Jerry the Librarian

2011-06-27T18:05:00.000-07:00

Hello,

Here is a picture from Iver's 5th Grade graduation. That's a real thing for those of you are cynical and jaded. I personally tied that tie for him- you can tell because a put a Double Windsor on him. Only the best for my off spring. It is a good thing I have so many ties. I, of course, never wear them but the boys will be raiding them for years to come. I can't wait to one my ties goes on a date with one of them. There is a 1st time for everything.

Good times

Harry and his Lego Guys

2011-06-06T08:03:00.000-07:00

Hi,

Here is a picture of Harry with his Lego 'guys' All the Brevason boys have lego guys. They carry them around and are constantly worried about there whereabouts and if any of their siblings have taken them. I, for one, cannot tell the 'guys' apart. I am always mixing up whos guys are who. Also the helmets and accessories do not make a difference, I guess its the shirts and heads that makes a lego guy a lego guy. Now you know.

Good times

Four boys and a girl

2011-06-01T07:04:00.000-07:00

Hello,

Here is a shot of Chris surrounded by her 4 boys. There is some sort of altercation taking place, but it would seem that she has it under control, for now. I would guess in the future, when they all tower over her- she is kinda short- this seen will look more menacing. Good Times

2011-05-29T19:55:00.000-07:00

Here is a shot of Harry and Jack on their first day of Preschool. Jack has the Cars backpack and the Harry as the Lego one. The lego one came with a matching jacket and pants. If there was a Lego factory team, then that would be the walking around uniform. Good times.

Wake the kids and call the neighbors- the preschool graduation video is here!!!!

2011-05-23T19:38:00.000-07:00

Hi,

Here is the video of Harry and Jack's preschool graduation. It is really long so I will not feel bad if you only pretend to watch it. Jack and Harry make there first appearance at the 9 minute mark- that's right it over nine minutes- feel free to skip ahead. For those of you that are brave enough to stomach the whole thing, there is a breva bonus: Keillor Breva is the dalmatian in the beginning. If you do watch you will be treated to the pure energy of Harry and Jack. When they hit the screen its like a young Jim Carrey- they eat the screen like hungry wolves. I think I heard a few of the parents commenting on the twins high motor. Good times.

2011-05-22T14:32:00.000-07:00

Hi all. If you are reading this you already know- I am re-launching the blog. Long time readers- that is a joke, there are no long time readers- may greet this awesome news with a bored shrug, but I am going ahead regardless. You can't look back- new motto. I have a new computer and crap load of pictures to post so I will be posting a picture or two per day. The post will be short with just a description of the photo. So here goes:

This first shot is from pre-school graduation of Harry and Jack Brevason. Here is Jack receiving his graduation book and he looks just thrilled to be there.

Our second picture is of Harry also getting his graduation book. He is all in white because he played the part of a Polar Bear in the class play. I will post the video later. He also looks like this is the greatest day of his short life. Their general good cheer a positive attitude rubbed off on all of us. As soon as we got home we sat silently in a room with the lights off. See you tomorrow.

2011-05-20T08:28:00.001-07:00

I am in a class on social networking.

2010-09-09T13:08:00.001-07:00

This is a new post

update

2009-05-01T08:53:00.000-07:00

I am now Twittering so check me out. Here are some pictures:

Here is the new house. It is the only summer picture I have so far, but it really shows off the deck and backyard. Please check out my Facebook page for more pics.

Here is a picture that I took with my cell phone of my getting my sleep study done and this is just some of the crap they put on my face. It turns out that I have severe sleep apnea and I need to have one of those crazy machines help me breathe at night. I do sleep better and here is special bonus- no more snoring- Mrs Librarian is pleased, I think.

Here is picture of 3/4 of team Brevason.

The younger ones have on there Christmas robes. Very stylish.

Iver as a animal of some sort in school play in 2ND grade. I am not sure of the animal because it was in Spanish so I had hard time following along, but he really good- as far as I could tell.

Christmas pictures and bonus video

2009-01-29T17:45:00.000-08:00

Here is my attempt to fit everybody that shows up at my moms house for Christmas eve. If you look closely only one person is missing. That's is right the mysterious and beautiful Mrs Librarian has some how posed herself right out of the picture- I am sure that was an accident. She would not have done that on person- she
much to nice. Well there are actually two missing- Leo is only has half a face.

To make up for slicing Leo down the middle here is the man himself making a Christmas Cookie from one of the do it yourself packs that Mrs Librarian gives us to keep us busy for a few minutes so she can get something done. We are are big drag on the Christmas production game. So she has to find little things for us to do so she get the 50 million tasks she has to do. So once again we see- Life is fair.

Here are the older boys carrying a present for Mrs Librarian. It was a cast Iron casserole and it was really heavy. They are not faking it- I thought they were going to drop right on her foot. But they didn't- another Christmas Miracle.

Here is Jack doing what Jack likes- Jack likes to Eat. The nickname that he has around the house is the stomach- just like the guy from Meatballs- with Bill Murray. Of course that guy was one of the Jerks from across the lake and our guy Jack is anything but a Jerk- kind of whiny, but not a Jerk.

Here is Jack and Harry playing with one there Christmas presents. It is a play fort that pops up with no assembly- so in other words the dream Christmas present.

Bonus Video

Here is a video of the twins playing the Wii game Outdoor Adventure. This game has a ton of fun mini-games and Harry and Jack love playing the racing ones. The object is to run on the colored squares to simulate actual running. Jack is the slow turtle, concentrating on staying in the squares and slowly reaching the finish line. Harry on the other hand is all over the place. He is running faster, but since he not on the right pad all the time he is actually going slower. As usually life is not fair.

Picture of the day

2009-01-12T13:13:00.000-08:00

Sorry about the long break in pictures, but here is today pic:

Here is Leo helping his Grandma and other assorted Brevason kids decorate the Christmas Tree. We have been holed up at Grandmas for 6 months now and it is starting to get the feel of a hostage crisis.

Bonus video:

Here is a video of Iver, Leo and the twins inventing and riding some crazy roadsters that they made out of spare parts. The best part is when Iver breaks out the wiffle bats as concrete oars. The boy may have future when the revolution comes and everyone need to make everyday objects out of useless junk. And that is something you can't teach.

One more bonus pictures to make up for the long wait:

I found this old picture of the pre-Librarians at my moms house. It shows a rather rakish Librarian and the lovely Mrs Librarian admiring their cat Itchy. I put the crown on his head to adequately demonstrate his noble place within the household.

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Picture of the Day- part II

2008-12-22T16:03:00.000-08:00

I know I said I would only post one picture today, but since all this great content is free I would just accept the extra picture as a bonus.

This is a picture of the twins on there 2 birthday at baby school- ECFE for everyone else. Their teacher made up the crowns and they tastefully decorated them with stickers. They did not know it was their birthday I just mentioned it and in about 30 seconds they had their crowns. The decisiveness of preschool teachers is just marvelous, it would take me about that long to just think about the crown concept let alone figure out how to build them. It is sort like watching MacGyver for the preschool set.

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Picture of the Day

2008-12-22T15:23:00.000-08:00

We are trying something new here at Jerrythelibrarian- Picture of the Day.
Lots of professional Blogs have a picture of the day so I thought why not. Also the amount of time that it took to post multiple pictures and come up with something witty for each one contributed greatly to the lack of posts. So I thought I would cut down on the pictures and post more often. Let me know what you think.

This picture is from last fall and the young guys are running toward a park. I like it because they are dressed the same and thus they look twinish and it looks nice and warm. Also Jack looks like he is about to lay a unsuspecting Harry out with a bone crushing tackle. Good times.

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The Wii- Brevason Style

2008-12-11T10:43:00.000-08:00

We got a Wii for an early Christmas Present and here is video of the boys playing Tennis on it. They do not actually wait for the little tennis ball to come to them before they hit, not my guys. They just flail around until the ball stops moving and then look distraught when they lose the point. Jack is in the frame to add a little moral support and these guys need it.

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More Pics

2008-12-10T10:40:00.001-08:00

Camping at Jay Cooke May 2008

This post is dedicated to Lance. He emailed to thank me for re-launching the blog so for him I will post some pictures from our camping trip last summer. We went to Jay Cooke State Park, a past home for the Breva Clan- except Mindy, I think. It was a great trip, I highly recommend it.

Here are the pics:

This first one is the family minus Chris sitting around the picnic table. Sure it looks boring but it was actually a good time.

As seasoned parents we cooked up the end of the picnic bench for a table for the twins, clever, no? It only took about 4 days and about 20 pound of dirty food to figure that one out. None the less,I defy some of you 2 or 3 kid parents to come up with that one. It ain't happening.

We stayed in a camping cabin. These things are great. They have bunks, a table, and heat. We went at the end May, so the heat was nice. Tents are O.K., but I am not sure if they even make a tent big enough for us. I guess they probably do, but I don't care,I don't miss sleeping on the ground like some kind of animal, I am better that than that. I bet George Bush never slept on the ground, unless he was passed out or something. And if it to good enough for Ol Georgie boy, then its good enough for me.

Here is a shot of the bunks, nice, right? I just want to stress here that Jack usually has his pants on. In fact I would go so far to say that it is odd that he is pant less in the picture. Anybody who says differently is lying and I will swear on a stack of bibles that this is the case.

This is neither a great picture or all that interesting, but it does contain the one and only Christy Breva and since she is the defacto leader of our little clan how about a little love. Also she is the one who used to ride her bike around the campground when she was a little girl and frankly, she is just too cute not to post.

This is a closeup of a picture from above. I posted it because I think in makes me look fabulous, one of my best post-glasses pictures. You can hardly tell that I am a fat tub of goo here. In fact, there is a case to be made that maybe the guy in this picture might be athletic in some capacity. I liked this pic so much that I cropped the other guy out of the picture and use it on my Facebook page. Although I have not got any actually compliments on it I am sure people like and if they don't, well this is as good as it gets.

After we left Jay Cooke, we swung over to Dan and Barb's Cabin for the rest of the vacation and as it was perfect, as always. Here is a shot of the twins finally getting their work on. I didn't produce all these boys and not expect them to pull their weight. They did a good job of loading leaves into the cobblers wagon. They did seem to lose interest rather easy- just like there Dad, but not a bad start on the hard life of menial task that lie in front of them.

Here is a shot of Leo fishing. The boys love fishing. Christy love that the boys love fishing because for some reason I have to be the one who "helps" them fish. I on the other hand had hate fishing. They get their lines messed up all the time. If all of sudden the forget how to cast they they are despondent.
They do not actually use hooks or bait,
Christy has convinced them that they are not old enough to get a licence so they remain hook less. I actually fear for my safety once Iver figures out that he can read the manual on the Internet and I will be on the dock with 4 free swinging fishing hooks looking to rip me to shreds- it won't be pretty, and best of all it will all be my fault.

This picture is not from the trip, but it was to neat not to post. It is Jack after he has fallen asleep reading a book.

This last one is just to annoy Christy. It from our wedding reception and I fixed it up using picnik and it looks pretty good. I like to keep these pictures around just in case I come home and a Twilight Zone episode breaks out and everybody is telling me that my life never existed. I have these pics to prove it. Good luck getting anyone to believe your history rewrite when they see the hair on Christy. That is pure 90's gold.

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The Librarian is Back

2008-12-08T16:14:00.000-08:00

I am back in the saddle.

It has been a long time, but you can consider the Librarian back in the swing of things again. I had to take a primary season and election off- just too tense. But I will try to drop some Science you three or four times a week- That is a hip hop reference for you squares in the audience. To get things started out right here is a picture of Iver with his Lego pirate ship. I edited this pic on Picnik and I think it worked pretty slick. This web site allows you to use some basic picture editing tools right through your browser. This program is similar to Google's Picasa, but you do not have to download anything and you they help you save the pictures in your computer, not on some far away server. Give it a try it is a great way to goose up you pics.

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2008-09-21T09:00:00.000-07:00

My first car.

