The REAL Josh Anderson

The boy must have seen the pride flowing through me as Leia garnered the lion's share of attention during the weekends ceremony. Not wanting to be out done, he decided to lay down the trump card and take his first steps.

Deuce never really seemed too keen on walking until this morning. He motored around wherever he needed on his hands and knees for months before even thinking of walking.

Knowing that out vacation to the beach may do even more damage to his poor, roughed up little knees, Renee and I began really pushing the walking subject with the little guy.

Dragging Joshua around the house dangling from our grip, he put up with our "lessons". Hardly interested, Deuce hung rather limp, not moving his feet very much until we finally released him back to his duties of drooling, screaming, and generally destroying things (hence the Godzilla nickname Leia and I dubbed him with).

For about two weeks, every time Deuce stood up on his own, we waited axiously and called for him to just take one step towards us. He was happy to comply, on his terms though. Plopping down on his hands and knees, he would scurry over with a massive grin.

This morning, going almost unnoticed, 1, 2, 3 steps. After alerting Renee to the big news happing right before our eyes, she screamed, Leia jumped and little Deucie clapped for himself after he dismounted. Over the next hour, stpes 4 through 50 occurred. Having realized the power of walking, nothing else was on his mind. Stumbling everywhere, he is determined to master this thing we call walking. That sand is gonna be hot in a couple of weeks buddy, so keep on practicing!

Daddy is proud of you.

I think the picture pretty much explains Proud Papa Moment #3.

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Parenting whirls you through all kinds of emotions as you watch your children experience new things. Pride was the big emotion this weekend. Sure, I have been proud of my little ones many times before, but seeing one of them do their thing in front of a sizeable crowd, without missing a beat, marched this memory up to #1 on Leia's list of proudest moments for Daddy.

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I am quite ashamed that I didn't build one of these for little Leia and Deuce... :(

Regardless, this is, by far, the best stroller ever!


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I don't normally care about, or watch, baseball. But if I am flipping through the channels and see that my boy, Larry "Chipper" Jones, is at the plate, I drop everything and watch.

So, congrats to Larry for reaching another milestone in his career. I just hope I don't have to see Chip-dog in another uniform like I did with Dale Murphy. That would be a bit too painful...

If only we got cool gadgets as quickly as the Chinese...


Sure, sure, you could buy a smartphone and load a NES emulator, but playing games on a phone that is really just a phone sucks big time. This little beauty has a handy little directional pad and A/B buttons.

Who knows what the ROMs cost though. Afterall, every game I would play on this, I already purchased for my Wii. If you could upload/sync/whatever my Wii's Virtual Console games to this phone... then, and only then, would we finally have gaming Nirvana!

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Forget Game 5 in the Eastern Conference Finals. Forget his posterization of Rasheed. This tops it all.

Any guy who gives his son a middle name of Maximus is AWESOME! Sure, it might put a little pressure on the little guy to be studly, but I am sure his genes will help him along the way.

Welcome to wonderful Akron, Ohio Bryce Maximus James...

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I learned a lot from this guy. Sadly there haven't been many other shows that have introduced children to science like Mr. Wizard. Bill Nye came close and Beakman's World tried, but the man in the rat suit tended to take away from the show's credibility. I just hope someone comes along with a show that my kids can watch that will teach them as much as Mr. Herbert did me. If not, I guess there is always DVD...

Here is the full article from the Seattle Post: TV's 'Mr. Wizard' Don Herbert dies at 89

Call me crazy, but this is pretty exciting! First a starting QB transfers from Wake Forest, and now a possible ND transfer?! Granted, I played with guys that transferred from "bigger" schools who turned out to be pretty lame, but some were bonafied studs. Let's hope guys like this start to choose UC right out of high school instead of coming late. But hey, beggers can't be choosers!!!

From Enquirer.com: The University of Cincinnati is among the schools Notre Dame quarterback Zach Frazer is considering after receiving his release from the Fighting Irish.

"I'm looking to see what's out there," Frazer said Monday. "Cincinnati is one I'm considering."

Frazer would not say how many other schools he's considering, nor would he name any of them.


ESPN.com reported that Rutgers, Connecticut, Miami, Louisville and East Carolina are "among the schools with mutual interest."

Frazer, a 6-foot-4, 226-pound sophomore from Mechanicsburg, Pa., asked for permission to contact other schools about a possible transfer after Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis announced last week that he would not be among the three quarterbacks who would compete to succeed Brady Quinn as starting quarterback for the Irish.

But Frazer said that's not the only reason he has decided to look at other schools.

"There was more than just that," he said. "I'm not really talking about that."

Frazer was considered a blue-chip recruit coming out of high school. As a junior, he completed 285 of 440 passes for a Pennsylvania state-record 3,674 yards and 27 touchdowns.

USA Today ranked him No. 12 on its list of the top 100 prep players in his senior year.

Frazer's father, David, told the Chicago Sun-Times that Zach has not completely ruled out staying at Notre Dame. If he leaves, Frazer will have to sit out one year and will then have three years of eligibility remaining.

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From Digg.com "The film is about two friends who have managed to trudge into their 30s with a satisfying lack of accomplishment. But a 15-year high school reunion and dire rent problems spark the novel moneymaking idea of pulling together an amateur porn enterprise. “It’s … dirty, with nudity,” says Smith. “But funny nudity, not gratuitous nudity.”"Count me in!!!



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I love this idea! I can't imagine that I would end up being good enough to qualify for our country's Virtual World Cup team, but this is my only real hope at being any "good" at soccer. Maybe I should go pick up the latest version of FIFA again and try to brush up a little. Afterall, it is only 3 years away... :)

Over the past year or so, I have really fallen in love with soccer. Just like my infatuation with hockey (starting about 15 years ago and ending with the NHLPA's somewhat recent strike), I think it all stemmed from a video game. In much the same manner, I found a team that I liked (Chelsea), along with a budding star (Drogba), and played the crap out of FIFA '07.

Soon after I became half-way decent at FIFA (A.K.A. understanding the tactics of the game a little), I started religiously recording games on the Fox Soccer Channel. Watching these games has become a bit of a weekend morning ritual for myself and the kids whenever Renee is not home. The best part? Leia knows who Drogba is.

Astoundingly enough, soccer has offically become my second favorite sport to watch on TV (Naturally football is #1. And no, I am not going to play that stupid football=soccer game. Soccer is soccer. Football is football). I mean, seriously, baseball is horrendously boring, basketball is only good during the playoffs or big-time college games, hockey is just annoying after the strike, and the rest (golf, bowling, etc.) can be quite mind-numbing most of the time. Some, including my former self, have said that soccer is boring, but once I started to understand how the game is really played along with how amazingly talented those guys are, it became increasingly intriguing. This new fascination makes every posession and each delicately placed pass very enjoyable to watch for me. Call me crazy, but I love it!!!

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