Welcome 2007

Well a new year is here.. Hopefully it will be a good one.

New Year's Eve was fun we went over Kyle's friends, Bob & Sue's, for dinner and games. We played TABOO, which was a lot of fun! Food was delicious and the games were fun. We arrived home around 1am. A truly late night for us, considering we usually are in bed and a sleep around 10pm nightly. New Year's day brought rain. We had a productive day cleaning up and putting away most of the Christmas decorations. We kept a few of the snowman decorations out b/c we typically leave them out all winter. Although it doesn't feel like winter lately as the temperature is close to 60 lately. That is very atypical for New England, but we love it! We never did get to the movies on New Years day as planned.

I've had the last 5 days off and boy have they flown. I slept a lot and got some important stuff done such as an oil change and some organizing around the condo. Back to work tomorrow for my 2 day work week. Gotta love my cushy federal job!

As many of you know my friend Tami from California (not to be confused with Tammy from Seattle) has a blog that I visit regularly . She usually posts some pretty interesting and fun quizzes. Anyway, her most recent post contained a quiz on rating how nerdy you are! In college, I used to call her Nerdine and she called me Dorkaroo. Anyway, I'm posting the same quiz that I stole from Tami's blog just for fun. The major consensus on the quiz is that it isn't very accurate but it is still fun. I also posted the lyrics to a really funny song about nerds by weird Al (more on that below). Have any of you heard it yet?

http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nq.php?im


Okay, I had to post the lyrics to this hysterical/cheesy song. I am not a weird Al fan but I get a real kick out of this song and it kind of ties into the quiz above. I saw this song several weeks ago on The MTV Music Awards ( I think) and had no idea that weird Al was the singer. You kind of have to actually hear the song to get the real humor in it. This video might be worth the $2.00 to buy on ITUNES.

Weird Al Yankovic

White & Nerdy

They see me mowin' my front lawn
I know they're all thinkin' I'm so
White and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
Can't you see I'm white and nerdy
Look at me I'm white and nerdy
I wanna roll with the gangstas
But so far they all think I'm too
White and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
I'm just too white and nerdy
Really, really white and nerdy
First in my class here at MIT
Got skills, I'm a champion at D&D
M.C. Escher, that's my favorite M.C.
Keep your 40, I'll just have an Earl Grey tea
My rims never spin, to the contrary
You'll find that they're quite stationary
All of my action figures are cherry
Stephen Hawking's in my library
My MySpace page is all totally pimped out
Got people beggin' for my top eight spaces
Yo, I know pi to a thousand places
Ain't got no grills but I still wear braces
I order all of my sandwiches with mayonnaise
I'm a wiz at Minesweeper, I could play for days
Once you've see my sweet moves, you're gonna stay amazed
My fingers movin' so fast I'll set the place ablaze
There's no killer app I haven't run (run)
At Pascal, well I'm number one (one)
Do vector calculus just for fun
I ain't got a gat, but I got a soldering gun (what?)
Happy Days is my favorite theme song
I could sure kick your butt in a game of ping pong
I'll ace any trivia quiz you bring on
I'm fluent in JavaScript as well as Klingon
Here's the part I sing on...
You see me roll on my Segway
I know in my heart they think I'm
White and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
Can't you see I'm white and nerdy
Look at me I'm white and nerdy
I'd like to roll with the gangstas
Although it's apparent I'm too
White and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
I'm just too white and nerdy
How'd I get so white and nerdy
I been browsin', inspectin' X-Men comics
You know I collect 'em
The pens in my pocket, I must protect them
My ergonomic keyboard never leaves me bored
Shoppin' online for deals on some writable media
I edit Wikipedia
I memorized Holy Grail really well
I can recite it right now and have you R-O-T-F-L-O-L
I got a business doing websites (websites)
When my friends need some code, who do they call?
I do HTML for 'em all
Even made a homepage for my dog, yo
I got myself a fanny pack
They were havin' a sale down at The Gap
Spend my nights with a roll of bubble wrap
Pop, pop - hope no one sees me, gettin' freaky
I'm nerdy in the extreme and
Whiter than sour cream
I was in AV club and glee club
And even the chess team
Only question I ever thought was hard
Was "Do I like Kirk or do I like Picard?"
Spend every weekend at the Renaissance Fair
Got my name on my underwear
They see me strollin', they laughin'
And rollin' their eyes cause I'm so
White and nerdy
Just because I'm white and nerdy
Just because I'm white and nerdy
All because I'm white and nerdy
Holy cow, I'm white and nerdy
I wanna bowl with the gangstas
But oh well, it's obvious I'm
White and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
I'm just too white and nerdy
Look at me I'm white and nerdy