Date night with my honey at Tony Roma's ... great ribs and nice fireplace ...
Archive of My Blog from 01.01.14 to 02.28.14
2/28/14
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Date night with my honey at Tony Roma's ... great ribs and nice fireplace ... |
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Two new Blue Moon glasses for my honey ... (say that 3 times fast ...) |
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I think I saw this bunny today ... And it's only March ... ;-) |
2/27/14
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My friend, RH was spotted at Sin City Cabaret taking his weekly pole dancing class. I'm both excited and sorry about this post. You really don't know people sometimes, no matter how long you might know them ... |
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I'm not a big fan of the Pez haulers, but they make them, so I have to collect them. Latest Pez Hauler received - Ace Hardware 2014 |
2/26/14
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McD's on Madison - that's 5 rules on one sign ... And all day long, every one of these are broken ... And yet, they can't keep the men's room door closed ... |
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Here's a guy who just HAD to park in this spot, like there were no other available flat spots around... |
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I always like taking this angle pic of our building ... miss u Boom Boom |
2/25/14
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Happy Birthday to my beautiful niece, JmG, (my namesake). Enjoy your day today ... ;-) |
2/23/14
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Happy Anniversary to my Mom & Dad. They've made 57 years together. I don't know how you did it. Congratulations, and I love you both ... |
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Happy Birthday to my UD. Have a great day ... |
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POJaL and JaJo stopped by and hung out with us for a bit. Always great to see JaJo - Hanging with JaJo - February 2014 |
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The Godfather and BmC had a nice time with JaJo and take a great pic together. |
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Feel sorry for this poor bastard. All that snow caused this collapse |
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Got a noisy phone line connection ? Maybe this is why ... that door is there for a reason. |
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When the weather gets warmer, I need my roof mural touched up. All the red is missing ... |
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With all the MTA delays due to the snow and weather, JjLJr has had too much time to waste at the bus stop and has taken to leaving messages .... Good work boy ... |
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GC had a skating accident, and I couldn't sign her cast in person, so here's my virtual cast message .... get well soon ... |
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Here's a math question for all my colleagues. Does the Gulliver 1.8 come off of the 2.4 total ? Cause if it does, it leaves .6 for the other 30,000 of us ... |
HSBC will announce staff bonuses totaling just under 2.4 billion pounds ($4 billion) globally for 2013 . Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver will receive a 1.8 million pound bonus as part of an overall pay deal worth more than 7 million pounds
2/22/14
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Look what I just got.... Brand new Pez - new Fozzie Bear, and Dusty and El Chupacabra from Disney Planes... Cool looking pieces. To see all the Pez I've collected in the last 90 days, checkout my database link here - LPTS - FB Quarterly View |
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My old man - Benjamin Franklin High School 1954 |
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Move Wave 4. Only 16 more to go... Great work boys. |
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ML and JJ making more work for us all. Thanks boys ... |
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Snow piles like this ain't melting till June ... |
2/21/14
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Welcome the newest members of the Pez collection. We got 4 new Minnie Mouse, Princesses Ariel, Belle and Snow White and some dudes called Jake & Skully. |
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JaJo or FjL, who's who ? (or better yet, who's not ?)who's who ? |
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The XVI Leolympics begin now bitches. Need to find the ping-pong balls, and it's lesson time for FjL, the fireman-to-be ... |
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It was nice to get the gurl gang together for lunch. We were missing GG, but A1, LJ Goombazza and me had fun catching up... See what you miss when you work from home Boom Boom ??? |
2/19/14
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Happy Birthday to my cousin JB, from the motherland. Enjoy your day brother. I miss you every day here.... |
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From my AJ ... (that didn't work with her though ;-) ) |
I couldn't help but over-hear two guys in their mid-twenties while sitting at a bar.
One of the guys says to his buddy, "Man you look tired."
His buddy says, "Dude I'm exhausted. My girlfriend and I have sex all the time. I just don't know what to do."
A fellow about my age (72), sitting a couple of stools down had also over-heard the conversation. He looked over at the two young men and with the wisdom of years says,"Marry her. That'll put a stop to that shit!"
