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last week i drove out to rich maxwell’s garage in shawnee. we rigged aluminum foil to trigger music and sounds using his marbles & my makey makey. once we put it together, we couldn’t believe how simple the concept was: the marble’s weight pushes two pieces of foil together (each piece of foil is connected to the makey makey), and we get audio! the next thing rich wants to do is trigger sounds & music from star wars!

it costs 25 cents for 8 shots on the sea devil game at papa keno’s, so you better make ‘em count. when one of those torpedoes actually hits a ship, you can hear the explosion & the screen goes red. i met some friends for pizza thursday night, and i didn’t see it until tanner said “what the heck is this?” i turned around from playing galaga & saw him looking at sea devil next to the whack-a-mole. i told him that it was an old analog game from 1970, something that was made before space invaders. the next day i went back with more quarters, and sank 4 ships.

i’m sure it didn’t happen this way– but when i see this picture from the years that jenny & i were volunteer youth leaders, the scene plays out like this:
it all started when someone said, “hey those concrete steps look like the ones that sylvester stallone ran up in Rocky!” then someone asked, “wasn’t that in philadelphia?” one thing led to another & before we knew it we were running up those steps wheezing, coughing & singing Gonna Fly Now.

even though spring is on the other end of the season cycle, a pillow has come to life on a podcast. dennis the pillow is the latest guest on everything is alive, a show where inanimate objects answer questions and tell stories. at the end of last week’s interview, dennis was asked if he could give some expert advice to people who have insomnia. he started lulling us all to sleep with a bedtime story about a magic horse, a twizzlers waterfall, and the aurora borealis. next week’s guest will be tara the bar of soap.

stumbled across this pic a few days ago, and for the life of me, i can’t remember where it was taken. it was originally posted on cousin jessica’s facebook page 3 years ago, but she could only confirm that it was somewhere in des moines. i DO know it was the same day that i purchased that latex horse head.

our niece, chelsea, sent a picture of her twins playing a xylophone a few days ago & said “i think they are ready to play vegetables!” so i drove to their house & we played the wheels on the bus, jingle bells, london bridge, and a bunch of other kid tunes. they eventually lost interest and grabbed the TV remote.

ok, well… there aren’t actually any messages, but you can bet your sweet bippy the following blog post topics will be showing up here in the next few days:
Bacon On A Stick
–we’ll gaze in wide wonder
Bedtime Story From Dennis The Pillow
–just go with it
Antioch Nazarene Teens ’89
–where did the time go?

…alicia, jenny, and christy sat on our front stoop with clover in their hair 11 years ago. i snapped a photo from the front door behind them. when facebook reminded jenny of the event, she re-posted it. ah memories.

when i tell a corny joke, the kids at homer’s are the first ones to say “dave, that’s a dad joke.” that’s ok. out of all the categories of jokes (practical, dirty, sick, lame) i’m comfortable telling dad jokes at this point in my life. here are a choice few that i discovered* just this morning:
what is an arm exercise you can do at a dairy farm?
cheese curls
what is a shoulder exercise you can do at a cutlery store?
fork lifts
what is a wrist exercise you can do at a candy factory?
peppermint twist
what are all these exercises worth?
diddly squat
*these jokes are courtesy of the new york times crossword

i don’t know if jenny & i were married when this picture was taken at beth & gary’s house– but when i look at it, i can hear jenny saying, “we didn’t get a picture of dave’s dad or my brother tim yet! hey you two– get over here!” looking at the 3 of them, i can tell it was the 1980′s, and she was still pretty bossy back then.