So, why does our President take office on January 20th? Well, it used to be March 4th. In the olden days, Presidential candidates needed this long to get their affairs in order. Also, when the date was first selected, there were no commercial flights,…
Thanks to my good friend Gary for pointing this one out: AA is offering up to 2500 miles if you sign up for e-mail notifications. They did this about a year ago as well. You need to stay signed up for at least 3…
Not much else to say here. Being widely reported that Spagnuolo is gone. Once we know a bit more about the Giants of 2009, I’ll comment some more.
I’m a couple of days late on this story, but I wasn’t keeping track of the news closely while I was gone. Barack Obama selected a veteran of Raytheon to be Deputy Director of Defense. William Lynn is a very accomplished man. He served…
So, I played the Noon tournament at Venetian on Tuesday. The tournament got 130+ entrants, which was both good and bad. Good, in that it was a decent sized field for payouts, bad in that we got just enough players for the tournament to…
So, the title of this post will sound like I’m bitter from today’s loss. No question, I’m very bitter about today’s loss. But I see very little to blame on Coughlin. Eli really looked horrible all day. The defense was playing great. But how…
Sorry for the delay in posting. Cutting our trip short, we were able to get back and see Michelle’s grandmother. She’s still hanging in there, good days and bad. We stayed at two enjoyable hotels, Le Meridien Barcelona, and Le Meridien Ra Beach. First,…
Well, this definitely comes as a surprise: Bill Richardson withdraws his nomination as Commerce secretary. I’d be really surprised to hear he actually did something wrong. He has always struck me as a pretty honest politicians, as far as politicians go.
Sent to me by a family member, I’ll paste the description here, rather than trying to summarize myself: “It is a 24 hour observation of all of the large aircraft flights in the world, (recorded by the ‘plane flight transponders, via Geo-stationary orbital satellites),…
We’re back home now, but there’s still lots more to discuss about Sagrada Familia. I left off the last post talking about the Passion facade, which was to be sculpted by Josep Subirachs. He has been quoted as saying that he departed from Gaudi’s…