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Health Holidays Travel

Saturday Morning Shenanigans

Here now is a final ‘quick-hit’ wrap-up of my 7-DAY / 6-NIGHT Texas vacation:

1.  I spent 4-DAYS and 3 NIGHTS on the River Walk en San Antonio.

2.  It was my 4TH trip to San Antonio, but the 1ST that wasn’t military-related.

3.  I adore the River Walk. If I had to live in Texas then that is where I would live.

4.  Every day would be a ‘Major’s Walk-A-Thon’.

5.  How did I get my 5TH cold in 8 months ?  I touched things !

6.  The 5-HOUR drive to and from San Antonio with my brother was a lot of fun.

7.  My brother and his wife live in a ritzy suburb of Dallas – Allen.

8.  They live in a peaceful and quiet suburban yuppie neighbourhood.

9.  Allen is surrounded by McKinney, Fairview, Lucas, Parker, Plano, and Frisco.

10.  I’ll be back in Allen in exactly 20 weeks for Thanksgiving !

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Blogging People

Friday Night Blogroll Review

It’s a little early on this 4TH Of July, but better early than late !

Travis keeps discovering new music gadgets online such as ‘Pandora’ and ‘Tiny Song’. This is no longer ‘Travis 2.0’. This is ‘Travis 2.11’ and ‘Travis 2.12’.

LL Phil J pretty much referred to me as a chick in his ‘Thought Foo Yung’ just because I prefer the $4 Caramel Macchiato over the $2 Pike Place Roast – or as the snooty yuppies refer to it – the tall, grande, or venti ‘drip’. Have you had your ‘drip’ today Phil ?

The Johnson Family of Southeast Homestead (all of them) are gettin’ eaten alive by ‘skeeters’.

Jesse’s blog is setting new viewership records.

Ritz and Jesse got into a ‘man-fight’ online.

Bill has a few tips for you on how to effectively handle telemarketers.

Gricelda recently spent some quality time with family and friends at Robert Is Here (just west of Florida City), and the proof is in all of the loving pictures that were taken of that day. Check out her 6-PART blog entry of it all.

Nathan is looking for a monkey to ride a tricycle in Weston’s 4TH Of July parade.

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Hoaxes Internet

Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame

Subject: Fw: Hip Hip Hooray for the Fly Boys

Randolph AFB is near San Antonio, Texas, and is the headquarters of AETC, Air Education and Training Command. The building shown is Bldg. 100, best known as the “Taj Mahal”, and originally served as the administration building for Randolph Field, Texas. Today, the building serves as the 12th Flying Training Wing headquarters on Randolph Air Force Base. The base was recently named a national historic landmark on the National Register of Historical Places by Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton. The formation was flown on Veterans Day, November 11th, 2002. The aircraft in the formation are the T-38 Talon, the supersonic trainer flown by USAF student pilots.

T-38 Talon Jets Over Randolph AFB Texas (San Antonio)

THIS NEVER HAPPENED !  It’s an Internet Hoax !

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HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY !

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Animals Health

I’m Sick ! I Ate A Cricket !

DEJA-VU ? – You may recall that same mysterious blog entry title from a couple of months back, and there’s a good reason for that. I was sick back during the early part of May, and I’m sick again !  I’m still enjoying my vacation (back in the northern suburbs of Dallas Texas again), but I’m currently dealing with what is now my unbelievable 5TH cold in just a little over 8 months (ever since the last few days of October 2007). It’s my 2ND cold in exactly 8 weeks, and that cold from 8 weeks ago arrived just a little over 6 weeks after the previous one (during the Good Friday / Easter Sunday holiday weekend).

These disgusting common cold germs officially made their presence known inside my body en San Antonio on Tuesday July 01ST 2008, so if you’re keeping track at home this would be DAY 3 of the cold. I expect it to last through the 4TH Of July holiday weekend, but I also expect conditions to improve as time goes on. Airborne and Zicam are doing all that they can do to assist me in getting over my cold faster !

Once upon a time in an era not too long ago I used to get a cold about every 18 months to 2 or even 3 years. Now I’m working on my 5TH cold in just 8 months. Back then my rare colds lasted up to two weeks. Nowadays these colds come and go within a matter of several days.

Oh yeah – As far as that cricket is concerned – NO – I didn’t really eat one. That’s an inside-joke between me and my brother regarding one of our childhood cats. We used to have a big black cat by the name of Barney. One time Barney ate a crunchy LIVE cricket (so we think). He didn’t feel very well for a day or two after that !  Barney is long gone, but his memory shall forever live on. That catch phrase ‘I’M SICK ! I ATE A CRICKET !‘ is in loving memory to the legend of Barney the cat – the cat that never liked me but totally adored my brother.