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King & I near Annadel...

Just a couple of shots of the King & I from last Sunday:

Point Isabel: A Dog Heaven On Earth

This weekend King got to go to the ultimate dog park. Seriously - It's the best in North America! We took the hour drive over the bay to check out the place the Great Dane Meet Up Group will be visiting next weekend cause we wanted to see the place & how the little King would react to it. I had no idea what we were getting into! We could have spent the whole day there! It's very easy to get to & once you're out of the parking area, it's completely off leash. There were hundreds of dogs there, but it's on 23 acres so it wasn't crowded. The dogs can run free along a path, in tree lined grassy knolls, or even take a dip right in the bay! (That's where all the silly labs were even though it was pretty cold out!) Anyway, here's some pics of King having a grand time running around, making new bestest friends, & then eventually posing for some cute pics with Mommy.













Look for new pics next week after King meets up with about 30 Great Danes!

Let’s Make a Band:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.
(you might have to click new random quotes at the bottom)

3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

You then take the pic and add your band name
and the album title to it, then post your pic.



Thanks Amy - thanks was kinda fun!

Pics of the puppy King...

My friend Sofia's dog Niobe is ill right now in Washington with Parvo. While keeping them in my prayers, here's some current pics of the (thankfully) healthy bouncy baby boy...

King already outgrowing his couch:


King playing with his toy (He LOVES stuffed animals, the bigger the better!):


King outside & dying for someone to come play ball with him:


King posing with Santa, who he kinda wanted to eat cause he's dressed in a fur suit (not unlike all his favorite toys!):


King under the Christmas tree lights:


My roommate Kenny getting King to do some tricks:


Alyssa taking King for a spin on her birthday:


More pics soon I promise - I'm getting the New Years Disneyland pics all sorted through...

Nick Swisher Traded to the White Sox... :-(

Yep it's true. For 3 Triple A-er's no less. At least one of the new kids sounds promising & is fairly cute too! Meet Ryan Sweeney folks...
Let's just pray they have game, & more importantly - heart!
The full article is here...

As you can imagine, I'm sorely disappointed. I think Swish is too:

Former Yankee Arrested For Vehicular Homicide

Jim Leyritz has been arrested in Broward County, Florida after a crash early his morning. Apparently his drunk ass was driving a Ford SUV & he hit another car, killing a girl inside (unclear still as to whether she was the driver or passenger.)

You probably remember him for his typical Yankeeness in the 90's & for breaking Braves Fans hearts in the '96 series with a dinger.




Check out ESPN for the details...

Graduation Day!

King graduated from intermediate Puppy School Saturday! It's the 2nd of 4 classes he'll hopefully be mastering & this one was much more intense than beginning puppy. But it also had an agility element to it too so he thought that was pretty fun! He loves going through the tunnel!



The hula hoop he's supposed to jump through was too small for him so they found a big tubey-tire thing for him instead:


Then there's a slalom type pole set up that he gets to step through. He does it fine, actually kinda of strangely. He steps over each pole on the ground like he's a horse going through a minefield! It looks so silly - but totally cute!


Here he is all ready for his graduation pics, & bored, bored, bored now that we wouldn't let him go play more!


So very proud!

Kissin' Cousins...

King's cousin Maggie is visiting with us for a few weeks & she couldn't possibly be any cuter without actually being King!


For the most part, King is oblivious of her...


...unless she moves at all-then it's play time for them both! They do get along fairly well though, except there seems to be some confusion as to who exactly the loveseat belongs to.


Oh & did I mention that Tigger is totally ticked off?


Decorating for Christmas has been rather interesting this year!

Amazing Christmas Light Displays...

I'm sure you've all seen the fantastic rendition of the Trans Siberian Orchestra's light show than began circling the world a couple of years ago. I did a quick search & found a few more that caught my eye so I'll post them here for your enjoyment. There's some amazing talent out there... Even a kind of interesting on set to the Grease Soundtrack all the way from Down Under!

