I finally decided to bite the bullet and update my Wordpress again.  They have already hit 2.8.3 so I figured it might be time.  I had a hell of a time moving from 2.7.whatever to 2.8.  My blog didn’t work for weeks and if it wouldn’t have been for importing to facebook I would have lost my posts since moving to wordpress (even though I exported my posts and thought I backed up before updating)

I was so incredibly nervous I had butterflys and sweaty palms. This time I pulled out all the stops.  I exported my blog, and I backed it up 3 different ways.  Thankfully it appears everything is in working order. At least, on the dashboard side of things.  Now to see how everything else is looking.

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When Michael Jackson died about a week and a half ago I wasn’t devastated, I was shocked and it seemed a little unreal but other than that it was life as normal.  There were no tears shed I called Big Daddy in disbelief and said “you will not believe who died today”. Like most people my age and older I grew up listening to Michael Jackson’s songs.  Some couldn’t keep you from dancing and some moved you more emotionally then physically.  One of my all time favorite songs though was “Human Nature”.

I hadn’t planned on watching the memorial service, I didn’t even know that it was on until an hour into it but I sat down and watched it and the little girl in me cried.  I didn’t cry for the Michael Jackson that he had been in recent years the one who might or might not have done some pretty horrible and weird things but the Michael Jackson of my childhood.  The guy who made amazing music and inspired people to wear one glove and moonwalk everywhere.

It didn’t take me long to recognize the song when John Mayer took the stage and his rendition was beautiful.  The way he made his guitar ‘talk’ was reminiscent of Peter Frampton.  The other performers were wonderful but this one brought me to tears.

John Mayer – Human Nature – Michael Jackson Tribute (July 7 2009) L.A.

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Today, instead of celebrating the first birthday of beautiful Katarina, we mourned the one year anniversary of her death. At times it still seems unreal and it always seems unfair. It is amazing how one little girl, who we only got to meet through the kicks in her mommy’s tummy, has effected our lives. She no doubt would have been a spitfire like her older sisters and the character that she was named after. It saddens me that we never got to hold her, or shower her with our love. I know that she is being showered with love where she is at and that she will never know pain, sadness, or hunger. She is in a perfect place and I look forward to the day that I will get to see her.

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I don’t know how this guy figured out he could do this, or why he took the time to get so good at it but who cares when you get to watch a guy play “Dueling Banjos” by making farting sounds with his hands. Big Daddy was playing around on the computer and he found this and I just had to share it with everyone.

Manualist Plays Dueling Banjos – Watch more Funny Videos

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I don’t know if I’m late to the game but I saw this web site in Parents Magazine. StumbleUpon.com It is called a discovery engine instead of search engine, like yahoo, google, etc. I signed up and am going to try it out, so far I have seen a neat recipe site (I should have bookmarked it now that I think about it) and a history site. If you join look me up, melgriffin03

This is from their web site

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