The Covert Family Website

Very appropriate letter to those people who call themselves parents:

Dear Dad With a Doo Rag and Mother With a Halter Top and a Belly Piercing,

You may or may not recognize me: I was present at the same screening of Hostel: Part II that you and your family attended last night.  I send you this letter in the hopes that you will forward it to all those who share a similar parenting style as you, in the hopes that my request be heard by as many pairs of ears as humanly possible.

I wish to address you concerning a matter of seemingly-negligible importance. Many people - including, I am sure, the both of you - might consider my complaint unnecessary, or simply selfish. Yet in the interest of decency and for the sake of your offspring, I must humbly make one simple suggestion, which you are free to take heed to or ignore at your leisure. The suggestion is this:

Stop bringing your fucking kids to horror movies. [emphasis mine]

I know, that since I had kids, I can’t even watch these kinds of movies anymore.  I even cringe now at classic Freddie Kruger-style horror movies, much less the “torture-porn” that these new breed of films are.

After dealing with a crippled digital camera (broken LCD), Tammy and I finally broke down and got a new digital camera last month.  We ended up getting a Canon SD550.

It’s a wonderful camera and, as it’s a model with a few years under it’s belt, only cost us $250.  One thing I can’t get over is how small it is.  Holding it up next to a pack of my cigarettes, you can’t see it.  It just fits behind it.

Needless to say, we’ve been capturing the kids activities again.  So, Mom and Dad, here you go.

Pictures link on the right.  —>

Since I quit smoking a few weeks ago, I figured it was time to institute some other changes as well.  No, no silly, I haven’t yet given up decent eggs / hashbrowns / sausage breakfasts.

I decided on Monday to start exercising again.  Running on Mon/Wed/Fri and push-ups / sit-ups on Tue/Thu.  I haven’t really exercised since I left the Army, over 8 years ago.

So I set my Mon-Fri alarm a 1/2 hour early to 5:30am.  To be honest, “run” isn’t quite the right.  More like jogging.  Well, after my 10 minute huff and puff around the neighborhood, I’m sitting back at my kitchen table feeling my lungs burn like I’ve never felt them do before.  After 4 years in the Army, I wouldv’e thought I’d run through the full spectrum of physical exhaustion.  I was wrong.  I honestly was worried enough, that I actually had my cell phone in my hand, fingers ready to dial 911 just before I passed out.  Just in case.

Well, today I got to try the run again.  Things did not speed up considerably, but the “lung burn” only last 12 minutes this time (24 minutes on Monday).  This is good.

Maybe in a few months, I’ll be able to actually run.

Cheers,

- Jake

I’ve updated our family photos section with a new gallery.  The link on the right —> should get you there.

Let me know if you like the layout, and if you find anything confusing.  I’ve been putzing around the web for so long, that I just take quite a few things for granted.

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Some of the early June family photos are up and posted.  About 90 so far.  Mostly these are pictures of Sabrina’s school outings.

Seems they save all the fun school activities for the end of the year.

So far we have:

• Pictures of here school fishing trip
• The class picnic.
• Field day (think: track and field, but without the whole “track” part)
• Girl Scout trip to Frankenmuth

As the month progresses, I’ll try and add them in.  Enjoy.

Getting ready for Thanksgiving, here’s a classic instruction set for the ‘ol turkey preparation….

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/article.php?id=74

The October pictures are up.  Stop by and have a look….

http://www.jakecovert.com/index.php?/gallery/category/C13/

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