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Archive for July 29th, 2008


Doing good in the neighborhood

Published July 29th, 2008 in work, writing | No Comments »

Those of us who live in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania need to take note of this date:

September 13, 2008.

That is the day that the Alzheimer’s Association will be holding a Alzheimer’s Memory Walk on City Island. These memory walks, held in more than 600 communities, are the nations largest events used to raise awareness, and funds. The funds are used to provide care, support, and research.

Mlw’s Maternal Grandmother was an Alzheimer victim. In the last years of her life she lost touch with what was happening to her in the here, and now. This strong woman who had worked a farm with her husband, raised many children, and supported them when her husband passed forgot the names of everyone around her. It was heart breaking to see.

That is why I am asking you today to find out when the walk is in your city, and to sign up. Go that one step further and become a Team Captain and make up your own team. A typical walk is 2-3 miles. Even I can do that much. Sign up now. Show you care.

Thank you.

Sponsored by Alzheimer's Walk

Yet another Jonas Brothers update

Published July 29th, 2008 in Jonas Bros, Life, Princess, home, kids, whining | 3 Comments »

Is it wrong for me to use the Jo Bros as a title knowing that it will rank higher in Google searches?

Knowing that some tweener in the middle of the night is going to be searching for some sniglet of information that she doesn’t already know about her one true love, and end up here? Is that wrong?

Somehow the parent in me wants to know what the heck that tweener is doing up in the middle of the night doing searches, instead of being in bed like they should be.

Moving on.

Only a scant few hours lie between me and 13 tweeners who will be coming to my house to help The Princess ransack and destroy said house. Yes, you read that correctly. 13 girls. All between the ages of 12, and 13. In my house. Overnight. And I have to work the next morning. Go to a meeting, actually, but it is a meeting that I can’t nod off in. Bummer.

The tweeners descend upon our house at 6pm Wednesday evening. We will do the obligatory present opening thing to get it out of the way first, and then we will be piling into vehicles to ferry said tweeners to The Sports Emporium.

Ominous background music inserted here.

At the Emporium of Sports we will be playing a raucous, and blood-thirsty game of laser tag. I get to play. Because I whined about it. After that, we come home. Eat cake, ice cream, and fire up the computers in the house so that dancing and merriment can commence.

I will be retreating to my back yard with a beer, ok lots of beer, a cigar, and The Roxinator. She doesn’t do well with large groups of people. She can’t focus on everything that is going on and it makes her fretful. Wimpy hound.

During all of this I just know that Google will be getting billions of hits off of my 2 computers for The Jonas Brothers. The Princess is going to their concert on Friday, while a couple of her friends saw them last week in Hershey. We were on vacation at the time, so she was unable to attend that particular show.

Much wailing, and gnashing of teeth inserted here.

So, you are now up to date on the goings on in my life. Other than the return to the soul sucking waste of time called my job that I had to return to yesterday.

But I don’t talk about work here.

Namaste.