd steam cleaner in 10 years. The other two burned out becuase of George's fur always getting caught in them, so hopefully this one will last. They have redesigned many of the issues I had with it so I'm hoping it works better. I also need to patch a few holes in our walls that Jack put in when he accidently slips and bounces in to them while running around.

Saturday Brie and I spent a couple hours putting in her new car stereo and front speakers. We bought her back speakers too, but the computer at Best Buy said we needed 5 1/4 speakers when it turns out the back speakers are the same 6 1/2 as the fronts so I need to exchange those. We have already removed the old ones so putting the new ones in should be a snap, as long as it's not 93° like it has been.

I've started playing World of Warcraft again. I play on Lothar with our good friends Cindi and Larry. Right now I am focused on my Blood Elf Warlock, Zenone trying to get him to 70. I hope we can get a second computer this year, I'd like for Brie to be able to join us as well. I'm still playing City of Heroes too, only because I've made some friends there and I don't want to abandon them. I have severed all ties to the Dragon Legion supergroup I had been a part of for almost 2 years. Things got really ugly on very personal levels between me and a couple members and I decided it simply wasn't worth the energy anymore to pretend that those people were worth my time.

Another of my current pastimes is our new Nintendo Wii, in particular I'm playing "The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess" with the help of Brie and the kids. As we did for "Psychonauts" when Brie wanted to play through it, one of us plays while the other gets tips and hints on the web to make the game playing more fluid. I've never really cared about challenge and figuring things out, I like to play through the story without frustrations so having Brie guide me actually makes the game funner for me to play, and funner for the kids to watch. We also love to play Wii Sports and Rayman: Ravaging Rabbids as a family. Keegan is especially good at Tennis and is getting better at Baseball. What we are all really looking forward to is the release of Super Smash Bros.: Brawl and Super Mario: Galaxy. If you read this and have a Wii our Wii Code is: 3502 5373 8772 0515 if you use that our entire family, as represented by our Mii's, can come visit you.