2:51AM

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

✓ I miss somebody right now.	× I don't watch much TV these days.	× I own lots of books.
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses.	× I love to play video games.	✓ I've tried marijuana.
✓ I've watched porn movies.	× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.	✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
✓ I curse sometimes.  (How about most of the time. Especially driving in this city. I think I have tourette's.)	× I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.	× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.

( it goes on... )

2:11AM - Hehehehe!!!!

How evil are you?

11:57PM

And then there were two.

The two teams for the World Cup final will be...

France vs. Italy

Or it's also called  Les Bleus vs. the Azzurri.

I'm going to predict that Italy will win.  It's just something about Italian men, lol.  *sigh*

11:42PM

I'm not going to pick which two teams will be in the final round at the World Cup because I know I'll be wrong.  I wanted Switzerland to win yesterday but they lost to the Ukraine.  I felt so sorry for the goalie for the Swiss team.  Poor guy.
Then I wanted Spain to win today against the French old guys.  But, alas, Spain lost to France.  (Damn French.  But I would love to visit your country some day, haha.)  Didn't know the rivalry between those two teams, hehe.  Fight, fight, fight.  lol

Ah well.  
Carry on...

12:33AM - You say it's your birthday...

I'm going to be a Duran tard here but I don't care.  :-)  
I just want to celebrate a certain bass player's birthday today!  A beautiful, lovely, talented bass player!!  (And, no, it's not "Stang.")  teehee  So...

HAPPY 46th BIRTHDAY, JOHN TAYLOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                         

11:39PM

Tagged by summer_smile

Instructions:
List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your livejournal along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to.

"Life Wasted" ~ Pearl Jam
"Hate Me" ~ Blue October
"Fly Me To the Moon" ~ Frank Sinatra  (was in a movie I watched again)
"The Blower's Daughter" ~ Damien Rice
"Sleep Late Sunday" ~ Clear Static
"Teenage Wristband" ~ The Twilight Singers
"Layla" ~ Derek & the Dominos

I'm not going to tag anyone because some have already been tagged, hehe.  If you want to do this list, fine.  If not, that's fine too.  ^__^

later, taters

11:43PM

I saw this story on the news earlier.  Yeah, this city is a safe place to live...NOT.  Hell, with 4 million+ people here , crime was sure to rise but not that much.  Damn.  Now another thing to worry about.  And another reason I don't like it here (among other things).  But I guess we just have to be careful out there.  I worry about two of my younger cousins.  They are ages 15 and 16 and I worry about them following the "wrong" crowd but I hope that they won't.  I would hope that they're smarter than that.       

   Violent Crime In Houston Increases, FBI Figures Show

FBI statistics Monday confirmed what big cities like Houston, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Las Vegas have seen on the streets: Violent crime in the U.S. is on the rise, posting its biggest one-year increase since 1991.
Murders climbed from 272 in 2004 to 334 in 2005 in Houston, a 23 percent rise, and from 131 to 144 in Las Vegas, a 10 percent increase.
In Philadelphia, homicides jumped from 330 in 2004 to 377 in 2005, a 14 percent increase, according to the FBI.

Jeffrey Sedgwick, director of the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics, cautioned that it is not yet clear whether the FBI numbers reflect a real increase, or the ordinary year-to-year variations that statisticians call "static noise."

Sedgwick said it is possible that crime rates in the U.S. are approaching a floor below which it may be difficult or even impossible to go. "I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect you can always drive the crime rate down," he said.

Some criminal justice experts said the statistics reflect the nation's complacency in fighting crime. Crime dropped dramatically during 1990s, and some cities have since abandoned effective programs that emphasized prevention, the putting of more cops on the street, and controls on the spread of guns.
Mayor Bill White said most Houston neighborhoods are safer than they were a few years ago, with violent crime concentrated in just a few areas.
For instance, 30 percent of the city's homicides occurred in three police districts on the southwest side.

