Crazy Week

Wow what a week. Where do I begin? How about at the beginning? Sounds good.
Last week was my brother and my first trial. It was a three day breach of contract action concerning a lady (our client) who tried to purchase a manufactured home. Long story short, the guy who owned the dealership jerked her around a bit and then breached the contract.
Anyways, after working at the office all weekend on the preparation, #4 and I packed it in at around ten and were going to meet back there at 6:30 the next morning. So the next morning as I am driving to the office at 6:30, I get a call from #4 to tell me that we had burglarized and our laptops had been stolen. Great start to our first trial!!!
Anyways, the next few days were a blur and when we surfaced on Wednesday, we had won our first trial.
The next few days were spent getting back to the daily grind and getting past the loss of our computers. It is much more of a hastle than you would think.
So then on Friday I met with a few people who helped me our with some great info on a separate case, which was great.
Saturday morning was spent getting back into the workout routine. Went swimming (quick 2500) and then went for an easy ride around Verdi and then up Geiger Grade. I am guestimating that it was about 60-70 miles.
And to top it off I made it home in time to see the jayhawks handle Texas A&M. No bad.
Currently I am on a bench outside of a dressing room typing this on the trustee iPhone while I wait for #13 to try on a few maternity outfits. Then it is on to a movie - hopefully "Semi Pro."
No matter what happens next week, it will most likely seem boring in comparison.

Baby moving

So the little critter is moving around inside #13. It is pretty crazy to feel and makes me a tad nervous that the little one will pull an "Alien" and just POP out on her own.


P.S. This is NOT #13 or our baby. But it is crazy how much they move.

Got change for a hundred?

Video clip of the day!
Had to dig deep into my repertoire for this one, but Chris Rock's greatest performance may have been his first....
Enjoy....

Betcha Smile....

Some things just make you smile. This actually makes me laugh out loud.

Finding Perspective

Everyone has a person in their life, that for some unknown reason, at some random time, is inexplicably faced with a challenge that forever changes them - and all those around that person who open themselves up. That person is my mother-in-law, who was stricken with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease almost thirty (30) months ago. The doctors told her that she would have only 18 months, but we are still enjoying her today (she is in Reno visiting #13 and I).

Anyways, the following video was sent to me from Carol's son. It gives an insight into the inspiration that Carol has given to her me and everyone else who is privileged to know her.


http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=ithct48cqw

The Tour of California Kicks Off

The 3rd running of the Tour of California kicked off yesterday in Palo Alto. I was not able to watch because we weren't getting our Versus feed. But on the tour website I was able to follow along on the Adobe Tourtracker. Fabian Cancellara of team CSC cruised to the prologue victory, winning by almost 5 seconds over Velodrome monster Bradley Wiggins of Team High Road (formely T-Mobile).

Reno resident Bobby Julich (also of CSC) sits 15 seconds off the leader in 28th place. Reno resident and long-ago swimming buddy Alex Candelario (Kelly Benefits - Medifast) sits in 112th; 31 seconds off the leader.

Today, the tour travels from San Francisco to Santa Rosa.

The first addition

The mosquito bite looking thing on #13's belly will the first addition
to our family. No name picked out yet but we did decide to have a
girl!!!