The college bowl season is well underway, with a a handful of games already in the books (East Carolina's nail-biting upset of Boise State in the Hawaii Bowl being the most surprising result so far) and many more games to come over the following couple of weeks, including the traditional slate of games on New Year's Day and the BCS National Championship Game on January 7th. Once it's all over,
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Monday, December 24, 2007
Meet Artemis and Orion
Posted on 2:32 PM by jackline
Due all the distractions and general busy-ness that I've experienced over the past few weeks, I've neglected to mention the two newest members of our family:Meet Artemis, at the left, and her brother Orion. They've actually been with us since right after Thanksgiving; one of Lori's friend's relatives had found a litter of four kittens whose mother had died and sent out a plea for good homes.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Christmas is a week away
Posted on 8:27 PM by jackline
I guess that means I should start doing some shopping, or something.So many things have been going on over the last few weeks that I've hardly had time to even notice that it's the holiday season, let alone buy gifts for people.Thus, I'll get to spend the upcoming weekend fighting my way through the hordes of fellow last-minute shoppers. Oh, joy.
Monday, December 10, 2007
Weak dollar impacts Dubai's construction boom
Posted on 6:37 PM by jackline
Speaking of Dubai: it was inevitable that, sooner or later, this would become an issue: In the four years that it has taken laborers to climb more than 150 floors over Dubai's congested freeways and skyline, the U.S. dollar has fallen with equal steadiness. Its decline has helped trigger unprecedented wage strikes and a rock-throwing protest this fall by the foreign construction workers, who are
Emirates begins flying to Houston
Posted on 6:22 PM by jackline
Last week, Emirates kicked off non-stop service between Houston and Dubai. I couldn't make it up to IAH to witness the event, but fortunately the planespotters at airliners.net were up to the task.As I suggested last February, nonstop service between Houston and Dubai makes a lot of sense for a lot of reasons. I believe that Emirates will find this to be a highly successful and profitable route,
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Big drug bust at University of Houston
Posted on 8:06 PM by jackline
Wow, that's a lot of acid:A University of Houston freshman was planning to sell about half a million dollars worth of LSD he had in his dorm room, Houston police said.Clarke Lane Denton, 18, was charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute. He was in Harris County jail in lieu of $999,999 bond.Denton, a chemical engineering major, was arrested Thursday after he sold
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