http://gorbs.net Wed, 05 May 2010 05:38:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Those of you who know me VERY well are well aware I have enough drama and stress in my life to rival almost anyone. I think I manage to stay on a relatively even keel, in fact I like to think I lean toward the goofy fun loving side ... http://gorbs.net/?p=207 Its been a little over a week now, but I must inform the readers of this blog (who aren't already facebook friends as you people have already seen this news) that my fuzzy little husky Sasha (seen here) passed away on Sunday afternoon 4/24. It was all very sudden ... http://gorbs.net/?p=205 Thinking ahead to what I am thinking about writing, wanted to at least acknowledge how despite how the 2 posts I intend to write tonight may be similar, they are not in fact connected. With that, I invite you to read on :-) http://gorbs.net/?p=203 Alas Marist did fall to Rita 1-0 and they will not go on to face Fenwick in the finals. Oh well! I'm also bummed I apparently never met this lady, because I so could have used one of those shares of Abbot Lab stock! I'm not greedy, I wouldn't need ... http://gorbs.net/?p=201 Managed to get Dad and I to the Hawks game last night in time to get the bobblehead giveaway, making me 2 for 2 in getting out of work and over there in time to brave the line waiting for entrance and get it. Looked like a little more ... http://gorbs.net/?p=195 Sounds like the Canadian women's hockey team was very happy to have won their gold medal and took some time out to have a party on the ice after. Honestly I think that champagne and cigars sounds like a great combo ... and who doesn't want to have a ... http://gorbs.net/?p=191 Apparently if you are REALLY upset about not winning an Olympic gold medal you could always just invent an even better medal to win instead. Seems like its just not really the Olympics until someone goes and starts a good controversy right? http://gorbs.net/?p=188 According to this lawsuit its dangerous to attend a Royals baseball game. This doesn't even include the bad team you'll watch! How hard can that mascot bring it??? http://gorbs.net/?p=186 Hello dear readers! First of all, I have managed to post a couple of stuff recently in a stealth way without acknowledging my sadness ... sorry that I've been REALLY lax on the updates here! I'm going to try to be better about that! Along with that ... http://gorbs.net/?p=181 I never learned of this connection until the story of Andrew going missing ... but I never knew that the actor who played Boner Stabone from growing pains is the real life son of Walter Koenig aka Star Trek's Chekov. How did I miss this connection all this time??? ... http://gorbs.net/?p=178 OK, leave it to an Olympic athlete to make me feel like walking around Hawaii for a couple of days with a collapsed lung is no big deal at all. This skier won a bronze medal with a collapsed lung and 4 broken ribs! Geez, I've got to ... http://gorbs.net/?p=176 Because the pumpkins have been carved ... check out the 2009 Jackolanterns. Freshly carved and lit up for your pleasure. They occupy the place of POITP. Happy Halloween everyone! http://gorbs.net/?p=173 Kind of a slacker as its been almost 2 weeks ago now, but some of the pictures from Homecoming weekend are up here. Check them out! We've been warned that even though this year had the biggest alumni turnout ever .. next year is the 100th Homecoming and ... http://gorbs.net/?p=171 Slow to write about how the Cucina Roma in Westmont closed recently. Some people know this to be the place where Deb and I had our rehearsal dinner for our wedding (doesn't it suck when you like a little italian place and have something special like that there and ... http://gorbs.net/?p=167 Back from a trip to see Dave Matthews @ Alpine Valley and reporting in that a great time was had! We traveled out there with Margaret and Steve and the ladies in the group were getting to see Alpine for the first time this trip. We were tailgating ... http://gorbs.net/?p=164 OK I've been bad about updating, sorry! However the last little bit has been for relatively good reason ... we had some sort of mini tornado / large microburst hit the neighborhood a week or so back now and it did a number on our house as it knocked ... http://gorbs.net/?p=162 OK back home safe and sound and can report that people, don't take your kids to Vegas ok?!? Got in a little drinking and gambling and in general a getaway from the stressful things. Still was good to get back to the things that are great and make ... http://gorbs.net/?p=160 FANTASTIC night on Monday as the house was rocking ... Coming up on the Vegas road trip at the end of this week. I'll miss a couple of things this weekend to do the trip but everyone should get in a Vegas trip in their life I figure. ... http://gorbs.net/?p=158 gorbs.net is proud to present a brand new blogger for your online reading! Check out the blog links or the friends page to check out Margarets Moments! She'll try and tell you that she's a superior tuba player, but give me a few months to get my groove ... http://gorbs.net/?p=156 OK this is going up LATE in the day, but I hope everyone had a great Easter today! Spent a lot of time with the