tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66620292011-04-21T19:04:26.350-04:00A look inside my world. Politics, Religion, Individual Opinion - all the things you're not supposed to talk about. From Brain to Blog.Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16195438824339407167noreply@blogger.comBlogger821100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6662029.post-1155697173375072612006-08-15T22:57:00.000-04:002006-08-15T22:59:33.386-04:00

Well, that's not a very nice thing to say about Blogger. But I've moved on to new hotness - check out the up to date blog at gitgan.com/blog. Powered by Wordpress.

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Wow, even writing here feels a bit odd. It's been so long. I got all kinds of excuses. Part of me wonders if it's just blogger burnout. - Anybody ever feel that way? I've got lots to write about, just no motivation to actually do the writing. I have yet to mention life as a father, update anybody on what the kids are up to, we've had lots of friends do so many nice things for us, I've been

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A lot has happened since I last wrote and to fill you all in I thought I'd tell you about it in my favorite blogging format - Q&A style. Sure, I could just send you to her blog, busy little fingers has she - updates, she does frequently. Wow, that is a Yoda sounding sentence. Better jump right into it before I get all Frank Oz on you. Q. So Josh what's been happening? A. You couldn't come

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A few weekends ago Kirsten and I went to Ikea with Ben & Ashley who had a fat stack of wedding cash burning a hole in their collective pocket. Kir and I were on more of a reconnaissance mission - checking out stuff for that time when we'll have a few more people running around the house. We looked at cribs and dressers, curtains and towels, duvet covers and light fixtures. I think we spent

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I had an interview today. I woke up in a generally bad mood because I knew I needed to wear a tie - something that I hardly ever do. It's not that I don't like ties - I do. I have quite a few that I think are very nice looking too, it's just - when I wear them I'm doing in on my terms. I don't know if it's just me or what but I kind of hope I "look like" a graphic designer. Most of them

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Alright kids here's the update. My last post was a bit ambiguous but, here's the reasoning. My portion and my cup God's got a reason for everything that happens in our lives. I've often wondered how many times a day God steps into our happenings and intervenes. Like if you're a couple minutes late to work, maybe it's because if you were on time you would have run over a kid or something. But

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This means a lot to me lately. Thought I'd share it with all of you.

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There's really a lot going on in my life right now and it seems like it's been forever since I've posted here but I wanted to get in a quick entry. Here we go - in rapid fire mode. So much to be... thankful for. We just started our new ABF last night. (That's Adult Bible Fellowship for those of you that don't know. It's The Chapel's term for Sunday School classes - sounds much more grown up

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After a bit of deliberation I am pleased to announce the winners of the Win "Like Vegas, with Jo-Jo's" T-Shirt Contest: Protest sign winners (2) Derrak Ostovic - "Impeach Josh, Vote for Kirsten" Jeff Rockwood - "Stop In-Law Workplace Harassment" Look for these shining new protest signs to be added to the header in the near future. Flattering Review Winner: Patty Moledor - it's such a nice

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After I ran the Christmas contest last year, a lot of people that read my blog said that they saw the contest and would have entered but for some reason or another decided not to. Apparently that is happening again. Now my pride tells me to not say anything about this and act like I had a bunch of people enter and give prizes to the few people that have entered. But for some reason I'm not going

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**Update: Some of you might be wondering why this contest has such a short timeframe - the reason is that "Like Vegas with Jo-Jo's" makes an awesome Christmas gift. For some of you, it might be your "gift" to yourself, for those of you that aren't completely selfish it makes for the best kind of Christmas gift - a free one. And for you all that are truly "other-focused" and you win, but would

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Another recycled bit but if you haven't voted yet and want to freak the people out a little bit print this, cut it out and tape it to your shirt before you vote. DISCLAIMER: I'm not sure if this can get you get arrested or not. So if you do - its not my fault. Happy Voting.

