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New Look

In Life in General on May 31, 2007 at 9:25 pm

As you surely have noticed, I have a new blog layout. I wanted to segment my blog a bit more, add some different colors and brighten it up overall. I’d like to know what you think. So, if you care at all and have an opinion, please click on comments and leave me yours.

Promise Fulfilled

In Life in General on May 31, 2007 at 2:04 pm

Not that you care at all, but during the ConGraduations! post I promised you videos of me on the Segway. Well, here they are! The first shows my mad skills as a Segway Artist!

This one features me in the round. Not unlike the songs.
So, let the music play! Figuratively, of course.

I’d like to give a special thanks to DJ Howard, boyfriend of the not so frequent blogger Gabi, for this lovely footage!

Get Your Summer On!

In Life in General on May 30, 2007 at 2:34 pm

We had an amazing weekend in St. Francisville. The Refuge Slip and Slide was awesome! I will follow up soon with some pictures. But, that is in the past and we have a whole lot more to come. Check the summer schedule above and if you are a student in St. Franny, come out and join us. You can click the schedule above for a ginormous version.

This will be one wild and crazy summer packed with opportunities for you to come and hang out, let your hair down and have a blast. There will even be opportunities to give back to the community. I’m telling you this is going to be an incredible couple of months. You do not want to miss this summer in St. Franny! Stay connected and get involved. We’re here for you!

If you need more specific details, let me know.
This Friday night at the office starts at 8pm.
For the Tiki Tubing trip, we will meet at the office at 9am.

Happy Memorial Day

In Life in General on May 28, 2007 at 8:11 pm

Me and the wife at the In-laws house. And a good time was had by all. Thanks to all those who gave thier lives for our freedom and to those who are standing for us still! Never forget the sacrifice that was made!

Annoying Sisters

In Life in General on May 25, 2007 at 2:02 pm

So, as you can see if you read comments on people’s posts, my sister was truly desperate for someone to respond to her blog about songs in important years. Well, annoyed by her barrage of comments, I denied her the comment she longed for and simply acknowledge her blog now by posting my own dates. So these were the number one singles on my important days in history, thanks to this site:

My Birthday – “How Deep Is Your Love” by The BeeGee’s
My Wife’s Birthday – “Physical” by Olivia Newton John
My High School Graduation – “This Is How We Do It” by Montell Jordan
My Wife’s Graduation – “All For You” by Janet Jackson
Wedding Day – “Candy Shop” by 50 Cent featuring Olivia
The Day My Sister Sent an Annoying 32 Comments -“Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin’)” by T-Pain featuring Young Joc

If only she had waited until June 1st to annoy me: Maroon 5’s “Makes Me Wonder could have been Number 1.

i hope you have enjoyed today’s episode of blogorhea.

ConGraduations!

In Life in General on May 23, 2007 at 2:33 pm


Watch out James Bond, the class of 007 is out the door! Congratulations to all of our graduates at HPC. Especially all my people in St. Francisville! Yes, St. Franny where you get a Senior Superlative for Best Truck, Best Hunter and Best Fisherman.

See, I told you.
The actual graduation was only the beginning. The real fun was at Project Graduation, where my lovely wife and I were chaperons.
There’s my sweet, little lady!

We had a blast! We played Wii
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there was a money booth where they have money blowing around and you see how much you can grab, Sumo wrestling
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inflatable obstacle courses, a gaming section for poker, monopoly and black jack and I mustn’t forget the massage center. Now that was amazing! My wife made it until 2:30am, but I stayed for the long haul, 6am. Speaking of the long haul, do you like that segue? What about this Segway:

The rented 6 of those bad boys for the whole night. This, aside form the massage center, was the true highlight of the night! Those things were so much fun! I will post the video of me on the segway as soon as DJ sends it to me. By the way, if you want to bless me, they only cost about $3500 used, so hook me up! I smell a fund raiser!

Golf Anyone?

In Life in General on May 18, 2007 at 2:05 pm


So my buddy Stogie 1 and I hit that driving range yesterday. Generally not much of a story, unless you saw me in my shorts and tennis shoes. Now that is hot! Seriously, if you don’t believe me check out my video below. Be careful though, my wife gets very jealous. Anyway, the real story here is with this huge, half golf ball in the middle of the range.

Yeah, that one.
Well, it may not translate as well on the blog, but I have been to this range many times and a goal of every avid golfer, like myself, is to hit your ball in the big golf ball. Mind you this was more difficult before the hurricanes blew half of the ball away. Still, many times I have gone to the range and many many times tried and failed to hit anything in the big golf ball.

Until yesterday. Stogie told me that the last time he was there he made it in. I doubted him, so we began to try and hit our golf balls in there. A few minutes into trying, Stogie gets a hold of one and seconds later we hear the thud of victory as his ball lands in the target. Several minutes later, the unthinkable, unimaginable. . . I missed again. Oh and then I MADE IT! That’s right, I’ll be signing autographs later, but I made it in the big golf ball. How do like them apples? Well, Stogie liked them a lot and made it again. Twice in one bucket of balls, he found pay-dirt, plastic actually. Try as I might, I only made the one. That is quite remarkable either way if you ask me. If you don’t think so, just check our swings. Stogies is nice:

mine not so much:

I love golf! . . . and my anger management classes. No golf clubs were hurt during this recording!

Lawn Care at It’s Finest

In Life in General on May 18, 2007 at 2:54 am

I have an official corporate sponsor of my blog. Southern Green Lawns, LLC. OK, well not really but I did get this nifty t-shirt for free. Thanks DJ! The shirt looks awesome. That Gabi sure does know her way around Photoshop. Anyway, call them digits on my back if you need your lawn truly cared for in a most excellent way. Rock on little DJ! Oh yeah, congrats on graduating!

School’s Out and Slip-n-Slide Is In

In Life in General on May 17, 2007 at 8:25 pm


All my people in Franny-town get ready to get your slide on. That’s right, the 3rd annual St. Francisville Refuge Slip-n-Slide is here. There will be slip-n-slide, swimming, volleyball and my favorite FREE FOOD! You don’t want to miss it. It will be Saturday, May 26th at the Howard’s on Hwy. 10. Be there or be Rhombus, Rectangle or maybe even Square. And I don’t mean dancing. We’ll see you there from 3-6 in the pm on the 26th. Later!

PS: That’s right, Griffis made that flier!

Oprah’s On

In Life in General on May 16, 2007 at 3:40 pm

I found this video very interesting and it seems to support my long standing opinion that Oprah may just be the anti-Christ. OK, so she’s not the anti-Christ, but with all that power she is a bit scary. Why do people watch her and believe she is a Christian? She is a good person, but lady is mixed up in her beliefs. Though I will also add, she doesn’t give nearly as much away to those in need as is implied, her sponsors do. She just puts her name on it to advertise for them and make them more money and in-turn make herself and Stedmond more money. Oprah, what a joke. Though she does have some compelling arguments that we as believers should have answers to. Do you have the right answers?