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I am always working when very interesting things are happening. The other day while I was at work, it was a busy day, but cerrtainly not chaotic. One of the staff nurses Jenny was going to lunch, so she went into the kitchen to heat up her food. She described to me once she got to the breakroom that while she was waiting on her food a creepy patient walked in the kitchen and continued to fill a bath basin with food and sliverware. She thought he was just really hungry. I was called out of lunch by the security guards at the hospital. Three security guards at the desk informed me that they knew this guy and everytime he is a patient he steals everything. I argued that stealing food isn’t really that big of a deal if it is a patient. Then they informed me that he steals much more than food. At first I was a bit shocked and expected to have to deal with getting wallets and personal belongings back. I went to his room to search it and take back any stolen goods. Here is what I found: Washcloths, towels, bedding, adult diapers, playing cards, patient gowns, food galore, random wires and cords to different medical equiptment, an IV pump, defibrilator pads, and a small mirror used to examine patients mouths. This guy was not only stealing he was a kleptomaniac. He then begged to keep each and every item, just in case he would need it some day. Wow, now I understand kleptomaniacs really do pick up everything.

written by Kelly

If you visit the site on a regular basis (yeah, all five of you), you may have noticed the site’s been a bit ill-tempered as of late. You get a cranky error when posting comments, pages are slow to load, etc. I apologize.

I’m working on a solution, but this site is a spare-time project, which I have little of right now. Hopefully in the next month or so the problems will be resolved. The downside is that it may get worse before it gets better. kyleandkelly.com may cease to exist for a couple of days in the near future. You’ll live.

written by Kelly

Here it is, nice and early. My Christmas list for those who like lists.

* “Reversible Down Vest size small color Rosebud/Deep Red”:http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?storeId=1&storeId=1&catalogId=1&langId=-1&catalogId=1&categoryId=32944&shop_method=pp&catalog_id=KK. Item number kk44413.
* “Down Booties”:http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?storeId=1&storeId=1&catalogId=1&langId=-1&catalogId=1&categoryId=43332&shop_method=pp&catalog_id=KK. size XS Color either the Cayenne or Chocolate Brown You Pick. Item number kk51712.
* “Essetial Rib Sweater zip-cardigan”:http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?storeId=1&storeId=1&catalogId=1&langId=-1&catalogId=1&categoryId=42467&shop_method=pp&catalog_id=KK. Size: small. Any color except mulberry or cool mint. Item number kk50853.
* “Bean’s Cashmere Sweater V-Neck”:http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?storeId=1&storeId=1&catalogId=1&langId=-1&catalogId=1&categoryId=34715&shop_method=pp&catalog_id=KK. Size: small. Any color, I’m desperate here. Item number kk45844.
* An awesome ice cream scoop
* Camp table
* “Duffle Bag any color”:http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?storeId=1&catalogId=1&langId=-1&categoryId=39542&from=GM&noDept=&guideId=5928&moduleId=5942&feat=gg380000.
* Wood clamps-good quality
* Cordless Drill – Craftsman
* Creative Memories stuff. Amy V. keeps a list for me
* Personally designed kitchen cart to match my potato box (Dad J.)
* Coffee Maker that grinds beans and has a timer
* “italk”:http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/71807/wo/uq2SoyDPg6PD2d2ldvI2r3KSBNY/1.SLID?mco=EEA76CE7&nplm=T9635LL%2FA.
* “earbuds”:http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/71807/wo/uq2SoyDPg6PD2d2ldvI2r3KSBNY/5.SLID?mco=EB4BD32A&nplm=T9616LL%2FA.
* Home Depot gift certificates for more landscaping bricks and plants and dirt.
* Guitar Capo and Foot rest
* “DKNY Be Delicious”:http://www.sephora.com/browse/product.jhtml;jsessionid=4IR4ZFAF3AN0HLAUCLCBXCQ?id=P79615&cm_mmc=us_search-_-GG-_-br-_-dkaran%20DKNY%20Be%20Delicious&_requestid=57329.

Stay tuned, more to come!

If you purchase something off the list please scriblet “I bought something” then include your email so that others my contact you to find out what it is.

written by Kelly

Switchfoot, a Christian band currently experiencing crossover success, has “posted instructions for circumventing the copy protection on their new CD”:http://forums1.sonymusic.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/716102313/m/5201067064. Take note, because *this is illegal*.

The “Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA)”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA, a favorite in Congress, makes it illegal to circumvent encryption schemes, even if the end goal is perfectly legal. Switchfoot is helping their fans break United States law and circumvent measures their label has put into place to prevent piracy. And I applaud them for it.

The Wikipedia has a good article on the controversy around “Section 103’s anti-circumvention provisions”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA_anti-circumvention, but I’ll attempt to distill my complaints against the law down to a few sentences. The Supreme Court established fair use in the case Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios. I can already see your eyes glossing over, but stay with me here because if the Supreme Court hadn’t ruled in favor of fair use, you wouldn’t have a VCR. You see, the movie studios at the time were outraged that folks like you and I could use a VCR to make copies of their movies, so they tried to sue the VCR out of existence.

So what is fair use? It basically means that we can ignore copyrights as long as the copies we’re making aren’t:

# going to make us any money
# on a large scale
# isn’t going to deprive the copyright holder of signifigant chunks of money

Music fans everywhere enjoy fair use when they make (for my parents’ generation) mixed tapes or (my generation) rip mixed CDs. And that brings us back to Switchfoot and the DMCA.

You see, the DMCA makes it illegal for you to make those mixed tapes if the record label has some sort of encryption scheme on the albums. Even though the end goal is clearly legal under fair use, you’d have to break a law to get to the end goal. And that really sucks.

