Monthly Archives: November 2009

CNN Money: Dirty secrets of Black Friday ‘doorbusters’

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Joel

Sounds hot, don’t it?  “Dirty Secrets“?  No, it’s just that while everyone is hot-to-trot about those Black Friday sales, it’s all just a lot of hoopla.  Personally, I’ve never ran to the store in the middle of the night to get … Continue reading →

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I completed my last audit of the year

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Joel

As of yesterday, I completed work on my last audit of the year, so now I’m “free.”  I say “free”, because I’m going to obviously help out whoever I can, but I’m basically unassigned for now.  Time to do research, … Continue reading →

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It’s alive!!! We have fish again

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Joel

That post title should be read with your best Dr. Frankenstein impression.  We have fish again. As you may remember, we had a mass ritual suicide in the aquarium back in the beginning of August. Now that Doug helped me … Continue reading →

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A birthday party for Heidi and Pradeesh

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Joel

On Saturday night, we packed up the kids into the car, and drove to the Marakesh Restaurant in Parsippany to meet up with the gang to celebrate recent birthdays for Heidi and Pradeesh.  Others had been here before, but it … Continue reading →

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Carrie Prejean is a real piece of work

Posted on November 12, 2009 by Joel

This has been floating around on the Interweb for a few days, but I only watched it last night.  Can I say that she seems to be tool?  Is that even applicable to the female gender? In any case, she’s … Continue reading →

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Veterans Day 2009

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Joel

First off, I salute all of our surviving U.S. veterans, and commemorate those who have passed on. You have done a wonderful service for all of us. I was off today, which was very nice. The kids were both at … Continue reading →

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Josh is now a Star Wars fan

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Joel

It’s like a dream come true. Joshua is, I think, officially a Star Wars fan. He’s only 4.5 years old, but I think I can get continue my corruption, er, I mean, nurture his budding love for geekiness.  We’ve been watching … Continue reading →

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The Quinn Gray kidnapping hoax

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Joel

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Brothers (2009)

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Joel

I saw where this was going about 5 seconds into it.  Still, you know, this has to be happening all over the world in similar situations.  Life is messy and tough, isn’t it? Brothers stars Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Tobey … Continue reading →

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A busy November Saturday

Posted on November 7, 2009 by Joel

Saturday morning, we met up with my sister-in-law and her family at our house.  We drove down to Wall, NJ to visit Atlantic Farms, which has a small petting zoo.  We’d been here before back in October 2008, and I … Continue reading →

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