So I’m waiting around this morning with my thumb somewhere anticipating the arrival of a carpenter the builder of our house supplied to fix a few things. Builder stated he’d be there 8:30/9am, 9/9:30am at the latest. Pretty large range of time, but fine, it’s a Saturday. I call the guy (seeing where this is [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Stupid and inconsiderate people…
Posted in Uncategorized on December 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
But wait, there’s more…the Obama coins
Posted in Uncategorized on December 10, 2008 | 6 Comments »
At a Thanksgiving party a couple of weeks ago, I found out that one of our friends who deals with collectibles all the time, had the foresight to create a Barack Obama coin for sale. He essentially bought out the US Mint’s collection of Kennedy Half-Dollars and went into hock for purchasing TV time on [...]
Poker – these guys are going to go beat their dogs
Posted in Uncategorized on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So it’d been a whole month since I’d played cards in a casino. Withdrawal was at hand. I somehow have survived. So when two guys I played cards with flew up for the weekend to play some cards, who was I not to be hospitable. Played Friday at Foxwoods and with few exceptions it was [...]
Snowy weekend – this stuff is cold!
Posted in Uncategorized on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ventured up to eastern Connecticut to both Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods this past weekend. Had a couple of friends from Atlanta visiting and wanted to be a gracious ‘local’ and take the trek up there. Spent the evening doing our thing, dragging the occassional poker pot and went to head back to the hotel late [...]
The Cuse is back, ranked #16 nationally
Posted in Uncategorized on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Woo-hoo, football season is over….finally! Well, at least for Syracuse it is. Now we can move on to bigger and better things like a promising season for the Orange who missed the last two year’s NCAA’s. It’s looking solid this year with winning a pre-season tournament and already marque wins over Florida and Kansas. A [...]
Was it his idea or did Ford’s CEO finally get a light bulb above his head?
Posted in Uncategorized on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Finally these guys get it. The CEO of Ford today finally put his money where his mouth is stating he’d work for $1.00 if Ford needed to take any government dollars. Let’s face it…these guys are more than set for life. If you really want to make a statement, this is one way of doing [...]