2008-02-16T12:48:00.000-08:00

Here is picture of my first car. Now before you go off half cocked and say," but hey Mr Librarian was not your first car a beat up 1970 candy apple red VW bus." I do not count that as my first car for a variety of reasons that are unimportant, so this 1971 demon is my first car. Now before you say" are you sure, I remember your demon being a piece of crap your pictures actually look nice, what gives" Well, i don't actually have any pictures of my Demon, so I will use this as a stand it. And you are right to remember, for those who do and I think that only includes one person, that it was a piece of crap. It had no heater, the color if it ever had any, was coma inducing bland beige, the seats looked like they had been eaten away by actual live animals and it had three spares in it cavernous trunk, all of which did not fit the car. But I love it anyways. It had this big engine- a slant six for you motorheads- truly power steering- you could drive that thing with one finger, and it sounded
like you meant business when you came down the street, and that is before I lost the muffler.

The demise of this care is actually sad. One day the trunk rusted out beyond structural integrity- Star Trek reference- and the springs and axle came up through the body. This did not stop me though, I just jacked the car up and stuck a 2x4 where the trunk used to by and drove it for another summer. I got scared of the board snapping at 65 miles and hour I junked it and got the dodge duster- nice car, but still not the same. So I toast the 71 demon. I may have been muscle deficient at 19, but I did have a classic muscle car- even if it was piece of crap.

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The Librarian is Back !!!!!!!

2008-02-04T13:41:00.000-08:00

Hello, Again, Hello

Sorry for the extended vacation, but the Librarian is back with a whole bunch of new pictures. The Librarian's got a new camera for Christmas and it is definite step up. Also, thanks to Trikiwoo, I have started to use Google's Picasa and that thing is just too cool. So enjoy the pictures and I will be back soon with some books that I am reading and my titanic thoughts on the Presidenital contest. See ya at the Library

Here is a picture of Harry from Christmas 06. It is old, but I cleaned it up a bit and cropped it on picasa. You can see the he is wearing the Christmas sweater that Mrs Librarian insists on dressing them in. When I was a wee lad, choking on the nice clothes that I had to wear, I pledged that if I ever tricked a women into bearing one of my children I would never, ever dress them up. I guess that it really shows the pull in my household that he is wearing a christmas sweater. But I draw the line at ties- and I mean it.

Here is a good picture of Mrs Librarian and all her smiling goodness. This is another picture that I 'fixed' on picasa. This picture shows off her wonderfully intoxicating smile and her perfect hair- even if it is half gray. Incidentally, picasa has a sharpen feature where you can, if you crank the sharpen all the way up, see the individual gray hairs set apart from the brown ones. It is kinda scary. Beautiful girl though.

This is picture of Leo with a soccer ball. It looks like the type of picture that a soccer mom would have on her fridge. He has never been on a formal soccer team or had a class in sport. Everything he knows he got from the the Librarian, which is actually nothing. I know nothing about soccer but it does LOOK like he knows something, and thats got be worth something. Right?

Here is Leo and the Twins drolling over a couple of Jet Ski's next door. This is the type of behavior that drives Mrs. Librarian crazy. She hates this type of water craft and everything they stand for and if one of her precious little boys actually got one well she would probably die a little inside. Or not, knowing my kids the sheer noise level would scare them off. The vacuum usually sends them running, so a jet ski would probably send them into hysterics.

Here are a couple of sandbox shots. Harry is in the sandbox at the Cabin and the both of them are in the home version. You can really see how images can be deceptive. It looks like Harry is a Giant in the cabin sandbox- like maybe he ate Jack and absorbed all his space.

Here is a picture of all the boys watching a cartoon. The Librarian's, sometimes, must use T.V. to distract the small family members so one of us can leave. Mrs Librarian is particually adverse to leaving when they are crying, so small snippets of cartoons are used to speed a getaway. This shot also points out the fact that when all the guys are sitting down they hog the whole couch- and this is when they are small. Whats going to happen when they are all grown up- we will probably just stand around a lot.

Here is a picture of a puppet show that the older two put on. Clearly Jack is does not approve.
He does not like being tricked so he hopped onto the couch to check out how those puppets that he usually throws around are talking. It was a rousing puppet show though and even with Jack meddling very entertaining.

Well thats it for now.

Excelsior

Teen Shelf

2007-10-27T10:08:00.001-07:00

Teen Shelf
Originally uploaded by galaxielab1

Here is the New teen bookshelf at Galaxie library

Missing Rosie

2007-09-19T13:52:00.001-07:00

Television has hit a new low, and that's saying something. Now most of you probably do not spend a lot of time pondering who will be the new member of the View- the female only chat fest that is on ABC in the mornings, but I do and it made me extra sad. Rosie O'Donnell held the job for a year, but even she could only take 365 days of the particular type of crap the View dispenses. Now I am not really a fan of Rosie, but she is a talent and rather good communicator, but I didn't really care one way or the other that she was gone. But then they went hired, without a doubt, the stupidest person ever to host a Talk Show- and that is really saying something. Here is the new Host, Sherrie Shepard, telling the daytime world well just watch:

She does not know weather the earth is round or flat. What does that even mean. How could someone who works in modern world of television not know the the world is round. Has she never seen pictures of the space shuttle moving around the earth or watch Tom Hanks piloting his broken space capsule to earth. It is beyond belief that someone that misinformed can work in television at any level. Then check this one out on evolution:

The flat earther does not believe in Evolution is not all that surprising, but COME ON. If you are crazy, and you want to be on T.V., try hiding it a little better. If she is not fired within a week I will never watch the View again. Err. Not that I have before.

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Fog 'Ditherer' Album - August 2007

2007-07-03T14:00:00.001-07:00

Here is the introduction to my little brothers new album. I think this one is going to be big. Just a feeling.

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King Bush- a not a good one like King Friday.

2007-07-03T11:22:00.000-07:00

As everyone has heard by know President Bush has commuted the sentence of convicted liar Scooter Libby. He as decreed that although he respects the verdict, he finds the sentence excessive. This is something a King does not a President who respects the rule of law. Which is the main point; he doesn't and he thinks he is a king. Lets go over that list of monarchical innovations that this president has started in our fair republic.

Listing to citizen phone calls without a warrant.
The use of signing statements to get around the will of the Congress.
Deeming signed treaties-i.e The Geneva Conventions- as quaint and refuse to follow them.
He has claimed the right to seize anyone in the United States, detain them indefinitely without trial and torture them.
The Vice President's attempts to explain his unwillingness to follow the rule on the handling of classified data with the theory that he not part of the Executive branch- pure hubris.

And that is just a short list. But with all of his many faults and the fact that this decision makes me a furious about the injustice of it, it is the most honorable thing the guy has every done. I will let Matt explain:

Bush commutes Scooter Libby's sentence. I didn't think he would do it, but it's really the only honorable course of action available to him. It would be silly for Bush to pretend to believe that people deserve to be punished for breaking the law to help cover up his administration's crimes when he clearly believes no such thing. Now it's out there in the open.

He is exactly right. He does not believe in the rule of law or any sort of accountability and at least now it in front of everyone's nose. To vote Bush anything but the worst President is now officially a joke. I have said this many times but I hope everyone who voted for this disaster is happy.

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New Place to Post

2007-06-14T12:34:00.000-07:00

The Librarian would like to inform everyone that he is also posting over at the Bronze Dog so head on over there for more tantilzing blog post. I will still be posting here and will be back soon with pictures of my trip to the Big Apple.

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What is on the Librarians MP3 Player.

2007-05-22T20:50:00.000-07:00

Hello again

The librarian knows that the posts are rather few and far between, so he hit upon a gimmick to boost his participation The Librarian will, from time to time, let the masses know what he is reading and listen to at the current moment. This may sound really dull and uninteresting to you, the reading public, but the Librarian may get a kick out of it and after all its his blog. O.K to get the ball rolling we will begin with a selection off the Librarian vast MP3 collection:

Here is a track from a Wire, one of the first and greatest punk bands from the late 70's. Four art school dropouts playing hyped up Ramones songs. The cut is 12xu off the landmark album Pink Flag, and is very cool. Here is a link where can listen to it.

http://www.lastfm.pl/music/Wire/_/12XU

Give it a listen. This segment is only about 18 seconds long, which turns out is good chunk of the song. Also, the entirety of lyrics consist of 'I saw you in a Mag kissing a a man' over and over again, and to the Librarian ears it does not get old. That's it for the MP3 collection here are some photos of the Librarian Family:

Here is the picture that the Twins gave their Mom Mother's Day. She was pretty pleased, the Librarian noticed and it was nice.

Here is Iver and Leo and their bitchin pirate ship. Notice all the guys they have hanging on the climbing apparatus that those types of vessels had. If you look closely the ship also has two types of flags- a pirate one and one from non pirate types. It would appear that their was some sort of battle for control of the ship. Man Pirates, they are kooky. The smiles the boys are wearing are classic Librarian smiles from his youth. They may have a long adolescence in front of them. Sigh.

Here is Leo and Iver enjoying a spring day. In this shot you really get the sense that Iver could go on a crime spree and Leo would still think he is the bees knees. He will tell jokes that really do not have a point or anything that you could classify as humorous, and Leo will fall over with his Ed McMahon laugh. It can be kind of creepy.

Lastly, here is Jack in the time machine that he is constructing. Much like the Fabled TARDIS the his dad is always going on about his machine blends into a room that has to many mismatched chunks of furniture in it. I just hope he uses the machine for good. Evil is just not kosher in the Librarian household.

That's it for now. I promise to try to do more posts. And that's a Librarian guarantee.

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Letter of the Day

2007-05-10T11:57:00.000-07:00

A good friend of the Librarian is covered in glory today for he is the letter of the day for the Star and Tribune- the local fish wrap. Thousands send in letters, but only one can be chosen and philosopher Jeff is the chosen one. I have included a picture a person named Jeff Mock, but not the actual writer- he is a few inches shorter. Here is the letter:

Letter of the day: Torii will have to weigh Minnesota vs. money

Published: May 10, 2007

Star Tribune baseball writer Joe Christensen wrote about how Torii Hunter is dealing with what might be his last season as a Minnesota Twin. It was a sympathetic article about Torii trying to not let his contract situation bother him and how he is dealing with the possibility of leaving the team that he has loved.
Give me a break!
I am a big Torii fan and think he is a great asset to the team. But he has chosen this path and does not deserve sympathy. If he really wanted to stay all he would have to do is tell Twins General Manager Terry Ryan that he wants a five-year contract for $50 million, and he would probably get it.
This is not about a guy being forced out of his job at the Ford plant in St. Paul. This is about a guy who already has enough money to live in luxury for the rest of his life wanting more.
To put it in perspective, if a family made $100,000 per year it would take that family 100 years to earn what Torii would earn in one year.
No, Torii does not deserve our sympathy or our scorn. He is entitled to try to get $15 million a year, but it is his choice if he wants to place money over staying part of the team.
JEFFREY MOCK, HOPKINS

How cool is that. Letter of the day and with such a controverisal subject- baseball players salaries. Of course I know for a fact that he hates Torri Hunter and everthing he stands for, but thats neither here or there. I am glad the Philosopher Jeff came down on the right side on this issue. His glory is the Librarians glory. Way to go PJ.

Fog

2007-04-30T12:23:00.001-07:00

Here is a video of my Brother Mark's Band Fog. He is the bass player and his new record is coming out this summer so please go pick one up if you like the music- he could use the dough.

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My Daemon

2007-04-28T15:02:00.000-07:00

Those of you that have read the 'His Dark Materials' series will be interested to know that the Librarians Daemon is a Dog, or more specifically a whippet. Those you who do not know what the hell a Daemon is- shame on you. 'His Dark Materials' is a fantasy trilogy where all humans have a animal companion that is part of their soul. You choose a form for you animal in you teens and it is with you for your entire life. That is not a very good explanation, but it is one of the greatest book series ever so go read it for more specific detail. Please feel free to critique my daemon, but what can you do a web site gave it to me and that is like law or something.

