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My New Year’s fitness resolution comes shortly after New Year’s now that I live in Naples. It does for many other people too. This is the time of year when people start training for the Saint J’s 5k. St. J’s is the funkiest looking Catholic Church on the planet. Around this time people start training [...]

Filed under: General Observations, Yesterdaze on January 24th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I met this woman once while I was limo driving who let it be known to everyone after two drinks that she was Irish and she worked at a crematorium. In every drunken conversation, she would artfully steer the conversation to the topic of occupations. When asked what she did, she said “I burn people.” [...]

Filed under: General Observations on January 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Fat Babies by Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen I said I don’t like hippies And I don’t like cornbread And I don’t like much I said I don’t hippies And I don’t like cornbread And I don’t like much But that’s okay Fat babies have no pride Fat babies have no pride Fat babies [...]

Filed under: General Observations on January 23rd, 2009 | Add Comment! »

What a great ceremony! Although the Prez (so great to call him that) has been kicking some butt already, the real work begins now. I really enjoyed the ceremony and speech, but it didn’t make me all giddy like I felt when we found out the election result. I think the really wonderful thing is [...]

Filed under: General Observations on January 20th, 2009 | Add Comment! »

Technology still blows me away. I’m on my way to my Doctor in Gates on Thursday, and I hear on the radio something about a plane crashing in the Hudson River. I come out from the Doctor’s office 15 minutes later and they’re trying to interview people who’d just been rescued. They talked to a [...]

Filed under: General Observations on January 19th, 2009 | Add Comment! »

Wonderful inaugural weekend with the QoMU. After being disappointed from the decided lack of snow days last week, I decided to settle with a three day weekend. Friday afternoon with Joe, Jimmy and Doug. Hanging with Joe and Jim is a history lesson, going from national to international. Anyway, Joe is pretty happy with Obama, [...]

Filed under: General Observations, Politics on January 19th, 2009 | Add Comment! »

This is the song that’s playing right now. A fitting song for the end of the Bush administration, but the Bushies don’t deserve the honor of the good ship. Kilgore, Queen of My Universe, a handful of students and I watched history unfold. It was amazing. I’m dizzy with hope. Yeah.. that’s right Chelsea… hope… [...]

Filed under: General Observations on November 5th, 2008 | Add Comment! »

Oh, the things we have to get twenty-somethings to do in order to watch the debate. A little bit of history here….. Kilgore and his friends made up a drinking game before the first debate, and I made one up after the debate. Since then, I’ve seen lots of references to debate drinking games. First, [...]

Filed under: General Observations on October 16th, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Necessary Pieces: A re-broadcast of the first Obama-McCain debate; a shot-glass or drinking cup, plenty of your beverage of choice Rules: At the beginning of the debate Each time a candidate worms his way around Jim Lehrer’s persistent questioning about how he’s going to deal with a post-bailout economy – TAKE A DRINK Each time [...]

Filed under: General Observations, Politics on September 29th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I’m in the middle of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed: On NOT Getting By in America. Every suburban white person in America should read this. It chronicles Ehrenreich’s experiment in which she travels to different parts of the country doing minimum to below minimum wage and attempting to survive. It’s incredible so far. Anyway, she [...]

Filed under: General Observations, Politics on September 18th, 2008 | 1 Comment »