Happy Canada Day for all those calling the Great White North home.

Thanks everyone. I had a great time. Oh, I forgot to take pictures of all the fish being cooked and eaten, but that would've just made everyone drool and yearn for being there even more :)

If any of you ever want to take a trip up North, get fed three square meals a day, fish, relax and enjoy the great Canadian wilderness, then I highly recommend this place:

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Dwight - great fishing photos! Good news is I have fish waiting for me to cook it at home, and your photos sure made me hungry

John. Thanks. We are proud. I really do not know where he gets his athletic ability. Certainly not from his old man. He is nothing short of amazing in all sports. Luckily he inherited his mother's brains. He is a well rounded little guy.
Does anyone have an 1979 Anauhac? I played JV football and would love to have a team picture to show my son. Perhaps someone could scan it?

John M.: Congrats to your son! You must be very proud.

Elena: Very funny. I had forgotten about "Sana, sana, ..." Ah, the memories.

Dwight: Very cool pictures. Thanks for sharing.

Ann: How's your son doing? Hope he's healing well. Probably just a couple of more weeks on the cast, no?

Dwight: Beautiful pics. Thanks for sharing.

Check out the rest of the fishing trip photos:

http://canada.dwighit.com

Dresden Summer Soccer League Results. Richkote 5 Crows Construction 0. Three goals scored by Barrett Emerson Reid-Maroney. That makes nine goals in four games. He can't wait until the under 20 World Cup comes to this area.
Dwight. Nice fish. We have a creek that runs acroos the farm. We get good sized pike swimming by all the time. However, they are nasty little fishies.

Nothing like a 16 inch Smallmouth Bass!

Elena, CLASSIC! :)

Check your Mexican status:

If you can run and play any sport while wearing chanclas.... Mexican status!!

If you're late Tio left you a van and you turned it into a taco vending Business, Yes, you're a Mexican.

If you pronounce words beginning with the letter "S" by putting an "E"
in front of it, (estop instead of stop), big time Mexican.

If you call a chair, a sher, you got it.... Mexican.

If you have ever hurt yourself and your mamacita rubbed the area while chanting, " Sana , Sana , Colita de rana....." You're Mexican, bigtime!!!

If you have your last name in old English lettering anywhere on your car, truck, or tattooed on your back. Yes, you ARE a Mexican (Proud one too).

If you refer to your wife as your ruca, your hina, your wifa, your old lady,or your vieja, guess what? Not only are you a Mexican, You're a cholo.

If you throw a "Grito" every time you hear Vicente Fernandez, then not only are you a Mexican, but you are a drunk Mexican.

If you have ever been pinched in church and been told "pobrecito de ti si lloras" or "Vas a ver orita que salgamos." Yes, you're definitely a Mexican.

If you grew up being called "chamaca or chamaco".... Mexican.

If you grew up scared of La Llorona, or fear the dark because of El CuCuy! Yes! Mexican!

Si te persinas with a lotto ticket in your hand before every Drawing.
You're in the Mexican Zone!!!

If you ask for something by "dame esa chingadera" instead of Calling It by its name. Yup! Mexican!

If you constantly refer to cereal as "con fleys" or cake as "kay-ke".You'r a Mexican.

If you use manteca instead of vegetable oil and can't figure out why your butt is getting bigger...... You might be a Mexican.

If you have some Tias that dress up in their prom dresses to go To a Birthday party at "el parque". You are a Mexican.

If your Tias and Abuela dress up in their Sunday best with heels and all to go to the "pulga." (AKA the Flea Market) Then, yes, you are a Mexican

If most of the houses on your block are painted bright pink, mint green and lavender. Mexican.

If you use the bushes in front of your house, the fence, or the top of an old car to dry laundry. Yes, you're a Mexican.

If you're congested and your mamasita rubbed "Bicks". you're Mexican.

IF YOU DON'T NEED ANY EXPLANATIONS FOR ANY OF THE ABOVE, YOU KNOWTHAT YOU ARE A TRUE MEXICAN.

VIVA LA RAZA!!!

You know you're laughing your head off. It's all in fun, so don't get all "adoloridos." Just pass it on so another Mexican can laugh Too!

John M, I was up on the Pickerel River last week which is considered north central Ontario, about 45 miles southwest of Sudbury.

Missed the Mexico-US match, but I heard the US came from behind which is unusual.

John B., I love number 10 :)

Dominic, I told Alex a while back that he better be careful with that Bible in his hands. It's one of the most lethal weapons known to mankind.

Alex, Iraq didn't attack us on 9/11. That was masterminded by someone who took advantage of the Saudi oil dollars and the billions the CIA spent on arms and ammunition building up the mujahideen to fight the Soviets. The nutjobs over there want you on their soil so they can justify killing and blowing up the place. The longer we're over in that hell hole, the longer the Iraqis will be dependent on our support. It's kinda like welfare. They're not going to stand up to do anything as long as we're doing everything for them. Your job over there is not to kill, but to support the troops and families of those who are killed by the nutjobs. That is quite a responsibility and honorable job for our country. I wish you the best man.

Elena, last year I saw several of those pink striped BMWs driving around on River Rd. outside of Cincinnati. I tried to drive as fast as a couple of them in my tuned up Neon, but got my doors blown away :)

I believe that truly is a mobile home! Yikes!

Ah, Good American Know How! Necessity is the Mother of Invention.

Ann: You're mose welcome.

Dominic, et.al.: Intersting match yesterday. For a while there I thought Mexico would tie it up. I can't believe I actually watched a soccer match on TV, my first in 15 years. I watched for two reasons, I can't believe the US is actually good enough to make it in <chuckle> and to understand what the hoopla around possible anti-american sentiment during the match. Didn't see any, unless just wasn't covered...

Anyway, I had forgotten how painful it is to watch a match completely sober and without a gang of aficionados. Granted, I wasn't rooting for either team (how does one pick sides at the last minute?) but I was hoping for more scoring. A couple of times there I thought Mexico had it in the bag and likewise the US. Nothing controversial occurred, a couple of fouls here and there, but nothing to write home about. I cannot say that Mexico or the US played badly because I hadn't kept up. However, after a while, I mixed a great Margarita and, well, it didn't matter in the end. Lot's of ticket tape being spread around and apparently the US one by one goal. Yippee!

Bauer: Love your posting. Too funny. Thanks for the chuckle!

John: Saw the game, Mexico sucks at soccer but Elena Ochoa is the best golfer in the world, go figure? The Taco place sounds interesting, we will have to check it out.

Did anyone watch the Mexico - USA match? Where is Alacran Jimenez when you need him? Probably hanging out with Mantequilla Napoles.
Dominic. About an hour from the farm there is a real Taco place run by a Mexicano. It is in a place called Leamington where 7000 migrant Mexican workers call home for 8 months. Next time you are in the area I can offer you something better than this awful Canadian slop. There are carnitas, barbacoa, chiles rellenos, etc. etc. Lots of Corona too.

Loya: Que ta vay bien, please let us know if you actually kill someone. Your description of your emotions as you get ready to go to Irak blow me away! I would love to read your emotions after you kill a few infedels or even better if you happen to blow up a neighborhood with women and children.
I will drink a few (actually all of July 4th week boozing) in your honor. I can only tell you the US needs plenty of soldiers with your frame of mind. Take a few pictures of gruesome stuff so we can check it out!

Loya: Congratulations!!!! Cuidate y regresa sano y salvo. Gracias por defender a la nacion. Saludos

The Zen of Sarcasm

1.Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much
leave me the hell alone.
2.The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and leaky tire.
3. It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.
4.Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
5.Always remember that you're unique. Just like everyone else.
6.Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
7.If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
8.Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have
their shoes.
9.If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
10.Giv e a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
11. If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
12. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
13. Some days you're the bug; some days you're the windshield.
14.Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.
15.The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.
16.A closed mouth gathers no foot.
17.Duct tape is like 'The Force'. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
18. There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.
19.Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.
20. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
21. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
22. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

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Edited by author 06-21-2007 01:48 AM
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Ann, thank you! You always make me feel like a real man! :)

George, drop and give me 20 jarhead! :)

My buddy Dwight! Hey man! Captain is better than Lieutenant! I hope I've been of service to Paul!

John, I am getting deployed to Iraq in November, if nothing changes I will be there from November 07 through February 09... too long, man!... But a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do, and I will be happy to go confront the Islamic hordes, look them in the eye and let them know that they can not attack my country and my people and my friends and not get their butts kicked all over the parking lot!... Every time I remember the World Trade Center in flames and crumbling, the sight of American civilians jumping to their deaths from 80 stories high because their other choice was to burn to death, New York City covered in smoke, the beautiful face of America marred by their cowardly attack, I feel my eyes tear up and harden at the same time, my lips tighten, my jaw and fists clench and my heart pulling me into the battlefield where the command "fix bayonets!" will be the pleasant sound of my country asserting herself in the face of those who have no respect for her!... And I am very happy I have a chance to go...

The movers came today to pack our stuff, and tomorrow they come to move all of our household goods to Fort Polk, Louisiana, my home, we move on the 29th, not this Friday but next, and I will be in Fort Polk on 2 July. In August I have a Mission Readiness Exercise and in November we go... I just pray not that we don't deploy, but that they shorten the deployments, and that the Lord lets me live until my children are grown.

Anyway, I got my book listed among the "best" Cajun and Acadian historical sites! I didn't approach them, they emailed me and told me they had added me to their listing, check it out, just scroll down a little bit and you will see my link second down the list:

http://www.acadian.org/linkmachine/links/l...logy-related_3.html

Alex, congratulations on your promotion!

Dwight. You going fishing in Ontario? Northern or southwestern?
Alex. Congratulations. When are you going overseas? For your family's sake I hope it ends up that you do not have to go. But if so keep safe.

Compre un botella de Cazadores Anejo y ahorra estoy listo para chupar

CONGRATS CAPTAIN LOYA! I'm very proud of you amigo :)

Cool, I will forward your email to Paul on Monday as I have his email on my work Outlook address book. Thanks for posting on the class of 82. Paul will probably read that soon.

Felicidades. If you get promoted to Major. I will have to salute you.
Semper Fi

Edited by author 06-16-2007 01:51 AM
Dwight, will do! Can you post a link to the Class of 82? My email is alexloya@integrity.com, I will be happy to talk to Paul about New Orleans. Dwight, I went diggin' and found the Class of 82 chat and left Freud a message.

Ann, I am sorry to hear about your son! Bummer! My oldest daughter, Kirsten, was hit by a car and had a compound fracture on her leg, she also had to have a metal bar screwed to her leg for a couple of months, it was a nightmare! And my middle daughter, Karaleigh. who is six years old fractured her shoulder just today! She was right outside on our porch riding her little kid bike when she fell. I remember something kind of weird that happened, I "felt" in my heart that something had happened to one of my kids, like a "click" in my heart, and sure enough, she fractured her shoulder. All she need is a sling though, the doctor said her bones being yet soft kept the fracture from being worse. Sorry about your son, I will pray for a quick and full recovery. Hey Ann, when you see Caroline Kurtz, say hi to her for me, will you?

Anyway, just in case you all didn't notice I got promoted to Captain! Finally! After two years! All the guys a graduated from the Chaplain Officer school were promoted after about 4 months from the time we graduated, here it took almost two years to promote me. That's because they were in the Active Component and though I have been on Active Duty since I joined up again, I was in the Reserve Component, so, for almost two years I had to walk humbly as a Lieutenant, I mean, like when we moved into our officer housing area I asked my wife what rank she thought our neighbor was, and she said, "I don't know honey, but whatever he is, he is higher than you!". And it is just like the Lord to do this, I was able to get back in the Military 9 days before I was to old to join even with my prior service, then I was able to submit my packet for the Active Component, just before I was getting to old to do so, and here I am being promoted to Captain within the Reserve when I am already halfway checked out of the Reserve, literally! That is great because when I make the transition into the Active Component on 3 July, that would have been my date of rank as a Captain in the Active Component, but being promoted while still in the Reserve, even if I am half way out, my date of rank is 23 January of this year, which will make a difference when I am promoted to Major, and which means they will pay me 5 months of back pay in one check, that's Disneyworld right there!

Anyway, and it is just like the Lord, when I became a First Lieutenant back in Chaplain School at Fort Jackson, Fort Jackson being a training fort, there were a bunch of young Privates going to boot camp, which means they had to salute us, well, when my wife came to see me there, and my kids, I took them to the mini mall kind of hoping that we would bump into some Privates so that my kids and my wife could see them salute me, well, when we got there, instead of bumping into Privates, we bumped into Captains, and I had to salute them! And today, when I first pinned on Captain, I went to the Soldier Support Center to get my pay and ID adjusted, and guess who is the first Soldier I come across? A Major! So, again, I had to salute him! That's just like the Lord! Dealing with that old pride! Anyway, I am very happy to finally be promoted!

Oh Ann, what a series of things! I will send some healing prayers and "mojo" your way.

Thanks Ty for responding and offering to assist me with my career stuff

Cindy and I chatted on the phone last night and are busy choreographing our new table dances.

Elena and Cindy: You go girls! :-)

My saga continues: Monday night Stephen was standing with his walker, reached up to scratch his nose and push his glasses up, and fell back! He broke his wrist! Once I realized he hadn't fallen on the broken leg I was relieved ten-fold. John took him to the emergency room and they sent him home with an ace bandage -- it was only sprained. Tues. p.m. the ER calls and informs me the x-rays had been re-read (by a "real" radiologist -- apparently they leave at 5pm) and sure enough it's broken. I don't understand why a physician didn't read the x-rays mon. p.m. Okay, how much worse can it get. I have just been laughing about all this. What else can we do?? Stephen is not amused. He had his first post-op appointment yesterday (the x-ray of his femur is quite impresive) and we were to see his surgeon's assistant. He was a bit confused at first -- looking at a file regarding a femur, looking at x-rays of a wrist! Just when Stephen was getting really good with the walker and we could actually venture out in public, we are back to the wheelchair 100%. Poor kid. Now we are keeping are chins up and our sense of humor in check.

Hope all of you are having an enjoyable summer!

Elena--we must be the same sign!!! My job is on the fritz as well.
Should we pick up table dancing?

I'll ask around at work. Some of my fellow employees have spouses who work at P&G.

Elena that sucks. Typical corporate America, dump the hard working, experienced, loyal employees who have built the palaces for the CEOs and stockholders and rehire lower paid, unqualified peons to carry on the mission they can't perform as well.

Ok Bears, I need your help. Capital One just did a big re-org and eliminated many senior roles, including mine. So, after 5 years here in communications and marketing, I'm now on the job hunt. The environment in the company had not been going in the right direction, so even though it is never fun to get the news, I have no doubt it is so I find something that better uses my talents and is more fun. I was assured it was not due to performance, but rather that they are going to try to execute the advertising and PR plans I worked on and sold into management over the last year via the junior staffers (who look like deer in headlights and have said they have no idea how to do my stuff) Should be interesting to see how that plays out.

I need to polish up the resume and get it out. If you know of any companies or recruiters, send me a note at elena.turner@att.net.