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President Bush- Kinda Dumb. Don't cha Think

2007-04-04T19:16:00.000-07:00

Our Fearless leader makes an ass out of himself again to surprise of absolutely no one. Frankly, I do think the guy can actually say anything that does not piss the Librarian off. He is clearly the worst president in the Librarians lifetime and that includes that paranoid psychopath Richard M. Nixon. And as Hunter S Thompson wrote in the dedication to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- a favorite of the Librarian's by the way- 'to Richard M Nixon, you never let me down.' The meaning, of course, is that he knew that he was evil from the beginning. The Librarian is not quite as perceptive as Dr Thompson but you would have to be brain dead to be surprised at his utter cluelessness- is that even a word? The most recent bonehead Bush concoction is is reaction to a Supreme Court decision that is forcing the EPA into treating car emissions as actual pollution. Lets go to tape. Here is a link to the Star tribune that has a quote from the Leader himself. First he acknowledged that Humans at least partially responsible for Global Warming, but before we go off half cocked and do something about it, the:

president attached two conditions.... any regulatory program should not slow economic growth, nor should its benefits to the atmosphere be offset by mounting emissions from China, India and other growing economies.

So lets keep this straight, we are part of the problem of global warming, but we won't do anything about it that might stop economic growth or if our fellow countries increase their share of pollution. President dingbat is saying that sure its a problem, but we not going to sacrifice anything of ours and if everybody else won't go along, well screw the world. What a big baby. Maybe this might be the time to show so leadership. Show the world how to act toward this new reality. If global warming is a problem then fix it, and maybe that is the problem. He does not think it is a problem. I hope everybody who voted for this jackass is happy.

Well enough with President Confused. Here are some recent pictures of the Librarians kids:

Here is Harry and Jack helping the Librarian build a complicated shelving unit. It was from IKEA and the whole thing took under 2 hours. But man do we work hard in those 120 minutes. In this picture they are spreading the board out so I can screw them in. They are naturals woodworkers, or natural whatever IKEA uses that seems like wood.

In this shot Harry is getting a tool out of his baby tool kit finish the sanding on the unit. Jack is looking on and telling him to use the small one. They do not actually talk, but since they are twins they use their wacky telepathy. It is really freaky. One twin will throw his food and then tell the other one to do the same. Sometimes they scare me.

Continuing with the helping out around the house theme here is a few shots of twins emptying the dishwater. Even though Jack is attempting to stab the Librarian in this particular shot, you might have to enlarge the pic to see the large dangerous knife. Harry is actually doing his job, but Jack feels he has the time to screw around. I hope this is not a trend.

This shot is basically the same as the first one, but without the attempted assault.

Here is a picture of Leo running through a big puddle with his Dash sweatshirt and rubber boots. He had a lot of fun running back and forth in the puddle and when he was done he had water in his boot up to the brim. Spring is fun.

This last shot is of Iver and Harry playing in the sand box. There is really not enough room for all four of them and I do not think they make bigger turtles so I guess we are we are stuck.

That's all for now. See you around the Library

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The new Librarian

2007-03-13T19:53:00.000-07:00

Sorry about the lack of posts, but the Librarians been busy. With what you say. Well, not that it is any of your business, but the Librarian has been busy at his library designing and presenting a teen tech program. If you click here you can see the myspace page he put together for the class. If you click here you can view the brochure for Teen Tech month at Dakota county library.

The brochure shows all the different sections of teen tech 101 he is teaching. Now those of you who knew the Librarian in the Salad Days must be scratching your head and wondering: 'what in hell's got into him'. The librarian spend a better part of his school years avoiding any and all opportunities to give speeches or presentation or just talk to people he has never met. But this time not only did I think up the program, but I volunteered to present it, and practically had to beg them to let me do it. Jeez, do you think the Librarian is growing up? End of an Era, don't cha think. So check out the myspace page and let me know what anyone thinks. Make sure you click over to the podcast page and listen to some of podcast that the teens came up with. If anyone is a member of myspace, please become my friend. I am very lonely. Thanks.

Here are a few pictures of the Librarians Brood:

Here is a shot of the bash brothers sans clothes. They feel it is their right to lolly gag around the house in nothing but a diaper. Well that doesn't fly at the Brevason house. Its all about the work there and standing around it in your all together does not work for us.

Here is a shot of a Harry in the present he got from the Ku Kluk Klan Grand Wizard. Needless to say he did not keep it. You have to nip that sort of thing in the bud early or the next thing you know he wants to get whole slew of Hitler cats, and that ain't kosher. Dig.

Here is a shot of the new guys eating in their brightly colored seats. I wonder why adults can't have brightly colored things, everything is in earth tones- wood or metal blah. I want a bright red table with stripy plates and glowing tumblers, is that so much ask. Whatever !!

That's all for now. See you around the library.

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Harry and Jack's Birthday Party

2007-02-26T14:57:00.001-08:00

Here is a video of the Gala Harry and Jack Birthday Lunch. I took it with Iver's fisher price video camera- so no cracks about the quality. The sound track gets garbled in the beginning so sorry.

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Once Again, with Feeling this time, Norm is a Fraud

2007-01-26T19:10:00.000-08:00

Well, here we are once again to look into the abyss that is Norm Coleman's soul. Its a big abyss, it might be its own tiny universe, its that big. The latest Norm disappointment is on his seeing of the light on the War in Iraq. He claimed that he would:

oppose the proposal for a troop surge in Baghdad, where the violence can only be defined as sectarian. A troop surge proposal basically ignores the conditions on the ground, both as I saw on my most recent trip, and in reports I've been receiving regularly since my return … A troop surge in Baghdad would put more American troops at risk to address a problem that is not a military problem. It will put more American soldiers in the cross hairs of sectarian violence, create more targets. I just don't believe that makes sense, Mr. President.

Sounds good. He touted the deciders ideas for 6 years. His conversion was a tad suspicious in that came after his pal Mark Kennedy was trounced at the polls and with his reelection coming up he needed to pivot back to reality to make him electable again, but alas in was not to be. He just could not divest himself from the Presidents freaky mind control. First he attempted to back slide by saying that he wanted no more troops in Baghdad, but more in Anbar province. Then when it came time to push the button to approve of a non-binding resolution he couldn't do it, he voted against it in committee. It getting to the point now where it is just sad. Nothing that comes out of that man mouth can be trusted. He is a born fibber and like the little boy who cried wolf, in 2 years that Minnesota's who fluked him into the Senate will devour him just the same.

P.S For you Norm haters out their check out his column by Garrison Keillor in from a couple years ago, it really explains what Norm is about.

Enough about Norm here are a picture of Jacker and Leo.

SuperFriends- Greatest Cartoon Ever

2007-01-23T19:34:00.000-08:00

Thanks to the genius that is Netflix the Librarian provided his oldest sons the ability to time travel, much like the Hall of Doom, and glimpse a bit of their dad's Saturday morning. SuperFriends is the greatest cartoon ever. Not He-Man, not Scooby Doo, with or without scrappy doo. Not any of that Warner Bros. stuff, Superfriends is the greatest. I lovedeverthing about this show. I loved the Justice League of American with its cool reflecting pool. I loved the Darth Vader looking Hall of Doom. I loved the villians, especially Black Manta and Solomon Grundy. loved that Casey Kasem was the Justice League Computer and that the Legion of Doom never stopped coming up with one idiotic plan after another. Time Travel, mystical evil beings, deep space travel, killer solar flares, hyper intelligent beings from the future, and ridiculous plot twists made this show the greatest ever. And now the older boys know it too. We did not get to see the ones with the Wonder Twins before Mrs Librarian shuts us down, but we can dream.

Here are some pictures from Christmas. A good time was had by all during the two day extravaganza.

Here is Mrs Librarian opening an unusually large present while Leo makes the round showing of one of his presents while jack bounces in Grandma's circle and Iver pulls up his pants- the boy never wheres a belt. You do get a small glimpse of my moms Santa collection, its scary large.

Here is Mrs Librarian looking at her new P.Js that the Iver gave her, they have snowman on them. Harry is looking over one the many empty boxes that he got, ya know he has a collection.
You can see the rocket scooters that the twins got in the background. I hope Santa does not always bring two of everything we will be buried in matter of years.

Here is a shot of the next generation of the Librarians family. We have Harry, Leo, Crosby, Keihler, Iver and Jack. Kehiler is the only girl amongst 5 boys.

Here is a smiling version of Harry. I don't have joke to add in here, I just think it pretty good smiley picture. Hey the Librarian can get mushy too.

Here is a picture of Mrs Librarian and Jacker. He has on one of those sweaters that moms love to put babies in. I think I heard about 10 cute comments about that sweater. I hated wearing sweaters like that, though he seemed to handle rather well.

Lastly here is Leo standing in front of his new workbench. We got bench off Craigslist and he got a bunch on tools for Christmas. Enough to do any fake project he wants. He got a power drill, with a sander attachment, a power saw, hammers, screwdriver and a ton of other high powered equipment that the librarian is afraid of. Check out that smile, just like his old man.

That's all for now.

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Celine Dion - You Shook Me All Night Long (AC/DC)

2007-01-08T12:47:00.001-08:00

This made me ill

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2006-12-27T16:37:00.000-08:00

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Hot Drinks- the spawn of Satan ?????

2006-12-26T15:02:00.000-08:00

I saw this in a article from the BBC about Mitt Romney and the possibility of a mormon president:

You may already know that Mormons do not drink coffee or alcohol but what you might not know is that their religious ban is on "hot drinks". And that cocoa has been decreed "not hot".

Now I was familiar with the decree not drink alcohol or coffee, but I assumed, naively, that it had something to do with the particular effects that those respective drinks had on human behavior. No, they are banned for being a tad to warm. What about soup, that almost a drink or that dipping sauce you get with a French Dip sandwich that is usually on the warm side. And why does Cocoa get some sort of waiver on the 'no hot drinks' rule. Cocoa is always hot, in fact, that is why people drink in the first place, because it is hot. What is wrong with these people. If you want to have a rule about hot drinks have a rule, but don't try to tell me that cocoa is not hot. Its hot, end of story.

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Norm: Surprise is actually a fraud, who knew !!!!

2006-12-15T07:24:00.000-08:00

Hi again. It has been a long time between posts, but I have been taking a small break from the blogs. But is back to business and my business for the next two years will be tearing that fraud Norm Coleman down brick by brick. I saw this on MNPUBLIS and I think it is demonstrative what waste our senior senator is. Coleman was attempting to get a mileage wavier for a Minnesota Hospital added as rider on another bill, but could not come through. Now I am not sure what a mileage waiver is and why it would be important for Senator Coleman to get attached, but since he thinks it is important, then the fact that he could not get it speaks volumes about his Senatorial impotence. In the words of Jon-David from the MNPublius

When the chips were down, Coleman’s Republican friends deserted him. Coleman noted how many Democrats supported him from the House, yet he still couldn't’t get it done. Why? Because on the Senate floor, when the votes come down, he’s weak.

Smile'nNorm carried the water for Bush and his ridiculous administration for 4 years and this is payment. With a Republican majority he is on outside looking in, now with the Democrats retaking the chamber I am sure he will continue to bring home the same thing, nothing.

OK, enough Norm bashing, no matter how much fun here are some pics of the kids

Here is a picture of the older boys and a rather bitchin' castle. It has a door and a couple of windows. Iver is practicing his kung-fu and Leo is worried about Iver practicing his Kung-fu. He is a loaded weapon ya know.

Here is a picture of crawling jack. Both the twins are crawling up a storm. You be in the kitchen working on dinner and all of sudden you will hear low rumble and then you see them coming, much like a slow motion stampede . Harry is the better crawler, but Jack is catching up.