2/16/14
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Here's proof that my desk area has always been cluttered ... a look back to 1984, that's 30 years ago for you public school educated folks ... And this was taken when we had our data center on 444 7th floor, and the Tower was under construction... |
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Who else remembers old style patch panels, and original hard drives ... 250-500mb EACH ... |
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Life was so much easier before the boys needed their own beds ... |
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FjL trying to dig to China... circa 2003 |
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Time for some Fukitol ... |
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When we had money, we had a fleet of these ...., now, we don't ... |
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Here's an oldie, but goodie ... Johnny5.... |
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It's that time of year again. Performance goal and objective setting. Bring out a Dilbert ... |
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1985, RICS signs contract with MONTRAN for backup functions, at 1w10 ... And we are still using that floor today ... |
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A real oldie but goodie. Little Darlin' - that's my cuz-in-law's ride, and that 'darlin' is my beautiful cousin DlC... |
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Building the Blade room. Will it be the same decomming it ? NYC Blade Room Build - June - December 2005 |
2/15/14
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My latest FB Cover Page - Snow Lions |
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That's right bitches. Got our Federal Tax Refund checks already ... Now, to cash it and stash it in the mattress... |
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So, why did my Con Ed bill jump 35% for electricity usage ? My usage was down, but the $/kWh almost doubled. I don't think it did that last year. Is this 'my piece' paying for Sandy rebuilding ? |
2/14/14
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Happy Valentines Day to all you lovers and couples ... |
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Brought home the witch's favorite cake... And she was one of their FB pics... |
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Happy Birthday to my sis-in-law DA. Enjoy your day today... |
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It's just a winter wonderland out there. It looks pretty enough, but a bitch to walk and drive in. |
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One of our library lions, Patience, always looks nice with snow all over her ... |
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We call that snow, JG. My neighbor usually relies onus to shovel him out, we did most of it, but not his driveway. He finally got around to it, and almost killed himself... |
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Got 3 of those new APC ATS switches mounted. Now get your single-cord devices attached ... |
2/13/14
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One of my perch buddies, PL, is recovering from a quintuple bypass. Spoke to him today, and he's doing well, and NOT planning to shovel this snow. Rest up my friend. Spring is around the corner, and the birdies will be out ... I miss you by my side. |
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Here's my solution for those special 'critical' single-cord devices, that we mount in our dual-powered racks, dual-PDU, dual-UPS, dual-Utility fed Data Centers. New ATSs that I'll connect them to, that will have dual-cords. I'll take care of you, since you refuse to take care of yourselves ... |
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Big, new project happening. New dual UPS for our Trading Floors, spread across 2 floors. I'm not involved, but do like these projects. Just a taste of the new panels, transformers, and a 'few' spools of cabling required... Good luck guys. Commissioning is this weekend (so they say)... |
2/11/14
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5th ave tile mosaic at the 7 train station |
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A second JaJo sighting in two days. Man that boy is handsome... |
2/10/14
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A JaJo sighting was just reported by POJaL. This kid is chillin' at the crib, enjoying his life... |
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My cousin from the motherland and some other people I know might recognize the red circle. For most of us, this is the area in Clifton, NJ where all the bus stops were never plowed, causing major problems for some folks ... |
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Spotted this city skyline on a NYS commercial. Look familiar to anyone ? Hey DpF, is that you in the boat ? |
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In the medical industry ? Wanna see an amazing new product co-designed by a 'guy I know' ? Continuous Automatic Pressure Inflating Systems. check it out ... CAPIS Technology |
2/9/14
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No more alarms, I need my beauty sleep ... |
2/8/14
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Move Wave 3 went off pretty good. Good work to the team, once again. Only 13 more to go ... |
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There's a Scooby in da house... keeping the CRACs humming... |
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The new 7 trains have electronic graphical display boards. Pretty cool, except, our direction was the other way ... |
