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Well, the packing has started. I started in the usual place, the books. I have been having nightmares for the last week; you could say my anxiety level is high. All of this anxiety plus it looks like I will be without DSL for at lest a week. This cannot be good for a person. Next week drinks with big umbrella’s… or some one could get hurt!
French refuse to disarm.
After a meeting with the Privy council today His Royal Highness King Henry
the Eight has issued a statement through his High Chancellor stating that if
France dose not disarm and destroy all of its weapons then England will have
no choice but to deploy troops into France to remove King Francis I from his
throne and free the poor French people from the oppression of their
tyrannical king.
When asked the French had this to say, "Pardon, he said what?"
Even as we report this the Lord High Marshall is mobilizing some of his
reserve units for possible deployment to France. We caught up with
Lieutenant Christian Angelous MacDuff of the Scottish Fencibles he had this
to say. "Ohh were really upset about having to go to France, We really
really hate France, one of our Cannoniers Jacqu...I mean Jack is so upset
he's taken to drinking again, all we hear all night is his cries of anguish
about having to deploy to France.
We of course here at the Froggy News Network will be watching this
development closely.
Our next story The English Royal family, too much inbreeding or just
something in the water, after this short weather report....
Weather for this weekend
Scarborough
Sat Mar 01
Cloudy 56°/40° 0 % Chance of Precip
Sun Mar 02
Partly Cloudy 53°/31° 20 % Chance of Precip
Paris
Sat Mar 01
PM Showers 56°/42° 60 % Chance of Precip
Sun Mar 02
Showers 52°/37° 70 % Chance of Precip
London
Sat Mar 01
Partly Cloudy 52°/42° 20 % Chance of Precip
Sun Mar 02
Cloudy 51°/40° 20 % Chance of Precip
And now back to our special travel report of Tart Tours of Northumberland
sponsored by the Pounding Heart House of Tarts.
Patrick Haughton
FIFI - Sure if you need to defend your manhood by making fun of the French
go right ahead, but I warn you it won't drown out the laughter of the Tarts
when you get undressed.
Moving day is getting a lot closer then it should for as prepared as I am. That is to say I am not prepared. This weekend I am moving back to Fort Worth, at lest until Cache and I buy a house. I am moving it to Cache’s townhouse, it is the rental property Caches has owned for a couple of years. It is to help us save some money. The apartment in Dallas is very expensive.
I do not like moving, being a cancer I am a nester. My life is happiest when I am warn and safe in a cave. As a kid I moved a lot. I can remember at lest ten moves and more schools. Moving always make me feel like my life is crashing. You could say I hate it. I understand that it is something I must do, but right now it seems like a big scary thing.
Breath …
I am in at work today. One of four people who made it in today. Now I live just 4 miles from work, so I not that die hard. Rian and Colen who live 40+ miles away also made it in. Now they are troopers!
Did anyone hear NPR talking about Texas see the first signs of spring? Drive safe out there... that is sleet not snow.
But is is pretty...
An inch of ice on all the roads and a new copy of Command & Conquer Generals... looks like this is going to be a good night.
Cache and I went on a really fun adventure this weekend. After working out and getting some house stuff done. We headed to Austin, then Arkansas, then Oklahoma… well we did not know where the heck we were going. Neither of us had been to Shreveport, so on a lark we headed the direction we thought it might be in. After some ‘adjustments’ and a nights hotel stay we pulled into Shreveport on Saturday morning. I was a kick ass weekend. Turns out they were having the Mardi Gras celebration. We came home with full stomachs, no money, lots of beads, and overall sense joy.
Friday morning I got on the coolest scale I have ever seen. It not only told me how much I weigh, but my percentage body fat, amount of water in my body, and how many calories I need to eat a day. What did I learn well, I am over weight but not by much and the working out is working and I need to drink more water.
Professional Body Composition Analyzer / Scale TBF-300A
Age…....................... 34
Height….................... 6’0”
Weight…................... 194.6lb
FAT%….................... 21.7%
Water%…................. 57%
Fat…........................ 42.2lb
Water….................... 111.6lb
Bone/muscle/giblets….. 40.8lb
Metabolic Rate…......... 1969cal/day
The target fat% for me should be 8-20%, so I am over by 1.7%. So the scale says I am over weight, but only by 3 or 4lb of body fat. Water should be between 60-70%. Where the 98% water my Mom told me went I have no idea. So there you have it, a lot of data to say I need to eat less junk food, and get some exercise.
I am the younger bother. So naturally I think my older brother Dean is cool. It is a younger brother thing. So I tend to think it is just me.
Yesterday I got to hold Lagolas’s short swords, and one Gimli’s axe’s. Yes, the props used in the movie. They and a host of other real cool Lord of the Ring’s movie props and stuff are scattered around the Dean’s office. You see my brother works for EA and his current job tile is Senior Software Engineer on Lord of the Rings: Return of the King for PS2. Yes he makes video games for a living. Not only that but, cool video games.
So yes I still feel like the kid following his brother home from school, wanting to hang out with the ‘big kids,’ but also I think the rest of you will agree. My brother is cool.
Yeah! I getting to have lunch with my brother! I am flighing back to night and really looking forward to being home.
