How is this “OK”?

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As most of you have already heard, Charles McCoy, the prime suspect in the Ohio I-270 sniper shootings was ***arrested in Las Vegas|http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/03/17/ohio.highway.shootings/index.html***. Meanwhile, his family back home in Ohio has issued this statement, acccording to CNN:

qqq|Charlie, we all love you very, very much, and we are very concerned about your well-being right now. Everything is going to be OK,” said Amy Walton outside the family home.|qqq

How exactly is everything going to be OK for him? What a load of baloney.

On top of all this, it appears that ***Amy|http://waltondammerunprwdot.org/g/*** leads a parallel life back in Ohio. Think of the frequent flier miles! 😉

Copy Cat

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Monkey See, Monkey Do…

LAYER ONE
* Name: Rebecca Ann
* Birthdate: January 10
* Birthplace: Concord, Massachusetts
* Current Location: Beverly, Massachusetts
* Eye Color: Hazel (Brown/Green)
* Hair Color: Brown
* Righty or Lefty: Righty
* Sun Sign: Capricorn
* Innie or Outtie: Innie

LAYER TWO
* Your heritage: English, Italian and Swedish
* The shoes you wore today: Blue Hawaiian Print Converse Chucks Sneakers
* Your hair: Long and super straight by nature
* Your eyes: Change colors…kind of like “mood eyes”
* Your weakness: small children (they melt my knees!)
* Your fears: police lights in the rear-view mirror
* Your perfect pizza: Hawaiian (ham and pineapple)
* One thing you’d like to achieve: raising terrific kids

LAYER THREE
* Your most overused phrase on IM: “ha!”
* Your first waking thoughts: “what day is it?”
* The first feature you notice in the opposite sex: eyes
* Your best physical feature: my smile
* Your bedtime: varied, but around 10 or 10:30
* Your greatest fear: Housefires
* Your greatest accomplishment: being a wife
* Your most missed memory: Oh, there are so many…

LAYER FOUR
* Pepsi or Coke: Coke
* McDonald’s or Burger King: McDonald’s
* Single or group dates: both
* Adidas or Nike: Like I can afford either!
* Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Lipton
* Chocolate or vanilla: Vanilla
* Cappuccino or coffee: Coffee stunts your growth!

LAYER FIVE
* Smoke: No.
* Cuss: No.
* Sing: Constantly
* Take a shower everyday: Absolutely
* Have a crush(es): Sure
* Who are they: Sean Astin, Ewan McGregor (teehee!)
* Do you think you’ve been in love: Yes
* Want to go to college: Been there, done that.
* Like high school: Not particularly
* Want to get married: I’ve been married since October 26, 2002
* Believe in yourself: yeah. I can be whatever I want to be!
* Type with your fingers on the right keys: On the ‘correct’ keys. Yes.
* Think you’re attractive: Um… that’s a relative term.
* Think you’re a health freak: I’d like to be
* Get along with your parents: Yes
* Play an instrument: Yup. the Piano

LAYER SIX: In the past month, did you…
* Drink alcohol: Yes, a very weak Cape Codder (made by my cousin,’Becky-style’)
* Smoke: No
* Do a drug: No
* Make Out: Yes (with my Peter of course!)
* Go on a date: Yes, again, see above
* Eat an entire box of Oreos: No
* Eat sushi: No
* Been on stage: I was a bridesmaid, does that count?
* Been dumped: No
* Gone skating: Yes
* Made homemade cookies: No
* Been in love: Yes
* Gone skinny dipping: No
* Dyed your hair: No
* Stolen anything: One heart

LAYER SEVEN: Have you ever…
* Played a game that required removal of clothing: No
* If so, was it mixed company: n/a
* Been trashed or extremely intoxicated: No
* Been caught “doing something”: ummm…I picked all the green blueberries off a neighbor’s bush once. I’m still being reminded of it!
* Been called a tease: yes
* Gotten beaten up: Yes
* Shoplifted: No
* If so, did you get caught: n/a
* Changed who you were to fit in: I never wanted to put that much effort into fitting in. If people didn’t like me as me why hang with them.

LAYER EIGHT
* Age you hope to be married: Already am, was 23 at the time.
* Numbers and Names of Children: n/a
* Describe your Dream Wedding: lots of family
* How do you want to die: Without pain and in my sleep.
* Where you want to go to college: n/a
* What do you want to be when you grow up: a Mom
* What country would you most like to visit: Egypt, Sweden, Japan, Russia, etc…

LAYER NINE
* Number of men I have kissed: One
* Number of boylfriends Ive had: One
* Number of drugs taken illegally: 0
* Number of people I could trust with my life: Several
* Number of CDs that I own: >15

“Shave My Poodle!”

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(a fictional conversation with actual outcome)
Jennifer: “10 bucks if you bid on that ugly orange chair.”
Rebecca: “Okay.” [raises her bidding number 14 and wins the chair]

Viacom and World Wide Pants’ show, ***Ed|http://www.nbc.com/Ed/index.html***, came to an end recently much to the chagrin of myself and Jenn. Luckily for us there was a way to soothe our pain.

