this guy is smarter than me

and i hate him for it. mostly because i'm jealous. i would like a million dollars, please (or at least a year end bonus)

Cash pours in for student with $1 million Web idea

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

i will...

list my top 25 albums of 2005 on FRI or SAT.

stay tuned....


oh, and check out this review of KING KONG i wrote.



p.s. listening to the new Ester Drang.... loving it

After the fact blogs

I haven't posted in a while... Been very busy getting ready for Christmas and what not... I've realized that posting 'after the fact' blog posts just isn't the same... I tend to forget details and such.

so in lue of trying to rack my brain on this Christmas eve for something whimsical to write I will just wish you all a Merry Christmas!

America in Color

i found this web site [http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/] with a collection of photographs taken in the late 1930's/early 1940's.
it's interesting to look at them, to see the simpler life that was. let's not forget the greatest generation.

go to the online exhibition to see a collection of the photographs.

Memoirs from a journey to the moon (or Indiana, Pennsylvania)

the Pennsylvania Sky on a cold winters day [12.10.05]

departure time: 9:21 am
destination: Brush Valley, PA (outside of Indiana - the town, not the state)
reason for travel: Christmas with 57 other 'Coffman's' ( my wife's side of the family)


the following are excerpts from our journey to and fro
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10:25 am
We stopped @ McDonalds to get some breakfast. Jen asked if they were serving lunch yet. The woman said "No." So Jen then orders a 10 piece McNugget meal. "We aren't serving lunch yet." she said. We ordered 4 hashbrowns, a biscuit & some sort of McMuffin sandwich.

McDonalds Drive Thru Woman (after handing Jen our food): Would you like a free Vindicator?
Jen: What's that?
McD: A newspaper.

Have you ever been offered a free Vindicator? We thought it maybe was a kids toy... or a weapon. By the way, they shorted us one hashbrown, so we pulled around again, and I ran in to get our vacant Hashbrown.

p.s. worst hashbrowns ever.

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11:15am
Jen: Were having a lovely day on our escapade to PA.
Tim: Escapade. That's a song by Janet Jackson.
Jen: Who's Dave Jansen?

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11:45am
Jen: How do you spell hocker? (or is it hawker?)

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12:17pm - 8:08pm
during this time an assortment of activities took place involving various things, such as sledding under the winter sun, getting lost in the dull roar of 57 other people, watching the kids wrestle, talking football, eating food, getting sleepy, watching the children unwrap toys, watching children fight over said toys, fixing broken toys, saying 'Merry Christmas' to Santa & Mrs. Claus and fellowshiping with friends and family.

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8:59pm
Jen: Wouldn't it be cool to name your kid 'Natalie' but spell his name with a silent 'G' so it would be 'Gnatalie'?

Tim: Other options would be Phrank...

Jen: or Gnoah

Tim: or Pneal.

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9:47pm
We decided to stop at the Grove City Outlets. Holiday hours extends closing time to 10pm. Jen had just enough time to run into the new Old Navy Outlet to buy stuff. i think she bought some gloves or Christmas presents or a plastic bag that says Old Navy on it.

I remember one time we stopped at the Grove City Outlets back in September. We got there around 6pm on a Sunday. They closed at 6. In the parking lot I saw two people take matts out of their trunk and neeled on it, praying to the East... facing Mecca, I presume. I think they were in the Gap before that. Jen bought jeans there.

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10:17pm
We were hungry so we headed to Wendy's. Jen ordered 2 5-piece Nuggets. They gave us 1 5-piece nugget. When we drove around the building to get our vacant 5 piece nugget we saw this old woman clawing at her window of her car. It was if she was saying to us "come and help me. I'm being held captive in my own car. Save me. Save me!!!" Almost similtaniously, we noticed a calico cat scurrying from the back of the Wendy's. Then, when I pulled up to get our nuggets, I almost ran the cat over. The cat then ran towards the clawing womans car. As it turns our, her window wouldn't go up and she was using her hands to push it up manually. Either that or that stray cat bit her and she turned into a cat. Or maybe she was just crazy.

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11:46pm

We were driving back into town, when our worst fears almost came to fruition: a deer was in the middle of the road. He wanted to play chicken. we won, he darted. Ironically, earlier in the day a dead deer was along the side of the road. Jen swerved the car more when seeing the dead deer than she did when seeing the live deer. Regardless, she got us home safely from there. She is a good driver. (i'm trying to get brownie points).

on a similar note, when i was 9 or 10, i was playing football in the backyard on a snowy Christmas afternoon. I threw the ball up in the air, then dove and caught it. Lying on the ground, i rolled over in the snow right onto a frozen dead rabbit. the rabbit was lying on the side of the road, right across the street from a guy who shot a deer and left the dead carcass hanging in his garage for a week. It smelled up the neighborhood real good.

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12:04am

we arrived back home. Would you like a free Vindicator?

i dont know what to write

i've logged on to blogger a number of times this week, with good intentions of blogging something. but the ink didn't flow. the keys didn't stroke. my motor senses in my brain didn't give my fingers a chore.

right now i am frantic. ok, not frantic, but thinkin hard about what my top 10 albums of 2005 will be. i have a list of probably 25-30 albums that i need to narrow down to 10. my list keeps growing and as of this moment i don't have a sure-shot number 1 album of 2005.

it snowed a lot last nite. we played snow football last sunday. i hung up christmas lites outside on the porch on Tuesday. there is a strand of lights, about 10 lights probably, that aren't working. i cheated and doubled them up, with working lights strung overtop of the non-working lights. i didn't feel like re-stringing the lights. after all, it was 12 degrees.

who would win in a battle of fists: chuck norris or bruce lee? i'm going with chuck norris, mainly because bruce lee is rumored to be dead.

who would win in a battle of wills: will smith or william shatner? toss up, i'd say.

nick & jessica broke up the day before thanksgiving. i wonder if they had already bought a turkey and had planned on eating it together. to bad for the turkey, if so...

oh, and if you are wondering about the squirrel picture: i had this squirrel friend of mine pose for me a few years ago. he was nuts. i just stumbled across the image on my computer so i thought i'd share it with you.

p.s. he who stands on toilet is high on pot.

.catchafire.