I was attempting to find a picture of both, but Mrs Librarian has emptied the camera into her password protected profile, so I actually only have pictures of Jack. So pretend that his is actually Harry. This smiling picture is one of the rare times that I was able to get one of them smiling.

That's all for now.

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Hit the Lights: Detriot Rock City

2006-11-23T20:07:00.000-08:00

My brother got the band back together, and it rocked. Mark, my overly talented younger brother, had a reunion show for his former band 'Detroit' at the 400 Bar and my mom and I went and it was excellent. I have seen 'Detroit probably about 5 or 6 times and each and they are always great. It is really a mystery why they never caught on with the masses. Their live show is outstanding. They have crazy costumes, have really catchy and funny songs, the guys seem to get along, and the crowd is always lively. They never really found an audience outside Minnesota and that is a shame. They do a medley of Rush songs that transport you back to that magical time of 1985. The originals that they did were mostly their fan favorites: 'Dude Drives a Chick Car, Monster Truck, My Smartest Friend, Fresh, let the Jello Set. The one glaring omission was no 'Fran Tarkenington I love that song. Now my obsession with this song may lay in some personal history. My Dad was the world's biggest Minnesota Viking fan. He went to two super bowls to follow the lads, had scads of Viking gear, and, in a favorite story of my mom's, lost money to bookies on a regular basis. He loved that team and its quarterback- Fran Tarkenton. Now Mark was only 3 or 4 when he died, so he really didn't know him, but I have always maintained that it is a ode to he father and that always made me feel good about that tune. And besides its great song.

That is my take on Detroit. It was great band that should been bigger, but then the music world is littered with bands that should have been something larger that they were so R.I.P Detroit. His current band- Fog- has not really been my cup of tea. They are changing focus, so maybe the new 3 piece will be more to my liking, I hope so those Detroit shows will be missed.

As you can see I fixed my Camera so it back to the family pictures. Here are a few shots of the babies:

This one is on the twins in their crib. We only have the one crib. We actually have a second one, but there is not room in the Inn, so we cram them into to single one. This shot has Harry considering a plan to steal Jack's Binky once and for all. He is very devious, he might look cute but diabolical is more like it.

Here is one of them sitting on the dinosaur blanket. Now that is my blanket- their was a time that everyone in Chris's family bought me dinosaur stuff and this is one of the better pieces of that collection. We use the blanket to keep them off the dog hair on the rug, but they roam so far now that it really is kind of waste of time.

Lastly, here is picture of Jack, Chris, and Chris. That is Chris the Mom and Chris the Dog. Chris, the Mom, has a few gray hairs, and I want to state for the record that those are not a reflection on me or the fact that she has been married to me for 15 years, that is just an ugly coincidence. She looks great, as always in this picture. Sure she has grey hair, but, and I think this is a irrefutable fact, its the best hair ever and that is not debatable. Chris the dog is trying horn in on the picture and the baby is a cute as ever- he must get from his mom. Lucky him.

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A New Era for The Librarian- Blog form

2006-11-18T20:21:00.001-08:00

As you can see we have had quite a make over here at Librarian Headquarters. It is very fancy, ibut n not any additional work kind of way. The librarian will be attempting some rather more expansive additions, but these easy ones were, well, easy. Another change that we will be undertaking will a move to make the blog a little more political. The librarian was empowered by the last election, where the good guys finally won, and it now time to step it up. And by step it up I mean doing my part to ensure that fake weasel of a Senator we have is out of a job in two years. Now don't fret you readers out their that like the baby pictures, they will stay, but I lets not forget about the last remaining Minnesotan political abomination- Norm Coleman, he has got to go.

Here is a post from MNPUBLIS that gets the ball rolling in the right direction. It seems that after Gil Gutknecht got crushed by the unknown Tim Walz last week Mr.Coleman saw light on a rail project:

In January, Coleman went on the record lining up behind his pal, John Thune, and supporting the DM&E Project:
Coleman, R-Minn., said he preferred that the DM&E project not use federal money, but he supports the project. -Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) - January 7, 2006 - Rail expansion back on track
Interestingly enough, Norm’s support of Thune’s pet project convientiently coincided with Thune staking out the Chairmanship of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. In late summer, with Republican hopes dwindling, Thune turned down a run at NRSC Chair:
I’m going to take a pass. It’s not the right fit for me, at least not right now.

With 21 Republican Senate seats up in 2008, and only 12 Democrat - who can blame him? 2008 will not be a fun year for the NRSC.

So - Thune is no longer going to head the most important national committee for vulnerable Senate Republicans seeking re-election. Who are they?: [The Fix]:

Republicans must defend 22 seats and have more obvious vulnerabilities. At first glance, just three GOP senators — Norm Coleman (Minn.), John Sununu (N.H.) and Wayne Allard (Colo.) — look vulnerable

And, surprise surprise, today Norm changed his tune on DM&E:

“If there isn’t a plan, then I’ll do everything in my prerogatives as senator to stop this project, either through the appropriation process or the legislation process.”

His political gain from allying with Thune gone, Coleman shows - again - how his positions change with his personal political situation. Now that the winds have shifted and he recognizes how vulnerable he is in Minnesota, Coleman’s position morphs into something more popular.

I think, says it all about the senior sentor from Minnesota. He actually has no ideas or goals of his own, except getting reelected. When the Rebublicans were in charge he would not stop himself from doing whatever unseemly and counter productive thing the power guys wanted. War in Iraq, removal of Habes corpus for American citizens, a horrible medicare bill, anything if he thought it might help in the next campaign. Also, he was the chairman of he subcommittee for investigations, that never investigated anything, not Iraq, not intelligence, not anything. But all of a sudden the tables turned and now he might be in for a little bit of fight so he turns like a scared turtle. The man is pathetic.

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Halloween and the End of an Era.

2006-11-01T13:38:00.000-08:00

Here are some Halloween pictures of a tough looking Leo in his Robin costume and a Magical Iver in his Malfoy outfit. Leo loves super heroes so Robin was a good fit- he looks extra tough because he got about 10 layers of clothes on underneath, it was a tad cold out. Iver wanted to be Harry Potter, but Mrs. Librarian convinced him to be his evil arch enemy Draco Malfoy because Harry has dark hair and Draco is a blonde like him. So we got the Harry Potter robes, stuck a Sytherlin house badge and crafted a comical wizard hat and viola Draco Malfoy in the flesh. Everybody thought they were very cute. In the picture to the left Leo is showing his punching skill and I do not mind telling you, he saved us a couple of times on the mean streets of South Minneapolis.

I added this picture because I tried to get Leo to pose like the guys in the comic books, and because my mom told me not to include her. She is the one on the couch.

The Librarian titled this post the end of an era because our digital camera
broke. Mrs. Librarian dropped it trying to get some shots of her offspring and the lens got all out of whack, so I might not be able to post pictures in the forseable future. So I added some addtional pictures so the Librarians vast readership can get through a pictureless JerrytheLibrarian.

Here are the twins playing with cat. The cat may actually attempting to flee, but we at the Librarian household cannot understand any livingthing trying to flee the cutiest twins in living history, so they are playing, end of story.

Here are two shots of the twins outside on the last good day of the year. I think I included something similar in my last post, sorry if you are over twinned, but hey its my blog you don't like go see what they are writing about over at TPM.

This last one is of Harry going over the wall. He did not actually make it, but is only matter of time. He spends all of his time looking out the window and dreaming of that day when he will crawl out of the prison that holds him. But besides that I think that he is mostly happy.

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End of Summer Pictures-

2006-10-21T19:58:00.000-07:00

Sorry I have not posted lately, but, and will laspe into my Boston persona here, I have been wicked busy lately. Here are some pictures of my brood doing all sorts of interesting and exciting things. Feel free to download them and trade them with your friends. Of course if anyone were to make t-shirts and sell them, I would want a cut. But on with the photos.

Here is two that actually have nothing to do with Fall. The one to the left is Leo showing the boys how to use their new super terrific ball machine. They were always getting distracted by the loud music and disorienting colors and forgot what button needed pushing, luckily Leo was their to set them straight.

Here is one where Harry/Jack is in the first stages of being mauled by Itchy the Cat. Now the boy was saved by a rather mean series of barks from Chris, the dog not the Mom. So please do not worry about the excess of wild life we have in our little abode, it comes out in a wash. And if we learned anything from the Lion King its that balance is important. Too true.

On to the Fall pics. Here is a couple of the breavason boys relaxing in the back yard. The librarian was hard at work in the book mines, but they seem to have a pretty good time. This first one has Leo monopolizing all the toys and that is not a real monkey he is torturing- just a dead on replica- spooky isn't it.

This next one is of Harry. In this picture he is actually backing up. I can hear you saying- sure he his Mr Librarian, he is moving backwards, rightttt. But trust me he was attempting an rather elaborate escape plan for a 9 month old. Well the plan was just to back up until he was in Canada, but that's still impressive for a lad with his level of experience. I am sure the plans will get much better. This time we got lucky, he only on 10 inches off the blanket. Next time, I hope their is no next time.

Here is picture of Leo on the climbing toy. Now the only reason that this picture is included is that Leo is wearing one snazzy shirt. The Librarian can't wear shirts like that, he just looks like a car salesmen that you would be willing to hide in a trunk to avoid. Leo on the other hand looks great. You would definitely buy a car from him and he would probably be able to slip in a rust coating charge and you wouldn't even mind.

Turning now to the Librarians over arching goal to getting his boys to do all his work for him are these two pictures of the older boys, Iver and Leo, learning about the importance of streaking in window washing. In this first one Iver is working hard on getting it right, but Leo seems a little disinterested. I felt that his heart was not in it and had a little heart to heart with him. Now if you were to ask him about that confab, he might try to imply that a total ban on Dora The Explorer was in his future, but that is a total lie and I dare you to prove it.

This next picture you see a properly motivated and excited 3 year old. Iver is working his tail off like always, but this time we get a glimpse of Leo getting down and dirty making sure that the window is free and clear of streaks. Just think in about 10 years I will be sitting on my large can watching my offspring work my house over. Dare to Dream Mr. Librarian. Dare to dream.

Moving on to boys who like to wears stripy shirts we move inside to the spacious living room and get a couple really sweet shots of three stripy shirts. The first to belong to Harry and Jack. They just love their stripy shirts. In fact they will go so far as to pee on any shirt that is not stripy. True story.

Next here is Leo getting down to some the Librarians funky music. Now Mrs Librarian would rather her Husbands music not be played the minors presence, but they just love it. Look at him he is stripy shirt wearing John Travolta. I cannot wait till he makes his comeback in the stripy shirt Pulp Fiction.

Here is two shots of random fall activities: The first one is of Iver's and Leo's Halloween Gingerbread house. Look at the detail. Now if I was to tell you that either the librarian or the boys did most of the fine artwork on this piece would you have different opinions of the overall worth of the endeavor. We if you would then shame on you. The Librarian is just trying to spend some quality time with his kids and then you come and tear it all down just because doors all crooked and the window looks kind of saggy. And you wonder why the world going down the drain. Its not
all on George Bush.

And last but not least hear is a the twins getting ready to go out into the cold. This is the first time they put on their snow suits and Mrs Librarian almost fainted from the sheer cuteness of the whole operation. You decide.

Well thats it for now but please leave me a comment if you would like to tell me how great my kids are. If you don't like my kids, then keep it to yourself. Thanks

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Good Things Do Happen to Good People- I got a New T.V

2006-10-07T12:18:00.000-07:00

It was a very exciting week for us in the Breva-Erickson household. Mindy and Lance came to visit from the 'old country', I got a raise and transferred to the Apple Valley Library full time, Iver was made a prestigious Line Leader at school, Leo is getting used to his brother not being around all the time, and we got a New T.V.

Now to most of you getting a new TV would not be a big deal, but I have only owned two new TV’s in my long life and frankly that just is not fair. The first one I bought when I was 10 years old with my Newspaper delivery money. It was a 12 inch black and white set that I planned on bring to college- you know a cool dorm TV. But when it was actually time to go to college it turns out a 12 inch black and white TV just didn't make on the coolness scale. Which is actually for the best because it turned out that I was too much of a chicken to actually live in a dorm and having an inadequate TV didn't really matter.