I am in San Jose today for work. (bleck) The flight was not really bad, accually nice. People on air plane amaze me, they just lose thier brains. This one guy stepped on my foot twice, dropped his luggage and coat on me trying to get them into a over crowded overhead bin, when I suggeted I could move over he says "no you are fine."
sigh
You know if you do a search for “kids wearing mini skirts pic” my site is the first to come up on Google. You find the most interesting things, looking through your referring urls. I can not imagine the person doing the search being very happy about the result. So for all those looking for hot naked girls ... Here you go.
last 10 searches that came up with Heydan:
1. kids wearing mini skirts
2. Karen Lucci
3. heydan.com
4. dan grandquist
5. I got your letter in my m
6. what with walking twenty-
7. we didn't have any fancy
8. about people named Karen
9. You're spoiled, I swear!
10. dan grandquist
Whoohoo I made the top ten!
This morning I came out to my car to find that someone had busted the driver side window out and stolen my CD player. Total damage is $300 in door glass and $400 in Alpine CDA-7894. Oh and this is the second time this year.
Golf is one of those games people who have never tried to be good at do not understand. Even if you played casually, you may not understand how hard the game really is. You have too hit a ball that is not moving and follow it. It is not like you are going to miss? Well yes you will, but the point is that what makes the game hard is not apparent to the causal observer. A talented beginner can play amazingly well and spend years playing and never improve. In fact some player can accually get worse by trying really had to learn the game.
So I have been playing bridge, the card game. I have been playing for a couple of weeks now and I have to say. This is a hard game. It involved subtlety and finesse (now one of my lease favorite words) that can boggle the reasoning power of even the most astute observer. For those of you familiar with spades it is a lot like spades if you could change the trump whenever you wanted too, and you played both you and your partner’s hand at once. You have to be able to count all four suite, and remember what every one bid, and they bid multiple times. This is the reason grandma’s do so well in Las Vegas. The casinos do not have a change the games are too easy. You are only using one deck while playing poker… armatures!
I do not understand we are afraid to let my grandma drive by her self, but she can play bridge! Guys she is having one over on us. Send her happy ass to Vegas and my us some money!
Triva Note: President Eisenhower played bridge regularly on Saturday night with top experts. He attended national bridge tournaments when possible. He enjoyed bridge as much as golf and he was considered an excellent player.
This morning Cache and I got up early and went to couples Yoga... Yes you read that right... they have couples Yoga! That sounded dirty the first, second, and every time I have herd it too. It was a Saint Valinetines day thing at the gym Cache and I go to. When Cache suggested it I must have laughed my self silly. hence dooming my self to have to attend. But you have to admit it just sound funny.
Anyway the class was accually fun. Kind of like a mini silly human trick show that you get to follow along with. I can not say I have any over power urge to take up yoga, but then again any time you get to do anything called 'sulking cow scared cat' you have to try!
Ok, Pat gets geek points for pictures email from his cell phone 30 miles from a desent internet connection. Altho the lighting could be better...
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IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD, THE ICE AGE IS HERE!
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I had a very delightful lunch with Karen. As always, she is delightful company. Then tonight Cache is meeting me at my house and I am cooking her dinner. My world is full of beautiful smart charming women. Saint Valentine has been very generous. Thank you Geoffrey Chaucer for a truly amazing day so far.
A quick update on my grandparent’s home, I talked to my Mom tonight. She was telling me about the new place and how excited they are to be moving in. Then she said something about the people that bought the house. I get to that in a minute. I knew they were in a hurry to move in. My thoughts were that they were some California so-and-so’s who were moving in to MY childhood home.
Turns out they have names and everything. Dianne and Gary Dobbins. He was a publisher, a newspaper called the Coastal View News in Carpinteria, California and he was on the chamber board of directors. Their daughter Tawny Blair and son Shawn Blair live in Myrtle Creek.
Now the reason they were in a hurry. Dianne Patricia Dobbins passed away peacefully on January 29, 2002, following a courageous battle with cancer. Her finial days were spent in her home; on the land my Grandparents bought and build a home on when I was a very young boy. I do not know how any other words to say how I feel, may you family be warm and safe.
I have this dream. Today I read something that made me stop and think hard about what I am doing. My friend Squeak meet Kevin Smith in Austin once and said “I want your job.” His responds… “I dare you to do it.”
Robert Rodriguez has been one of my heroes since I watched the movie he made with his kids. It was on an extended version of Desperado. I realized I want his job. Now the quote…
“Stop aspiring, start doing.” -Robert Rodriguez
I got this email from Pat who is on the road somewhere heading from Texas to Colorado.
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I'M SCREWED, MY COMPASS SAYS I'M GOING TO MEXICO
To view it, click the link below:
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"If you accually disembowl your boss and TP his house with his entrals... that would make you a bad person... just thinking about doesn't" - Cache
"if you don't marry her, i will!" - Squeak after being told the quote.
Listening to adults, I figured out kids these days are different from when I was a teen. They are more patient. You see I was listening to NPR and they had one of these ‘kids these day’ experts. She was convinced kids are bombarded with brand names and image advertising. As a result our kids are shown more skin, wearing more slogans, and begin oppressed by big corporations, who are praying our their weaknesses for pop culture.
Let’s start with gen X. My generation. Girls in my high school were deck out in lace tops and mini skirts. The only difference between then and today is the difference in area of skin shown. I listened to Black Flag and Dead Kennedy’s, sorry Incubus, and Audioslave just do not offend me. Oh and but the way Ozzy and Michael Jackson were our fault.
I think that if kids have any respect for us ‘older’ people it only shows how resilient and good natured they really are. So stop complaining that they do not resemble the Norman Rockwell painting YOU remember. For me I remember being a teenager being hard, and yes it is a lot about image. They are trying to define who they are, be kind or go home.