Her Majesty’s CIO

Queen Elizabeth II is looking for an IT Director. The application process closed on 10/16. Well, I’ve missed my chance to move the family to England. Having just seen the movie “The Queen” it makes me wonder what that job will be like! (“Would you be so kind as to help Prince Philip before he shoots his laptop?”)

Movie Reivew: The Queen

Thumbs up for The Queen--great acting. Wendy predicts Helen Mirren won’t win the Oscar because she never truly breaks down and cries in the movie. (She does, but she is only filmed from the back in the scene. Which is fine for the character of the Queen.) Also she doesn’t commit suicide. Perhaps if Ms. Mirren would have used a prosthetic nose!

Is that a lump in my pancake?

Last Sunday morning my wife and children were plotting. I knew they were—all the whispering going on whenever I left the kitchen. Wendy told me that my last pancake would be “special”.

We had decided on a family breakfast of pancakes the night before. Wendy had made delicious fish cakes for dinner that night. I had joked with her and the boys that since they were fish cakes made in a pan, they were fish pancakes! This made the boys laugh and grossed out my wife.

So Sunday morning my “special pancake” was served to me. There was a lump in the middle of it. I started to turn the pancake over and sure enough there was a sardine cooked into it. I figure “OK, you haven’t bested me yet! I’m going to take a bite of this thing… but it will be a bite from nearby the sardine, not the actual sardine.” Even without any actual fish in my mouth I could still taste the salt.

YUCK!!!!

Of course grossing out Dad was the best thing EVER that has happened to the boys. I guess that is the last time I’m going to joke about “Fish Pancakes!”