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Finer things in life

If you happen to be looking for a fine piece of art or would like to commission an artist for that once in a life time family protrate, I would like to reccomend our friend Angel. She is doing some fantastic work as you can see here with this pic. Please check out her website and if you get the itch, throw her a bone.

Man's body pulled from water at Naval Station Norfolk

A man's body was found in the water near Pier 3-T at Naval Station Norfolk on Tuesday morning. Public Affairs Officer Terri Davis said the crew of N.S.S.C. Spruce barge saw the body and called base police. They pulled the body from the water and brought it to the pier, where it was then taken to the Norfolk Medical Examiner's office. Davis said the man, an African-American, was not wearing a U.S. Navy uniform. "We are looking at all possibilities," Davis said. "It's a matter right now of try to find out who he is." An autopsy will be done to determine how he died.

This is almost Hogan’ Alley..than again this is what we do to the “Meat Gazers” however it is better to chuck the remains over the side at about 600 miles off shore, not 600 yards! Just kidding..

Taco one Taco all

Did I ever tell you about my friends from Germany Al and Angel Zehnder?

Hey did I ever tell you how I sat on a blog entry for better then a month before submitting it for Crackerz review? Well here I am and it is better then a month since the last Taco night of which many of you were in attendance. Thank you for coming and a special thank you to Al and Angel for making the trek up from Ft. Bragg. Well they came up a night early, had some pizza and Cogan’s in Ghent. I showed them my home here aboard the IKE and of course Al and Angel helped out tremendously with the cooking and preps. The dynamic duo even made a great cheese and guava paste whores de overs / tapas which will have to be replicated in the future. Good luck friends on your adventure across this great nation of ours to your new home at Sunny Ft. Lewis! See ya next spring for a little skiing action.

The party was a good time, once again all the usual suspects were in attendance and much food was consumed. I think I might even have a little leftover taco meat in the freezer that I might dive into this afternoon for lunch.

With respect to the usual suspects, Crackerz had a few of her “new” friends show up from her “new” job. I think they were delightfully impressed by the caliber of people Crackerz and Nutz keep in acquaintance. I am always impressed at their inability to post comments to this site. I am especially unimpressed that I have not been harassed about the upkeep of this site over the past month!! Anyhow I will continue to enlighten you all with my witty humor and outlandish ways.

Thanks all for coming to Taco night. Up coming events include the “White Trash” / Second annual pig pickin! So pull out your strap on mullets and wife beaters and make plans to join in the fun!

BTW the last taco night was April 8^th! And yes I lost money in the “Scotty” pool!

NOTE: Crackerz had to edit this posting...Nutz had the wrong date of the last taco night.

Crackerz blows into and out of the Windy City

View from the Signature Room on the 95th Floor of the Hancock Building








Yep, me and one of the blue guys.














I had no idea how much I used my hands when I talked.

Nutz and Crackerz at the tavern.

Ok, so I am a little behind in the writing on the blog, what can I tell ya? I can tell ya I am back out on the boat for a couple of weeks, hopefully coming back to sunny Norfolk some time in May. Anyhow we did go to the Windy City for a little work and a lot of pleasure. Crackerz had a presentation to give at a national educator conference and I of course tagged along to see the sites and be Crackerz S.B. Slide Boy or in army terms Slide %itch! She preferred to call me the latter vice the former. Well we had a good time but I think I already mentioned that. I tried my hardest to surprise her with tickets to see Blue Man Group however she is just too darn nosey! We did go and see it, all dressed up and on the “L” to the theater. Surprisingly the theater was not in downtown near our hotel, which incidentally was right across the street from the high rise apartment on the Chicago River that George Jetson and his son Elroy live in. Was that a run on sentence?

I am like on day three of writing up this little news flash of our adventures. I Should have done it on the plane but was too excited to read my Savage Nation book that I bought in Chi town.. Good read and I am only half way through.. So this entry will be a tad late. Maybe Crackerz will be able to go into the blog and see how to back date it to make it an accurate listing of our history.

Back to the whole Blue Man Group thing, the train dropped us off where immediately my GAYDAR went into hyper active mode. Boyztown as it was referred to by the strong back at the Martini bar we indulged in after the show. The martinis were so good I had to carry Crackerz home like a 20 pack of Schlitz light. We actually did make it home after a stop at Ditka for a $180 dinner.. Seems like all the evening meals in Chi town were more then $100 bones.. They were good and the company I was with could not have been better so I guess it was worth it.

We also went to the Adler Planetarium and wandered the streets of Chicago. Did not see a whole lot of interesting things however Chicago is a growing and bustling city. I would live there if a job opened up.

We had great time and are ready to go back anytime Crackerz has a presentation to give. She did a good job by the way, you should see her in action if you ever get the opportunity. A professional woman, who of course I am happy to call my wife. (that should get me some brownie points)

Dont buy this on Ebay

This $1.2 Million sea side home is now ashes!!! See the pictures in a previous posting.

This is fun!

This is great – you gotta try it.

1- Go to www.google.com
2- Type in "french military victories", without the quotes.
3- Instead of hitting "Search" hit "I'm feeling Lucky"

Here is something to chew on!

Ok, will it be Puerto Rico or Canada?

The 51st State!

Otters in O.V.