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Its my turn to whine so get on the bandwagon or I might be throwing some nasty looks your way mister. (or ma'am) What? "It's Miss" No, "Miz" - Not married huh? Whoudah thought... A lot of this stuff out here in the blogosphere is just recycled, if it is on one blog it's probably on another. I know quite a bit on this blog can definitely be found somewhere else on the web. I think that in most

Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16195438824339407167noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6662029.post-1129298252493967942005-10-14T09:00:00.000-04:002005-11-09T14:37:22.773-05:00

If you haven't heard by now, and I'm pretty slow in posting this one, Apple had some pretty big announcements - here are the links to the press releases: Apple Unveils the New iPod Apple Announces iTunes 6 With 2,000 Music Videos, Pixar Short Films & Hit TV Shows Apple Introduces the New iMac G5 Long story, short: video on your iPod that you can buy through the iTunes music store. At $1.99/each

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Its my birfday and while I might not be "in da club" we're still gonna party like it's my birfday. So for today I proudly present: A new look - yeah. Been working on this one on and off again for a while. I really wanted to use Gitgan Green on my blog - I think the pink is a nice compliment to it. I'm 28 now, married, quite secure in my masculinity and let's face it Pink is the new Black.

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Where did you come from? I get asked that question an awful lot. But this time, I'm asking you. If you're a regular reader and get here many different ways - go ahead and check off all of the methods you use for getting here. If you want - comment and let me know where your blog is, or what blog you came here from. Thanks

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This one is going everywhere so hang on for a bumpy bloggy ride. Books in my backpack Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith Rob Bell Wow. I'm only a few chapters into this book and I know it's already one that I'll re-read time and time again. Why Velvet Elvis? Every piece of art isn't a Picasso; some are destined for the basement to be forgotten. But that doesn't mean that people have

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Apple's got some big news and it's small - The iPod Nano. SAN FRANCISCO—September 7, 2005—Apple® today introduced the iPod® nano, a revolutionary full-featured iPod that holds 1,000 songs yet is thinner than a standard #2 pencil and less than half the size of competitive players. The iPod nano features an ultra-portable, lightweight design with a gorgeous color screen, Apple’s patent pending

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Insane. Google has posted new images for New Orleans. Take a look at the before and after Katrina satellite images.

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Apple Introduces Mighty Mouse New Multi-Button Mouse Features Innovative Scroll Ball CUPERTINO, California—August 2, 2005—Apple® today introduced Mighty Mouse, its next generation mouse with several innovative new features that make using a Mac® even more powerful and easy. Mighty Mouse offers power users up to four independently programmable buttons, without compromising simplicity for

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I can honestly say that I know God has been working on me over the last year - in truth, He's been preparing me my entire life for this. But only over the last 12 - 24 months did I start to realize it. Kirsten and I have both wanted to have a family for years. We married and figured we'd wait a while before trying to have kids so we could get to know each other better, grow in our marriage and

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This weekend we went to the Alive festival in Canal Fulton. Kirsten and I have gone the last 5 years and this year was the best one yet. I'm not sure that the speakers we're any better than any other year. I can't even really say that there were more bands there this year that I "really" wanted to see. I think the difference this year was me. You see, sometimes people talk about how they can

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Last week at bible study - I found this. Conspicuously placed under my bible. Courtesy of our good friends, Donny and Jennifer. Give it a click to read. Sorry guys, no squatters on my property. What a cruel landlord I am. By the way - apparently these squirrels moved north and have taken up residence at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame - seriously. Call the number. Technorati Tags: Squirrels,

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You guys did it! I've won! My Akron t-shirt design will be produced! Biggest thanks to all of my loyal blog readers and friends! Your comments on Rubbercityclothing.com about my t-shirt design we're great and fun to read. It turns out that each owner of the company picked their favorite design and mine was one of them. My design - thanks to all of you - had the most comments out of all 80+

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**UPDATE - 12:54pm 5/31: Looks like they took the long weekend off from approving comments, but they're up now. 43 of them so far! Holy Smokes! You guys are awesome! Check out the comments below - RCCC found this blog because of all the traffic you guys have generated to their site. Awesome!** Hey, just wanted to say thanks to everybody who has commented on my design submission for the Rubber

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Hey everybody I need your support! I've entered a contest being put on by Rubber City Clothing Company, a great little T-shirt company based in the city of my birth - Akron! They sell "Uniquely Akron" t-shirts that are humorous and promote Akron. The thing is - I need you guys to "vote" for my design by commenting on it. The winner of the contest gets $50 and one of their t-shirts. If you guys

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Adobe acquires Macromedia. "Customers are calling for integrated software solutions that enable them to create, manage and deliver a wide range of compelling content and applications - from documents and images to audio and video," said Bruce Chizen, chief executive officer of Adobe. "By combining our powerful development, authoring and collaboration software - along with the complementary

