relax, play some golf, eat some steaks if you wish, sleep in, use some loud power tools....whatever your heart desires!!
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Happy Father's Day! Hope the Mets beat the Yankees tonight... My gift to you...I'm bringing my favorite power tool up, (hedge trimmer) and I'll do your front bushes, rounded or square, whatever you wish!
Frank, apply to Google of Council Bluffs right now. Why live and work in a beautiful, progressive university town when you could come to the mullet capital of the US? Jobs will start at around $50,000.
The thing is, you can buy a decent starter home here for about $79,000 and a pretty nice one for under $100,000. And you can get to work from anywhere in town in under 15 minutes. And you could live with us as long as you needed to. We have unlimited walnuts. How can you pass it up?
On Father's Day we drank Moscow Mules. They are now Bob Niemiec's signature drink. He has the copper cups and everything. So now I want to have a signature drink that I can serve to people, so when they're coming to my house they say, "Oh, man, I hope she makes ___________!" instead of "Oh, man, I hope they fixed the bathroom light switch!" (They didn't.)
I love Moscow Mules. I don't know what we're doing for the 4th. They have a parade one block from our house (I think it gets really crowded) and I"m told we can see the fireworks show from our balcony. Yes, Frank I think you should move to CB.
That's funny, I'm going to Molly's house to watch fireworks and eat hamburgers, too.
On the DM Register website, they also had a story about Google coming to CB. Some people seem very upset they would go to the Mullet Capitol, and think it should have been in a better place like Des Moines or Newton. Why? I don't know, they didn't have a reason other than they wanted it. A lot of people said it shouldn't be in Council Bluffs because all the new employees will just live in Omaha. I don't think that's true, especially since they are recruiting people that live in Iowa already.
My friend Amy, who lives in W.DM, says the same thing about people being absolute snobs. Her husband is a doctor and at his work functions, she says all the annoying Drs. do is sit around and bust on eachother for where they went to high school. When she said she went to DM Dowling, one of them actually laughed and said, "You're kidding." She was so confused. She didn't know what the hell they were talking about.
Are there houses on Lake Manawa? If so, it would be a nice place to live/work. Frank, you could get another dog and work for one of the most progressive companies in the world.
And go to Pizza King on the weekends.
For Father's Day I worked, talked to my dad on the phone and then watched Entourage.
You guys are right...this is boring.
How about this? Des Moines can eat the big one! There. I said it.
All the new employees won't just live in Omaha, except for a few cool ones (cool geeks?) who live in lofts in the Old Market. You can get a nice condo on the lake or some modest (not run-down) houses on the east side of the lake, or a cute decent fixer-upper on the west side of town for $79,000 or a smallish nice older house on the east side for about $95,000 or a city-funded first-time-buyer brand-new house on the south side for about $125,000. Also, there's tons of new apartments being built, including right off the golf course on the site of the old Frito-Lay plant, where maybe on a summer night you could catch the ghost of a whiff of that delicious toasted-corn smell that used to permeate that part of town. I always thought it smelled like roasting coffee beans. Who wouldn't want that?
Put on your resume that you're originally from Iowa and want to come home. They're favoring applicants from Iowa. Even that you lived in Council Bluffs while attending Creighton University, because we all know how smart Creighton students are.
Rich Des Moines peeps are snobs. I just bartended at this very small (18 people) party for a bunch of big wigs that owned some big construction company in DM. They were all very wealthy, and their wives talked all night about the the philathropic things they do, and how they cannot believe Mexican immigrants don't have to know English right away. One even said it offended her. (No joke)
Anyway, none of them were tipping me and it was an open bar. Finally one of them came up after a while and gave me a $20 and said "honey, these aren't the type of people who tip, so you can jsut put that away."
Isn't it funny how so often it's people with nothing to be snobbish about who are? Like, upper-middle-class people just one generation removed from blue-collar. I guess it's insecurity. Who doesn't tip a cute college-girl bartender? OK, this is my last word on snobbishness, because I am really not hypersensitive to snubs (actually, I'm mostly oblivious to them, because, really, who wouldn't love me?) but I seem to be getting that rep. Really, it's just that casual cruelty just pisses me off so much because it's so meaningless and useless, but some people just use it without thinking. It's xenophobic, that's what it is. Fear of the Other. Makes you want to apply some torque to a broomstick and an ass.
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Happy Father's Day!
Hope the Mets beat the Yankees tonight...
My gift to you...I'm bringing my favorite power tool up, (hedge trimmer) and I'll do your front bushes, rounded or square, whatever you wish!
Happy Father's Day to all! :-)
Thanks! I got a new computer moniter and am going to play golf and BBQ some Kabobs.
Ed, is ther something you're not tellin us?
a friend of mine just had twin boys. she named them Eli and Liam.
Happy Fathers Day Dad! Sorry I forgot to give you your gift and keys to the condo when you were here. Hope it was a fun day.
Monica
Frank~ Coincidence...or, inspired?
coincidence, i believe. this is her 2nd set of twins. so she has 2 3 yr olds and 2 new borns, 3 dogs, 2 cats. that's a lot of critters.
i need a new career. what should i be?
