Happy birthday, Randy! Did you see this year's RDG open house invite made the Register business section for its creativity?
First day of the new job tomorrow. I'm kind of nervous, but I went in on Thursday with doughnuts for the staff to bribe them into liking me. Hopefully it goes well!
Happy Birthday, Randy! Great photo. So many nice pictures from the wedding.
Good luck with the new job, Brianne! I'm sure it'll be great.
Tom, how was breakfast with Joe? Did he drive all the way there for eggs and then turn around and drive right back or what?
ND bball team is looking pretty good. Wish I could say the same for Creighton.
We did manage to shovel ourselves out of the driveway today and do a little shopping. You should see our street though. There is one single lane about 8 feet wide with snow piled and piled on either side of the drivable surface. They haven't plowed the side streets yet. When they do, I'm sure we'll have to dig ourselves out again.
Congrats Phe and David! That's oh so exciting and well deserved! Happy Birthday Randy! Have a great first day Brianne, they will love you, everybody does! We will be in Algona/Whittemore on Christmas day sometime if all goes well. Em, snow is souch a pain, you should move to Omaha, there is slightly less snow here.
Big snow here today. My quandry....every t.v.station apparently is the "official" t.v. station of school closings. Kind of like Snicker's being the official candy bar of Victoria's Secret lingerie models. I guess I have to have all 4 local t.v. stations tuned in to find out if school is closed.
I just opened the fridge to get milk for my coffee and the entire door came off. The fridge was made in 1984 - so I guess it's lived a good life. I hope this is the end. It's ugly and the ice maker produces single blocks of ice. Maybe that's how they worked in 1984, and then you just chipped away at the block.
"Pfizer Inc.'s (PFE) new CEO, Ian Read, would do well to consider more stock buybacks, dividend increases, asset divestitures and other moves to enhance the drug company's value. The pharmaceutical company's stock looks appealing at just 7.6 times expected earnings. A big stock buyback and dividend hike could lift the shares to the 20-to-25 range in the next year. "
Were you able to put the door back on or is this an emergency shopping day? I guess you could put your food outside, and then quick-thaw it as needed with your amazing superpower eye beams.
How much snow is there in Algona/Whittemore? We only officially got a couple inches, but where we are usually somewhat protected by the dense housing and hills, this time the wind was so swirly we ended up with about 6 inches in the driveway and on the walks.
We plan to come up to Whittemore on Christmas day.
Luckily (in this instance) I rent so no need for me buy anything. They came and fixed it, though the guy said it's worth nothing and they should just replace it. However, since they have a contract with this company, and our ice maker is also broken, they will now replace the ice maker.
Now the door swings from the other side and I am grabbing for the handle only to be met with air.
Our Christmas gifts to Caroline and Erin went back with Joe3 along with our goddaughter gift to Betty...Brian's, Mia's and Peter's will be mailed sometime this week. We, also, have a belated Caroline "birth" gift which will be mailed with these and I'm uncertain where we'll be mailing Brianne and Joe's belated wedding gift...it may show up in Whittemore too. Oh and the boys school pix will be included in a large envelope...if someone could place them in their frames...that would be great, ty! Are we safe to assume that these people will be there or atleast a member of their family?
Our Christmas gifts to Caroline and Erin went back with Joe3 along with our goddaughter gift to Betty...Brian's, Mia's and Peter's will be mailed sometime this week. We, also, have a belated Caroline "birth" gift which will be mailed with these and I'm uncertain where we'll be mailing Brianne and Joe's belated wedding gift...it may show up in Whittemore too. Oh and the boys school pix will be included in a large envelope...if someone could place them in their frames...that would be great, ty! Are we safe to assume that these people will be there or atleast a member of their family?
I think Molly, Joe and Ellen are all coming Christmas day with their families and bringing air mattresses and sleeping bags. I just heard this in the last day or so. I think the guys want Trivial Pursuit revenge. We will sorely miss Grace's Social Studies teacher input. Maybe we could set up a family campout in the Atari side of the basement.
