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By now, all of you know that the Miami trip did not go as planned. When we arrived at our hotel, we were notified that the conference had been postponed and that we wouldn't get a refund. While we are working to get our money back, who knows what these clowns will say next. After we heard the news and the yelling and blaming ended, the trip turned out to be pretty nice. We enjoyed the warm waters of the Atlantic and some fun Miami surroundings. However, the place is like a stinking sauna and the bugs are HUGE!



On a side note: I figured out how to email myself pictures from my camera phone so picture taking should be a little more frequent albeit not as good quality. Overall the trip was enjoyable. However, if someone were to outline the exact course of events before I committed to the trip and money, I probably would have passed.

Last night, we went to dinner and a movie with Bryan and Colleen to celebrate Bryan's 22nd birthday. We went to Olive Garden where the food is always consistent. We have this long standing tradition (4 years) where we try to see a scary movie for Bryan's birthday since it is so close to Halloween. The past 3 years have been Ghost Ship (as horrible as its tagline),Texas Chainsaw Massacre (freaky)and The Grudge (weak plot, freaky visuals. Do not watch if you question whether or not you house is haunted). This year has been lacking in scary movies and because Bryan had already seen The Fog, we saw Stay. While I wouldn't classify this as a scary movie, it was a very interesting suspense thriller type that I could never summarize because I am not sure I understand what the heck happened. It was entertaining nevertheless.

I really want to have a fun Halloween this year. I want it to be full of costumes, parties, pumpkin carving, scary movies and trick or treaters. What costume should I get?

~sag

fantastic

Wilma Models Show Sharp Bend Toward Florida

Just my luck.

Stallone sets stage for "Rocky" comeback film

Completely unrelated yet a very bad idea:

~sag

the plight of being a mets fan

The last few baseball seasons have been very interesting. I noticed today that I have been more excited during the off-season than during the actual season. Maybe that is because the Mets haven't been contending and in their market I always know that there will be some dramatic and newsworthy off-season moves. The season playoffs haven't even ended and I find myself already looking at rumors about what the Mets will do to improve their team. I can't wait until next year when I will hopefully have some more time to actually watch baseball and maybe even see a game in person, something I haven't done since being in college. On a semi-related note, congratulations to Bobby Valentine (former manager of the Mets) for making it to the Japan series. I'll take whatever former Met glory I can get. Hey, Benny Agbayani is on that team too. Some of you may remember him.

Some people from my work and I competed in a whiffle ball tournament Saturday. There wasn't much preparation or organization but Rebecca from my work decided to make everyone matching shirts with green stenciled frogs hopping around. It was a little embarrassing but it spawned a pretty clever team name: the Underfrogs. Anyway, we did a lot better than we expected for a group that doesn't play whiffle ball all that much. We won our first game 29-5. Our second game was against these hardcore guys called the OG Killers. We just conceded that we were going to lose badly but we had an early 10-0 lead. They must of been furious because they were having batting practice before the game and a few of them had headbands and now they were being shut out by people with frogs on their shirts. Anyway we blew the lead and were down 11-10 in the last inning when Brett on my team hit a 3-run homerun to put us ahead. In the bottom of the inning with the bases loaded, I caught a line drive and leaped (you like that? leaped.) at second base to double up a guy that forgot to tag up. We thought we were back in business before the next batter hit a 3-run walk-off homerun to end the game. Oh well.

The conference is almost here. The bad thing is that Miami is expecting some bad weather.

~sag

isn't it ironic?

Dontcha think? Anyway, I was going to write today about how I have been "crazybusy" and have little time to write. That was until I read Schulzone and Josh wrote about it being a blogger tradition. Oops, my cop out is exposed.

At work, Kyra has become a great motivator for me. Whenever I get bored or frustrated I close out my browser or whatever program I am using and see this picture on my computer desktop:



Sure enough, there is Kyra giving me the sign for "more". Needless to say, Kyra has been working me like a dog. When is it enough Kyra?

A week from tomorrow, Rachel and I will be on our way to Miami. I couldn't be more excited for (1) getting a break from school and work and (2) going to Miami. My wardrobe for all the funky socials is almost complete. Now I just need white shoes.

~sag

bye bye tetris

Tetris was making this blog to difficult to load for some people. Besides, it sucked anyway. It did no justice for the original.

~sag

it's like they read my mind

Rachel sent me this Luann comic and we both feel it describes this semester perfectly. Click on the strip to make it larger. Hope you enjoy.

~sag

election poll

Hillary wins 8 to 3. Something tells me that this would not be the actual ratio if these two were to be candidates.