"Much of it is gang related and it has been exacerbated by the presence of some of the New Orleans gangs where some of the gangs were operating in the city of Houston," White said.
Transplanted New Orleans residents are as much victims as they are perpetrators, officials said.

The FBI figures were released on the same day authorities announced the arrest in Louisiana of a Katrina evacuee considered one of the Houston area's most-wanted killers. Authorities said he robbed two other evacuees of their FEMA money and shot them, killing one.

Criminologist Bob Walsh said poverty, youth and population density are all factors in crime. But he said there is no way to know for sure what is driving the increase now.

"We don't have a good sense of actually what causes it, so therefore, what prevents it is just as much of a mystery," he said.
HPD is spending millions of dollars in overtime to target some high crime areas of Houston. White said he expects to see some results by the end of the summer.
"We see that budgets for policing are being slashed and the federal government has gotten out of that business," said James Alan Fox, a criminal justice professor at Northeastern University in Boston. Still, Fox said, "We're still far better off than we were during the double-digit crime inflation we saw in the 1970s."

In Philadelphia, which has had more than 160 murders this year, the police department has responded by creating a special unit charged with roaming the streets in the dangerous hours between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m. The program, which is expected to start soon, will shift 46 officers from other assignments.

Philadelphia police Capt. Benjamin Naish said more people appear to be settling disputes with guns.
"I think that everybody continues to be frustrated within the government, within the department," he said. Philadelphia police have stressed that the number of killings is still below the averages in the mid-1990s and far below the 525 homicides in 1990.
The overall national increase in violent crime was modest, 2.5 percent, which equates to more than 1.4 million crimes. Nevertheless, that was the largest percentage increase since 1991.

Nationally, murders rose 4.8 percent, meaning there were more than 16,900 victims in 2005. That would be the most since 1998 and the largest percentage increase in 15 years. Some big cities felt the brunt.

Murders rose from 59 to 104 in Birmingham, Ala., up 76 percent; from 59 to 85 in Charlotte-Mecklenburg County, N.C., a 44 percent spike; from 89 to 126 in Kansas City, Mo., a 42 percent rise; from 87 to 122 in Milwaukee, a 40 percent jump; and from 79 to 109 in Cleveland, up 38 percent.
"The killings are going in spurts," said Judy Martin, a victims' advocate in Cleveland whose son was shot to death in a 1994 carjacking. "A number of the murders this year seem to come from a number of young men jumping on someone and killing them. We are going downhill."

Detroit, Los Angeles and New York were among several big cities that saw murder numbers drop.
Theories about New York's decline vary. Some experts point to favorable shifts in demographics and the economy, as well as the crash of a once-thriving crack market that fueled violence in the 1980s.
Officials in the 36,000-officer department, the nation's largest, credit their crime-fighting approach. They cite a tactic refined over the past decade in which commanders use computers to track crime patterns -- particularly those involving guns and drugs -- and deploy patrols where and when criminals are most active.

8:08AM - You say it's your birthday...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JOHNNY DEPP!!!

He's just so beautiful.  I just had to send birthday wishes to my love.  teehee  He's just so wonderful...awesome...lovely.  ***sigh***
(Can't wait til July for the new Pirates of the Caribbean 2!!  woo-hoo!!)

                                                  

                                        

11:34PM

I'll marry you, Keanu!  Hello!  I'm right here!  lol  For some reason this story makes me feel kind of sad for him.  I know he's not the greatest actor but hell, I don't care.  He's still fine!  Plus he's a musician too.  Bonus!

Keanu Reeves Says He Wants to Get Married

NEW YORK (AP) - Keanu Reeves says he's lonely and wants to get married and have children, in an upcoming issue of Parade magazine. The 41-year-old actor says he continues to mourn the loss of his stillborn daughter in 1999 and the death of the baby's mother, Jennifer Syme, in a car crash in 2001.

Syme had a small part in the 1997 David Lynch film, "Lost Highway." She and Reeves had reportedly broken up in 2000.

