Anniversary Number 2

Happy anniversary Jen. It's hard to believe it's been two years since we got married on this day. That day was the best day of my life. It's hard to imagine that it could be topped, maybe when our baby comes at the end of August but for now the wedding tops the list. It was awesome to have my four brothers as groomsman and my two sisters participated as well. One couldn't ask for a better day then that day. We even had an off the wall priest. For all of you who made it to the wedding you may remember the brothers and sisters quote from the priest. For those of you that don't remember or didn’t see the wedding here's the clip. Bros&sis After the brothers and sisters quote check the groom out. Can you guess where the two black guests are in the crowd.?

Thanks Ben over at Studio 711 for letting me host the video on your machine.

Relay For Life

This past weekend Jen and I participated on our companies Relay For Life team. It's a cancer fund raiser. We started setting up at 6:00pm on Friday. We had a couple tents set up and lots of food and coffee to sell. Each team is required to have someone walking around a track the entire night, until 9:00am the next day. We also built a limo out of cardboard and one of our team members participated in a Miss Relay contest. That was hilarious because each team had to have a guy dress as a girl and they had to walk the cat walk and then give a speech, just like a Miss America pageant. At the end of the event three team members had to race the limo around the track. I ended up being one of the racers. I got a serious wakeup call letting me know that I was out of shape. I made it about 1/4 of the way around the track and I felt like I was going to collapse. I let me team down big time. But in my defense we lost to a bunch of high school track stars.

Wake Up!!

Daylight savings time has totally messed up my sleep routine. One would think that by now I'd be over it. I got to bed by 9:30 and I just end up tossing and turning for a couple of hours. Then I wake up many nights around 3:00am and can't get back to sleep. It's driving me crazy. So when I couldn't sleep last night I said screw it I'm coming into work. So it's 5:30am and I'm working.

A New Pope

Why such an old pope? I have theory. The cardinals all want to be pope some day and if they picked a young guy like Pope John Paul II he'd be a pope for 20-30 years. Then the other pope wananbees would never get a shot. This way if they pick a pope that's super old they'll have a better chance down the road to be pope. I don't know, it's just a thought.

Nolans Pregnancy Reaction

Dude you are expecting!!!! Holy cow man, do you know yet whether it is a boy or girl? In case you already haven't noticed, your wife is ready for the ultimate emotional rollercoaster. You think throwing the phone downstairs was bad? Get ready for the computer monitor, or the t.v, or three quarters of your precious moments collection, which takes longer so it is a bit more satisfying. The best advice I can give you is the bumper sticker I should have: GET IN, SIT DOWN, HOLD ON, AND SHUT UP.
From this day forth for about a year:
1. Everything is your fault. Absolutely everything, from the house being to small, to the T.V. reception being bad, to it raining outside.
2. Learn to swallow your pride, what little you managed to hide in the precious moments boxes.
3. Learn to say: "Honey, I'm sorry. I'm a big fat oaf. I haven't spent my whole life preparing for this moment.
4. You do not have enough money.
5. Babies 'R Us is evil and will consume all money destined for Best Buy and Home depot.
6. You will become excited over super absorbant Pampers.
7. Instead of the usual fantasies, you will have fantasies about curling up in a big comforter and getting 5 solid hours of sleep.
8. Your wife while currently being only one of Satan's minions, will become his warchief. But don't worry, she will return to normal maybe a year after childbirth.
9. You will become proud to call the garage your space to do whatever you want with (as long as the cars fit).
10. Every nurse/doctor/health care professional has different advice for everything.
11. Having a child will not be like anyone told you it would, but it will be awesome.

Hang in there man, you are in for it. It will be great though. Keep reminding yourself what your wife is going through, and that will help you understand why she is the way she is.

Golf Lessons

I broke down and took my first golf lesson on Saturday. The guy made an adjustment to my stance, grip, and ball placement. Then I felt like Tiger Woods for a while. I hit every ball straight as an arrow with my short clubs 8-wedge. The instructor even laughed a bit at me because of the way I was hitting the ball. He was like "That's a beautiful swing". Well I had about 15 balls left to hit and I thought I'd try a long iron to see what would happen. Well I never hit a good ball. The instructor told me to go back to the short irons to get my feel back and I stilled shanked them bad. I messed up a good thing somehow.

So I'm thinking if I try again Sunday I'll get it back. Wrong!! I have no clue what I'm doing wrong and I'm so messed up now. Hopefully in the long run these lessons will help out. But for now I'm screwed.