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Sorry FjL. The boy got a new CapOne ATM card, I thought it was trash, so I shredded it .... |
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Here's one from the archives. Back when we had money, we sponsored the Jaguar Formula 1 race team. One year, they brought this car to our 452 building and parked it on 40th street... |
2/7/14
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RM & MA were in town to visit our sites. While MA was in NJ, RM and JJ, our Chief Engineer toured NY. Was nice to see you, and sorry I missed MA. |
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Oops... here's something that you don't see everyday. This lift fell off it's flatbed and onto the sidewalk on 5th avenue... |
2/6/14
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Only in America - Axl Rose and Ron Reagan share a birthday today ... I know one is dead, the other one .... if no music, may as well be dead ... |
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oh, and Ken Olsen died in 2011 ... remember him ? |
2/5/14
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Made this new Snow Covered Cover Page image. |
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Here's the main snowgirl. Came out pretty good |
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Ro's first snowman. The bigger version is under construction. |
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That ice finally melted and came down. |
2/4/14
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Some pretty images from the snowstorm - Our building, the Library and our neighborhood |
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This don't look good. Don't be under it when it finally melts and breaks off... |
2/3/14
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We ended up with about 7 1/2" of snow for this storm. And it was the heavy kind. It is pretty though ... |
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Our building and the Library are pretty when it snows. |
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I'm sorry EC, I couldn't resist. I know I'm toast, but this had to be done.... 2014 0203 Rosanne Farting. This is a REAL video. I did NOT superimpose her likeness on someone else... |
2/2/14
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Are you ready for some football ??? Cheeba Chew time... Yabba Dabba Doo .... ;-) Go Seahawks ... |
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Happy Birthday shoutout to one Grumpy VP. GdP turns another page, and is all set to enjoy her day watching the Seahawks beat the Broncos .... |
2/1/14
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I was rooting for the Seahawks for the Super Bowl anyway, but now with a little more gusto. Ro scored these neat Seahawks stuff while in the city, and the Cheeba Chews should be fun and exciting... |
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Made a nice cover page for FB with the Pez PHB pic. |
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Here are a few nice shots of my Pez Porcelain Hinged Box collection. |
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I did something stupid and damaged my new Droid Ultra. Brought it in, and got a new replacement the next day, at no cost. Sweet. And the data erasure and migration process was straight forward. Thanks VZW. |
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Yeah ... my checkbook balances ... lol |
1/31/14
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Happy Birthday to two great people. RT and SaY share the same birthday, and same taste in sweater styles. We wish them both a great day !!! |
1/30/14
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My brother made this statement on Facebook today. I'll fix his ass... 2014 0130 Frank Coaster Dance "...From now on Im dancin at weddings like the guy at 1:51 !! you gotta check him out !..." |
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Good luck to PE, as she gets re-assigned to a new building by her security company. It was great seeing you everyday, always smiling and pleasant. We will all miss you, and wish you the best. Stay in touch on FB and checkout the Musings often... |
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That's an Arsenal Gunners Football Pez dispenser I had sent over from the motherland for my boy Scooby. Where football is not like our football. He was quite surprised and loves his Gunners Pez... |
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Good luck and congratulations to an old friend. SV is moving on to head up things in the motherland. He heads to the UK to do what he does. It's been an honor my friend. You were the first person we met when HSBC acquired Republic. DpF asked you to come down and get us acquainted with our new leadership and you've been a solid dude forever. I will miss you, and we will all miss you in the US. |
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Not sure what this was, but it was a FDNY vehicle headed down 5th Avenue... |
1/29/14
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Look who I spotted in Times Square. POJaL patrolling Super Bowl blvd in Times Square. Man it's cold there. Good seeing you. And I love the 5 year bar on your sleeve. Congrats on making 5 years. |
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There a select number of Pez dispensers made as Porcelain Hinged Boxes. They are beautiful, and even come with their own ceramic Pez candy. I just picked this beauty up. The Happy Valentines Day Heart. |
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I spotted the Vince Lombardi Trophy on display. My Giants have a few of these ... |
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Super Bowl blvd in Times Square. This toboggan is no big deal, we had the Astroslide in College Point forever on old 20th avenue... |