I have nearly 100 acres of prime farmland. Diversification is the name of the game.

THE HORRORS!

We must start growing more hemp to offset the impact!

Dominic - you are so right!

Elena: Time to stock up before prices go up.

Now this is a very sad news article!!!!

Ethanol boom may fuel shortage of tequila
Mexican farmers burning agave fields and replanting them with corn
Reuters
Updated: 8:16 p.m. ET May 29, 2007
MEXICO CITY - Mexican farmers are setting ablaze fields of blue agave, the cactus-like plant used to make the fiery spirit tequila, and resowing the land with corn as soaring U.S. ethanol demand pushes up prices.

The switch to corn will contribute to an expected scarcity of agave in coming years, with officials predicting that farmers will plant between 25 percent and 35 percent less agave this year to turn the land over to corn.

"Those growers are going after what pays best now," said Ismael Vicente Ramirez, head of agriculture at Mexico's Tequila Regulatory Council.

The large, spiky-leaved agave thrives on high, arid land and can take eight years to reach maturity. To remove the plants, growers cut them at their stems and often burn the fields to remove the roots.

Tequila, drunk in shots and cocktails around the world, is named after a town in the western Mexican state of Jalisco.

Production of agave, from the lily family, soared in recent years as farmers cashed in on record prices brought about by a shortage of the plant at the start of the decade.

Despite rapid growth in tequila drinking, especially overseas, the over-supply of agave has driven prices for the plant to rock-bottom levels.

Many growers have started to abandon the crop in favor of corn, whose price has rocketed in line with massive growth in U.S. demand for ethanol after President Bush outlined targets last year to use the corn-based fuel as a gasoline alternative.

Agave supply is also being hit this year by disease in the fields, partly due to farmers caring less for the plants after prices dropped.

"The problem that we are going to see, perhaps by mid-2008, is that a lot of agave is sick," Agriculture Ministry official Arnulfo del Toro said. "That will have to be taken out and production is going to drop a lot."

Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters.
 

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18926019/

Dominic. Barrett is a size 7 or 8. He is absolutely crazy about soccer.

Alex L., I was reading on the class of '82 chat and Paul Freudenthaler mentioned something about New Orleans and wanted to talk to someone who lived there. If you get a chance, drop over there and post a message or email me and I'll forward you Paul's email.

Oh, that's right! Damn, after being PC all these years, now I know what it feels like to be the brunt of a politically correct label :)

Maroney: What size shirt?
Dwight: Hey, you European-American, the black guy you remember was Mr. Randolph.

Dwight. No, he was rather white. I think he had left by the time you arrived. If memory serves me right and if I am not totally imagining this I recall something about him bringing "brownies" to his class.

John, that's funny :) Was Mr. Clayton the tall, thin African-American teacher? I checked our yearbook and he's not in the faculty photos.

John, Dominic will most likely be able to get you one the next time he's in Mexico. I remember the awesome Mexico World Cup jerseys he bought outside the stadium last year. He basically got what are 60 or 70 dollar jerseys for 10 bucks.

I have a soccer related question. Our 8 year old son is playing in a soccer league. He's pretty good. So far he is the only player on the team who has scored. I really want to get him a Cruz Azul soccer jersey. How can I get my hands on one?

I remember Mr. Clayton well. He was into the JFK assassination. He had all kinds of films I believed he acquired through the black market and showed them in class. He also wouldn't let us evacuate the building during an earthquake. I'ts funny some of the things we remember.

Does anyone remember Mr. Clayton in high school? I remember him showing pictures of himself swimming in the Ghangis River in India. He was on a voyage of transcendental discovery.

Weekly Funny:

Married In Heaven
 
On their way to get married, a young couple are involved in a fatal car accident. The couple find themselves sitting outside the Pearly Gates waiting for St. Peter to process them into Heaven. While waiting, they begin to wonder: Could they possibly get married in Heaven? When St. Peter shows up, they asked him. St. Peter says, "I don't know. This is the first time anyone has asked. Let me go find out," and he leaves.The couple sat and waited for an answer. . .for a couple of months.
 
While they waited, they discussed that IF they were allowed to get married in Heaven, SHOULD they get married, what with the eternal aspect of it all.
 
"What if it doesn't work?" they wondered, "Are we stuck together FOREVER?"
 
After yet another month, St. Peter finally returns, looking somewhat bedraggled. "Yes," he informs the couple, "you CAN get married in Heaven."
 
"Great!" said the couple, "But we were just wondering, what if things don't work out? Could we also get a divorce in Heaven?"
 
St. Peter, red-faced with anger, slams his clipboard onto the ground.
 
"What's wrong?" asked the frightened couple.
 
"OH, COME ON!!" St. Peter shouts, "It took me three months to find a priest up here! Do you have ANY idea how long it'll take me to find a lawyer?

Ann and Ana Ceci: I am sorry to hear what happened to your kids. I hope they recover well. Saludos

Okay. Got Stephen home sat. afternoon. He had to stay an extra day due to a reaction to the pain meds. It is great to have him home, although it's like having an adult infant. Once the swelling lessens in the knee he'll be a little more mobile. He's currently using a walker and wheelchair. We can only take it one day at a time.

Now, when you think you have it bad, it really puts "it" into perspective being in a children's hospital. Oh poor us with a kid with a broken leg. There are children there who've never been able to leave the hospital. Sat. a.m. while we were waiting on our discharge papers we ran into a girl and her dad. Mary attends school with Stephen. Because we were on the surgery floor I asked what she had done. The father informed me she has cancer. I knew there was a cancer student at his school but didn't know this was her. In any case, Mary is now cancer free and hopefully won't be returning to the hospital. Yeah!

I truly thank my blessings for having two healthy children!

John, thank God you were wearing shorts over the spandex shorts! :-)

Dwight. I was wearing regular shorts over the spandex just in case the belugas decided to breach. How often do you get to mountain bike? We have no mountains but we live in beautiful farmland that is peppered with rivers, creeks, and carolinian forests. I have a regular 10 kilometer route that takes me past eagles nests, deer trails, and coyote dens. It is very cool. I try to go every day. There is a golden eagle that hangs out at the same abandoned farmhouse. It is quite a departure from Mexico City.

HA! :) I want to see you in those sexy spandex biking shorts John. Come on now, please share the photos for all here to see, hee...hee...

Dwight. I will post a picture of the big bike. Just to be clear I was not a card carrying member of the pod of belugas. My cholesterol is fine. We would of had a better qualifying time if it were not for several members not using their flukes effectively enough. We were dragging dead weight at the finish line. But we raised a ton of money.

John B., yes I don't think US pro fans, owners or teams would put up with restrictions like that, but I think training at altitude or under hypoxic conditions gives athletes an advantage. If futbol teams don't like it, then they need to train appropriately. Lance Armstrong always trained in the mountains so he could kick French butt in the Alps.

John M., that is quite a funny, ironic and inspiring that a bunch of old, out of shape, cholesterol laden Canucks got together to raise money for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario :) I would love to see photos of that large 26 passenger bike! I think I'll be pedaling in the Ride Cincinnati for breast cancer research in June. Not so hip on the pink helmet covers but it should be fun.

Ann, your son sounds like a typical boy, testing gravity at every opportunity. Don't worry, he'll be a man before long and you won't be able to lock him up anywhere :)

Anacecilia, I hope your daughter's wrist heals up fine. I remember when my daughters were first starting out rollerblading. I bought them all the helmets, knee pads, and wrist protectors but they never wore them after the first time.

Thanks for all your kind words regarding Stephen. We had him up out of bed 3 times today. Yeah! It is definitely going to be a loooong summer. He is currently using a walker, and it is definitely slow going. He should be discharged from the hospital tomorrow. It'll be great to have him home. Hopefully, in the next 2-3 weeks he will be at an almost normal pace. I can only hope.

Anacecilia: Sorry to hear about your daughter's wrist. Aren't you the lucky one?!

Well, Stephen was bound to have something happen this summer. About 3 years ago he broke his collar bone, 2 yrs. ago he broke his thumb on the last day of football camp, and last summer he was getting over mono! I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised we had another injury this year. Next year, once school is out, I'm locking that boy in a closet!

John M: That bike riding really sounds crazy -- how fun! I'd love to witness that. So, how many french fries did you eat?

Now, after all this, Elena, I hope you are having fun in Alaska.

Saludos. Just finished a Ride for the Heart and Stroke Foundation 0f Ontario. It was an event featuring a large bike that seats 26 riders. The object was to ride around the track once bidding for the fastest time. There were dozens of teams raising money. Sounds harmless enough. Add in high temperatures and incredible humidity. Factor in that my crew was composed of a pod of belugas who had not ridden a bike since grade school. Final result. The local paramedics were left to pick up the pieces.Did I mention that they were serving deep fried french fries at this event. Funds raised are to be used in preventing strokes and heart attacks. Que pachecos.
Ann. Sorry to hear about your son.

Ann: Nasty! Hope your son recovers well. Like Jennifer states, what a way to start the summer. Here's to a speedy recovery...

Dwight: I agree with Dominic, that ruling does suck. Can you imagine if they did that with football or baseball. Though Colorado is only at 5280 feet, they have bad snow storms during the winter (along with New England cities as well) and other locales have nasty mosquitos that affect ball games. Just doesn't make sense...

Ann, Wow, pobre! my 7 year old broke her wrist on tuesday, ice skating, and I thought that was a bummer. I have had back problems since I was 11 and my advise to you and to him is to be patient, very patient, and do everything the doctor says. If bones don't heel right, then he'll regret it 30 years from now.

Haven't logged in in a while. Memo just called me, y me dio la resenia del class reunion del '82. WOW! 79 people showed up and they all had a blast. People flying in from Europe, the States, and Mexico to Acapulco. We need to learn from them.

Congrats class of 82!

Dominic, pon la fecha para Acapulco, que para Octubre ya John y yo vamos a necesitar unas vacaciones divertidas.

Edited by author 05-30-2007 09:52 PM
Ann ... I can't believe that about Stephen. He must have had quite the fall to break the femur! My leg just hurts thinking about him. What a way to start the summer for a 14 year old. Tell Stephen to stay off the skates in the future.

Dwight: That rule SUCKS!

Ann, that's terrible! Hopefully Stephen's femur heals well and he's able to get back on those skates again. At least it wasn't a knee or ankle which could be even worse long term.

Dominic, what do you think of this new rule from FIFA:

Bolivia: FIFA altitude ban discriminates against Andean nations
By Dan Keane, Associated Press Writer

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivia President Evo Morales says FIFA's decision to ban all international soccer matches above 8,200 feet discriminates against Latin America's high-altitude nations.

FIFA's ruling on Sunday drew outrage from fans, soccer officials, and governments across Latin America, and Morales said on Monday he will fight the decision.

The Andean Community of Nations - including Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, each with cities above the limit - sent FIFA president Joseph Blatter a letter Monday calling for the ruling to be overturned.

Morales, an avid soccer player, called for people in Bolivia's highlands to play soccer in the streets on Wednesday in a mass demonstration of high-altitude sport.

"This is not only a ruling against Bolivia, but against the universality of sport," Morales said following an emergency Cabinet meeting at the presidential palace in La Paz, 11,800 feet above sea level.

FIFA cited a concern for players' health and home-field advantage of high-altitude teams over their visiting lowland rivals. But Morales discounted such fears, saying the challenges of playing at altitude were simply part of the world's game.

"He who wins at altitude, wins with dignity," Morales said. "He who fears altitude has no dignity."

The ruling eliminates international games in La Paz and other major Bolivian cities and the Colombian capital of Bogota, the Ecuadorean capital Quito and the Peruvian city of Cuzco.

Most of Mexico City falls under the limit at 7,200 feet but Toluca - Mexico's most successful club in recent years - is above the limit.

Toluca press chief Mauricio Garduno said extreme heat and cold also create an advantage for some home teams.

"When you play a match at 104 degrees, that's what affects players the most," Garduno said. "Altitude is not that important. If FIFA is going to consider that, it should consider other things, too."

The FIFA decision follows a Copa Libertadores match in February between Brazilian club Flamengo and Bolivia's Real Potosi, which was played in freezing rain at 13,120 feet.

The Brazilian players, who train at sea level in Rio de Janeiro, took oxygen during the game and eventually drew 2-2. But officials of the influential club vowed never again to play at such high altitude, complaining of "unsporting and inhumane" conditions.

"We didn't have the luck to be born anywhere else. We have to play sports wherever we are," said Ruben Cuenca, 45, a pastry seller on the streets of La Paz. "If not, where would we go to play, the beach? And play soccer with the crabs?"

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Associated Press writers Joshua Goodman in Bogota and Peter Orsi in Mexico City contributed to this report.
The Associated Press

Happy Summer Break! I had the best of intentions to see Carolyn Kurtz jam out this thursday night. But alas.....yesterday, Stephen, our 14 year old, was in-line skating (at a rink - wooden surface) and broke his femur! Yikes! Had a steel rod implanted during 3 1/2 hours of surgery today. Thankfully everthing went well. We are hoping to have him "up" tomorrow. He won't be able to put any pressure on that leg for 6-8 weeks. He's a trouper and hopefully we will get through this with some semblance of ease.

Hope you are well. For all of us D/FW'ers, I say it's time for another mini-reunion!

Elena and Lisa, here is the link to the '82 chat site. http://www.quicktopic.com/3/H/4jbhaM4YVKJ1Msq835a. Lisa, you just missed their 25 year reunion this past weekend...

Lisa Sanchez, class of 1982, is looking for class contacts for her year, can someone hook her up?

lisad@proterraadvertising.com

WOOOHOOOO!!!!!

Dang!

We need to plan another hookup! Tell Pancho he needs to get his butt to Acapulco in October. Dominic is planning a get together.

Vi a Pancho Rios el dia de ayer. Pregunto por todos y que cuando nos volviamos a reunir. Les manda saludos a todos y una mentada la cual no digo en respeto a las damas de la pagina.

Where have you gone Joe Dimaggio?

Just another funny for y'all I Don't Like the Look of Your Face

Happy Mother's day for everyone in the states.

Hello
I will be in Mexico City next week May 14th.
See you all Tuesday at Celtic's 9:00 pm colonia Condesa calle Tamaulipas
Hope ya'll can make it.

Salud2

*blush* *blush* :)

De nada, and just for laughs !

POSITION: MOM
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Long term team players needed for challenging permanent work in an often chaotic environment. Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work variable hours, which will include evenings and weekends and frequent 24 hour shifts on call.
 
RESPONSIBILITIES:
For the rest of your life.
Must be willing to be hated, at least temporarily, until someone needs $5.
Must be willing tobite tongue repeatedly. Also, must possess the physical stamina of a pack mule and be able to go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds flat in case, this time, the screams are not someone just crying wolf.
Must be
 willing to face stimulating technical challenges, such as small gadget repair, mysteriously sluggish toilets and stuck zippers. Must screen phone calls, maintain calendars and coordinate production of multiple homework projects.
Must have ability to plan and organize social gatherings for clients of all ages and mental outlooks.
Must be willing to be indispensable one minute, an embarrassment the next.
Must handle assembly and product safety testing of a half million cheap, plastic toys and battery operated devices.
Must always hope for the best but be prepared for the worst.
Must assume final, complete accountability for the quality of the end product.
Responsibilities also include floor maintenance and janitorial work throughout the facility.
 