There were three toys I wanted soooooooooooooo bad, but never rec'd when I was a kid. One was a big wheel, another was a Barbie townhouse and the other...we just bought Mia!
Happy Birthday, Randy! :-)
Please share with me Oscar, Finn and Caroline's birth dates along with Brianne and Joe's wedding date. Thank you.
Yaaayyy!!!!!! I'm about to escape undergrad hell and rejoin the land of the living!! Congrats Phe! HAPPY BIRTHDAY EVERYONE! It feels so weird to have time to socialnetwork again.:)
Glad to hear the Jayjacks will be well represented!
Nance, I'll leave it up to them (Jayjacks) to fill you in on their dates of note, but what I can tell you is Finn's birthday which I remember because of numerology.
So Jude and I have started reading the Harry Potter books at bedtime. We are halfway through the first one. Last night's chapter detailed the young hero's debut in a quidditch match, which is a game played on broomsticks. After we finished reading and I said good night Jude asked, "Mom, tomorrow can I borrow one of your brooms?"
Mom and Dad are on their way to Worthington, Mn. to see Uncle Bob and take part in the celebration of some of the Mexican nuns taking vows, Dad will be part of the Mass...Uncle Bob has a permanent convent in that Diocese which is run by one the nuns from Mexico, so now Dad and he may see each other a bit more often.
Kossuth Dems Christmas Party tonight...Dad was sad to miss it.
The latest and probably the most nauseating corporate speak being used as of late by folks I deal with is “reach out”. A term used in place of the word “contact you”. Instead of saying, “Okay, I’ll contact you when I have the details on the purchase agreement” people who want to sound smugly corporate are saying “As soon as I have those numbers I will reach out to you,”
And it’s being used over and over. Kind of like that annoying, badly written but catchy enough song they play on the radio...ad-nauseam.
Another one I find annoying -Ideation (brainstorming session).
It's mostly honchos huddling with the human capital to optimize the metrics by actualizing some synergy and making sure everyone's singing from the same hymn sheet. This may require some paradigm shifts, or at least generating an aha moment among the team players, but it will also facilitate leveraging best practices and strong ideation to generate leadership. For more fun corporate speak go to unsuck-it.com.
Actually, the first time you hear some of this it may sound kind of cool but in nanoseconds it invades the corporate world and everyone starts saying it. They want to show that they're team players.
Eduspeak is just as bad. I have come away from parent-teacher conferences wondering what the teacher was trying to tell me, and English is my first language.
We have a busy weekend upcoming. Friday we have Josh's work holiday party. I hope to reach out to some folks at that event. Saturday we are running a 5K (first race since High school)during which I hope to utilize my legs to their fullest potential. Afterword we will return home and grab a drink, head to the 'sea' wall in our condo development to watch the Boca Christmas Boat Parade float by down the intracoastal. I'm not sure if we'll be able to facilitate arriving on time for the parade. It depends on how well my legs are utilized.
Well, our package was mailed today...woohoo! I'm sending it with a 2-4 day delivery...so, it better be there. I could have chosen the 5 day delivery for $50 LESS...but, it wasn't "guaranteed" for 5 days and there are only 8 mailing days b4 Christmas. Thank goodness Joe3 was able to bring some of them back. :-)
Finally made it to the thrift store to look for ugly sweater and couldn't find one ugly enough. There wasn't much selection. I found lots of ugly swetaers, but they weren't Christmas sweaters. I did find $18 worth of stuff I don't need. Will try to get to Goodwill tomorrow.
"At 10 a.m. today, the Town Center Mall in Boca Raton will unveil a vending machine that dispenses gold bullion. That's right: You put in your money or your credit card, and you get wafer-thin gold bars or coins from the machine.
This is apparently a high honor for us.
"Boca is for the rich and famous," said Glen Calder, who is doing public relations for PMX Gold, the Boca Raton company that will operate the machines. "The Town Center Mall is where a lot of people go to spend a lot of money. It's a good fit."'
