Milwaukee television station, WTMJ has reported that Green Bay Packers have offered Brett Favre $20 million over ten years if he does not report to training camp, and stays retired.
Packers President, Mike Murphy, said he hoped Favre would maintain a “long–term relationship with the Packers.”
Green Bay Press–Gazette and ESPN published similar reports.
ESPN also reported [...]
Posted in News by Mitch on July 31st, 2008 at 4:35 am
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Jayne would have been 55 today. <sigh>
I asked our daughters, Maxine and Audrey, to write something this year, but since it is almost midnight, and I don’t see anything, I guess it is up to me to say something.
How Many People Get Colon Cancer and Rectal Cancer?
American Cancer Society estimates that there will be [...]
Posted in Musings by Mitch on July 30th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
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I have been writing about Bear Grylls for over a year, and thought I knew everywhere to look for news and information about him.
Therefore I was surprised, when researching my previous post, to discover another resource.
I learned that Bear Grylls has an outstanding photo gallery on Google’s British Picasa Web at:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/beargryllsphotos
Picasa and Picasa Web
Picasa [...]
Posted in Bear Grylls by Mitch on July 30th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
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Bear Grylls has done it again!
Grylls, 34, who set his first Guiness World Record in 1974, as the youngest Brit to summit Ama Dablam, and followed it up the following year, as the youngest Brit to return alive, from a climb to the summit of Mount Everest, now holds the record for longest continuous [...]
Posted in Bear Grylls by Mitch on July 30th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
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Now that I have a category for idiots, I feel obligated to write about this particular stupid person.
Daniel Allen Everett, age 33, of Clarkston, Michigan, was arrested on Tuesday (July 15) for using the Internet to arrange a meeting for sex with a minor. Using the screen name “danmichelle2004”, Everett arranged to meet an [...]
Posted in Idiots by Mitch on July 18th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
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Once in awhile, I will open a spammy email, which annoys me enough to complain about it. This happened recently, what appeared to be an innocent message from Microsoft, could have unleashed a virus. It looked like this:
Click Here!
About this mailing: You are receiving this e-mail because you subscribed to MSN Featured Offers. Microsoft [...]
Posted in Idiots by Mitch on July 18th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
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I stopped writing much for Where Did My Brain Go? recently, because I wanted to take the SCWCD (Sun Certified Web Component Developer for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5) exam on Jayne’s Birthday, July 30th. But I just postponed it for a month or two, so I can have other interests.
There is [...]
Posted in Learning by Mitch on July 17th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
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Join me and 3500 others, in downtown Lexington, on July 4th, for the Bluegrass 10,000. This 10 kilometer race begins at 7:20 A.M. — followed by Crank Wheelchair Division at 7:25, and Wheelchair Division at 7:30 and 8:00.
Before anyone gets excited, I must explain that I will not be running the entire distance. Apparently, running [...]
Posted in News by Mitch on July 2nd, 2008 at 11:09 pm
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