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Now that we've got that out of the way let's get to it. The latest version of Mac OS X - Tiger was announced April 12th and will be available for purchase on April 29th. "Boasting over 200 new features and innovations including Spotlight™, a revolutionary desktop search technology that lets users instantly find anything stored on their Mac®, including documents, emails, contacts and images;

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I'm tired of all the coverage on the pope. Yes, he's dead. The Pope is Dead. We know, you've been telling us every few minutes on the radio and television. Maybe it wouldn't bother me so much if we still had our digital cable. In an effort to get more done around the house, Kirsten and I decided to scale waaay back on our television watching. The easiest way to do that was to no longer have

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It has been one big year for the blog. I can hardly believe it - over 365 days since some of you people started reading this. I guess our attention span is a little better than they. . . ooh! Cookies! Where was I? Oh yes, so let's quit messing around here. You've got other blogs to be reading while you should be doing something else. Like work - yeah, I know you guys read this when you're

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The other day I had Chinese food for lunch - my fortune cookie had this inside it - I asked Kirsten about this and she didn't see any problem with it. I however, was worried about whoever this "he" was and why I was "the guiding star of his existence." Kirsten pointed out that perhaps the "he" was God. After years of Christian School education I very quickly informed her that this "he" did not

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There are a lot of Smiths in the world and you would think that people would be smart enough to realize that we're not all related. The other day, I had a guy ask me if I was related to the Josh Smith that plays in the Cleveland Orchestra. What is this? Is the likelihood of me being related to another Smith increased by the fact that they have the same first name also? No. But I still find

Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16195438824339407167noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6662029.post-1108740160827381342005-02-21T09:22:00.000-05:002005-02-22T15:08:36.076-05:00

I've been working on a few different projects lately. Revising navigation on a couple of sites, getting some behind the scenes things for Gitgan moving. But mostly - I've been playing a lot of basketball. I was picked up by the Atlanta Hawks and I've been known to bring down the hammer on occasion. This weekend I won the Slam Dunk Competition - LeBron was talking about me and said I'm pretty

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I don't know if every "big city" news channel has one of these guys but, in Cleveland ours is Monday, Carl Monday - and don't you forget it buster! Actually, Carl won't let you forget it. Last night, after bible study, Kirsten and I were watching the news and a Carl Monday Special Report!! came on. My impression of this guy is that he spends more time irritating than investigating.

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First off I want to say thank you to my wife for getting me an iPod for Christmas. I was honestly speechless when I opened it. I've been a U2 fan for a long time and this is definitely the most useful of all the U2 memorabilia I own. Thanks again babe! That being said and since it's a "trippy internet community-ish exercise" I thought I'd post my own iPod shuffle list. (Links only work if you

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Years ago there was a line of toys called Spytech. The toys, from what I understand, didn't work all that well, but the advertising did. Well, at least I thought they did because I made a phrase from the commercial a permanent part of my vocabulary. The commercials followed a simple formula: Adults are naturally evil beings trying to do sneaky things Kids must foil the nefarious plans of

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Kir and I took a trip to Ikea a couple of weekends ago and got a bunch of stuff. I spent the better part of a Sunday afternoon assembling various pieces of furniture - following the assembly instructions very carefully. For those of you who don't know what Ikea is, let me give you a quick description. This place has just about anything you'd need to furnish a home/office/space station. All of

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First off - I'd like to say a big thank you to everybody who participated in the contest and let you that you're all winners. Wait, no you're not. Everybody "winning" is a bad idea in children's sports and everything else. If everybody "wins" no one wins. Winning and losing are normal parts of life and let's face it, without losers we wouldn't have rivalries, super bowl commercials and the

Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16195438824339407167noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6662029.post-1103067545619495232004-12-14T17:46:00.000-05:002004-12-14T19:07:54.650-05:00

***Pre-blog disclaimer*** First let me preface this by saying that I've never suffered any real issues with self-esteem. I definitely experienced some awkwardness in my early pre-teen and teenage years but nothing that has left any permanent damage. That being said I now present you with an opportunity to make fun of me, if you like. In fact, if you do a really good job - I might reward you for