"When the people you love are gone, you're alone," he tells the magazine. "I miss being a part of their lives and them being a part of mine. I wonder what the present would be like if they were here - what we might have done together. I miss all the great things that will never be."

He adds: "It's not fair! It's absurd."

"I'm trying not to be alone so much," Reeves says. "And man, it's a struggle. I want to get married. I want to have kids. That's at the top of the mountain. I've got to climb the mountain first. I'll do it. Just give me some time."

But Reeves, who stars with Sandra Bullock in "The Lake House," which opens June 16, and the animated thriller "A Scanner Darkly," set for release next month, says he's reached a "turning point" in his personal life.

"I think, after loss, life requires an act of reclaiming," he says. "You have to reject being overwhelmed. Life has to go on."

He has bought his first home, a step in a new "makeover" to establish roots in one location. In childhood, he watched his mother, Patricia, move the family many times and adopted that way of life.

"I've had a vagabond life," he says. "There is a bit of the gypsy in me, and living that way seemed to make sense. I couldn't settle down. ... Then I turned 40. That birthday is hard, perhaps because you know you're grown-up."

Reeves also starred in "The Matrix" movies.

11:58PM

I went to Jamba Juice yesterday and I saw the most peculiar thing.  As I was waiting for my strawberries wild, I noticed they sold bags of chips.  Not your usual Lay's potato chips or Cheetos but healthy chips or snacks.  (If there is such a thing, hehe.)  
One was made by some snack company called Robert-something-something (can't remember the name of the company).  But the name of the chips is what made me laugh.  They were called "Pirate's Booty."  I kid you not!  LOL!!  I think they might have been something like rice cakes or something similiar because the ingredients listed had rice puffs.  So I don't know what they were exactly.  
I just thought that was the funniest thing!  LOL  I should have bought a package just to see for myself.  Maybe next time, haha.

Random thought:  damn, i missed the NIN show last night.  I really wanted to go but oh well.  have been wanting to get his cd too.  ah well.

later, taters   

  

11:21PM

It's already June.  Where in the hell did these past months go?  Why is this year going by so fast?   

11:24PM - He's back on the team!

There was good news today for us Astros fans!  "The Rocket" is back with the team!  So, no deal Texas and Boston, tough shit Yankees, you don't get our player this time.  heh   Now we are all hoping he can still pitch like he used to but better.  Hope this will be the best thing for the Astros in the long run!  He certainly draws the crowds/fans.  Now we'll just have to wait and see til he joins the team in mid June.

 

Clemens rejoins Astros By CHRIS DUNCAN, AP Sports Writer

 

HOUSTON (AP) -- The memory of his mother pushed Roger Clemens to come back. The chance to play with his oldest son persuaded him to pick the Houston Astros.

"We'll see what happens," Clemens said Wednesday. "Here we go."

Clemens agreed to a $22 million contract to pitch for Houston for the rest of 2006, ending months of speculation around baseball and in his own mind whether he could -- or even wanted to -- play a 23rd season.

"I think I've placed more responsibility on my shoulders than I ever have in my entire career," Clemens said. "But I accept that challenge."

His two youngest sons wanted him to walk away. But one of Clemens' sisters swayed him by musing on what his mother, who died last September, would've preferred.

 "Like my sister said, 'Mom would want you to be working. She doesn't want you to be unemployed,"' Clemens said. "'So go back to work.'

The 43-year-old Clemens is agreeing first to a minor league deal that pays $322,000 over the five-month minor league season. He is due to make his first start next Tuesday at Lexington, Ky., the Class A affiliate where oldest son Koby plays.

Clemens said Koby was a major factor in choosing the Astros.

"Yeah, Koby is the wild card in all this," Clemens said. "Just like he told me this morning, even if he was somewhere else, we've had too many great moments here the last two years to set that aside."

A few weeks ago when Clemens was still wavering on whether to return at all, Koby broke his left pinkie finger and came back to the family's home in Houston to recover.

