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Hey all…

I was reading my latest Entertainment Weekly magazine (#1006, August 15, 2008)  and came across this interesting Web Obsession blurb on p.55. It pointed me to the web to find four new YouTube videos of the Muppets. And, being a long-time Muppets fan, I had to go check it out!

I’ll only post one as an object in this post (at the bottom), but will provide links to all four videos here:

• Habanera - Starring Beaker and the Swedish Chef (with a brief Animal cameo - La la la LA!)
• Classical Chicken - starring Gonzo the Great with Camilla and his Poultry Singers
• Meh - with Statler and Waldorf pondering the nature of the Internet
• and my favorite - Ode to Joy - with Beaker doing a masterful job with multiple parts of the song.

If you’re a Muppets fan (and who isn’t?) be sure to check them all out…

After the break, you can see the Ode to Joy video here:
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Hey all…

Just want to apologize for the lack of regular posts the last couple of weeks… I was gone on my trip, came home, and then my wife and daughters (and sister and her little boy) went to Grand Tetons in Wyoming for Spring Break and my Dad came to visit. I’m not complaining about any of that. The girls had quite a trip to WY and it was nice to get a chance to catch up with my Dad (and Uncle who lives nearby and came to visit also). We played a lot of pool and drank a lot (probably too much) of beer.

When my wife and daughters returned, my youngest had come down with a nasty cough. She’d been fighting a cough and runny nose earlier in March too, but we’d thought she was over that. Obviously not. She’s been home with me for the last few days, and today she’s home with me again. We don’t want her spreading this lovely crud to others any more than she has to.

However… At 3 years old, she’s a little more demanding of my time than certain other aspects of my life… So I’ve had little time to focus on work (I work from home, so she’s a wee bit of a distraction) and even less time to focus on my blogging…

We’re hopeful that she will continue to improve (last night was better than the night before, and so on) and eventually she can once again return to the petri dish that is preschool. But we’re taking it a day at a time.

Thanks for your patience… I hope to get reviews up of Curse of the Golden Flower and Nancy Drew as soon as I have a chance to write them up!

–Fitz