I recently read that the airspace over the US has never been as secure as it is right now. It’s this fact that has the folks at the North Pole on their toes making sure all flight plans are in order.

The smart folks at NORAD have set up a fancy site so you can follow Santa’s flight around the country on Christmas Eve.

Let’s just hope NORAD has upgraded their computers from this giant brick that was delievered in 1956 by IBM. It contained the first harddrive, storing a whopping 5mb of memory, in it’s one ton refrigerator-size case.

Merry Christmas everyone!

The R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl kicks off tonight at 7pm, from the Superdome in N’awlins. You can watch the Troy Trojans and the Owls of Rice battle it out on ESPN2.

This is Troy’s second bowl game in two years. It’s taken a while, but this is how you build a strong team. We’ll get there!

I guess we Yule Dog Partied too hard!

We’re back at Camp Cullen (formerly known as Dad’s office) finishing the crumbs from this year’s Menasha Yule Dog Party.

math?

We’re fully upgraded and fully filtered! That’s the good news. The bad news is that I have added a new ’security’ feature to the comments section. And unfortunately, it involves math.

I cannot begin to tell you how much it pains me to do this. But it really seemed to be the simplest way to fix the problem. I know. I know. Adding a problem to fix a problem, just doesn’t add up. And forcing math on visitors really is the antithesis of all that our little corner of the web has been built on…
But now when you comment, if you would be so kind as to add the two little numbers it asks, the site will process your comment. This solution does use a bit of php and javascript, so if it gives you any trouble please let me know and I’ll fix it.

Unless the trouble you’re having is solving the math problem, then I’m afraid I’m can’t be of much help.
Don’t blame me. Blame the spammers.

Remember kids, spam forces you to do math.

See, spam is evil!!!!

We’re making site adjustments one more time, tonight. So the site will be up and down starting at 9:30 pm CST.

We had 830 comments submitted within two hours. So the spammers haven’t given up. They may have won the first battle, but we’ll win the war!

I had to ’select all’ and delete the comments. I just didn’t have the time to scour the list for any legit comments. So if you had posted a comment in the past 48 hours, we thank you for stopping by and checking in and please do so again real soon, but I had to delete your comment.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

That’s how tall our Christmas tree is this year.

Which is exactly 49″ taller than our 28-inch, 18-pound 9.5-ounce Cullen. Who, as you can see, enjoys stretching out his full 28-inches, to get into whatever he can. No present is safe!

Ok… in all honesty, the present is probably safe… it’s the paper and ribbon that aren’t safe. He does enjoy playing with the ribbon!

Since there are those who have nothing better to do than flood little family blogs like ours with hundreds of spam comments per hour, I will have to take BryantsofBham down tonight and upgrade my filters.

I’ll start sometime after 11pm CST. on 12/11 and will (hopefully) be back up and running a few hours later.
Oh yeah, if any of you are looking for an online poker site, a good deal on viagra or care to send your bank account numbers to some folks willing to share $21 million with you, just let me know. We’ve had plenty of recommendations the past few days. Stupid spammers.

for the latest Bryant edition (or addition) to grow into a size three diaper (and yes, he’s still a baby not an actual diaper). But the bigger size is a good thing. His new diet of fruits and veggies (peaches seem to be the trigger) has him working hard to make sure none of the extra space is wasted in his new drawers.

He’ll also pull on his bouncy-seat toys until he’s sitting upright, which is fun until he wobbles and falls to the side.

And then there are his two bottom teeth…

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