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I figured at least my brother would get a kick out of this guy’s name. I sure did! I guess this leaves little left for the imagination on my maturity.

I was just looking at bradaho.com and saw a picture of him. He kinda looks like the kinda guy that might get pissed off at me for this. Oh well. Sorry, my fellow Brad. You can tell on me to Norm Coleman if it makes you feel better.

A laugh for Corey, originally uploaded by trypnotic.

Mr. Beck was born on Oct 25, 2007 at 3:24 AM : 4 lbs 15 oz : 45 cm. We’re looking forward to meeting you next weekend! Thanks to your parents for the photo ;)

I don’t know if I’m proud or embarrassed about all the time I spent trying to finish it.

Matt giving us a tour of his business.

Can anyone tell me where in the Minneapolis/St Paul area I can get soft serve sherbet? Man I miss this place.

The Walt Disney Company has announced that they have started production on “The Frog Princess” which will be set in New Orleans and feature a black princess. They have announced that the film will be created by hand as opposed to computer animation which I’m so thankful for. While computer animated movies are technologically impressive and all, I still prefer the hand-drawn style. I don’t mean to offend those that enjoy creating 3D models or animation, such as my wife, but it just seems to me that a computer allows the PC to do most of the creativity? I may be naive in saying that but I guess I just haven’t been as impressed with a computer doing the grunt labor over a human painting each cell. I may be completely wrong as I’m certainly no animator myself. I’m just a person that enjoys good quality entertainment, hence my strong Disney preference!

I was just informed by my parents that the guy that helped us with our first Windows PC eleven years ago, died this past week. He worked with my mother at the Kneip Building and was pretty much the only guy we knew at the time that had any computer experience in Pierre. Eventually he taught me the ways of the one BBS that was in Pierre. About the only other option for connectivity in Pierre at the time was 2400 baud dial-up to AOL at $10/hr, so the BBS was a favorable alternative. He also walked me through my first “oops” when I wrecked the operating system and required a format of the hard drive and reinstall of Windows. He was a real nice and friendly guy and always willing to help out. I wish I had stayed in contact with him since I left Pierre eight years ago.

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Jim McKillip, 48, of Pierre, died on Tuesday, March 14, 2006, at St. Mary’s TCU, Pierre.

Family will receive callers from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, March 17, at Feigum-VanLith Funeral Home, Pierre.

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 18, at Grand Avenue Wesleyan Church, Pierre.

Jim McKillip was born on Aug. 12, 1957, in Kadoka to James and Grace (Sampson) McKillip. Jim grew up and attended school in Murdo. Following high school he attended college.

Jim married Kathy Schmidt on August 18, 1979, in Huron. They lived in Brookings where Jim worked for Daktronics Inc., for two years. In 1981, they moved to Rapid City. While living there, Jim worked for Robbins and Stearns Lumber Company.

Jim and Kathy moved to Pierre in 1988. Jim worked for the state of South Dakota as a senior programmer/analyst for the Department of Social Services for nine years. Most recently, Jim worked for BankWest in Pierre.

Jim was a member of the Grand Avenue Wesleyan Church in Pierre. In his spare time he enjoyed fishing, watching NASCAR racing and playing with his dog, Jake. Jim liked checking out new technology and helping people with their computer problems. His greatest joy in life was his two daughters.

Jim is survived by his wife Kathy of Pierre; two daughters, Erin McKillip of Omaha, Neb., and Heather McKillip of Pierre; parents James and Grace McKillip of Murdo; one brother, Doug and his wife Amanda of Pierre; two nephews, Roger McKillip of Lakeside, Calif., and Michael McKillip of Pierre; one niece, Jennifer McKillip of Pierre; and close friends Charlie, Jeane, Mandi and AJ Wharton of Pierre.

Jim was preceded in death by his grandparents.

Two very good friends and Katie’s godparents were married this weekend in Stillwater, MN. Katie was the Flower Girl and I was the Best Man. Katie got a Radio Flyer wagon out of the deal and even got to ride down the aisle in it with her mommy pulling her. She thought it was a pretty extra special treat – especially where everyone turned to smile at her! She squealed the whole way down to the alter.

The wedding seemed to have went off without any obvious problems. The food was delicious, the weather wasn’t overly hot – though if you had asked me at the time I would have diagreed. The temperature in a tuxedo is about twice the air tempature. The only thing bad that happend was Katie took a spill down the outside stairs leading to the Durango and got a big bump on her forehead. Ironically, a family member of Jon’s have a little boy that is about Katie’s age and he also took a spill down the stairs of their RV that morning! Not a good morning for little toddlers.

Jon and Kim will be leaving Tuesday for a RV tour along with their family for their honeymoon. I’m overly jealous. I’m sure someday I’ll get my chance to do the same.

Sunday, Sarah returned to Eden Prairie Sunday night to watch Katie on Monday – a day that our daycare provider had requested off. Sarah arrived first on Wednesday night and watched Katie on Thursday and Friday of last week and will once again this Friday, the 1st. She’s been very, very helpful! Our friends are very good to us. All we have to offer is this wonderful child for them to admire.

Interstate State Park is one gorgous park. I’ll definitely need to return here and check out a couple more of the trails. Moho and I wimpered when we saw the view on the Horizon Rock Trail. It had been sprinkling just as we were leaving the Skyline Trail and the view of the valley was outstanding with the humidity in the air.

The drink of the weekend appeared to be Sparks which is some sort of alcohol and energy drink which to me, seems to be sort of contradictory? In any event – it tasted ok and turned our teeth and tounge’s a mysterious orange color. We also drank a jug of cheap Chianti and a twelve year old bottle of Scotch.

I’ll be posting pictures eventually. My camera among many other items are still in the Eclipse as I was exhausted yesterday from being mildly hungover and the four mile hike we went on. I do a lot of walking these days but quickly realized that I don’t work much with of an incline to work the appropriate muscles! I also gained three pounds from the weekend. I’m blaming the beer, brats, and hobo dinners. Hopefully I’ll be back down to where I was pre-weekend before this coming next weekend.