The second TV I have purchased was a 12 inch color set. Notice a trend. Now this TV worked for us for a long time. It was very useful when Mrs. Librarian enjoyed sitting close to me and watching TV together. Now that ship as sailed. I am pretty sure that she wouldn't sit next to me on purpose without a rather good reason and latest episode of Grey's Anatomy ain't one of them. Add to that it just look sad as your main TV. So it was time to move up and thanks to Aunt Karen- she's from California ya know- we got to move into the 21 century, TV wise. She was scandalized by our TV and sent me money to buy a better one. I think it made her sick thinking about her grand nephews trying to watch Lion King on some dinkish clown TV. They just think clearer out on the left coast- even if they did elect the Terminator.

What we got- you can see the picture- is an 20 inch LCD flat screen EDTV. That means digital to you tech heads out there and when you get good reception the picture is pristine- it brought a tear to my eye more that once. That leads me to my new problem- lack of cable/satellite TV- recection is hit and miss. So if any of other relatives out there want to help with that I am all ears. Until then I will train the boys to hold the antenna- don't worry it builds character.

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Leo's Birthday

2006-09-25T16:20:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the lack of posting, I used to do it after everybody went to bed, but school started and we are back to getting up a 0600. That's 6 a.m for you non-military types. Iver needs to be out the door at 6:45 to make his bus, so staying up late to post pictures and ideas is a little low on the 'to do list'. Beside I am not actually sure anybody is actually looking at this so my enthusiasm for the blog as dropped a little. Anyhoo, here are some pictures of Leo Birthday party. Well, it was actually a party, but the new 3 year old opened some of his presents. Enjoy.

Here is a picture of Iver and Leo getting home from the bus stop. Iver has his Lego backpack- you know he is part of the Factory team. And Leo is wearing his stylish tiger backpack. Leo likes to pretend he is going to school just like his big brother. He is really sad when he comes home in the morning, the only way his mom can cheer him up is to do a funny imitation of Iver whining. It makes him feel like he still around. Chris is a very talented mimic in case you ever need some entertainment for a small function- she slays them at the PTO get togethers.

Next here is a picture of getting some the his large presents out. See how helpful and enthusiastic Iver is about helping with the presents. That's is tip for all you readers out there, if you ever need a present helper Iver's your man. He is always johnny on the spot when there are presents are around. You would not know if from these pictures by he would be sobbing in a few minutes- a present boy can only take so much.

Here is a picture of Leo opening a CD. It looks like it is the interminable Dora the Explorer one. You really have not lived until you have heard the 'Backpack' and the 'I,m the Map' songs 50,000 times. Who the hell went and bought him a cd player with repeat- oh yeah Harry and Jack brought it with them on their first day, man those guys are real nice.

Here is Leo riding his new hog. That is one boss ride- dont cha think. He did ask where the pedals were, but I think he really dug this gift.

Here is a picture of one of the two playmobile pirate ships he got. Now that does not mean he got the same ship twice, but rather he got two different ships. They are really cool with pirates and treasure chests - with silver and gold coins. They have real working anchors and tons of swords and guns and cannons. I throw out the guns when I find them, but swords are necessary for defending the pirates from Iver's lego pirate ship- they are wizards, so they already have a leg up. Those wizards cried like a baby the first time a cannon ball came across their bow- wimps.

Here is a picture of the twins. They really do not fit into the birthday theme, but I try to find a place for them in every post. Here they are reaching for the same toy. They were pretty good natured about it now, but I assume as they get older this will turn in a Breva-Erickson ladder match. For you out there who don't know what that is, you really need to watch more professional wrestling. Which is good advice for everyone- even those who do not read this blog.

That's it for know I will continue later, that is if I don't fall asleep.

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Cute Couple Time Warp

2006-09-06T17:39:00.000-07:00

Today is the Day. Fifteen years ago today Christine Anne Breva and Jerry Robert Erickson were married in highly controversial ceremony on the banks of the Mississippi River. It was controversial because besides the actual witnesses who, first hand, saw the carnage of justice that was Jerry marrying so far out of his league to the point of tragic comedy, it was deemed some sort of poorly thought out hoax, much like Big Foot or the Killer Bees.

But the Librarian saw it happen and it was a sight unheard of in the annals of unbelievable long shots and Hail Mary's. The mere idea that some of his stature and limited ability could some seal the deal on the beautiful Ms. Breva, well it just a little hard to believe and I for one saw it. Here are some of the pictures of the stupendous days. I, the librarian pledge that all of these pictures are authentic, I purloined them from the actual residence of the Breva-Erickson's, man is that basement a pit, those guys really need to get that cleaned out. How about that tie and if you look close enough, or enlarge the picture, you can see the nervous zits that Mr Erickson has, man that guy is a giant putz.

Here are a couple rather passionate kisses. These were that highlights of Mr. Erickson's day and I have that on personal authority, well that and the keg they had at the reception. Kissing and beer, that all the man needs. He is rather simple that way.

Well that's the end of the pictures, but I would just like to add that Marrying Ms Breva was basically the only sound decision that he made in the first 24 years of his life and for the last 15 he has been living off the good fortune of that grand day in September. He is like a football coach suddenly lucked into a Superbowl team and for the rest of his life people wonder
'how in the hell that guy did that he's a freakin moron.' Hopefully the next 15 will be as great as the first. Just think, the twins will be 16 year old by then, Jesus those guys are old.

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What if Childress and Gardenhire were Roomates

2006-09-06T15:23:00.000-07:00

What if the two Brain Wizards of the Minnesota Sports lived together. You know, just to save a littel money. Here is the Sport Guy's take - scroll down:

To new Vikings coach Brad Childress, who brought some much-needed discipline back to the Vikes, but with the added bonus that he looks like someone who'd wander into the kitchen of one of those "Dateline NBC: To Catch A Predator" shows holding a 12-pack of MGD and three adult DVDs. I love this guy. Couldn't you picture him living in a trailer with Ron Gardenhire, wearing matching wife-beaters and fighting over Powerball tickets?

I think that says it all and frankly we should not speak of this again.

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Labor Day- Librarian Style

2006-09-06T06:31:00.000-07:00

What does the Librarian do on Labor Day you ask. Sure the Library is closed, for what sort of governmentt worker works on a Holiday. The Librarian worked. That's right, he put his nose to the grindstone and produce a product. In this case a bitch'n Fence. Here are some pictures.

Here are a few of the boys and me working on the Fence. Notice how I am doing a bang up job of supervising. I only had kids for slave labor and after 6 years it is finally working out.

Here is a few pictures of the viewing gallery. These guys did nothing in the building of said Fence, but their time is coming, so look out Harry and Jack the work will find you.

And last but not least the first day of school and a baby picture , the Librarian can't post without a baby picture, I think its in the Fathehood Union Contract.

One more thing, come back tomorrow for an important post.

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Family Day

2006-08-29T21:59:00.000-07:00

In the Librarian's household, Sunday is Family day. It is the only day that both the Librarian and Mrs. Librarian are at home at the same time, so it has been officially designated as 'Family Day' We try to do something fun with the kids that we wouldn't usually do and this Family day was a trip to the University of Minnesota's Arboretum. The Arboretum, for you out of towners, is a huge tract of land in the middle of nowhere that has trails and flowers and fountains and trees and it is an abrupt change from the city, we love it. They also have special exhibits and this time it was secret gardens. So here are some pictures of the big Family Day, enjoy:

Here are Jack and Harry getting ready for the big day. They have to be separated by a blanket wall so they cannot see one another, or else they just get so excited about Family day. Notice the San Diego shirt that Jack is wearing. He thought it was very stylish.

Here are the older boys navigating one of the many hidden trails. They are pretending that they are looking for dinosaurs in the jungle. They are dressed identical by accident, Mrs Librarian and I are not that kind of parents just in case you thought other wise.

Here is a picture of Leo and his extra large dad. Iver took the picture, his mother was off feeding the twins. Is there anything that he can't do. Impressive.

Here is Mrs Librarian pushing Leo in his Jeep stroller. I no longer have a real Jeep and thought Leo should get rid of his out of loyalty to me, his dad, it was the right thing to do. Mrs Librarian did not agree and alas he still gets to ride in His Jeep. Yet another of life's little injustices. Check out the cool steering wheel. Of course my real one was cooler, but what are going to do the kid is only 2.

Here are a couple of shots of some of the Secret Gardens. In one we actually find a Dinosaur egg and Iver got to touch it. Luckily in did not hatch, he was kind of worried about that. The other picture is of a garden that had all these different colored panels and it showed how color changed your perception of plants. Very art schooly.

Here are one more shots of the trails, I think you get the idea. I think Mrs Librarian is pointing out a Mushroom. She never lets the chance to bring up mushrooms pass. If I didn't know better, I think should would marry one, that is if one could actually say something instead of just growing there on the ground.

Lets finish it up with a few pictures of the twins and a really cool Thomas the Train Set up- The Librarian know wooden train set up. See how one track goes under another, we are not fooling around here. That is seriously good set up.

Well that's all for now see you at the next family day.

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The Librarian discovers streaming Video- he is hip!

2006-08-23T08:09:00.000-07:00

Have You Had Enough?

I this love video. Why can't all political ads be this entertaining. Sigh. John Kline voted with the President 98% of the time and although this is a relatively safe Republican seat it may be a pick opportunity. If it is, can you say 'Speaker Pelosi'.

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Mcdonalds: Their just a bunch of Liars, Right?

2006-08-18T17:32:00.000-07:00

This is probably not going to shock anybody, but I find latest toy that you get in the Mcdonalds Kids meal to be over the line. I am fine with them giving out pirate swords to mark the release of the latest Johnny Depp opus. It is okay when they give out killer robots that fight other killer robots that is the Opera- Power Rangers. No problem. They can even give out junky crap, that never works like they say it will, and even if it did it would still be beyond boring. That is okay, but this cannot stand. The latest toy is a Hummer, yes that Hummer, that is powered by Hydrogen. You can tell that Hydrogen is powering the gas guzzling beast because they have printed, in large friendly letters, HYDROGEN. Whats wrong with that you say, its wrong because hydrogen does not power those abominations and never will, but little kids will grow up believing that crap and go and buy one of those 2 ton waste of space and I will have to sit behind it in traffic. They could have just used a Prius, but then again not to many 5 year olds are excited by a Toyota Prius, even after you explain that you can get 50 miles to gallon. Kids.

Build it and They will come - Patio Edition

2006-08-13T20:56:00.000-07:00

The Erickson, Breva-Erickson, and Brevason set is moving uptown, we just put in a luxurious urban patio. Losers just sit outside in the incest invested lawn, classy people have placed rock under their tootsies. Here are a few shots of are new hallmark of high living.

These shots just oozes the class in our family, we have a bee and a pink monkey chairs, Leo does not have any pants on and the Matriarch is sitting on a plastic chair, so obviously we need this patio, just to balance the rest of problems out to a respectable level.

So not to let the world think we are losers with a fancy patio, I thought I would add a picture of classiest members of the family, the twins.

p.s if you click on the picture the twins actual look demonic with evil glowing eyes- I hope this is not some sort of harbinger.

Iver's Latest Lego Project

2006-08-08T20:35:00.000-07:00

Well, time to get off the political tip for awhile and head over to the Lego Desk. Here are some pictures of Iver's latest construction- its the Wizard Ship from the book Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire. You know, the Eastern Europeans come to Hogwart's to compete in the Tri-Wizard tournament and they all travel in a large circa 17th century sailing ship, go figure they are Wizards.