Well, Josh's party last night was lots of fun. It was at the "Sundy House" in Delray Beach. I fear it will prove to have slowed down my race tonight.
The night before their first U.S. boutique opened (in the same mall as the gold ATM machine). The featured guest at the reception was the baseball player Randy Johnson, and then just a whole lot of really rich people. Apparently Larry King got a UN watch for his retirement.
We hope you had a good one!
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Happy Birthday Randy! I'm not sure what you two are doing here? Sucking on limes?
Hope you had a great day.
P
Happy Birthday, Randy! Did you get some good German food?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RANDY!!!!! I hope you get a big red birthday cake with white frosting and some steak and cigars!!!-phe
Randy! Happy birthday.
Does anyone spend any time on Creighton message boards? I've found two - bluejaycafe.com and rivals. Which is best?
I need something to keep me occupied in the football offseason.
Nevermind. Rivals is Bluejaycafe. Same thing.
so in case you missed my post in the last blog entry, the Metrodome collapsed overnight from the weight of all the snow.
video of the collapse here:
www.myfoxtwincities.com/
Happy birthday, Randy! Did you see this year's RDG open house invite made the Register business section for its creativity?
First day of the new job tomorrow. I'm kind of nervous, but I went in on Thursday with doughnuts for the staff to bribe them into liking me. Hopefully it goes well!
Happy belated birthday, Randy! Sorry we didn't wish you HB yesterday!
Happy Birthday, Randy! Great photo. So many nice pictures from the wedding.
Good luck with the new job, Brianne! I'm sure it'll be great.
Tom, how was breakfast with Joe? Did he drive all the way there for eggs and then turn around and drive right back or what?
ND bball team is looking pretty good. Wish I could say the same for Creighton.
We did manage to shovel ourselves out of the driveway today and do a little shopping. You should see our street though. There is one single lane about 8 feet wide with snow piled and piled on either side of the drivable surface. They haven't plowed the side streets yet. When they do, I'm sure we'll have to dig ourselves out again.
OH, and we're coming down for Christmas on Christmas Eve I think.
Congrats Phe and David! That's oh so exciting and well deserved!
Happy Birthday Randy!
Have a great first day Brianne, they will love you, everybody does!
We will be in Algona/Whittemore on Christmas day sometime if all goes well. Em, snow is souch a pain, you should move to Omaha, there is slightly less snow here.
*such*
Happy belated birthday to Randy!
Congratulations to Phelan and David!
Congratulations to Grace!
Good luck to Brianne!
I think I got everyone.
Monica
Big snow here today. My quandry....every t.v.station apparently is the "official" t.v. station of school closings. Kind of like Snicker's being the official candy bar of Victoria's Secret lingerie models. I guess I have to have all 4 local t.v. stations tuned in to find out if school is closed.
Happy Birtday Randy!
Tom
Our low tonight is forecast to be 29, with a wind chill around 19. That's REALLY COLD for down here. I hope it snows.
P
So did Joe drive half way across the country and back through a blizzard? And when he got home could he even get in his driveway?
School closed today. This is the first snow day MPLS and St. Paul schools have had since we've lived here. Wind chill is -23 right now.
I just opened the fridge to get milk for my coffee and the entire door came off. The fridge was made in 1984 - so I guess it's lived a good life. I hope this is the end. It's ugly and the ice maker produces single blocks of ice. Maybe that's how they worked in 1984, and then you just chipped away at the block.
P
"Pfizer Inc.'s (PFE) new CEO, Ian Read, would do well to consider more stock buybacks, dividend increases, asset divestitures and other moves to enhance the drug company's value. The pharmaceutical company's stock looks appealing at just 7.6 times expected earnings. A big stock buyback and dividend hike could lift the shares to the 20-to-25 range in the next year. "
Were you able to put the door back on or is this an emergency shopping day? I guess you could put your food outside, and then quick-thaw it as needed with your amazing superpower eye beams.
