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Shark Attack Near Our Home

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

This is such sad news. A possible great white shark attack off the Treasure Coast near Vero Beach, Florida.

I remember well the sad story of James Willie who was attacked less than a mile from our home.

The ocean is beautiful but it can hold hidden dangers. I am always aware of my surroundings when I enter the ocean.

We often watch kite surfers whiz by our beach front in Vero Beach. Who knew it could be such a doubly dangerous sport. Read this story. Jaws redux.

While We are All About the Future…

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

…All that matters is today. This is what we wanted: Optimism about our future but expectations that we can win TODAY!

Play Like There is No Tomorrow

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Because if we lose, there is no tomorrow. The team is focused and believes it can win and they believe in each other. This will be another fun, entertaining and intense game. Wish us luck. Go Caps and don’t forget to Rock the Red!

Good Luck to the Wizards

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Good luck to the Wizards who play at the exact same time as the Capitals do today. What were the schedulers thinking? I am hopeful that the team can win one at Cleveland and get the series off on the right foot.

Whoops

Friday, April 18th, 2008

How many times have I said, “Never believe the so-called experts”? :-) Whoops…there was much to do about nothing over this report.

How many times have I said, "Never believe the so-called experts"? :-) Whoops…there was much to do about nothing over this report.

Also, it is interesting to note that Google now gets more of its revenue from outside the US than from the US. This is a truly global business now. As I noted a long time ago, he who gets to one billion uniques first will win and there is only 18 percent of the universe on the internet in the US.

Two in the Box

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Nice. Thank you.

Perspective

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Google’s one day increase today would make its gain bigger than Yahoo’s total market cap or AOL’s implied value times two. Wow - what a rocket ship ride up in the worst economic times imaginable.

Saturday - Saturday - Saturday

Friday, April 18th, 2008

I hope to see a sea of red; hear a loud and impassioned crowd; and witness a group of fans that still believe and will support our team. We need you. You are our 7th man.

 I promise you, with a win on Saturday, it is a new series. Come on out and cheer your lungs out. Let’s do to the Flyers what they tried to do to us. Let us be loud and intimidating but have a bit more class that our northern neighbors.  See you at the game. 

“Them’s the Breaks”

Friday, April 18th, 2008

We just need to overcome all the noise and focus on the signal. Win on Saturday and take it to them in Philly on Monday. Make it a series.

 My bet, the refs that called our game last night won’t be working in the second round. The noise in Philly affected them more than it affected us. It is what it is but who cares. We just need to move forward.

Washington Post Article at Philly Game

Friday, April 18th, 2008

In an ultimate twist of irony, Mike Wise’s column from yesterday was published and put up on the big board in Philly to PUMP up their crowd. That has to be a first: a hometown paper’s column being used as fodder to ignite the passion of the other side.