I'm OK and feel good!

I want to give a heart felt condolences to M for her loss. I'm truly sorry.
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OK OK - I have to give credit where credit is due. The EARLY Halloween in Columbus was a smashing success. It was just CRAZY yesterday with people showing up at our door. I have to think it was the most trick or treaters EVER that I have seen in my ENTIRE LIFE.

Luckily I had enough "non-trick waiver forms" for them to sign before I gave them any candy or else there might have been a bottle neck at our house.

So whoever decided to have Halloween early - well done.

I have heard that Thanksgiving will be Tuesday November 17th this year in Columbus so plan accordingly. The City Council will be voting on the Christmas date tomorrow at the open meeting so maybe people should show up. I'm pushing for Monday December 18th as it is farther away from my birthday . . . no more saving a Christmas present for my birthday.
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Sorry - I don't mean to be so loquacious, although at times I can be loquaciousticically challenged.
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Hey - fun day on football. I won't say what happened because I know many of you TiVo all the football games for later viewing.

I can talk about Survivor and as you all know "I" was suppose to be on Survivor (if I would have sent in my application and IF they would have picked me) but my place was taken by "Good Russell" and as you all know Good Russell came real real close to actually dieing.

In an interview he said he never FELT bad but obviously when you pass out multiple times and your heart rate goes from 95 to 60 in 3 seconds you are in bad shape.

I mention this just to let you know that even though I was living my life through HIM - I'm OK. I also survived and actually fared much better then Russell. Personally I feel a little cheated with my Survivor Experience as his body let me down! But the stories I will be able to tell once I think of some will be awesome.
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Congratulations to the Columbus Marching Cards who took 2nd place in Class "A" in the WSAM State Marching Competition.





I see "WHO'S" once again had to payoff somebody just to get his picture in the paper. That is just so so sad!


Here is today's -

WHERE IS THIS IN COLUMBUS!

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I've never heard of a sand animators before. When Kseniya Simonova's business went belly up in the Ukraine because of the credit crunch she took up sand animating (something I have never even considered doing). She had been doing this for less then a year and entered "Ukraine's Got Talent" (I don't know why that seems funny) . . AND WON beating put some of the best comics in the Ukraine with pee your pants jokes such as:

I handed the conductor 50 kopeks on the Ternopil trolley. She took it and turned away. "Where's my change?" I said. "Haven't got any," she said. "You'll have to ride two more stops."

and

An Ukrainian immigrant goes to the Department of Motor Vehicles to apply for a driver's license. He has to take an eye test. The clerk shows him a card with the letters:

C Z W I X N O S T A C Z

"Can you read this?" the clerk asks.

Read it?" the Ukrainian replies, "I know the guy."

BA BOOM!

Anyway - if you have 8 minutes you really should check this out. I sort of blew it off but then out of boredom watched it and it's pretty good. If you have sound it helps but it's not totally necessary. The Sand animation portrays life during USSR's Great Patriotic War against the Third Reich in World War II. (I would have opted to the 1982 World Series between the Brewers and the Cards but that is just me). Kseniya won 1,000,000 Hryvnia's for the contest.





A Russian wanting bread waited in a queue for so long that he announced that he was leaving and was going to kill Gorbachev. After a while, he showed up again. When asked if he had killed Gorbachev, he replied, "No, the wait in that line was much longer than here."

Interesting - that is a Metallica song near the 7 minute mark! I keep seeing more and more things the more times I watch this - what talent amazing.

this joke was actually told by Gorbachev to President Bush and Barbara Bush on one of their visits.

Имейте чудесный день

Rod