Leeeeeeeeeeeeeroy!

I've never played World of Warcraft but I think you can get a pretty good idea of the type of guy that would. I can picture him now, he's wearing sweat pants, one sock and stained white t-shirt with cheetos cheese and mountain dew stains. He's got that weird kind of beard that looks like really long dark peach fuzz and his glasses are fogged up because he's sweating so much. And then there's Leroy, who is just the kind of guy that will tick of cheetos boy by ruining his game. I hope you enjoy the clip. You may want to turn down the volume and not watch it around the youngsters.

my wife, the beautiful

I'd like to introduce my wife to the blog. After all it is our family blog. We sat down the other night for a little question and answer session. Here's what she has to say about the blogosphere, me, and everything else.

Rob: What are you feeling on the night before you get introduced to the internet?

Liz: Well, I'm a little worried that too much information about me will get out there. With identity theft what it is these days. These could be the end of our lives as we know them.

R: Well it sounds like you're a little depressed. That suprises me, because there are millions of people who would like to be in your shoes...that is, on robbylog, the #1 blog among people that have nothing better to do than read stupid blogs about people they don't know.

L: I know, the truth is I really don't care about our blog. No one reads it, no one sees it, except you that is.

R: Moving on...what are you working on these days?

L: I've got a lot of art lessons going on at our house. I'm teaching kids. It's been really fun.

R: What do you like best about being married to me?

L: Wow, there's so many things, I might have to wait until part two of our conversation to come up with my favorite thing about you. It may be how well you moderate our blog.

R: That's what I would probably say. Our blog is pretty awesome isn't it?

L: No, I was just saying that to be nice.

R: Alright, on that note, let's conclude our interview.

L: Ok, can you promise me that I'll never have to do this again?

R: No

For the record, this interview was not real. It was created by me because Liz didn't even want to do it. She doesn't really have time to do interviews on our blog because she is so busy modeling. Here are some pictures of her pretty face.

Maxfield Open

The competition for the Maxfield Open took place in late September. After 3 grueling days of competition I again was victorious. I've now won 5 out of 7 years and the last 3 years and may never lose another tournament. Here are some photos of the send off.

That trophy never left my hand all weekend!

Those were the last smiles seen on their faces,

especially that time I eagled hole #5

Our little trees are all growns up

I don't know if any of you got to see it at all last night but our little tree situation has caught the attention of King 5 news. They came out to take some pictures and do some filming of the trees. Most of the shots in the video are of our trees. Here's the link to the article they put up on King 5.com.

http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_090507WAB_tree_trim_KS.a4ae32d2.html

The Tree Monsters!

Ah Seattle

What a lovely city. So green and blue. The people here really love their city and want to keep it clean. And the trees, so many trees, so big and tall and beautiful. Who would have thought in a city like this that the crappiest tree trimmers would exist. These chop happy little people paid a little visit to the trees at our house. Unfortunately, some of our trees were running through the power lines. Here are some pictures of how really, really great things turned out.

Painting the Barn Phase 1 "Tha Facade"

We started painting our house Sunday morning. Currently I'm sunburned and it hurts to squeeze my right hand and raise my arm. Here are some pictures of the progress so far.

Look at all that sanding that needed to be done. I was blowing paint dust out of my nose for hours.

75% baby!

Guess who's back!

Television history was made today in the Maxfield household. Tony Almeida returned to 24. He saved Jack and the secretary of defense's daughter from terrorists. Here are some sweet shots of the action.


Jack peers around the corner...he needs some help here people!


Oh no, he's out of bullits


Don't mess with Tony Almeida sucka!

Honey, the pooper keeps getting plugged!

Recently we had to dig up the sewer line in our driveway. Here are some awesome pictures of an awesome hole in the ground


No don't kill him!

4213

Recently we bought a house in Lake City, a suburb of Seattle. Here's a picture of the house in 1938.


A few weeks ago we wanted to make it a little prettier.
Before....


And happily ever after....until the squirrels and ants attacked them

free stuff

For those of you who can't read like me, a website called http://www.christianaudio.com/ gives away free audio books by downloadable mp3 every month. So far i've gotten great titles from Charles Spurgeon, John Bunyan, and Andrew Murray.

i've been struggling with some sin lately, mostly revolving around sports talk radio in my car, and this website has really helped me avoid that temptation. i would encourage you all to get on the bus.

record review: sam's town - the killers

if you'll notice to the right, i've added a new list to the site. the top 5 albums made in the 80's. i did that because i didn't want you to actually miss out on good music that came out in the 80's. you may ask, what are you talking about...sam's town came out in 2006. i know, i know...you're all gonna try and convince me that sam's town came out in 2006 but i'm here to tell you. its a simple recreation of everything popular with the 80's subtract the lo-fi and add the stadium rock sound. the worst thing about this album are the way too over produced backing vocals, they remind me of a picture i saw of an almost dead plastic elizabeth taylor cuddling with a full grown bear. just wrong.

it starts off with the title track. let me first say that i have no idea what any of these songs are about. do they make sense? are they a cohesive thought? no. the drummer reminds me of a blogger that just keeps typing to hear himself. i think the volume goes up to 11 when the chorus hits. after he's done singing about grandma dixie the album goes quiet with the interlude. a nice chord progression, i feel invited to have fun with the album. here's to hope!

next up the single, i guess it was the first single because it sounded different. we're supposed to feel like they've grown up i guess, now that they're all cowboys. they should have drank a little less devil's water when they chose they're clothes.

skipping a few forgettable songs we arrive at track 5, read my mind. brian eno synth, and a good melody. i think its the best song on the album until the drummer ruins it.

up next uncle jonny, i think i've figured out why this song sucks. brandon flowers doesn't appear to have come from the best background which may have caused him to write not the best song. let's all celebrate, his uncle did cocaine!

then we move to the Frankenstein sounding background vocals of bones. an obvious hit that little girls will scream about when they come to town. a hear a lot of the e street band in this one. i guess if you're gonna rip some people off it might as well be the best backing band ever assembled.

the album should have ended there, but unfortunately it didn't. we go to my list, which sounds like a somebody said "hey, let's make a really weird structured song with a weird synth and let's all gather around the mic and sing really loud and spit all over each other" and then someone said, "yeah, yeah! that'd be awesome man!"

i'll skip the river is wild song because it's worth skipping, which brings us to why do i keep counting? the album gets serious. he's asking for help. he needs us all. he needs us to go out and buy his album so he can go blow it on coke.

all in all the album isn't really as bad as i've made it out to be, but what can you expect its a band that teenage girls love, we should all really hate it. will i listen to this album more? did i enjoy my stay in sam's town? i guess i would compare it to staying in a hotel with cockroaches...at least its a roof over my head. i will admit if a had a teenage daughter i'd rather she listen to this than lindsey lohan. bush vs. kerry...the lesser of two evils