This weekend in Norwood, New Jersey, more specifically at Stuckeybowl, there was an auction of all things Stuckey. The producers put up for sale all the props and such that were used on the set of “Ed”. It was quite an experience to get to go inside the building where most of the scenes were filmed and to see so many of the props, furniture and signs that were in the tv show.

Anywhoo… I came home toting a cute orange leather chair from Ed’s office [screen shot ***here|http://www.stuckeyville.com/show/gallery.asp?EID=59&action=thumbs***. first row, second from the right, see it?] and Jennifer scored a nice stained glass window from Ed’s house. Cool. One thing to note is that when I came home on Sunday I checked out ebay and found ***one item|http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4002233424&category=18839*** listed that had been sold at the auction on Saturday…Very Sneaky!

For photos with captions do the clicking thing…….***here|http://gallery.prwdot.org/ed_auction***

!!!bonus material!!! Thanks to ***Michelle|http://mikao.blogspot.com*** for pointing out that I hadn’t included a ‘real’ picture of the chair…oops! Click on the gallery link above and you’ll now find a pic there!

Radio Survey

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Ok, this is a game almost EVERYBODY can play!

I thought up this little survey whilst driving around the North Shore tonight. All you need in order to participate is a radio with good FM reception and a scan button. Traveling in a car is a perfect place to take the survey, but you could also do it on a stereo at home if you get good reception in there (I only say this because the radios inside our house don’t get as much FM reception as the one in the car). If you don’t have a scan button, you can still participate, but you will need to scan through the stations manually. For the rest of the instructions, I’ll assume you’re using scan.

By the way, if you don’t usually listen to the radio in the car, you can still play. Just tune in to the radio for the purposes of this survey, then you can go back to whatever you normally listen to, or silence, or whatever.

To begin, tune your radio to the FM band, and set it to the lowest station. On my car stereo that’s 87.9. Next, hit the scan button to begin scanning through stations. Each time the radio stops on a station which has an audible, understandable broadcast, count it. If it’s too staticky to understand, don’t count it. At the same time, see if the broadcast is something you wouldn’t mind listening to – a song you like, perhaps, or a favorite talk radio show. If it is likable, keep track of it in a separate count, and try to remember which station, and who/what was being broadcast. But don’t stop the scan to listen, just let the radio keep scanning. When your radio has scanned to the end of the spectrum (107.9 or so), you should have a count of the number of stations which came in audibly, and a count of the programs that you might have actually wanted to listen to.

When you’ve got that, post it in the comments here, along with the name of any programs or songs you would have liked to listen to. Also, please make a note as to what time of day you were listening to the radio, and where you were (going?) at the time.

Oh, and feel free to go back and listen to the good programs, if any.

Old Home, New Website

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I’m sure their website has been around for a while, but just today I discovered that my old hometown newspaper, ***The Mount Vernon News|http://www.mountvernonnews.com/index.html***, has a website… and a pretty decent one at that. They even have an RSS feed! (Though the link isn’t public – you must make an email request to obtain it.) How progressive. Even ***Beverly’s paper|http://www.townonline.com/beverly/*** doesn’t have an RSS feed. Let’s not even talk about the ***Salem paper’s website|http://www.salemnews.com/***.

Nine-Layer Burrito

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Got this from ***Michelle|http://mikao.blogspot.com/*** who got it from ***James|http://www.whatisthis.com/***. I went back to James’ original version for mine.

LAYER ONE
* Name: Peter Ryan Wood
* Birthdate: October 6
* Birthplace: San Diego, California
* Current Location: Beverly, Massachusetts
* Eye Color: Brown
* Hair Color: Brown
* Righty or Lefty: Righty
* Sun Sign: Libra
* Innie or Outtie: Innie

LAYER TWO
* Your heritage: English and Dutch
* The shoes you wore today: Merrell hiking shoes
* Your hair: short, brown (um, is this a repeat?)
* Your eyes: brown (err… already covered this?)
* Your weakness: verbal communication
* Your fears: bugs, spiders, crawly things
* Your perfect pizza: pepperoni and sausage
* One thing you’d like to achieve:

LAYER THREE
* Your most overused phrase on IM: “heh”
* Your first waking thoughts: “gotta get up…”
* The first feature you notice in the opposite sex: smile, or lack thereof
* Your best physical feature: my eyes, I think…
* Your bedtime: 11 p.m.
* Your greatest fear: something bad happening to my family
* Your greatest accomplishment: getting married
* Your most missed memory: Being in Spain

LAYER FOUR
* Pepsi or Coke: Coke
* McDonald’s or Burger King: McDonald’s
* Single or group dates: both
* Adidas or Nike: Nike
* Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Lipton
* Chocolate or vanilla: Vanilla
* Cappuccino or coffee: Neither – yuck!!

