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While its not big news like who is going to be the first dog and he is neither hypo allergenic nor a rescue dog, we have an addition to the household. 

His name is Scooter and he comes from a good home that was just too crowded with three other dogs. He is a year old mixed breed. We think he is part Labrador and part Golden Retriever.

This brings us to a perfect balance in the house with two dogs and two cats, a male and a female of each. A true democracy could ensue in case I ever decide to cede my benevolent dictatorship that currently rules the house. I just don't see that happening any time soon.

On Saturday the missus and I decided to take a little shopping adventure.

I did not realize at the time that I purchased the house that the color of the kitchen counter top would affect my appliance budget negatively in Fiscal Year 2008. Apparently they will not function properly if they are white while the counter top is black, who knew? Read the rest of this entry »

I wrote this over a few days and it might not be in chronological or anylogical order at all.

Our plan of getting out Friday afternoon early enough to miss all the Atlanta traffic did not work as planned. Read the rest of this entry »

Time for an update, sorry for long delay.

It didn't seem proper to post my silliness about Sears not being able to deliver a refridgerator up the hill in front of my house, or the trouble I was having getting hi speed internet or the nice time I had in Gatlinburg while post Hurricane Ike my parents sat without electricity for 12 days. It did put things in to perspective though for me. 

So I found someone to deliver a different fridge, I have internet. we settled in to the new house and Gatlinburg was nice.

Laila's birthday is Saturday and I wanted to  do something special for her because it marks the beginning of a ten month period each year where I can call her my "old lady".

So of course I started like usual at Priceline. I booked a cruise that leaves out of Jacksonville this Saturday which is actually her birthday. It is a five night cruise with 2 stops in the Bahamas. Our cabin actually looks right out the aft (I learned that means the back of boat)

We are very excited as neither of us were flagged as terrorists and they issued us passports. So we are now free to travel the world.

A few days ago while messing around on priceline, I secured lodging at the Hyatt in Jacksonville for a grand total (taxes and fees) of $67 for Friday night.

I should have plenty of pictures to post and skin to peel when we get back. 

Tomorrow. Laila and I are closing on our new home in Calhoun, Georgia. After months of everyone telling us what a great time it is to be a home buyer and a few counter offers later, voila! Read the rest of this entry »

     Last week, I had a three day business meeting in Nashville and then the family joined me and we went to the Grand Ole Opry. It was a great week. Read the rest of this entry »

I am currently without any television service. It may be a good thing.

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 Since the kids are with us for a month, there was no choice but to make the obligatory trip to a theme park. So last Saturday the kids and I loaded up the family truckster and headed south to Six Flags Over Georgia. My first mistake of the day was not listening to phone's GPS directions. I could not figure out why it wanted to route me through Rome and Cedartown instead of through Atlanta until I got stuck in an hour long construction based traffic jam on I-285. SO we didn't arrive at 10 AM as planned but an hour later. Read the rest of this entry »

We were feeling a need to celebrate life and all the great things we have been blessed with so we decided to take a weekend for us.

Of course we started at my two favorite sites, Upromise.com and then on to priceline.com. Upromise will give you money back for a college education of anybody of your choosing when you shop with any of their many partners of which priceline happens to be one. Read the rest of this entry »