Wake up Madalyn!

I'm now officially the king of baby talk. I guess it comes with the territory. Here we were at camp, Madalyn was in sleeping and Jen had me wake her up. She wasn't too happy when she finally woke up, but I mainly wanted to video her dreaming of eating. It's probably the best dream a baby can have, since I think it's gotta be one of their favorite things to do. :p

I'll try to blog more later. I don't seem to be on the computer as much in the summer, between running, brewing and now, kickin' it with Madalyn.., my computer time is limited! Anyhow, back to the Tigers game.. top of the 9th and the Tigers are in the lead.. woohoo!

First 1/2 Martahon - Dexter-Ann Arbor

Dexter-Ann Arbor 1/2 Marathon. 1:45:45. 636th out of 2500 at an 8:04 avg. pace. I felt ok, for not doing any hardcore training for this race. I definitely will advocate NO beer drinking a week before a race.. That definitely helped me out. :) I might do this one again though, it was fun and a really nice scenic run. I'm going to use this race as a motivation for the Detroit Half Marathon... My goal will be to beat this time by a minute or two.

Half Marathon

For the past three months, part of my morning routine Monday through Saturday has been to strap on my running gear and head out into the darkness. I can honestly say I haven't taken this training as serious as others, but I still managed to get up and go out running everyday.
The race I'll be running this Sunday morning is the Dexter-Ann Arbor 1/2 marathon (13.1 miles). Thirteen miles sure does sound like a lot, but it really isn't as bad as you would think. The training schedule I did, had me running up to 40 miles in one week, so I kind of got used to longer runs. I did most of my long runs (10, 12, 14 miles) in Angola, IN. Angola is the perfect place to train because of the huge, long, grueling hills. There were many times I was several miles from my campground running by Amish farms, trying like hell to make it up another hill where I thought about just laying down and hoping an Amish family would take me in and feed me pancakes.. haha.
Anyhow, I'm looking forward to my first 1/2 marathon. The race follows Huron River from Dexter, MI to downtown Ann Arbor, MI and from what everyone says it's an awesome run. The best part about it is, at the end, there is the "Taste of Ann Arbor".. which is a big event where you get to taste various restaurants offerings - as well as a beer tent (Arbor Brewing Co.) that I will more than likely be found at shortly after I finish. :) Well, my training isn't over yet.. time to go run a quick 4 miles before work!

Blowin' raspberries

Madalyn learned a new trick in the past few days. She sticks her tongue out and blows. It must be pretty entertaining because she does it quite a bit. I sat her up Saturday morning and laid down next to her and she sat there blowin' raspberries for about 15 minutes.. spitting all over me. I'm trying to get her to do it on command, but then again, it's probably not the best "trick" to teach a kid.. :p

There's wood in my granola bar!

Pretty cool response from the Quaker folks. I don't find the time to complain very often, unless I'm sitting in front of a computer, eating, and there's wood in my food. :) I kind of chuckled at their response about me asking to send the wood in to them.


Dear Quaker:
The numbers on my UPC code actually read 305080, however, the previous menu didn't accept that, so I left off the last zero. I was enjoying my daily Quaker Chewy 25% less sugar Chocolate Chip Granola bar today when I came across something that was not chewable. I pulled it out of my mouth and found three piece of what appear to be either wood or straw. It is not food, whatever it is, as it is too hard to bite into. I set them aside and later examined them and it does appear to be small slivers of either wood, straw or sticks of grain or something. I saved them, if you would like me to send them to you. Luckily I didn't swallow them as I'm sure that would not have been good. The edges of these foreign objects are sharp. Please let me know if you would like me to mail these to you. Thanks.


Rob:

We're sorry you found something in one of your Quaker Chewy Granola Bars that caused you concern. Your well-being and the reputation of our products for quality and safety are of the utmost importance to us. It's important that we know about your report and we're relieved to learn that you were not injured.

Many safeguards are in place in our plants to prevent foreign materials from coming into contact with the product. Screening equipment and inspection procedures should prevent an occurrence such as you reported. Our quality assurance team has been notified and your comments serve to stress the importance of our inspection procedures.

Please accept the coupons we've mailed you and our sincere apologies for any inconvenience related to this matter. Your coupons should arrive in about a week. Please be assured that we will always strive to produce high-quality products in which you can have complete confidence.

With regards to what you're holding on to, it won't be necessary for you to send them to us as we have all the information that's need for quality assurance. We thank you for thinking of us.

Thank you, Rob, for your business and loyalty to Quaker. We hope you'll continue to select and enjoy our products for many more years to come. After all, we know you have a choice of brands and always appreciate you choosing ours. We're confident your next Quaker Chewy Bar will offer you a pleasant experience.

Quaker Consumer Relations

Watching hockey..

I snapped a few pictures while Madalyn and I were watching the Red Wings today. I goofed around in Photoshop and made this gif. Pretty goofy eh? Madalyn is infatuated with hockey and most of all baseball. If we ever need a babysitter, we're going to find a Tigers game.. she absolutely loves baseball games for some reason.

Let the playoffs begin!!

I always say I should call my blog "stuff KC sends me." He always finds good stuff and sends them to me, so I can't take credit for a lot of links I post on this blog. Anyhow, this video had me cracking up. I laugh every time I watch it. I figured it was great timing since the playoffs begin tonight. Enjoy and... GO WINGS!!