How much snow is there in Algona/Whittemore? We only officially got a couple inches, but where we are usually somewhat protected by the dense housing and hills, this time the wind was so swirly we ended up with about 6 inches in the driveway and on the walks.
We plan to come up to Whittemore on Christmas day.
Luckily (in this instance) I rent so no need for me buy anything. They came and fixed it, though the guy said it's worth nothing and they should just replace it. However, since they have a contract with this company, and our ice maker is also broken, they will now replace the ice maker.
Now the door swings from the other side and I am grabbing for the handle only to be met with air.
p
Our Christmas gifts to Caroline and Erin went back with Joe3 along with our goddaughter gift to Betty...Brian's, Mia's and Peter's will be mailed sometime this week. We, also, have a belated Caroline "birth" gift which will be mailed with these and I'm uncertain where we'll be mailing Brianne and Joe's belated wedding gift...it may show up in Whittemore too. Oh and the boys school pix will be included in a large envelope...if someone could place them in their frames...that would be great, ty! Are we safe to assume that these people will be there or atleast a member of their family?
Our Christmas gifts to Caroline and Erin went back with Joe3 along with our goddaughter gift to Betty...Brian's, Mia's and Peter's will be mailed sometime this week. We, also, have a belated Caroline "birth" gift which will be mailed with these and I'm uncertain where we'll be mailing Brianne and Joe's belated wedding gift...it may show up in Whittemore too. Oh and the boys school pix will be included in a large envelope...if someone could place them in their frames...that would be great, ty! Are we safe to assume that these people will be there or atleast a member of their family?
Oops..double post, sorry.
I think Molly, Joe and Ellen are all coming Christmas day with their families and bringing air mattresses and sleeping bags. I just heard this in the last day or so. I think the guys want Trivial Pursuit revenge. We will sorely miss Grace's Social Studies teacher input. Maybe we could set up a family campout in the Atari side of the basement.
Oh, NY Jets, tsk, tsk.
There were three toys I wanted soooooooooooooo bad, but never rec'd when I was a kid. One was a big wheel, another was a Barbie townhouse and the other...we just bought Mia!
Happy Birthday, Randy! :-)
Please share with me Oscar, Finn and Caroline's birth dates along with Brianne and Joe's wedding date. Thank you.
Sorry...I guess I need Ellen and Andy's wedding date too!
Yaaayyy!!!!!! I'm about to escape undergrad hell and rejoin the land of the living!! Congrats Phe! HAPPY BIRTHDAY EVERYONE!
It feels so weird to have time to socialnetwork again.:)
Welcome back from the dark side.
Glad to hear the Jayjacks will be well represented!
Nance, I'll leave it up to them (Jayjacks) to fill you in on their dates of note, but what I can tell you is Finn's birthday which I remember because of numerology.
Weighing 6 lbs 09 ozs. Born 6/09/09.
P
Thank you Cathy and Pat for the dates! :-)
Pat is a fridge-wrecking english major numerologist. A rare bird.
So Jude and I have started reading the Harry Potter books at bedtime. We are halfway through the first one. Last night's chapter detailed the young hero's debut in a quidditch match, which is a game played on broomsticks. After we finished reading and I said good night Jude asked, "Mom, tomorrow can I borrow one of your brooms?"
oooh, I have my ugly Christmas sweater!
Monica
Happy Birthday Randy!!!
Congratulations Grace!!!
So proud of Phelan and Dave!!!
Mom and Dad are on their way to Worthington, Mn. to see Uncle Bob and take part in the celebration of some of the Mexican nuns taking vows, Dad will be part of the Mass...Uncle Bob has a permanent convent in that Diocese which is run by one the nuns from Mexico, so now Dad and he may see each other a bit more often.
Kossuth Dems Christmas Party tonight...Dad was sad to miss it.
The latest and probably the most nauseating corporate speak being used as of late by folks I deal with is “reach out”. A term used in place of the word “contact you”. Instead of saying, “Okay, I’ll contact you when I have the details on the purchase agreement” people who want to sound smugly corporate are saying “As soon as I have those numbers I will reach out to you,”
And it’s being used over and over. Kind of like that annoying, badly written but catchy enough song they play on the radio...ad-nauseam.
