The Stair Master - to infinity and beyond!

At the end of the day, when you've put in a full day of work for an ungrateful employer, with a constant threat of losing your job in the current economy, just remember... you can walk up stairs. Virg is just now experiencing this wondrous adventure. Much like Neil Armstrong, Virg is looking to the heavens and going to a place that was once completely inaccessible. And while it was one small step for Neil, Virg has 11 stairs. Each stair is almost half his size. Daddy would need at least a full case of Pabst waiting at the top to venture on a trek like that. As you can see, I gave up a little less than halfway up the stairs. Virg came back to report there was not even a single can of Pabst.

I hope we don't have a run in with hostel alien life forms.

Happy Birthday Virg!

Well, today Virg turned the big '0' '1'. And he was sooooo happy... for the most part. At least he was happy after everyone stopped singing. Next year we'll have to get a professional choir to sing for Virg. We started singing, and Virg had BIG smile on his face. He was thinking: "this is so nice, and they are probably just warming up and getting into the correct pitch." But then he realized we were not warming up, we were actually going to continue singing our sad and scary attempt at Happy Birthday. That's when Virg turned that smile upside down. So we stopped singing and gave him cake. The sugar rush helped take the edge off.

Please stop trying to sing a happy song to me!