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Just thought Id share......hi boys, I still love you though.

on that note....

	What did the bra say to the hat? "You go on ahead, while I give these two a lift."

Dragging their feet

	Two men are approaching each other on a sidewalk. Both are dragging their right foot as they walk. As they meet, one man looks at the other knowingly, points to his foot and says, Vietnam, 1969." The other points his thumb behind him and says, "Dog crap, 20 feet back."

what?

We had a chance to visit with Teresa Nelson who's a parent, and a mom or a dad.
--George w. Bush

Jacksonville, FL
09/09/2003

dog eat dog world

Chewed up Vick cards sell for $7,400

By BRIAN CHARLTON
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The eBay auction for 22 Michael Vick football cards, chewed up and slobbered on by two Missouri dogs, ended Wednesday as the winning bidder dished out $7,400 - with the money expected to be donated to the Humane Society.

The success of that auction, with 31 different bidders, created a craze of 25 other postings this week offering torn up cards featuring the disgraced NFL superstar.

But so far, the original post from Rochelle Steffen, of Cape Girardeau, Mo., has been the only auction to attract droves of bidders.

Steffen gave Monte, her 6-year-old Weimaraner, and Roxie, her Great Dane puppy, every Vick card she owned to destroy. The result: The cards worth $1-to-$10 were crumpled, crimped, chewed, torn and generally in a sorry state. Some even had corners missing.

"When I started this, I only expected to get $100 for a local shelter," Steffen told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "But it's received so much attention. It's for such a good cause."

The gnawed cards were the most expensive Vick items on eBay, with well-preserved rookie cards, autographed jerseys and other collectibles selling for far less.

Vick pleaded guilty to a federal dogfighting charge this week. He will be sentenced Dec. 10

---Michael Vick is a scumbag.----

is he really a terrorist?

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
--George w. Bush

Washington, DC
08/05/2004

---Well George, I definitely think you've done a pretty good job hurting us......---

What a ride it's been thus far.

August 28th 1973, at 9:50 PM, Tippy Turtle was brought into this world. Wow, I always told myself Id never make it to 21, then it was 25, then it was 30 and here I am at 34.

Ive made some bad decisions in my life, but haven't we all?

Compared to others I know, Ive lived a charmed life.

When the dice come tumbling down I'll be waiting
To see what luck comes my way
When the cards get passed around I'll be waiting
To see what hand I should play
I believe it's neither wrong or right
To cross that line from the dark to the light
And I say, Even in the worst of times against all odds,
I seem to have led a charmed life....

Ideas?

Well it has been a while, and I had a moment this morning so why not add to the pile of useless.
Ideas #2.

1. A Micro turbine highbred car? I was reading that when a micro turbine is compared to a traditional gasoline combustion engine it has higher power density (with respect to footprint and weight). In addition a micro turbine has just one, moving part. Why not Pare one up with a state of the art hybrid battery electric system? Would not a lighter car go farther on less fuel?
   

Are you guys getting flooded out up there? It hasnt really rained too much here over the past couple of days but Northern IA. is getting it pretty bad though.

Hows things there?

Ya only live once and its only money afterall

Would any of you boys (seriously) be interested in getting out to Vegas on either the 1st or 2nd of December? Im going alone if I have to but I wanna extend the invitation to everyone else too...

seriously, let me know, still PLENTY of time for planning.

The MIGHTY Social D. is in town both those nights, thats why Im going.....

God damn drunks

The Irishman's Wish
	An Irishman is sitting at the end of a bar. He sees a lamp at the end of the table. He walks down to it and rubs it. Out pops a genie. It says, "I will give you three wishes." The man thinks awhile. Finally he says, "I want a beer that never is empty." With that, the genie makes a poof sound and on the bar is a bottle of beer. The Irishman starts drinking it and right before it is gone, it starts to refill. The genie asks about his next two wishes. The man says, "I want two more of these."

Stick to your guns.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. Margaret Thatcher

What do you think?

I heard about this on the radio and thought I might like to hear the opinions of the OMI crowd as at least a plurality of you are inked.

There is appearantly a new type of tattoo ink called Freedom-2. Instead of the traditional style of tattoo ink, this stuff uses a dye encapsulated in a clear microbead. It is applied like normal ink and is just as permanent. The difference is that it can be removed in a single removal session instead of the 6 or more sessions it takes to remove traditional tattoos.
I know that a lot of you take pride in and are totally committed to your tatts; so is having a tattoo made of this new, relatively easy to remove ink really the same as having the old school pain in the ass(or arm or leg) to remove type of ink? Does having an "easy out" of your tattoo diminish the value of the tattoo? Is this one step above the temporary tattoos from the Cracker Jack Box?

Where were you August 16, 1977?

I was at Steve's house when his older brother came bouncing out into the living room yelling the king is dead the king is dead! When I asked who the king was my older cousin replyed "you know Elvis, the king if rock and roll), and again I replied who? Bob then proceeded to find an Elvis record and played "Hound Dog" to which we all proceeded to bounce around the room barking and screaming "you aint nothin but a hound dog"... What do you expect we were only 6 years old.

The 08-15 (not so) Random Photo

Well it has been a while since I posted any images from the archive. To be honest my editing suite of software and hardware has become a tad fragmented recently... well excuses are endless. Seen as Monica has been lurking around our site, I thought it only appropriate that I see if there where any photo's of her in the old archive, and would you just look at this little gem I pulled from the box. What fun!

state fair madnesss

---Went to the state fair last night with the ex and the kid. Madness I tell ya. Ate a boatload of greasy food, was wonderful...deep fried snickers bar was great, it was like a snickers bar slightly melted surrounded by funnel cake like goodness. The kid won some little stuffed unicorns so s he was happy. Unfortunately, our time there was cut short by threatening weather. Oh well, life goes on...---

rock group

I am a rock group that has 4 members, all of whom are dead, one of which was assassinated. What am I?

Peter Simpson

If you haven't seen me in a while, trust me. I've been told it's a good likeness.
Here at the Barson house we are huge Simpson fans.
We have all the dvd's and we went to the movie the day it came out. the boys get the comic books from the library frequently.
So when this site came to my attention, I was sure to check it out and share.
This is the coolest thing ever..
Turn your self into a Simpson
I know it's sorta lame that it is Burger King ad but, ya gotta take the good with the bad.

Mexico in July?

Last month I traveled to Mexico with my wife and her entire family to celebrate her parents 40th anniversary. It was a load of fun and I can now say I have an appreciation for Tequila. We visited both Tlaquepaque and Ajijic. Neither of which is considered a tourist area, so I found my self with the daunting task of dusting off my 20 year old (high school level) knowledge of Spanish, which I found surprisingly useable… although just barely. Any hoo while sober I took some PHOTOS and thought you might enjoy looking at them.

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.
- Robert Jackson

If I decide to [run for President], it will be to restore the promise of America. And I'll define what that means later.
--George w. Bush

11/15/1998

Gotta love deano

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Dean Martin

Life at the Barson House

Meet Barley, she is our new puppy, we got her off of Craigs List. She's pretty cool.
Besides that Summer has been pretty busy,
We saw the Simpsons movie, full frontal nudity, wowo wee.
We saw the Harry potter movie, at a midnight showing (did I say that already) the best of the bunch IMO.
Read the latest Harry Potter book, (BFD)
My wife's brother came to town for a few days, he's on the short list of her family that I actually like.
At work: my other manager quit, so starting Aug 1 we are on a 2 manager schedule, which just means 2 doubles, 3 regular shifts, and lots of extra admin duties. I am going on "vacation(more on that later)" the last 2 weeks of August, so it really sucks for my boss. Finding a competent Manager to fit in with our team and is willing to work for peanuts is chalenging, It's a resume position.
Now more on my Vacation, I am going to Bike Geek Camp. really it's a school where people go to learn bike mechanics and shop operations. It's in Ashland Oregon, a part of the country I have never been in. So I'm pretty excited
We applied for a loan with our bank, but the Small buisness association, doesn't like our finaincial history. We are still going forward with Plan to Open the Shop, but have to adjust the financial plan a bit.
I am experimenting with building a Blog for our building buisness, I wil share a link when it's ready.
The kids are still on Vacation through the month of Aug, (When are they gonna start year round school? not soon enough!)
Tif had taken the summer off, but she just started a job, working for the Park District of AH, something completly different then she has ever done. No food. weird.
I think that pretty much brings us up to date.

See ya

Good Can of Corn


There were three couples, one elderly, one middle aged, and one newlywed, that wanted to join a church. So the minister tells them that in order to be members they must abstain from sex for two whole weeks. After two weeks, the minister asks the elderly couple if they had abstained.
"Yes, no problem!" So the minister welcomes them to the church. Then he asks the middle aged couple the same question
"Well, after one week, the husband had to sleep on the couch, but we made it!" So the minister welcomes them to the church. Then the minister asks the newlywed couple if they had abstained from sex for two weeks.
"We were unable to abstain. On the third day, my wife dropped a can of corn and when she bent over to pick it up, LUST and PASSION overcame me!"
"I'm sorry," the minister says, "but you are both banned from this church!"
"That's okay," says the husband, "We were banned from the supermarket, too."

hello?

---Awful quiet around here, you guys must be super busy, which is good. There have been a lot of changes in my life recentley. I started a bunch of new medications and right now I am not allowed to see my daughter because of...well, lets just say I was out of mind last Friday and said somethings in front of her I shouldnt have. Life more or less sucks.

Its damn hot here. Been swimming a lot. Going to get my next sleeve finished up next month. It should be pretty cool. The Social D. skeleton known as "Skelly" will be a big part of it. Im excited about that. That state fair will be here soon, oh boy.---

I like your thinking

	I Like Your Thinking
	A teacher asks her class, "If there are five birds sitting on a fence and you shoot one of them, how many will be left?" She calls on little Johnny. "None, they all fly away with the first gunshot." The teacher replies, "The correct answer is four, but I like your thinking." Then Little Johnny says, "I have a question for YOU. There are three women sitting on a bench having ice cream. One is delicately licking the sides of the triple scoop of ice cream. The second is gobbling down the top and sucking the cone. The third is biting off the top of the ice cream. Which one is married?" The teacher, blushing a great deal, replies, "Well I suppose the one that's gobbled down the top and sucked the cone." "The correct answer is the one with the wedding ring on... but I like your thinking."