Three Old Photos

Yo Jinjer! (Check out our hair):








Jen, Look how hot you are! I loved that dress! Miss Nance and Deb.










I was at Huntington this weekend. Reminded me of this party. Didn't Jen and I throw fabulous parties? This one was for Nancy's Birthday. A couple of questions/comments: (1) Where in the world was Andrea Deanda? (2) How tan am I??? and this was June, not August! (3) Look how long Bec's hair is (4) Who is the guy on the right in the jacket and furthermore why is he wearing shoes and socks at the beach?

Attention M.T.C.

I am looking for permission to blog the Postcard I received yesterday from Prague. As history would have predicted, it's the best postcard I have ever received. I laughed and laughed. Wish I was there, there is a no doubt to the reason why you are the Champion!!!!!

Watch Desperate Housewives Tonight!

We have a family friend portraying a guest at Edie's kids birthday party tonight. She was picked out because she was a hot sexy mom. How great is that? She also happens to be James best friends mom. So look for the hot sexy mom (her name is Kim-double how great is that?) at the party. You can see her in the following shots (unless of course she got edited):

• In one shot, she serves pizza
• She is standing next to the van when Susan and Lynette see a tarantula
• Carlos carries Gabby away and they walk right past her
• She's hanging out with her kids when Edie and Carlos are smoochin'

One last clue: She has on black pants and a long green sweater.

Go Kim, your one hot mama ;)

Planet Earth and HDTV

Several weeks ago I spoke briefly of the "Planet Earth" mini series on the Discovery Channel. Since then, David and I have watched all of the episodes and a couple of weeks ago we switched from our projection HDTV in the living room to our LCD HDTV in our family room. Now, we don't have the 1080p HDTV (The best) but the quality on the LCD is unbelievable. Planet Earth is the most amazing mini series I have ever scene. The footage of wildlife and rarely seen locations is fascinating to watch.

If you haven't seen Planet Earth, it's time to start watching.
If you don't have an HD LCD TV, it's time to purchase one.

22 Songs For When Your Depressed

Top Songs for when your depressed and want to wallow in it:
(1) Bad Day (Fuel)
(2) Everybody Hurts (REM)
(3) Losing My Touch (Toby Keith)
(4) With or Without You (U2)
(5) Let Her Cry (Hootie and the Blowfish)
(6) Because You Love Me (Celine Dion)
(7) Look Away (Chicago)
(8) November Rain (Guns and Roses)
(9) Wish You Were Here (Mark Wills)
(10) The Dance (Garth Brooks)

Top Songs for when your depressed and want to get out of it quickly (Note Country Music Liking Required):
(1) I Love This Bar (Toby Keith)
(2) Whiskey Girl (Toby Keith)
(3) We Shall Be Free (Garth Brooks)
(4) Born to Fly (Sara Evans)
(5) I'm Alright (Jo Dee Messina)
(6) Bye Bye (Jo Dee Messina)
(7) Goodbye Earl (Dixie Chicks)
(8) What About Now? (Lonestar)
(9) What the Cowgirls Do (Vince Gill)
(10) Good to go to Mexico (Toby Keith)
(11) Something Like That (Tim McGraw)
(12) Two Pina Coladas (Garth Brooks)

Yes, I have these as playlists on my IPOD.

Random 22

You may notice a new blog subject/label called 22. This will be a new series of lists that are made up of 22 total items.

I am struggling with the Random category. It is getting way too filled up and I am wondering if it should be broken up somehow. Agggh....the struggles of my life.

(Note the labels on the post, What to do?)

22 Ways to Feel Better

This was a rough week. To combat the rough week I will give you 22 ways to feel better:

(1) Iced Venti Chai
(2) Listen to Country Music (No, it isn't all sad. Usually country music puts me in a good mood)
(3) Send a text message (You'll probably get one back)
(4) Take pictures of random people
(5) Go outside and enjoy the weather
(6) Throw some ketchup on the floor
(7) People watch at your local Starbucks
(8) Look for shopping carts
(9) Write a good blog
(10) Re-watch Season 5 of 24
(11) Go out with friends
(12) Update your IPOD
(13) Get a tattoo
(14) Call Jeff Tracey
(15) Bury someone
(16) Go somewhere new
(17) Play 80's music
(18) Have expensive Sushi for dinner
(19) Refuse to be negative
(20) Phone a friend
(21) Go shopping on Craig's List
(22) Play Ms Pacman

As Much As I Hate to Gloat...

How great is this? I was alerted to this news yesterday when a friend and new blog reader informed me via email. http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/donald-trump-taking-credit-for-rosie-odonnell-the-view-firing-5084.php

Minor Observation

50% of my blogs this month include photos I have taken with my Blackberry Pearl. This substantiates my claim in the 200th blog that the number 1 reason I haven't run out of material is my Blackberry Pearl!

Love the Pearl!

Escaltors in Your Town

This is the only escalator that exists in the entire City of Redding. I am contemplating moving since my escalator injury risk level would be greatly reduced.

