The 21 Century!

So far...it has not been a day at the beach!

The Good!

• 30th & 35th wedding anniversaries!
• Two new son-in-laws
• 1st grandchild (prompted me to start this blog)
• 2nd grandchild on the way. Romell will be a big brother!
  UPDATE:   Unfortunately...it was not meant to be!
• Barack Hussein Obama! I never thought I'd live to see that day.

The Bad:

• Y2K
• dangling chads
• George Bush - you knowingly lied to us!
• Weapons of mass destruction...NOT!
• Mission accomplished??? Not!
• A 2nd term...you gotta be kidding me!
• Dick Cheney - see Bush
• Donald Rumsfield - see Cheney
• John McCain...you introduced Sarah Palin to the world!
  
• Sarah Palin
• Mitch McConnell
• Mahmoud Ahmaddinejad
• Michele Bachmann
• The US Defense budget - exceeds the total of the next 20 largest defense budgets worldwide
• The Great Recession
• The Birthers
• The Teabaggers
  
• losing 4 jobs in 4 years!
• short sale on Florida condo - ouch!
• The value of my 401K

The Ugly:

• September 11th, 2001
• Osama Bin Laden
• Iraq War
• Katrina - "You're doing a heckuva job Brownie"!
• The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
• Al Qaeda
• The Haitian Earthquake
  
• H-pylori lymphoma (stomach cancer) - I survived!
• Nephrectomy - a tumor...so they took one of my kidneys.

I'm sure I'll think of others. Like I said, goodbye and good riddance!

Rest in Peace

It snowed yesterday!

First snowfall of the season and it was a beauty...a blizzard!   20+ inches in Central Park.   The 6th highest snowfall in New York City.   Had this happened on Xmas day...it would have really screwed up the plans!

The Front Door Wreath!



Down the Street:


A block away:

paulitics?

Been having a lot of political discussion around the house lately.   My daughter and son-in-law (visiting from Munich) suggested that I rename this blog to PAULITICS!

Boxing Day!

Post December 25th.   It was awesome.   Family, friends and good times!   But today...I learned that a new box will be delivered on August 22nd 2011.   Stay tuned!

Triple hitter!

• Repealed DADT!
• Dealt with Russia!
• Embraced the 9/11 respondents!

They're already calling him the "Comeback Kid"!

AWESOME!

Dear Terry

Happy Birthday kiddo!   You are/were special...and you are surely missed!

Imagine Again & Again!

I watched several newscasts tonight...and heard all the tributes to John Lennon.   Its been 30 years!   Chris Matthews,   of MSNBC news,   said that if you listened to Lennon's "Imagine"...you knew he was anti-war.   "Give Peace a Chance"   was definitely anti-war...but   "Imagine" was much more than that!   "No heaven or hell below us"!   Just Imagine!