After it was decided that the siblings and I would invest in a Blu-ray machine for the parents, I decided to get something to play on it for them. For some reason, the local Wal-Mart is not well stocked with Blu-ray disks. I decided on Patriot Games which stars Harrison Ford as former CIA analyst John […]
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New Year’s eve and I toasted in the new Year. I’ve made that toast with the same beverage for the Since New Years Eve 1983/1984. My future brother-in-law brought some Piesporter with him. My future wife did not care for wines at all really liked this wine. From that date on, we shared a bottle
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Back in 2007 the world learned that Andrew Lloyd Webber was writing a sequel to his world famous musical, The Phantom of the Opera. At that time he revealed the setting would be New York rather than Paris, the setting of the original story. Little more than that was known (at least by me) until
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Last night was another fantastic celebration at our semi-weekly gathering place. Everyone brought food or spirits to endulge in. Friends who do not usually frequent our game nights came to shar in the festivities. I went with my lingering effects from a visit by Uncle Larry N. Gitis. Honestly, I feel fine but my voice
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The year 2009 would have been my 25 wedding anniversary, so these are movies of my married and widowed life. Well, Entertainment Weekly published their 25 favorite Comedies of the past 25 years. I was sure that some of my favorite comedies would make the list. Strange thing is, most of the comedies they mentioned,
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Did you every have a day you thought would have turned out differently? Did you ever expect one thing, and have something else happen? To answer those questions, yes, I did. Yesterday was one of those days. It was decided earlier that my daughters and I would go to the Zoo to see the Christmas
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Because I barely have time to fit in the writing of this current blog post, I can safely say that with 4 kids running around (Christmas break = parental nightmare) this will be my last blog post of 2008! What better way to go out then but to experiment with the new polling feature of
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Reluctantly, I saw Marley and Me in the movie theater yesterday. It’s not that it was a bad movie, but I didn’t want to see it in the theater because I knew it would be a tear-jerker since I read the book by John Grogan. Unfortunately, I don’t remember much about the book since I
I don’t have many fond memories of high school. It wasn’t horrible, but it certainly hasn’t come close to being the best years of my life as some people had promised. Even so, when I saw this copy of an email forward on my friend’s blog, I couldn’t resist filling it out and making it
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Here is a fun email I received from my cousin who shares my alma mater as well as the year I graduated. Some of the questions brought a chuckle as well as made me think. See if it does the same for you. Fill this out about your Senior Year of high school! The longer
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