1/28/14
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Gomey is home ... and he says it's warm here ... |
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Waving to the NJDC... the final stretch ... welcome home boy ... |
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Halfway home ... |
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My boy is coming home... Looks like clear skies... |
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Can I have my son back ? JjLJr has been in Illinois for a week now, time to send my boy back ... we miss u boy - your momma misses you !!! |
1/27/14
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If they got Pez, I'm ready to go Scooby |
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So, I popped out my SIM card in my Droid Ultra, didn't put it in right, and fucked it all up. Went to VZW store, yup it's damaged, but covered. Replacement comes tomorrow, no charge. Just hope it still the red one ... smh |
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We went 'live' with the Blade Room back in 2006. Today we are thisclose to shutting her down ... http://www.jackleone.com/pics2005/Page123105.html |
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1/26/14
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Today's baby shower for NA went off great. Here are some of the lovely ladies in attendance, setting things up for Baby A to join the family. (I say it's a boy) |
1/25/14
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Move Wave 2 went well. Only 15 more left, then onto NJ2 build ... |
1/24/14
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JaJo loved his Pez Pony stuffed toy too... |
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POJaL and JaJo dropped by and hung out at our crib. It's always fun when we're Hanging with JaJo - January 2014. |
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It was great to see and hang out with old colleagues. Especially Nagi, who flew in from India just for this luncheon... We had our Annual RNB Friends Gathering 2014. Thanks to BT & RT for keeping the tradition alive. A few of us couldn't make it and we missed you all. There's always next year... |
1/22/14
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We got a lot of snow yesterday. It was sure good to see both snowblowers working when I got home. And I didn't use an ounce of gas ... |
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It's been confirmed that those NYPD choppers the other night discovered the remains of Avonte. A sad ending after all these months. God Bless ... |
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Spotted a new black squirrel chilling in the area... |
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Natural or man-made Matterhorn in College Point ? |
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From my AJ, now that's funny ... |
A father buys a lie detector robot that slaps people when they lie.
He decides to test it out at dinner one night.
The father asks his son what he did that afternoon.
The son says, "I did some schoolwork."
The robot slaps the son.
The son says, "Ok, Ok. I was at a friend's house watching movies."
Dad asks, "What movie did you watch?"
Son says, "Toy Story."
The robot slaps the son.
Son says, "Ok, Ok, we were watching porn."
Dad says,"What? At your age I didn't even know what porn was."
The robot slaps the father.
Mom laughs and says, "Well, he certainly is your son."
The robot slaps the mother.
Robot for sale.
1/21/14
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Good luck and safe travels to JjLJr. Taking his first business trip to the land of Lincoln this morning. Proud of you boy.... |
1/18/14
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Move Wave 1. And so it begins ... Move Wave 1 went off pretty good. A few lessons learned, which is to be expected. All in all a good days work, by CR, KjW and the boys who all did great. |
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You have been warned. No energized work around here ... |
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Happy Birthday to a good looking still, and once hairy dude, BH ... enjoy my friend |
1/17/14
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Happy Birthday to my beautiful sis-in-law, DL. Enjoy your day. Love you !!! |
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First heard this when Meytal did a drum cover - Dead Sara - Weatherman ... http://www.jackleone.com/Dead%20Sara%20-%20Weatherman.mp3 . Check out more Meytal mayhem at - https://www.youtube.com/user/meytalll?feature=watch |
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I feel so lucky. Got my notice from Target that our information was part of what was stolen. Wonderfuckle ... |
1/16/14
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17765000, LOAD ADRS , 71 , START - that's how we booted the PDP 11/70 - System 3 from the RP06 250mb disk drive, unit ID 1, back in 1979. Why I remember this ?, I don't fucking know, but I do ... |
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This came in via ShRs old man, BR - funny stuff - |
Fred is on his deathbed, knows the end is near, is with nurse, his wife, his daughter and 2 sons. "So", he says to them:
"Ben , I want you to take the Beverly Hills houses." "Sue, take the apartments over in Los Angeles Plaza ." "Harry, I want you to take the offices over in City Center ." "Sarah, my dear wife, please take all the residential buildings downtown." The nurse is just blown away by all this, and as Ben slips away, she says, "Your husband must have been such a hardworking man to have accumulated all this property". Sarah replies, "Property? The asshole has a paper route!"
