WINO WISDOM

I read today that moderate drinking may help protect against the onset of Alzheimer's disease among otherwise healthy people, a Spanish news service reported...
Don't you just love the Spanish?
Women who don't smoke appear to gain the most benefit from alcohol consumption...is that good news or what?
Having it straight up with a twist is the way to go...
I don't know if foo-foo drinks count but name me one thing better than knowing wine is good for you...

HAPPY 39TH BIRTHDAY JULIE HIBBARD

FROM AUNT JACKIE

"Things don't change...you change the way of looking...that's all"...

Arvol Looking Horse

I WAS BATTLING BLOGGERS BLOCK UNTIL...

the other day during my 'break' at the office I stumbled on a Yahoo news articles about the most popular and unique spellings of baby names...
I especially noticed a few comments that blew me away....

I loved the last sentence of the following article:
"Hi, I was hoping to have a baby girl that I could name Brooklyn Nicole but just found out that we're having a boy (this will be my fourth boy). I'm excited but am looking for a unique name like Brooklyn for a boy. My 1st 3 sons’ names are all biblical (Joshua, Jeremiah, & Daniel) and I want to change it up a bit for this fourth one. Any ideas?
Someone please use Brooklyn Nicole for me since I can't, lol. :)"

This one makes me wonder how old the person writing is:
well, I named my first born Sky Raizen, Sky meaning... well, Sky. and raizen came from a japanese manga "yu yu hakusho" where Raizen is the father of the main character who is one of the 3 kings of the underworld. just thought putting Sky and Raizen together sounded nice. for my second baby boy on the way I'm thinking of Cloud Hunter."

A lastly:
"I need a name for my unborn baby girl! I need to find the most UNIQUE name ever!
my boyfriend and I are considering the following... (they are kinda in alphabetical order)...(KINDA?)
They are all different, so tell me what you think!"
Jenique Ferisha
Hammie Anne
Ufama Mufasa
Enriquia Jane
Lilayla Resha
Ki'Nahla
Annabelle Belize
Darwin Alisha
Eminitrude Colby-Jack
Falafellita DeGrande
D'Shana Jill
Sky Harbor (isn't there an airport with this name?)
Lauren Molly (where did this one come from?)
Nilly O'Harrington
Prudence La'Crusha
Queen Janey
Rielee
Saphie
Trisha Talbut
Wanda Lola
Xaivia

New twist on baby names?
Can a child's name mold its destiny?

"BOOK 'EM DANNO"

I had to pass this article on to all you baseball fans, especially Julie...
so often we've seen people running on to the field at baseball games but this one could teach future runners a lesson...

A 34-year-old man who ran on the field at a Phillie's game to chants of "Tase him!" has been charged with marijuana possession, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct and other counts.

Police say a fan hopped over the left-field fence at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia and ran along the warning track in the top of the ninth inning Tuesday, one day after a teenager was tasered in the outfield.

The crowd booed and some chanted "Tase him!" Philadelphia fans are not the nicest in the league...

In the wake of Monday's encounter, police are considering whether officers should get involved in on-field chases. What do you think? How about tasering?

A17-year-old boy who was tasered Monday, is facing defiant trespass, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct charges.

SNEAKING OUT

The fanciest book I’ve read lately is Great Expectations…I’ve had the ‘leather lined 100 best books ever written’ book for years and even though it’s one of the shortest books written by Charles Dickens, I had never read it…I finished it in about a week and even tho Charles is hard to read for the first hundred pages or so after a while I got the hang of his sentence structure and funny old English spelling…

I’ve been trying to save a few bucks by reading books I’ve had laying around and on the bookshelf for years…I remember reading David Copperfield, Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities before without too much trouble…reading novels by current popular authors has made it difficult and not as much fun to read the inspiring Dickens…

Allison loaned me a few books that I zapped thru and my lovely bride bought me a Sue Grafton novel last week that I devoured…’Trespassing’ was easy to read and was a good story…her books are named from A to T so far...this one is the 20th in the series but I'll wait a while to read the first 19...

Over the weekend we snuck out to Target and I hung out in the books section while Bum was shopping for whatever and bought two books: “The 9^th Judgment”, by James Patterson and the latest by Mary Higgins Clark “The Shadow of Your Smile” for Bum…it felt good to get the books at 30% off…I started reading mine at lunch today and it was hard to put down....

We snuck out that same day with a hankering to eat garlic fries and a burger but never made it there…instead we ate at The Soup Plantation on the way and enjoyed a healthier meal…except for the penne pasta soaking in lemon sauce and capers…holy cow that was good…I started with a salad piled high in the plate and I didn’t feel too guilty eating one plate of pasta…and it was for sure better for me than the garlic fries would have been…