Iver got the ship for his birthday and the usual drill for his lego projects is that He and I work on them together, that is he would watch while I put them together. But this year I am working a lot more so he decided to put the thing together himself and he did. The whole thing. I did not help with one step. It had over 500 legos to stick put together and over 30 steps and he finished on whole thing. His Mom would rather pull her hair out than do Legos so he was on his own. I thought it was quite impressive. Look at the detail. It is really neat that 2 months ago he would not even try to do this himself, but now he could probably put together the Star Wars Death Star- 987 individual Legos.

When I hung up the phone, it occurred to me, my boy was just like me, my boy was just like me."

Cat Stevens- sometimes in the 70's

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Primary day

2006-08-07T20:40:00.000-07:00

This will be a short post for those members of the Nutmeg state. Tuesday August 8th, tomorrow, is the Democratic Primary and I am requesting that everybody go out and vote. I would prefer that you vote for Ned Lamont, but do what you think is best- he will be your Senator. If you still cannot decide here is a post from firelakedog to help prime the Lamont pump. You need a Senator that won't cozy up to Fox News, Sean Hannity, and our incompetent President. Please go out and Vote. Thanks

p.s This is the last time that I will bother you, a least until November.

Iver's Birthday Party- with Pictures Part II

2006-08-04T20:47:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the long gap between posts but Mrs Librarian was using the computer for work when I usually post, and since she thinks this blog is giant waste of my time I really did not have the guts to ask to let me get on the net to complete the story of Iver's 6th birthday party- what can I say I am a wimp and she can be a little scary. Anyway back to the pictures:

Here is a picture of the kids getting ready for some cake and ice cream. They also got to look at their goody bags. Now this party was a double goody bag party. The Nature Center gave them a bag from the treasure chest that they found and then Iver and his Mom but some bags together. So like double mint gum, they doubled there pleasure at this party.

Here's a couple pictures of kids wearing some owl glasses that they got in one of the bags. They really are trying to sell it aren't they. You really believe that they are owls, it is really kind of freaky in a 6 year old kind of way.

After the cake and Ice Cream, which was just about the best cake I ever had. We move to the next phase- present opening. This is were the Birthday boy opens each present and the kids get closer and closer that it gets to a point were you think the Iver will tear open Crosby looking for some Power Rangers. Its a Hoot.

here's a picture where they actually look like Hyenas on the Serengeti munching on some unfortunate gazelle. If you click on the picture you can actually see a tiny bit of blood running down Iver's cheek, it is quite vivid.

He got lots of neat presents- like a Tow Mater that drives backwards and his first Microscope. He even got a slip and slide. Now the Librarian has never been on a slip and slide, although he always wanted one and his mom would never get one. Now I know why. When we finally try out the slip and slide the boys will not use it to they know it safe and that means Dad will have to throw his fat but onto the wet plastic- I will probably end up in traction.

To finish up the day here are some pictures of the Twins. They were totally monopolized by the grandmas. I am pretty sure that they never let anyone else hold them the entire party. Not that I am complaining, if it was not for them I would have ended up holding both of them- Mrs Librarian gets kind of focused when she trying to pull off a event like this.

Here is a picture of Jack- he is wearing some overalls. All the Librarians children look really cute in overalls. I am not sure when you lose that- the ability to wear overalls, but you do. Eventually you end up looking like a farmer who just fell off a tractor, it is not appealing.

Here is one of Harry. He is wearing overalls too, but he is so big and fat you really cannot see them all that well. It does not seem like that car seat will last to much longer. He looks like he will go Superman on it and bust it open like a phone booth. What can I say the boy is a chunk.

Finally here is a final picture of the kids and the Birthday Boy. Iver and his friends had a really good time and Todd did a great job, we could not have been more pleased. Notice how Leo smiles at the bottom of the picture. Just like his Dad. The Librarian cried a little when he saw that one.

Update: Mrs Librarian suggested and I concurred that I should not put up pictures of other peoples kids, so I have removed some of the pictures- Jerry the Librarian
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Iver's Birthday Party- with Pictures

2006-07-30T21:41:00.000-07:00

The oldest offspring is turning 6 this year and we had a Rippin good party for him and a few of his closest friends. The local for the birthday blowout was the Wood Lake Nature Center where, for those of you paying attention to my fascinating life, my friend and Best Man Todd is a Naturalist. For those of you who could not be there, or were not invited- sorry - here is a sort recreation through the magic of digital photography- Thanks to Mindy and Lance for the technology upgrade that made this possible. But on to the photos:

Here is two pictures of Todd and the kids heading out on the nature walk. On the walk Todd asked them various nature questions, if they were right- they were always right, the questions were way to easy- they got a oversized puzzle piece the tell that would tell them were a treasure chest was that had goody bags for the kids. Let me clue the non parents out there, kids love goody bags and there is nothing they would not do get one, including going outside on a 90 + day.

Here is a picture of birthday boy- he looks kind of homicidal does he not.
Don't worry though, he got his cake and presents before any unpleasent could happen and he is back to his happy go lucky self.

Here is a picture of the cake. The cakes 'theme' is the film Madagascar. Why can't adults get cakes like this. I would have loved a Pulp Fiction cake when I was 25. You could have used red icing and maybe had guns and samurai swords on it.

Here's them putting the puzzle together and locating the treasure chest. Unfortunately I could not get a shot of the actual treasure chest because the kids were rapid with anticipation and kept blocking my view. But trust me it was glorious treasure chest. You can see Iver passing them out to the other kids. He was extremely worried about his role as party leader in the days leading up to the party, but as you can see his leadership skills are not in doubt- he is the Patton of 6 year olds.

Well, since it is 1230 in the morning and Leo will be waking me up in about 6 hours I better get to bed, I will complete the Birthday party tomorrow.

Primary Time in the Nutmeg State

2006-07-26T20:38:00.001-07:00

This post is for all of my vast reading audience in the Nutmeg state. August 8, week from Tuesday is the Democratic Primary. Now usually you could ignore the primary, but this one is important. The contest is between Joe Lieberman and Ned Lamont. Lieberman, yes that Lieberman, is running for a third term and frankly I think it is time for him to go. Ned Lamont is millionaire businessman, but don't hold that against him. This is real opportunity to strike a blow for progressive politics and smack down the Democratic machine that has exiled us to the minority for the last 10 years. We need this election.

The easy answer to why Lamont is the war in Iraq. Joe is firm believer in the War and frankly will not even discuss anything bad that happens there or even contemplate leaving. He even went so far to label those who do as unpatriotic and in league with the terrorists. As if actually having a debate is somehow un-American. Here is column that really gets the heart of Lieberman's problem on the war and his slow decent into a Neoconservative fog.

But the war is just one place the democratic voters of Conn. should have pause. First and foremost is continued enabling of the Bush administrations and its insane ideas. He was the last Democrat to fall in line behind Democratic effort to deny the Presidents effort to gut Social Security. There was no reason for him to do that. He was willing to make a deal, any deal to ruin the best run and useful government program ever created. He also cast a deciding vote in the Bankruptcy Bill. That’s the bill that is a disaster for regular people and a godsend to credit card companies and banks- a progressive he is not. So to sum up he may have decent voting record, but only when it doesn’t matter. When the Democrats need him Joe is sucking up the President or appearing on Sean Hannity's radio show or a Fox spin show. He not a Democrat anymore and he needs to be told that in the form of election defeat.

That brings me to the last reason to vote him out, his pledge to continue as independent if he loses in the primary. Is he a Democrat or not. He is basically saying if the voters say no thanks his response is say do over. It is all about him. He feels that the Conn. Senate seat is his and he will not let go no matter what. Well it is time to give a push out the door. Please go and vote on August 8. If you want to vote for Lieberman, even after this concise dressing down, that’s o.k. and least you participated.

Sorry for the long post and thanks for listening.

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MN-Senate: A Mass. Kennedy he Ain't

2006-07-24T20:46:00.000-07:00

Over the last week and half or so a few polls have been released in the Minnesota Senate race between Amy Klobuchar and Mark Kennedy. Now this was suppose to be one the few places for a Republican pick up in the Senate this year, it is turning into a bit of laugher. The first poll had Ms Klobuchar up by 15 points. This was a Minnesota poll that is run for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Now the Kennedy camp is quick to point out that the Minnesota poll leans notoriously towards the Democrats- of course that's not true, but lying comes second nature to these guys. A second poll came out at the end of last week that had Ms Klobuchar up by 18 %, instead of lying about this one they just ignored it. Now the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee (DSCC) came out with a third poll that again has the deems up by 16 percent, look at these numbers:

Klobuchar: 50
Kennedy: 34
Other: Undecided: 15

Now again this may be a partisan poll, although the polling outfit is a highly respected, but with three out I think you can smell a trend. Kennedy is not going to be the junior Senator for Minnesota- He never really had a chance, but sometimes you need numbers to help you see the light.

Kennedy is a lousy campaigner. He has won two elections to the House of Representatives, but the MN-2 is a rather conservative district, and he barley won both times. He constantly polls under what George Bush does in his district and has a hard time fending off competitors he should be mopping the floor with. For example in 2004 Bush out polled him, in the same election by 13%. That means 13 % of the Bush voters would not vote for Kennedy, that is a bad. His opponent in that election was a political novice in Patty Wetterling, someone that Klobuchar had little problem dispatching the run up to the Democratic convention.

Also I hope this puts to rest the fiction that Minnesota is turning red or purple. The Minnesota Senate is firmly in Democratic hands. The Minnesota house is a one seat advantage for the Republicans. In the Senate Norm Coleman is only a Senator today because of a plane crash and the troublesome memorial service for the Late Paul Wellstone. That leaves the Governor, who only wins in 3 way elections. Minnesota is a blue state and Kennedy's embarrassing campaign is just going to be the latest signpost. By the way Mr. Bush is a 34 % in the State- yep nothing but blue skies ahead.

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Cats who look like Hitler

2006-07-23T20:56:00.000-07:00

Sorry for this link. It is another cat site, but how can you not enjoy a site devoted wholly and totally to cats who look like Adolph Hitler. This is pure web gold:

"Does your cat look like Adolph Hitler? Do you wake up in a cold sweat every night wondering if he's going to up and invade Poland? Does he keep putting his right paw in the air while making a noise that sounds suspiciously like "Sieg Miaow"? If so, this is the website for you."

By the way this I downloaded actually looks like my cat Monkey. We found him as a stray, do you think he is actually the cat Hitler- it would explain a lot of his personality, and I would not feel so bad when he finally dies- he the cat Hitler for Christ sakes.

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Face it: The guys kind of creepy !

2006-07-22T10:31:00.000-07:00

This story is a few days old, but it I was reminded of it by the always reliable James Wolcot. At the G8 summit- where Mr. President made several embarrassing mistakes i.e. not know anything about geography, Middle East politics, or having a general sense of how to act diplomatically- he went up to the newly installed leader of Germany and put his grubby hand on her. Here is a picture- she really seems to like, dosen't she. The video is even more disturbing. I mean he doesn't go around touching other world leader does he, what's the difference, oh yeah she's a girl.

Mr. Wolcott main point is that the President crossed many lines with this inappropriate touching, but what he might doing is marking the new Germany Chancellor as belonging to him. Much like a dog pissing on tree to mark territory our President need to indicate to others of his ilk what is his. This is why he hangs those ridiculous nicknames on people and kisses bald man heads. His current Goomar, to use Soprano language- is Tony Blair. He is on his way out and his replacement wants nothing to do with him, so he needs a new one and lucky Mrs. Merkel seems to be his choice. At least he didn’t piss on her- that would have been really inappropriate.

Things I want, # 34342

2006-07-21T20:55:00.000-07:00

My birthday is quickly coming up so if there are any millionaire's out there that would like to buy this for me, I would be really grateful. Sure it is not very practical, but what father of 4 boys under five would not want it.
The thing is a totally electric. None of that flex fuel, half gas half electric motor crap. Totally free of emissions- it doesn't even have a tail pipe. It can go as fast as 130 miles an hour and the charge last over 250 miles. It is one bichin ride. Drawbacks- it does not have a trunk, so where would I put the double stroller- well nothings perfect.

