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Entries for June, 2007

Case of the Mondays…

The house siding is now officially done. We also used the pool for the first time this year. A little cold but it’s getting there…

House siding almost done

It ran over schedule a little due to the 4 inches of rain we got last week in one day, but the siding should be completed today. The house looks completely different. I think I can already tell a difference in cooling too with the added insulation. The siding is almost done, the pool is […]

Man in wheelchair takes ride on semi’s grille

PAW PAW — A young man has quite the story to tell after his wheelchair got lodged in the grill of a semi truck, which dragged the chair and the man inside for five miles down a road. Muscular dystrophy forced Ben Carpenter, 22, of Alamo into a wheelchair eight years ago. He was on […]

The Golden Rule – Paris goes free

Those who have the gold make the rule, that is. Paris Hilton serves 5 days of 45 day sentence. She was originally sentenced to 45 days in jail, but that was reduced to 23. She served a total of five days — the normal stay for a violation of this kind. Her five days began […]

Attorney Funnies

ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning? WITNESS: He said, “Where am I, Cathy?” ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you? WITNESS: My name is Susan! Get more

Blogs that Matter

Over the weekend, I cleaned out quite a few of the rss feeds that I read. I was getting close to 200 feeds and the amount of noise was just getting to be too much. Sorry, I’m not Robert Scoble. So how did I make the cuts? Easy, I looked through the list and if […]

House Siding this week

We are vinyl siding the house a week early. So far they are making great progress. Hopefully the weather won’t hold them up this week. I will post pics when they are done… It is gonna be weird going home to a different color house! Technorati Tags: vinyl siding, house, home, improvement

Happy Anniversary!

I want to wish a happy anniversary to my parents. 30 years. update: for some reason this post never went through yesterday… so here it is now…

The 4-hour work week

In the next 24 hours, I made several simple but emotionally difficult decisions that changed my life forever. First, I decided to stop pursuing most of my customers so I could profile and duplicate the most profitable ones. I was spending most of my time working on small accounts, when the big five already ordered […]

PayPal is down

You guys gotta hold off on buying me a beer cause PayPal has been down for the last half hour or so… Boy, the stores that depend on this service for all their sales must be getting a little irate by now… Lots of lost revenue… Technorati Tags: Paypal, outage