POSSIBILITY FOR ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTION:
Virtually
 none.
Your job is to remain in the same position for years, without complaining, constantly retraining and updating your skills, so that those in your charge can ultimately surpass you.
 
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE:
None required, unfortunately.
On-the-job training offered on a continually exhausting basis.
 
WAGES AND COMPENSATION:
You pay THEM, offering frequent raises and bonuses.
A balloon payment is due when they turn 18 because of the assumption that college will help them become financially independent.
When you die, you give them whatever is left.
The oddest thing about this reverse-salary scheme is that you actually enjoy it and wish you could only do more.

Dwight, great pics. Love your shorts -- sexy! :-)

I think Alex Juarez maybe in the photo number 5 with Tennyson Florida.

Edited by author 05-10-2007 09:42 PM
Hey everyone, check out these photos:

http://www.dwighit.com/ahs/

I know several people, but need help with the captions. Laura (Holladay) Single class of '80 mailed me the photos to scan and post. Thanks.

Gracias Anacecilia, lo mismo para tí. De casualidad no tienes el correo de Jackie Kassem, me gustaría contactarla.Saludos Yolanda de la Llata

QT - Anacecilia <qtopic+1-yW3mK4HhigT3Tr9s7J@quicktopic.com> escribió:

   
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Yes, that's right today is Mother's Day in Mexico. My Outlook calendar reminded me the other day :)

Happy Mother's Day Anacecilia and all the same goes out to all the other class of '81 Mothers.

Hola todas, Feliz dia de las madres! Hoy aqui en Mexico, y el domingo a todas las demas.

RIGHT ON! Amigos :)

Pinche Dwight,in lust we trust!, too freaking cool!

John, No worries on the response. I am glad, however, that you included some Latin artists as we all got reprimanded on the 80's group for not doing so. Nice Ipod by the way. I guess that type of Ipod evokes it own kind of music.

Okay, wild guess, Nashville Pussy?

Wow! What a tongue :)

I dig HOT chicks who play guitar!

Can you name this band?

From my crop of I-Pods...

Rafael: First off, Welcome to our Chat! Sorry I haven't responded yet.

Hmmm, what songs evoke a memory? When it comes to AHS, almost anything from Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Lynnrd Skynnrd, Queen, Eagles, Kansas, Yes, and The Who. These are the sounds I remember listening to down the halls, in the smoking lounge, and basically in and around the campus. I started listening to The Beatles, but really didn't get into it until after AHS.

Prior to AHS (I only attended from 8th grade through 12th), it is completely different. I've got Juan Gabriel, Sergio Mendez, Herp Albert and the Tijuana Brass, Mocedadez, and many other artists that basically took some classical english songs and converted them to spanish (e.g. "El Ultimo Beso" which was one of my favorites back in '73 or '74).

I rarely ever hear those anymore, but when one or another does slip in during my channel surfing, I stop and listen and it does evoke both an emotional and physical responses.

I haven't purchased an I-Pod yet. I am growing some though...

Messed up! :)

I know some of you might not find this funny, but for some sick reason, I do!

Father Iommi preaches

Dominic, that will be an interesting change not hearing all the Black Sabbath songs. I just checked and tickets are still available for the show. I will avoid the TicketShafter surcharge, ride my bike downtown during lunch on Friday to the US Bank Arena, and buy my ticket at the box office. Rock 'n Roll is my religion and a meager tithe of $29.50 is well worth it to hear the spiritual sermons from ROCK GODS Iommi and Butler. I've seen Megadeth twice before and they rock out hard.

Nashville Pussy this Friday at the Mad Hatter in Covington, KY!!!

In Lust We Trust :)

Dominic. Do you remember the time we went golfing near Lago de Guadalupe with Pepino, Lalo, and Rose?

Dwight: You will really like the show, they played no Ozzy songs or no solo Dio stuff, just 3 new songs, Heaven & Hell and Mob rules. It was a great show and bizare in the sense that no Iron Man etc.

Hey Dominic, that is sweet man! I'm glad you brought that up because I just found out that they will be here in Cinci on May 8th. I will have to get a ticket if they haven't sold out yet. The last time I saw Black Sabbath was in 1999 with Ozzie.

Ralph/Maroney/ Dwight: Talk about memories.
Caught the Black Sabbath show last night with Ronnie James Dio on vocals, KICKED ASS! They basically played all of the Heaven & Hell and Mob Rules albums. Brought back memories of my ghetto blaster playing Sabbath, AC/DC , Judas Priest etc etc at the smoking lounge while drinking tequila and sprite. We would get to school early in the morning and bury the bottles in the dirt. At lunch time we would funnel out the tequila through a hose we stole from the chemistry lab.
They sold donuts through the art room window and we would dip them in out drinks while listening to some good old Rock n' Roll.

Ann, that was hilarious, I am going to have to copy it and send it to my soldiers LOL... of course, I will have to edit it and write "kick me in the butt", you know, since I'm the Chaplain and all... LOL

Pominic, that little math game blew my mind! I'm going to have to show it to my wife! Fantastic!

John, I gues you were asking me if I am still stateside. Yes, I am still at Fort Bragg. I received REFRAD orders yesterday, that is, Release from Active Duty ending my present set of orders on July 2, and, I received another set of orders to be signed up in the Active Component of the Army on July 3, at Fort Polk, Louisiana, so I won't have a break on active duty, which is great for my career and eventual retirement.

Confirmed, I am assigned to the 4th Brigade, 10th Moutain Division, I will be with them July 3. In August we have an MRE,Mission Readiness Exercize, the deployment was postponed till November and it will not be to Afghanistan where the 10th has been thus far deployed, it will be to Iraq. The bummer is that they extended the deployment to 15 months... I am grieved about that for my family and for my soldiers and their families, 15 months is too long to keep a soldier away from his family at a time. I look forward to being deployed to the combat zone with my American soldiers, but I dread being away from my littles for such a long time. I am praying that the Lord who rules in the affairs of man will move the hearts of those in leadership to shorten the deployment time, and I am confident that if it is His will, He will do so, and we will not be deployed for such a long time. If His answer is no, then I will know that it is His will, and that will give me peace and help me get through that extended time away being confident that He will work it together for good for my family and myself, and the families of those among my soldiers who trust in Him.

Anyway, it is a good thing I will be deploying from Louisiana because that is home and we have family, friends and church family that will be a great support and encouragement to my wife and children.

Anyway, so, yes I am still here and will be until November unless something changes, I hope in the Lord that the length of the deployment does change, but if it does not, well, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do!

Received a funny today and thought I'd share:

Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson, Brian Williams and a tough old US Marine Sergeant were captured by terrorists in Iraq. The leader of the terrorists told them he's grant each of them one last request before they were beheaded.

Katie Couric said, "Well, Im a Southerner, so I'd like one last plate of fried chicken." The leader nodded to an underling who left and returned with the chicken. Couric ate it all and said, "Now I can die content."

Charlie Gibson said, "I'm living in New York, so I'd like to hear the song "The Moon and New York City" one last time." The terrorist's leader nodded to another terrorist who had studied the Western world and knew the music. He returned with some rag-tag musicians and played the song. Gibson was satisfied.

Brian Williams said, "I'm a reporter to the end. I want to take out my tape recorder and describe the scene here and what's about to heppan. Maybe, someday, someone will hear it and know that I was on the job 'til the end." The leader directed an aide to hand over the tape recorder and Williams dictated his comments. He then said, "Now I can die happy."

The leader turned and said, "And now, Mr. U.S. Marine, what is your final wish?" "Kick me in the ass," said the Marine. "What?" asked the leader? "Will you mock us in your last hour?" "No, I'm NOT kidding. I want you to kick me in the ass," insisted the Marine. So sthe leader shoved him into the open and kicked him in the ass.

The Marine went sprawling, but rolled to his knees, pulled a 9mm pistol from inside his cammies and shot the leader dead. In the resulting confusion, he leapt to his knapsack, pulled out his M4 carbine and sprayed the terrorists with gunfire. In a flash, all of them were either dead or fleeing for their lives.

As the Marine was untying Couric, Gibson and Williams, they asked him, "Why didn't you just shoot them all in the first place? Whey did you ask him to kick you in the ass?"

"What!?! replied the Marine, "and have you three asses report that I was the aggressor?"

That's right! I remember the name now. Did not know about the altercation however. Yes I am stateside. Utah, Salt Lake City to be exact. As a matter of fact, short of 2 sisters the whole damn Saucedo clan is here.

I believe his name was Steve Fairchild. If I am not mistaken he got into an altercation with Alex Serrano.
Alex Loya. Are you still states side?

I posted this on the 80's forum but it should fit here as well. I was listening to my ipod this weekend and "Even in the Quietest Moments" by Supertramp came on. As always, for some unkown reason, I was both calmed and reminded of my time in Mexico. Another song that always reminds me of Mexico is "Hotel California" by the Eagles. I can't remember the name but there was a guy that used to sing and play his guitar on the way to school. He started a band as well. Anyway, it seemed that he always sang "Hotel California" Question! What song or songs evokes this reaction for you?

Monday Morning Brain Teaser:

Unusual Puzzle

This is pretty neat.

 

DON'T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST!

It takes less than a minute. Work this out as you read ...
Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out!
This is not one of those waste of time things, it's fun.

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to go out to eat.
(more than once but less than 10)

2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)


3. Add 5


4. Multiply it by 50

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1757...
If you haven't, add 1756.

 

6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should have a three digit number.

The first digit of this was your original number. (I.e., How many times you want to go out to restaurants in a week.)

The next two numbers are

YOUR AGE ! ------ (Oh YES, it is!!!)

A Mexican is strolling down the street in Mexico City and kicks
a bottle lying in the street. Suddenly out of the bottle comes
a Genie. The Mexican is stunned and the Genie says, "Hello
master, I will grant you one wish; anything you want."

The Mexican begins thinking, "Well, I really like drinking
tequila." Finally the Mexican says, "I wish to drink tequila
whenever I want, so make me pee tequila."

The Genie grants him his wish. When the Mexican gets home, he
gets a glass out of the cupboard and pees in it. He looks at
the glass and it's clear. Looks like tequila. Then he smells
the liquid. Smells like tequila. So he takes a taste and it
is the best tequila he has ever tasted. the Mexican yells to
his wife, "Consuelo, Consuelo, come quickly."

She comes running down the hall and the Mexican takes another
glass out of the cupboard and fills it. He tells her to drink
it. It is tequila.

Consuelo is reluctant but goes ahead and takes a sip. It is
the best tequila she has ever tasted. The two drank and
partied all night.

The next night the Mexican comes home from work and tells his
wife to get two glasses out of the cupboard. He proceeds to
fill the two glasses. The result is the same. The tequila is
excellent and the couple drinks until the sun comes up.

Finally Friday night comes and the Mexican comes home and tells
his wife, "Consuelo, grab one glass from the cupboard and we
will drink Tequila."

His wife gets the glass from the cupboard and sets it on the
table. The Mexican begins to fill the glass; and when he fills
it, his wife asks him, "But Pancho, why do we need only one
glass?"

Pancho raises the glass and says, "Because tonight, Mi Amor,
you drink from the bottle."

Ah, one last funny...

Works much better as JavaScript but there ya go.

Edited by author 04-23-2007 07:39 PM
Incredible Quote for Monday!

Some good news during this tough week from the class of 80 chat to share. Our dear friend Laura Holladay (now Laura Single) from the class of 80 has a son that is a Junior at Virginia Tech. He is ok after the tragic shooting incident. Sadly to say though, one of his friends was killed. If you get a chance, I think it would be nice if we posted some kind words of support on the 80 chat for Laura.

In case anyone wants to submit themselves, family or friends...
*********************
Comadres,
I'm working on a piece for a national magazine profiling a couple of
Latina/o entrepreneurs born outside the U.S who now own thriving
businesses here. The business can be anywhere in country, so feel
free to nominate yourself or someone you know with an inspiring tale.
Unfortunately, I'm on a tight deadline and need to hear from you by
Thursday (4/19) afternoon.

Please fill out the following form in your response:

Country of Birth
Name and Type of Business
In no more than 4 sentences, what is the story behind your business, and
why did you leave your country?
What have been some of the triumphs in running the business?

I appreciate your assistance!

Best,
Jenny Mero
jennymero@gmail.com

Well...we're sort of here...some of us are still traveling different astral plains...

:)

Well, glad to see we are all still here! Our visit with Mickey was great, saludos a todos.

Monday morning humor...

Barbara Walters of Television's 20/20 did a story on gender roles in Kabul , Afghanistan , several years before the Afghan conflict. She noted that women customarily walked 5 paces behind their husbands.

She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walk behind their husbands. From Ms. Walter's vantage point, despite the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban regime, the women now seem to walk even further back behind their husbands and are happy to maintain the old custom.

Ms. Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked, "Why do you now seem happy with the old custom that you once tried so desperately to change?"

The woman looked Ms. Walters straight in the eyes, and without hesitation, said, "Land Mines."

Ramon, recuerdas que dijiste:

Mexico's Slim leapfrogs Buffett on rich list
By Marla Dickerson, Times Staff Writer
April 12, 2007

MEXICO CITY — That was fast.

Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helu last month blew past U.S. investor Warren Buffett to become the world's second-richest man with an estimated net worth of $53.1 billion, according to Forbes magazine.

Slim was ranked No. 3 on the publication's 2007 list of the world's richest people, released a month ago. But he is making money faster than ink can dry, thanks to rising share prices for his telecom holdings America Movil and Carso Global Telecom.

In an article posted on its website Wednesday, Forbes estimated that Slim added $4.1 billion to his fortune since the publication calculated his net worth in February prior to the list's March 8 release. Forbes said Slim surpassed Buffett's $52.4-billion fortune March 29.

Slim now appears destined to dethrone Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, who has sat atop the list for a record 13 years and whose wealth is estimated at $56 billion.

Slim first appeared on Forbes' list in 1991, a year after he and a consortium bought a controlling interest in Mexico's old state-owned telephone company, Telmex. But his recent run-up in wealth has been nothing short of stunning. Forbes calculates that he has added $23 billion to his fortune during the last 14 months.

Slim's holdings are so vast that it's nearly impossible for the average Mexican to go a day without spending money on something in his empire, which includes fixed-line telephone service, mobile phones, Internet service, banking, insurance, restaurants, department stores, tobacco products, building supplies and an airline.

Wags have dubbed him "the Mexican Midas." Some Mexicans are thrilled that one of their own ranks among the biggest of the big corporate titans. But his wealth has proven controversial in a nation where half the populace lives in poverty and near-monopolies such as Telmex are blamed for retarding economic growth. Several studies have found that Mexicans pay some of the highest telecom rates in the world, which has hurt the nation's competitiveness.