Theives

First my banana now my house. When is it going to stop. Andy informs me that my house was broke into sometime while he was in Small Falls. They stole his X-Box and some of his money. Not good. At least they left the big screen and Jens Precious Moments alone. If they would've harmed the Precioius Moments Jen might have whooped some serious butt. Now I'm left with a broken window to fix. Kind of hard to fix a broken window in Minnesota while I'm Florida.

Banana

Weird.

I bring banana's into work. If I'm not hungry I'll leave them for later. The next day they're gone. I just realized it now because I forget that I left it from the day before. However, today I got hungry and remembered I'd left one from yesterday.

What is going on here? They don't get rotton overnight and I want to save them for the next day. Someone is swipping my banana's and it's cheesing me off. I know I'll forget them if I put them in my drawer and they'll turn into mush so I leave them on my desk so I'll remember them.

Now I'm kind of curious. Who is the theif? And then what am I supposed to do if I catch him/her?

To Much Water

This is from an article I read on the Star Tribune. I found it kind of interesting. Who would've thunk to much water would be bad for you.

During intense exercise the kidneys cannot excrete excess water. But as people keep drinking, the extra water moves into their cells, including brain cells. The engorged brain cells, with no room to expand, press against the skull and can compress the brain stem, which controls vital functions such as breathing. The result can be fatal.

The Wife is Pregnant Responses

I've recently began to let people know my wife is pregnant. The due date is Aug 31st, the same day as Ryan's B-Day. Here are some responses.

A conversation on Instant Messenger yesterday
Kyle says:
We'll be coming back with a baby

Matthew says:
HOLY CRAP

Matthew says:
WHAT

Ryan says:
I did not read that correctly

Kyle says:
Aug 30th is the due date.

Ryan says:
Wasn't april fools last week

Johnson, Matthew C says:
Poppa Kyle?

Setrum, Kyle L says:
I know. I should've did that on April 1st . No one would've believed it.

Steffen, John says:
Are you serious?

Setrum, Kyle L says:
No bull.

Johnson, Matthew C says:
Wow, congrats buddy

Kyle L says:
Thanks

Ryan says:
Congrats man. That's crazy

Matthew says:
Your going to be the worst Little League Coach ever

Kyle L says:
I'll rule as a coach.

Ryan says:
I feel like I did when we asked how todd's weekend was and he said "oh yeah and I got married."

Ryan says:
We're talking wolves and kyle just lays it all out there

Matthew C says:
yeah, classic

Ryan says:
I got told Kyle is having a kid by IM on the LM network. What were the odds?

Alex's response to an email
Congratulations!!! 5 friggin' months!!! I'm speechless.

An email to Ben and Jay
Jay -
Kyle, that’s awesome, congrats. Looks like FLA has really changed things for you. And I wouldn’t burden the boy with a name sake after Ryan. That’s almost cruelty.

Ben -
Wow congratulations! Orlando is the city of love. I think you should just name the child Ben. One name. Don't pollute the name with that Setrum business.

The kid will probably come out of the womb and say "Cleaned, scoped, and mounted" **A reference to the EA Game Generals**

Ryan again -
The name should be Ryan Jennifer Setrum if it's a girl.

It works as Jennifer Ryan Setrum too, but you don't want too many Jen's in the house.

It might come out with an eerie and unholy understanding of Jennie-O that can't be explained. Becareful if the kid likes strained turkey but won't eat beef.

The Office

Joel net sended me today saying he had a really funny story to tell me and that I should go to his cube to hear it. His cube is across the building from mine so I was thinking this story was funny. When I got there he said a kid he went out with over the weekend gave a cabby some crap and he thought it was funny. I was kind of confused cuz I didn't think it was funny. Maybe he had a funny story to tell me but realized he couldn't tell me. But whatever. I needed to get away from my cube anyway since I farted something awful and it stunk really bad. In fact it was so bad that it was still rotten when I got back.

3 day weekend

Friday we hit Clearwater beach. It was the first time I've been there. The sugar sand is awesome to walk in or play some football as we did. Diving for the ball is not a problem. I had my wife put on some sun screen and now I have a weird color scheme on my back because she didn't not get my whole back. Probably cuz I’m so fat she couldn’t get all of it. I'm now red and white. We ate at Frenchies on the beach which was awesome. It's a good view and the food was good. We got in almost right away. When we left there must have been a hundred people in line. That's how popular this place is. Then we went home and watched the T-Wolves on national TV. That was real great watching the effort put on by the defense. Oh well, the lottery is looking good right about now. It's time to rebuild.

