Jason on July 20th, 2006

Israel is warning people in southern Lebanon to evacute the area. The warning is apparently is preparation of a ground invasion against Hezbollah “militants” in the area. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Anan is calling for an immediate cease-fire. Remember this is the U.N., Anan is essentially saying, “Stop or I’ll say ‘stop’ again!” I find his [...]

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Jason on July 15th, 2006

Your Famous Last Words Will Be: “I can pass this guy.” What Will Your Famous Last Words Be? When I first looked at the results page for this quiz, I thought for a couple seconds that my my famous last words would be “Are you pregnant?” because of an unfortunately misplaced ad. If you take the quiz, [...]

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Jason on July 15th, 2006

The installers finished putting new carpet in our house this morning. New carpet smell ranks right up there with new car smell.

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Jason on July 11th, 2006

We had another check up today at the OB. Everything is great. Ultrasound measurements of the development matched the length of the pregnancy to the day. She is 10 centimeters long and weighs about 5 ounces. Still haven’t agreed on a name though…

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Jason on July 6th, 2006

We’ve kept it a secret but we are happy to announce that Honeybun and I are expecting our first child. I’ve been keeping track of my thoughts leading up to this so let’s catch up: April 23 Honeybun is pregnant. Wow. How’d that happen? We’ve been talking about it for a while now. For those [...]

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Jason on July 3rd, 2006

American’s like expensive gasoline. No really. Even with record breaking gas prices, AAA is prediciting an increase of 1.2 percent increase in road travel over the Independence Day holiday. That increase would be set a record of 40.7 million people driving to their vacation destinations for this holiday. So in spite of our collective griping about [...]

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Jason on July 2nd, 2006

How about neither? I heard a show today talking about the differences between the two competing high definition video formats that have just been released. I’ve heard the first generation players are not only expensive, they are actually slow to start. Some HD DVD players can take minutes to turn on (they are actually computers [...]

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