Slim called a rare news conference after the March release of the Forbes list. Sitting on a dais flanked by Rodin sculptures from his collection, Slim defended his business practices and announced new charitable endeavors. But he appears in no hurry to give away the bulk of his fortune as Gates and Buffett say they will do. He said businessmen could best help society by sticking to their knitting instead of trying to play Santa Claus.

Edited by author 04-10-2007 11:03 PM
Mike, I believe being a soldier is a calling, and certainly being a chaplain, I shared my call here before, I know that I know that I know I was born to be a soldier and a chaplain and all my experiences in life, from playing toy soldiers to being in the Marines to everything, it all worked together to make me into who I am, this is my purpose in life,period.

Now, just because your purpose is different it does not make you any less of a man, you take care of your family, you work to provide for them, you protect them, you love your country,I believe you are good to go. I don't blame your dad for hating it because he was drafted, I used to think all men should serve in the armed forces for some time, but I have changed my mind on that, I believe in a volunteer army, so that only those whose heart is in it will come in, not because they are forced, not because there are benefits, not because the pay check is steady, but because they must be a soldier, period. I would like to hang with you, although I haven't had a beer since I was 19, I'll have some Dr. Pepper though! Or Cherry Coke. Maybe we ought to get together for dinner one day soon before I move back to Louisiana, I will be leaving in June some time.

Dwight, how they have taken the initiative to attack not only on 9/11 but all the times before, the USS Cole, the World Trade Center in the 90's, the embassies in Africa etc etc shows you that the statement "If we don't fight them over there we are going to have to fight them here" is nothing but truth, the only reason we have not been attacked here is because our soldiers and Marines are draining their men, strength and resources there. You can rest assured that if we quit before the job is done, they will certainly bring it here.

On the other hand, as much as I support our Commander in Chief, I do not not believe that in the long haul we can make them be a democratic free society that will stay free and democratic, and I believe that the only way we can effectively prevent them from doing us great harm is by beating them so severly that they can not get up again for a long time. How do you fight a sucide bomber? that's easy, you kill him. You just have to be on the look out, that is the hard part. But thousands of suicide bombers have been eliminated by our soldiers, that is why we bring the battle to them and that is why they have not yet blown themselves up here.

I am with you in believing that our goal in war should not be to build a new society conformed in our image and likeness, our goal should be to destroy the enemies of America and destroy their capailities, as I said, to beat them so bad they can not get up and achieve their goal of doing us harm here. That's it. When they start to get up again to do us harm, then we beat them again and come home.

It is a truly noble thing what our great President wants to do, to build a free society for them and help them build schools and hospitals etc, which is what we are doing. But the reason I think that is not going to work in the long haul is because of my understanding of history. In the book Timeline, which is about time travel, one of the characters in the book says that people who have no interest at all in history, which he calls temporal provincials, are like the leaf of a tree that does not know he is part of a tree. History makes us into who we are,it explains why we act the way we act and believe the way we believe and everything. Our history tree,us Americans and Westerners, the Judeo Christian tradition, is different from the tree to which the Muslim world is a part of, we have a background of the Greek and Roman world, the Roman Senate and the Greek Philosophical views, we have the Hebrew relgious background and the background of Chrisitianity, we have the Reformation, the enlightment, the Great Awakenings, the voyage to America to worship God freely,the freedom of expression the Consititution, the fighting for freedom, the respect for the life of the innocent, our culture in the US and through the Western world is part of a huge tree with deep roots that makes us be who and how we are. The Muslims have a different tree, they, though they look to Abraham as their father as the Jews and the Christians, and though they were supressed by the Romans, their tree grew different, they have no Messiah that came to set them free, they have no Roman senate, they have no Reformation or Enlightment or Great Awakening, they have no fighting for personal freedoms, no freedom of speech no freedom of religion, their tree is a different from our tree as their speech and their written language. Because of this, although we may for a while bring democracy and freedom, totalitarian theocratic type of government and militant aggressive behavior will always rise again in that part of the world, Mohammed is called by scholars the prophet of the sword, and as long as his religion is ingrained, they will always rise up to fight, in fact, the prophecy regarding them which God uttered in Genesis 16 says that they will always live in hostility, their hand will always be against every man and every man's hand against them. We can not stop that by building schools and hospitals, although to do so is a good thing.

Because of this, I believe that when we go to war against them, our goal should be to defang them and then come home until their fangs grow back. We can always find ways to help their innocent people if we set our minds to it. The only thing that could change their heart is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, not politics and not the force of arms, although the force of arms could force them to live at peace, but we are not willing to do what the Romans did.

Anyway,having said that, because we are not willing to fight as hard as we could and to obliterate their capabilities, often times because they hide behind women and children or because we are not willing to offend their religious sensibilities, we need to keep bringing the fight to them to drain their strength there so that they will not do our little ones harm here,and we should stay there until their new government can pick up the fight at least for a while. As to the effectiveness of the war and the studies showing terrorism has increased, well, it has not increased in our home and that is our victory, the only reason they have not attacked here again since 9/11 is because they can't, and they can't because we are rolling them all around the parking lot.

Anyway, see what you did, you made me miss going to the Gym!

Dwight: Oh, don't confuse us with facts about the war. It shatters my whole sense of a dellusional reality!

Elena: don't give up on your kitty. Even though there is a chance that there is an underlying serious problem, it may actually be something we can work with. I have had tremendous success treating weight loss cats which we are suspicious of lymphoma with a combination of medications: prednisonlone 5mg once to twice daily, coupled with chlorambucil, 2 mg orally every 48 hrs. It's like chemotherapy but no where near as intense. It does not make them sick and they ofter respond great. I am currently treating several cats with this protocol and they are doing well. My guess is that the tests that have been done so far were done through our lab (ANTECH). This means that I can look them up and your vet can get as many consultations as he/she needs free of charge. I will be working the consult line on Wednesday and Friday. He'she can call me anytime at 800-745-4725.

Dwight and John: Thank you for your kind words. There is no doubt that the human-animal bond is stronger than ever, especially in first world countries. Pets have taken the place of children for many people. Weather people agree or disagree with this life-style is a different story. However the fact is that more now than ever, in our messed up society where families are broken appart, people have found tremendous strength, comfort and companionship in their pets.

DURBIN ANNOUNCES SENATE HEARING ON PET FOOD CONTAMINATION
Thursday, April 5, 2007

[CHICAGO, IL] - U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced the U.S. Senate will hold an oversight hearing on the ongoing investigation and the regulatory mechanisms that govern the pet food industry as the widespread recall of contaminated pet food continues.

"Many cats, dogs and other pets, considered members of the family are now suffering as a result of a deeply flawed pet food inspection system," said Durbin. "The FDA's response to this situation has been tragically slow. Pet owners deserve answers. The uncertainty about what is safe to feed their pets has gone on far too long. I want to learn exactly when the FDA knew about the contamination, who is inspecting pet food manufacturing plants, and whether we need to force the FDA to update their regulations to protect our pets. Most importantly, I want to hear how the FDA is going to work to resolve the current crisis and ensure this doesn't happen again."

Durbin, a member of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, is working with Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI), the Chairman of the Subcommittee, to schedule the hearing shortly after the Senate returns from recess next week. Hearing witnesses will include FDA officials who will be questioned on the timeline of the investigation, the source of the contamination, and the agency's regulatory and inspection responsibilities. The hearing will also include outside experts who will discuss the current state of the pet food industry, as well as regulatory or resource shortfalls that led to the widespread recall of tainted pet food.

While the FDA is reporting 15 animal deaths due to poisoning, the agency has received more than 10,000 complaints over the last several weeks. Reports of the actual number of animal deaths due to tainted food vary widely from other sources.

Durbin is urging the FDA to take action in three specific areas:

Delay in reporting. Menu Foods, Inc. first noticed a potential problem on February 20, 2007 but did not contact FDA until March 15, 2007. In the meantime, other companies were selling tainted product and the supplier wasn't aware that it had provided wheat gluten contaminated with melamine. Durbin wants companies that delay reporting to the FDA and endanger human and animal health to face penalties.

Lack of inspections. The Emporia, Kansas Menu Foods facility where many of these products were made had never been inspected by the FDA. The agency has been relying on the states to conduct inspections, but the FDA has jurisdiction over all pet food manufacturing facilities and the ultimate responsibility to ensure facilities comply with FDA standards. Where there should be federal regulation, there is instead a patchwork of state inspection systems and voluntary guidance. Durbin wants to require the FDA to work with the states to establish a standardized set of regulations and inspection requirements.

Incomplete data and reporting from the FDA. Blogs and nonprofit websites have filled a gap and become the most efficient way to share information on contaminations. Durbin wants to direct the FDA to create a similar information sharing system that would allow state veterinarians, pet owners and others to alert the FDA of possible contaminations.

Timeline

On March 16, 2007 Menu Foods, Inc. initiated a voluntary recall of 60 million cans and pouches of wet pet food. The recall involves 42 varieties of cat food and 53 varieties of dog food made at its Emporia, Kansas facility between December 3, 2006 and March 6, 2007.

The FDA, which has jurisdiction over the regulation and inspection of pet food processing facilities, announced the recall on March 17, 2007. According to FDA, it was first notified of the contamination on March 15, 2007.

In addition to the Menu Foods recall of 95 different labels of pet food, the recall was expanded between March 16 and March 31, 2007 to at least 4 more makers of pet food, all well-respected premium brand companies - Nestle Purina, maker of Alpo; Hill's Pet Nutrition, maker of Prescription Diet; P&G Pet Care, maker of Iams and Eukanuba; and Del Monte.

On March 26, 2007, in response to reports that Menu Foods and FDA were underreporting the number of animal illnesses (acute kidney failure) and deaths attributed to the contamination, Durbin and Congresswoman DeLauro sent a letter to Andrew von Eschenbach, Commissioner of the FDA, requesting that within 15 days the FDA provide information on the number of pet food manufacturing inspections and violations, a detailed timeline of the situation, an analysis of FDA's oversight of pet food manufacturing facilities and a report of actions taken since the recent pet food recall. A response is due by April 10, 2007.

On March 30, the FDA discovered that the source of the contamination was a melamine-contaminat ed batch of wheat gluten imported from China by a Chinese company called Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. Ltd, which is based in Wangdien, China. The same day, in response to the Xuzhou discovery, FDA issued guidelines blocking imports of wheat gluten from that company and stepped up inspections of all Chinese wheat gluten shipments.

On April 3, Nevada-based ChemNutra announced that it was the firm that had imported the contaminated wheat gluten and that it then provided the gluten to pet food companies. According to ChemNutra, all the wheat gluten went to pet food companies and should not be in the human food supply. ChemNutra initiated a nationwide recall of the contaminated wheat gluten product on April 2, 2007.

http://durbin. senate.gov/ record.cfm? id=271910

Georgina, WOW, you are one talented and busy woman! I didn't realize you were an internist and had all that specialized veterinary training and experience. I guess I forgot to ask you in Acapulco last year or was too drunk to remember if you told me all of that :)

And, I agree that it's up to a pet owner to decide if they want to pursue treatment and monitoring as they get near the end of their pet's lifespan. With all the medicine and technology available to a pet owner these days it makes it more of an option. Pets are just as important as kids to many people. I gladly spent $1500 to keep my beloved dog alive, even though he only ended up living one more week. My friend currently has an older dog with CHF and has been successfully treating him with diuretics and vasodialators for almost a year now.

Elena, give Bosco some lovin' kisses and hugs for me. Spoil him with some fresh fish or meat and give up buying cans of pet food until the FDA, stores, and vets get this thing all sorted out.

Alex, however noble the phrase, "if we don't fight them over there, we'll have to fight them here" sounds, I just can't think there's much truth to it. They will hate us no matter what we do, and I think being suckered into their religious/sectarian violence, war-lord battles, civil war, drug cartels, etc. does nothing to make us safer. In fact this extended "war on terror" is draining our reserves and soldiers and making us more vulnerable. How do you fight a suicide bomber or IED?

After we trashed the terrorists camps and scattered the individuals responsible for 9/11 we should have left. We could have taken the 400+ billion and invested that in border security, port security, and homeland security measures or even spent it on Americans which need the money more than Halliburton.

And, if you are still believe in taking the fight there makes things safer, don't listen to me, turn to the statistics on international terrorism from either the State Department's NCTC reports (which have political bias and statistical flaws) or RAND's (which use a narrower defintion of terrorism) and you'll see that terrorism is on the rise since we've taken the fight over there.

Why fight against some ethereal mindset for people who don't even want us in their countries? Today in Iraq our brave soldiers have fought and died so 10s of thousands of Shiites could tear up and stomp on Old Glory, spit in our face, and demand we leave.

Maybe you're right Alex, but my patience (like the majority of Americans) for this administration and war has run out.

Georgina - You are an angel for providing so much information! My secondary vet mentioned the biopsy. Essentially the feeling I got is that we could do the biopsy, which is expensive and invasive, find out Bosco has lymphoma, and then not really have any options other than more expensive surgery and tests, that will not cure it, just prolong things. Is that about right?

My sister came to DFW on Wednesday as my 17-year old nephew was playing in a soccer tournament. I had NO idea what a HUGE deal these things are! Parents pay thousands of dollars for "club" teams, to join, to buy all matching uniforms/sweats/bags/etc., travel to whatever tournament the coach selects.

Eric's team did not fare well in the tournament as they have only been a team for 3 weeks and have a new coach. The boys don't even know each other yet, so their play was not collaborative at all. But the individuals certainly had a lot of talent. Hope the coach can get them working together as a unit quickly. Eric had been top-scorer on his MD team so it was frustrating for him.

What is insane, they flew from Denver and were looking forward to some warm weather, yet there we were freezing our buns off on the field and it snowed!

I really did have a blast doing an Easter egg hunt and baskets for Alicia and her kids. The hidden eggs were all "cascarones" the eggs filled with confetti. I told the kids that the winner (most eggs) would get eggstra special treatment. Ashlyn and Lauren tied, and the treatment was that Eric, Alicia and I got to smash their eggs on their head. Big fun for all of us.

Georgina: Thank you so much for all the good info, and thanks for replying with such detail. Must be a difficult to see so many pets come in with this issue. Don't envy you at all.

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Sorry I hadn't commented on the tainted pet food. I hadn't had a chance to read the chat for a while. I am board certified in internal medicine and work full time for a specialty referral hospital. I am also a part time counsultant for an international veterinary laboratory called ANTECH diagnostics as well as a part time clinical pathologist for ANTECH. The recent events with the tainted pet food have kept me incredibly busy in all of my 3 jobs.

It has been an unfortunate ordeal. I have been involved with many dogs and cats that have been affected by the food, many of which have died. Needless to say, I have been receiving letters from attorneys which are getting busy trying to file law suits against the pet food company.

Hill's is currently working with us in covering the cost of screeing animals that have been exposed to the food.

