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La and I were at Lowe’s today and I noticed a “smart” refrigerator. One of the doors had a huge touchscreen display on it.

I drew a smiley face in the “Family Hub” area, and thought that was definitely worth the $3,000 price tag. There was an option to take a photo of the food inside and label everything with expiration dates… a feature that is probably cool for about two days and then becomes tiresome. Best of all, apparently you can listen to music (via Pandora) on your fridge. Because hey, who wouldn’t want that?

Next to the fridge was a smart oven that advertised wireless networking. I guess that solves the age-old mystery about “did I leave the oven on?” after you leave home.

I’m a big fan of technology, but I’m just not sure a musical fridge and a wifi oven are high on my list.

Happiness is playing ultimate barefoot in November, because it’s almost 70 degrees.

Last night I told Zack we should think of a cool band name… just in case we find ourselves creating a band one day. He came up with

Rejected Kidney

which is the best band name I’ve heard in a long time. At least now we’re set for that one day.

I think I did a decent job of dressing up as Dr. Emmett Brown for Halloween.

Of course there were a few heathen teenagers who didn’t recognize me, because they hadn’t seen Back to the Future, but I could excuse them because none of them had been born then.

Fun times.

There’s nothing quite like a Halloween party at 6am. Here I am with my fellow seminary teachers… these ladies are so awesome.

I just opened my image-processing software and noticed the logo…

Well played.

Courtesy of Kyra’s professor, here are the various hurricane cat… egories.

This is what happens when you have a kid who drinks mom’s nog.

Today I was chatting with Dave, and he and I both agreed: it’s better to spend money on experiences than on things.

I’m spitballing a trip to St. Louis in December, so I was looking at some airline flight options. This one is my favorite.

Things it has going for it:

1) The cost. At $2,100 (not including baggage fees) it’s the most expensive flight by far… more than ten times the cost of the cheapest flight.

2) The layovers. There are stops in Charlotte, NC and Kansas City, MO, so I’d get to fly all the way out to the East Coast, back again, and then cross Missouri for a third time before finally arriving in St. Louis.

3) The flight rating. Wow, 1.6 stars out of 10. I’m guessing the flight attendants either ignore the passengers entirely, or perhaps beat them with pillows throughout the flight. Whatever the reason, people really don’t like this flight.

4) The trip time. This is the best of all, because at twelve and a half hours, it would actually take longer to fly the 850 miles than to drive. That doesn’t even include the time spent arriving two hours before departure, nor the enjoyment of the usual TSA invasive pat-down.

So, umm, no. I won’t be taking this flight.