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Holiday Party

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an early shout out… ‘Tis the season… for holiday parties. Of course, I’m having mine again. Well, to say it’s mine is overstating, but it is at my house. If you’ve been before, I’m sure I’ll see you again, and if you haven’t, you should try to check it out this year. The website isn’t … Read more

Cold not Flu

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mostly recovered from whatever was coming on, still gonna take it easy, hang with the nieces. So, I’ll miss the Ringwalds and Los Scarnales. Tomorrow is the Art Crawl, hope I’m up for it. Whoever will I go with? -b

Ick

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I had a nasty flu about two months ago, before the big Houston flu outbreak. Conn had it last week. I had to decide whether to hang out at home with his germs, and take it easy and stay healthy, or go out and avoid the germs and have fun. I, of course, chose the … Read more

Hardy Lebel dies

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I hadn’t seen Hardy, my mom’s cousin, in several years. I’m not even really sure when I last saw him – a reunion or a funeral. It all seems very weird.

[Edit: NTSB’s finding]


Two die in midair plane crash at Westerly State Airport

Associated Press
November 17, 2003

WESTERLY, R.I. — Two Rhode Island men died after the small plane they were riding in collided in midair with another small aircraft at Westerly State Airport, officials said Monday.

The airplanes, a Piper Arrow and a Cessna 182, crashed Sunday about 100 feet above the runway, according to Ted Drozdz, chief aeronautics inspector for Rhode Island Airport Corp. He said the airport does not have an air traffic control tower, and pilots are expected to notify each other when they are taking off and landing.

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Austin Weekend

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I haven’t road tripped in a while, and haven’t made it to any UTexas games in Austin all year, so I finally decided late friday that I’d hit the road saturday morning to Austin. I haven’t been on the road on game day in a very long time (I usually go in friday night if not earlier). I haven’t seen all the oranged and longhorned cars in caravan from Houston to Austin in a while.

Stayed with Bob & Cristen, and went to their place in NW Austin about 1 pm. We soon left for the Tialgate – in a parking garage to fend off the weather. Unfortunately, a pinched nerve (sleeping wrong?) kept getting worse throughout the afternoon, so I spent the rest of the day is sharp pain. Though beer did a decent job of muscle relaxing.

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