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Westward Ho!

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Come this time next week, I’ll be preparing for a flight to Los Angeles on my yearly sojourn out of the Humidity of Tampa Bay and into smog (and drier, cooler temperatures) of LA.
Yet I’m curious about a few things — and would love some input…
For example, for those of you who have been to [...]

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What’s the deal with Sprawlparks?

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

For a couple of years, there has been an ongoing story in northern Pinellas County about the need for additional playing fields for local youth sports. Every plan takes a huge tract of land and creates multiple fields at one location. Thus the term “sprawlpark.”
Heck, look at the city of Oldsmar’s [...]

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Stimulating an inferiority complex

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

I’ve got a friend who likes to highlight his frustrations and sometimes show off a perpetual defeatist attitude: One where he goes into a situation worried and “a wreck” and comes out worse off with no confidence at all. Usually these are either social situations where he’s trying to make inroads with a [...]

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what to do, what to do (ongoing)

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

So here I am, writing a blog post from my Blackberry and wondering about jumping to Verizon for the Curve, or waiting for the Blackberry Storm, or maybe something else.
Renewing with T-Mobile won’t happen due to poor Customer Service and other woes (MMS - picture - message support has been suspect at best) and [...]

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Speculation on something unimportant

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Has this:

Been inspired by this:

Gotta wonder but I have my doubts… Just cuz it’s The Beatles we’re talking about. And even IF they did announce at tomorrow’s event, it’s not like fans haven’t bought the CD’s or ripped MP3’s of songs from the Fab 4 they really want… Meaning unless there is [...]

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48 hours of Metroid update

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Just a little update regarding those crazy college kids who are playing Metroid to raise money for Child’s Play: After 24 hours of play, they have earned $366 dollars. Their goal is $500.
It’s kids being kids for the kids. Stop by the site and help’em out by donating.

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It’s childs play — 48 hours of it

Friday, September 5th, 2008

48 Hour marathon of Metroid… 48 hours of video gaming and why? For what?
A couple of locals are trying to raise money through this marathon session of video gaming for Childs Play — which is a great charity in itself.
Yes, there are other ways to raise money for a [...]

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What to do, what to do (ongoing)

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

So I was all but settled on a Curve a few days ago — T-mobile was charging $149.99 for new signups to buy the device and I figured it would be gravy to go out and get the Curve at one point or another in the very near future.
Then this weekend happened and Tmobile decided [...]

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This Bitter Month

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Boring weekend with too much downtime and the end result is me posting a poem I meant to keep private. Yeah, Kate, you can get on my ass for being a morose m’fer (as you did last time ) but I thought this was good even if it was muy triste.

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