Friday February 26th

Another rough week for Rowan! This winter has been a tough one in her getting sick, and she had a doozy this week. As of tonight, she's doing much better and we can only hope this is the last one for the season. That's her enjoying dinner with Nana and Poppa tonight at Casa Grande. She had a great day visiting with them. It'd been a while since her last Poppa visit.

Olympics are almost done and it's been a good one for the USA. We're still enjoying the festivities and staying up too late most nights. They sure pack it in for the two weeks. NBC gets middling grades from me for their coverage. I think if there's an event that's going on right now, as in live, then put it on TV! Tape delay just doesn't work in the land of Twitter and instantaneous coverage via Internet or mobile phone. They should have carried the US/Canada hockey game on the main channel Sunday instead of MSNBC. Great game but not in HD. I think there'll be a rematch this Sunday afternoon for the gold medal, and of course NBC will carry that. [NPR Blog]

Here's a cool story of the oldest and youngest Olympians in the same race. [Miami Herald]

News Quiz and more after the jump...

Friday December 18th

Last blog post before winter...ugh, winter. Monday is the first day of winter and it looks like the weather will be agreeing with that description. I think Rowan will love playing in the snow and we just may get some of that for Christmas next week. She certainly loves to wear her new winter coat Grandma Jeanne got her.

Sheridan family Christmas festivities begin this weekend as my brother and his family make the trek up to Indiana. It'll be fun watching Ella and Grace play with Rowan for the first time. She was way to small last Thanksgiving to enjoy playing. Christian and I will be hitting Assembly Hall on Tuesday evening to see IU take on Loyola. Should be a decent game and hopefully a win!

Speaking of IU basketball, Uncle Dave and I had a great trip to Bloomington last Saturday for the Kentucky game. We played them to a standstill in the first half, but there are two halves in a basketball game and they ran past us in the last 20 minutes. A much better showing than last year's blowout in Lexington, that's for sure. The new basketball development center is nearing completion. Hope I get a chance for a tour, this place looks pretty sweet. [IU News Room]

An IU athlete was named a Rhodes Scholar this past week. Good stuff. [IU News Room]

The Big Ten Conference is looking to add another school or more to the league. They are missing out on the lucrative football conference championship game that most other large leagues have. You need 12 teams for that game, and the Big Ten is one short. My pick for the new school would be Pitt. I guess we'll see in 12-18 months who gets in. [Chicago Tribune]

This week's News Quiz and Pop Culture Quiz. I felt that the pop one was a bit easier this week, mostly because I got the same score on both. [Chicago Tribune]

Have you seen the new Iron Man 2 trailer yet? Holy cow, I wish that movie was coming out this weekend! I can't wait until next May. The new movie that's blowing minds this weekend is Avatar. It's getting some great reviews and seems to be a perfect mix of computer generated stuff and storytelling. Just might have to break the movie dry spell for this one. [YouTube & IMDb.com & Rotten Tomatoes & NY Times]

Diabetes breakthroughs on the battlefield. Amazing story. [Miami Herald]

The Top Guns of Colombia. [LA Times]

Come for the White House tour, get a free breakfast! [Atlanta Journal Constitution]

Rowan from last December...she's a bit bigger now!

Keep warm this weekend...enjoy some snow.

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Friday November 6th

There was some beautiful fall weather this week. No rain and sunny days, a few of which were quite warm. Gotta love that! Two nights of leaf raking is the only down side. Our trees still have about 25% of their leaves left, so we're not done raking. That's Brooke and Rowan enjoying the leaf pile in the back yard.

Rowan graduated from the nursery room to the 1 year old room this week. She'll be full time with the 1 year olds on Monday. It is true that they grow up too fast! I used to drop her off in the nursery as the biggest kid last week and now she's the smallest in the 1 year old drop off room. She loves it though. I got there early on Thursday to pick her up and she was laughing and playing with the other big kids in the gym room. Very cool.

Aunt Shiloh was moved in just fine last Sunday. Her new townhouse in Indy is pretty sweet. She's stoked because there's a Starbucks right around the corner from her...better than running into the mall for your java like she did in SC. It's nice to have you so close, Aunt Shiloh!

Happy Birthday this past Tuesday to Poppa Jeff. We're having birthday dinner in Anderson to celebrate tonight!

Off to another IU game this weekend. Hopefully we'll be able to see it! Wisconsin comes to town. We are looking forward to seeing our friends and hanging out at the tailgate. Maybe we'll win, but I don't think so. First IU regular season basketball game is next Friday vs. Howard. Looking forward to checking this team out this year.