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Post election gloating: Since I haven't done it yet, I will now. We win, there are more of us than you. Congratulations liberals, on being on the wrong side of history yet again. The Bush election news feed may be absent from the blog but don't expect the assaults on your liberal ideologies to ever stop. I know its pretty childish but... Nah Nah Boo Boo. We win. Ferguson: Yes folks, I'm

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I don't like going to see the doctor. Mostly because I know that I'm going to sit in a small waiting room with people who are actually sick. I have allergies. I'm not really sure when I developed them but, at some point in my life I became allergic to dust. I've been allergic to cats for a long time. That doesn't bother me much because I hate cats. My allergies didn't bother me much, in fact they

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After all the political ads, discussions, arguements, debates and punditry we've finally made it to election day. So this morning we got up and walked down to Quirk Cultural Center. We waited in line for about 15-20 minute and finally cast our ballots for the person we've supported with our prayers, money and heartfelt arguements. I just didn't feel any resolution though. I still felt like I

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Autumn is a great time of year, the leaves changing colors, the crisp morning air. . . the INSANE KILLER BEES that make their way indoors to find a warm place to hang out and attack people. Seriously - at my office right now there are these HUGE bees, I mean they are big, they make a lot of noise and slam into windows and light fixtures, looking ( I assume ) for a way back outside. I

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Click to play - quicktime required I know the answer, do you?

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Well I guess I'm just a dumb, gun-loving right-wing redneck. For my more liberal friends I present your candidate - John Kerry. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer - 10/21/2004 He also made campaign stops meant to play to southeast Ohio's strong gun-rights voters. In Pike County's city of Buchanan, Kerry's motorcade stopped at the Village Grocery Store, where he paid $140 for a hunting

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Napoleon Dynamite, if you haven't seen it you need to. Do it just so you don't feel like an idiot. It will help you get important skills, like nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills and computer hacking skills. Check out the trailer here. Plus as a bonus, you'll learn to build a cake.

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Our friends, Dave & Kasey were expecting their firstborn - oddly enough - on Labor Day. She went past her due date and was more than ready to deliver yesterday when they came over to our house for Bible study. We had a cookout last night and so I was standing out front with some of the other guys when they pulled up. Dave got out of the car, followed slowly by Kasey, who smiled and said Hi,

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We just got back from vacation and boy did I ever need it. You ever feel that way, like you could really use some time off. An escape from the daily grind? I was feeling that way, not because of any lack of satisfaction in my job, no major complaints about that. In fact, just the opposite, I really do like my job. I just had my annual performance review and it went really well. I asked

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No way, my brother actually blogged! He's usually so busy! Seeing as how he's the only one who has a job, and other responsibilities. Seeing as how he has major priorities that take up soooo much of his time. Well, he'll probably try and play it off like blogging isn't any big deal. He'll make excuses but, I bet someday he'll be blogging like mad, and if you don't update your blog, he'll

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Three Years! Some said we'd never make it. (Okay so we, never actually heard anybody say that but, that's beside the point now.) But make it we have, and with 3 years under our collective belt, (Does that make any sense?) we're continuing in our quest for a life long marriage. Special thanks goes out to our friends and family for the support over the years. We'd also like to thank the

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The last couple of posts were pretty serious, maybe even crossing the line into "deep." Just to let you all know that I haven't dropped into the pits of despair I offer this lightfarted, sorry, I mean lighthearted entry. All about. . . Gas. Yes, everybody gets it, and I'm not talking about fuel for your automobile. I'm talking about the kind that clears rooms. Gas is the evidence

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Grandma died last night around 2:30 in the morning. Dad & Mom and my Aunt & Uncle were there with her. Well done, Grandma. Well done.

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It's funny how sometimes life can just be moving along and then out of nowhere something happens that makes you stop and notice. Two weekends ago, on Sunday the 18th to be specific, I went over to my Grandma's apartment to clean out her back porch. Over the wet spring that we've had a lot of dirt and mulch had made its way inside, under the screen door and settled on the green outdoor carpet/

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The photo's have arrived,(Yeah, we're still using film, can you believe it?) Anyway, I thought I'd treat you all to a pictorial walk through of the porch rebuild. Here we go. Friday Night Our stairs The reason for this project in the first place.  They are ugly, rotten and in dire need of attention.  I had them torn off in around 15 minutes.  Feeling like I accomplished something

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Blogs are great things, they let people share their feelings & thoughts with people all over the world. There really is free speech out here. So in observance of that I present to you two choices: 1. Things you have to believe to be a Republican today or 2. Things You Have to Believe to Be a Democrat Today Since this is my blog, I get to have a parting shot at all you lefties.

