Blog Problems.

Almost three weeks of a "working vacation" was just what I needed.

It was hot, we spend some time at the beach, my son loved this despite his initial distrust of the waves.
Sand is not my friend I can tell you that.

My wife and I took a three day cruise to the Bahamas and if was a nice respite for us.
She is doing well post appendectomy and feels lucky they were able to do it laproscopically.

Now we are both preparing to get back in the full swing of things next week.

I'm catching up on blogs and making plans for a weekend of basketball.

The whole George Mason thing is pretty remarkable but I think they will run out of steam even while hoping they do not. LSU? Who would have figured.This will be interesting. I doubt I will be able to talk about anything else this weekend.

I added blog inflence to my sidebar for fun. Don't think it is real accurate but the look was getting old and I needed a new link. Try it when you are bored.

Leaving on a Jet Plane

Not meaning to steal anyone's modus operandi but that title fits.

Leaving Saturday for three weeks in Florida/Bahamas with my wife and my son; it is more of a working vacation but I hope to get some fishing and golf in while watching the NCAA championships, and taking my son to the beach and on a couple of boat rides while missing the spring breakers who do not tend to congregate in Naples anyway.

Me and my wife hope to get to one of the out islands of the Bahamas for couple of days of peace and quiet later on toward our return as she will be further along in the healing process. Our son will be cared for by loving grandparents at this time.

I’ll try to check in and will before leaving Saturday.


I'm not going to Disney World. I am not a big believer in theme parks if you can take a boat out and fish and swim all day. Maybe when he is older.

News

Let me be the announcer here.
The Koufax awards are now open.

I don't know if anyone knows this especially you cooper because you tend not to read those award sites but Coalition for Darfur is up for an award as well; it is under blogs that deserve more recognition. I think you deserve more recognition but that is neither here nor there.
I hadn't seen this mentioned so I thought I'd mention it here.

My wife is doing fine and is hacking away at her laptop trying to catch up on her work.

Thanks for the well wishes all.

Go vote for our friends Bring it On and Courting Destiny. Courting - a real writing blog.

Crazy Weekend

I'm back for now.

My wife had an emergency appendectomy this weekend so things became a little frantic around here. She is fine and came home yesterday because they like to get people out of the hospital as soon as possible these days due to hospital aquired infections always being a concern.

The funniest thing occured on Sunday when I was driving into the hospital to see her.

I live in an area that is Republican even though in general the state is Democratic. Cooper you may recognize the state. ;)

Directly outside the hospital , right before the drive to enter there was a lone, very tall man around six foot walking back and forth along the roadway with a very large approximately five by four foot sign which read..........................> IMPEACH BUSH

I had a immediate urge to go out and hug him but I restrained myself.

After a crazy weekend it made my day.

out for two

Don't be alarmed if you get weird emails. I was emailing different people and cut and pasting email addresses which is what I usually do with mine and ended up putting others email address in for mine and mine in for others in a couple of places. I was trying to have someone email to remind me if the Koufax Awards are accepting voting and was cutting and pasting too many emails.

I'm out for a couple of days and will only have access to a computer for email but will try to get to the computer for voting so in case only the wrong people received my emails or in case you get emails from others but they seem to be from me, it's because I was cutting and pasting email addresses.

Email me over the next few days if the voting is on and I will try to get to a computer. It will be around two days without a computer after six or so this evening.

Today

I’m working from home this week but am pretty busy with not much of time for free cyberspacing.

If you pass by check out the nominations for a Koufax award for the two blogs below and then go vote for them.

Too much to do right now to write anything else.

Check out this site for the beginning of some best blog voting. The list is on the sidebar and soon voting will begin.

Two blogs I read and think highly of have been nominated.

Courting Destiny in the Best writing category and Bring it On in the best Community Blog. category.

Snow Day

I tried this before but have to do thumbnails because the regular pictures seem to cause havoc with the blog.





My drive and from my upstairs bathroom, sorry about the screen.


This stuff was heavy too, took all morning to get the drive clean.
Melted considerably by the time I took the pictures. I think we had close to a foot in some places but the roads were cleared quickly.

Snow this Weekend and the Olympics

Brown is fighting back and I'm not sure I blame him but he forgets we heard some of those tapes so I'm not sure this helps him but it sure does give us something more to think about. I don't think there are too many people out there with a funtioning brain that haven't been aware of the fact that our goernment in general and the White House in particular were largely responsible for this failure.

The warmest is 1200 years. W'eve sure been lucky this winter but it looks like, from the forecast anyway, that I will be home blowing snow this weekend.

I think I'm going go get a stockpile of food , some salt and settle down to watch the Olympics. I'm not much of a winter sports enthusiest but I do enjoy watching.

Post Superbowl Indigestion

I have let this thing go too long.

Superbowl weekend for me is usually spent with my brother and this weekend was no different. In order for this to occur one of us has to travel a significant distance and this year it was his turn so we had a houseful of people this weekend.

I don’t care that much for the game itself, most of these events are disappointing. The commercials are worth it and there is always a lot of food around. This is good because I live in a house where most of the time the frig is full of fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Junk food is allowed on Superbowl weekend and I take full advantage of this. The refs sucked in this game which does make it disconcerting. I say we have computers make the calls from here on in.

This is what happens when bad decisions are made.

I am all for freedoms of speech but you have to take potential consequences into consideration. Even twelve year olds do that.


Pepcid is a great drug by the way.

Too Much Health Insurance????????????

I think this signficant.

Too much health insurance?
I read this this monrning after scrolling through another blog that noted it.
I was under the impression that the problem was that some people can't afford health insurance.
This is so wrong.

