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A few more pictures from our trip

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In the past week

For some reason, the software on my trusty little PDA decided it didn't want to connect with Blogger to post any additional information after it uploaded the Treasury Dept image.  That image was taken our first evening in Washington DC, as Sarah and I did a little walk around near our hotel.

 

Quick overview of the week:

• While we were in the Blue Room of the White House tour, Marine One landed just outside the window and we saw President Bush get on and fly away.  Just before he got on the helicopter, he stopped and waved toward the building.
• While we were on the tour of the Capital building, we ran into Senator Inhofe.  His office was responsible for arraigning our White House, Capitol, Bureau of Engraving & Printing and National Archives tours.  He was nice enough to stop and chat with our group from Oklahoma for about 25 minutes.  (Oh, John Kerry walked by when we were chatting with Inhofe)
• Met Bob Dole at the World War II memorial on Sunday.  Just as we were getting there, the nurse from the famous "sailor kissing nurse" image from WWII was being introduced to him (Sarah got a picture of them together).  Renee took a picture of the girls and I with Bob Dole with Sarah's camera, but here is one I took of the Bob Dole and the girls with my PDA:
    
• We attended the National Memorial Day Concert hosted by Joe Mantegna and Gary Sinise on the Capital lawn Sunday evening.
• Watched the National Memorial Day Parade at the corner of Constitution Ave and 12th Street.
• We visited (in no particular order, not a complete list):
  The Korea War Memorial,
  The WWII memorial,
  The Lincoln Memorial,
  The Thomas Jefferson Memorial,
  The Library of Congress,
  The National Archives,
  The Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
  The Holocaust Memorial,
  Several of the Smithsonian museums,
  The Capital,
  The house where Lincoln died,
  The Ford Theater (which was closed for renovations).
  Walked past the Washington Monument several times
  Arlington Cemetery (visiting JFK's grave and eternal flame site and was
       present for the changing of the Guards at the Tomb of the Unknowns
  The Old Post Office Tower
  The Navy Memorial
  
• When we were in the Rotunda viewing the Constitution, Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence, I took a few pictures of the murals on the walls. The mural to the right of the Constitution, name appropriately "Constitution Mural" by Barry Faulkner had one particular individual within the murals stood out from all the rest to me:
   
  The amputee depicted in the image to the left is Gouverneur Morris from Pennsylvania. 
  According to Wikipedia:
  Morris had a wooden leg as a result of an accident that occurred while he was climbing onto a carriage without anyone tending to the horses, which suddenly took off, catching his left leg in one of the carriage wheels on May 14, 1780. Physicians told Morris that they had no choice but to remove the leg below the knee
  
  

After I have a chance to go through the pictures taken by both Sarah and I, and we all have a chance to recover from the trip, I will post additional information about our fun in DC.

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Don't Taze Me Bro

Remember the guy getting tasered at the John Kerry speech? Here is a little 'mash up' of that and MC Hammer:

 

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Don't ya just hate when....

.... life gets in the way of blogging?

 

More posts in the future, as life should be slowing down in the future (or I will run out of energy).

 

However, please enjoy this video in my absence:

From Crackle: Mrs hughes skewed views

Prince Caspian

One of the fun things I have done with Hope over the past year is reading through the whole Chronicles of Narnia book series.  While the movie for book two (The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe) has been out for a while, it looks like the movie for Prince Caspian will be released May 16, 2008.  From the trailer below, it looks like the next installment has the potential of being better than the first!

 

Prince Caspian

One of the fun things I have done with Hope over the past year is reading through the whole Chronicles of Narnia book series.  While the movie for book two (The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe) has been out for a while, it looks like the movie for Prince Caspian will be released May 16, 2008.  From the trailer below, it looks like the next installment has the potential of being better than the first!

 

I have found the perfect plaque for my office

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I'm a VPP (Very Proud Papa)

 

Those of you who don't know, I was raised in an OU household, of which I am not ashamed at all.  My favorite state school team was the Sooners, prior to my employment at OSU.  Now my two favorite teams are OU and OSU.  Yeah, there is a lot more orange in my closet than red (at least on my side) primarily out of loyalty to my employing campus. 

 

With that having been said, who would have expected to see the University of Oklahoma logo presented at the top of one of my blog posts?  Well, it is being done by a very proud papa of a high school senior that has completed all of the requirements to apply for an early admissions to a Masters of Occupational Therapy program at OUHSC. Yes, I said Masters program.  Occupational Therapy is a field Sarah has been interested in for quite a while.  Recently she found that OUHSC has an early admittance program to the MOT program for high school seniors, depending upon their GPA, test scores and having confirmed observation time (shadowing) with a practicing OT.  She has the grades and test scores, and recently completed all the required hoop-jumping to get her shadowing hours completed.  She submitted all of her paperwork for the early admissions yesterday.

 

Admittance to the program holds a spot for her once she has completed her bachelor's degree, which doesn't have to be completed at OU.  Being that OT is a growing field, and the graduate placement rate is almost 100%, the program is growing increasingly difficult to enter.  Her taking the initiative now, as a high school senior, will pay off huge dividends in the future.  In short, she won't have to spend her senior year in college worrying about gaining admissions to a graduate program!

 

No, it isn't guaranteed that she will be accepted into the program, but that isn't a major concern (who is stupid enough to deny/reject my daughter? It would just be their loss!).  I am just amazed at how well she has squared away her plans for the future. 

 

Extra Info:

My dad was an Alumni of OU Medical Center.

 

Just to show the level of OU involvement by my family, here is the ring-tone that plays when my mom calls my cell phone:

       

        which can be interesting when she calls during normal business hours!

 

However, I do have to have a little OU humor somewhere, so here it is:

 

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Five-Second Rule Extended to Eight Seconds

ATLANTA (CAP) - Bowing to pressure from advocacy groups and a lobby effort dating back three years, the Weights and Measures Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology has agreed to expand the age-old Five-Second Rule to eight seconds beginning next month.

 

"With all the pressures we all face on a daily basis, nobody has the time they used to," said Pete Olsen of Focus On The Family, which began lobbying the NIST back in 2004. "Three seconds may not be much, but every little bit helps."

 

Focus On The Family originally sought a rule expansion to ten seconds, citing the continued increase in the number of single-parent households as the primary factor in their request. "The numbers of cookies and crackers remained the same, while the sets of eyes to respond and react dropped," said Olsen.

 

However, the NIST countered by offering to increase the limit one second each year from 2008 to 2011, which Focus called "a watered-down attempt to throw red tape at a systemic problem." An arbitrator was brought in last June to help both sides reach an agreement.

 

After months of arbitration, both sides agreed to concessions as part of the deal to change the timeframe of the rule. Among those concessions:

- The Berber Carpet Clause was expanded to include a ban on households with cats. For households with dogs, the rule still only applies to short-hair breeds.

- Section 4.1.2b regarding gum and gummy bears was also expanded to include children's "fruit snacks." However, the two sides could not reach agreement on Starburst chews and had to reserve judgement for a future time.

- Foyers, sunrooms and entryways were added to a special section of the Approved Rooms List that accounts for appropriate weather conditions. For the drier months of July and August, the Eight-Second Rule will now apply to the floors of these rooms.

 

The two sides also agreed to meet on a bi-yearly basis going forward to review all the stipulations of the rule to make sure it continues to meet the needs of a busy population.

 

Originally reported by CAP News