The Cobbler

I was pouring some creamer into my coffee this morning and was dismayed to see it had curdled.

"Man," I said as I spooned out the lumps, "I hate having curds in my coffee."

To which The Cobbler replied, "Yeah, and I hate having Shiites in my donuts."

See, there's a reason my 18-year-old son is The Cobbler. Actually, he calls himself Shakespeare's Cobbler, after the commoner in the opening scene of Julius Caesar. He loves "cobbling" with words, just as that character puns soles/souls, and plays with the multiple meanings of the term "to cobble." (See here for the text.)

He is actually quite erudite, however, and is a dual comp-sci + theology major at Franciscan University of Steubenville. You can read his stuff on the blog Three Anachronisms.

Trammel Park Rocks!

Trammel Fossil Park is a really cool place in Sharonville, Ohio, north of the city of Cincinnati -- in fact, just outside the I-275 circle freeway!

My kids went there in September on a field trip with a homeschool group and brought home samples of fossils from the late Ordovician period. As the link above explains, there are actually four rock formations exposed and there are signs all over the place telling exactly what is there. Great for the budding paleontologist!

Amazing that we've lived here for seven years and never heard of this place until now... Yet it's less than five miles from our home! We'll definitely be back.

Update: My photo links to the NKU site were broken. They have been replaced with other images.

The Wienermobile

Here I am beside one of my favorite vehicles of all time, the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. We were on vacation and it was parked in our hotel parking lot.

Note the hot dogs in buns for the instrument panel.

Pretending to audition for a commercial.

Well, what would your license plate say?