Our favorite food

If only she came flat packed with a one page sheet of instructions... :-)

One big foam mallet and we'd be set...

Surf's up...

One pile of books - one quiet child.

I miss the times when security was this simple. The doll under one arm and the puppy in the other. Every night...

.:. procycling .:.: "Jan Ullrich, winner of the 1997 Tour de France, has consistently been Lance Armstrong's biggest rival at the race and the German looks in better shape than ever. But Ullrich suffered a setback on Friday morning, suffering a training crash that left him with neck wounds after his head smashed through the rear window of his team car. His T-Mobile team, however, say that there is no serious damage done."

This really is a great official statement. I was going fast enough to put my bare head through the back window of the car I was following but it was just a flesh wound. The fact I have to ride 2100+ km in the next 22 days with whiplash won't affect my performance at all.

It's a shame. If T-Mobile falls back there aren't a lot of teams who can challenge Armstrong.

Ultimate highlights

Hey Breathers...great start to Div. 4 on Wednesday! Two solid games and
one great win. Personal highlights for me from my beer drinking and chip
chewing vantage point were...well, hands down, game 1's 13-12 victory
was one of our best games of the year... but for other highlights there
was also Paul jumping twice his height on a regular basis, Stevie's left
handed endzone grab in game two, hammers thrown left right and center
that actually arrived at their destinations (you remember those days
don't ya Wade?), the amazing Stevie/Sean popping team, the husband and
wife duo of Kyi Handlers Inc. handling amazingly despite the hubby's
dislocated shoulder, Nadine's awesome play, Miranda's always being open
and making some thread the needle throws, and Marie's great cutting, but
most importantly, her spice cake! My only question would be how one of
Stevie's grade one students made it on to the field to play in game 2?
Those temper tantrums were a dead giveaway.

First, no practice Monday.

Second, keep thinking 'bout fall league. The official email will be
coming soon!

Third, next singleheader is July 20th. That means team dinner and drinks!

Fourth, next week's games.

Right now, Wade, Mark, Rikki, and DJ are out. Paul might only be around
for game 1.

Ladies and Gentlemen, a big round of applause for Glenn Kerr who'll be
joining us (your cleats are in the ulty bag Glenner!)

*Email me by Monday at noon if you are out and I will send out the final
roster Monday night. If you already know you are out for the week of the
13th, let me know that too since I won't be on email all next week. *
**
And the games? We're at Winona North, the upper field at 59th and Yukon.

We're up against Unassigned Players and then the Huckin' Hobbits.

Let's hope summer's back for Wednesday.

see ya Breathers,
Mark

Sent: Fri 6/24/2005 6:53 AM

Subject: practice Monday


Hey Breathers..well done once again..yeah, our women carried us to victory...again... with Marie's triumphant return from injury, Miranda's break force throws, Jen's D, Tanya's handling even after her half a beer, Joan's cut that won us game one, and Nadine's just being everywhere with her catching and handling...it helps erase the memory of those hammers that Wade and Paul threw..although they both made up for it with their fieresome D..and let's not forget Carey's awesome speed...we might just have to pay that ransom after all with his upcoming kidnapping adventure in Peru to get'im back.

Schedule's not up yet for next week....should be interesting as we might just land ourselves in Div. 4 with those two victories....but no problem..right?right?

Next week's roster:

Rikki, DJ, Carey, Joan are out..could be me too if my heel doesn't get better. Min is in as a sub. As always, email me by Monday morning if you can't make it after all.

Other roster stuff...we say temporarily au revoir to Jeanette who's now on the sub list and bienvenue back to Marie who rejoins the full time roster.

Practice is on for Monday at the usual place and time to toss the disk around and enjoy those long nights of summer.

We'll chat when the schedule's posted...enjoy the weekend Breathers,
Mark
________________
And Carey's response....

Help I have been abducted. Please send money ASAP. US dollars non-sequential. You can forward the cash to a special associate who will be contacting you directly. Please do not call the police.