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I had a great weekend. Really. Friday night we went to the Indians game where they won with a bases loaded, bottom of the ninth single by Lou Merloni. Yeah, I don't know much about him either but hey, it made for a great game. We went to the game with my parents who just celebrated their 31st year of marriage last week. Pretty impressive. Especially given the fact that they managed to keep

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Have you ever heard someone say "Oh the Joys of Home Ownership" and they've actually been talking about something they enjoy? I haven't. Not once, and I know lots of people who own homes. I ask this because I'm currently in the process of building a new front porch. Kir and I had been having discussions about things that "need" to be done to the house. (As I finish typing that last

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If you live in the Akron, Ohio area and you've taken a drive through what we call "The Valley" you've probably enjoyed driving past the Akron Sewage Treatment Facility. Okay, so maybe enjoyed isn't the best word for the feelings you had as you drove past. Perhaps it would be better expressed in saying that you've experienced a stench so unique that it can't quite be classified as anything

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I feel like I need to post something. So, here goes. . . It's not like there hasn't been anything exciting happening. There's a lot, my buddy Gary just had a child, I'd give you the link to his site but you'd get this: If the bandwidth statistics reset at the beginning of the month it should be back up tomorrow. In the meantime if you need a fix visit this link. Last weekend was

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It's been a while yeah, I know. But, I've been uninspired lately. Some people are off at the pool. Some people are off having children. Some people, as in me, spend part of thier lunch break playing games like Bow Man. Basically, it's archery with poorly illustrated figures combined with physics. Big fun if you ar a dork like me. All the fun of playstation 2 without the things that

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At the time of this entry, my parents are in Poland leading the 12th graders from our church on a missions trip - Doulos. I'm in Florida, my wife is on her way to a wedding in beautiful Columbus, OH. My youngest brother Nate is a Counselor at Camp Carl and Ben is well, probably driving a big water truck somewhere in Peninsula, OH. And because of the internet, we can all "keep tabs" on each

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Frankly, I haven't the foggiest idea. This hotel where the conference is at is absolutely freaking huge! Check it out here. I'm having trouble coming up with the words to describe this place. But let me tell you this, and I would highly recommend this place even if it weren't half the size of New Jersey, for this simple reason. They have alligators. Yeah, I know. Real alligators in

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I'm taking a business trip. That's the first time I've ever been able to say that phrase. I'm going to a conference in Orlando, Florida. It's for software that my company sells, Best Software - makers of MAS 90/200, MAS 500 & SalesLogix, along with a bunch of others. It's a lot of workshops and things like that but, I'm hoping that I'll be able to have some free time to maybe do some of

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"An angry and embarrassed ozone layer has slapped American scientists with a $20 million libel suit for quote, "The demeaning and degrading discussion regarding the size of my hole." These same scientists have come up with another reason for global warming. In an article on MSNBC entitled Scientists tie ancient warming to 'belch' they claim that a vast 'belch' of gas from beneath the North

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If you live in Ohio it's Pop, not soda, not coke - unless you're having a Coke. Get it right! If you don't believe me click here. Geez!

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This is great. A lot of things from my childhood seem to be having encore appearances. Things like He-Man, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers and my most recent "re-discovery", Garbage Pail Kids. You remember Garbage Pail Kids, they were first created as a mockery of Cabbage Patch dolls, those disgustingly cute little dolls with pudgy cheeks and birth certificates. (Those

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With all of the inclement weather that we've been having lately, the Smith family has sort of been "under attack." Get this: Last Thursday's big storms knocked out power and flooded some areas. (Our basement got wet, no big surprise.) But it was last Friday that we were "targeted." Perhaps it's El Nino'. . . in reruns. The strong winds and dumping rain knocked over the top half of a

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Well, I got my truck back already. Turns out I was right. It was a thingamajig. Oh, the real name for that part is: relay switch. Apparently it was wearing out and not getting the fuel pump to do it's job effectively. So all it really took was a real car guy around to fix it. He did it in 30 minutes, for about $55 bucks. Thanks Franko. I highly reccomend him. If you need your car

