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Christmas 2010-A Good One

January 3, 2011March 23, 2012 John Christmas, Food, Gifts, Peace, pictures, Video

Well, Christmas 2010 has come and gone. Nothing left to do but pack up the decorations. I’d have to rate it as a pretty good Christmas. I think I managed to stick to a fairly tight budget, and despite a few arguments with Lay, we wound up with everyone getting something they really enjoyed. I got my shopping and gift wrapping done well ahead of time this year. The decorations were up right after Thanksgiving, and the Christmas Cards went out just after that, so I never felt rushed or hectic.

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Giant Bubbles

September 15, 2010September 15, 2010 John Bubbles, Labor Day, Pool, Swimming

Pictures of Lay’s family over for the Labor Day weekend. We had loads of fun swimming, and making giant bubbles out of a soap solution. Bubbles are a favorite thing with the nieces, and giant bubbles just secured my place as favorite uncle for a while longer.

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More in the Having a Bad Day Series

March 9, 2010 John DOA, Gunshot, Heart Attack, jail, Largo Hospital

You’ll recall a brief post last week about a guy who got hit by a car, which knocked him in front a bus, which hit him. Well, we have a guy run over by a Suburban after he left the cardiac unit of a hospital to go smoke a cigarette, and another guy who got shot and killed the day after he got out of jail.

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An Explosion of Crazy

November 12, 2009November 13, 2009 John Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, Greek Orthodox, Jasen Bruce, Joshua Basso, Marine Reservist, Priest, Terrorism, Terrorist, Tire Iron

We’ve got crazies coming out of the woodwork. In Tampa we have a guy calling 911 for phone sex, and another guy taking a tire iron to a Greek Orthodox Priest (because we all know how easy it is to mistake them for Arab Terrorists), and a “Christian” group wanting to try to incite people to gay bash so they can become martyrs charged under the revised hate crimes law. WWJW

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Partying at a Naturalization Ceremony

November 1, 2009November 3, 2009 John Citizenship, Citizenship and Inetegration Services, Department of Homeland Security, government, ICE, Naturalization, Naturalization Ceremony, Swearing-in, USCIS

Some of you will know that Lay’s been through a two and one-half year experience trying to get naturalized. Of course he had permanent status, and has lived here since he was 2 years old. In fact, he’s never been back ot Laos. So it was past time to go ahead and get this over with, but little did we know what an ordeal it would be. Then, I came away from the Naturalization Ceremony profoundly concerned about the complete lack of competence in how even the ceremony was conducted.

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