Elena: with regards to weight loss in a cat: when the minimum data base (ie CBC, serum chemistry,thryoid hormone, UA, UMIC, radiographs, and abdominal ultrasound), are within normal limits, then the most likely cause for weight loss is a problem with the GI tract. In an older cat, GI lymphoma becomes the primary rule out followed by severe inflamatory bowel disease which is trying to convert into lymphoma. There is no blood test that will detect this. Only biopsies of the gut will provide a definitive diagnosis. The minimum data base at our practice runs about $1000. Obtaining GI biopsies is anywhere from $1200 to $3000, depending on the method we choose (endoscopy vs. surgery). The $350 for blood tests that you have spent sounds about right. It is important not to jump to conclusions and to have your vet (or a local specialist) go down the list of differentials systematically. It is the only way to arrive at a diagnosis so that a proper treatment plan can be recommended. With respect to a homecooked diet, I do have several recepies that I can recommend. I just need some specifics such as current medical conditions, body weight, and past pertinent history (for example any known allergies). Feel free to email me at gmarquez63@gmail.com.

John: It is often the owner's decision not to further pursue monitoring their pet as it gets older. With certain conditions, this could make sense. With kidney failure however, monitoring makes perfect sense. The reason is that we can actually do a lot to help their quality of life as well as their longevity, by monioring them closely. What I have found happens in general practice is that vets don't monitor some of the most important parameters and therefore, they can't really recommend much in the way of treatment. For example, they don't check blood pressure, they don't check acid base status, and they don't check the RBC count. They limit their rechecks to running a BUN and creatinine and then not doing much about anything else. Some of the typical treatments that we institute are subcutaneous fluids, calcitriol, erythropoietin, potassium supplementation, treatment for hypertension, bicarbonate supplementation, and most certainly a modification in their diet. For the right patient and owner we will even provide hemodialysis and kidney transplants.

Mike:
Just came back from CHitown on Wednesday it was nice and cool and actually snowed a little on Wednesday. Great choice for Blues, although the House of Blues Hotel is cool and trendy and House of Blues downstairs. If you have time and dont want Steak, i recommend "RIVA" at the Navy Pier the best seafood in the Midwest and great view of Downtown. Sorry I missed ya.

Loya - I have been asking myself why? Why would a man leave his family like this to put their life in harms way? At first I thought, how selfish. But then I realized that a selfish man wouldn't have the courage to do what you are doing. How do you make this kind of decision? Or is it even a decision? It's not like you were hoping not to get sent to one of the most desolate and violent places on earth. You wanted to go. Or maybe something was telling you that you needed to go. I don't know. This is way out of my league, far too complicated and downright frightening. My old man was drafted and hated every minute of it. Never once has he talked about that experience with me. And never having had that experience, believe it or not, it sometimes feels like I haven't fulfilled some requisite male rite of passage. Maybe I need to take up bunge jumping or something. But honestly, when you watch a movie like Flags of our Fathers, you can't help but wonder what kind of man you really are. Would I follow orders or cower in my boots? And the kicker is, I will never know unless I have that kind of experience. So, I guess I will never know. Loya, you have made me feel a lesser man because your cojones are far bigger than mine. Lao Tzu said being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. I can't image that a man alone could make this kind of decision and have think that your relationship with God has given you the strength and courage to see this through. I do hope we can sit down and have a beer together some day. I think I would like that.

John B. hilarious! That picture is so funny I had to save it to show it around!

Dwight, thanks for your kind words, I am not dreading going to Afghanistan, I am looking forward to it! I still remember how it felt that day, to see our homeland under fire and her people blown away, I still haven't forgotten how those towers fell, we had neighbors still inside going through a living hell, and I haven't forgotten those that went down like heroes in that Pennsylvania field... and the way I see it, if we don't fight them there, we will have to fight them here, so I don't mind taking the fight to them over there my brothah, not at all!... At the same time I hate to be away from my family for a long period of time, but that is the struggle every soldier with a family has,they desire to take the fight to the enemies of America there so that they won't be able to bring it here, but they hate to leave their families for so long, but ultimately we do it to preserve a nation for our children, free, and free of the fear so many around the world live with, where they can't even go eat at the pizza joint or ride a bus without a bomb going off. If we don't take th fight to them over there, that is what we will have here.

Anyway, my brothah, if you can get that virtual AHS going at 2nd Life that will be great! I look forward to it!

Regarding message 5862, I think we all had the best 3D world ever back in Mexico :)

Alex, seriously man, what you're doing, sacrificing, for our country is noble beyond anything I'm brave enough for. You're forever 21 in my book. Watch out for yourself and your Battalion, and I've got word from a close source who knows the main Dude will be watching over you and your family. Peace out my bruthah! OOOORaaaHHHH!!

John, DUDE, that is HILARIOUS!!!! :)

I have seen and used Second Life, if only to use as an example for 3D modeling for a "serious" game I was working on. It is easy to use and can get pretty interesting...but not somewhere where I'd chose to hang out.

But that being said, folks are making quite a nice bit of change making and selling stuff for that virtual world. Check out E-Bay and then search for "Second Life". Big are folks that have accumulated some "Linden" dollars while in the world and then resell to others.

Oh, oh...

Alex, that sucks you have to go over to Afghanistan. Keep your ass covered and don't do anything heroic. Maybe Congress can get you and the rest of the troops home as soon as possible. W will probably never let go no matter what happens or what the rest of the country says.

I have heard of Second Life, but haven't signed up for an account. It looks like a pretty cool 3D virtual environment to interact with. I guess I could take a crack at making one like AHS Mexico. I'll do a little research on the software and code.

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Mike L. yeah, that's it! 2nd Life! I guess it depends who you hang out with there, all it is it is a place where you can "talk" with your friends via live text messaging? or I m ming? whatever, you talk as you type, so if you hang with your friends you talk about whatever you and your friends talk about. It caught my attention when my daughter Kirsten, who is not allowed to go there unless I am around, or my wife (you never know who will try to talk to her), anyway, she had her little alter ego, avatar?, walking around this mall and there were all these virtual people walking around and then I saw, she went by a group of friends that were sitting around just talking to each other. In other words, their little virtual people were sitting talking while in real life the people were typing at the computer, you could even see the little virtual people moving there hands as the real people typed their messages. So, for example, if we had our own hang out world, cause you can build your own place, a beach, a city or whatever, if we had our own place and we went there, then you all's little people would be sitting there talking about concerts or soccer or partying or whatever other 2 inches deep subject you want to find :o) I figure one of you computer saavy people, like my buddy Dwight, could probably build a pretty cool place and then we could all construct our own virtual person to look like each of us forever 21 and if all of us got in and then we could invite the class of 80 and 82, then we could go in that world and hang out in the virtual world. We could all agree that certain times of the day we would expect more of us to stop by at the same time so we could hang. I think that would be really cool! So, Dwight, why don't you check out Second Life and see if you can build a hang out place for us and then we can all go in there and live chat through our virtual people, hooah?

I think that would be really cool.

Anyway, in other news, I finally got my final orders. I have to report at Fort Polk, Louisiana on 3 July, I am officially assigned to the 4th Brigade, 10th Mountain Division also known as the Patriot Brigade. Last time I told you all that was a possibility, then I got orders to join the 46th Engineer Battalion which hasn't even been to Iraq (I guess they've been busy rebuilding Louisiana), but yesterday I got ammended orders assigning me to the Patriot Brigade. That is a hard core, toe to toe, close with and destroy the enemies of America unit, not support, not logistics, not admin, it is a direct combat unit, a "fix bayonets" unit... hooah! It is what I have always wanted! I don't know why, I guess I'm crazy or maybe I am just wired that way, but I am really excited about it and I am looking forward to it! Once I get to Fort Polk in July, I got an MRE in August (Mission Readiness Exercise), which means I am deploying to Afghanistan, probably the end of August. This is it, my friends, my number is up, it is my turn now to go where many men have gone before in history and to confront face to face the enemies of our great American nation! I am looking forward to it!... although I am not looking forward to being away from my kids for an extended period of time (for which I am very grateful to the Lord that I will be deploying from Louisiana because Louisiana is home, and so my wife and kids will have their Maw Maw and cousins and friends and church family close by), and I am not looking forward to the suffering I will see, I just pray the Lord will spare my life and let me live until my children are grown, that is my request.

Anyway, my Buddy Dwight, see if you being a computer genius can set up a world for us at 2nd life, hooah?

Michael: Don't forget Buddy Guy's Blues Bar somewhere near Michigan Ave. There is a really cool day time liquor store about 2-3 blocks form Buddy Guy's where at night it magically turns into a bar. That is where you wanna go after a night of Blues at Buddy Guy's.
Have fun!

Thanks for the kind thoughts Dwight! Hey, I have to travel to Chicago next week..Does anyone that posts here live in Chicago and want to go with me to listen to Blues? There's a place in Palatine with 3 floors of Blues where Coco Taylor used to sing.

Mike, THAT IS AWESOME! Congratulations bro! VERY exciting amigo. What a wonderful thing to do in life, share the love with those that need it most :) I always looked up to you in high school and now I know why.

Speaking of taking your kid to concerts Mike if you read back a few posts you'll see that my daughter Chelsea and I went to the last Jackyl concert together here in Cincinnati. She's 18 now and has assumed the responsibility of driving her dad to shows so he can drink heavily :)

Hector: Felicidades de tu cumpleaños y de que por fin se van a deshacer del Nagual de Temo.

Hector: Felicidades y que la pases bien.

Elena: No problem with not meeting in CO. And no, I wouldn't be embarassed listening and interjecting into your "girl talk" but I understand. No need to comment more.

Our cat has been around for 19 years now and only in the last year has she been having some reinal failure, but that comes with old age. We did put her on prescription diet and that has helped, but we never gave her the regular stuff to begin with. We always fed her the Feline Maintenance from Hill's Science Diet, and based on the ingredients, it was better than the commercial, though not by much. The ash content was what we were working with.

We also opted to stop the vet's regular request for blood tests to monitor her advancement or not. After 19 years, we're just keeping her comfortable. When we asked the vet, he couldn't give us any good reasons to continue as we already had opted not to put her on special meds or surgery.

Still waiting to her Georgina weigh in on all this. (hint hint)

Haven't dealt with homemade cat food, but we do feed her some sardine and tuna juice occassionally. We keep her away from all dairy products.

Latest news is that "Pounce" treats have now also been found to be tainted so that might be the problem we have. Gotta throw away about 8 bags when I get home.

Really annoying is that Hill Science Diet too. So we pay extra to buy from vet, and it is sclock manufacturer stuff.

Anyone have any home cat food recipies they like? I'm going to look online and possibly do that for a while.

Michael: Good luck with the adoption process, I loved your comment on the rock concerts. I promised myself I would go to check out concerts with my kids when they grow up (if they want me around)
When in Vietnam you might want to check out Da Vang in concert. www.davang.com

Elena - Our cat Frank lost a ton of weight very quickly due to a fast growing tumor. I'd imagine the blood tests would catch something like that, right? This recall pretty scarry. We also found some tainted cat treats in our pantry!

Haven't logged in here in awhile...Alex Loya, are you talking about Second Life? I checked that out awhile back to see how we could use it where I work but lost interest. I did get to choose an avatar that looked like Iggy Pop and I could fly without taking drugs but in the end felt out of place and thought it best left to, what I imagined to be, a much younger crowd. Over the past year my wife Jennifer and I have been working through the long process of adopting a child from Vietnam. We completed all the paperwork and we're now waiting for a referral and expect to travel to Vietnam sometime in the fall. This will be my first child and I'm excited but scared to death. On the plus side, I'll have someone to go with me to rock concerts!

Elena, sorry to hear about your brother losing his cat. I'm not sure if they've determined it was the wheat gluten that the FDA discovered was contaminated with melamine or what the New York State Food Lab just recently had discovered as aminopterin, a banned rodent poison.

Here's a good current write-up on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_North_America_pet_food_recall

But, getting back to your questions about the $350 in blood tests. I don't think that the sort of blood tests your vet is screening for would necessarily have the sophistication to detect these compounds. The amount of cost to run blood samples through a gas or liquid chromatography mass spectrometer against known standards for the compounds identified above would be quite costly. Did your vet tell you what tests he actually ran? I would assume he probably performed the typical blood chemistry, parasite, bacterial, and viral battery. I also would think that if he performed a toxicological screening, it would be for the typical compounds that a pet would likely be poisoned by like ethylene glycol, lead, common pesticides, and other toxic household chemicals like rat poisons. Also, depending on how amount and how long ago the tainted food was ingested, your cat may have metabolized and eliminated most of the poison from his bloodstream.

Did you purchase any of the tainted food for your cat?

Alex, sounds like they're playing The Sims. Yes, we need one called Sims Colegio Americano :)

Elena: Ask Georgina she is the expert.

My brother lost his cat to that tainted pet food problem.

One of our cats has lost 1.5 of his 7 pounds and the vet was unable to figure out why. We already spent $350 on blood tests. I would think if it was the food, that would have shown up, wouldn't it have?

John - Sorry we did miss connecting with you. I had a full day of work stuff so Cindy just met me for a quick dinner. Since we'd not seen each other since the 20th reunion, we had a ton of "girl talk" that would have probably bored or embarrassed you ; )

My sister now lives in Parker so I'm assuming I will be going up more often and we will let you know if we coordinate another gathering.

Hey ya'll, my kids showed me some kidn of virtual world where you can actually have a virtual person and they have places to hang out and houses and everything, I think maybe we ought to find out how we could all get an alter ego in one of those virtual worlds and hang out and stuff, wouldn't that be great?!

Eric Clapton to hold Crossroads benefit

Eric Clapton is having a jam session with more than a dozen of his favorite guitar-playing pals, and everyone is invited.

Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival, scheduled July 28 in Chicago, will benefit Crossroads Centre, the drug-rehab facility he founded in Antigua a decade ago. Tickets go on sale Saturday.

Scheduled performers include B.B. King, Willie Nelson, Vince Gill, Sheryl Crow, Jeff Beck and John Mayer, among others — and Clapton is already excited about spontaneous collaborations.

"Some of it's mapped and some of it isn't," he said Wednesday by phone from Winnipeg, Canada, where he is on tour. "We have to leave a little bit of it to chance."

This will be the second concert Clapton has held to raise funds for the Caribbean rehab facility, which now includes a halfway house and community-education program. The first concert was in Dallas in 2004.

Many performers plan to return — "A great testament to how much everybody loves Eric Clapton," said Gill, who played at the first Crossroads fest.

Establishing the rehab center fulfilled a personal dream, Clapton said.

"I haven't had a drink or drug for quite a long time and it's changed my life completely. That's something I want to pass on and share with other people," he said.

Clapton said clinics such as Crossroads are "very necessary."

"I think it's suffered a little bit in some of the recent publicity with the celebrities who go there," he said. "It's a bit of a witch hunt going on in some of the news channels about rehabs in general. It's a little scary because ... the last thing we want is to lose any of the rehabs."

The 62-year-old guitarist is set to wrap up his world tour in April and "have a little break in England" with his family before the Crossroads concert.

"Then I'm going to disappear for a year or two," he said, "and have some fun."

Ah, if only so...sadly, never heard back from Elena or Cindy. I had the day free too so would have liked to have met with them <sigh>.