LAYER FIVE
* Smoke: No.
* Cuss: No.
* Sing: Love to!
* Take a shower everyday: Absolutely
* Have a crush(es): No
* Who are they: n/a
* Do you think you’ve been in love: Yes
* Want to go to college: Been there, done that.
* Like high school: No
* Want to get married: I’ve been married since October 26, 2002
* Believe in yourself: What the heck does this mean, anyway?
* Type with your fingers on the right keys: Yes
* Think you’re attractive: My wife says so, and I believe her!
* Think you’re a health freak: Not at all
* Get along with your parents: Yes
* Play an instrument: I play the cello

LAYER SIX: In the past month, did you…
* Drink alcohol: No, my family has had addiction in the past, thankfully the team at https://firststepbh.com/blog/right-kind-friends/ has helped them out.
* Smoke: No
* Do a drug: No
* Make Out: Yes (with my wife of course!)
* Go on a date: Yes, again, see above
* Eat an entire box of Oreos: No
* Eat sushi: No
* Been on stage: Would you consider the front of a church during a wedding a stage? If so, yes. Otherwise, no.
* Been dumped: No
* Gone skating: Yes
* Made homemade cookies: No
* Been in love: Yes
* Gone skinny dipping: No
* Dyed your hair: No
* Stolen anything: Yes – a couple of kisses! 🙂

LAYER SEVEN: Have you ever…
* Played a game that required removal of clothing: No
* If so, was it mixed company: n/a
* Been trashed or extremely intoxicated: No
* Been caught “doing something”: Yes..something
* Been called a tease: No
* Gotten beaten up: Yes
* Shoplifted: No
* If so, did you get caught: n/a
* Changed who you were to fit in: Never.

LAYER EIGHT
* Age you hope to be married: Already am, was 24 at the time.
* Numbers and Names of Children: n/a
* Describe your Dream Wedding: The one I had! See ***here|http://gallery.prwdot.org/wedding***.
* How do you want to die: Without pain and in my sleep.
* Where you want to go to college: n/a
* What do you want to be when you grow up: Pretty much what I’m doing now. Programming.
* What country would you most like to visit: Egypt

LAYER NINE
* Number of girls I have kissed: Three
* Number of girlfriends Ive had: Four (you do the math)
* Number of drugs taken illegally: 0
* Number of people I could trust with my life: A bunch
* Number of CDs that I own: a few hundred I think, although I now buy music from ***iTunes|http://www.itunesmusic.com/***.
* Number of piercings: 0
* Number of tattoos: 0
* Number of times my name has appeared in the newspaper: Five or six, dunno.
* Number of scars on my body: Two I think…
* Number of things in my past that I regret: No regrets.

Seventh Trek Connection

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Becky and I enjoy making connections when we watch TV: “Ooh, so and so on this show was on that movie with that person!” Kind of like the degrees of Bacon game, but a bit more free-form.

Anyway, we recently made a connection that we thought we would share:

***Stephen Collins|http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0004834/*** and ***Catherine Hicks|http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0382819/*** star as Rev. and Mrs. Eric Camden on the show ***7th Heaven|http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0115083/***.

Here’s the connection: they were both in Star Trek movies!

Catherine starred as Gillian Taylor in the hilarious ***Star Trek IV|http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0092007/***, while Stephen starred as Captain/Commander Willard Decker in the unfortunate ***Star Trek: The Motion Picture|http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0079945/***… both of which were released well before 7th Heaven made its debut.

Speaking of Trek connections, we also spotted TNG’s ***Commander Data (Brent Spiner)|http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000653/*** in this week’s new episode of ***Law & Order: Criminal Intent|http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0275140/***. He played a nutty psychologist, the husband of the psychiatrist whose lover was killed by their psycho daughter. Always good to see a familiar face. 🙂

Mr. and Mrs. Biggs!

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Becky and I are back from the Cape. We had a great time being involved in Jeremy and Angela’s wedding, and the wedding itself was a great success. We may write a more detailed entry later, but for now I just wanted to let everyone know that the photos from my camera are online (I say ‘from my camera’ because I didn’t take all of them… credit goes to various other people who took photos while I was otherwise occupied):

***Jeremy and Angela’s Wedding|http://gallery.prwdot.org/jeremy_and_angela?page=1***

Photos cover the span of time from when I arrived on the Cape Thursday night to when we left the cape Sunday afternoon. Enjoy the photos, and watch for more details later! 🙂

Killington Wants Out

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The ski resort town of Killington, Vermont has voted to attempt to secede from the state of Vermont, and to join the state of New Hampshire, which is 25 miles to its east.

***Story here|http://www.boston.com/dailynews/062/region/Killington_residents_endorse_p:.shtml***.

The Killington town officials must now draft a petition to present to the Vermont legislature for approval or rejection. I tell ya, the fun never stops up here in New England.