What an excellent week!  I won a Royal Caribbean cruise to Mexico and Belize last month for 2008 performance, and I got to say.. it was an absolute blast!  I was spoiled rotten by the customer service on board "Grandeur of the Seas". The food and hospitality were out of this world!

My wife Robin and I did a tour in each city... In Costa Maya, we ( Read more... )

Be on your guard.. you never know when someone might just get ya!

It's been quite a while since I had an entry on the ol' LJ, so I figured today would be as good a day as any to do just that.  To be honest, when there isn't that much going on out of the ordinary, it doesn't seem worth posting about, you know?

I hope everyone out there is doing well and having a happy and prosperous life...  if any of you are on ( Read more... )

After (purposely) not watching any of the previous playoff games involving my Pittsburgh Steelers, I have to come to a conclusion that I maybe shouldn't watch SBXL either... I kind of feel like I will jinx this run that they are on ( Read more... )

Funny... I don't feel any different as the big 4-0 approaches this Tuesday.... I still feel (and sometimes act) like a big kid... and I don't think I plan on making any really drastic changes anytime soon.... I'm taking a much deserved vacation during the course of the upcoming week as well, just to really get a chance to kick back and do the ( Read more... )

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When we all were riding through the woods on Sunday, my horse stumbled upon some hidden barbed wire and freaked out... he was a green horse, needless to say. Unfortunately for me, I could not dislodge from my so-called "breakaway" stirrups, and was drug about eight to ten feet through the same old rusty barbed wire... about three hours,a tetanus ( Read more... )

It is that time of year again... annual meeting in Sin City... these meetings are not bad (hey it IS Vegas after all), but believe it or not, it is getting, well... sort of boring... mostly due to the reason that we are not allowed to venture where we want anymore. Too many knuckleheads ruining it for the rest of us, I guess...anyway, not much sin ( Read more... )

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