I'm trying to get a free iPod - go here if you want to participate in an offer - I'll be your best friend - honest! Basically, if I can get 5 friends to participate in one of the trial offers (i.e., BMG music service, Columbia DVD service, Blockbuster Online Movie rentals, etc) , then I'll get a free 20GB iPod.

A few sites on the Internet were put up by people to prove that this isn't a scam - you can visit one of them here and read about it in Wired.

Don't you think Al Gore has gained a little weight lately?

Taken sometime in 2003 (I think)	Taken this week

Al!! Bill just had a quadruple bypass fer christs sake!! Don't go down that road!!

OK, since my last post, I took a way fun trip to Massachusetts, Martha's Vineyard and Vermont.

Besides just relaxing and having nice people cook for me, I had a hell of a time getting pulled around a lake in Vermont on a inner tube. I was on the tube with Heather's cousin, Audrey, and I think she got mad at me because I lasted on the tube longer than her. Her dad, Stott, was driving the boat and he couldn't throw me off until he took the boat up to full throttle. I wish I had pictures of me flying off the tube and hurtling across the lake. I hyper-extended my knee but apart from that and getting the wind knocked out of me, it was a total blast. Thanks Stott and Audrey!

The first time I went on the tube, Zoë happened to be in the boat with mom and when she saw us wipe out, she had a fit. I guess she thought the lake ate me up or something. Poor thing.

George and Janice Sue's place is coming along, it's located in Barton, VT	View from the porch with George clutching his toy animal (he goes nowhere without it - don't ask) (. . .just kidding George. . .)

We happened to be in Vermont during the weekend of the final Phish concert - which made us have to alter the route we took up to Island Pond. Other than a trip through Barton and then down I-93 (I-91?), we didn't see much of it. During a drive down from Canada, we saw the ruin along the highway where cars had left their rubbish along 8 miles of interstate. I woulda thunk hippies and yuppies would be more responsible about their garbage. Maybe all the drugs they took made then forget to pick things up. Oh well.

Zoë had a swell time on Martha's Vineyard. What with the Flying Horses, the beach and Jalen's birthday, it was non-stop action fun!

Here's us after we caught the Brass Ring on the Flying Horses (yay!)	Ever see the movie "Open Water"?

The flight back was not too memorable except for one part of one flight (thanks Benadryl!) - Zoë got to experience the pleasure of your ears decompressing upon landing - what fun that was for everyone.

Now we're getting ready for Zoë's big week of birthday activities which includes a party for my dad and Zoë at Trinacria and then a kids-oriented party at our house the following weekend.

Oh, I had to include this link to a great Flash movie about the End of the World. I cried the first time I saw it b/c it's so funny.