And John B. getting in on a threesome. Life is good! :)

WHAT, The Who canceled their shows?!?!

To think that DF missed out on having all those reunited, inebriated, stumbling and mumbling AHSers! :)

Anacecilia: Coach Everest is now a 49er

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I have been burned by The Who twice in less than a week, yesterday's show in San Antonio was also postponed.

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Que onda gang! Miercoles 21???? Se va a hacer o no. Hablen por favor.

Para informarles que el concierto de the Who fue pospuesto debido a que el fresa de Roger Daltrey se echo una de mas, todavia no hay fecha para el concierto pero tan pronto sepa les aviso a ver si estas por aca Juarez. Dominic, te mando un mail mañana a ver que fish te apescadin con aquellito. bye

Alex: Gracias por los tips. A ver cuanto puedo conocer de tu ciudad en los pocos ratos que me liberen de mi cautiverio educativo.. ya te contaré. Por cierto que qué cab's... nada mas me voy y entonces la organizan. Saludos a todos en la mini reunión.

Gabriela... (aunque en mi memoria eres Yolanda...¿porqué será?) el correo de Gabriel... gortegaa@pqsidesa.com.mx. Perdón la tardanza pero quería verificarlo antes porque no estaba seguro. Me lo saludas!!!

¿Heyyy Hector Hernandez, andas por ahí o estás escondiendo tu cabeza de avestruz americanista bajo tierra? Me extraña< no leerte por acá. Un abrazo.

Saludos a todos!

Too bad as we had assembled quite a few alumni for this one. Going back to Austin and hopefully they won't cancel the Tuesday night show in San Antonio.

What a bummer>

El concierto de "The Who" el sabado 17 de Marzo fue POSPUESTO hasta nuevo aviso. Los boletos sirven para el concierto cuando se de o pueden regresarte el dinero a partir del 21 de Marzo.

Dominic: Not yet...haven't heard back (chuckle).

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Bauer: You dog!

Llegamos a Mexico como a las 3:00p.m. Digan adonde y nos vemos ahi en la noche del 21. Mala onda Dominic que no vas a estar. Quedate unos dias mas!!! Nacho y Salvador, hablen con Deko, Chucho, Ramon, Rodolfo, etc.

Elena/Cindy: Where and when are you guys getting together? Any chance I can join?

A los que van al concierto de El Quien, que envidia.

I'm excited to report that next Thursday I will have the opportunity to get together with Cindy Petrinovic in CO!

Ok. El 21 les parece bien?

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Alex J., seguro nos vemos, mi tel es 01 777 20 30 915 nextel de cuernavaca

Homero Menchaca: que onda! pues también a ver si nos vemos con Alex J.

Claro Janito echame una llamada y nos ponemos de acuerdo para vernos mi tel del salon es 5672-4914.

Janito: I am only in DF on Saturday for the Who concert and gone 1st thing sunday morning. We will have to do it some other time.

Ricardo: Que mala onda. Me hubiera gustado verte en Phoenix. Ve a un Mall en Tempe que se llama Mills. Esta sobre la I-10 y Baseline. Muy cerca del Hotel Buttes. Muy facil de encontrar. Es tipo outlet. Si quieres Outlets de verdad tienes que tomar la I-10 como una media hora fuera de Phoenix rumbo a Tucson. Estan en Casa Grande. Si te gusta el beisbol, los Anaheim Angels juegan pegadito al hotel. Te diviertes en Phoenix!

Homero: Hablame a casa de mi mama. es el 563-9059 o al 563-9214. Ojala nos podamos ver.

Deko, Nacho, George, Hector, Dominic, Salvador, Rodolfo !!!! que onda del 21 al 27 de marzo?

Hey Dwight, you forgot one other thing those Confederate rednecks are all up in arms about: Americans who think loving America and preserving her heritage, like being a Confederate, is a thing to be laughed at and loathed...

But I still love though brothah!

Hola Ricardo:
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yo estoy 21 y 22 de marzo en el df

Heyy Alex J. Lástima que vas a estar en el D.F. (talk about crossed conections), ¿adivina quien va a estar en Phoenix del 22 al 25 de Mar?? Bueno te la perdono si me recomiendas un buen Mall y un buen Outlet (para practcar el deporte favorito de los mexicanos en USA). Voy a estar en un curso en Tempe en el Buttes Resort del Marriot pero tendré unas horas para escaparme y voy a rentar un auto así que podré moverme. Ni modo compadre, espero que sea la próxima (quizá en Ene. 08) para el "follow up" del curso. Saludos a todos

Dominic, just posted your request on the 80 chat. Here's a link for future reference:

http://www.quicktopic.com/26/H/JQvjFtLNxvK
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Clapton ROCKS! Elena and Dominic, that is SWEET that you two got a chance to see him. I'd love to catch his show as I've never been blessed by one of his performances live.

Haven't heard of the Amero, but it would be funny to see all the redneck Confederates get all up in arms about that one. It's not such a big deal since we've already got them freakin' over Muslim clothing, people speaking Spanish, and walling off the borders.

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Van Halen Induction to the R n' R Hall of Fame.

The absence of most of Van Halen's founding members was downright sour. Eddie Van Halen, who went to rehab last week, was a no-show, as was his brother Alex. Former lead singer David Lee Roth, who sung such hits as "Jump" and "Panama," with the band, boycotted in a dispute over what song he would sing.
 
The only two who were present were Sammy Hagar and bassist Michael Anthony. Velvet Revolver performed two of the band's hits before Hagar and Anthony performed with the night's house band, led by Paul Shaffer.
Hagar said he wished his bandmates could be there, but "it's out of our control."
 
"It's hard for Mike and I to be up here to do this, but you couldn't have kept me away from this with a shotgun," Hagar said.

Dominic: Heheheh...that would be a feat. As it is, everyone's up in arms because they forgot to include the words "In God We Trust" from a few of the $1.00 coin pressings. Can you imagine what would happen if indeed we became an economic union with Canada and Mexico? How many folks would crawl out of the woodwork to fight that one?

As it stands, I'm against it. We're already devalued against the EURO and combining the US dollar as an unionized entity with others may only serve to further devalue it. Canada is already strong on its own, but I cannot say the same for the Mexican side of the equation.

The reason it work for Europe is because socially, they do act without borders. Adding a socio-economic rule and constitution further creates the union. We have closed boder policies between the US and Mexico (this has already been debated enough) and I do not see that changing but getting even more stricter. Creating a socio-economic union with Mexico would require these boders to dissapear in order for commerce to act as one. This will not happen. Therefore...Amero will not.

Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong...

What do you guys know about the plan to get rid of the dollar for the Amero? Some people are already freaking about this.

Dwight: Yes, the hypocracy amongst the neo-cons about the purjury and obstruction of justice conviction is so apparent that it is laughable. We'll see if indeed Shrub does things 'by the book' as he claimed. Apparantly, a presidential pardon requires a convicted fellon to wait five years before requesting a pardon. Theoretically, Shrub wouldn't pardon him if he indeed intends to do things by the book as he claimed during his campaigning speeches and after taking office when responding to Clinton's pardons. But we all know this adminstration does nothing "by the book." They make it up as they go in order to suit their needs. (Okay, stepping off of the soap box now.)

Elena: Saw the same Clapton show in San Antonio last Saturday, I agree, nothing worse than a bunch of old farts just sitting there. They will even yell at you to sit down if you stand for more than a minute. Reminds me of the Jethro Tull album: Too old to rock, too young to die.

I am extremely exited as we scored tickets for the POLICE show in Houston, I hope is not a bunch of 40something housewives wanting to listen to Sting solo stuff.

Had the good fortune of enjoying Eric Clapton here in Dallas last Wed. It does slay me that folks just sit in their seats like lumps on a log. Luckily we had the Capital One suite so I could stand, sway, dance...

Dwight: Could you please cut and paste the message about THE WHO and put it in the class of 80 chat, I have no idea how to get there and maybe some will show up for the PreWho festivities. I already posted in 82 and there are some dudes form 85-86 showing up.

Dominic, you sure called it with the Van Halen tour. But, I'm beginning to believe that you are blessed by the Rock Gods for all your belief and worship. May the Lords Daltry and Townsend reward you for your faith my brother. And, that goes for everyone else going to the THE WHO concert next week in DF. Have one kickass time!

John, interesting discovery. I'm all for the exploration of large, exposed ridges, caused by the separation and areas of hot-spewing lava.

Scooter Libby, what a role model for the administration. First it was, I'll fire anyone associated with leaking the CIA name. Then, six months or a year later it was I'll make sure they're accountable to any laws they broke. Now, we get regret and sorrow that he was convicted. Next, duh, um let me go out on a limb here and say that I think he may just get a pardon :)

George: For all those going to THE WHO next week in DF:
There will be a bunch of ex-AHS, all classes getting together for lunch and drinks on Saturday at 2pm at Salvador's Serrano restaurant " Villa Serrano" located at the corner of Eje 6 and Plutarco Elias Calles tel: 56724914 cel 5511491688. They are going to make paella at $ 120 pesos per plate (real good) and they have a full bar. The restaurant is located about 15 minutes from the concert and it has private parking so everyone can get extremely drunk and take a cab back and forth from the show.
Everyone is welcomed and hope to see you there!

Enjoying a mild hangover after a sold out Red Hot Chili Peppers concert last night in San Antonio. Them boys got it down and out, too much fun.
Although the Van Halen tour is now history, The Police tour is in full force, that should be comming to a city near you.

Ever heard the comment, "Yeah, but what if the earth split open and we all fell in?" Well, now scientists are going to find out.

Scientists study Earth's missing crust.

(Anyone notice the inconspicuous missing posts about Scooter's verdict?)

AnaCeci: Ni hablar, para la proxima. Espero les vaya muy bien.
Andres, Nacho, Ramon, Dominic, Salvador: Una salida entre el 21 y 27 de marzo en Mexico??????

Alex, que coraje, nosotros es justo cuando vamos a estar fuera. Nos toca convivir con Mickey Mouse.

Andres, have a good time y saludos a todos.

Gracias a todos por sus mensajes, Alex, Pominic, John, etc... Ayer y anteayer vi al Dominic, Salvador, Raza, Ramon Ricoy, Nacho Vizcarra, y hoy al rato vamos al Highway 61 Hoochie Coochie Blues Bar, yo nada mas voy a cuidar que se porten mal los niños...

Georgina: Perfecto! Ya sabes que tienen su casa en Phoenix.

Dominic, thanks for the heads up on NP. Jackyl rocked Saturday night and jammed for 2 hours straight. My daughter Chelsea enjoyed the show and even got to see the bouncers beat the piss out of some drunken rednecks right in front of her. We were standing next to the sound booth behind a railing up from the rowdy floor crowd, so we were fairly safe from the blast zone.

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Alex: Que tal que planeamos algo para ya sea Abril o quiza en el verano?. En abril podriamos ir a uno de esos hoteles super padres por alla por Scottsdale. A lo mejor nos podrian ir a visitar en el fin de semana? Creo que nuestro break es la segunda semana de abril.

Georgina, Tenemos Spring Break la semana del 19 de marzo. Vamos a Mexico del 21 al 27 de marzo. Ojala los podamos juntar pronto.

Genesis back and touring? Finally got my attention to dust off the party cobwebs...

Ramon: Voy a estar en el DF toda la semana que entra. El Martes en el Celtic's? Tambien me dicen que se pone bien los Miercoles en un lugar que se llama Bulldog and Ave. Revolucion (junto a la Comercial Mex)

Ann / Dwight: Dosen't look good for VH tour. It will be interesting next month to see Eddy, Alex, Michael, Roth + Haggar at the R & R Hall of fame induction. I bet some of them don't even show up.
Eddy has always been the problem, some people describe him as a mix of Michael Jackson and Axl Rose.
If VH dosen't go this summer, there is the Eagles tour + new album, The Who on tour + new album, Genesis reunited on tour & Rush new album due March 1st + tour etc etc. So there is plenty of shows for us old farts!

New music: If any of you are into guitar god type albums I can highly recomend the new album from guitarist Paul Gilbert. It really rocks!

Last but not least, for all you Pussy lovers out there, Nashville Pussy will be touring most of the US this spring.

Alex: Me parece una excelente idea. Hace poco Becca me estaba preguntando que cuando los vamos a ver. Nosotros tenemos spring break en Abril. Ustedes cuando?

I read in Rolling Stone magazine last week that Van Halen is touring with David Lee Roth and Wolfgang (Eddie's son) on bass.

I hope that isn't true Ann as I was hoping to catch one of the shows.

Tomorrow night my daughter and I will be rockin' at a Jackyl concert. Root Bound is opening up for them. Man, you gotta just love old age as now I can drink lots of beer, not worry about driving, and have the world's best designated driver take me home :)

www.rockmerollmejackylmeoff.com

So, Dominic, did you hear the nasty rumor that Van Halen is NOT touring?! What's up with that?

John B: The real problem is these are just exibition games. I will advice on real tournaments.

Hola Rosario: Espero la pasen bien en su reunion. Me los saludas!
 
Dominic: No seas anti-Hugo! Es la maxima exponencia del futbol mexicano. EEUU tiene un equipo joven muy fuerte. Jugaron contra Dinamarca antes. Venian con mas juego. Vamos a ver que tal en Copa America. Ahi se tiene que ver un buen futbol.

Georgina: Mis hijos vieron la foto de tus hijos y se mueren de ganas de verlos otra vez.

Dominic: I wish I could contribute. Alas, maybe here's the opportunity for me to get engaged at the beginning of the season. Anywhere in particular you can point us to in order to follow this year's season?

Hola Rosario! Me acuerdo muy bien de ti. Porva saludame a Ximena.

Janito: Pues las chelas an de haber estado muy buenas porque yo los vi como siempre. No le saben jugar a los gringos y siempre se ensartan a Mex en el contra golpe o en los tiros de esquina.
La escusa de Hugo la neta estuvo de hueva, que solo tuvo 1 dia para prepararse, Estados Unidos tambien solo tuvieron 1 dia y no convocaron a mas de la mitad de los que juegan en Eurapan.
Bueno, de todos modos ya estoy buscando boletos para Venezuela,(Copa America) quien se anima?

Como lo viste Hector? Alguien mas que quiera comentar?

Dominic: Si fui al juego. La verdad es que no los vi mal. Tuvieron muchas oportunidades de gol. Fue el primer juego y con pocos dias de entrenamiento. Dale chance.

Janito Boy: Did you go to the USA-MEX game?
Que verguenza verdad? Hugo sucks and will only be a travesty of excuses.

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Andres: Felicidades! Keep it going!

Gang: On my way to Mexico City March 21-27. I hope we can partyyyyyyyyy!

Dominic: Planes de ir a Mexico para ese entonces???

Hello to all members of the Class of ´81 and passerby´s:

Nice to see you´ll move along too in this chat!
Does anyone have the information for Dan Treviño ´81 or Danny Weston ´82??? should anyone be able to give me any info or suggestion as how to find them, please email me at: rosariolemosv@yahoo.com

Greetings to all, best always!

