The Fry Side

• "E-S-I, YES." #
• @jzeller Yeah, that's how the wee one spelled 'yes' this evening. in reply to jzeller #
• Trying to rethink "Be Kind, Rewind". What about "He who discharges it recharges it"? Modern sentiment, and play on a fart joke. #
• Can't I just be a recluse living in a cabin in the woods with high speed internet? #
• I think I just said "Das ist no bueno" to myself. #
• "Stacy's Mom", I can still dig. #
• When a tall gay man walks up to you and offers you a beer, you don't turn that down. #
• I want to tell off my neighbors, but everything I can think of sounds too nice. #
• @jzeller Yup, this time for my lawn. I hate they probably think I mowed just because they bitched. in reply to jzeller #
• @jzeller I'm just looking at real estate listings and drinking heavily. in reply to jzeller #

• Is self-heralding a thing? I think my daughter does it… #
• How to cook: add more butter. #
• The government agency that operates in secret, carrying out missions in terrifying and fabulous ways: The C. I. Heeeeey! #
• Enter to win an Aurora Ipsilon Fontain Pen from @OfficeSupplyGee http://t.co/NS4ml1Vz #giveaway #
• Facebook promotes lies. #
• The world needs to stop gasping on dark and stormy nights. #
• "Vagazzled." #
• A very funny joke: "What about a fox jumped over the lamp?" "Why did the fox jump over the lamp?" "Because he was hungry! HAHA!" #
• May the 4th be with you! #StarWarsDay #
• My daughter seems to talk to me regardless of knowing where I am. It's odd watching her leave the room to find me. #
• Happy Margarita Day, Everybody! #
• I should work nights so when I talk to myself I don't have to fake hold a phone. #
• Full Batman TAS episodes on http://t.co/KUU3nCpL. Watch them. It's one show from my childhood that stands the test of time. #
• Oh, and Alfred is the greatest deadpan character that was ever created ever. Ever. #
• Minneapolis police need more dirigibles. #

(Via Bad Astronomy.)

This video made me think of us. We’re the only ones here. And we’ve only recently become capable of seeing planets dance with their moons. We strapped cameras to rockets and flung them to the heavens.

We aimed for these specks of light that have traveled among the stars our entire existence. We’ve watched and traced and slowly figured out how to anticipate them. And in the process, we’ve found that we’re one of them. They’re our family.

Now we’ve taken so many pictures that we can watch them move, watch them dance. They’re out there in the depths of cold beyond cold, held onto by the invisible marionette strings of our single, lonely star.

They always would be moving, even without us watching. But we get to, in all the glory of a simple flickering video, like watching experiments with film at the end of the 19th Century. Knowing that this has gone on for time beyond comprehension, yet we finally are seeing it.

Since we are who we are, we will keep looking. Not only do we get to watch our ancient family dance here, but we search on to see how many other dancers there are in the skies.

And since we are who we are, we will never stop. We can’t. Give an animal some thumbs and plenty of time and its progeny will crack rocks into axes and build fires and eventually run around strapping cameras to rockets.

Maybe those animals would start seeing the faintest traces of those marionette strings pulling on our dancers spinning around our single, lonely star.

The planets would still be out there without us. The tree would definitely fall in the woods and vibrate the air. Those planets would be moving with their moons, nameless and silent. But we are the ones who get to see them dance.

• "I wanna have Dog Breath" in a sing-song voice. #
• "No! 2 + 2 makes 41 plus the road! It's true Dad, it really is true." #
• My brows have been furled too much today. I think my head hurts because of doing that. #
• There's a big rabbit in my yard that my cat needs to kill. Right. Now. #
• Be polite when passing snacks and always say, "Cracker, please!" #
• Microsoft Exchange This! #
• @JollyAndy Oh, it's a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big Tylenol. in reply to JollyAndy #
• "Yeah, I don't want you to squeak like a dolphin 'cause it sounds like a bird." #
• I need to know more phrases in German to yell at my computers. #
• Lousy power of triangles! #
• Holding the cousin. http://t.co/B6Wr0iLA #
• @TheTweetOfGod Just like communism! in reply to TheTweetOfGod #

More pictures, from the current month even!

From April 8th.

Happy Easter! Have a scimitar.

Good plan on the Easter Bunny’s part. Thanks dude.

And a Happy Easter from Tyrone Biggums, Esq.

Chocolate = win. Always.

So’s that smile.

Time to rock some cool shades from the goodie basket.

Lookin’ good.

But some people are far too cool for the room.

The kids were on fire with the expressions that morning. Here’s Emily posing for her Senior Portrait.

Yup, more leg than Dad would approve of there, at any age.

Actually, I could see him doing this for a portrait too.

While the lad got up rather early and rampaged the house, we did get some shots of the Lass hunting eggs.

Then later that day, on to Grandma’s for lunch and more fun.

I don’t remember what she’s looking at, but she’s definitely a doll.

Cousins. I’m still amazed how alike they look.

Auntie with the brand new baby cousin.

Now counting, but not quite all there.

Oh the expressions.

And the hunt continues…

And the look I get when taking pictures of her.

Or saying something to the kids.

Or saying anything at all.

Or breathing.

I do love her so!