Clemens said Koby pushed him toward returning.

"Basically, he got me going and that got my body moving," Clemens said.

Clemens was heading to Lexington this week anyway to see Koby play and see his mother's tombstone, which was being made in nearby Cincinnati. Now, he'll have the chance to take the field with his son in a real game for the first time.

"It'll be fun," Clemens said. "But he'd be the first to tell you that if he was with anybody else or if I really felt deep down that I needed to bookend my career in Boston or go back to the guys in New York, he would've encouraged that." 

If all goes well, Clemens' second start would be June 11 at Double-A Corpus Christi, Texas, followed by a start June 16 at Triple-A Round Rock, Texas.

He could be pitching in the big leagues by June 22. Clemens helped pitch the Astros into their first World Series last year; this season they're 27-27 and 7 1/2 games behind St. Louis in the NL Central.

"The ball's in my court now," Clemens said. "This was a difficult decision on my part in a number of situations. I have to now take the next step and get my body ready to come back, get effective, win games."

Even with an abbreviated season ahead, Clemens is uncertain how he'll hold up physically. Clemens said the mental strain might be even more demanding.

"I know it's going to be stressful, I know I'm going to be tested, I know I'm going to have some lows going through this," he said. "Those are the questions I had to ask myself, if I'm ready to do this again."

Clemens first retired after the 2003 season, then changed his mind and joined his hometown Astros after former Yankees teammate Andy Pettitte left New York to sign with Houston. The seven-time Cy Young Award winner said he was "99 percent" retired after 2004, but he came back for Houston's 2005 run to the World Series.

Then, after the Astros were swept by the Chicago White Sox, Clemens again said he considered himself retired. But he never formally said farewell to baseball and always left open the possibility of returning, even pitching for the United States in the World Baseball Classic.

When he is added to the major league roster, he gets a one-year contract worth $22,000,022 -- his uniform number is 22. Because he won't be playing the full season, he gets only a prorated percentage of that, which would come to about $12.25 million if he rejoins Houston in late June.

The tentative goal is to have him start against Minnesota on June 22 -- if he's put on the big league roster on that day, he would earn $12,632,307.

"I'm not riding around in the back of a convertible, waving my hat and selling tickets," he said. "They expect me to get on the field and win ballgames and do it the way they're used to seeing me do it.

"And I accept that more so than anyone."

Houston was finishing its series with the Cardinals on Wednesday afternoon, but the video scoreboard at empty Minute Maid Park was already flashing "The Rocket is Back!!!"

 General manager Tim Purpura said Clemens didn't agree to the deal until after midnight, early Wednesday morning.

"It's a tremendous uplift to our situation," Purpura said. "Our young pitching has been tremendous, but our young pitching is inexperienced. What we want to do is get back to the playoffs, we want to get back to the World Series and Roger Clemens' presence in our rotation will certainly do a lot to get us there."

Clemens led the majors with a 1.87 ERA last season. Houston, the New York Yankees, Boston and Texas all tried to lure him this season.

"It was very flattering and a piece of my heart is in each of those cities," he said. "I think all four teams, including ours, come September, are going to be right in the middle of things. In that sense, I was pretty lucky to have those teams talk to me."

Rangers owner Tom Hicks sent Clemens a handwritten note this week. The Rangers, meanwhile, moved forward without him.

"He's the greatest pitcher of all time, and it's always exciting when he's pitching," Rangers star Mark Teixeira said. "But he's not pitching for us, so we don't worry about it."

Boston manager Terry Francona was just happy his team won't have to face Clemens any time soon.

"I'm glad he didn't go to the Yankees," Francona said. "Let him stay in the National League."

Yankees manager Joe Torre said Clemens "still possesses that little boy inside himself and that's why he keeps wanting to play this game."

"And he doesn't have to apologize because he's still a dominant pitcher," he said.

