Crawling v0.1.1 (Beta)

In case you missed my software weenie joke in the title, Jack is in the early (beta) stages of crawling. Forgive the length of the video, I can't seem to find time to edit video these days ...

Happy Birthday Carlos!

As you all know Carlos turned 12 last week, and today him and I celebrated by shooting each other in the face.

For his birthday he wanted an Airsoft gun, which for the uninitiated is essentially a battery powered BB gun except it shoots plastic BBs at about 1/4 the velocity and they are fully automatic. Being that the velocity is lower they are safe to shoot at one another provided your wearing eye protection, etc - so I ended up getting two.

We headed up to the woods behind our house today and played hide and seek with weapons.


Highlights include:

• Carlos shooting me in the chin from about 15 feet away without realizing it. I was well hidden and his approach throughout the match was to let the lead fly when he was hunting. He sprayed a bunch of shots randomly into the brush and got me. When I jumped up to indicate he'd won he jumped back - he didn't realize I was right there, he just got lucky (do I sound bitter?).
• Me flanking Carlos and shooting him in the butt.
• Carlos unloading on me from a great hiding spot and peppering me with about fifteen shots before i realized what happened.
• Carlos wanting to go home for water and me begging that we play a few more rounds first.

Every firefight ended up with us both laughing, it was good fun. I'm fighting the urge to go online right now and purchase the biggest badest Airsoft gun, night visions google, UAVs, you name it, so I can get the drop on him ...

While I'm at it, here's another picture of Jack.

The Ubiquitous Robert Best

At only 31 years of age I have managed to rack up a pretty respectable resume - don't believe me? - Google it. You will find out the following things about me that you may not have known, just follow the links.

For one, I am an accomplished Barbie designer who also appeared on the television series Project Runway. I sum it up as follows:

"I think my design style is always a little bit reality based. When I design for Barbie^® doll, I think that I'm still designing clothes. I don't think I'm designing for a doll. If a woman responds to it thinking it's something she'd like to wear, I know it's been a success."

.... Fantastic.

I'm also an entrapanuer who owns his own marketing company. This company was really a natural extension of myself; being that I am such an extrovert and natural salesman.

Additionally, I'm an accomplished lyric baritone (ignore the picture, I used to be heavier, older, and balder) - not surprising to the privileged few who have witnessed me playing Rock Band or have seen my impromptu American Idol audition tape on a trip to the Outer Ban. Here's some of my praise:

"...superb..." - New Classics;

"The performance by Robert Best is magnificent" – New Music Connoisseur;

"...a rich and attractive voice as well as an astute musicality..."
"...warm baritone voice... superb singing." - The Journal of Singing;

"...sensitive and intelligent interpreter ...crystal clear diction." - CMS South Central News Bulletin.

... an astute musicality - that should be on my headstone.

I also did some engineering stuff, like writing a paper.

BTW, the impetus for this post was a website that was forwarded along to me; howmanyofme.com.

As of this posting there are 768 Robert Bests, 42 Carrie Bests, 56 Carlos Bests, 3 Jackson Bests, 7 Benny Bests, and only one Tiki Barber Gonzalez in the US.

Feeling Better

Jack is still on the mends, but he's feeling a bit better. He loves playing with his balloon that Nana got him when she came to the hospital.