Thank you

Carey

Overcoming Procrastination Through the Pull Method: "2. Advice such as 'just buckle down and do it,' 'get organized,' and 'try harder' are based on a dysfunctional definition of procrastination. What they're really saying is: 'If you weren't such a lazy bum you could do this. No fooling around. Life is dull and hard. There's no time for fun. Work is a horrible thing to contemplate, but you have to do it anyway.' Most procrastination happens because through procrastinating we are temporarily able to relieve fears: fear of failure, fear of being imperfect, fear of impossible expectations. Most of these fears, in turn, are ultimately based in the idea that work and life are awful struggles which we must somehow get through and that this whole horrible process will somehow make us better people in the long run."

Isn't summer great?

Who? Me?

I give you two pretzels today for a chip on Friday ... capiche?

I got a new skirt from my Auntie Saffron.

My agent is so calling the director about this lighting...and that woman who is stalking me got on the set again.

We also got an orange pair of sunglasses!

Signing Great-Grandma's birthday card

New sunglasses!

InvestorsInsight : Thoughts From The Frontline > Print View: "If this reasoning is correct, the implications are quite disturbing given current trends in the current account deficit and the budget deficit. If the US current account deficit continues to expand from its level of $666 billion in 2004, as seems likely so long as the dollar remains at existing exchange rates, then the amount of paper dollars that foreign central banks wish to invest in US government debt will continue to expand. Meanwhile, the US budget deficit is widely expected to be lower in FY2005 (approximately $370 billion) than in FY2004 when it was $413 billion. That means that the government will issue less new debt this year than it did last year. Presumably, the same will be true of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, in light of the accounting scandals in which they have become embroiled. Under such circumstances, there will not be enough new government and agency debt issued to satisfy the demand of foreign central banks. Consequently, they are likely to buy existing debt instead, which will have the effect of pushing up the price of those bonds and driving their yields down even further...regardless of what the Fed does to the Federal Funds rate.

Mortgage rates are determined by the yield on 10 year treasury bonds in the United States. Therefore, if foreign central bank buying drives down the yield on treasury bonds, it will also push down mortgage rates, which in turn will cause the rate of increase in US property prices, already the fastest in 25 years during 2004 (and the fastest ever in real, inflation- adjusted terms), to accelerate still further. Higher property prices will allow yet more equity extraction which, in turn, will stimulate US consumption further. Additional consumption will pull in more imports and exacerbate the US current account deficit. And, a larger current account deficit will put yet more dollars in the hands of foreign central banks, who, then, will look fr still more dollar-denominated assets in which to invest them. At the same time, rising house prices and booming consumption will lift US tax revenues, causing the US budget deficit to shrink much more than currently expected.

In other words, if the US current account continues widening faster than the US budget deficit, it could drive down yields on government bonds and therefore the interest rates on mortgages so low that it creates an asst bubble in the United States that the Fed could not control.

What policy options are still open to global policy makers to prevent the current imbalances from leading to a cycle of spiraling economic overheating along the lines described above? Mr. Greenspan told his Frankfort audience that the US government should reduce its budget deficit in order to reduce the country's current account deficit. Specifically, he said:

Living With Social Security: Small Dreams and Safety Nets - New York Times: "GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Barbara Amberg used her Social Security checks to fly to New York and see Christo's 'Gates' in Central Park. Shirley Malone lives on hers in subsidized public housing, sometimes washing her clothes in dish detergent to save money.

For Joseph Cohen, a businessman who lost his business, Social Security is the safety net he never thought he would need. 'We're talking about a fortunate guy who had assets to put away,' Mr. Cohen said. 'But without Social Security I would be in bad shape.'

As Congressional Republicans struggle to break a partisan impasse over President Bush's plan to reinvent Social Security and shore up its finances, 32 million older Americans are living the realities of the nation's biggest social program."