family today which is always nice. I predict a lot of cleaning in the next week, sis will be staying over one night ... http://gorbs.net/?p=154 My uncle passed away the other day. Thanks to a strange quirk in my family I have now lost the last living uncle, but still have at least 3 living great uncles (I kind of get bad with the whole family thing beyond a certain limb on the family tree). ... http://gorbs.net/?p=150 OK, like I don't "borrow" images my own self ... still it was weird to check out the the marist band site and see ... me! Specifically my picture of conducting the Marist band after getting the pres nod. They couldn't do better then a 20 year old ... http://gorbs.net/?p=144 Remember to wear your green tomorrow. I'll be sporting a nice shade of red still on the top o' my head since I burned pretty good at the Southside parade this weekend. Thats what I get for not wearing my green hat obviously. Attention ciscom - if you ... http://gorbs.net/?p=141 Ok who didn't see this coming a mile away? Even if it went through I had assumed there was no way it was going to last long term. http://gorbs.net/?p=138 While this guy is currently having some problems with his wise decision to purchase a lifetime of first class tickets 22 years ago, if he was using them with any regularity I would expect that by now he's actually made up for the purchase price? Especially if he's saying ... http://gorbs.net/?p=136 Well the good news is I do believe we may no longer BE a house o' mouse. Its been 4 days now since the last trap hit so at the very least I think we've managed to stop the little foraging buggers. Quite happy about that. Tomorrow (ok ... http://gorbs.net/?p=134 While this is a classic example of a stupid person, I must admit I would be irate if someone at McDonalds tried to tell me all sales are final when they are unable to actually complete the sale! And based on the official statement, apparently the employee IS in ... http://gorbs.net/?p=132 I recently detected the household cats had begun hanging out in our laundry room. This is not one of their normal places to chill in our house so I thought it kind of strange. Until one night I was in there and saw a flash bolt across in ... http://gorbs.net/?p=129 Not that I was an incredibly avid Late Night viewer, but I did catch some (I have no excuse really, I'm usually up at that time). Anyway I did enjoy the pairing in the early years of Andy and Conan, and now it appears that they are back together ... http://gorbs.net/?p=127 Someone *ahem ciscom ahem* wants me to blog an update. So here I am multitasking fixing some stuff at work and updating gorbs. So now everyone is happy, except ciscom because his horse porn was detected and cleaned from his station. http://gorbs.net/?p=125 OK first off let me say that of course I've had mp3 players up until now. A few of them actually. What I could never bring myself to do was actually purchase an iPod as one of them though. I wasn't able to justify paying more for ... http://gorbs.net/?p=123 By getting some squares in a pool at work I was able to increase my interest in the Super Bowl this year quite a bit :-) in the last 3 minutes I had no less then 3 ways I could have won at least a reverse of my squares ... http://gorbs.net/?p=120 Haven't they been planning this for years (almost 4 now to answer my own question)? I can't believe they are going to delay the all digital move at this point. Are there really tons of people on farms somewhere who still haven't managed to get a digital box ... http://gorbs.net/?p=117 Or at least what passes for it for me at least ... Mark and I took in Spamalot this weekend. I had tried in the 2 previous times to convince someone to go and apparently Mark had interest as well so hey, we ditched the wives and had ourselves ... http://gorbs.net/?p=113 First we throw out the homage to Lost in Space because the poor soul who worked inside The Robot recently passed away. It was certainly one of the (many) shows that I watched back in my childhood in reruns and I'm sure played a role in my love of ... http://gorbs.net/?p=109 And I have to work on monday, unlike tons of other people unfortunately. Spent most of the weekend laboring away on long overdue laundry. Exciting, yes I know. We had our dryer take a crap on us so we replaced the washer/dryer together and I put them through their ... http://gorbs.net/?p=92 The current Westmont temperature. At least tomorrow sometime we're supposed to get back above 0. joy http://gorbs.net/?p=90 First off, at least one member of the household enjoyed the recent snowfall the other day. Snapped a couple of pics of Sasha in the 7+ inches of freshly fallen snow the other day. I put a couple of the better ones here. In other news, hard to ... http://gorbs.net/?p=88 I managed to find at least 1 pic of all the kids to throw online so everyone can see how they're all progressing along. I've had enough for one day I know that much! :-) http://gorbs.net/?p=86 OK, so it took me a couple of days to get around to it, but the pictures of Mark and I attending the 2009 Winter Classic are up and ready for your perusal here. Would have been better had the Hawks won of course but hey, I'm not doing ... http://gorbs.net/?p=79