Another one I find annoying -Ideation (brainstorming session).
Who comes up with this crap?
Tom
It's mostly honchos huddling with the human capital to optimize the metrics by actualizing some synergy and making sure everyone's singing from the same hymn sheet. This may require some paradigm shifts, or at least generating an aha moment among the team players, but it will also facilitate leveraging best practices and strong ideation to generate leadership. For more fun corporate speak go to unsuck-it.com.
Actually, the first time you hear some of this it may sound kind of cool but in nanoseconds it invades the corporate world and everyone starts saying it. They want to show that they're team players.
I should have sain infests, not invades, to maximize ideation.
said, not sain
Eduspeak is just as bad. I have come away from parent-teacher conferences wondering what the teacher was trying to tell me, and English is my first language.
ideation sessions...the creative crisis in corporate America...haha.
Have them talk to any of my kids, or any of us here on the blog, we can help! Free during the Christmas season.
In general, "facilitate" instead of "help" and "utilize" instead of "use" are my two pet peeves.
We have a busy weekend upcoming. Friday we have Josh's work holiday party. I hope to reach out to some folks at that event. Saturday we are running a 5K (first race since High school)during which I hope to utilize my legs to their fullest potential. Afterword we will return home and grab a drink, head to the 'sea' wall in our condo development to watch the Boca Christmas Boat Parade float by down the intracoastal. I'm not sure if we'll be able to facilitate arriving on time for the parade. It depends on how well my legs are utilized.
All this I refudiate.
Tom
I'm in agreeance with Tom.
I heard a reporter utilize the nonword monumentous the other day.
Just came back from Jude's Christmas program. It was pretty cool.
You should have recieved an e-mail from from on the Straub Bowl Pick'em Contest. If you didn't and would like to participate, let me know.
Well, our package was mailed today...woohoo! I'm sending it with a 2-4 day delivery...so, it better be there. I could have chosen the 5 day delivery for $50 LESS...but, it wasn't "guaranteed" for 5 days and there are only 8 mailing days b4 Christmas. Thank goodness Joe3 was able to bring some of them back. :-)
Ed, I didn't get it.
Finally made it to the thrift store to look for ugly sweater and couldn't find one ugly enough. There wasn't much selection. I found lots of ugly swetaers, but they weren't Christmas sweaters. I did find $18 worth of stuff I don't need. Will try to get to Goodwill tomorrow.
A cautionary tale for all the husbands this holiday season.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twivg7GkYts&feature=related
Hi. The news director on the Algona radio station likes to announce "the weather factoids."
Dad
From the Palm Beach Post
"At 10 a.m. today, the Town Center Mall in Boca Raton will unveil a vending machine that dispenses gold bullion. That's right: You put in your money or your credit card, and you get wafer-thin gold bars or coins from the machine.
This is apparently a high honor for us.
"Boca is for the rich and famous," said Glen Calder, who is doing public relations for PMX Gold, the Boca Raton company that will operate the machines. "The Town Center Mall is where a lot of people go to spend a lot of money. It's a good fit."'
Pat, Boca is for the rich and famous...I've always thought you look like someone famous.
Get your picks for the college bowl games in! Only one day left!
Pat,
Will that vending machine fit in the back of a pickup?
Happy Birthday to Tom Kennedy and Graham! Have a great day you two!
Monica
Well, Josh's party last night was lots of fun. It was at the "Sundy House" in Delray Beach. I fear it will prove to have slowed down my race tonight.
The night before their first U.S. boutique opened (in the same mall as the gold ATM machine). The featured guest at the reception was the baseball player Randy Johnson, and then just a whole lot of really rich people. Apparently Larry King got a UN watch for his retirement.
Happy Birthday Tom and Graham!
P
Just think, every time the news guy on KLGA says "factoid" Dad laughs, thinking how much he would like to put a pie in that guy's face.
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