I hope she has a husband too!
Career? Hmm...go-go dancer?
no, i don't see the go-go dancer thing happening.
I thought you always wanted to be the guy that puts puppies to sleep at the pound.
tree cutter
ed,
that's just what i tell strangers on the plane when i don't want to talk to them.
anon: i don't want to get my eye poked out.
http://letsbefriends.blogspot.com/
Being a priest wouldn't be bad if the Church would just loosen up and allow priests to have affairs.
During the Middle Ages, probably one of the biggest mistakes was not putting on your armor because you were "just going down to the corner."
Tom
i got your armor right here:
http://www.armorofgodpjs.com/
What's everyone up to? Hope all you dads had a good Fathers Day.
This is a boring blog...I'm gonna go watch paint dry.
Tom
Kraft Foods has aquired a cheese company from Irael. They're gonna market it as "Cheeses of Nazareth".
Chef humor.
Tom
Israel
Frank, apply to Google of Council Bluffs right now. Why live and work in a beautiful, progressive university town when you could come to the mullet capital of the US? Jobs will start at around $50,000.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007706200378
This is boring. What is everyone doing for 4th of July?
The thing is, you can buy a decent starter home here for about $79,000 and a pretty nice one for under $100,000. And you can get to work from anywhere in town in under 15 minutes. And you could live with us as long as you needed to. We have unlimited walnuts. How can you pass it up?
We are going to Molly's house to eat hamburgers and watch fireworks. Anyone can come.
On Father's Day we drank Moscow Mules. They are now Bob Niemiec's signature drink. He has the copper cups and everything. So now I want to have a signature drink that I can serve to people, so when they're coming to my house they say, "Oh, man, I hope she makes ___________!" instead of "Oh, man, I hope they fixed the bathroom light switch!" (They didn't.)
I love Moscow Mules. I don't know what we're doing for the 4th. They have a parade one block from our house (I think it gets really crowded) and I"m told we can see the fireworks show from our balcony.
Yes, Frank I think you should move to CB.
That's funny, I'm going to Molly's house to watch fireworks and eat hamburgers, too.
On the DM Register website, they also had a story about Google coming to CB. Some people seem very upset they would go to the Mullet Capitol, and think it should have been in a better place like Des Moines or Newton. Why? I don't know, they didn't have a reason other than they wanted it. A lot of people said it shouldn't be in Council Bluffs because all the new employees will just live in Omaha. I don't think that's true, especially since they are recruiting people that live in Iowa already.
My friend Amy, who lives in W.DM, says the same thing about people being absolute snobs. Her husband is a doctor and at his work functions, she says all the annoying Drs. do is sit around and bust on eachother for where they went to high school. When she said she went to DM Dowling, one of them actually laughed and said, "You're kidding." She was so confused. She didn't know what the hell they were talking about.
Lisa, aren't you guys moving soon?
Are there houses on Lake Manawa? If so, it would be a nice place to live/work. Frank, you could get another dog and work for one of the most progressive companies in the world.
And go to Pizza King on the weekends.
For Father's Day I worked, talked to my dad on the phone and then watched Entourage.
You guys are right...this is boring.
How about this? Des Moines can eat the big one! There. I said it.
Des
why not? i'll send them my resume.
All the new employees won't just live in Omaha, except for a few cool ones (cool geeks?) who live in lofts in the Old Market. You can get a nice condo on the lake or some modest (not run-down) houses on the east side of the lake, or a cute decent fixer-upper on the west side of town for $79,000 or a smallish nice older house on the east side for about $95,000 or a city-funded first-time-buyer brand-new house on the south side for about $125,000. Also, there's tons of new apartments being built, including right off the golf course on the site of the old Frito-Lay plant, where maybe on a summer night you could catch the ghost of a whiff of that delicious toasted-corn smell that used to permeate that part of town. I always thought it smelled like roasting coffee beans. Who wouldn't want that?
Put on your resume that you're originally from Iowa and want to come home. They're favoring applicants from Iowa. Even that you lived in Council Bluffs while attending Creighton University, because we all know how smart Creighton students are.
Rich Des Moines peeps are snobs. I just bartended at this very small (18 people) party for a bunch of big wigs that owned some big construction company in DM. They were all very wealthy, and their wives talked all night about the the philathropic things they do, and how they cannot believe Mexican immigrants don't have to know English right away. One even said it offended her. (No joke)
Anyway, none of them were tipping me and it was an open bar. Finally one of them came up after a while and gave me a $20 and said "honey, these aren't the type of people who tip, so you can jsut put that away."
Isn't it funny how so often it's people with nothing to be snobbish about who are? Like, upper-middle-class people just one generation removed from blue-collar. I guess it's insecurity. Who doesn't tip a cute college-girl bartender? OK, this is my last word on snobbishness, because I am really not hypersensitive to snubs (actually, I'm mostly oblivious to them, because, really, who wouldn't love me?) but I seem to be getting that rep. Really, it's just that casual cruelty just pisses me off so much because it's so meaningless and useless, but some people just use it without thinking. It's xenophobic, that's what it is. Fear of the Other. Makes you want to apply some torque to a broomstick and an ass.
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