• "I smell pictures!" #
• @MPRweather I got up to dime size hail in Andover. #
• Nothing like tinkering to get the juices flowing. #
• When I refer to "your phone", my hand gesture is to move my thumb up and down. Well played, Apple. #
• You should always run before you get in trouble, not after. #
• @leannrose No. It's akin to farting while walking down the sidewalk. You didn't fart ON them 5 steps back, they walked into it incidentally. in reply to leannrose #
• I got more lime on me than my burrito. I am officially delicious. #
• Cousin left during a nap. http://t.co/4OCtOCxv #

Once again, long overdue. Beyond a simple blog post, here’s a big reason anyone comes here.

However, now that Instagram is out for Android, M and I are using it. Way easier to share pictures. I tag mine into Twitter, M goes to Facebook. Or you can check out our feeds directly on your phone. It’s a free app. If you want our account names, just ask directly.

From February 12th.

I turned 29. And this is my family.

From March 12th.

The almost birthday girl. Posing. Kinda cute. Striped leggings.

Then she turned four.

4.

No way it’s been that long. She was just a wee thing barely walking, last I checked. And sporting a Maggie Simpson hairdo.

From March 17th, 2012.

Hair as long as can be. Smile that overshadows Helen of Troy.

And talks. Constantly.

I’d be annoyed, but I think it’s awesome.

These two pictures amuse me. She’s just digging on her new iPad-like toy called a Leap Pad.

Woah, wait a second! That has a screen!?

Instant big brother.

You should push that. And that. Here let me do this. This is how it works. And go here.

It’s okay. She’s stoked to have a birthday. We do have to sport the Irish Green bows.

And cake!

She’d been asking for Hello Kitty for a couple of months at least by this point.

Out they go. She used to need help…

That’s a four-year-old Emily Rose.

(sigh)

She’s my little girl and she’s perfect. I love how she’s growing up. I love every day being more and more and more. She can do so much, understand so much. The world keeps opening up so big and I love watching her mind decipher it all.

It’s great.

The other day, she started saying 3 correctly. Before that, it was One, Two, Free, Four, Five. I’d been correcting her occasionally, knowing she’d get it eventually. And suddenly, she has. She can’t say it wrong anymore. One, Two, Three, Four, Five. Exactly perfect.

But now I miss the Free. She’ll never be Free again. She’s Four now.

Every moment is a whole world that never comes back. We mortals should cherish them more.

At least I get to remember her being Free, no matter how old she gets.

[And at least she still skips Thirteen when counting. Here's hoping that sticks.]

• Spring girl in a Spring world. http://t.co/CyoPld2P #
• The kids wanted to start the day with Tower of Power. I'm raisin' 'em right! #
• I'm becoming Minnesotan… "You better Wisconrepent for your Wisconsins!" #
• "THAT'S IT! I'M HAVING A FIT!!!" "It's not funny! Do you know what I'm saying!? I'm having a fit!" #
• Did you just call me "Bedazzled"? #
• @jzeller but it looks like it feasts on your data something fierce… in reply to jzeller #
• @jzeller It looks like it checks out your items and automatically returns ads for buying what you put on there. in reply to jzeller #
• @jzeller I thought it auto-recommends places to buy what you put in. It's a feature, not tacked on style. Very clever. in reply to jzeller #
• @jzeller Yeah, that's definitely a personal choice. I'm not a fan of being data-mined. in reply to jzeller #
• The beginning of a mint is far superior to the end of a mint. #
• Disconcerting: when the tow truck has its check engine light on. #
• Tinkerin' #
• Blue skies, smilin' at me… http://t.co/fxZ6iod3 #
• @doctorstine @mfryer Dr S, you're right. M, you're on! in reply to doctorstine #

• Every time I send a company-wide message with a typo, I die a little inside. "Haste makes waist" holds true, I guess. #
• Play the F in G http://t.co/bhrljbYe #
• Finished playing cards. http://t.co/rm7HRr9T #
• Woohoo! I got Chrome working for me again. Sorry Firefox, you're just not cutting it, especially your Evernote web clipper. #
• My next office will be at the top of a set of stairs and behind a locked door. Password to get in? Hum the melody. #
• I. Need. Steak. #
• She does actually love me, I swear! http://t.co/8bxhkjiA #
• This week's #nbccommunity was the greatest thing ever documented. If you didn't watch, you are a lesser being worthy of derision. #
• I got Instagram on my Android before I got an OS update. Still waiting on the OS update. Yeah. #
• @doctorstine I completely concur with that. Yet to find winning asada out here. in reply to doctorstine #
• Minneapolis http://t.co/9nRrdrpJ #
• I am a Muppet of a Man. #

• @leannrose I've never been more proud to be your big brother! RT "Someone should open an ice cream shop called Legend Dairy." in reply to leannrose #
• I think my kids are officially conspiring against me. If I go into Twitter silence, there's been a Fryer coup d'état. Best to just flee. #
• If being a writer involves writing puns using the Dairy Queen menu, I want in. #
• Sonorous Synonymity. #
• "We need to go to Fun Fest Park. It's very far away. In Mexicota!" #
• Time to pwn Thursday night! #BigCHANGTheory8pmNBC is the way to go! #TeamAbed  #TeamTroy #
• Enter to win a pair of limited edition LEGO Moleskine Notebooks #OfficeSupplyGeek @LEGO_Group http://t.co/0ZAJcETo #
• We need a catchy phrase for recharging akin to "Be Kind, Rewind." "Don't be a bitch, recharging's a cinch!" Only, you know, better. #
• Ever get into bed and realize you left your book across the room? Yeah, I try to use the Force too. #