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Haven’t had an update in a while, been kinda crazy of late with going here and there. Our cat midnight wasn’t felling well, we boarded him this entire weekend so they could check him out and run some test. The poor guy is friendly just isn’t really eating after his dental visit a week ago when they took out two teeth. So we have been bringing him here or there, hopefully they will give him some good drugs today while he is there.
Here is a little update, more to come tomorrow.

Friday January 25, 2007

Went down to CT on a muti-purpose trip. Had some more work done ink wise on my leg, don’t even want to try to figure out how many more hours of having a needle poked in me it was going to be. Tracey did a great job as usual and finished up some parts that where outlined months ago. Her and the owner Jim where very amusing and are always fun to be around when they are on a roll. A good distraction from the constant needle pokes.

We then stopped by IKEA, to pick up our new bed. We have been wanting to get a new bed with a higher floor clearance for a while. Our current bed is only a few inches off the floor which stink. Having a limited amount of space, we couldn’t afford to give up all that space. Picking it up was easy, securing it to the roof rack was amusing. Luckily a huge amount of rope and some bungee cords later it was all set to be brought back to vermont.

Way too young and a really good actor to pass away, we will miss Heath Ledger’s .

Oh course to make things worse that crazy baptist  group is going to picket his funeral. Those people really just suck! I hope someone goes and wacks them with a big stick.

Kansas Baptist Church Intends to Picket Heath Ledger’s Funeral Because He Played Gay Character

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,324966,00.html

Well I have been following the housing market, via my RSS feeds. Sad to watch so much bad news. To top it off I saw the list today of company losses. I still cannot stand people who have been saying companies losing billions will have no effect on anything. Sad to say they have been dead wrong.

update on 01/17/2007 from BBC

MAIN SUB-PRIME LOSSES SO FAR

Merrill Lynch: $22.1bn

Citigroup: $18bn

UBS: $13.5bn

Morgan Stanley $9.4bn

HSBC: $3.4bn

Bear Stearns: $3.2bn

Deutsche Bank: $3.2bn

Bank of America: $3bn

Barclays: $2.6bn

Royal Bank of Scotland: $2.6bn

Freddie Mac: $2bn

JP Morgan Chase: $1.3bn

Credit Suisse: $1bn

Wachovia: $1.1bn

IKB: $2.6bn

Paribas: $439m

Source: Company reports

A very good movie we saw when the director came to town. Now it is on youtube, he is asking people to watch it.

Go see the movie JUNO.

We had seen the reviews and decided to see it this past Friday when it opened at the latchis. I am gld we did. It has been getting great reviews and in our opinion it has earned very one of them. The movie is amazing, the main character endeering and the cast is deep. Juno has a sharp wit about her which makes it even a better character.  This one will be one of those movies that is on our top list of movies for the year.

A classic movie we just saw the other night was Donnie Darko and I have to say it was very good. The movie is hard to describe but was very good. It centers around a young teenager, his sleepwalking, antics and a 6th tall rabbit suited guy. It is a movie you definitly have to watch more than once in order to fully get it. We plan on watching it again real soon.

Just got back the other day from NJ to spend the holidays with Kathy’s family.  It was great seeing our new nephew, Jacob, and we got to spend a ton of time with his older brother Jeremy which was so much fun. We miss them both a lot, especially during the drive home when our road buddy Jeremy wasn’t with us.  The trip was an adventure and  am going to let Kathy post all about it in the next day or so.

On unrelated news we are totally addiced to watching Heros season 1, we love that we can watch it through Netflix streaming movies.

Our list of Bands we have seen, as many of you know we have become addicted to going to concerts.

2007 Concert List

Osheaga Festival

• Apostle of Hustle
• Rahzel
• Jamie T
• Xavier Cafeine
• Stars
• Thunderheist
• Editors
• Feist
• Blonde Redhead
• Dumas
• Damien Rice
• Patrick Watson
• Smashing Pumpkins

Lowell MA

• Indigo Girls
• Melissa Ferrick

Cape Code

• Susan Tedeschi
• Scrapomatic

WEQX Fest, July 2007

• Sunset Aside
• Maggie Mayday
• The Loyalty
• Lughead
• The Urgency
• Shiny Toy Guns
• TV On the Radio
• Night Watchman
• Matisyahu

Green River Festival

• Raini Arbo and Daisy Mayhem
• The Kennedys
• Erin McKewon
• James Hunter
• Southern Culture on the Skids
• Neko Case
• Buddy Guy

NY Concert in the Park

• Ozomatli
• Babylon Circus

Boston

• Feist
• Grizzly Bear

NY City

• Bjork
• Konono no.1

Pittsburgh

• Kristin Hersh
• The McCarricks

Troy Fest

• Mink
• Stars of Track and Field
• They Might Be Giants

Iron Horse

• Michael Ian Black
• Mike Showalter

Mass Mocha

• Ozomatli

Snow, snow, snow……feels like for once we live in the real vermont, the one in the movies that it snows every other day. As the snowbanks top out over 15 feet I wonder what the rest of the winter has in store.

We have a new nephew, name to be determined, born this week on Monday. We are going to see him very shortly which will be great!

The house is really starting to look like a house which is great. Should make it easier if we hear the pitter patter of little feet later in the year.

We have noticed how tough it is to get rid of stuff in the condo, even if the price is close to free. Good thing for the hospice down the road, hopefully they will take more of our stuff.

I am getting a new boss which should be great! The temporary one may be a good consultant but when it comes to being a boss she really has not a clue.

Hope all is well with everyone!

The premise is one you have to ask twice if you heard right. A lonely man orders a blow-up doll and treats her in his delusions as real person. Does take a bit to think about when you first start to see Lars and the real girl. The move was great! We both thought it rates right up there with ONCE, a hidden gem. The move really touches on the human spirit and the the actor who plays Lars is amazing. The movie is a real emotion jerker and the director really does bring out all the emotions that take place in a lonely desolate small town.