This week's News Quiz. I guessed by way to a 90%! [Chicago Tribune]

Ninja Monkey's starting QB Jay Cutler and his battle with the Big D. By the way, ended up at $1,110 collected for the Diabetes Walk for me! Another thanks to those who supported us. Brooke ended up at $140 and mom collected over $100. Not a bad haul for a three member team. November is National Diabetes Month. [Chicago Tribune & CDC.gov]

Look out for a new and improved Mickey Mouse from Disney. [NY Times]

The Pacers new low post threat, Roy Hibbert. He could be a good one. Thanks for the link Uncle Dave. [Indy Star]

Another one of Brooke and Rowan in the leaves. Rowan is so proud of her little leaf!

Have a great fall weekend! In the 60's both days here in Indiana.

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Friday October 23rd

Well last weekend didn't go exactly to plan. Friday night I hit Hoosier Hysteria with Uncle Dave and we had a great time. Saturday morning, Rowan woke up with what we found out was The Croup. Weekend plan changes! Back home on Saturday night, which was bad and Sunday wasn't much better. She got a few scrips to help out and is back toddling around like normal. [Wikipedia]

Being at home all week gave her the opportunity to practice her walking and she's pretty good now. Time to start working on her basketball skills!

IU basketball team looks bigger, faster, and stronger for this upcoming season. The new freshman coming in are going to help both in practice and game time. Can't wait. [IUHoosiers.com & ESPN]

This week's News Quiz and Pop Culture Quiz. Got lucky on my guesses for the pop quiz this week...how'd you do? [Chicago Tribune]

IU at the forefront of a new super computer network. [IU News Room]

Have you seen the new Apple mouse, Magic Mouse? Wow, that is pretty cool! [NY Times & Apple.com]

Website of the week: The Good Guide. Helps to find what's good for you in food and other products. Linked is their "What's In Your Kid's Food" quiz. It's a pretty easy quiz, so when you're done browse the site for a bit. There's some really great info on there.

New video of Rowan taking a stroll in the back yard...



Have a great weekend!
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Friday October 9th

Well fall is officially here. I don't think the temps reached 65 this week and most days it was cloudy with a bit of rain. Saw in the Chicago Tribune there might be snow up there on Monday...? Yikes. This was very similar weather to our JDRF Walk last Saturday. It was a bit cold with a slight drizzle, but we finished the 2 miles. We're over $1,000 collected as a team so far, but I'm shooting for $1,000 on my own. See my page here.

Rowan took her first ride on a carousel this week. In the food court at Glenbrook Square Mall they have a double decker carousel with all kinds of animals. Rowan and mom took the first spin and then dad got on for another one. On the second, she took to a pony that went up and down...and loved it! The picture up there is from her first ride on a stationary giraffe. Looks like she was ready for that afternoon nap before the ride started!

Well, the baseball season ended for the Cubs last weekend. Playoff baseball is upon us and for the first time in 3 years, no Cubs. My AL team has always been the California Angels (now the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim), so I'll root for them until the Yankees win. It's already decided, right?

We had a great time in Bloomington for the Ohio State game. It was good to see so many tailgate friends we hadn't seen since the 2007 season, our last full year down there. They all asked about Rowan, who stayed with Grandma Brenda in Anderson. The OSU game wasn't so great, but you can't commit penalties and turn the ball over and beat a top ten team. Long way to go for the Hoosiers, but a bowl game is still possible. Big IU weekend next week with basketball Hoosier Hysteria on Friday night. Then we're hoping to take her to the Illinois game on Saturday, depending on the weather.

This week's News Quiz and Pop Culture Quiz. Something from my dad, a Golf Trivia Quiz. See how you do. [Chicago Tribune & Cincinnati.com]

The big NASA news this week was their bombing the moon, but this picture of colliding black holes is pretty sweet. [Yahoo & NASA]

Love at the bus stop. [Chicago Tribune]

Baseball and softball are out, but two new sports are in for the 2016 Olympics. [GamesBids.com]

People and their dogs. [IU News Room]

Rowan and cousin Harrison at the JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes last weekend.

Keep warm!

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JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes

The Sheridan family participated in the JDRF's Walk to Cure Diabetes last week at Franke Park here in Fort Wayne. It was a typical fall day in Indiana, which meant a little chilly, sprinkle of rain, and some wind.

