Football and Cheerleading Update

The kids are a couple of weeks into the new football and cheerleading season. Sean is again playing in the Mighty Mite division of youth football. The age group for that division is 8 – 10. The team is practicing 3 nights a week and occasionally throws in an odd day here and there. Savannah […]

Xbox 360 Texas Hold Em Poker

Hooah! Today is the release date for the Texas Hold Em poker game on Xbox Live for the Xbox 360. This date has been a long time in coming. The original release date was back in February. A lot has changed since then too. The game was going to be free and supported by in […]

Madden 2007 Release Day for Xbox 360

Today is the release date for Madden 2007 for the Xbox 360 (and the other platforms). Football used to be my favorite game to play on consoles. Madden has kind of been the reason for the “used to” part. The old Xbox versions of the NFL2K series were, in my opinion, far to superior to […]

New Website in Development

I guess I shouldnt have been so quick to talk about my “free time” and looking for some projects to work on. Suzanne got wind of it and decided that I should spend that energy on developing a new website for her. Sounds like a win – win situation to me. For a while now, […]

Texas Hold Em Poker for Xbox 360

Finally, the day is approaching! Next Wednesday, the 23rd of August, Texas Hold Em Poker for the Xbox 360 on the Xbox Live Arcade will launch! In addition, Microsoft has announced on xbox.com that for the first 48 hours it is available, the Texas Hold Em Poker game will be free. After that, the game […]

Xbox Live Arcade Games

Microsoft recently completed it’s Summer Promotion of Arcade Wednesday. For five weeks this Summer they released a new Xbox Live Arcade game on Wednesdays. The promotion was a smash hit on Xbox Live Arcade. I happened to download four of the five and thought I would give my impressions of them. Frogger This was the […]

Dance Recital This Weekend

Suzanne and the kids have another dance recital this weekend. Seems like an awful lot of dancing and dancing related events going on lately. This weekend is their Summer recital. They will be doing a bunch of things from Cats. Their dance company puts on many recitals throughout the year. They have the Spring Recital, […]

Football Season Begins for Sean

Today is the first day of football practice for Sean. He is pretty excited as it is his favorite activity. He will again be playing in the Mighty Mite division which is tackle football for 8-10 year olds. Last year he played Guard on offense and Defensive End on the defensive side. No telling where […]

Nice Dinner Party

Wow, what a nice dinner party last night! We had some folks over to review recent big vacations. The food was quite good and got rave reviews. My favorite was the Peperone e Formaggi (stuffed orange bell peppers). They were outstanding. The Raspberry Sauce I made for the Center Cut Pork Roast was a great […]

Fun Day in the Kitchen Cooking

Today should be a fun day. Most of it will be spent in the kitchen cooking. We are entertaining some friends this evening and I get to do the cooking. Hooah! The little get together is planned as a vacation trip review. Everyone is bringing photos of their recent big vacations. We will be showing […]