Stuff on a Cat

2006-07-21T12:08:00.001-07:00

I had my Blog class this week and it went better that I expected. We only got two kids to show up, but that is pretty much the par for the course. Summer and teens does not spell library. Also the age group I was targeting was actually the older teens and they pretty much stay away from the library at all costs, so two is not that bad. Hopefully I can do another one this fall and maybe we will offer it adults, the sky's to limit.

Thanks to everyone helped my prepare for the class be participating in my and others blogs. Trikiwoo, the Lanky Man, SOK, CBE and other really helped do the work I need to get the class going.

In getting ready for the class I ran into this Blog and thought it was rather comical. Stuffonmycat.com just photographs cats with stuff on them or the cat in stuff. I find that funny. You could not try this with Dogs so that is at least one thing cats have over dogs, you can make them do funny things.

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Private School- Don't Believe the Hype.

2006-07-15T14:16:00.000-07:00

Private Schools might be a dynamite place to set teen comedies, but as an education endeavor, I will stick with public ones. Here is a link to a N.Y Times article on a study of comparable public and private schools. When the two different schools are controlled for demographics, then they basically yield the same results. So all the money people spend to get their kids a head start is for all for naught.

For years the right-wing noise machine as been trumpeting private education as a cure for what ails our education system. Trying to get the government fund school vouchers to help poor families send their kids to private school. This studies, which came out the Departmentartment of Education and was fully peer reviewed, basically came to the conclusion that Private education is not worth the money. The kids in the competing systems scored near the same.

Off course the report was released without a press conference. If the opposite result was true, you bet they would have had a big press conference and use the study as way to push their pet project of school vouchers. But it didn't say what they wanted so it gets released with little fanfare. It just goes to show you what the Republicans are really interested in is not so much helping education, but squishing the NEA- the Teachers Unions. If that helps the kids- great, if not who cares, they were probably going vote Democrat anyways.

Superman- I met Him at a Barbecue.

2006-07-12T08:25:00.000-07:00

Last Friday Iver and I went to barbecue at the house of one of his school friends. Now I would usually shun these type of events, especially if Mrs Librarian is not coming- she is my security blanket. She is the one I can stand next to and not feel like a complete loser. But she wasn't coming. It is just to hard to get all four kids going for an event like this so I was on my own.

We got there and everybody was very nice. Iver went off to play with is friends I was left to mingle with the parents. I did o.k and actually had a good time, but I did meet a fellow dad that gave me pause. Joe is a high energy type of guy. The kind of person that makes you tired just to talk to and this is what I found out about Joe over about two hours:

He is E.R nurse
He is a member of a Professional Bike team.
He is gourmet Chef.
He is a former Professional Trainer
He is starting a bike tour company that takes riders to Europe on tours.
He is a father of two girls.

And that just the highlights. He rides at least 60 miles a day to train for the bike team. The bike tour company takes bike riders on a 2 week tour of an area of Europe. They will ride 60 miles or so then stay overnight in a Villa where he will make them a gourmet meal. Now I want to reiterate that Joe is really nice guy and I really liked him, but come on! How is someone supposed to compete with that? I was jazzed when I finally got a full time job. I'm pretty sure if we switched lives for a week he would kill himself from boredom and die from over exertion.

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Ted Stevens: the Man Knows his Tubes.

2006-07-08T14:43:00.000-07:00

Found this transcript of Senator Ted Stevens comical description of the Internet on this blog. senator Stevens is from Alaska and was the main guy behind the bridge to nowhere. The Earmark that granted millions of dollars to build a bridge to an island in Alaska that had like 30 people on it. When it got shot down, he claimed it was the worst day of life. So that he is not playing with a full deck is rather evident. But here is transcript- its a doozy.

just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially...
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.
It's a series of tubes.

And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

First, Senator Stevens seems to used the word internet when he means email. Second, that is clearly a lie. If you send email it either gets their right away or it doesn't make it all. This not the pony express. I doesn't take days to there- he is just lying. He also explains that the internet is not a truck- which is actually true so I'll give him one there. He then goes on to explain how the internet is actually a series of tubes- what the hell is that supposed to mean. This guy is one the most powerful Senators in the Senate and this is best he can do for a description of the internet- It like having the Caveman Lawyer from SNL as one of your leaders. A horribly true story.

Tom Delay's Problems Never Seem to Go Away- and that's Kinda Sad.

2006-07-06T13:10:00.000-07:00

Tom Delay has yet another problem. I hope everyone is aware of the general crookedness and sleazy behavior that is Mr. Delay. He took political graft to a higher level and basically made the U.S Congress into a great big money laundering operation for his friends and Cronies. He is a bad guy and finally when the law started to catch up with him he cried uncle and resigned, but not until he won the Republican Primary so he could appoint his successor- hopefully someone with his own lust for corruption.

His plan was to move to Virginia had make himself ineligible for election- according to state law. The dems took him to court instead using the Constitution has the law that covers the U.S Congress. Here is the decision and Mr. Delay lost. Now the republicans got the case moved to a favorable judge and still lost- maybe the republic does have chance.

The Texas Republicans will appeal and if it gets reversed at least it will take a few months off their ability to mount a campaign. If it does not get reversed then they have the wonderful option of either running no one against Nick Lampson or sticking Delay up to run for a seat he just resigned from. Nice. Could happened to a better Criminal.

I got a Hair Cut: Cool.

2006-07-02T21:02:00.000-07:00

I got a haircut a couple days ago. It looked pretty good right after I got it and it still had something going several hours later. But like all my Haircuts by next day it looked crappy. Better than the long hair that it replaced, but not the same happening trim. Now this is not surprising and anyone who knows me understands, oh yah the Librarian he has bad hair, its almost comical. Now I have lived with my hair all my life so I am the last person who would expect something good to happen with my hairdo, but it is still a tad depressing. I have such high hopes when I walk out of Great Clips- yah I go to Great Clips - then the next day things just go hell.

Now Mrs. Librarian has great hair. She got movie star hair. I would show you a picture of her, but I think her head would explode and then the world would be deprived of her beautiful hair, and frankly I don't think, with all the problems in this world, we could survive. When she gets a haircut it looks great when she gets home and it stays great until the next haircut. It is almost mystical. Not that I worship her hair, that's just weird. But I will say that if you are digging around in the reasons to believe in God drawer, Mrs librarian's hair is at least in the conversation.

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Boyfriend of the Day- what's That Supposes to Mean Anyway?

2006-06-29T15:35:00.000-07:00

Here is a picture of Joe Mauer as Superman from Batgirl's blog. According to her she has named Mr. Mauer BOD, or Boyfriend of the Day. I am not sure if this is supposed to flatter the young man or not. Someone who has daily boyfriends could possible be problem down the road, but since we really have no chance of making the playoffs this year well take it. Here's to Batgirl's BOD. .400 here we come.

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Great New Blog: Straight from the Gut

2006-06-28T20:10:00.000-07:00

I just found a great new blog called the Daily Gut. The blog seems to be written by one really funny guy. The posts consists of a news item or funny picture pulled off the web somewhere and they the authors witty reaction. Here is one extra comical one its starts off reflecting on his local donut store calling 14 donuts a dozen:

Hello everyone! I am in sunny San Mateo California at my mom's house, trying desperately to understand why my mother still has a picture of me in my underwear up in the family room (it was taken last year at a picnic). Anyway, after my ten hour flight, I came home and drank three beers in the sun, and then passed out...for fourteen hours!! During that time, I woke up three times, unsure of where I was, and I kept dreaming about peeing. That's always a scary dream,after you've had a few beers. So after the last dream, I got the message, took a piss, and went to Safeway to get some donuts. At Safeway, they have a sign that says: "here a dozen means fourteen." This angers me. How does this help our already beleaguered teachers who are constantly telling young students that a dozen means twelve? And you wonder why education in the country is a shambles. So I grabbed two donuts and went to the checkout. I told the cashier, "did you know that you're giving 14 donuts when you should be offering twelve?" So She told me the extra two are free. "You mean these?" I said, holding my donuts. It didn't work. I paid $1.14. The movies on the plane were awful and illustrated clearly to me what is wrong with Hollywood, besides the fact that IT totally ripped the name off of Bollywood. I watched three movies, none of the titles I can remember because I was on Ambien. But here are my thoughts:

1. The movie in which Jennifer Aniston believes the Kevin Costner character is her father and then finds out he isn't and then HAS SEX WITH him: it would have been so much better if, after she did screw him, she finds out he really was her father, but it doesn't matter because they love each other. They then produce a dozen retarded children. Which, at Safeway, means 14. Problem one: Hollywood won't take risks. Screw Brokeback Mountain. I want father/daughter - the last taboo. It would be great if they had Jon Voight play the father, and Angelina Jolie play the daughter.

2. The movie with Matthew McConaughey living at home with his parents and the broad from Sex and the City hired to get him out by pretending to like him: why does Matthew talk like a stoner in every movie? Is that because HE JUST CANT ACT? More important why is it when a producer needs to find someone to play a wacky and with-it aunt, it's always Kathy Bates? She was in the flick, and in the flick I mentioned before. She plays the same character. Unless I'm confused. I was on Ambien. Next time they need someone to play a wacky and with-it aunt, they should get Mike Farrell.

3. The movie with Harrison Ford who plays a computer expert whose family is kidnapped and he has to somehow rob a bank to free them: did you notice that ever since Calista Flockart hooked up with Ford, his career has gone to hell? He also got that embarrassing ear ring. Harrison looked terrible in this movie. He seemed winded and exhausted. He looked like he needed a donut. I could have given him one of mine. Also: movies where the primary action involves people typing crap into a computer should never be made. Or if they are made, the characters should be played by meerkats. At least that would make it interesting. Anyway, I am typing this from my mom's crappy computer. So apologies if my posts are slower than usual. I'm off to the mall to by myself a vacation hat. A floppy one!

Now if you find that funny please check out the blog. I have link in the Librarians approved links so give them a try.

Excelsior

I Can't think of anything to Blog About.

2006-06-27T21:04:00.000-07:00

I am trying to keep up with dynamic and interesting posts, but since I am not either dynamic or interesting you, the reader, gets a crappy book review. The book that I am currently reading is a Mystery by James Swain called Sucker Bet. Sucker Bet is the second book in a mystery series about ex-cop Tony Valentine, from Atlantic City. He is retired and moved down to Florida to open up a consulting business finding gambling cheats for Casinos. The author is an expert card manipulator and one of the foremost experts on card and casino scams so the book just bleeds authenticity. Now I normally do not read fiction, but this is a very appealing series. The characters are interesting and the books have tightly scripted plots that just fly by. So give them a try. I really like them.

As an aside, what led me to the Swain books was my growing infatuation of a sub genre of mystery fiction called Sleazy Floridians and its wacky inhabitants. Carl Haissen, Tim Dorsey, Elmore Leonard, and Dave Barry are the main writers in this genre and you should try them all, they are hysterical. They usually start with some sort of demented character that is doing something he/she shouldn't and then the rest of the characters have to try to stop/ unravel the problem that occur. The theory of this genre is that Florida is beacon for every wack job, morally degenerate, and general jack-ass in the U.S. That recent history of that fair state tends to back this up makes the books all the more realistic. They are just funny and I heartily recommend them. That's all for now please don't forget to patronize your local library. And if you don't have library card- keep it to yourself.

Excelsior.

I Don't Know What's Worse: being evil or stupid, but he's both!

2006-06-20T20:08:00.000-07:00

Look at this post over at Talking Points Minute. Josh is talking about this book by Ron Suskind, the One Percent Doctrine, that is truly sickening and horrifying. There are a bunch of quotes about Abu Zubaydah, an reported brain wizard in the al Qaida seating chart. It turns out, instead of being a high level terror suspect he was a mentally ill al Qaida hanger on. So not only does the President declare the capture of this mentally ill man as big step in tracking down the rest of that group- that's just lying, no big shakes for this crew, no after it is determined that he has no info and can be of virtually no help the President Bush still wants him tortured to safe face. That is a direct quote. So in order not to look like an idiot he is willing to torture a mentally ill man into giving info he doesn't have. Sure sounds like something Jesus would do, don't it. If this doesn't buy him a one way ticket to Hell, I don't know what will.

