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Jack’s First Tennis Tournament

October 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Jack has been taking tennis lesson about a year and a half.  He really enjoys it and feels apart of the Temple Terrace Junior Tennis scene (even though it is fairly small).  Jack's coach, Peter Adler, does a phenomenal job making the lessons fun while getting the most out of practice time.  Based on Peter's recommendation plus Jack REALLY wanting to play competitively, Jack played in his first rookie tournament in Plant City on September 25, 2010. In order to play his first rookie tournament, Jack had to become a member of the USTA.   Also, the youngest age group in which a player can register is 10 and … [Read more...]

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2010 NFL Pool

September 9, 2010 By 2 Comments

Friends, Are you ready for some football? Tonight marks the start of the 11th season of our Free NFL Pool. You guys know the drill, but if you want to include others please forward your recommendation to your friends and family so that they can be involved. Please get in your online picks by the kickoff of Vikings at Saints (Tonight - 8:30pm). Drew Griffin http://www.drewgriffin.com/contests/nflpool2010 NFL Pickmeister WebPool Weekly Rules: Free Game Weekly winners are determined by: total wins Tiebreaker is total points for the Monday Night contest NFL Pickmeister WebPool Season Rules: Season … [Read more...]

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Diigo for bookmarking and highlighting

September 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Recently, I was discussing with a friend the subject of bookmarking. I realize that most people simply user their browser's bookmarking tool, but I wanted to suggest a different way of remembering the sites you visit. I have been using diigo.com for the past two years.  I have tried using delicious.com (good), Google bookmarks (great), and Evernote (fantastic), but diigo is really good for the way I work and for the way it stores your bookmarks and uses tags.  To take full advantage of this tremendously powerful tool, you should download the extension for Firefox (assuming you are a Firefox user).  The site … [Read more...]

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Gatlinburg 2010

September 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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On Saturday, August 7, 2010, DeeDee, Jack, and I began our drive to spend one week of summer vacation in the Smoky Mountains (Gatlinburg, TN).  I purchased a new GPS for the trip.  It is a nüvi® 3790T.  Man, this thing is pretty slick.  I particularly like the voice-activated command selection.  Very cool. Shockingly, I did not trust the GPS  while driving on I75. It told me to reroute and take Exit 52 (Dade City) and then drive North on US301 and pick up I75 later. Naturally, I thought that the dumb machine was wrong.   Little did I know that the GPS was trying to keep me from heading into 9 miles of … [Read more...]

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