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I disabled anonymous comments (I was getting too much spam), so if you’re not logged in, you can’t post comments, anyway.

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April 5th, 2007 at 10:55 am | Comments & Trackbacks (1) | Permalink
Finished (almost)!
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Aside from a little paint, the wedding sculptures are finished. You can see mine at the bottom of this page, and you can see Cary’s at the bottom of this page.
April 4th, 2007 at 8:11 pm | Comments & Trackbacks (1) | Permalink
Why Didn’t I Think of That?
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Why can’t this man get any props? He is a perennial all star and yet no one wants to keep him on their squad. His glove is a little questionable yet his bat is extremely potent nonetheless tonight he was traded to the Washingtion Nationals for Brad Wilkerson and some bozos. I think something to consider is will this trade make either team significantly better and after one second of thought the answer is no. Alfonso Soriano

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That’s exactly what Roger Clemens is saying to the Astros who pretty much dissed him by not offering arbitration.
Not that you’d really have to buy this from Bloq — let’s face it: you could make this yourself pretty easily — but I gotta give ‘em credit for realizing such a great idea for anyone who likes to read in bed:
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Alpha and the Week Ahead

Fueled by a benign CPI report and a continuation in the recent mind boggling level of corporate deal making, U.S. Equity Markets continued their bull run this past week as most of the major averages posted gains. Grabbing the headlines’ almost daily are the record breaking closing numbers of the Dow Jones Industrial Index which is up 8.8% year-to-date followed by the S&P 500 Index up 7.6% and the NASDAQ Composite Index up 5.9%.
I’ve posted the complete notes for our Honeymoon (complete with bonus spelling errors!), and I’ll be adding more pictures over the next week or so.

Notes on our honeymoon in Italy
May 10th, 2007 at 3:57 pm | Comments & Trackbacks (0) | Permalink
Notes on our Honeymoon
Filed under: General Travel Italy

Cary and I have been typing up notes about our honeymoon, but since we have to pay for internet access, we haven’t had a chance to post it online yet. I’ve posted up some quick notes on our trip so far. . .

Notes on our honeymoon in Italy
April 20th, 2007 at 10:43 am | Comments & Trackbacks (3) | Permalink
Finished!
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The final painted wedding sculpture is done. I’ve posted an image at the main wedding sculpture page here.
April 11th, 2007 at 8:58 pm | Comments & Trackbacks (1) | Permalink
Could this be the year?
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Losing the NL Division title may have been the kick in the pants the team needed. It’s been 15 years since the Braves began their NL Championship streak (not counting the 1994 strike when there was no championship, of course), and 12 years since their 1995 World Series win. It’s about time for another one, I think.

When I first started this blog, I mentioned being at a Braves game in 1992 when Otis Nixon made a fabulous catch that robbed the Pirates of a game-tying home run late in the game. After a little searching, I finally found footage of the catch on Youtube (the footage starts at the 1:35 mark in the video, or the 3:00 mark if the counter is counting down):

http://www.golfnuggets.com/associations/golf-association-malta.html
This should be really exciting. It’s not to often that you get such a powerhouse match up this early in the season, but today we do. Texas has looked extremely solid on all aspects of their game and to date Duke has not. The Blue Devils have basically played to the cailber of the team they were matched up against and it took a last second shot to win one of them. This game will totally live up to the hype and in the end Duke will prevail.

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Sports Pick of the Day

Overall Record
5 Star Picks 19-10
Strong Picks 17-11-2

Pick of the Day
Five Star - Duke -2.5 against Texas

http://www.golfnuggets.com/associations/golf-association-mexico.html

Overall Record
5 Star Picks 18-10
Strong Picks 17-11-2

April 6th, 2007 at 8:30 am | Comments & Trackbacks (1) | Permalink
Inability to post comments…
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Ok, so for a while now, some people have mentioned that the menu sidebar overlaps the comments section of the page when you try posting a comment. As it turns out, this is a glitch that occurs only when you’re not logged in to the site, which explains why I never saw it.
It’s baseball season again, and only three games in, the Braves are showing promise. They swept the Phillies 3-0, which is a great way to start things off. It’s waaaay to early to make any predictions, but it feels good, anyway. Two of the three games were won with a extra-inning rallies, which was how the Braves won many games in their golden days in the early 90’s.

http://www.golfnuggets.com/associations/golf-association-nepal.html
But more amazing are the less spotlighted gains of the Dow Jones Utilities (up 16.8% thus far in ’07), the Dow Jones Transports (up 14.3%), the S&P Mid Cap 400 (up 11.7%) and the Energy Index up (11.4%). We have focused on all of these sectors in our commentary over the past several months as recommended areas of alpha generation.

Despite the record highs in the major indexes, the technical condition of the market has deteriorated some this week. The advance/decline lines for both the NYSE and the NASDAQ lost some ground, a sign that the bullish momentum is losing strength. An abundance of liquidity continues to support this market along with a fair amount of skepticism on the sentiment front.

Never underestimate the media’s patented ability to smear an entire group of people and their legitimate criticisms due to the actions/attitudes of a few. With just a couple of reports the focus of the complaint can be turned against those voicing the complaint, and as a result the scrutiny being applied to the media by those people falls to the wayside as a result of the media’s ‘larger story’ on the complainers themselves. And the beat goes on.

