Matt & Lindsay's Spot

So I was reading an article on MSN about the most popular toys (the article came out around Christmas, dont ask me why I am only reading it now). It had this little chart from Forbes on it and it listed the most popular toy for each decade. It made me think of the "good old days".

Forbes The most popular toys
Era Toy
• 1900-1909 Crayola Crayons
• 1910-1919 Raggedy Ann Dolls
• 1920-1929 Madame Alexander Collectible Dolls
• 1930-1939 View-Master 3-D Viewer
• 1940-1949 Candy Land
• 1950-1959 Mr. Potato Head
• 1960-1969 G.I. Joe
• 1970-1979 Rubik's Cube
• 1980-1989 Cabbage Patch Kids
• 1990-1999 Beanie Babies
• 2000-Present Razor Scooter

Isn't it funny how toys have changes in all these years. Do you guys remember the Beanie Babies craze? I mean people would fight over these things! How crazy people get about toys. It was kinda cool to read about the history of toys. Did you know that a stone yo-yo was created in Greece in 1000 BC! I still say that some of the best toys were some of the simplist.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10387831/

Well its Monday. How about a history lesson. On today, March 27, 1905 fingerprint evidence was used to solve a British murder case. Only 3 years earlier, the first English court had admitted fingerprint evidence in a petty theft case. The Farrow case was the first time that this cutting edge technology was used in a high profile murder case.

To read more about the case you can click on the link below. If you really dont want to read any more about the case, you can still click on the link and enter any date in history you want. There are also catagories that you can change to find out more. If you want to, enter your birthday and find out what was happening in the world when you came into it.

http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.jsp?month=10272955&day=10272992&cat=10272943

We spent a wonderful Saturday at the beach, where we enjoyed 80 degree weather. As we strolled, we found all these. Hope y'alls weekend was as great as ours.

So what does your workday consist of? Lets see... today began with a nice little 3 mile run and then some meetings till mid-morning. Then, me and the boys grab machettes and axes and tromp off into the woods to clear out one of the running trails. We have a few captains coming to visit the office and we are gonna drag their salty old butts on a 5.5 mile trail run. I kinda feel sorry for them but at the same time it is really our only chance to make them hurt. At the moment, I'm getting a little lunch and then I'll be off to more meetings and crawling around the nether regions of buildings. I laugh to think that I got a whole college degree to do this stuff. Would you trust me with $70 million? For some reason the Navy thinks it is a good idea...