Good riddance, 2008. Welcome, 2009!

What a bummer of a year this turned out to be. The major Presidential candidates had almost zero appeal, the economy tanks, and our so-called right-winger President injects enough cash into the banking system to make FDR blush. Personally I only lose about 40% of the 401k, it might have been more if I hadn't borrowed against it last year. Well, I'm retooling for 2009. Belt-tightening and refocusing. Learning from my past mistakes. Hope you will too.

Twitter= whats all the tweeting about?

Today I trying to learn something new. I had hear about Twitter before, but my eyes just sort of glazed over the way they do when I think about the time Jessica spends on MySpace and Facebook. This looks a tool grownups can use too.

DTV

Check out this

After the Palin Rally

Some of our favorite pics:





Megan, Daniel, Lisa and I went to the Clermont County rally tonight for McCain-Palin. We got pretty close and the weather was nice as can be for an Ohio November. Megan especially was caught up in the excitement and was within inches of getting that handshake at the end. Yeah it was just like this!
Also some earlier pics we liked:

How about the debate

All of those who have already drank from the Obama Kool-aid were saying what you might have guessed they'd say: she was ditzy, didn't answer the questions, they really hated the winking, they hate her, hate hate hate! They didn't notice all the crap coming out of Biden's mouth, because, after all, he is so smart and said it so well, with such conviction. So when he lied about how much we are spending on the war, or the laughable claim that the US and France kicked Hezbollah out of Lebannon, well the kool-aid drinkers didn't even notice. But real Americans not living on the coasts can tell who is being straight with them and who is full of it.

I've been saying this all along....

It's the GOVERNMENT'S fault! I just haven't been saying it as well as this.
UPDATE: For a good explanation of this bailout problem from a non-economist point-of-view, go ahead and read this.

Pepsi..no coke

Enjoy

Wayne's World, enjoy some more.

Summer's close to over?

It's almost August, training camp has already begun, and the kids go back to school in two weeks! Seems like summer just started -- I only have made two trips to the pool for cripes sake!

Jessica's graduation

Here are a few pics from graduation day

nother new pic

I like this one too.

Vacation pics

Some of my favs

What a great article

From Newsweek even! A true giant of the twentieth century.

A True American Hero

Notice I did not say native American. Just American.
Getting his just due, long overdue.

Some more pics

On the homefront

On a nice day

Look ma - a new xbox!!!

rat-ta-too-eee!