Maegan has become an intense reader lately, reading for hours each night. Last night Maegan finished Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which she got for Chanukah just about a six weeks ago. Now she’s trying to decide between going backwards to The Chamber of Secrets or forward to The Goblet of Fire. She [...]
The 21st Annual Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards were held tonight in Nashville. I won my second Emmy Award for The Mayberry Code.
Yesterday was Patty’s last day working as Administrative Office Manager for homebuilder Brentwood Homes (formerly Hampton Homes). No, she is not taking an early maternity leave and that’s all I can say. Patty gave her notice two weeks ago, after five and a half years of loyal and dedicated service.
My long list of website updates, upgrades, and fixes contiues to grow. Between this website and several others I operate, I’ve been stuck in limbo waiting for: phpBB3 – This message board upgrade (for another website) is huge, but it was expected to be released last summer. Come on already! New Blogger – Google’s Blogger.com [...]
Today is our 10th wedding anniversary. We were married on January 18th, 1997 at the Milleridge Inn on Long Island. The traditional tenth wedding anniversary gift is tin – what’s the deal with that? Last month we celebrated our anniversary early with a trip to Tybee Island and Savannah in Georgia. P.S. Wow look at [...]
Yesterday ESPN reported that Yankee Stadium will host the 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in its final year before being replaced by a new Yankee Stadium in 2009. Just like Yankee Stadium, 2008 will also be the final season Shea Stadium before the Mets begin playing at their new stadium, CitiField, in 2009. By [...]
Last year my television station launched a major multi-media promotional campaign for a contest called The Mayberry Code. (I blogged about receiving an Emmy nomination for the promo and I’ll find out if I won in two more weeks.) My totally original concept was to place Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show in the [...]
Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd announced yesterday that he will run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. It’s way too early for me to decide which candidates to back but I mention Dodd’s announcement because my sister Amy worked for him as a Fellow in 1998 and 1999. Amy worked on some of the bills [...]
I watched the presidential address last night. Am I the only one that found it ironic that George W. Bush publicly preached the virtues of communism as the answer to the turmoil in Iraq? Let me say that again. The President of the United States of America said that communism would be great for a [...]
I present this extensive list of useless yet interesting trivia about my alma mater, SUNY Plattsburgh. Send a link to this post to other Plattsburgh State alumni you know! ( The URL of this post is http://www.theusualsusspects.com/blog/2007/01/suny-plattsburgh-trivia/ ) Updated 2/27/08 Before the State University of New York System was founded, SUNY Plattsburgh was named the [...]