Cover thief - a recurring crime

Jack Bauer is hot on the scent of the latest brand of terrorist... a stealer of covers...

The following takes place between 5am and 5:01am



I wake up freezing, unable to feel my extremities! Why?? A quick investigation "uncovers" the reason: I have no covers... This crime scene photo shows my half of the bed, empty because I'm taking the picture.








And here's where the covers went.... ensconced with the perp, my wife.

Facebook overload

Let me know if this sounds like your experience with facebook.com..

I received an email from an aquaintence a few months ago inviting me to join facebook.com and connect as a friend in their profile. I'm open to these social networking sites, so I accepted.

Then after a while, I started receiving emails from others, inviting me to connect to them as friends. Each time I would accept. I didn't do anything with my facebook profile other than accept friend requests. Oh, I did upload a profile picture.

Slowly the frequency of these friend requests increased, until I was receiving several a week. I now have 98-some-odd friends (and I KNOW that some of you have WAY more than that!)

I also have about 35 other requests, which I don't fully understand, things like "so-and-so wants to give you a plant". WHAT? How does one receive a plant over the internet?? I've been "photo-tagged", invited to join groups, do look-alike analysis, and guage my level at several activities.



I'll admit, I'm a little lost by it all..



Which explains how I have committed several facebook faux pas. For one, I left a message on a friends "wall". She later wrote back appologizing that she had to delete it, but she didn't want the world to read it. Little did I know that her "wall" is publicly viewable, and not just viewable, but posted to every one of her friends' walls too!



WHATTH????



Shouldn't I get a warning or something? Is there a "facebook for dummies" I can read? I feel like my Dad! A total technological disaster.

And here's where the "overload" comes in. Now that 98 count 'em 98 of my closest friends are linked to me in facebook, every single thing that goes on in their profile, every update, every photo added, comment made, or status change, appears on my wall. I did a test the other day, and opened my facebook profile. I simply sat on my profile home page hitting the F5 button. For those of you that don't know, F5 refreshes the browser so you get the latest content. My wall changed about every 15-30 seconds!!

Where I used to think of my friends occassionally and wonder how they are doing, I now know way more than ever desired about the whole lot of them. Apparently the norm now is to do something, and then immediately write on facebook about it.. To give a funny example, one of my friends (nameless to protect the guilty), posted a status change that said, and I quote, "so-and-so is enjoying an extra hour of sleep from the change to standard time". To which I commented "How could that be if she is updating her facebook account??".


I may offend people with this post but I'm just saying that for me, it's overload. I think I liked it better when I wasn't so well connected. And yeah yeah I know, it's my decision to have a facebook account, blah blah. I'm just saying......

Halloween 2008

This year my range of costume possibilities opened significantly, as I now have a 'pardner in crime' for dress-up. The funnest party I attend each year (hands down) is Don and Stacey's halloween party - costume REQUIRED. These guys go over the top with decorations. Last year they had a spook-alley you had to pass through to get to the party! So the pressure is on to come up with a fun and somehow unique costume. Unfortunately I set the bar really high a coupla years ago with my Mr. Incredible. (Check out my Halloween Hall 'o shame here...)

Camila and I settled on a safe couples-costume idea for our first attempt... Dorothy and the Scarecrow.

From Camila's first October

Earlier in the evening we played around with the Harry Potter glasses we got in the mail from my sister Shauna.

From Camila's first October

Even earlier that day, we went on a scavenger hunt hosted by the Hillsboro Parks & Rec departement. This is us.. team "the Farm". It ended at a pumpkin patch.






The next day we went to a park to hang out. Can you believe the weather we are having here in LATE OCTOBER!

From Camila's first October