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This is a popular book with my younger kids now.

Made years ago by Dave Wiley for Calvin, and still in good use today.

Our 3-year-old is enjoying the cast off stuff our recently departed 18-year-old left behind. Especially fun is the Civil Air Patrol equipment.

Calvin and I are at a Royals game tonight. It’s pretty much the worst game ever so I’m playing with my iPad to post a few pictures. Yes, I’m a geek.

We came early to do the Early Bird tour, which is basically letting you in at 4:30 to the Hall of Fame and then letting you sit close to watch batting practice before everyone else comes in starting at 5:30.

I found this in the Hall of Fame. Mom is that you?

The Royals did much better during batting practice than for real:

Greinke looked good. But it was just looks.

There’s a reason he left the first inning like this:

Not sure what this guy was thinking. Maybe, “Hey look, I’m Michael Jackson!”

We finally moved to seats I’ve thought about sitting in since I was a kid:

These are the corner seats in the upper deck. Very peaceful. The equivalent of these but on the other side:

Middle of the 6th right now. It’s 14-0, Twins. Good thing most of the fans here are from Minnesota. Really, not kidding. Cheers for the Twins are significantly louder than for the Royals.

Photo taken with my Canon DSLR, moved to my iPad with the camera connection kit, processed with Photogene, and uploaded to Posterous.

I use Google Voice as my main cell phone number.  When a call goes to voice mail, Google does its best to turn it into text that it then emails to me.  They know it won’t be perfect given the crappy line quality of most phones and untrained speech recognition, but generally it’s plenty good enough to get an idea of what the caller wanted, and then I can listen to the actual message if need be.

Yesterday I was left a message from some robot call for a politician.  (They were actually calling our home phone which was down due to our cable being knocked out by a storm, so our Internet phone system rolled the call over to my cell phone.)  It was such a great translation I now want to run all politicians through the Google Voice filter:

And I would like to, my friends call me ice tea. I’m running for state order because I want to stand up to levels were bankrupting our country. I’m going to be indoors by Joe the plumber 029 for life. User you’d like to live and hundreds of other conservative leaders throughout the state of Missouri. I promised that if elected state water. I wake up every morning looking to root out waste fraud and abuse in our state government. So, please remember allies of want Tuesday August of 3rd Republican primary for state auditor. For more information on the campaign or to donate, please go to eyes it for order dot com. That I C E T F O R water dot com. This message was paid for by eyes of the order wingman Treasurer.

I dream of becoming wingman Treasurer someday.

If you’re really curious, here’s the actual message: