Thoughts of a Middle Aged Man

Yes I turned fifty on the 3rd of this month, and now it is 17 days later and I am finally blogging about that momentous day. It wasn’t that I had a hard time accepting being 50 that caused me to wait to blog about the day; it was just it was a normal, slightly [...]

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For those planning a quiet relaxing stay at Hotel Clark, please be warned that the Hotel is under construction.  Although we still have rooms, they are limited to the couches downstairs or an Aerobed crammed in the same room with exercise equipment, sowing machines and ironing boards.  Guests will be subject to construction [...]

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Sorry about the lack of posts, but in reality, things have been quiet, if not boring around the place. That changed as rooms started filling up this week. Our son is down from college for the summer and on Thursday Jim and Ivana arrived from New Zealand for a 10 day stay. [...]

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My wife celebrated her 50th birthday with a party put on at our house by her three sisters. The evening included some magic for entertainment and the sisters initiating Annette into the Red Hat Society. It was completely enjoyable, and a big thanks has to go to the three sisters. Their effort [...]

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If you didn’t know, I am somewhat of a closet weather buff. Ever since watching the TV channel at my grandparent’s house in Texas that would slowly pan back and forth between different weather dials, such as temp, wind speed, pressure and humidity, I have followed weather forecasts regularly. Today I use the [...]

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If you follow me on Twitter, you know I went to the Bruce Springsteen concert in Anaheim on Monday. First a little background. I am not a big concert goer. Let me count the concerts that I have been to:

Van Halen (just before they got big)
Linda Ronstadt (Smokey Robinson made an appearance)
Dan [...]

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Thanks to my Uncle who started posting old slides on his Flickr site, I found the picture that tells me that I was a serious young boy probably contemplating my first blog entry, forty eight years prior to the creation of my blog. Hopefully it will inspire me to post to the blog more [...]

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As with our Rose Bowl trip, working for the world’s largest ticketing company gave me access to purchase a pair of tickets at face value to the Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona. We didn’t find out that would get the tickets until Friday morning. That gave us enough time to cancel a [...]

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I know I promised more New Zealand adventures, but my wife and I took advantage of some company perks and attended the Rose Bowl game in Pasadena. We ended up with two tickets at field level just at the corner of the end zone. We got lucky as USC scored twice at our [...]

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As a part of a corporate event , we went to an indoor race track to step into souped up electric go carts that can get up to 45 mph. The first race was a 12 lap race for pole position with the pole going to [...]

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