Rosario Lemos (Rose) ´82

Dominic: It is more like, "Windows?!?! We don't need no stinkin' Windows! Not when we have BEER!"

Bauer: Is that the Windows 2007 system? Sure looks like the best to date!

And of course...I take advantage of QuickTopic Pro to upload errata!

Dominic: Thought you might like my new computer.

Andres: Feliz cumpleaños.

Looks like indeed we were able to upgrade to QuickTopic Pro so thank you Dale and everyone else who chipped in.

Maroney: Consider it done.

Andres: Feliz cumpleaños mi estimado! Me las tomo por ti. Salud-2

Dominic. My wife would love a Mexico Who shirt. She wears a small. Speaking of my wife, she just accepted a posistion at the University of Western Ontario's Huron College teaching history. It is her dream job.

Happy Valentines to all! Y feliz cumpleanos Andres! Cuantos anos tienes ya? 44? Ya estas ruquito mi amigo!

Happy valentines Bears!

Neighborhood Rant: I serve on the homeowners board. We have a couple ladies on the board who are fixated on making our neighborhood look like Ft. Knox. First they campaigned for big, mongo gates (the old ones were elegant and understated, black with "ivy" on it. Now they want security cameras on each entrance. I'm just waiting for them to propose guard dogs and a moat.

Happy Valentine's to everybody.

Loya: Got it now.

Maroney: That is a very funny story, me ataque de la risa. Tell me your wife's T-shirt size and I will get her a Mexico Who shirt.

Elena: The big winning bet on the super bowl was the 15-1 odds on the first touchdown not being scored by either a running back, reciever or quarterback. The Bears returned the kick off for a TD.

Hey John, I think your furry friend's behavior was affected by global warming!

Dominic. I agree. The superbowl was a supersnore. Have a good time at the Who concert. They are my wife's favourite group.
I have an amusing story to tell. Last Saturday my son asked me if his hamster was alright. I went in to check and of course CHIP had assumed room temperature. This hamster was special to him because it had been given to him right after the death of my wife's sister who was married to my brother Mike. The hamster had been a healing balm. Rather than dragging out its tiny carcass we decided to sneak into town 20 miles away to "replace" CHIP. I headed into town not knowing the weather was changing for the worst. By the time I found a suitable replacement at The Critter Corner the temperature had dropped by 20 degrees and the winds had picked up to 50 clicks. Two miles from the farm I hit a whiteout. For those not familiar with this term it means that suddenly one cannot see. Not even 10 inches from the car. To make matters worse the replacement hamster chewed its way out of its carton. I managed to grab it and I stuffed it into my jacket. As I inched my way down the highway I suddely saw and accident. One of the cars took off and left the scene. The lady who was standing in the middle of the road turned out to be one of my son's teachers. She came into my car to seek shelter. Then the storm got really bad. So I called 911. As soon as the dispatch officer asked the nature of the emergency the replacement hamster began to bite me on the stomach. This was of course interpreted as screams of agony. But I was not about to explain to the officer why I had a hamster in my shirt in the middle of a blizzard. I tried to calmly explain our situation. By this time the hamster had gone postal. The lady I was helping was laughing hysterically. It was truely weird. We were told to stay put. While we were waiting we were being narrowly missed by transport trucks too stupid to stay off the road. Eventually I made it back and put the replacement hamster in CHIP'S cage. Our son not being stupid did not fall for this, thus after many tears he resolved to love his new hamster who he called Payton. And who says living in the wilds of Canada does not have its advantages. By the way. It has been Arctic cold for over a week. Brrr.

Gracias mi buen Dominic, but I know he is talking about being sober four years. "Pareja" is what Andres and I used to call each other when we were kids before we started hanging out with the Tepeji Gang. Andres and I used to hang out all the time, all through 8th grade it was just him and I hanging, we started calling each other "pareja" because Starsky and Hutch was our favorite show on TV and they called each other "pareja" in the Spanish speaking version. Billy Parra joined Andres and me in 9th grade, we used to hang out on the ramp under one of the arches until between 11th and 12th grade we had a falling out and Andres and Billy moved over to the smoking area with you all. I started hanging with a new kid, Brian Hardy, until some kids who thought lowly of me began to put a bad word in for me with him, whisperers separating chief friends, not a good thing, but I pray God will forgive them that sin and all their sin even as He forgave me, but then Andres and Billy and I made peace and I joined the infamous Tepeji Gang at the smoking lounge... and now you know the rest of the story.

Hi all. Just back from Vegas at the National Auto Dealers Assoc. annual conference (Capital One offeres auto loans through auto dealers). Imagine, 6 days being surrounded by car salesmen! I know you are all jealous.

Did get to see "O" for the 3rd time (love it) and go to the Wynn and Palm hotels, which were under construction last time I was in Vegas.

And it was interesting to be in that town for the SuperBowl. Wow there was a lot of money on every nuance of that game.

Loya: Andres is talking about 4 years of being sober, not about his pareja.

Andres: Will arrive in DF on friday 16th, will be at Salvadors restaurant at noon on the 17th, will proceed to drink heavy amounts of tequila and will then attend The Who at Foro Sol that night.
Sunday in Xoxhimilco puking from a chalupa.
You in or you out?

The super bore sucked! Boring game.

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Andres, gusto oir de to pareja! Felicidades en tu aniversario!

Here is another story for you all, about 7 months ago, back in July or August of last year, when I was first appointed as Chaplain for the 1st Battalion 1st SWTG(A) out at Camp Mackall, when they first gave me my office, I was looking for an outlet to plug in my lap top. When I found one, it had one of those orange utility looking extensions plugged in, I noticed the extension was coming out of some little humming gadget that was on top of a cabinet, but it didn't seem to lead anywhere else. Well, since it was my office I unplugged the orange extension and the humming thing stopped humming and I have been using that outlet ever since to plug in my lap top. Well, this last Thursday, six or seven months later, SGT Dawson, the man in charge of taking care of all our computers, says "Hey Chaplain, you mind if I take a look in your office?" I said, "Sure! Go ahead!" I let him in my office and he started looking around when he came up to the little humming gadget that had stopped humming six months ago, he followed the orange extension and saw that it was unplugged and he said "Huh, someone unplugged it!" It turns out that humming gadget somehow or other controlled the flow to some other gadget where they hold conferences when the Commanding General and the full bird Colonel come around Camp Mackall, and for the last six months they had been trying to figure out, called in specialists and everything, why that whatever it was wasn't working!... Hey man, that other SGT whose office they gave me didn't say a word to me or anyone else about that extension and the little humming box or anything, he just up and left to Fort Huachuca or something!

But, seriously,though, I have some really important information for you all! Now you can see anyone's Driver's License on the Internet, including your own! I just searched for mine and there it was...picture and all!.....
thanks Homeland Security!
 
Go to the web site, and check it out. It's unbelievable!!! I definitely removed mine. I suggest you do the same.
Just enter your name, city and state to see if yours is on file.
If your license comes on the screen, click the box marked "Please
Remove". This will remove it from public viewing, but not from law
enforcement.
 
Please notify all your friends so they can protect themselves, too. Believe me they will thank you for it.

http://www.license.shorturl.com/

A VER, DOMINIC, BARAJEAMELA MAS DESPACITO, CUANDO ES EL CONCIERTO DE THE WHO? Y CUANDO VIENES PARA VERNOS, HOY RECUPERE UNAS FOTOS DE ZIPO DE HACE AÑOS, PRONTO LAS SUBO, POR CIERTO CUAL ES EL LINK PARA LAS FOTOS DE TEPEJI GANG & FRIENDS? SALUDOS A TODOS, EL 4 DE ENERO CUMPLI 4 AÑOS DE YA SABEN QUE, ALEX, SALUDOS.

Fun Super Bowl last night. After the first touchdown, I thought the Bears were going to take it, but alas, the Colts were the better team. I didn't enjoy the commercials as much though I did find Bud's "Paper, Rock, or Scissors" pretty funny (okay, the Sierra Mist "Beard Combover" was pretty good too).

But I did come across this snippet which I did enjoy, it is an oldie, but a goodie...http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=ae1a...c2bd09232ca.1047101

Cheers...

Jen: I am sorry to hear about your dad. My thoughts are with you and your family.

Good to see this Board is as active as it is. Postea su servidor, Paul Freudenthaler, '82. For our brethren from the class of '81 - vamos a armar reunion en Acapulco de la clase de '82. It is scheduled to take place over Memorial Day weekend. We had over 100 attendees in 2002 - not sure if we'll hit those numbers in 2007 - but we'll sure try. No cabe mencionar que nos encantaria ver a nuestros colegas del '81. Saludos a todos.

Dale: I just noticed our "Upload a Picture" link is gone. Does this mean we didn't have enough folks pitching in to continue the QuickTopic Pro subscription?

Wonderful story Alex. Thanks for sharing it.

Maybe by then end of the year we can get all of our brothers and sisters home from Iraq. That's what I'd pray for!

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Jennifer, I am sorry to hear about your dad, I pray that you and your family will be comforted in this time of sorrow, perhaps you can take some comfort in knowing that your daddy lived a full and generous life, and that his eyes saw the beauty of God's creation.


Today I had the toughest, typical American Army Sergeant Major with the big chin, rough voice and foul mouth, at Camp Mackal, the Special Forces Training Ground where I work, come to me wanting to share something with me. I am always inviting him to my Spiritual Fitness Programs (Bible Studies), but he never comes, and whenever I see him I tell him "Hey Sergeant Major, I am praying for you and for your son in Iraq!" His son is a U.S. Marine who has been deployed in Iraq for a while. Well, this kind hearted, rough spoken, tough looking typical American Army Sergeant Major with the big chin came very sheepishly to me today and he said "Hey Chaplain..." and he proceeded to tell me something that happened this week. His son was out on a patroling convoy on one of four machine gun mounted humvees, at some point sensing a threat, they circled the wagons, and as they did so, there was a tremendous explosion! One of the humvees was blown to a thousand pieces, and so were the Marines in it, but the Sergeant Major's son, who was right there next to it, was not touched. The Sergeant Major, who will never come to hear the Bible, just wanted to tell me prayer worked, he said "I'm gonna tell my son that the ex Marine Chaplain was praying for him!" and, in his rough way without words, he asked me to keep praying for his son...

The Return of The Rivers

All the rivers run into the sea;
yet the sea is not full;
unto the place from whence the rivers come,
thither they return again.

It is raining today
in the mountains.

It is a warm green rain
with love
in its pockets
for spring is here,
and does not dream
of death.

Birds happen music
like clocks ticking heaves
in a land
where children love spiders,
and let them sleep
in their hair.

A slow rain sizzles
on the river
like a pan
full of frying flowers,
and with each drop
of rain
the ocean
begins again

-Richard Brautigan

And a fishing guide too! Sigh

Man, if I could only turn back time and get our Dads together, we'd surely spend lots of time fishing together in Mexico!

The next time I'm in Hershey, PA and stop by, maybe we can share some fishing stories and share some memories :)

Dwight - yes, my father spent many trips deep sea fishing in Zijuatanejo. We used to spend every New Year's on the beach there. Fly fishing was my father's first love. The Kootenai River is a great place for it. He spent many hours fishing for himself as well as guiding others down the river.

Thanks for your kind words. We had his memorial service yesterday and there wasn't a dry eye in the room. The room was packed and there were a couple of great life tributes. He touched many lives in the small town of Libby.

Jennifer, my dear girl, I'm so sorry to hear that you lost your Dad.

Man, a log cabin in the woods, in Montana wilderness! That's wonderful to hear that he lived along the banks of a beautiful river where he loved to fish. If I could pick a place on Earth to spend my days before leaving on that invisible spaceship I'd certainly pick a spot like your Dad :)

May you and your Mother enjoy those sweet memories forever and ever of the days together 'cross Mexico and Montana. I'm sure your Father must've been very proud of you Jennifer, your career, and the life he nurtured and shared with you. I bet he took pride and bragged often about his girl Jennifer :)

That is cool that your Dad was that into the Bear Boosters.

By the way, did your Dad get many chances to deep sea fish down in Mexico? I did a few times with my Dad off the coastline of Acapulco and Zijuatanejo. We still get up to Canada every other year or so to fish. I bet your Dad was heavily into fly fishing along the Kootenai River.

Jennifer, que pena. May he rest in peace, and peace for you and your family.

Jennifer: Jennifer, my greatest condolences. I did not have the opportunity to meet your father but it sounds like he did touch many lives. I wish you and your family the best in these trying times.

I sent an email to many AHS'ers that I had addresses for, but realized that I didn't have Tennyson's and others that might want to know.

I wanted to let you know that my father passed away peacefully on Wed 1/17 at home in Libby, Montana. My sister Laurie, mother and myself were all with him. He had a long, brave battle with prostate cancer that finally took over. While we were in Mexico '72-'91, my father was active in the Bear Boosters and served as the president for a couple of years. In addition, he also served on the board of directors for ASF for several years. In fact, when I graduated, he was able to present me my diploma.

He and my mother have lived in Libby, Montana since '91 in a log cabin on the Kootenai River where he loved to fish. He will be missed, but he certainly left a wonderful memory for those that he knew and that loved him.

Something to smile about...

1. How Do You Catch a Unique Rabbit?
Unique Up On It.

2. How Do You Catch a Tame Rabbit?
Tame Way, Unique Up On It.

3. How Do Crazy People Go Through The Forest?
They Take The Psycho Path.

4. How Do You Get Holy Water?
You Boil The Hell Out Of It.

5. What Do Fish Say When They Hit a Concrete Wall?
Dam!

6. What Do Eskimos Get From Sitting On The Ice too Long?
Polaroid's.
 
7. What Do You Call a Boomerang That Doesn't work?
A Stick.

8. What Do You Call Cheese That Isn't Yours?
Nacho Cheese.

9. What Do You Call Santa's Helpers?
Subordinate Clauses.

10 What Do You Call Four Bullfighters In Quicksand?
Quattro Sinko.

11. What Do You Get From a Pampered Cow?
Spoiled Milk.

12. What Do You Get When You Cross a Snowman With a Vampire?
Frostbite.

13. What Lies At The Bottom Of The Ocean And Twitches?
A Nervous Wreck.

14. What's The Difference Between Roast Beef And Pea Soup?
Anyone Can Roast Beef.

15. Where Do You Find a Dog With No Legs?
Right Where You Left Him

16. Why Do Gorillas Have Big Nostrils?
Because They Have Big Fingers.

17. Why Don't Blind People Like To Sky Dive?
Because It Scares The Dog.

18. What Kind Of Coffee Was Served On The Titanic?
Sanka.

19. What Is The Difference Between a Harley And a Hoover?
The Location Of The Dirt Bag.

20. Why Did Pilgrims' Pants Always Fall Down?
Because They Wore Their Belt Buckle On Their Hat.

21. How are aTexasTornado And an Alabama Divorce The Same?
Somebody's Gonna Lose A Trailer!

Ramon/ Anaceci: Yo ya tengo mi boleto pero si tu y John compran 2 juntos pues ya es mas facil. Creo que Rodolfo Rodriguez tambien andaba buscando boletos. La idea es vernos en el restaurant de Chavita que esta en el eje 6 esquina con Plutarco Elias calles porque queda cerca del Foro Sol.
Dice Chavita que si le decimos cuantos vamos hace una mega paella y pone musica de The Who para ambientarnos.
La pregunta seria, despues del concierto a donde?

