I have a flickr album that has over 1,000 photos of Drake. Every now and again I like to flip through some of the older ones and remind myself of when he used to fit on my chest while sleeping.
I also put together two short shows of our trip to the John Ball Zoo and the Grand Rapids Children’s Museum.
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I am very excited for Art Prize. Living in the downtown area is going to be great come September. A free random art show around the city. Not too bad that the winner pulls down $250,000.
The city water and sewer rates have gone up.
The “Readiness to Serve Charge” has gone up 13.67% from $57.44 to $65.29. Even before any water is used we have to pay $65.29 just because we are hooked up to the system. By comparison the electric companies “Just to be a customer charge” is $18.00 per quarter. The gas company? $25.50 per quarter.
Not only are we now paying more just to have the opportunity to use water, the rate for the water has gone up.
Water Rate last quarter: $1.57 per HCF. This quarter the rate is $1.591 per HCF for an increase of 1.34%.
Sewer Rate last quarter: $2.58 per HCF of water use. This quarter the rate is $2.898 per HCF of water use for an increase of 12.33%.
I’m just flabbergasted.
Averaged out with the same HCF usage of 18 our bill increased by 10.56%.
Friday night the Griffins lost in overtime to the Philadelphia Phantoms. They played well, but just couldn’t get out in front on the score sheet. Saturday night was a different story.
Daniel Larsson blanked Philadelphia with 27 saves, while Teslak stopped 44 of Grand Rapids’ season-high 48 shots in net for the Phantoms. With the win, Larsson is now 12-2-1 with five shutouts, a 1.88 GAA and a 0.937 save percentage through his last 16 games. He also is just one blanking shy of the Griffins franchise record for shutouts in a season (6). griffinshockey.com: News Releases
Before the game on Saturday we all headed over to Founders for some drinks and sandwiches. As a note, order your sandwich at the window as soon as you get there. We didn’t know that there was a separate window for food. The bar tender did not fill us in on this when we asked for menus. That aside, the food was delicious, and I was told the beer was good as well.
I actually got dressed on Sunday. The three of us went shopping to get a few things for Drake. A tent is now set up in his room. After it was up he took everything off from his bed and put it in there. If you have seen his room you know how many stuffed animals live on his bed. I’ll have to take some pictures for everyone.
In other news, I started a farm on Facebook, and I finally watched Death Race and Traitor.
Comcast added 6 HD channels in the Grand Rapids Michigan market. Personally I would rather have HDNet over any of these.
183 Travel Channel HD
216 MGM HD
238 Toon Disney HD
250 Fuse HD
260 IFC HD
261 WE HD
