Category: General

I’m turning this post into everyone’s recap. A review of the year if you will. Post news by month 🙂

January – Unemployed. 2 cats/2 people. Start knitted bag.
February – Unemployed. 2 cats/2 people. Excellent Mardi Gras.
March – Unemployed. 2 cats/2 people.
April – Unemployed. 2 cats/2 people. Vegas trip. Attempt to pay federal taxes.
May – Unemployed. 2 cats/2 people. Turn on A/C.
June – Unemployed. 2 cats/2 people. Philadelphia trip. Mom’s 50th birthday. Nonno in hospital. Kent’s conference in Boston.
July – Get job. 2 cats/2 people. Beth visits Atlanta. Nonno still in hospital.
Beginning of August – Job. 2 cats/2 people. Trip to Philadelphia and Kent’s archiving conference in New Orleans. Discover Farmer’s Market.
End of August – Get laid off. 4 cats/3 people. Katrina. Football draft.
September – Unemployed. 4 cats/5 people. Rita. Trip to New Orleans. Triple 30 Labor Day Birthday party. Dave gets job at the AJC. Eric and Katie get married. Dave and Paul get new apartment. New glasses.
October – Unemployed. 4 cats/4 people. Turn off A/C. No hurricanes. Halloween.
November – Get job. 4 cats/2 people. Unable to get to Philadelphia, stay in Atlanta for Thanksgiving.
December – Keep Job. 4 cats/2 people. Car accident. Kent falls down stairs, breaks butt. Christmas and New Year’s in Atlanta. Jack, Marnie and Grant visit. Mom and Beth visit. Brent and Chelsey get engaged. Colleen and Tom get engaged. Big party and Paul and Dave’s. Still working on knitted bag.

The Nebraska Cornhuskers are the greatest college team in the history of all things Collegiate. They could beat the best Duke Basketball team by 40 points. They would have hit consecutive home runs over and over again off Roger Clemens when he was at Texas. If the Cornhuskers were a person, they would be Jesus. When they beat Michigan yesterday, it meant that they are going to be great for the rest of time. Other teams will have to start using handguns just to hang in against Nebraska. The same goes for my other favorite teams. The Baltimore Orioles will no doubt become unstoppable based on the results of the 2005 Alamo Bowl, and yes, so will the New Orleans Saints. The Saints will also move back to New Orleans, which will be completely recovered in the next 3 months. Thanks again Nebraska. For fixing everything.

Kids asleep, last of the presents wrapped, mince pies and carrots left out, glass of Jim Beam and pwning the Ebolter FFL league.

Merry christmas everyone! We’ve got 9 people for dinner tomorrow so we’ll be busy 🙂

According to ESPN, Jim Haslett is seeking a five-year contract extension worth, including a substantial pay increase and control of the football operations.
Merry Christmas, San Antonio Saints fans!

From a story on bbc.co.uk about the Iraq election:

At one stage, an election official in Falluja said that so many people were voting, they had run out of ballot papers

ummmm….does this scream “electoral fraud” to anyone else?

How can you run out of ballot papers? Surely you know how many you need based on the number of registered voters, plus a few for spoilage purposes?

Story here

Around the holiday season, I always feel the need to try and return balance to the universe by being a bit of a grinch. People love this about me, and really appreciate what I’m trying to accomplish when I remind them that feeling guilty, spending money on things you can’t afford, accepting gifts that other people can’t afford, and loving the baby Jesus Almighty Dollar is what Christmas is all about.

To counter whichever TV station that will play A Christmas Story repeatedly for a week, thus sucking the joy out of an otherwise fine film, I offer this trailer:

A Christmas Gory

Enjoy!

I just put a load more toys that the kids have outgrown up on Ebay.

Baby puzzles and toddler electronic toys that a 6 year old and her 4 year old sister don’t play with anymore.

I feel sad. I always laughed at people who said that the time goes too quick and to enjoy it – but they knew what they were talking about.

Oh, and Chloe proclaimed yesterday, completely out of the blue, that she “wants to go and see Buzz”. So if an enterprising 6 year old turns up in Atlanta, give me a call yeah? You made such an impression on her Buzz!

I don’t know about you, but I have been getting alot of phishing emails. Phishing is the goofy name for a spam email that attempts to collect personal information about you by using a legitimate-looking email. It’s a little more sophisticated than the “Hi I am Mr. Rochard Mbotatu and I am needing your help to recover my 10 million dollars bank account stolen from my mother who was Princess of Zaire when our government was overthrown” emails that everyone’s heard of by now.

The emails I was getting awhile back are a phish scam. Recently, I’ve been getting them from folks claiming to be eBay, the IRS, and my favorite, the CIA. The CIA one was cute. It said that my IP address was logged viewing 20 illegal websites in the past month and that I should open up the zip file attached to the email to reveiw their logs. I’m not exactly sure what an illegal website is, but I’m sure if the CIA has a definition for an illegal website, that I’ve looked at a lot more than 20 in the past month….

Here’s a link I saw today about how to stop phish emails, and a little quiz to test your ability to spot them.

Link: http://survey.mailfrontier.com/survey/quiztest.html via Lifehacker

For some reason, people keep asking me what I want for Christmas.

Today, I discovered that I want a big yellow raincoat with a hood.