Dominic: Si tengo mi grupo y todos con boleto.

What do not check email for a week and there is a concert get together going on whats up?

Talking about Football here is a new one to start off the year.

COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAM FOR STUDENT ATHLETES

Time Limit: 3 WEEKS

1. What language is spoken in France?

2. Give a dissertation on the ancient Babylonian Empire with
particular reference to architecture, literature, law and
social conditions -OR- Give the first name of Pierre Trudeau.

3. Would you ask William Shakespeare to

         ____ (a) build a bridge
         ____ (b) sail the ocean
         ____ (c) lead an army or
         ____ (d) WRITE A PLAY

4. What religion is the Pope? (check only one)
         ____ (a) Jewish
         ____ (b) Catholic
         ____ (c) Hindu
         ____ (d) Polish
         ____ (e) Agnostic

5. Metric conversion. How many feet is 0.0 meters?

6. What time is it when the big hand is on the 12 and the
little hand is on the 5?

7. How many commandments was Moses given? (approximately)

8. What are people in America's far north called?
         ____ (a) Westerners
         ____ (b) Southerners
         ____ (c) Northerners

9. Spell -- Bush, Carter and Clinton

         Bush: __________________________
         Carter: __________________________
         Clinton: __________________________

Anacecilia: Dejame ver si le sobra un boleto a Pepe Botellas (sorry, I don't recall his real name) del class of 81 y le damos ese boleto a John. En caso de que no haya, que se compre uno y nos vemos en un bar antes del concierto, nos vamos juntos al concierto y luego nos regresamos al bar juntos. Creo que George ya tambien a de tener su grupo de cuates ya todos con boleto? De todos modos, la idea es juntar a mucha gente antes del concierto para un warm-up y de ahi irnos juntos.

Dominic, que increible no? It's time for the Niners comeback. BTW, why rainbow team, porque son de S.F.? :)

John doesn't have a ticket yet. Donde lo compra y en que seccion.

Anacecilia: The Rainbow Team , better know as the SF 49ers.
The job for Special Team coach is wide open as Texas head coach Mack Brown announced on Sunday that the search for a new co-DC is over and 49ers special teams coordinator Larry Mac Duff will take over the assistant head coach position.
My cristal ball says Coach Everest WILL be the next special teams coach for the Rainbow team.
Does John have a ticket for The Who yet?

Dominic. Barrett says that it will be Saints vs Patriots in the Superbowl and that the Saints will win it all by at least 10 points.

Dominic: Dang, I couldn't and wouldn't recognize him if he walked right up to me. I remember partying with the VH crew back in September of '92 or '93 while they played here in Denver...my wife even ended up with several sets of Alex's drum sticks that day. It was also the day of a terrible snowstorm and the concert went on, even though it was an outside venue and folks were throwing snow at Eddie.

We were friends with the head carpenter for that tour. We ended up leaving a tape of "The Doctor" on the bus for the band to watch (is was all about video psychotherapy -- http://www.videopsychotherapy.com).

Anyway...that was a good 14 years ago which was my last VH concert (or any 70/80's rock band concert for that matter). I've mellowed out too much!

A ver, con sus bolas de cristal, (y no es albur). Is it true Coach Everest will be the next special teams coach for the S.F. 49'ers? oohhh yeah!!! GO NINERS!!!!!

George and Dominic, John says if he can join you. George, John te va a mandar un mail para ponerse de acuerdo. Yo en esta si paso.

George: We are trying to put together a WHO pre concert get together at Salvador Serrano's (class of 81) restaurant near Foro Sol, I will keep you informed.

Dominic: Do you have a crystal ball too. How did you know I was going to The Who Concert on March 17th? Yes I would love back stage passes!! Thanks Dominic.

Edited by author 01-14-2007 11:16 PM
Allison and Dwight, thank you, I love my baby!

Hey,Eddie and Alex Van Halen were my cousins' (Mark, Russ and Art) next door neighbors when they were growing up in Fullerton, California... is this a case of sixth degree?...

Dwight: You got it right!, it's Michael Anthony himself just hanging out at a pretty cool place called Tabasco Beach where you can order your first drink of the morning by 8:00 am.

Ann: Time to organize a class reunion somewhere in the beach.

John B: Michael Anthony is the bass player for Van Halen. He is a good friend and band mate in Van Halen of Sammy Hagar who owns the Cabo Wabo Cantina in Cabo San Lucas. Since it was New Years, he was down there doing a few shows (for free) at the Cantina with Hagar and the drummer of The Red Hot Chili Peppers and a few other musicians.
Anyway, if anyone can get down to Cabo 1st week in October we will party like it was 1981, see you all there!

George: Need back stage tickets for The Who March 17th in DF?

Maroney: What is Barrett feeling for this next Sunday? Colts-Patriots and Saints-Bears

Rock News:
Rumor has it Van Halen will tour next year without Sammy or Anthony as those guys will be replaced on bass by Wolfgang Van Halen (son of Eddy) and lead vocal will be the son of Alex Van Halen (the drummer)if they can't come to an agreement with Diamond Dave. Who knows about all that gossip, those guys have so much freaking money they really don't need to tour. If you guys really want hear a kick-ass band who is going to rule the airwaves, get debut album from the Australian band, Wolfmother.

Dominic: Ah, what a wonderful sight to behold from below freezing Colorado! Okay, so who's that with you?

Dominic: Just looking at that picture I can feel the heat and ocean breezes and taste the booze. Wish I was on a beach!

Damn D! That is one sweet photo with Michael Anthony! :)

This is one of my ticket sources.

Yes George, I should never try and out party or do the BIG D! :)

Isn't Michael Anthony being replaced by Eddie's son for the upcoming Van Halen tour? I hope David Lee Roth is the frontman this time!

Dwight: I told you Dominic has inside sources. He knows about partys and concerts before they print the tickets.

Hello to everyone and a Happy New Year.My New Years resolution is a simple and accomplishable one: Fight for My Right to Party!

Maroney: Got back from Cabo Saturday night to see (as I predicted in this site) my Cowboys blow it. Felt bad for Romo but in reality the Cowboys have struggled since New Orleans whacked us 5-6 weeks ago.

Dwight: Sorry my friend, beat you to a Rock Show this year. caught the New Years, Jan 2 and Jan 5 show's at the Cabo Wabo with Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony from Van Halen and the drummer for the Chili Peppers Chad Smith who by the way is a Monster of a drummer.

Hi everyone from Yuma, Arizona! Happy New Year.

Alex: Your daughter looks like a little sweetie.

Dominic. As I was watching the end of the game I somehow knew the Vaqueros were going to screw it up. But holy cow. What a way to mess things up.

My poor Cowboys! So sad......

Si, Bellisima!

Edited by author 01-06-2007 01:22 PM

Santa brought me this little doll, mini Snow White! (My little baby girl Carissa)Isn't she beautiful?

I did well. Santa brought me a whole new wardrobe. Yeah!!
Dwight. Do the locals icefish near your neck of the woods? Last year there was no icefishing because of warmer temperatures. It looks like the same is in store for this season. There has never been two winters back to back where the water does not freeze. I reckon that the unemployed makinaw jacket wearing human gastropods will have to figure out something else to do. Go figure. The Bingo Palace is an option but most of them wear wrist braces thus they cannot hold the Bingo dobbers.
Dominic. Como te la pasaste?

Happy New Year all!

Dale, you should have already received my contribution for this year...

RE: Solstice gifts -- I received new underwear and socks too! My media gift this year was Star Trek TNG Season 7...completing my collection. In addtion: Sudoku Variants puzzle book, a wonderful adult oriented page-a-day calendar, some wonderful handmade gifts, and a NEW CONGRESS!!!

So, what did everyone get for Christmas? I got new underwear and socks (as always from my mother-in-law), a Lewis Black DVD, Bengals T-shirt and mug, and a $100 gift certificate to Best Buy.

Dominic, how was New Year's in Cabo? See anyone famous or any fellow AHSers?

Dang, I'm all ready for another reunion in Mexico :)

:) Oooo... oooo...

Edited by author 01-05-2007 09:52 AM
Sorry Dwight It was a mirror image of yourself. I don't smoke.

Alex, I thought that site had our class picture. All I saw was one of you and George Ortes in the smoking lounge.

Alex: Great pics! :-)

Dale, sorry I said I was going to send you money last year and didn't. I have your address and will send some dinero your way.

Man, I was so drunk after watching the Bengals lose on New Years I really didn't need to drink much the rest of the night. But, I remembered the words of wisdom from Dominic, PARTY LIKE A ROCK STAR! :)

John M, I can buy Sidral at a grocery store about 5 miles from my house. Come to think of it, we've got quite a few Mexicans hanging around the county lately. Keep 'em coming and soon I'll have cacajuates japones y cajeta to enjoy :)

John B, thanks man, I appreciate that.

George, u's 8 up :)

Homero, around here you have to watch out for the 12 gauge deer slugs fired into the sky New Years Eve at midnight by your redneck neighbors :)

Have a great New Year everybody, and check out our class picture at
http://www.worldschoolphotographs.com/ (no need to register).

Feliz Ano Nuevo everyone!

Edited by author 01-01-2007 09:52 PM
Happy New Year to all!... today I revived an old Acadian custom my forefathers used to practice every New Year. The Acadians would hold a midnight mass New Year's eve and then they would go home and celebrate, eating food and hanging out, and eating the famous beignettes. Then the dad would go to each one of his children and do a sign of the cross on each one of their foreheads and pronounce a blessing on each of them for the coming New Year.

Well, being a Southern Baptist I don't do the mass, and my children being yet so small they don't stay up to receive the New Year, except for the two older ones. What I did do, however, and I will do from this year on even as my forefathers did two hundred and fifty years ago is today after we ate I went around the table to each one of my kids, did a little sign of the cross with my thumb on each one of their foreheads, laid my right hand on each one of their heads and prayed for each one of them asking God to bless each one of them this coming year... next year we will probably be back in Louisiana... and we will bring back the beignettes.

John B. good to hear you are light, I think we should just keep it that way cause you and I are both very passionate about what we believe from opposing sides so we will just always end up buttin' heads. We do have some things in common, though, the AHS is a big one, and I'm sure we could find other stuff in common if we didn't butt heads so much. I don't think I need to be concerned so much about being shot by my own soldiers, but they did find a terrorist manual in which the enemy combatants are instructed to target the American chaplains because, they believe, that destroys the American soldiers' morale. Anyway, I hope you had a happy New Year!

George, its like water off a ducks back! I am Mr. Teflon!

John M. I did el brindis with ice tea and my wife and oldest daughter with white grape juice, I haven't had a chela in, let's see... 24 going on 25 years, just about a quarter of a century! I never did drink too much beer anyway.

Homero, your advice to "duck!" reminds me of how in the Marines we were told that in Viet Nam there were a lot more black Marines than white Marines killed in action because every time the Viet Cong would start shooting at us someone would shout "Get down!"... and the black Marines would get up and start dancing!... I think "duck!" would have been better than "get down!"... of course, nowadays with the Aflac commercials...

Dale, how does the pay pal work again to send you some money via email?

Hey Ann, the way you tell dem boyz "Ninos! Ya basta!" only serves to magnify the way you tell me "You da' man!"... I like the contrast! :)

Have a safe and happy new year. My son Barrett and I will be driving to town to pick up a couple of bottles of Sidral Mundet to celebrate. It is sold in this area of Canada because of the number of Mexican migrant workers.
Anybody else having a dry new years? It has been nearly 18 years since I last had a chela. How about you Loya?

Feliz Año Nuevo everybody!... Cuidado con los cuetes, I mean both the firecrackers and the drunkos...

Loya, four letters of advice... duck

Arriba las Chivas!

Ninos: Ya basta!

Grow up

Alex: Oh, I'm light, man, I'm light <G>. It is philosophy, politics, and religion that divides us. And as we have not much in common other than that, I would say we will always be at odds. I do recommend that you do watch out for friendly fire while you're deployed in Iraq. You wouldn't want to come back and have to increase your medication like George does <LOL>.

Edited by author 12-28-2006 12:07 AM
Dwight: La chica joven y sexy en el centro de la foto. Es mucho mas que hermosa y bella. Es una verdadera joya de la naturaleza. Ademas de que todavia me quita el aliento con el solo verla.:P
 Congratulation on your 21st wedding annivesary.

Alex L.: No need to thank me. Just come back to your family.
 I almost forgot. Just ignore him. Tomate tus pastillas de valemadrinas y ponte el traje de teflon para que no se te pegue la caca.

Edited by author 12-27-2006 08:47 PM
Georgina, great! Thanks for letting me know your kids loved the Santa tracking site! My kids loved it too, but they were devastated when I read to them the latest updates posted by John and Dwight! By the way, you have a beautiful family, thanks for sharing the picture... hey, your baby girl looks just like you! She is your "mini me"!

George, thanks man, I will be sure to do that... hey Dwight they have body armour that covers all the way down south, I think I'll have one of those!

Pominic, I will not worry, I will trust.

Oh boy! Oh boy Johny B.! Lighten up! I do think I touched a raw nerve! You said the pagan gods are not forgotten by you when I said millions worship Christ,that tells me you worhip them, no? I was just asking an honest question of you man, no need to be so touchy! I bet Santa didn't bring you anything but a big lump of coal and a big bowl of fruit loops, Mr. Touchy Pants! You sure spend a lot of energy and thought antagonizing Someone you think does not exist! Go figure! By the way, that's God with a big "G", talking about showing respect for other people's beliefs!... now take a big breath, count to ten and relaaaax... and have a happy New Year!

Georgina: Very lovely picture of your family.

Dwight: 21 years? Congratulations man! May you and your wife enjoy 50 more!

Happy New Year's Everyone!

Georgina, que bonita hijo y hija. Man, I remember when mine were that little, sigh :`(

George, haber, pero tu sabes la chica joven en el centro de la foto esta muy hermosa y bella? Yaaa...ya..si..si :P

Alex L, also don't forget to bring an extra helmet along and sit on it if you are still planning on having more kids.

Georgina, how's John doing? You guys going out for New Years? It'll be my 21st wedding anniversary that night. Hard to believe how fast those years have gone by. You know what they say, time flies when you're having fun :)

Yava Yappy Yew Year Yeverybody

Edited by author 12-27-2006 09:52 AM
Georgina: Que bonita Familia.

Dwight: Dominic has a special talent to track down concerts, before anyone knows about it. He must have a spy somewhere deep inside the record companys. Or a witch doctor.

Dominic: How do you do it. Good Luck to your Longhorns on there bowl game.

Alaex L.: Remember to keep your head down and your flack jacket on always. Even to the bathroom.

Happy NEW YEAR to all. Best wishes.