And we had a great time! Team Sheridan consists of Team Captain Brooke Sheridan and team members Seth Sheridan and Jeanne Sheridan. Combined we've raised almost $1,000 to JDRF's search for a cure. You can only imagine how this makes me feel!

Donating is not done just because the walk is! We're raising money for the cure until October 30th. If you've already donated, thank you so much! If you haven't and would like to, go to the JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes page and search for me or Brooke. Our walker pages will have all the information you need to make a donation to either of us. If you have any questions, just ask!

Being me, I took a few photos of our walk and made a video of it. You can see the photos on my Picasa page under the JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes album. The video is linked to SpydeysWebb YouTube and below for your viewing pleasure.

With your help we can find a cure for the Big D, and that would be a pretty cool thing to do.

Friday October 2nd

October is here and it sure feels like fall in the Fort. Glad I got The Sheridan in when I did, the Saturdays since have been pretty dicey weather wise. Rowan's getting more and more mobile. She's taking 7-8 steps at a time now, so getting really close. Once she realizes that it's easier to walk than crawl, it's on.

This weekend is the JDRF's Walk to Cure Diabetes. We'll be taking part at Franke Park in Fort Wayne. You can donate to my walk on my walker's page. Brooke's team leader this year, and we're hoping to get lots of donations. You can donate up through the end of October. Pictures and some video will be on the web site next week.

After the walk, we're off to see IU vs. Ohio State in Bloomington. I'm hoping we compete like we did last weekend and maybe, just maybe, pull it off. Not likely, but it'd be nice to do since we'll be there! No Redskins talk this week. They're too embarrassing right now to bother...

This week's News Quiz, which I did pretty well on, and the Pop Culture Quiz, which I didn't. [Chicago Tribune]

101 years of Cubs' futility in .pdf format. [Chicago Tribune]

Good read on making craft beers with rice, once considered an inferior ingredient. [LA Times]

Coke getting health conscience? [Brandweek]

New sitcom's have America spelled I-N-D-I-A-N-A. [LA Times]

Have a great weekend!

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Friday June 12th

Rowan says, "peas, please!" We've had a great week with Rowan. As you saw in the last post, she's clapping and crawling and soon will be getting into things. It's awesome. She's also getting her own little personality, and I see a bit of myself in it. Hopefully, she can have a bit more patience than the old man. She can get that from mom.

Some Happy Birthdays this Sunday. To my nieces in Texas, Grace and Ella celebrating their 3rd, my buddy Steve Lyng celebrating his 39th (!!!), and my good friend Simon Cook in the UK with his, what? 36th, I think. Oh yeah, and a Happy Flag Day to everyone else.

Saw The Hangover this week and the review is posted on the main page. I liked it, Brooke was more of a meh on it. As I predicted a few weeks ago, it trounced Land of the Lost, which finish 3rd for the week and will be on DVD by August 1 I think. Next big flick, if we don't see Up soon, is the new Transformers movie, Revenge of the Fallen. Need to avoid the extra trailers and sneak peeks on that. I want to be surprised for some of these movie! [IMDb.com & LA Times]

Well they unveiled the new iPhone 3G S on Monday. Video comes to the iPhone, a nice one too. It's as good as the one on my camera. The updated lens gives it a pretty sweet camera on there too. Biggest problem with the new iPhone? You're still stuck with AT&T service! If we are to upgrade ours, I think it will be after Apple allows other carriers to get in on the iPhone business. Then, we'll move on too, maybe...it is a pretty sweet upgrade I think. Time to move on over Christian! [Chicago Tribune]

This week's News Quiz. A workable 70% for me this week, how'd you do? [Chicago Tribune]

This week's new Pop Culture quiz. A bit tougher as my 50% showed. [Chicago Tribune]

One more...even harder than the previous two: Wine Quiz. [Chicago Tribune]

Medical beliefs and others busted by the IU School of Medicine. For instance, the 5 second rule or swallowing gum or heat loss through the head. [IU News Room]

Good news for asthma sufferers...it's caffeine! [IU News Room]

Architecture article for everyone, but mostly Christian. The Chicago Architecture Foundation is building a scale model of downtown Chicago. The pic in the article is worth a click. [Chicago Tribune]

Website of the Week: Found one on a list of sites you should be wasting time on. This is interesting to say the least: My Milk Toof.

Another of the many faces of Rowan.

Have a great weekend!

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