The Original from Carson William's in Mason, Ohio:


Carson William's 3rd year:


An updated version from Texas:


Carol of the Bells in Tompkinsville, Kentucky:


The Grease one from Australia:


A cool one with The Brian Setzer Orchestra - Angels We Have Heard On High:


This one has an almost Disneyesque feel to it:

Hey - Where's The Sports Talk?

I know I've been slacking - life does that sometimes & I'm not getting paid as well as most major leaguers for producing at only 30% like they do. I'm not getting paid at all come to think of it, so stop with the nagging emails about how "so much is happening in the sports world & I haven't weighed in on anything" Jeez!

I still don't have time to address everything, but here's what I shot out earlier when an old baseball buddy mentioned in an email that "Barry Bonds is toast":

Barry is beyond toast. He's toast crumbs. If this case goes forward, he'll either be found guilty & go to jail for a long time, or a short time & either way, will be suspended forever by the league when that's over. He'll never play again (unless he makes a Longest Yard-The Baseball Version situation in the pen) which is fortunate, because I can only take so much hate in this sport I love, & I'm completely consumed with hating A-Fraud right now. Barry Bonds doesn't even exist to me.

Of course, if I'm honest, he never really did. I only tried to be a decent Giants fan for friends who liked them - but deep down, I always, always, always knew it would come to this extreme with Bonds. The G's are lucky to have cut their ties with him just in time. Makes me wonder if the Mitchell Report got leaked to them a bit early so they would have time to put some substantial space between them.

I think Frisco has a real chance to make something of themselves now & I truly hope this could be Barry Zito's banner year (although I'm fairly sure that won't come til 2009 at the earliest.) But think about it: What better way is there to flip Bonds the bird than to win it all & rub that ring right in his face?

Bitter? Moi? :-) Not too bad as far as these things go. I'm more upset about Super Marco getting traded from my A's more than anything else. Although our AAA mounds needed attention & this will open up a nice spot for Donnie Murphy.

I swear I can remember being at at least 15 games where Scutaro knocked out a walk-off game clincher, including 1 I wrote about here, but his stats show he only did it 9 times in his career here. I guess I'll have to wait & see how it all works out. I just have this nagging suspicion that Marco won't be as lauded in Canada. He barely makes Ingles words okay, how's he supposed to pull off French!?!

Very Tall Dog Meets Very Small Dog

Doggy news: The world's tallest pooch meets the smallest. (From J-Walk!)

Despite their radical difference in size, these two dogs have something in common - Gibson the Great Dane and Boo Boo the toy Chihuahua are both world record holders.

Measuring a whopping 107cm, gentle giant Gibson was named tallest dog back in 2004. Joining him in the hall of fame for 2007 is tiny Boo Boo who only measures 10.16cm tall and is smaller than Gibson's head.

New Mime(d) Song!

Perhaps you remember the mimed version of Torn?

He does this one even better! Enjoy!



In case you missed Torn - Enjoy that one on me too!

The coolest "online catalog" you've seen

· It takes a few moments to load

· It’s in a language that’s not English

· It’s worth the wait…..

Check it out… whatever it is.

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This Is Pretty Much What My Darling Tigger Does To Me Every Morning...

Here's the innocent little angel...


& here's just another funny kitty video - he's trying to catch fish that are trapped under ice...

Pics from Vacation!

Saw this on 101 on the way to Universal Studios & thought it was pretty fantastic:


Then this was way cool in the CityWalk (kinda of a Downtown Disney outdoor mall place):


This is looking over the lots inside Universal Studio:


Their tour includes some cool (& some dated) special effects demonstrations:




They were working on Ghost Whisperer & Desperate Housewives during the tour:



Playing with shadows:



They totally wanted to put me in a new show:




Had to say hiya to Wildwing:


I'll try to get some more up soon so be patient people! :-)