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Casey and Michelle's Wedding

Yikes! It’s been a few weeks since my trip up to Rochester, NY. Another year, and another wedding. I think this will be the last one for awhile. I won’t know what to do with myself next Sept/Oct. Any how I’ve posted all the photos in the gallery. It was a very nice wedding, held outdoors at the Burgundy Basin Inn. The reception was also right there, where they had an excellent dinner buffet setup.

Something else I discovered, in a most unpleasant way…My driver’s license is revoked in the state of NY. So we were heading home from my brother’s bachelor party, It was just myself and my step dad, Jim. I was driving as Jim had a few more drinks than me. I was less than a mile from my parent’s house when I noticed a cop sitting on the opposite side of the road. This is an area that I’m very familiar with, and I know the police there are dicks. Well, I was guilty of tapping my brakes, which to them makes me a suspect of anything. Of course he pulls out, follows me few a few seconds and puts his lights on. So I decided to pull into a shopping plaza that was only about 100 yards up the road, instead of stopping in the middle of the road, there was no shoulder at the spot where he signaled me, and it was only a two lane road. When the cop gets out, I decide to do everything the way they say you should to not piss off the office, I shut the car off, put my hands on the steering wheel and tried to be very polite and respectful. He walks up and lays into me about not stopping the instant he put his signal on. I tried to explain in a calm, cool manner that I didn’t think there was any harm in pulling into the plaza to get out of the way of traffic (not that there was any at 2am). It didn’t matter to him. So he asks for license and registration. I asked him for permission to reach for my wallet, to get my license, while Jim was shuffling through the glove box for the registration. He takes the information back to his car, while we sat for about 3 minutes before at least two more police cars came up on us with there lights shining. You’d think that we were some escaped convicts or something with that many police. I guess the doughnut shop was closed. When the officer returned, he asked me if I knew that my license was suspended. I told him no. He explained to me that it was suspended in 1993 for lack of insurance. Well, I moved to Florida in 1993. Nobody ever told me that when you move to another state and get registered in that state, that you have to return the license plates back to the state of NY, or else they expect you to have NY State auto insurance. Anyhow, the officer told us that I could not drive, I thought it might help our situation if I explained that I was the designated driver and we were less than 2 minutes from our house. That didn’t matter to him, he said unless someone comes to get us, we’re going to have to have him take us home. Well, since it was about 2am, and my mom’s car was in the shop, and the officer wouldn’t let us walk home, we had no choice but to have him take us home. It was a bad experience, I didn’t enjoy that one bit. Oh, and tot top it off, the officer said that in order for me to resolve this issue, I would need to pay a fine of $4/day from the time my insurance lapsed. Well that’s about $19000. No thanks, I’ll just hire a limo each time I go to NY state.

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This is a good home video from a couple that lives about 500 Yards from the north tower. It’s the first time this video has ever been publicly released. I call this a tradegy instead of an attack, as I firmly believe that the WTC was a planned demolition. If you’ve never seen the film Loose Change, I urge you to check it out!

Yikes! I’ve abandoned my web site for the last four months. I guess I should try to get into posting more often. I’ve been making some changes to the format of the site over the past few days. I’m basically trying to make the layout more friendly to use and make it easier for me to organize things.

Anyway, things have been kinda slow at work. We finally got our web site online. Hey, it’s a trucking/warehousing company, since they don’t really do business on the web, it doesn’t need to be very fancy. Some day I’ll make it so customers can log-in and enter and check their orders.

I’ll be taking vacation at the end of September to go up to New York for my little brother’s wedding. Hopefully before I go to that, I’ll have a nice gallery page setup so I can post some of the pics as soon as I can. Anyhow I’ve been working out practically everyday to get into shape for the tuxedo fitting. Ever since the day that someone at work called me “fat”, I’ve been pretty obsessed with getting back into shape. I’ve got so much workout equipment, there’s no excuse for me not to be in better shape.

When I’m not working out, I’m sitting in front of our new boob-tube. Check it out here.

Oh well, enough rambling for now… Maybe someday I can get Mandie to post….

It’s been awhile since I last posted anything here. It’s not that I’ve abandoned my web project. I’ve just been working on the layout of the site. As you’ll notice, the photo gallery looks more “built-in” to the rest of the site. I still have a lot of work to do on it though to make it look the way I imagine it in my head.

One thing I can say…Internet Explorer is horrible. I do all my web browsing with Firefox and this site looks (nearly) perfect. For the heck of it the other night I decided to check it out in Internet Explorer and I wanted to gag. Things just don’t line up like they are supposed to. I guess someday I’ll have to have the site detect which browser your using, and reformat the pages differently for each browser. I’m sure by the time I get around to that, Microsoft will have released an update to Internet Explorer. In the mean time, I highly recommend using Firefox for browsing the web. It’s safer too!

Smokin!

It’s been quite awhile since I last posted anything. Between work, my brother’s wedding, and our wedding coming up, I’ve been too busy to post. A couple weeks ago we flew to Rochester, NY for my brother’s wedding. Since I was one of the groomsman, I got to wear the rental tux! We just purchased a video camera, so the digital camera didn’t get used all that much, which is fine, as everyone else now has digital cameras. So maybe we’ll get to see some of the pictures from everyone elses cameras. I still need to figure out how to transfer the video to the computer to edit and make something nice out of it. We wanted to get it for our wedding coming up here in November.

While at the wedding I managed to reinjure what I just found out is a torn meniscus in my knee. I’m trying to schedule an MRI now for the doctor to look at before he operates on it. We are trying to get it done ASAP so that I can heal before our wedding and honeymoon.