We celebrated Jared's birthday recently with family, and he had a great time. He enjoyed running wildly through the Corn Maze in Meridian.

We recently surpassed 88,888 miles on our car's odometer. Halloween was very cold this year, and scary for Becky, so we didn't go to a lot of houses, but still managed to get lots of candy. Jared was Mr. Incredible, and Becky was a fairy princess. =)

BodySpace, at work, now has over 20,000 active members, woohoo! Becky's school had a fundraiser, selling tubs of frozen cookie dough. We sold enough tubs for her to earn a couple of fun prizes. =)

We've watched "Cars" (2006) on DVD a lot lately. It's a great, fun film, though, and a great addition to our collection. Jim Britain lent me the 25th Anniversary edition of "Pumping Iron" (1977; Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno) on DVD. Not what I expected, but a great film, nonetheless.

I had only tried out one USB portable app (Torpark) a few months ago before Brad recently mentioned that I should try the portable edition of Thunderbird, which I have now done - and love. Torpark (a portable Onion Routing version of Firefox), on the other hand, is just too darn slow to be actually useful.

Thunderbird, however, is great. I did encounter some initial difficulties getting everything set up (MSN mail proved difficult after an already existing Hotmail account - they share the same add-on module, but require different settings), but now that it's all working great, I absolutely love it! The beauty is that I'm running it off of my iPod Shuffle, not an actual USB thumbdrive, so I've got music, multiple email accounts*, RSS feeds, and newsgroups all on the same portable device. =)

In other news, I found myself making a cameo appearance in our online comic at work, Brawn's Gym. It's killing me! I enjoyed some Nantucket Nectars Squeezed Lemonade a few days ago. Mmmmm.

Becky recently won a free Personal Pan Pizza at Pizza Hut for meeting her reading goal at school. She ate ¾ of it herself! Later that day, we checked out the new Target store north of the freeway in northwest Nampa, by the stinky sugar beet factory. Very nice (the store, not the Nampa smell)! =)

Becky learned how to do the "YMCA dance" at a ward dance we had a couple of weekends ago. She was cute! I've now finished watching all of season 2 of the new Battlestar Galactica. Now onto the webisodes and podcasts... =)

In more fundraising news, the girls next door came around selling those $1 World's Finest chocolate bars. When I was selling these back in the day, they were a lot larger and thicker than they are now. They have more flavors now, but the bar is much smaller. =(

*Thunderbird can interact with not only regular POP3/SMTP email accounts, but can also handle webmail, such as Gmail, MSN mail, Hotmail, AOL mail, and Yahoo mail.