No time to write this morning hope you had a great weekend.

Weekend Post

Duke did it again and my little bit of glee after the Hoya's beat them the other night was - as expected - short lived. I hope to catch the Cincinnati / Georgetown game tomorrow. The weekend again is for college basketball, some paperwork a good book and family time. If it's warm I hope to shoot some golf; it has been possible to play here this month and I have done it twice. Two cheers fro warmer than normal winters.

I will be leaving in March for a few weeks to travel to a variety of places around the globe for my job. I have not traveled overseas since my son was born but it will be necessary again at least this time.

My wife wanted to go see Brokeback Mountain this evening. I didn't. She went with a friend. I'd rather stay home and son-sit.

I like to think of myself as a fairly enlightened individual. I wonder why then I really just didn't think I could stomach this movie. What did it mean?
I love going to the movies, always have always will. Love the popcorn and chocolate mix and the five six dollar coke all mixed together. So am I a raving homophobic? We have a couple of gay friends so I just can't figure it.

It came to me eventually, it has nothing to do with any of that; it is simply that
I don't like seeing love stories of any kind unless there is a lot of action of some other kind in them, I don't like "Westerns". I don't like art films and this is a close as they come from what I hear.

If it is hilarious, clever, and fast I like it. If it is full of action and suspense I like it. I don't think that I have seen a movie that didn't fit the aforementioned criteria in a very long time.

I feel better now.

Have a nice weekend out there.

Quick One

I have been reading the BIO site recently and see it as having potential. I hope it does not become a contest among major posters for attention that the kos often seems to be. I still read the Kos mind you it just seems more often than not it is some kind of proving ground.

Sorry MJ for assuming Indiana /Iowa. Bless Duke and may the power that be fall slowly and with ease.

If anyone knows a better link manager than blogrolling let me know otherwise I am changing over to blogrolling to prevent problems should I decide to change my template.

Slippery Slopes

I don't buy into this completely. I believe we are on a very slippery slope and watching his smirking face on CNN trying to persuade does not make it any different.

Political Notio is returning to full time status in the near future.
This is a good thing I look forward to it.

The trial of SH is becoming a joke.

I hope google sticks to it's original plan.

I had a good college basketball weekend and a not so good football weekend.

I have the luxury of working from home most of this week which means spending some quality time with my son and wife.

Will be traveling quite a lot this spring so I am going to enjoy this time while it's here.

I'm holding out from changing the name of this blog to average businessman and wife.

Nada

Georgetown over Duke.

My weekend is complete.

news and Kelly Clarkson

Bin Laden on tape...we reject truce offer. Nope no truce were gonna annihilate you. Not sure what that's about. Is that guy really still alive?


Alito now qualifying his responeses. I still do not want him on the supreme court of this nation.

Wilson Pickett dies. It's someone everyday isn't it?

Kelly CLarkson won't let them use her songs for the show??

You will forgive me I was doing a three month stunt in Wisconsin at the time of the first idol and we did watch it. I've haven't seen it since but hear she has gotten pretty famous. I don't blame her.

Busy few weeks and everyone in my house is gettng sick and staying sick with sme kind of respiratory virus so I am bailing out and just doing a cop out.

Nothing else to say.

I have caught some of the hearings, on the new and on late night CNN coverage. I think the man doth talk a good game and I think we all need to be very wary of what that means.

Is this really necessary?

I admit to having an Ipod now. I have a long commute and travel some. I do conduct a lot of business from my rural home, but when driving and flying the Ipod gives me great pleasure, and I thank my wife for her insistence. Ipod compatible jeans is a little over the top for me. Maybe if I wore jeans to work it would be different.

Al Jazeera is loving this still.

When he wakes up and makes his first speech I wonder what form the claims of divinity will take.

When you find him let me know.

Great start to the new year.

Ariel Sharon is not going to survive.

But no fear as it is the will of God.

Sadly Lou Rawls passed on and Iraq had it's bloodiest day in months.

Let's keep those wire taps burning.

Great start to the new year.

At least John Stewart is hosting the Oscars.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

It's been a few days but I hope you all enjoyed the holiday and are still enjoying. We did a short trip and may do another. I am currently enjoying my family. I have again been assigned to take my son to the library so this is a good place for me to sit and read again.

I'm still trying to come up with resolutions that are attainable.

I will be sure to let you know if I do.

HAPPY HOLIDAY

Things do look like they are heating up in Washington and right before the holiday too.

Hopefully people will get their just deserts.

I’m hoping for apple pie..pumpkin is not my thing.


Happy Holidays all. I celebrate Christmas so you all enjoy whatever you celebrate. Things get hectic. We travel a bit over the next week.


Enjoy your time with family and friends.

Five Weird Things

I’ve been too busy to do much writing this week.
I’ll rectify that later on this month I hope.
In the meantime I am going to do a tag because the Girl on the Blog tagged me with the question of five weird habits.

1. I must wear flannel pajama bottoms no top no exceptions for weather.
2. According to my wife I snore when I am on my left side only; she thinks I do it on purpose. She spends quite a bit of time trying to roll me back and forth.

3. Peanut butter on apples or on celery. These are staples that must be in my home at all times.

3. Losing my glasses. I wear contacts and use glasses one third of the time. I lose three pairs a year without fail.

5. Play old Grateful Dead records when we have guests no matter who the guests may be.

I need to state that I am opposed to the death penalty and think that the governor made a mistake he will pay for dearly. He is already in a political jam and I think morally this was the wrong thing to do.