U2 3D

There comes a time in ones life where something happens that can change the course of history. Marriage, Having a Baby, Graduating with a RN/BSN, and seeing U2 in concert. What would make it better is seeing U2 in IMAX 3D...oh wait... I did. I just saw U2 3D and it was like seeing a concert without having to pay $80. It was absolutely amazing how they, the producers of the movie, didn't overwhelm you with 3d technology but gave it just enough to actually want to see if you could reach out and touch The Edge. This wasn't your typical Captain Eo. There was a set list of 14 songs, all done in South America where stadiums seemed like they had trampolines built into the floor (My People). Even the IMAX theater couldn't help to clap after every song as if they were there. The producers of the film, National Geographic and 3ality, some how captured all, and I mean all of the energy at each concert (I say each concert because the movie was a compilation of South American shows they seamlessly put together). What made the night even better was to see Holly enjoy the show as much as I did. She had never seen U2 in any concert format but she was singing along with everyone in the movie and the theater. Holly also loved how Bono tailored the concert to our South American brothas and sistas adding Spanish lines to Beautiful Day instead of talking about China. Of course it wouldn't have come off it wasn't for Bono. For U2 fans, it is known that Bono will deliver a great performance, but, to see it in 3D, 60 Feet tall; it's a whole new realm of energy. Bono should win an Oscar...j/k...no really though...j/k...no really.

My advice to you is see it before it is gone no matter how far away an IMAX is. Get a whole bunch of people together and make a road trip out of it.

My only problem with the movie is they didn't do City of Blinding Lights but they made up with Miss Sarajevo. Go and enjoy my friends.

Changed and Saved,
Mike

I Am Bored...

I am in class right now and some guy from the Library of CBU is talking to us about stuff I already know...(sigh)...however, I love this semester because it is going to be easy and with baby Audrey Lane Rodriguez coming (ARod) it helps with scheduling and hanging out with the little bugger. Oh man I can't wait. Seriously it is anytime now. Holly has been contracting for the last week and a half. Nothing consistent except for her contracting. I'll just keep waiting

Why I Will Always Have A Paying Job As A Nurse

More babies — 4,268,326 — were born in 1961 than during any other year in U.S. history. This was the peak of the post-WWII "baby boom.

I also read that this year the first Baby Boomers will turn 65. They all need care and I'm going to give it to them. That is a ton of people.

Funny Story...

I know that what you are about to read is something you would read in an email from your relative that just learned about email and is sending forwards as if it is going out of style, BUT....this is freakn' funny. You have to picture everything as you read.

Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana .he
performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an
E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 on
the FM dial in Ft. Wayne , Indiana , which was sponsoring a worst job
experience contest. Needless to say, she won.

Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a
few technicalities of my job. As you know, my office lies at the bottom
of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wet suit. This time of
year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater.
This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature.
It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped
to the air hose. Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it
several times with no complaints. What I do, when I get to the bottom
and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet
suit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a
Jacuzzi.


Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to
itch.
So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. Within a few
seconds my butt started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but
the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened. The hot
water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now,
since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to
it However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate. When I scratched
what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into
the crack of my butt.


I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His
instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other
divers, were all laughing hysterically.

Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make three
agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes
before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression.

When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass
helmet.


As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter
running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it
on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out,
but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut.

Toxicity

Well my wife has done it now...she has slowly and painfully but shirley (he he) changed me over to the dark side. She has made me concerned with the products I'm using...aaaaahhhhhh! No really, it is a great thing. I have never been one to use a ton of man made stuff on my body except for soap and shampoo and toothpaste and contact solution and shave gel and mouth wash and acne stuff and...well you get the point. If you have a brain and can critically think straight; does it really make sense to put man made stuff on your person? Does it? Out of the thousands upon thousands of ingredients that are used everyday for our care products do you actually think they check every single reaction and co-reaction of these products. No, they don't have the money or man power to check them. But this website that a friend of mine found is a great site to see which products you are using are safe, moderate, or dangerous.

There are two ratings that the website gives. One tells you how dangerous the product is. The second tells you what percentage of the ingredients used in the product have been tested for carcinogenic effects. If you click on this link you can get an idea of a product that I use in my hair: Garnier Fructis Hair Stuff. It is real eye opener and to me, it just makes sense to switch to something that is healthier.

Skin Deep is the name of the Website

Another Voting Poll

Here is yet another useless poll for you to have fun with. Try to guess when Sydney/Maya/Claira will be born. If you are right...well...you will get a big pat on the back from me...that is worth more than gold!
Happy Voting!!!

I forgot to mention. Feb. 22 is the actual Ultrasound date from our first Ultrasound. They say this is the most accurate. However, If Holly and I go off of our calculations that I learned from my Nursing Schooling, it puts the due date around Feb. 3-6 (it's a rough guestamate)...hope that throws a wrench into your guess.

Let's Talk About It...

Here is yet another comic from a blog that I subscribe to. This one, like the last blog about this artist drew my attention. I must profess that I am not a student of church history (All though I would love to be. Rabbi Bill tells me I will be very disappointed). Here are some of the questions that come to mind and maybe we could start a discussion about my questions or some that might be conjured up by this comic.

Who was apart of the canonization of the Bible?
Why do we have the books that we do?
Why are the books that we (Christians) have considered infallible?
Why do we as Christians consider the Bible and not the Apocrypha as practicing Catholics do?
Why is this even a discussion to include the Gospel of Thomas? What TRUTHS does this book have to offer?

Other questions about myself and this subject...

Does this scare me to think that other Gospels got it right also?
What is the real reason that this has caught my attention?

What do you all think? Does this provoke anything in you that just doesn't seem to make sense?
Let me know what you think...

Trash Talk

I love to trash talk! I love it because when I win (which is most of the time) I get to rub it in...a lot...no no you don't get it... A LOT!!! But every now in a blue moon I don't win or one of my teams doesn't win a championship that they should or what have you. That has been the story of my 2007 and the beginning of my 2008 year.

Here are the teams that I love:
Lakers - Can't buy a championship lately. Especially with cry baby Kobe
New York Yankees - CAN buy a championship caliber team yet can't produce one for the life of them, but they will continue to buy and buy...
Ohio State Buckeyes - Ready for this... 2007 BCS Championship LOST; 2007 Final Four Championship LOST (to the same college for football); 2007 NCAA D1 Mens Soccer Championship LOST; 2008 BCS Championship LOST (to another SEC Team)

So...as you can see, I haven't been able to trash talk very much and I have been receiving a TON of it. But this is what I have on the horizon:

My New England Patriots - Going to go undefeated
Yankees in 08
Oh and me and the boys did happen to dominate the girls this year in the New Years Eve Gauntlet...we are now 4-0 (that means we have won 4 years in a row. In your collective faces!!!)

More than my teams and trash talk, I love when people trash talk back to me that don't normally trash talk. That lets me know that they are comfortable with me and I think it's funny. It's funny because those that don't normally trash talk are the wives of my friends and they stumble over how to do it. I think it's cute and endearing.

Till next time folks...