Great idea for outdoor Christmas Decorating!!!

Hey all - I got this in an email and could not stop laughing! - the caption follows:

"Good news is that I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after 2 days. I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever.Great stories. But two things made me take it down.

First, the cops advised me that it would cause traffic accidents as they almost wrecked when they drove by.

Second, a 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder almost killed herself putting it against my house and didn't realize it was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy). By the way, she was one of many people who attempted to do that. My yard couldn't take it either. I have more than a few tire tracks where people literally drove up my yard."

It gets how cold?

Today in Ottawa I can say we offically got snow. It did not last long, but you can smell Winter in the air.

I just saw this picture and it reminded me just how cold it is going to get. Now I know why I love San Diego so much...

  Ticket machines at the parking lot need to wear jackets in winter!!!

Damn This is awesome!

I saw this video and could not stop smiling.  You have to have no heart if you don't either:

Facebook Frenzy - a rebirth of sorts

Ok - I just updated my Facebook in what looks like since 2007 and my head is still spinning! - I like to tell people that when i first joined - there was nobody there and I got bored. That was my way of getting around why I never logged on. I guess I looked around and noticed how much time people were spending on it and was worried it would occupy too much of my web-surfing time....

Once I figured out what password I used back then and signed in - I got bombarded by 742 friend requests! ( ok - I am taking certain creative liberties - but I did think there were a bunch). Most were from people that I know or have lost touch and look forward to finding out "Whaz up?!. Some, er..., perhaps not so much - but it is pretty neat how this site is one big conference call where everyone gets to know how are things.

So what do I do now when I run into them while trying on $15.00 jeans at Urban Planet? What do you say? "I thought that post on eating your sundae on Sunday was clever?" or is there some nowingly secret nod when Facebookers meet - that means " Yeah - I already know"

Now if I can figure out a way to let everyone know how I am doing at once...

Thanks Abiel!

So it has been a while since I put anything down on virtual paper and I actually forgot I had even started this blog. Lately I have been admiring the blogs of some new co-workers on the other side of the globe (click Here and Here ). Let me put it this bluntly - they kick some blog butt! Abiel shocked me this morning when he told me I should update my blog. "WTF are you talking about?"

Then he sent me this link.....

ouch....

yeah - I did not expect to be such a prolific blogger, but one post since Feb 2007!?!?!?!?

It is about time I start doing something about this. - More to come later....

Just write, Damn it!!

"Because it's cool"
"It looks intelligent"
"I crave crude creative crack"(and alliteration)
"I want something more than the one day slipping into the next without exercising my poor dispondant brain beggging to be used with all the potential my parent's saw when I started walking at 10 months of age"

Now that I figured out the why... what now?

Do I babble about my work?
Do I show pretty pictures of my family?
Do I talk about my diet woes?
Do I make profound statements that make me look smarter and deeper than I really am to give me the satisfaction that higher education was not wasted on me?
Do I share the darkest, most intimate secrets to the cyberworld while I sputter and cough a sliver of the same to the people I call my friends and family?

I guess that remains to be seen, if I can commit to what others may call literary fodder, and keep this up -

F.