Archive for October, 2008

rod southard benefit

October 14th, 2008

My friend, Rod Southard, has been in the hospital since June 9, 2008 with pancreatitis and many other complications. Rod is a father, husband, son, brother, principal and friend to many.

Family and friends are conducting a garage sale for the rising costs of the hospital stay on November 8 at the Guyer High School parking lot.

If you have things to donate or can help in any way … go to this link and contact Morgan or just sign up. If you are not familiar with his story … you can read about it here.

I know that Jami and the family would appreciate anything you could do … but if you can’t help in that way … at least pray. Rod has two little boys and two girls in college … you can imagine the stress that he and his family are going through. You can keep up with his progress through the caring bridge site. I’ll go out on a limb here and say that … monetary donations could also be helpful.

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cotton bowl 08

October 13th, 2008

Pictured here is a shot of the front of the cotton bowl in October of 2008 … one day prior to the Texas beat down of OU. It’s nice, for a change, to not have those OU little window flags mocking me as I drive down the road. Even though I really could care less of who won or lost … Dallas is always the winner with Texas/OU weekend … they make bank on this deal. I did feel really sorry for those folks who got their cars impounded by an unscrupulous tow company. Those are the folks who really made bank … charging $200 a car AFTER they put up no parking signs. At least that’s what they said on the news … and you know channel 8 news is always right.

I took this pic myself (the day before the game) … there would be no way that I would pay $150 a ticket to fight the traffic on the actual day of the event. I think I only like the horns … because they were our mascot in High School.

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the journey music venue

October 12th, 2008


the journey, pilot point will be opening in November … hopefully. Our plan is to have a weekend music venue for teens and young adults. It’s another labor of love for our community. The area really does not have any place like this. Small towns are pretty much known for not much to do on the weekends … except watch tv and roam the streets.

of course we have a myspace page … myspace.com/thejourneypilotpoint

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should have been farkeling

October 8th, 2008

Before I start, farkel is a folk game played with dice similar to yahtzee. With that said … I should have been playing that instead of watching the debate last night … at least it would have been productive. Another 90 minutes of ducking the questions and finger wagging. As an UNDECIDED, I still am. I was so desperate yesterday I looked at the “other” candidates that are on the ticket in all 50 states. Some would say … stop, you will just waste your vote if you vote for an independent. At this point … at least I could say in 6 months … I didn’t vote for either of those two yahoos.  Honestly, I don’t trust either of them. Both have ties special interest money or partisian politics … which, in my opinion will not improve our situation at all. All of their “fixes” for America will come too late for most people. Do we have a president NOW that could help the housing markets as both candidates claim they will fix? Wait … both these guys are senators … couldn’t they do something NOW.

My fear is if Obama wins … I will be out of business. His ideas for small business owners sound like they will cost me so much that I will price myself out of my markets. Like … a fine for not providing health care? If McCain wins he will continue to deregulate everything to the point that the greed at the top of the food chain will continue to keep the country in a financial mess.

What will happen? See, I told you … I just should have been rolling the dice.

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