Saturday we didn't do much. I tried to golf but the course had a tournament going on. The guy felt bad and gave me a free bucket of balls to hit. I got my swing worked out I think. We'll see. Saturday night we just stayed home vegged and watched some TV.

Sunday I got to golf. Not good but I think I was just tired from working out earlier in the day. Florida is not a good place to play if you can hit the ball straight. There's lots of water so I've lost close to fifty balls this year. I'm heading to Wal-Mart to buy the cheapest balls possible.

The End Is Near

With the Pope gone and all it's got to be close to the end of something. I've been frantically wondering what it could be. What message is God trying to send us? Today I found out what it is - my Net Send Communicator tool. Since I started working here there has not been a chat program available for us to collaborate with. So I developed a tool that used windows built in net send functionality. This tool gain a lot of popularity throughout the work place even reaching places such as New Jersey, Texas and many others. By far my most popular application I've ever written. Well, I recently found out that MSN Messenger is now an accepted tool. Now I fear it's only a matter of time before my Net Send Communicator tool is replaced on the desktop with a Commercial Off the Shelf tool. I guess it had to happen at some point. Maybe my tool can co-exist with MSN Messenger, maybe there's a nitch market for it with in the work place. Who knows, but it's a sad sad day.

Congrates Green-O

Green-O had a baby boy on Friday. Something like 9lbs 9ozs. Crazy stuff. It's weird to think just a few years ago we were partying it up at St Cloud State. Now we have to get old and have kids. Why is that? Oh well, guess we'll have to just relive the memories. One in particular was when Green-O passed out and we took Becka's bacon strips and put them on Green-O's head. Definitely a pic to show the kids right Green-O? :)

A car that runs on compressed air

I found this story about a car that runs on compressed air. Read ithere. Sounds great. But if it really worked wouldn't it sell itself. Why would you have pursuade the public to buy it.

To Be Road Kill

So I'm rollerblading to work today and I come upon a hidden driveway. Two cars come barreling out. The first car turns left, which is no biggie. The next car veers right and doesn't even look to the right. Instead she's looking to the left to watch for on coming traffic. All the while I'm trying to get my fat ass to stop cuz I know she isn't stopping for me. Since I was already in front of the car the only thing I can do, is do a 180 turn and try and get out of the way. Know imagine a fat ass trying to get turned around really quick on rollerblades. So I get turned around but she's hitting the accelerator, there's no way I'm getting out of this one. So the car is a couple feet away and I'm thinking about what it'll feel like to be road kill. Will I finally be granted my wish of being thin once again? Will I stink as I rot along with rest of the road kill? Will someone think enough of me to at least kick me to the curb? Will someone think I'm an old poster from an 80's rock band? I wonder what the 2D version of me looks like? (Kind of amazing how many thoughts one can get through the head in a short amount of time) And finally the lady turns my way and slams on the brakes. My hand grazes the hood of the car and the road kill version of me is averted. At this point I'm not quite sure who crapped their pants worse me or her. I'm sure she didn't car about me, rather she didn't want her car scratched.

Funny Guy

If you stopped by earlier you probably saw a post about Ben getting a chance to be on Jeopardy. Well I had to delete it. Why? It was a friggen April Fools Joke. how could I be so dumb! Dah, even after I've been trying to think of a joke to play on co-workers.

Well I was burned big time. And Kudus to Ryan for figuring it out right away and stewing on it so all us other gullible morons could congratulate Ben.

for all you you who want to see how bad I got burned here's the original post. I take back all the nice things I said about Ben. He's a really a self centered, egotistic, bad driven' bully. (I really can't say what I feel here)

Anyway, nice work on the April Fools Joke Ben.

Jeopardy Question
Question: A tall slender Software Engineer who graduated from Purdue University and currently works for Lockheed Martin?

Answer: Who is Ben Martins.

I just got done reading Ben's Blog and I just found out he's going to be on Jeopardy. Read it here

For those of you who do not know Ben, he's the best googler ever! Not only that he's one of the most talented programmer I've ever met. He has many other hobbies and projects that he's done which I recomend checking out at Studio711

Nice work Ben and best of luck to ya.

I'm suck a moron