1/15/14
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So, if childless couples are happier than couples with kids, my life should be getting better right about now ? Me and the witch are effectively a childless couple now, since our children are now adults ... I'll let you know how that goes ... ;-) |
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Look who travelled all the way from Bogota, Colombia to hang at the perch. My old friend JM, who started a new life in his hometown, with his family. It was great seeing you, and I look forward to your next visit. PS - make it soon ... who knows how much longer I have remaining at the perch... ;-) |
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I know I've said it before but it's always a better day, when I come home to some boxes. Cause, I know there are PEZ in them. I've gotten a few things recently. Check them out. There's a new Valentines Monkey w/Heart Pez, and it's a great looking piece. Standing next to him is the Wizard of Oz. |
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That Wizard of Oz Pez is for AC, who is the PM on a major consolidation project we have going on. We usually refer to him as the Tool, but at the end of the day, he really is the 'man behind the curtain', and without him, we'd all have other things to do.... Thanks AC, for as much as we bust your balls, you are getting things done ... Here's AC, with MT and GF who came by for a look see of the job we're doing. |
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Then there are these special plush Pez Pony stuffed animals. Got one for my JaJo, and couldn't resist getting one for myself. It even has it's own Pez candy and head that opens.... Who knows, I may end up with this little pony in bed with me to keep me company... |
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And this special promotional Pez is called Viktor Kasebeisser CheeseEater Mouse . It is only available in Austria at just one chain of banks as a promotion for kids to open accounts. |
1/14/14
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There was a Big Dip sighting at Shea ... That man is busy !!! |
1/13/14
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Here are the pics from JaJo's party. Great party, everyone had a blast. JaJo's 1st Birthday Party - January 2014 |
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Another one from the Big Guy, WFP, down Tampa way, and this one you might want to share further. I got one of these spare batteries downstairs and am taping it now ... 9 volt battery fire hazard |
1/12/14
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A teaser while I work on the pics from JaJo's 1st Birthday Party. Singing Happy Birthday to JaJo for the first time ... 2014 0112 Happy Birthday JaJo |
1/11/14
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Happy 1st Birthday to our Grandson JaJo. Quite amazing how fast a year has passed since our family was blessed. We love you with all of our hearts. Enjoy your day today and always ... |
1/9/14
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Happy Birthday Jimmy, turning 70, makes me feel old. And I play Zep EVERYDAY !!!! |
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Got a delivery of 100 new perforated tiles. Strange tag marking... hmmm... |
1/8/14
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Check it out. No. 7 station at 5th avenue has solid Verizon Wireless service now on the platform. Sweet... |
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Had a little scare today with my car MP3 player. It's about 5 degrees, and when it booted up, got this recovery screen. Never saw this before. Shut it down, and by afternoon it was warmer, and all was good. Can't live without me LedZep ... |
1/7/14
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After the day I had today, was nice to get some new Pez - Meet Badtz-Maru and Keroppi from Hello Kitty.... Welcome to future Pezident Leone's collection... To see all the Pez I've collected in the last 90 days, checkout my database link here - LPTS - FB Quarterly View |
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Thanks to BF and his great crew at FirstTech for providing my Pez display cases. Here's pics of the future Pezident Leone's collection on display. |
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Crazy day. Our furnace pilot light went out overnight, and a couple of more times. And with record temps of 5 degrees, it would happen now, right ? Think I got a bad draft. Sealed some things, we'll see how it goes. | ||
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year service stripe today. We are so proud of you son !!!
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1/5/14
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Who's turning one soon ? That was the fastest year ever... |
1/4/14
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Just to keep the record straight. My snowblower is called Toro. I did our house, both sides of the street, the crazy old WACs house and driveway, and the driveways for the 2 families with kids living across from me. My ball and chain did ours and the crazy WACs stoop and stairs, and her car. Who has it better ? AND, I made sure she had a warm home, and hot coffee all ready to go for when she came in ... ;-) |
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Our arborvides, Jack, Joe and Frank, look great with a layer of snow on them... |
1/3/14
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Yikes... my snowblower better get her ski pants on and get to work. Gotta earn your keep around here .... |
1/2/14
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It's a new year, so what the hell. Let's start with a re-post. I'm a simple man. Really. |
1/1/14
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Stopped over and visited with POJaL and JaJo on his first new year. Even got him his first set of 2014 glasses. He can start his own collection now ... Hanging with JaJo - January 2014 |
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Well, it's a new year, and we've had our first JaJo sighting. Just chilling with his pops in the crib. Love you boy !!! |
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JaJo loves his bear, and runs around the house now ... |
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