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Well, I had mentioned in one of my previous blogs that my truck was running rough. I thought that I had taken care of it but, apparently not. My truck is out of commission. My buddy Nelson and I worked on it last Saturday, after our softball game. (Which we won. - I say this to mark the occasion because in the 3 seasons that I've played softball in the church league we've never won a

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They actually said something, er, well not exactly the people I'd thought or wished would say something but, some Muslims have actually condemned the murder of Nick Berg. The thing that weirds me out about all this is that it's other terrorists groups saying this is wrong! Hezbollah & Hamas!! Hezbollah aka Islamic Jihad - as in suicide truck bombers in Beruit or those that conducted the 1985

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I want to give a big congratulations to my good friend Nathan & his wife Sonya on the birth of their son Ezekiel. (8lbs 7 ounces - 18 inches long) Typing that out makes me wonder, why don't we ever give weight and height as a standard part of our birthday "info"? You know like, "James Monoganan, 41, 237 lbs, 6 oz.)" Anyway, happy birthday little guy. Thought you all might enjoy some photos:

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Don't be fooled by those who say that we're just like the terrorists who we're trying to take out. Take a look at an attempt to make the connection between the atrocities in war and what happened to Nick Berg. From RushLimbaugh.com: RUSH: Cliff in Washington, Missouri. You're next. Hello, sir. It's outside of St. Louis. Nice to have you wish us. CALLER: Thanks, Rush, thanks for

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I was reading the news on Page 2 of glennbeck.com and he had a link to an article entitled An Apology to the Pigs of the World . I like to be informed on what others are thinking and I thought it looked interesting. So I read it, and as I was reading I found myself nodding my head in agreement. Where is the outcry from the Muslim population? It's not like the news channels can't find any of

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Friday Last Friday morning started out like pretty much every Friday morning does except of instead of getting up at 5:30 and going to "brefast" (like birfday) with my buddies I got up to go to a Photoshop training seminar in Columbus, OH. I know that it takes around 2 hours to get to Columbus from our house so I figured I had plenty of time to get down there. I got up, got ready to go and

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Personally, I don't buy a CD over 12 dollars unless it has: A. Over 10 songs B. They're giving something else I want away with a purchase or, C. Its a collectors item. So even if these goobers do this they still won't get my cash. In an article by Matt Buchanan from the Washington Square News he speaks of what 5 of the major recording labels are considering doing to iTunes. Apparently the

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I haven't blogged in a while so let me first start of by saying how much I can't stand CNN. Even good news is bad news to them. Take this sampling for example: Yeah. Great news Iraqis agree things are better. . .BUT WAIT!!! What's this? The Kids are huffing glue! May God have mercy on the USA! We've corrupted their youth! But the best part is. . .that's it. No story. Not even

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Holidays are great, the family gets together for dinner with 80 or 90 of our closest friends. Seriously, all together at Easter Dinner we had 26 people. Not that I have a problem with any of the people that came, it's just that it creates a few logistic problems, like trying to eat. Things that I overheard at dinner: "Could you pass the salt, and take your elbow out of my pasta salad."

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I love my family. I feel extremely grateful to have "escaped" childhood without any major issues. Too many people I know can't say that. I think most parents usually have the best intentions in mind but, sometimes they do something that creates problems and resentment later on in life. For me though, I don't have any of that. Growing up the oldest of three boys, I spent a lot of time

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I think all of us love getting a good deal. It feels good when you pay less for something than someone else has. Where I live we have discount store called Marc's. It's just like a regular grocery store except it has "aisle 1." "Aisle 1" has closeouts from cheap tools, toys, candles, large pieces of fabric, irregular sweatshirts, all kinds of things. Well apparently they got a hold of

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Looking at Sheik Ahmed Yassin I thought, wait a second I've seen him before. Could he have been in the movies? Now I remember. . .

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We'll, I'm doing what so many before me have done. Blogging. Basically an online journal or random thoughts, my opinion on what's going on in the world and news about my life. I won't ever write anything here that I wouldn't want my mother to read so, it'll be nice and clean. And sarcastic. If you don't know me and you're reading this MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS. Just kidding. Actually it

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