"It makes sense for him to go back with everything that he's used to over there the last couple of years. Maybe not pitching the first part of the year will be a benefit to him because he kind of wore down toward the end of last year."

Clemens last pitched competitively in the WBC, where he beat South Africa in the first round and lost to Mexico 2-1 in the second round on March 16.

He won his seventh Cy Young Award -- first in the NL -- in 2004, going 18-4 with a 2.98 ERA. He went 13-8 last year, winning the major league ERA title for the first time since 1990.

Clemens has a career record of 341-172 with a 3.12 ERA and 4,502 strikeouts, pitching for Boston, Toronto, the Yankees and Astros. An 11-time All-Star and winner of the 1986 AL MVP Award, he is tied for eighth on the career wins list and is second in strikeouts behind Nolan Ryan (5,714).

AP Baseball Writers Ronald Blum and Ben Walker, AP Sports Writer R.B. Fallstrom in St. Louis and AP freelance writers Dave Hogg in Detroit and Ken Sins in Arlington, Texas, contributed to this report.

 

 

Updated on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 7:07 pm EDT

1:47AM

Oh, Astros.  Oh, my beloved Astros.  Why, why, why did you lose a game that lasted 18 innings?!  Why did you lose a game that you could've won and you had numerous chances to win?  How can you lose this game?  I just don't get it.  And to lose it to the Pirates?  Ugh.   You're making them look like they are the best team in the league!  Guys, let's try to win some ball games, okay?  Can you do that?  Please!
{{{sigh}}} 

11:30PM

So the buzz around town today was the Enron verdict.  It's finally over, sort of.  Those bastards were found guilty.  Justice is served.  I found it amusing that their passports were taken away from them, you know in case they try to flee the country.  I know that's standard procedure but still was kind of amusing.  Don't want the next headline to be something like, "They're on the loose!" or  "They're on the run!"  LOL  Just feel sorry for all of those former employees who've lost everything, thanks to those bastards.  They should do their time.

May 25, 2006, 4:38PM

ENRON JURORS FIND LAY, SKILLING GUILTY

By MARK BABINECK, MARY FLOOD and JOHN ROPER
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

 

A federal jury convicted former Enron chiefs Ken Lay on all counts and Jeff Skilling on most counts today, marking the climax of one of the most notorious corporate scandals in U.S. history and nearly ensuring prison time for two of Houston's best-known executives.

The jury heard 16 weeks of testimony and arguments and made its announcement early on its sixth day of deliberations. The eight-woman, four-man panel found Lay guilty of all six counts. They convicted Skilling on 19 of the 28 counts against him.

U.S. District Judge Sim Lake set a sentencing date of Sept. 11. The two men remain free on bond. 

In Lay's separate personal banking fraud trial, Lake found Lay guilty on all four counts.

After the verdict, Skilling and his attorney, Daniel Petrocelli, talked to the media outside the downtown courthouse and promised an appeal.

"Obviously, it did not come out the way we hoped. It doesn't change our view of what happened at Enron and it certainly doesn't change our view of Jeff Skilling's innocence,'' he said. "As I told (Skilling), we've just begun the fight.''

When asked whether he could admit that he had broken the law, Skilling replied, "No. I didn't.''

"We fought the good fight,'' Skilling said. "Some things work; some things don't.''

Shortly before 3 p.m., Lay also made a brief statement to the media outside the courthouse: "Despite what happened today, I'm still a very blessed man.  At my left is this beautiful lady that's my wife.  I have a very warm, loving family.  And, most of all I believe God, in fact, is in control and that, indeed God works all things good for all who love the lord.  We love our lord, all this will work for good."

The jury panel spent 16 weeks listening to often diametrically opposed testimony, with the government calling 25 witnesses plus three more on rebuttal. Several had struck cooperation agreements with the government and acknowledged crimes, and most claimed Lay and Skilling were part of a conspiracy to profit personally by duping the world about Enron.