Now who says you dont see it all here in Ocean View? Anyhow my pretty wife an I were out enjoying a sunset stroll along the beach, a semi normal thing for us to do when low and behold a creature reared its head from the sea! I said crackerz, that looks like a creature from the sea! She said you are nutz.. it is an Otter! I said you are nutz... However, Crackerz was right, it was an otter, an unusual sighting of river otters in the bay! River Otters are rare but not unheard of. Check the National Geographic link..

Nutz beats the wire!

Yep, more fun in Ocean View!! I almost beat the chopper 10 however I wanted to take a shower before I posted... so as chopper 10 once again orbits over the house while Crackerz and I enjoy a cup of joe, some early speculation: 1. The house has been under construction ever since we have been here? A very large, nice home on the water. Put 2 and 2 together.
Looks like it was 4-5 alarm fire..
More news at 5pm

Check out what the news wire said about our little flame up!

Crackerz Hometown -- Fires Threaten Homes, Residents Evacuated

Last night I received a phone call from my brother Wayne. He had just been interviewed by a television station from Tampa (about 2 hours from Sebring) about the fires that are burning near his home. To read more about the fires click here.

English Assignment Gone Bad!

Here's a prime example of "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" offered by an English professor from the University of Phoenix: The professor told his class one day: "Today we will experiment with a new form called the tandem story. The process is simple. Each person will pair off with the person sitting to his or her immediate right. As homework tonight, one of you will write the first paragraph of a short story. You will e-mail your partner that paragraph, sending a copy to me. The partner will read the first paragraph and then add another paragraph to the story and send it back, copying me, and so on until the story is concluded."

The following was actually turned in by two of his English students: Rebecca and Gary.

(first paragraph by Rebecca) At first, Laurie couldn't decide which kind of tea she wanted. The chamomile, which used to be her favorite for lazy evenings at home, now reminded her too much of Carl, who once said, in happier times, that he liked chamomile. But she felt she must now, at all costs, keep her mind off Carl. His possessiveness was suffocating, and if she thought about him too much her asthma started acting up again. So chamomile was out of the question.

(second paragraph by Gary) Meanwhile, Advance Sergeant Carl Harris, leader of the attack squadron now in orbit over Skylon 4, had more important things to think about than the neuroses of an air-headed asthmatic bimbo named Laurie with whom he had spent one sweaty night over a year ago. "A.S. Harris to Geostation 17," he said into his transgalactic communicator. "Polar orbit established. No sign of resistance so far..." But before he could sign off a bluish particle beam flashed out of nowhere and blasted a hole through his ship's cargo bay. The jolt from the direct hit sent him flying out of his seat and across the cockpit.

(Rebecca) He bumped his head and died almost immediately, but not before he felt one last pang of regret for psychically brutalizing the one woman who had ever had feelings for him. Soon afterwards, Earth stopped its pointless hostilities towards the peaceful farmers of Skylon 4. "Congress Passes Law Permanently Abolishing War and Space Travel," Laurie read in her newspaper one morning. The news simultaneously excited her and bored her. She stared out the window, dreaming of her youth, when the days had passed unhurriedly and carefree, with no newspaper to read, no television to distract her from her sense of innocent wonder at all the beautiful things around her. "Why must one lose one's innocence to become a woman?" she pondered wistfully.

(Gary ) Little did she know, but she had less than 10 seconds to live. Thousands of miles above the city, the Anu'udrian mothership launched the first of its lithium fusion missiles. The dimwitted wimpy peaceniks who pushed the Unilateral Aerospace disarmament Treaty through the congress had left Earth a defenseless target for the hostile alien empires who were determined to destroy the human race. Within two hours after the passage of the treaty the Anu'udrian ships were on course for Earth, carrying enough firepower to pulverize the entire planet. With no one to stop them, they swiftly initiated their diabolical plan. The lithium fusion missile entered the atmosphere unimpeded. The President, in his top-secret mobile submarine headquarters on the ocean floor off the coast of Guam, felt the inconceivably massive explosion, which vaporized poor, stupid Laurie.

(Rebecca) This is absurd. I refuse to continue this mockery of literature. My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic semiliterate adolescent.

(Gary) Yeah? Well, my writing partner is a self-centered tedious neurotic whose attempts at writing are the literary equivalent of Valium. "Oh, shall I have chamomile tea? Or shall I have some other sort of F--KING TEA??? Oh what am I to do? I'm just an air headed bimbo who reads too many Danielle Steele novels!"

(Rebecca) Asshole.

(Gary) Bitch

(Rebecca) F__K YOU - YOU NEANDERTHAL!

(Gary) Go drink some tea -- whore.

(Teacher) A+ - I really liked this one.

What would you choose?

Celebrity Death Watch

Have you ever noticed that when celebrities kick the bucket, they go in threes? Dont believe me, look at this, in the last week or so, Dana Revees (ok not really a celebrity supermans wife) Don Knots, and Slobidan Milosivek, all have kicked the bucket and gone on to hinterlands. So next time you hear about a celeb croaking, start droppin money as to who the next two will be!

Isn't Technology Great?

Over the weekend, my mother sent me an email with this picture (my 5-year old nephew did this on the computer) attached. In the body of the email, he typed (all by himself) his home phone number. How smart! I'd say he's ready for kindergarten.