Details

So it looks like there is enough interest to hold the Summer Games. Does anybody have a preferred starting date? We could shoot for the July fourth weekend if everyone is in town and wants to get together or we could just pick a random weekend or two. Personally I think it would be best to do it over two different weekends. If anybody has a date they prefer or are not available let me know otherwise I will just put out a couple of dates.

Who Wants to Play?

I would like to officially propose a Summer Games Event Challenge. I am picturing a decathlon style contest held over a series of weeks or possibly a weekend or two. I tried to come up with ten events that would be fun, challenging and that guys and girls could compete in fairly evenly.
1. Salsa Making
2. Pop-a-shot
3. Limericks (for Leslie)
4. Horseshoes
5. Ice cream making
6. Trivia contest of some kind
7. Risk (or another board game)
8. Three Flies Up (this one may have to be split into guys and girls)
9. Golf (the card game)
10. Dodgeball
If anybody has any suggestions for other contests that should replace or eliminate any of the above please feel free to post them.

Update: Perhaps we could locate a Wii somewhere and put Wii boxing, bowling, tennis, etc in for one or some of the above.

So what does everybody say? Is this something that sounds fun?

TV Night

For Jennifer and I Mondays are soccer practice night, softball night and tv night. It seems like ninety percent of the shows we watch together are on Monday nights. The poor DVR has to work overtime starting at 4:00 to catch old episodes of How I met Your Mother and keep going until about 10:00 at night.
Last night after the softball game we were watching a new favorite the Big Bang Theory and they mentioned the Drake equation. The Drake equation is a postulate for calculating the odds of finding extraterrestrial life. I had to pause the show and ask Jennifer if it was a good or bad thing that I knew what the Drake equation dealt with (although I didn't know the actual equation). She just looked at me and said "I am just glad you don't look like the guys on the show."