The Lewis Show

421 touchdown passes and counting. No one else is going to be able to claim that record for a long time!

I can honestly say that my threshold for pain is high. When I was younger, my appendix burst before I felt any kind of pain in my abdomen. When it did burst though, the pain was insane! I'll never forget that feeling as long as I'll live. I was nine years old and terrified that my body was revolting against me. I also had some serious pain once at my own expense. I used to pick at my toes really bad and developed an ingrown toenail. I won't go into any of the gory details, I'm sure many of you can imagine dealing with such a thing and also going to a doctor to have him prick the inside of your toe with a needle. Ouch....my poor Mom had to bear the brunt of my tortured screams. Needless to say, I'm very careful with my nails now. I've experience many scrapes and bruises through my life in the course of being a healthy boy growing up in the country too. I'll never forget hyper extending my right elbow or stumping my poor little toe over and over one summer. Bu

Everyone does a parody on YouTube these days. This time it's the kitten's turn!

I really enjoyed last Sunday's Family Guy. Yeah, I'm a geek. In case anyone missed it, though, here it is!

I realize I'm overloading my poor blog with pictures. I'm actually going to work on an embed sideshow when I get the chance that way all these photos can show up on demand and not in a post that'll vanish into obscurity over time. But in the meantime, pics from Dave's graduation party! We all met up at Dad's church. I haven't been there in years so it was all very nostalgic. Dave was surprised. He's been the center of attention for a straight week now. I was thrilled to be out of the spotlight for a little while! With any celebration or reunion comes dozens and dozens of pictures. I was just trying to get back to the shrimp tray before Dad ate 'em all! Janine's been such a trooper this week; taking me to Baltimore and back, meeting my entire family and getting their life stories in one setting, and taking very good care of Kaleb so his Mom could coordinate this big event. I think we got everyone. Tall people always go to the back. That's where yo

Thursday morning, Janine and I headed north near Baltimore to attend my brother's graduation from Police Academy. Now he gets to spend a few months on the beat with a partner before getting his own ride. I'm so proud of Dave! Dad fixing up Kaleb before the ceremony. I get warm fuzzies everytime I watch Pop spend time with his grandson. A Lewis for sure. Intimidating, tall, and armed! Dad, Dave's wife, Barbie, and Kaleb all pinning on his badge. Everyone went "Awwww!" We're going to see them again tomorrow for a mini family reunion to see everyone and hopefully eat a lot of chicken. Dave was pretty relieved to get out of that uniform. He took some time last night to show us the all of tricks of his trade. It was very nice hanging out with them. They were very gracious hosts.

In the good days of dial up, it was encouraged to load very basic home pages if any at all. As you are all very much aware, I have always used Google as my homepage. Today as most everyone has access to some kind of broadband, be it at home, work, Internet cafe, or library, and in this web 2.0 culture, people now more than ever have created personalized home pages. My first experience with these designer home pages was with MyYahoo . I never was a big fan of Yahoo, but I was fascinated by setting up my own page which featured news stories and local updates. I even had the Garfield comic strip on my page. RSS feeds are very important in today's crop of personalized home pages. In fact, most of these home pages are pretty much feeds and nothing but feeds. For example, when Janine gets home from work and logs on to our Google homepage, she'll check to see if my feed has been updated. When I check my homepage, I look for the latest news from Digg, Engadget, and many other sites. I

Colonial Williamsburg, we'll be heading back in the fall. We had to pull over near West Point to take this pic. Janine loves old houses like this. speaking of Janine. Hey, beautiful. being out of shape and sick is not the best vacation combo deal. oh, look, they're closed..let's just keep going.

Last week was very much needed. Let's see if I can go over everything before I forget. You know, old age. My vacation kicked off last Friday at 12:30. I was lazy the whole weekend too. Now that's not all that unusual, but I literally made it a point to become the biggest slacker couch potato slug ever. Mission was accomplished! Labor Day was, I believe, one of the few holidays that Janine had off work, so we got to enjoy that together. I remember going all over town trying to find an open restaurant finally settling on Outback. I had a tasty steak with shrimp on the barbie and I drank it down with a fine pinotnoir. Yeah, I'm a total wine freak now. I'll post in the future about how everyone can get involved and enjoy some good grape! Tuesday morning we packed up and headed to Virginia Beach. Home sweet home I say! It was good to be back at the birthplace and it was fun trying to show Janine around. The town and roads have changed so much from when I would go to visit m

I'll post details when I get back Sunday from vacation part two. Pics till then! The beach! The beach! The beach! Me at the balcony, aka Zen Central Janine hanging out at Zen Central The sun needs to come up later. 6AM was too early! The living room. I think for now on I'm only going to rent suites.

Tuesday, Janine and I will be enjoying the quiet, tranquil town of Virginia Beach . Ok, truth is we'll be enjoying the crazy, bustling city of Virginia Beach! This is my birthplace. I love it there so much. I'll always consider this place my home town. While we are there, the tentative plan is to get in a lot of relaxation, visit the aquarium , check some historical areas, and if there's time, the Naval Base . Since the both of us are military kids, it's always a lot of fun to see something like this base. I'm proud of both our Dads for their service along with everyone still currently serving in our armed forces! We'll be staying at Barclay Suites on the waterfront. It's a little old, but I found a really good deal and it's ideally located. I figure we'll check out Captain George's so we can eat a ton of seafood. You cannot go wrong with a buffet that offers over 70 items! We're definatley going to hit up Beach Bully's (their website