Another aspect that just makes me sick is after he was tortured he finally began saying that their were plots everywhere. And every time he made a new one up, "thousands of uniformed men and women raced in a panic to each . . . target." So lets go over this we have this guy, he works for al Qaida, but we know is no leader and he is mentally ill. So we go ahead and torture him into giving info we know that cannot be of any use and we send off valuable manpower and resources to check into these phony tales. What kind of idiots are running this War on Terror. Though I know that the torture of an mentally ill man is the worst part, I can not help thinking that the fact that they were still willing to waste time on the fraudulent terror plots makes me very sad for the leadership of this once proud country. I hope everybody who voted for this incompetent and evil idiot are happy. I'm sure al Qaida and Osama are.

They made a movie about a Race Car and it didn't Suck

2006-06-15T20:30:00.000-07:00

The boys and I went to see the movie Cars last night and it was outstanding. Now before you get all excited and start making plans, you should understand we love Pixar movies. Everyone has been outstanding, or to put it another way they have never made a bad film. That's twenty years and about 7 films, not counting the shorts that have all been excellent in themselves. Disney or those moronic losers over at Dreamworks can barely make one good one in row then they are crapped out for 4 or 5 years. They are like a drunk relative that might be funny for the first hour of the Family reunion, then that over and its 10 hours of his random screaming and pointless stories. Pixar ain't that, Pixar is as close to cinematic perfection that you can get.

The worst Pixar movie is clearly Its a Bugs Life, and that is better than just about every other children's movie, that's not a Pixar, out there. Don't let them sell you on any of that Disney dregs like Lion King or Beauty and the Beast- they suck. Even Shrek, although decent, is so infatuate with the comical voice the Mike Myers makes and its oh so clever fairy tale name dropping, that you get bored by the end. And don't get me started on Shrek 2. Now Disney final as thrown in the towel and spend all their lunch money on buying Pixar- that's in the Microsoft business plan 1) try to copy/steal there ideas 2) if that doesn't work buy them out. Hopefully that won't stop Pixar- I for one would be crushed.

Click here to check out the trailer. Click here for a fist full of reviews- most of them positive, the negative ones are clearly crazy. The movie was great. Every character in the film is a Car, so in some ways it is hard to care about the different individuals, but that feeling is quickly removed as the story heats up. And the animation is pitch perfect with more detail than a live action film. The opening scene is of a Piston Cup race and the animation is eye popping and I forgot that the movie was a cartoon- that never happened at the Lion King, especially during those hideous songs. So go see the movie, even if you don't have kids, the Librarian and his two older boys give it 4 boys up, way up.

I own a Van Damn it !!!

2006-06-13T17:45:00.000-07:00

I will be 39 years old this August. Big deal you say 39 not so old and you would be right 39 is not such a big deal. This year is also a rather important year in that Mrs. Librarian and I had twins and now I have four kids- all boys. Now up to the point I met Mrs Librarian I thought that this particular development was as probable as Ann Coulter taking over Meredith Viera's chair on the View. But fact that I am now co-owner of a 6 person family still does not give me any pause, big deal, moving on. But this year is also the year that I became a Van owner, I think I just threw up in my mouth. Its not even one of those out of sight, heavy, happening vans- you know they usually have a unicorn on the side or some wicked flames and a little tiny window way up on top so you can't see what's going on inside. No my Van is a minivan. Can any motorized vehicle sound any more wimpy, it's a mini- sounds tough don't it. This is the year that I cashed in all my hip chips, not that I had any in the first place, took my place in the lame loser line.

The van I posted here is an almost identical version of my hot ride. I did not actually put a picture of my van because that would mean photographing it. The coolest part of my van is that it has a DVD in it. Now my mom had a Van that she hauled me and my two brothers around in and it had its own sink, but if I knew then that I would one day own a car with video capability I wouldn't thought the sink was so cool- actually the sink was rather lame, I don't it actually ever contained actual water so it was more like a bowl with a holes in it. But the DVD is actually kind of cool; the irony of the whole thing is that I will never get to watch it- its for the guys in the back and with four guys riding in the back, there is no room for moi.

So just to add it up I will be 39 this year, I have four kids, and I own a MINI VAN. That is a coolness equation if I ever saw one. Zoom Zoom Zoom.

Kang and Kodos

2006-06-12T16:45:00.000-07:00

Check out this post from a Andrew Sullivan reader. Now I know the Andrew can come off as a Conservative dink and he is a tad on the racist side- he published the first excerpt from the Bell Curve and stands behind its demonstrably false conclusions to this day. But he is still interesting read because is willing to look at reality and adjust. Most conservatives don't bother and just bow down to the White House and lambast any type of criticism. Kang and Kodos quickly figure out how to function in American politics:

Kang: Abortions for all
(Crowd boos)
Kang: Very well, no abortions for anyone.
(Crowd boos)
Kang: Hmm... Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!
(Crowd cheers and waves miniature flags)

I don't really have any point to make about Kang and Kodos, or Andrew Sullivan for that matter, I just remember laughing my ass off about that episode.

Summer Problem Solved

2006-06-10T14:46:00.000-07:00

I have solved everybody's Summer problem. What problem is that you say, that problem is HEAT. I have personally solved the air temp. for everybody in the upper Midwest. It was hot not its not. What did I do, well it was very simple all I did was get my Air Conditioning hooked up.

For weeks, I think it was 18 days of straight, 80 degree weather ruled our beloved Minnesota. To be blut, it sucked out there. High temps and high humidity and you know what that does- it brings out the heat lovers. And the only thing worse than 97 degrees and a high dew point is that idiot who just loves it and always running around saying how great it is that is finally summer. Those individuals need to move to Florida with the rest of the wackos who feel having your body swimming in your own sweat is somehow novel, or appealing, they make me sick. They are probably the same annoying people who love it when it is 80 below in the winter. What exactly is wrong with people.

Back to my problem solving. So it hot out. For weeks it was in the upper 80's or 90's and everybody was getting grumpy. So I took it upon my self to solve it. I had all the components for a central air heaven maker, but with zero knowledge how to make it produce that sweet cool air that us non freakish humans love. So I called someone to install it and they did and what happened the very day the svengali air conditioner guy came over- it didn't make it out of the 60's. The weather guys- who are never right - tell me that is won't get out of this cold snap for a least a week. So there you go $750 dollars to make sure that I will never have to turn the thermostat to 'cool' I hope you are all happy.

2006-05-27T10:17:00.000-07:00

It seems after 6 years of the President of the United States using the constitution as bird cage liner and the Congress ignoring the problem a real constitutional Crisis may have arrived. Congress as been as effective of a WWF referee under George Bush. Bush or Cheney will pull out a set of brass knuckles and the Congress suddenly looks the other way, not this time I guess. Look at this from the New York Times. The Attorney General, the FBI Director and other assorted Justice Department mucky mucks are threatening to resign if this does not go their way. Now clearly, I think, the DOJ went to far. The FBI and the DOJ are part of executive branch and the Constitution clearly does not want them involved in investigating the legislative branch. Now it is also clear the Jefferson, the House member, whose office was searched is about as sleazy as can be, but the proper response was to have the Capital police work with the FBI on the search. They asked to be included, but were told to scram.

If this is what it takes to get the Congress to pay attention to their job the so be it. Sure they are only interested, now, because maybe the Feds will be coming for them next but I will take it. In the name of the War on Terror, President Bush has been ignoring the constitution at will. He signs laws he has no intention of following and adds a signing statement explaining that he will not be following the will of the Congress. Our nicely designed democracy is slowly turning into a slightly benign fascist state - yikes. The President as deemed the will to arrest you without a publicly stated reason - Patriot Act- hold you forever with never charging you- Gitmo. That is what the Nazi's did, but now it is American as Apple pie. It is time for Congress to stand up and say no more, it is to bad that a corrupt slime bag like representative Jefferson has to be the center of this, but beggars can't be choosers.

Lay me down: or how Skilling didn't make a Killing.

2006-05-25T15:20:00.000-07:00

Check out this post by Kevin Drum over at the Washington Monthly blog.

Today, the former Enron weasel was found guilty on 19 counts of conspiracy,
fraud, false statements and insider trading. His boss, Ken Lay, was found
guilty on ten counts of conspiracy, fraud, and false statements. Apparently
rich guys with good lawyers can occasionally be convicted of white collar
crime after all.

I am with Mr. Drum on this one. I thought the Lay and Skilling would sail off into the sunset in the nicely fitted yachts. Maybe the tide is turning.

Minneapolis Public Library: Build it and pray they come.

2006-05-23T13:03:00.000-07:00

The title of this Blog is Jerry the Librarian, so I am sure everyone is wondering what the Librarian thinks about the new Minneapolis Central Library. Well, actually I have not been there yet, but I am going, soon I promise. I have been on a tour of the place when they were building it, so I have a understanding how it will look, but I am still a Library virgin when comes to this library. The old library was a disgrace, so they needed to do something. And normally I would have not problem with building a great library, but money problems with that particular system make building a book shrine of this size a tad out of place. Now we all have money problems, but when you put up a new building- a big expensive new building- and do not have the money to run it, then I think you might have to rethink your priorities. They also have 8 branches- with new buildings going up for them- that are also waying down on the library checkbook.

Now I do not work for the Minneapolis library, but I am resident of Minneapolis, so it is kind of my home system and what I want out of my library is as institution acts like a library should- be open more that its closed, have a wide variety of materials and be a sound organization. Now I do not know anything about MPL but if they were going to build this giant building, they ought to be prepared to staff it and have it open. So far so good, but one more economic storm and it feels as if the whole thing might go under. As it is the Branches are only open 3 to 4 days a week and frankly that is not enough. So I hope as library card holder for MPL that everything works out, but what good is a building if there isn't any money to run it.

Stadium I Hateium

2006-05-22T11:09:00.000-07:00

Well the Legislative session ended on a more civil note this year, so at least we will not have to deal with a Government shut down and non-stop blathering from pundits and politicians. But instead, this year, we have to live with the fact that we are building two new stadiums, one for the Gopher football team and the other for the Minnesota Twins, with a Vikings screaming down our necks next year. Now I am not against the stadiums per say, but it bothers me that with all the money problems this state has how can building these sports shrines make sense. How about putting some money into roads or schools or libraries or giving back to cities so we won't have to see double digit property tax increases every year.

The baseball stadium was bad enough, but a least that will be paid out of a slightly higher sales tax for Hennepin county and they will be having games there at least 75 games a year. The Gopher boondoggle came right out of the general fund- 55 million dollars, but here is the kicker- for 6 games a year. Six games. You are telling me that couldn't make the Metrodome work 6 times a year- its not even that far from Campus- and any how who gives a crap about the Gophers football anyways and I am a Alumnus. Well maybe the fact that the teams got their precious stadiums that will give the confidence to go on a non stop winning streak- nay what I care, just give me my money back.

Introducing the Librarian

2006-05-20T14:17:00.000-07:00

Hello Blogworld,

Welcome to Jerry the Librarian. I, Jerry, happen to be a Librarian- neat how that all works out, ain't it. This space will be devoted to everything about me. What am I reading, what am doing at work, what is going on at my house- which is actually a lot since I have four young boys and the last two are twins only 3 months old. So if anybody is actually reading this you will be flooded with cute baby/kid stories with library topics thrown in just to keep it interesting. I will comment about the news- I am a political Junkie- and popular culture- I find celebrities fascinating- and just about anything else that interests me. So new reader remember, this blog is all about Jerry the Librarian so if you are not as enamored with what I am discussing please sent me evil and mean comments- I so do love people talking about me.