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Archive for February, 2007

feeling the pain

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

GOOD NEWS! I finished 189 out of 705 runners. The bad news, I did not win the bottle of Moet. My buddy came in 112 and beat me by about 4 minutes. My official time was 1:29:35 with a pace of 10:41 per mile (the race is actually 8.3 miles long). Our good buddy over [...]

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anticipating the pain

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

O.k everyone – tomorrow… well actually today (i just got off work) I will be running 8 Tuff Miles over on St. John (that’s 1 of the 3 major islands of the US Virgin Islands). There are 700 entries and its the 11th annual race. I got the idea to sign up a couple months [...]

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Back to the gym

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

So who cares that I work two jobs and can’t find time to register my car or get the oil changed or wash my clothes, BAHH! those are small fiddle sticks! I currently have to find time in my schedule to make it into the gym 2-4 times a week so that I can A) [...]

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I’m Loving it, take 2

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Alright a little follow up here. My McDonalds radio Voice Over (VO) job is airing currently and I thought I’d post it here for all of you. It should be on a few of the local stations like BUZZ and WGOD here in St. Thomas  Let me know what you think. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

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Squirrels on a plane!

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/15/stowaway.squirrel.ap/index.html O.k I get it, you can’t have a squirrel running around gnawing on electrical wires in an air-o-plane, but way down at the end of the article is the kicker “fearing the squirrel “MAY” have rabies, officials had it killed. Crap o mighty! Lets just go kill every animal that’s an inconvenience cuss really [...]

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Bank of America not so American

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Bank of America is now offering Credit Cards to persons unable to provide a valid Social Security Number. A large portion of the population that do not hold SSN’s are illegal immigrants. These illegal immigrants are now able (by holding a checking account for 3 months without an overdraft) to open credit card accounts that [...]

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anti valentines day

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/archives/2007/02/up_yours_cupid.html Alright so its now officially valentines day and aside from being completely swamped at work this evening waiting on lovey dovey couples (puke…) I have nothing to look forward to. On that note I wanted to pass along the top ten reasons valentines is a hated “holiday” and why singles shouldn’t feel so bad [...]

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Is war with Iran around the corner?

Monday, February 12th, 2007

Wesley Clark posted a thoughtful and somewhat alarming post on his Daily Kos Diary and myspace today. In it he speaks about the current approach the white house has shown towards the issues building in Iran and hints that the conflict has been edged towards violent contact not only by Iran but by the bush [...]

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Drunk Dials

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

O.k – I’ll admit it, I’ve made them on occasion. Some of them went well, some not so much but almost all of them I have remembered… that is until Friday evening where not only did I drunk dial, but I drunk dialed TWICE and have almost NO recollection of the event. One drunk dial [...]

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Working with asides

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

So sometimes I want to share an idea or a link or some such interesting object but I don’t want to write a huge long post about it. Here is where such ideas will be expressed. Asides baby, Asides.

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