Its been a while!

1. Want to start a business? Guess who's #1 in the country? (and its not Seattle).




2. Did you see that SUPERBOWL?? Sixburg Steelers! Its fun to note that my childhood obsessions: Star Wars, Star Trek, Transformers, Rush, Lord of the Rings, Video Games, and the Pittsburgh Steelers have all persisted throughout my life, and in many ways are bigger now than they were then. The SuperBowl was really one for the ages. I needed to sit down after that game. I want to know why we couldn't stop the pass. I mean REALLY? Barely got to Warner....I thought he'd be planted into the ground by halftime. Anyway, hats off to the Cardinals....they have my respect.

My Favorite Commercial from the Super Bowl: id you guys see that commercial where the butts fall off? HA! Here it is.


3. Family - Good crunchy stuff here. Brianna's art skills grow stronger daily, and her attitude and spirit has been very pleasant. Bryce's abilities on the basketball court and football field. He is the "big man" on his team, and with that has scored in both games, scoring usually 20-30% of the team's total points. We got a nice family of six moved in next door. Four kids, three boys. Nice for Bryce. Ryan is hysterical. He does yoga - I'll post pictures. Julie and I are running training to run a marathon for The Lymphoma and Leukemia Society. I'll make a separate post for that.

4. School - Very dynamic. Things seem to be flying all over the place. I lose books, forget assignments. Its crazy.

5. Work - That I have work is a good thing. I'm fairly secure, I think, but we're trying to stash everything we can just in case. I think Obama's stimulus will work in the short term, and we may see a big spike in 2010-11. The longer term resulting effects of spending $1 Trillion...that makes me shudder, because if it heads down the second time, there may be no rebound. Could this crisis cause the end of the US? Has an economic crisis ever destroyed a country? Could we fall into such poverty that it destroys the infrastructure of this country with strife? I don't think so. Read this guys book if you don't believe me. He says this century will be the American century.

That's it for now. Happy B'day Chrissy!

-Joe