DMCA is badly in need of revision–Section 103 needs to be overhauled to account for fair use or dropped entirely. But until that happens, the only avenue left to protest is a time-honored tradition in American history: civil disobedience. I, for one, salute Switchfoot’s attempt to assist their customers in breaking the law. That’s a start.

But the Christian music industry needs to begin waking up to the new opportunities in the age of digital music. Bands with a strong fan base like Switchfoot no longer need a label to get their music out to the fans, between sites like “CDBaby”:http://www.cdbaby.com/ and the “iTunes Music Store”:http://www.itunes.com/ (with an 80% marketshare and a distribution deal with CDBaby). Furthermore, Christian artists need to begin looking at the “Creative Commons”:http://www.creativecommons.org/ for copyrights that would maintain their rights as artists while allowing freedom of use for their fans.

written by Kyle

I finished this book, Drowning Ruth today by Christina Schwarz. It was an okay book, I’ll give it two stars **. Although the book kept me milldly interested throughout, the plot was weak and predictable. At the end I was still second guessing which characters were which. What was nice was the easy reading level that helped me fly through the book. After this one I think I need to read a tried and true favorite. On to Pride and Prejudice.
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written by Kelly

As tradition dictates, we completed our yearly September migration to the “Indianapolis Speedrome”:http://www.speedrome.com/ to witness the awe-inspiring 3-hour Figure 8 World Championship. It’s kinda like heading north to see the “aurora borealis”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/auroraborealis/clusters/, only with (to steal a quote from Dad Adams) “powerful engines, lots of noise, beer drinking and spitting in general”. Yeah, something like that.

I say “we”, but not in the “kyleandkelly.com” sense, since Kelly had to work that weekend (sniffle).

We had a rookie this year–Molly joined us and survived ten hours of car claustrophobia with four guys. The race had its moments of excitement, but the real topper was the spectator’s car that caught fire in the parking lot…

“Mmm… love that BBQ smell”

“Hmm. That smells kinda like… burnt rubber?”

“Why is the smoke coming out from under the hood?”

“It smells like burnt hot dogs…”

Of course no Figure 8 trip would be complete without picking teams of drivers. And the results are in! From *Da Judge* Rick Adams:

h4. Men v. Women

Well, of course it is almost silly to report on this because, after all, this is a man’s sport – powerful engines, lots of noise, beer drinking and spitting in general. The score? Women averaged 69, the men 78. Unfortunately, low is better. More proof that men are such a humble, tender gender. Always letting the fairer sort win. Way to go guys!

h4. College Competition

Taylor has the high score and comes in 3rd (av. 77)! HooRa! Calvin has the middle, ordinary score and comes in next to last (average 72). Anderson/Ball State has the LOW score and comes in 3rd to last (av 55)!

h4. Adults (over 30) v. Kids

Once again, no contest. Adults cream em. When will those whipper snappers learn? (Adults 61. Kids 77.)

h4. Battle of the States

Once again, those sneaky invaders from the North manage to squeak out with a victory (IN 73, MI 72)

Individual Champion and the Reigning Queen of the Figure 8?

h1. Ellen!

Going with the Tunneys proved a winning strategy. Ellen had Bruce (1), Bill (6), Ben (8), Corey Turner (12), and McMurtrey (17th). Kelly may have come in 2nd (see ** below) OR she may be penalized two points for not actually being there and thereby end up in third (depends on who sends the most $$ to the ever impartial Judge). Actually, it was a story of the haves (Ellen, Kelly, Kathy/Eric, Calvin) the have nots (Keen and Katie)and the Blahs! (Molly, Kyle, Nathan and Rick).

|Ellen|44|
|*Kelly|54|
|Kathy & Eric|55|
|Calvin|59|
|Molly|71|
|Kyle|73|
|Nathan|79|
|Rick|84|
|Keen|96|
|*Katie|109 (but her cars were all pretty – perhaps there should be a 50 point deduction for the team with the prettiest cars).|

** Undoubtedly there will be considerable fussing and cussing about the, ever so wise humble and magnaminous, judge’s decision to allow (and count) picks of two who were not actually present (Kelly and Katie). Official protests should be made at Kyle’s blog [Editor: which is here, so leave your protests in the scribblets].

written by Kyle

Usually there is someone around, be it Kyle, Candie, Dad, or Mom. Today I am left wandering the house alone. It’s funny really. I always seem to think that other people around do not slow me down in getting things done. Today however, I have finished almost everything I can think to do. I sewed some curtains, did laundry, watered the garden, did the dishes, planned out dinner, cleaned up the office, and laundry rooms. I suppose I will finally hem my jeans next and possibly start on another set of curtains. I hope to end the day with at least an hour cuddled up with my current book “Drowning Ruth.”

written by Kelly

Scene: entering a Chinese buffet for dinner.

Brother-in-law: so if I was born via C-section, does that mean I need to leave through a window, or can I just leave through the door?

written by Kyle

Well, what better to do on Labor Day weekend than labor. My weekend started today, Thursday and extends through Monday.

Today we tried to go to Michigan’s Adventure. Kyle even took the day off to go, and it was closed! Very sad, it is such a nice day too. So, we went out to the farmers market instead and bought ingredients for salsa. Tonight Mom and I will can salsa and again tomorrow morning.

Then on the actual weekend, I am really hoping to paint my theatre seats and get the basement back together. If I have time I will hopefully sew some curtains too. Doug and Katie Williams are coming up too, so maybe I will force them into labor on Labor Day. Ha ha ha. Anyone else want to come over on Labor Day?

written by Kelly