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Archive for January, 2009

Bill Cosby

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

cos2.jpgThe first thing that comes to my head whenever I think about Bill Cosby is Jello Pudding Pops. Yes, although Bill Cosby is a household name, a perennial favorite star of television, stand-up comedy, recorded media, movies, and was the original Fat Albert, it is Pudding Pops that I think of first. Perhaps this is because whenever I do my lame imitation of Cosby (which always drove my ex-wife Carolyn insane), I always mention Pudding Pops. Read the rest of this entry »

jan12.jpgI’m starting to get this whole January thing down. It goes something like this: the weather gets unbelievably cold and I set some immediate weight loss / get in shape goals that I stick to for a couple of weeks, then decide that it is too cold to care too much and put it off until Feburary. Or something like that. I got back on the treadmill, back on the salmon, and on a strict movie-watching and website-posting schedule. It’s all good stuff, but when the temperature dropped to -11, it just made me want to crawl into bed, eat, and watch TV. But it’s all good… Read the rest of this entry »

The Hills Were Alive…

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

sound3.jpgAfter the nauseating experience of Dachau, I felt a little guilty about us popping into a German McDonalds located not a mile away from the site of the concentration camp. Jimmy was hesitant to stop at all seeing that we had spent an extra half hour at Dachau than we had budgeted. The plan was to spend two hours from 11am-1pm driving our rental car from Dachau to Salzburg, Austria on the afternoon of Saturday, July 18, our last day in Europe. The McDonalds was my first in Europe. It was tasty, but the drive didn’t go as smoothly as the food went down.  Read the rest of this entry »

How I Got Lost in Space

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

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Introducing Megan Anne

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

megan3.jpgWell over two years have passed since this website began on the day that my first nephew was born on September 13, 2006. Now I proudly present Adam’s new sister Megan Anne Ockerman. She was born at 9:10am this morning, coming in at 6 pounds 13 ounces, and 19 inches long. Denise had been scheduled to be induced on this day if she had not gone into labor beforehand. Read the rest of this entry »