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My Fav's (work in progress)

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I have decided to re-activate my blog

This was a nice donkey in Boston.

And some nice penguins.

The good news is I am going to start posting on the blog again. Mainly because I found:

ScribeFire, an extension of Firefox ®,
which enables users to easily drag and drop formatted text from the Web into
their blog(s), post entries, take notes, and optimize their ad
inventory, directly through the Firefox browser.

On a Day When Everyone is Irish

Caution: Tool carrying flag. The group was the County Wexford where Lighty's father is from. Among the crowd was a large group of Irish Stepdancers in NYC directly from County Wexford.

Fun and addicting. My best score was 27,050

Ewww... Hillary

Sorry... She is just too damn ugly to be president...

15th Anniversary

Married to Leneè for 15 years today! And I found on a fellow bloggers site these Monty Python Sketches! What could be better?

1. Lumberjack Sketch
2. Buying a Bed
3. Hitler in England
4. Agatha Christie Sketch
5. Spam
6. Married
7. Murderers
8. Archaeology Today
9. Mouse Problem
10. Bicycle repairman!
11. Most Awful Family In Britain
12. Albatross
13. Storytime
14. Dirty Fork
15. Blackmail
16. Bruce
17. Lingerie Robbery
18. Lion Tamer
19. Silly Vicar
20. Kilimanjaro Expedition
21. The Visitors Sketch
22. Trouble at the Mill / The Spanish Inquisition
23. Aussie hunters
24. The money programme!
25. A Man With Three Buttocks
26. Mattress Skit
27. How to contradict people
28. The stolen newsreader
29. Interesting people
30. The smuggler
31. Meat Sketch
32. Silly Job Interview
33. Lets talk ant
34. The Fish Slapping Dance
35. Timmy williams coffe time!
36. The Bishop
37. Semaphore version of Wuthering Heights
38. Little Red Riding Hood
39. Exploding Blue Danube
40. Arthur ‘Two Sheds’ Jackson
41. Flying Lessons
42. I Wish to Report a Burglary
43. Confuse-A-Cat Ltd.
44. Johann Gambolputty
45. The Dull Life of a City Stockbroker
46. How Not To Be Seen
47. Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1
48. Penguins
49. Undressing
50. Tiny Words
51. Italian
52. Ministry Of Silly Walks
53. Spectrum
54. Burglar
55. My Brain Hurts!
56. The Llama
57. Deja Vu
58. Office Sketch
59. Tennis Anyone?
60. River Tossing
61. Cheese Shop
62. Mr Clean-Air System, the Boxer
63. Camel Spotting/You’re No Fun Anymore
64. The Dirty Vicar
65. Christmas in Heaven
66. Prawn Salad waiting room
67. Secret Service Dentistry
68. Spot The Looney
69. Salad Days
70. I have a theory!
71. 20th Century Vole
72. Dead Parrot
73. Ypres Sketch
74. Queen Victoria handicap
75. Travel Agent
76. Holy Grail - Black Knight
77. Self Defence Class
78. Holy Grail - Killer Rabbit
79. Monty Python- The Bridge
80. Holy Grail - French Invasion Plan
81. Holy Grail - Knights of the Round Table
82. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
83. Holy Grail - Bloody peasants!
84. The Funniest Joke In The World
85. The Upperclass Twit Of The Year
86. Every Sperm Is Sacred
87. Hell’s Grannies
88. Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook
89. Hunting Sketch
90. Man Who Speak Only Partial Words
91. Expedition to Lake Pahoe
92. Whizzo Chocolate Company
93. Whicker Island
94. Mr. and Mrs. Git
95. Rival Documentaries
96. Pilots’ Banter
97. Cheap Airline
98. Arthur ‘Two Sheds’ Jackson
99. Police Station Silly Voices
100. Art Gallery
101. International Philosophy
102. Careers Advisory Board
103. Me Doctor
104. How To Irritate People - Need a lift
105. How To Irritiate People - Restaraunt
106. Naughty Chemist
107. Abandoned Sketch
108. Silly Disturbances
109. Fish License
110. Johann Gambolputty
111. Poofy Judges
112. Travel Agent
113. Marriage Guidance Counsellor
114. Choreographed Conservative Party Speech
115. Ken Shabby
116. A Scotsman on a Horse
117. Fish Club
118. Falling Minister
119. Introducing Harry Fink
120. How to Irritate People - Actors
121. How to Irritate People - The Joke
122. Cosmetic Surgery
123. Norwegian Party
124. The First Heart Transplant
125. Pope and Michelangelo
126. Silly Olimpiad
127. Antiracist Song
128. Nudge Nudge
129. Flying Lessons
130. The Money Programme
131. Office Sketch
132. Hospital sketch

Marah - Glen Ridge - Round Eye/Barstool

Was at this show with about 30 other people. Love this band....

I don’t even hold the wheel when I’m drivin’

I don’t ever look behind me in the mirror

I don’t care to see a new horizon
Or to watch an old horizon disappear

I ain’t never tasted wine
Or seen the inside of a bar
And I been walkin’ out of line
But that ain’t mattered so far
‘Cause I don’t even hold the wheel when I’m drivin’
And I ain’t hit the breaks
Since I bought this car

It’s like I never been alone for
More than a minute
And I got nothin’ to cry about
When it’s one wrong step got you into all this
And it’s one false move and you’re out…

It’s a time clock
With a late block
Screamin’ walk that walk
Or else you’re all talk
And it’s eavesdrop
And it’s hard luck
Put ‘er in fast
And never don’t stop
Up in a weightless sky
(ooh baby) where no one flies….

