When I was in high school, during what I consider the glory days of Indiana University basketball, I was with some friends over at my buddy Mitch Raney's house. He popped in a black market videotape of Bob Knight playing golf and the outakes of a golf show that Knight hosted. When I first saw it I thought it was easily one of the funniest things I have ever seen. This was extremely rare footage and not until recently did I get a chance to see it again, thanks to the wonders of the internet. So without further ado.....I present Bob Knight raw on the golf course.

click here to laugh your ass off

Check out this little Jackson story...So Saturday night we are having family game night after getting Carson down for the count. We were playing Monopoly Junior for the first time with Jackson (our 5 yr. old). I had developed this routine of telling someone when they would land on my property (and thus be required to buy lemonade) "Thank you for buying lemonade from me today. I sure hope it tastes good on a hot day like today" or something similar. Well, Kim lands on my property and I say: "That'll be two bucks, I sure hope you enjoy it" and Jackson chimes in:

"Yeah, especially since Daddy farted in it before he gave it to you!"

I want to post about my week off last week – I think I’ll go in reverse order. So let’s start with 4 Sport weekend. Fun as always. We didn’t have Ton-Loc this year, but the replacement was a suitable one. Uncle Billy’s son Roger made his first Four-Sport Weekend appearance and certainly added some fun and entertainment to the festivities in much the same way Tony always does.

He got so drunk Saturday night that when he woke up to play golf at 7am Sunday morning, he was still drunk. This year the event comprised of bowling, the Reds game, golf, and there was swimming for the boys, as well as a little bit of corn-hole competition. What made the weekend a little more interesting and enjoyable was the personal conversations that took place. It was nice to see our family open up a little bit. It was a little more real…I mean, we always have fun, but this year was a reflection that life is not all fun and games. So The Whited News would like to applaud the family for being more open to personal discussions and conversations of real substance.

We also found out, as alluded to in the previous posting of TWN, that Lisa and Dan are expecting their first child in March 2007. How cool is that! We are very eager to meet little Easton Whited when he/she enters the world. This was apparently not the only surprise of the weekend...Alex Whited was "frankly" surprised to discover that Nan was still alive, and had no reservations in disclosing this to her.

The Reds game on Saturday was great despite being a little warm. It was a very close nail-biter that came down to the very last play of the game – a two-out, two-run infield single in the bottom of the ninth to give the Reds a 3-2 win over the Colorado Rockies

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I'll have to make a post later when I have more time about my time off last week, and 4-Sport Weekend, but for now I just had to post about this...

One thing that was really cool about this past weekend is that we found out from Lisa and Dan that they are having their first baby in March. The family is really excited and it was a big topic of discussion over 4-Sport Weekend. So I come to work yesterday morning after being off for a week and I open the following email from one of my co-workers: (By the way, this woman accurately predicted the sex of both of our children and the pregnancy of Carson and has "forcasted" many events for other co-workers....but I had never received an email similar to this from her)

marcus,
for a week and a half i have been seeing "pregnant" around you. did one of your relatives, a sister in law, just find out that they are pregnant? or possibly your wife?

just wondering........
cinda

This was pretty freaky and I about fell out of my chair at work when I read it. I'll post about last week/weekend very soon.

I have to tell you about a strange encounter last evening. I was out mowing and I look up and Kim is waving for me and pointing at something. I turn off the mower and hop off and she hollers "is that a fox?" I look up and here is this animal wandering around just off the edge of our yard, smelling around in the field. I start walking towards it and it does not seem the slightest bit phased by my approach. I kinda saunters off, heading towards the pond, mostly sniffing around in the field. I continue to get closer and closer until I'm about 15 feet away. I run into the house and grab the camera to get a picture of this creature. I'm thinking it is a fox. It acts disoriented and looked a little skinny to me, at one point just waking around in a short circle over and over. It wanders over to the pond...hops in....swims for 2-3 minutes and them climbs out...shakes off...lays down in the woods and starts grooming itself....Iwalk right over...take a couple of step in the woods...hold out the camera and take this picture.

Can anyone tell me what this creature is? A fox, right?

I’ve been slipping, huh? It’s just been hard finding time to sit down and write a new post. Here I go…

I’m in a good mood. My vacation starts today. I had taken all the stuff down from my office walls because they are going to paint my office while I am on vacation. It’s going to be a pale green color. That will be better than this boring light gray that I’ve been looking at for the last 8 years. I have spent my morning getting things ready to be off for a week so that I will not have to think about or deal with the Youth Services Bureau until July 17. Updating the work schedule, making appointments for the week that I return, etc. It’s a good feeling.

This will be the first time in awhile that we are really not going anywhere during my week off. We are getting a fence put in the backyard next week, so that Roscoe can be safely secured whenever we need to leave the house for awhile. Roscoe has been a pretty good dog so far. Of course he has chewed stuff up, trampled the gardens, pooped all over the place, dug up 50% of our flowerboxes, you know, dog stuff. We were trying to enjoy dinner on our patio last night and he would not stop jumping up on the table trying to eat our hot dogs and macaroni and cheese, so I put him in the garage so that we could eat in peace. Apparently he was not happy about this and demonstrated his displeasure by taking THREE gigantic dumps in the garage during a span of 20 minutes. He is still only a puppy, but damn those looked like adult human shits. I’m trying not to be too upset about it, since these are things to expect from a puppy. But it does piss me off. He has grown like a sombitch in 6 weeks. See picture below.



It’s been a tough Summer, to be honest with you. It’s tough on Kim. She don’t get too many breaks. Things you try to do for fun like go outside and play turn into stressful situations real quick….trying to manage the behavior of 2 small kids and a puppy outside is not easy – keeping Carse from playing in the dog crap, keeping Roscoe from constantly tackling Carse, keeping Carse from running out to the road, keeping Roscoe from doing somersaults in the flowerbeds, all while trying to play with Jackson to keep him engaged. I’ll tell you, it’s enough to drive you frickin nutso. A few minutes of it and I can’t wait to get the hell back inside.

So this is what I have to look forward to during my (relaxing, right?) vacation. I should be able to leave work by 3:30 or 4:00pm today so we can get this party started!