"We stole. We all benefited financially at the expense of others," said former Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, who is expected to serve a 10-year prison sentence after admitting he masterminded fraudulent bookkeeping schemes and bled Enron to the tune of $45 million in the process.

The defense impugned Fastow's character and told jurors he was a liar then and he's a liar now, implying he fabricated evidence and testimony that Skilling approved of "bear hug" deals with Fastow's LJM partnerships to hide Enron debt and guarantee Fastow wouldn't lose money.

The defense called 31 witnesses, including Skilling and Lay, many taking the stand in brief stints to rebut specific points raised by the prosecution. Of course, the most important men to testify were Skilling and Lay themselves.

Skilling, 52, went first on April 10 and testified over eight days, much of it on direct examination by his Los Angeles-based defense attorney, Daniel Petrocelli.

Petrocelli, a career civil attorney trying his first criminal case, methodically took Skilling through each charge in four days of direct examination. Skilling had a reputation for being controlling and abrasive, but he seemed relaxed and downright professorial while telling jurors he committed no crimes, that most of Enron's dealings were legitimate and that the real criminal was Fastow.

One of Skilling's dramatic moments came on April 13, when Petrocelli seized on bubbling emotion and engaged his client in powerful exchange about what Skilling perceived as abuse of power by the Justice Department.

"We are innocent. And by 'we' I mean Enron Corporation," Skilling said. "It was a fine company. I am innocent of all of these charges, and I will fight for that for a long time."

Enron Task Force Director Sean Berkowitz began cross-examination the next week, and Skilling surprised many by keeping his cool despite pointed questioning that sometimes turned embarrassing and personal, such as his $180,000 stake in an ex-girlfriend's Internet startup company called Photofete that did business with Enron.

"Would you agree with me that this may be a conflict of interest, at least within the (company's) code of ethics?" Berkowitz asked.

"It may be," Skilling replied, appearing humbled.

Defense lawyers cited Photofete as a prime example of prosecutors seeking to smear Skilling and Lay, who also was an investor, by throwing information at the jury that is not part of the indictment.

"Don't come to Houston, Texas, and lie to us," Lay attorney Chip Lewis shouted at prosecutor John Hueston during closing arguments, referring to Photofete.

Lay, 64, took the stand April 24 and testified over six days. Contrary to Skilling's calm demeanor, Lay seemed easily irritated by defense attorney George McCall 'Mac' Secrest. Secrest was substituting for lead defender Michael Ramsey, who bowed out for much of the trial because of surgery.

Lay's demeanor turned from grouchy to hostile once Hueston began questioning, with fireworks popping as soon as cross-examination began when the prosecutor accused Lay of trying to contact potential trial witnesses to get their "stories straight."

Lay, sometimes snarling into the microphone, shot back at Hueston.

"I don't have a story. I have my recollection of the facts and they are totally different than Mr. Fastow's," Lay said.

In closing arguments, Berkowitz seemed to agree jurors should pay close attention to what Lay and Skilling said in the ninth-floor courtroom and contrast it to what they were told actually happened on the 50th floor of the Enron Building, a few blocks down Smith Street.

"They lied to investors and omitted critical facts," Berkowitz said. "And they lied to you, ladies and gentlemen, from the stand."

Berkowitz also reminded the jurors that justice for Lay and Skilling, who invested at least $38 million combined in their united defense, should not be bought.

Ramsey, who recovered in time to make some closing arguments, warned jurors that only they could judge the facts and not the host of politicians, columnists, jilted investors and prosecutors who want to see Lay and Skilling behind bars.

"There may be a court in America that bends to political pressure but it's not this court! There may come a day when an American jury yields to a media mob, but it's not this jury," said Ramsey, one of Houston's most-respected criminal lawyers. "We're going to have a fair jury here."

The attorneys and Lake took one day to pick the jury that heard the case. Many among the panel knew little about Enron, although some confided in questionnaires and in court that "greed" or misdeeds took the company down.