I wonder how many escalators exist in Pasadena? Hmm...I'm thinking now. 4 at the Paseo, 2 at the Macy's, 1 at Tower Records, 1 outside by the Corner Bakery, 1 at the Sears, 1 at the old AMC movie theater in Old Town, 1 at the Target (old Robinson's-May) Is it possible that there are only 11? I would have originally thought there would be 100's.

How many are in your town? (In case you are wondering, this is a random topic even for me, I fell down the escalator at the Sacramento airport on Tuesday. It was an awful scene)

Middle Names

OK, so I said before that Ruth had the best middle name. Well, it is the best because we share our middle names. One of us has an "E" the other doesn't but we are both "Ann or Anne". Now, while Ann is the best middle name it is not the most popular. Marie, is the most popular middle name with Ann being the second most popular. Check out and participate in the middle name survey at http://www.namenerds.com/uucn/midsurvey.html.

I was very happy to see that many names of my favorite people made the list. Some of the names are the first names (not just middle) but none the less they made the list in some form. Also note that I don't know everyone's middle name so if yours made the list, let us know.

For now, some of my favorites (in the order they appear in the middle list):

Ann, Jane, Dawn, Rae, Diane, Joy, Ruth, Rachel, Rebecca, Sara, Carol, Jennifer, Alexis, Amy, Laura, Andrea, Michael, James, Jon, Andrew, David, Thomas, Edward (Eddie), Anthony (Tony), Matthew, Scott, Mark, Benjamin (Ben), Jeff, Glenn,

Pearl Education in Redding CA

Tonight, Blackberry Pearl training commenced at Logan's Roadhouse in Redding. Randy and I demonstrated our Pearl's for these great patrons at the next table.

I explained that the T-Mobile phone pad was better than the Cingular phone pad and the woman to the right in the picture was very happy since she is a T-Mobile customer. Her phone will be cooler than mine!

The picture below measures the size of the Blackberry Pearl to the size of the Motorola Razr. Surprisingly, they are very close in overall dimensions.

After this, Randy convinced the waitress (who knocked Ketchup all over the ground) that we were marketing managers for Heinz and were responsible for the creation of the Red Pearl that he owns. LOL.

Phoenix Fire Hydrant

On Friday, I walked by this Fire Hydrant on Thomas in Phoenix. It is located on the north side of the street between 3rd and 5th avenue.

The fire hydrant had five feet of pipes and chains connected to the pipe. It was really odd. I would love for an engineer to tell me what this is all about.

After reviewing my pictures of the fire hydrant I realized that I didn't get a good side view. Unfortunately, I noticed this when I was about to leave Phoenix so I engaged the help of the head honcho in Phoenix FSO to take a side shot. When she arrived to take the side shot (less than 48 hours after I took the original) she took the photo below. The strange connections had been removed and it had returned to normal.

So can anyone tell us what the connections were for?

Trip to Arizona Wing CAF

On Sunday, David and I went to the Arizona Wing Commemorative Air Force Museum in Mesa, Arizona. I'm sure you will be surprised to know that I took a couple of pictures. The pictures below are of a General Electric J-47 Turbojet. It weighs in at 2707 pounds. Please review the pictures closely. One of them is pretty cool!

Birthday, Shout Out to Ruth!!!

Happy Birthday to someone who not only has the best middle name ever, someone who writes a great blog!! Have a great birthday, Ruth Anne, I hope it's the best ever!!

Mystery Location

Today, I went to a mystery location in Arizona. Here are two clues in solving the puzzle:

Quick Saturday Update

I have a couple I of updates pending however I am having issues moving pictures from my new blackberry to my desktop. I need to update the software and I am a little too tired to mess with this further tonight.

The last couple of days have been pretty good. Yesterday, I had a very busy day at work although I didn't accomplish everything on my list. I will work on the remaining items tomorrow night. After work I went to Happy Hour with some of the Phoenix FSO folks and we had at good time.

Today, we went to the NASCAR race at PIR. I have such great pictures and I can't wait to share them with you. Hopefully, I will get this blackberry thing resolved by tomorrow so I can transfer these to my laptop. I think one of them might make to a "You Might Be a Redneck if" website.

Tomorrow brings a barbecue and I don't know what else but I think I am going to wear a new T-shirt that I got today. It will put me in a perfect position to win if I get involved in any competitions.

Last comment on my blackberry exchange. How happy am I that when I look at my blackberry I don't see the gashes on the side of it that reminded me of when I dropped it at the Sacramento airport? Nothing, like a nice new shiny pearl to make you happy! (If it only had the T-Mobile number keys it would be perfect!)

Great Picture from Death Valley

Isadora took this picture over the weekend when she went to Death Valley. I think it is one of the coolest pictures I have ever seen. Very creative and totally fun!

Oh, My....Blackberry Outage

Here are the facts as we know it:

1. Server Outage at RIM is causing delays on send/receive on Blackberries in North America and Europe
2. There is no ETA
3. Communication from RIM has been poor

My favorite line from all articles that I read this morning refers to whats next: These poor addicts may actually have to talk to each other. (LOL)

Below is one of the thousands of articles:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4871

Where Is This Starbucks?

Anybody know?