A couple of 30-second videos of the kids -

I was looking through the access logs for hillfamily.net today. It's interesting (for me, probably not you) to see which areas of the site end up getting traffic. A few "popular" pages -

• A photo of the Beverly drink dispenser at the old World of Coke. It gets a lot of interesting comments. Someone added a link to it from the Wikipedia Beverly entry.
• "Things to do in and around Atlanta" page - I put this together a few years ago for visiting family and friends to know what the options are for touristy things in the area. It's now the most-visited page on the site. I added a few links to books at Amazon, which generate a little spending money for me each month. Most of the traffic comes through Google for people searching for things like "places to visit in Atlanta", "cheap things to do in Atlanta", and "cool things to see in Atlanta"
• Burnand's Apostles Peter and John running to the tomb - a scan of a 1993 slide from the Orsay Museum in Paris. It's a great painting, although my photo of it is not. Again, most traffic is from Google searches.
• Versailles photos - for some reason I used "pics" instead of "photos" in the title of this gallery and it has resulted in a lot of traffic from Google. Again, these are scans of slides from my mission.
• A horribly blurry photo of Elvis' jungle room. No idea why, but this page has been visited over 6,000 times - maybe spambots like it. (No flashes allowed in Graceland and I didn't have a steady hand or a decent camera.)
• Wendy's BBQ review page - she skewers a couple of local BBQ restaurants and the page now gets a lot of hits from people searching for coupons. It also gets some entertaining comments.
• Opossum video - I didn't realize how passionate people could be about opossums. Check out the comments for this video at YouTube, esp. the guy who suggests I should get some literature to educate my wife.

Some fun search terms that have recently led people here -

• My parents are exhausted
• ingrown toenail
• fat advertisement
• the sun hydrogen turns to helium song
• where to buy blue crabs in atlanta ga
• some say love is like a flower
• lions that are asleep
• 1989 beretta
• catacombs skulls
• jim morrison pics
• i never see thy face but i think upon hell-fire
• how to be a vendor at the bar b q festival
• homemade chia pets
• filming of "sweet home alabama"
• eating uncooked bacon
• pin the tail on eeyore
• urim thummim
• trashed home
• the reason is because bad grammar
• silly things to do during baseball intermission
• roadside shelters

Benjamin figured out clapping this week. He uses his thumb against his tongue as a reference point for some reason.

Quick little slideshow (30 seconds) from Animoto --

Photos from March 2008 visit to Delhi, Gurgaon, and Jaipur, India.

See also photos from 2007 India trip.

Delhi - 3/28/08

We were going to attend a cricket match last night, but apparently there was a fight the night before that resulted in the destruction of the ticket booth. They were building a new one when we stopped by to get tickets, so we were out of luck.

"When I know not what else to do, I'll see thee again." -- Timon of Athens

"Sell when you can, you are not for all markets." -- As You Like It

"Pray you stand farther from me." -- Antony and Cleopatra

"He excels his brother for a coward, yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is." -- All's Well That Ends Well

Back in college, during a period of unrequited infatuation, I fancied myself a singer-songwriter. I had taken guitar lessons for a few months when I was 12, but quit when my teacher accused me of never practicing (which was true). I didn't realize until high school that girls liked musicians, so I retaught myself from some Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel chord books.

Most of these songs were recorded in my room using the internal mic of a dual-cassette Fisher ghetto blaster.