Tuning out Enron has been a neat trick in the Houston area over the past five years as the ruination of what was dubbed the nation's seventh-largest company has remained the dominant U.S. corporate scandal among a flurry of such implosions around the turn of the century. Scandal also enveloped companies like Worldcom, Tyco and Adelphia, but Enron always has been at the forefront.

That's especially so in Houston, where thousands of employees lost their jobs — 4,000 at once the day after Enron filed for bankruptcy on Dec. 2, 2001. Many lost their retirement savings, which was invested in near-worthless Enron shares.

11:29PM - It's deja vu all over again

Type "(yourname) needs" into your search engine and put up some of the results. (If you use the quotes, it will yield better results!).

Here are my results:

Jennifer needs a smack daddy.  (LOL!!  Alrighty...)
Jennifer needs to assert herself as a leader
Jennifer needs space  (Yup, that would be nice)
Jennifer needs to be the Jennifer Jack fell in love with, independent, loyal,  (LOL!  Is this talking about "Days Of Our Lives?")
Jennifer needs help,  (Well, that's a given...LOL!)


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Please ignore my last post.  I'm alright now...for the time being anyway, haha.  :)

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It's no fun having your eyes dilated.  I went to an eye doctor appointment today and it went well.  Yes, I did wear those big dark glasses.  I had to, the sun was so bright!  haha

12:24AM - Relieved

I am so glad that a Houston Astros pitcher did not give up home run #714 to Barry Bonds.  Thank goodness!!!  I really hoped that would not happen.  And it didn't.  He did strike out a few times, hehehe.  Ugh, there's just something about him that I don't like.  Anyway, if he does tie Babe Ruth and pass his record, hopefully there will be an asterick next to Bonds' name in the record books.  Will just have to wait and see.  
Yes, the Astros got swept by the Giants in this series but oh well.  
What was kind of funny was that in yesterday's game, an Astros reliever pitcher named Russ Springer hit Bonds in the right shoulder when he was up to bat.  LOL  Springer was ejected after that.  Whatever.  But he did get a standing ovation from the crowd as he was walking off the field.  LOL  Man, we're mean fans, hehehe.  I'm sure he didn't intentionally hit him, hehe.  Play ball! 

1:46AM

This is definitely a city I would love to visit someday.

You Belong in Amsterdam

A little old fashioned, a little modern - you're the best of both worlds. And so is Amsterdam. Whether you want to be a squatter graffiti artist or a great novelist, Amsterdam has all that you want in Europe (in one small city).

1:40AM

I watched "Will & Grace" on Thursday night and Grace had a great line.  heehee  She was arguing with Will and they were discussing how to raise her baby.  
Grace:  "Will, you're not the President.  Get out of my uterus!"
Love it.  :)

And almost every night on "Late Show w/David Letterman," there's this bit they do called "Great Moments in Presidential Speeches."  (or some title like that)  And they usually show FDR first, then Kennedy giving great speeches.  And then they show the current President being the fumbling idiot he is.  It's hilarious!   

11:55PM

I tried that new flavored water called Propel. It's made by Gatorade. It comes in different flavors and I tried the kiwi strawberry flavor. It was really good! It has all these vitamins in it and is good for you and stuff. It didn't taste 'medicine-y' or anything. I really liked it! Thumbs up from me!

12:52AM - Interesting...

Go to wikipedia and type in your birth month and day. List 3 events, 3 births, 3 deaths.

February 2nd

EVENTS
1653 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated.
1887 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
1935 - The polygraph machine is tested for the first time. Leonard Keeler conducts the experiment in Portage, Wisconsin.

BIRTHS
1882 - James Joyce, Irish author (d. 1941)
1954 - Christie Brinkley, American model
1963 - Eva Cassidy, American singer (d. 1996)

DEATHS
1461 - Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty of England
1979 - Sid Vicious, English musician (Sex Pistols) (b. 1957)
1996 - Gene Kelly, American dancer, actor, and director (b. 1912)