And isn’t it interesting to see the debate over whether or not this constituted a hate crime? It’s almost like debating which victim’s life is worth more - a black person’s or a white person’s?

Considering that there are those who believe in ’special’ consideration for minority victims when the crime is committed by a non-minority, we all know the answer to that one.

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The guys did the ribs this time. I was making Onion Parmesan potatoes in the house. We kind of switch off on inside/outside. Works out pretty good.
Labels: Iraq, Memorial Day celebration, onion parmesan potatoes, ribs, smokey mountain bullet

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Thursday, May 31, 2007
Most Popular Grilled Foods - Weber Report 2007

Here we are cooking the most popular grill food for 2007. In fact, hamburgers have topped the list for the past four years according to Weber GrillWatch (conducted by Greenfield).
The top foods according to the yearly study (this is the 18th year), the top grilled foods are:
1. hamburgers - 64%
2. steak - 46%
3. chicken - 40%

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4. hot dogs - 34%
5. ribs - 14%
t is depressing, however, to note that the media, so many American receive their information from, is so utterly biased. It’s not so much that I am concerned over their bias, as I am concerned because they continue to lie about it and swear there is no bias in their reporting.

The New York Times owns my own regional newspaper. Now, one would expect it to be biased toward the left of the political spectrum … and one would be correct. It is slightly to the left of the old Soviet Union tome, “Pravda”. But, will they admit it, heck no! But there it is, everyday, in black and white, for everyone to see.

See the Weber report for more interesting grilling trends.
If you want to make some really great burgers, then here’s my best burger recipe with tips.

5/31/2007 - 7:39 pm
Political “intimate”: New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin may run for governor

Say it isn’t so:

WASHINGTON (CNN) — New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is seriously considering a Louisiana gubernatorial bid, a political intimate of Nagin tells CNN.

According to public records and his campaign treasurer, the two-term Democrat has raised more than a half-million dollars in campaign contributions since he was re-elected in 2006, even though Nagin can’t run for mayor again. (New Orleans limits mayors to two terms.)

The FBI says they have recorded several conversations between the two during an 18-month investigation. Sources tell CBS 2 that on Friday, Defreitas told the informant he believed the authorities may be on to him, prompting the feds to move in.

Three of the men were arrested and one was being sought in Trinidad on Saturday. In an indictment charging the four men, one of them is quoted as saying the plot would “cause greater destruction than in the Sept. 11 attacks.”

Authorities said all four were motivated by a pattern of hatred toward the U.S., Israel and the West.

Defreitas said the airport was a symbol that would put “the whole country in mourning.”
Correction. I am soon to have the world’s most wonderful man as my husband. In agony, I told him of my dilemma and asked his counsel on whether I should max out my two credit cards to cover the debt. After all, he should be aware of it if he is going to marry into a pile of credit card debt that I managed to incur in one day.

But he loves me.I saw the deer family again after work yesterday, I’m so dog minded that when I saw something large and buff colored moving out of the corner of my eye, my first thought was that someones dogs were out. It was only after Bambi froze that I realized they weren’t in fact, lose dogs. Great, big, loose dogs. Speaking of great big dogs, two great Danes chased Dogger away at the dog park last night, I was shocked that the Danes did that and I was also shocked that Doggger had the sense to turn tail and run when they told her to. Lou Dobbs loves Goats.

At work we were visited by a raccoon out in the parking lot. Two of the hysterics decided it must be rabid and were horrified when they learned they were not the first to spot Mr. Raccoon and that previous witnesses did not react in the same way. When I told them he lives under the generator they behaved like it was going to turn up under their desks! When I mentioned seeing the deer family they were aghast!

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Correction. He committed himself to me completely on the day that he asked me to be his wife. In fact, he committed to my two sons and to any future children we might have. Without a preacher or a license, he promised to be by my side through all of the heartache and pain that comes with being a human in a fallen world. In an instant, his love for me shone into every facet of my life, assuring me of it’s eternal allegiance with a fervor I have never known. There was nothing he would do or say to betray that commitment. I know - I could see it in his eyes.
“Anytime you hit Kennedy, it is the most hurtful thing to the United States,” he said on a recording made by a police informant. “They love John F. Kennedy like he’s the man … It’s like you can kill the man twice.”

The plot, which the men code-named “Chicken Farm,” never got past the planning stages, authorities said.

“The devastation that would be caused had this plot succeeded is just unthinkable,” U.S. Attorney Roslynn R. Mauskopf said at a news conference, calling it “one of the most chilling plots imaginable.”

Hats off to the feds for busting open this plot before it ever had the chance to get beyond the planning stages. Of course, expect the usual suspects on the left to seize on that little tidbit of information about it never getting past the planning stages in order to pooh pooh this threat (as they have several others that have been thwarted over the last several years, like the NY/NJ path tunnels plot, Miami 7 plot, the British airliner plot, and Ft. Dix) as not being a “big deal.” These are the same type of people who would have said the same thing had the 9-11 plot been thwarted before it had the chance to happen.