Super Bowl Sunday, 2007
With no snow covering the grass until today, here is the neighborhood Saturday morning from the back bedroom.
The view from my window now, where I sit at my computer and play with Best emails.
The plowing company finally has work to do !
Thanks Don and Claudia for sending me this.
After returning from two weeks where Mary spent her Navy days,
we have renewed awareness of how great the 150,000 of us 300,000,000
= 0.0005 = half of a 10th of a percent of us Americans are.
And especially the 3,000 = 0.000001 of us
= the 1 in 100,000 of us who gave their lives
in Iraq so that we can stand against violent terrorism.
http://www.flashdemo.net/gallery/wake/index.htm
Hubble telescope’s top ten greatest space photographs
The
Sombrero Galaxy – 28
million light years from Earth –
was voted best picture taken by the Hubble telescope.
The dimensions of the galaxy, officially called M104, are as spectacular as its
appearance. It has 800 billion suns and is 50,000 light years across.
The Ant
Nebula, a cloud of dust and gas whose technical name is Mz3, resembles an ant
when observed using ground-based telescopes.
The nebula lies within our galaxy between 3,000 and 6,000 light years from
Earth.
In third
place is Nebula NGC 2392, called Eskimo because it looks like a face surrounded
by a furry hood.
The hood is, in fact,
a ring of comet-shaped objects flying away from a dying star. Eskimo is 5,000
light years from Earth.
Etc. Possibly not computer generated?
On the road
Greg, this isn't your new sound system is it?
Forgot something?
Service
call of the month from a Baltimore Gas & Electric residential customer...
BGE received a call from a customer saying: "My power is out.
When you come to fix it be sure to bring a truck with a tall enough bucket to
remove the deer."
The customer service rep prudently trying to gather information to help diagnose
the problem asked, "What deer?"
The customer replied "There is a deer on top of one of the electric poles on
Wilkes Rd about 1/2 mile west of Perimeter Rd."
The customer service rep tried desperately to pull herself together and not
laugh in front of the customer and replied" We'll dispatch someone right away to
investigate the power outage. Thank you for the call."
Upon completion of the call, the customer service rep proceeded to share the
funny story with her coworkers in the office and they all had a good laugh.
Well, lo and behold, the serviceman who repaired the problem stopped by the
customer service office the following day with these pictures.
Sure
enough, the deer had been hit by a train
and landed on top of a distribution feeder pole!
Unbelievable!!
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Chris Palmer hired as Giants quarterbacks coach
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - Former Cleveland
Browns coach Chris Palmer was hired as quarterbacks coach of the
New York
Giants, taking over the job of making
Eli Manning a more consistent player.
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I recall when Franny and Chris installed plumbing for the houses where Jim, Dad and I did the carpentry.
Lou took over after Chris discovered the advantages of being an NFL coach over being a plumber's assistant to your dad.
5 minute Cartoon
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x13q87_speedy-gonzales
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