BYU 28, Washington 27 (Penalty? I Don't Remember Any Penalty!)

Let the pictures begin. For all of the "select" pictures (meaning pictures where I don't look completely stupid), you can link here (or you can watch the slideshow at the bottom of this post repeatedly): http://picasaweb.google.com/tysonsnow/08090307Seattle#

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Me, Chad, and Amy at the Yankees v. Mariners game. Don't ask why Amy is so blurry. I don't have an answer.

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Me, Sara, Nick (Sara's brother), and Jyllian (Nick's wife) at the same game.

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Now that's a line up. I guess Ichiro is pretty good too.

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Amy and Chad with their gangsta pose on top of the Space Needle.

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Me with my imitation gangsta pose at Pike's Market.

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The Hoopes enjoying some football.

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Scoreboard.

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Safeco. The second night.

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Safeco. The second night again (but this time with Nick's "Can You Smell What the Rock is Cooking?" pose).

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Everybody rollin' on the train.

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Can you tell who the old guy is?

Okay, seriously, you need to just visit the link and check out all the pictures. We had such a fun time. So go check it out now:

http://picasaweb.google.com/tysonsnow/08090307Seattle#

Congrats to Tamara...

I saw the pictures earlier, but the official email just made its way to my work inbox:

My baby is here! Just wanted to send along some photos so you could see her! Her name is Elizabeth Rose Braun, born August 19 at 7 lbs, 13 oz and 20 3/4 inches long. We happen to think she's pretty cute and we couldn't be happier that she's here. We'd love to hear from you!

Welcome to motherhood.

For those of you who are waiting for an update about the trip to Washington and the ridiculously awesome and triumphant victory of BYU over the Huskies, don't worry, pictures and summaries will be posted as soon as I stop billing for the time I missed while actually on vacation...

Browser Wars: Google Enters the Fray

Leave it to Google to take all the excitement out of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2. With the slip of a mouse click, Google published a comic touting its new "Chrome" browser and the world (as well as the GOOG stock price) will never be the same. The browser comes out tomorrow; I'm interested, excited, and skeptical. I am, after all, a true browser snob. I've been from Netscape to IE6 to Firefox 2 to Maxthon 2.0 to IE7 back to Maxthon 2.0 to Firefox 3 (to IE8 Beta 2). I'll let you know my feelings on having my Internet experienced "chromed" out (pun intended). It's official:

Visit http://www.google.com/chrome to download and start exploring. (For the moment, it's available only for Windows users, but you can sign up on the download page to learn when the Mac and Linux versions are available.)

Golf / Work / BBQ

So, what happens when you mix 18 holes of golf (the BYU Law Alumni Golf Tournament) with a couple of hours of work followed by a bbq and hours of playing with little kids? I now know! I pulled out some additional work late last night and sat down in front of the TV with my little sister; Chef Duff is busy buzzing away in the background when, well, I don't really know. Here is the email and the pictures that Jet sent (she was nice enough not to laugh too much when I did eventually wake up and go to bed):

As Ace of Cakes blared in the background, Tyson slowly drifted to sleep while holding his head up. It was quit impressive, although I think it put a damper in his document reviews...

Even more funny, Sara told Jet that I fall asleep like that all the time; I guess I need to find some more exciting things to read.

Missing the Olympics, but getting more sleep at night...

For all of you out there wishing you could still sit up all hours of the night watching synchronized diving, high jump, and parallel bars, enjoy these clips ... (just don't be sitting there drinking milk or else you're likely to spray it out your nose).



and another one ...



and still more from Paulette ...

Bronco Mendenhall for Vice President...

Forget Mitt Romney. McCain should definitely pick Bronco. McCain would be a lock. (And thanks to Castleberry for walking all the way down to my end of the office to offer up this sound suggestion).

Cool Site for Non Math Nerds...

Mathway is a free website that solves your math problems and provides step-by-step work with explanations. Mathway is for students, parents, and teachers:

Memories

My sister had this posted on her blog today and, since I'm bored, I figured I would pass it along. Frankly, I'm a little afraid of the comments that might appear. LOL.

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn’t matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It’s actually pretty funny to see the responses.

++If you post one on mine, I'll post one on yours++

Celebrating

August 11th is a great day of celebration for us (we've been married for 1 year now). It totally makes me feel like dancing ... as does this video ... ENJOY!!!

Mr. Rogers is the Best Neighbor...

I ran across this link on Facebook. Thanks to CNN (and the fine publishers of Mental Floss -- a fairly entertaining magazine/book series if you ever get a chance to pick one up):

15 Reasons Why Mr. Rogers is the Best Neighbor

Enjoy. And happy Monday (especially to all of you who work for the State of Utah and are now only working four days a week instead of five (I know, I know... You're working just as many hours, but seriously, every Friday off? That is pretty sweet...)).