Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Black Cadillac Tour Dates

Rosanne Cash is playing the Florida Folk Festival in White Springs, FL on May 27. That would make it worth going to this year.

Black Cadillac Tour Dates

Friday, January 13, 2006

Eric won 3rd place in the school oration contest. The competition was school-wide. First he won his class competition, then faced off against the top 24 performers in the entire school including 6th, 7th & 8th grades.
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Eric won third place in the school-wide oration contest
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Friday, January 06, 2006

Priorities: Find dogsitter, leave kids home alone.

The Courier-Mail: Holiday couple abandon kids - but not pets [06jan06]

A HUSBAND and wife who found a dog sitter for their puppies, but left their nine-year-old son home to care for his younger autistic brother while they celebrated the new year in Las Vegas, have been arrested.

Jacob Calero and his wife Michelle De La Vega left Calero's sons Joshua, 9, and Jason, 5, at their San Ramon home early on Friday while the newlyweds headed out of town for a five-day trip, police said.

The Perils of Driving your kids to school

Rude mother trys to push teacher out of the way after ignoring proper etiquette in dropping her kids off gets arrested. All in lovely Cape Coral area.The News-Press: Local & State

Dog Deaths Surpass 100 Despite Toxic Pet Food Recall - Yahoo! News

Dog Deaths Surpass 100 Despite Toxic Pet Food Recall - Yahoo! News

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Betsy Gets A New Printer



On the way from Buy.com - HP Business Inkjet 1200dtn PrinterBuy.com - HP Business Inkjet 1200dtn Printer - C8155A#A2L

Networked -- can be used when Betsy's machine is turned off.

2 trays -- 250 pages and 150 pages. 1 can be used for 8.5x11 and the other for Betsy's legal paper.

Print Speed - Up to 28 ppm - black draft Up to 9 ppm - black normal Up to 4 ppm - black best Up to 24 ppm - mixed text/color graphics draft Up to 8 ppm - mixed text/color graphics normal Up to 4 ppm - mixed text/color graphics best Up to 8.1 ppm

Each of the four individual ink cartridges holds a single color. When one of the black or color ink cartridges runs out, only that cartridge needs to be replaced.

Wednesday, January 04, 2006


Eric in Charlotte Harbor. December 29, 2006
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Cayo Costa State Park near the lagoon. Great picture of Eric
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Thursday, December 08, 2005

CD Baby: THE GOTTLIEB-DANIELSSON PROJECT: Extended Journey

Eric's percussion tutor is married to a famous drummer Danny Gottlieb. They appear together on THE GOTTLIEB-DANIELSSON PROJECT: Extended Journey Danny has appeared on over 300 albums and was a founding member of the Pat Metheney Group.

Rounding out the Gottlieb-Danielsson Project, and indeed making it a "family affair" is saxophonist Tamara Danielsson and percussionist Beth Gottlieb. Beth Gottlieb, a successful percussionist, dedicated teacher (Interlochen, Rollins College), and wife of Danny, brings her considerable skills to the project, adding even more color and texture to help define the group's sound.

Gov. Jeb Bush and other state officials have encouraged students to read the book and to see The Chronicles of Narnia

Students might go to 'Narnia' -- or not - OrlandoSentinel.com: Lake County News

Thursday, December 01, 2005

Katrina Christmas Display

WWLTV.com | News for New Orleans, Louisiana | Top Stories

Frank Evans thought the tiny blue-tarped roofs, little toppled fences and miniature piles of hurricane debris he included in the Christmas display he builds every year for a suburban New Orleans shopping mall struck just the right humorous tone.

The call of 'D'oh!'

The call of 'D'oh!' - OrlandoSentinel.com: Television

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

IOL: Lawyer determined to get The Simpsons off air

IOL: Lawyer determined to get The Simpsons off air

Moscow - A Russian lawyer plans to take his case against The Simpsons to the European Court of Human Rights.

It comes after a Moscow Court rejected Igor Smykov's appeal to have the show banned from Russian TV.

Mr Smykov wanted to have the cartoon series taken off the air in Russia, or at least shown at a later time, claiming it promoted drugs, violence and homosexuality.

He also demanded £6 000 (about R4,5-million) in compensation from TV channel REN-TV saying the show had morally damaged his nine-year-old son.

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

FOXNews.com - Politics - Capitol Holiday Tree Is a Christmas Tree Again

Let's hear it for small victories in the ongoing fight against petty people with counter-culture agendas. FOXNews.com - Politics - Capitol Holiday Tree Is a Christmas Tree Again

Amazon.com: Nintendogs - Labrador Retriever: Electronics

Here it is. How Eric would prefer to raise a Labrador Retriever.

Amazon.com: Nintendogs - Labrador Retriever: Electronics

Monday, November 28, 2005

Can the Canadians save us from the Evil George Bush starting an intergalactic war?

Click here to send your letter to the Parliament of Canada requesting public "ET" Hearings:  PEACEINSPACE.NET

“From 1963-1967, Hon. Paul Hellyer was Minister of National Defence of Canada in the cabinet of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, who won a Nobel Peace Prize.  On September 25, 2005, at the Toronto Exopolitics Symposium held at Convocation Hall, University of Toronto, former Minister of National Defence Hellyer stated: "UFOs, are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head," and "I'm so concerned about what the consequences might be of starting an intergalactic war, that I just think I had to say something."

Former Minister of Defence Hellyer went on to state: "The time has come to lift the veil of secrecy, and let the truth emerge, so there can be a real and informed debate, about one of the most important problems facing our planet today."  Mr. Hellyer stated the Canadian people may be threatened with the consequences of war in outer space over our sovereign territory: "The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning."    

I’m glad to know that the Canadians are working on “the most important problems facing our planet today.”  If they weren’t how could we possibly take them seriously?  All hail Canadia!

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Train Depot Track Designer

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Otter Key

Some notes on the Otter Key anchorage Yacht Club Colony - Florida Sea Grant

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Orlando's median home hits $261,300

Orlando's median home hits $261,300 - OrlandoSentinel.com:

Orlando was the second-hottest market in the country for existing-home sales during the third quarter. The median price of a single-family home soared to $261,300, a jump of nearly 45 percent from a year earlier, a national trade group reported Tuesday.

Orlando's median price in the third quarter was up from $180,500 a year earlier. Nationally, the third-quarter median was $215,900, and the 14.7 percent year-over-year gain was the second-greatest on record for the Realtors association, a spokesman for the trade group said.