Glengarry Glen Ross speech

Required Reading for anyone in sales

Jessica Simpson - These Boots Are Made For Walking

Love the Nancy Sinatra original. Love this video even more.

Champions!

Well we are not winning any beauty contests. But our beloved Ridgewood Giants did win the "League of our Own" Baseball Championship. Gordo is pictured front row left. Regular Season Record 13-3. Then on to beat the Dodgers, Mets, and Best 2 out of 3 vs. the Blue Jays.

40

It's interesting. I guess I should be more obsessed with the fact that I'm turning 40 on Sunday. Everyone who knows is asking "what are you doing for you birthday". But it's weird. They say it with this distant look in their eye. It's almost as if they just told me some really bad news, and are now measuring my response.

This year, we will be on vacation in OBX, NC. Nothing special planned, although maybe a Lobster Boil in the beach house Sunday. In 40 years, I just don't have a lot of regrets. I have a high IQ (yes, it's true) and a decent education. We have done well enough to provide comfortably for the family. I never got into any major trouble. Fifteen years ago, I married the girl of my dreams. My 3 kids are happy and healthy. People always tell me how well-behaved, respectful, funny, etc... they are. I never hear anything bad. Hey, perception is reality. I have truly learned how not to sweat the small stuff.

"Milestone" birthdays effect everyone differently, and I guess for some they have no effect at all.

Living Vicariously Through Others (Cousin Michael to be specific)

Here I sit. 12:00 Midnight on Wednesday. Wife and kids are away for a night. What am I thinking about? Making money. How much friggin money is it gonna cost to give the three kids all I can toward their future? 500 hundred grand. Cash. One million? So I'm out there working... Taking the train to Long Island. Getting on the 5:55 train from Glen Rock. Meeting with anyone who has even the slightest desire/need to buy what I sell. All to maximize this year's 14% commissions. I assume the commissions will change in 2008. They always do.

What else am I thinking about? Baseball. Even my over 40 team, the Ridgewood Giants, , is rife with politics. I thought the parents of 13 year olds were political...

Here we are... 13-3 in the regular season. We have won the last 10 in a row, and we just won our first playoff game. Our manager is a big pain in the ass, but great at what he does... What I mean by that is he GETS RESULTS. We are in this to win, and he is critical. A lot of the guys can't handle criticism by a peer, but I happen to respond well to it. I am motivated by it and always have been. By my calculations, I batted around .400, and am definitely considered a "tough out". I was in the leadoff spot a lot, the two spot, the seven spot, etc... I stole bases. I drove opposing teams absolutely mad. Mainly, I was the starter in left field, but had a lot of playing time at 3rd base. I also played Center field, right field, and even caught. Not bad for a rookie season (turning 40 August 26). Granted, I am a rookie on a great team who has been playing together for many years. But geeze. There is on guy on the team who I think lies about everything from being a "soap opera star" to playing in college, to playing in the minors. During the first 6 games, he was our starting 3rd baseman. He made at least 20 errors, and that is conservative. His hands are as soft as two by fours, if you know what I mean. Literally, 20 balls hit to him, 20 errors... So, he got moved to 1st base. He is saying whatever he can to hold on to his position. In the depth chart there is another first baseman way ahead of him. However the other firstbaseman also plays left field which affects my playing time... Holy Christ, I can't believe I am thinking about this.

Nevermind all this. The Giants will play 9am on Sunday 8/19 against a tough Mets team. Winner of this will play a 2 out 3 final likely against the Blue Jays. I will play on Sunday, but will be in Nag's Head, North Carolina for the final games. I will be hanging on the beach with Leneè, James, Julia, and Jayne. We will celebrating my 40th birthday quietly with tons of beer. Cousin Michael will be racing his 3rd Ironman. He has started a blog, which I have been bugging him to do for a long time. http://www.ironoutlaw.blogspot.com

Over and out. Another early day in NYC later this morning.

Working Out of Two Bags

Versatile, newly created Phrase describing virtually anything involving the number two... Double dipping...

El Bandito!

You can imagine how hard I laughed when I read this entry in the urban dictionary. As it turns out, we were going out Saturday night to the restaurant, El Bandito with another family. I decided to check out the menu on line, and the first google entry was this one...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=El+Bandito

Needless to say, roughly every hour EL BANDITO! is heard around our house.

Been a while...

Two Marah members in a band called, "Adam and Dave's Bloodline". Another Glen Ridge Recreation sponsored event.

James and Adam and Dave's Bloodline. Says the lead singer looks like adult version of his friend, Colin.

Pattie and Jimmy enjoying Bloodline. Doug had me howling with a great impression of doing the "Pattie".


David settles in to the two-hole during the Giants win vs. the number 1 team the Fair Lawn Dodgers. Big hit at this at bat for the go ahead run.

Pleasant Surprise

While out with Wang-O at Houlihans in Ramsey, locked eyes with Keen-O and as recognition set in, realized that she was hanging with Kim-O!! Joy, joy, happy, happy... Figured Gord-O's stock and mystic would be Hi running with two hotties, so headed over to Brady's in Ramsey for some live music. Fun time.

New Tat

Shading not done yet. The background Irish flag will be orange, white, and green, and the celtic trinity itself will pop bright kelly green. This is my right shoulder. Tat artist "Lucky Mike" from Shotsie's http://www.shotsiestattoo.com/ said it will look awesome.