Since other people are sharing photos, here's a link to some of Jen and Dave's pictures of our Chipotle outing on Friday.  I'm on the lower right stuffing my face with burrito goodness.

This week, I received a check in the mail from some kind of CitiBank class action settlement.  I'm always skeptical of envelopes that say “check enclosed” on them, but it was legit, and on top of that, it was for a grand total of eight cents!  What a waste! Nevertheless, It was the most news-worthy check I've received recently...until today.

Today, Becky received a check from the Screen Actors Guild for $64 for the infamous Unsolved Mysteries episode she “starred” in back in 1990.  Evidently, they played that part of the episode again on some cable special.  My check is crap compared to that!

So no, the title of this entry is not a typo.  We received multiple checks in the mail, not a single check that is currently in the mail.

Now that I'm older, I've come to love the Spring time change.  I got home from work at about 6:00, and it was still bright out.  I went for a run around the pond and it was beautiful.  It poured rain like nobody's business early this morning, so the stream was flowing and everything was green.  It was great.

I went to Belton this weekend to spend some time with my family.  Saturday afternoon, Dad was needing some rest, so Andrew, Zack (Andrew's brother in law), and I went and played some golf at Sammon's in Temple.  I am not a good golfer.  The last time I played golf was at Andrew's bachelor party where I threw one of Zack's clubs into the water.  That's another story altogether.

Sammon's has ALOT of water, and has changed alot since Peter and I used to go swimming at the pool there.  I only lost about 9 balls.  I had a few choice shots including a chip-in from about 30 yards out.  Andrew and I were playing the best ball between us and ended up shooting an 83.  We tied Zack.

Dad is doing very well, you wouldn't have known he almost died on Tuesday, except he keeps bringing it up.  We ate at Chili's Saturday evening.  I have some pictures, but they're not very good because it was pretty dark.

The weekend was cut short when some joker left a weird note in our driveway. (Becky stayed home for some rehearsals)  I had to come home to make her feel better.  It was probably a completely innocent note, but we couldn't figure it out because it was so weird.

OK, Jen and Dave are here.  We're gonna eat left over pizza from our Sunday School party Friday night.

Dad got out of his pacemaker surgery at about 4:30pm yesterday.  I spoke with him on the phone, and he was feeling great, aside from, “an anvil on his shoulder”.  (He was referring to pain at the site of surgery, not an actual anvil)

He's very excited about having such a serious problem fixed.  His EKG is very strong and precise now, much better than it was before.  Since his thyroid surgery years and years ago, his resting heart-rate has been low, and now it cannot drop below 60 bpm.  This should help him have a more active lifestyle.

Anyway, he's doing great and should get to go home this evening.  Thanks for your continued prayers and support.

Amidst all the hustle and the bustle,  marklio.com came online!  That's right, I'm taking myself out to eat.  There were some great suggestions, both in the comments and in person with various people.  Among my favorites:

• www.notdumblikeanaggie.com - This was great, I was worried a certain group of people would be unable to spell it correctly.
• www.hardaypleer.com - This would have served to forward my and Peter's agenda, but hardaypleer is bigger than just one man.  Peter, do we still have that old site archived somewhere?
• boogatyboo.com - I laughed real hard on this one, but I think Jenkies should use this one to rebrand his blog.

But, I decided to stick with marklio, especially under the current circumstances.  This was a nickname my dad gave me. It's how he addresses most of his emails to me.

So, welcome to www.marklio.com!  The old address will continue to work so that permalinks can still be permanent.  not much use calling them permalinks if they're not.  Let me know if you have any problems, although that's kind of like telling someone to call you if their phone isn't working.

We ate at Fuddruckers with Dave and Jen and Jen's brother Jerry and Jen's parents.  We had a great time.  I hadn't eaten a hamburger in a long time.

After some Rice Krispie square sculpting (long story), I had this thing with 4 legs.  Someone suggested I make more legs so it would be an octopus.  Dave remarked that I currently had a quadrapus, which I found hilarious.

Then we got to thinking about what other pus creatures might exist, like the millipus, with 1000 tentacles, and the mythical monopus, which must be something like a snake.