Category Archives: News

Just the news, big deals, not-so-big deals, birthday, anniversaries, announcements, mostly timely stuff. The news that applies to the personal world around me, not what you watch on cable or listen to on the radio.

Day One for Orlando: Police State 1, Constitution 0

Posted on October 18, 2007 by Steve

Greetings from fabulous Orlando! Our first day was rather eventful even if it did get off to a late start (the flight didn’t leave Austin until 1 PM) but it didn’t matter, vacation time is still time away from the … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Helen

Posted on October 14, 2007 by Steve

I called her in the middle of her birthday dinner. It’s not too late to send her an e-mail if you wish. I’ll be catching up with her on the phone before the evening is over. Sorry if I haven’t … Continue reading →

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Happy 7th Birthday Chance!

Posted on October 9, 2007 by Steve

This year we received a thank-you phone call from the little guy on Sunday! Recently his dad (Steve Bryant) was having some serious Mac trouble (software-driven) so the easiest solution was to ship a hard drive containing an image to … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Lazz!

Posted on October 5, 2007 by Steve

I do hope he has a fun time in Seattle today with his family; the pictures of his pet and daughters are cute, especially their reaction to Santa. I finally have an overdue package put together for him and it’s … Continue reading →

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“Cool” colors and an awesome double outline on the logo

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Steve

I had thought about going with Chicago colors again since ‘da Cubs clinched the Central Division of the NL. Then again, I’ve never liked them, they were bums when I lived in Illinois and they’re such lovable losers, I think … Continue reading →

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Picayune will be a bit easier with my new MacBook

Posted on September 29, 2007 by Steve

Last week I blathered on and on about achieving my silly little goal of posting at least once a day for 100 days. Course I pulled it off so I gave myself a reward,…this new MacBook (the Intel-based successor to … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Somara

Posted on September 25, 2007 by Steve

This year’s birthday was a low-key affair. I had to do a half day of work while her mother took her out shopping for clothes. Somara got some nice things, namely the pajamas of the Mutts characters, one of the … Continue reading →

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100 Days

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Steve

I was hoping it would be a nicer, more eventful post but right now I felt as if a bus ran me over yesterday so I’ve been out sick. Probably the rain putting mold and other fun items in the … Continue reading →

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Happy 14th Anniversary to the Silders

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Steve

And so Paul Silder married Helen Marcotte 14 years ago, officially. Officially? Well, even before they started dating in college, the two of them had that married-couple rapport, especially in the arguing department; I overheard many “debates” on the Bears … Continue reading →

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Six years at 1423 Roxanne’s Run

Posted on September 4, 2007 by Steve

It’s not as big of a deal as last year but still, based upon the mortgage schedule, we’re 20 percent of the way there even if we’ve only paid off 16.5 percent of the note; it will “accelerate” in the … Continue reading →

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Welcome Savannah

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Steve

Our friends Regina and John had their first child Monday, we were only told the specifics today. Phew! What a relief! My posting record was about to end at 80 days because I was running out of stuff or still … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Steve!

Posted on August 26, 2007 by Steve

I called him earlier today. He was taking it easy and I seemed to be interrupting him, Steve and Chance were going swimming this afternoon which I remember being a bigger undertaking in the Midwest unlike Central Texas. I could … Continue reading →

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RIP Uncle Skip

Posted on August 13, 2007 by Steve

I was expecting a synopsis of my brother’s recent vacation to North Carolina when I saw his e-mail but it contained Uncle Skip’s sudden death last Saturday. I don’t know any details sadly yet I hope Brian will clue me … Continue reading →

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Year of the Homer is over

Posted on July 30, 2007 by Steve

Yesterday, my Year of the Homer officially ended. Thankfully I didn’t have any Homeresque moments at work (I’m probably more like Moe there), in marriage, in friendship or bowling (it’s pretty hard to injure yourself through the Wii). Oddly, the … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday to Kate who isn’t Kate Bush

Posted on July 30, 2007 by Steve

Happy Birthday to another fellow Leo! We July Leos are way better than August Leos because there are fewer of us, you know, just like the Star-bellied Sneetches from the Dr. Seuss books (another childhood memory Jim Carrey will eventually … Continue reading →

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