Barack Obama

Posted on | November 5, 2008 | No Comments

My congratulations to our new President Elect, Barack Obama. Only in America could this election have happened, and it does speak to the greatness of this country. I hope you serve the country well, and that you fullfill the promise of the many great speeches you made. I hope you remember that first and foremost you serve all Americans, and those are certainly big shoes to fill. I’ve seen that onerous burden prematurely age several presidents in my lifetime, so you have my support and my best wishes for success.

(from here… but they are my sentiments as well.)

Category: politics

Toss and Catch

Posted on | September 7, 2008 | No Comments

Ranger, Isabel, and I went to the Dallas Dog n Disc Club fun match at Walnut Hill Park in Dallas on Saturday. This was the first Toss and Catch event Ranger and I competed in so we entered in the novice division. There were 14 other teams in there with us. This is video of our first round. Ranger only missed the first toss, but caught the rest of them that round. I think he was thrown off because the disc was different than what we normally use.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWQhq8NveIY

I think Ranger got hurt during the event too. When we got had a slight limp and he was licking his left paw the rest of the night.

Anyway, out of the 14 teams, we came in second place. The scoring was different than the normal way you score this event because it was just a bunch of novices. (I assume they mean the dog was novice, because most of the tossers were also entered in the intermediate and advanced divisions with different dogs.)

These were the final scores for the top three teams.

1st Place: Walt Swaggerman and Ruby round 1- 3.5,3.5,4. 5,3.5 (15) round 2-3.5,3.5,4. 5,4.5 (16) Total (31)
2nd Place:David Lester and Ranger round 1 - 2.5,3.5,4.5 (10.5) round 2- 4.5,4.5,4.5 (13.5) Total (24)
3rd Place:Debbie Swaggerman and Rascal round 1- 3.5,3.5 (7) round 2-3.5,3.5,3. 5,2.5,3.5 (16.5) Total (23.5)

We had a great time out there and hope to do it again soon!

Category: personal

Back and ready to write… at least until I stop again.

Posted on | August 30, 2008 | No Comments

Changed hosts. Changed the look. But nothing else changed.

Just been busy lately with all my other sites. Idea Box, Mom Job, Sunday School Crafts (oh the irony), Debate Nation, Class-Parties, Texas Lotto Club.. and a few more.

For those of you that don’t know, on February 28th of this year I weighed in at 223 pounds. As of this week, I’m 50 pounds lighter at 173. I’ve just been working out and eating right. I went from size 38 waist jeans to size 34. Feels really good. The BMI says I should be around 150 for my height and age though. That’s another 20 pounds that I’m not sure I can (or need to) lose. We’ll see I guess.

Category: announcements

Going away for a few days…

Posted on | May 29, 2007 | 1 Comment

Going here if anyone is interested.

Talk to you next Wednesday.

Category: personal

Taking Requests

Posted on | May 19, 2007 | 1 Comment

Got this in a fortune cookie a few days ago.

[edit: Pictures gone, but it said I was going to make some money soon. It lied.]

So since things are about to pick up for me, what would you like? I’m taking orders.

Category: personal

Tornado Stuff

Posted on | April 2, 2007 | 2 Comments

So I posted a bunch of the pictures I took the day after the tornado hit.

You can find them here.

Category: personal

Viva Las Vegas, Baby.

Posted on | March 10, 2007 | 1 Comment

My company sent me to Las Vegas this past week. Got there on Tuesday and got back on Friday night.

I’m not talking about any of the meeting stuff. Just the poker I played.

The first night I got there, we had stuff planned until 9:00PM so I didn’t get to the tables until about 9:30. I signed in to play on the $1/$2 no-limit tables since there was a waiting list. It didn’t take that long though, so I sat down to play at about 10:00PM. I started with $200 and played pretty tight. It was pretty uneventful. I made a couple of moves here and there, won most, lost a few, but by the end of the 3 hours, I was up $300. That’s when I cashed out.

The next night, some of my co-workers decided to play a game in one of the suites. The problem is, we didn’t have any chips. So all ten of us went to the cashier in the casino and each got $20 worth of quarters. Long story short, my laptop bag had to be examined again at airport security on the way back because the $120 worth of quarters was blocking the view.
The last night there was again a waiting list for the $1/$2 no-limit game so I decided to sit down at the $2/$4 limit game. This game also has $1/$2 small/big blinds, but the maximum bet/raise starts at $2 pre-flop and flop, and goes up to $4 on the turn and river. I only sat down with $100 at this game, but cashed out $186 at the end of the night.

My flight didn’t leave to come back home until 5:00PM, and the last shuttle from the hotel to the airport left at 2:00PM. Since our meetings ended at 11:30, I had a couple of hours to kill. So what do you think I did? I went and sat at the $2/$4 limit table of course! I started with $100, and cashed out $160 two hours later.

Overall, it was profitable. I spent a few bucks in the slot machines killing time, and wasted $20 on the blackjack table.

I’m glad to be back though. I did splurge and upgrade my seat to first class on the way back. That was sweet.

Category: personal