FINALLY FRIDAY!!!
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It's been a long week. I'm leaving for Portland on Tuesday for a Print Music Dealer Conference.
I work for Oxford University Press and I'm the lead for our sheet music customer service, so they
send me to this conference and I get to meet a lot of people that I've talked to on the phone for years! I've been trying to make sure I'm caught up as much as possible before I leave. I hate leaving my wife and dogs for almost 6 days, but I'm sure I'll have a good time.
OH! My runaway pup came home Tuesday night!!! Raina, his sister, made sure we knew when he came up on the porch. They have been having the best time since he's come back. I was so thankful that he was safe and and unhurt. He was hungry and had a lot of ticks on him, but he's doing great now.
My buddy Kurt Fortmeyer is supposed to come by Pheasant Creek Coffee House in Apex tonight for their open mic if by some miracle any locals read this! Stop by. He's a great songwriter and story teller and really funny too.

LOST 2 OF MY PUPS TO PARVO
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Man, this has been a bad month. First our water heater goes out, then the
car dies, then we lose the 2 babies. The other 2 are looking healthy. I'm
praying that they will stay that way. The water heater and car may have
cost more money, but the puppies sure hurt more.

THIS HAS BEEN ONE MONTH I'D LIKE TO FORGET ABOUT
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First our hot water heater goes out, leaks and soaks our closet and the
carpet in our bedroom. Then our car dies, so we have to spend our mortgage
money on a used car. This past week we lost 2 puppies to Parvo and now one
of the 2 that we think are going to make it is missing....SHEESH! I'm hoping that
someone in the neighborhood saw him and took him home. Maybe they'll want to
adopt him. I just want to know that he's safe. I took his sister(who we inted to keep)
out with a leash this morning.
At least the Sox finally won a game after losing 3 in a row. Maybe things will start looking
up. I try to be optimistic!

UPS AND DOWNS

It's been a stress filled week, to say the least. Already struggling to pay the bills and survive,
our car died on Monday. On top of that our supervisor (one of the most loved people here)
has taken another job. Today is his last day. My wife has been crying already, even after the valium. We did get another car last night. That's one big weight off our chests.
I am really excited that Bronson Arroyo hit his second big league home run! It was Bronson 1,
Willy Mo 0, but now Willy Mo hit his first last night!
Time for some more Costa Rica Peaberry and maybe some work....nah. Just the coffee will be fine for now.

One damn thing or another, next 10,000 miles!

It's just like my uncle Carlos Santana Rosannadana used to say, "It's always somethin'"
I've had 2 major screw-ups with my bank account in the last month. I did a check by phone
payment on my late mortgage to come out the following week (of course they f....ng ran it through the same day). Then I pay a credit card bill online. It gets duplicated. SHEEESH!
On a positive note the Sox have won 2 out of 3 and the Spankmees have lost 2 straight!
My boy Bronson Arroyo hit a homerun for the Reds yesterday and struck out 7 Cubs.

Sox Win Opener!!!
Looks like Schill is strong and healthy again. He pitched 7 innings and struck out 5. He had
his fastball up to 96mph, but said he didn't have a good splitter. His new changeup got a couple
of outs for him, though. I'm excited that Mike Lowell homered. It was pretty much a given that
Big Papi would (no surprise there). Coco Crisp made a great catch to get Foulke out of trouble in
the 9th. Jonathan Papelbon came in and pitched a perfect 8th and got a strikeout. He's gonna be a good one.
Yankees won too (Damon had a good game!) I love this game!
Oh well, I guess I better go back and do some work now, but first I'll pour myself another cup of
Brazilian French Roast.
EMOHYPO
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STORMY MONDAY
It's 10:15am. I just looked out the window at work and it looks like night time! Raining pretty
good. We need that. I'm on my 5th cup of Mocca Java already and the rain still makes me want to go home and crawl back under the sheets.
Baseball season opens today! RedSox vs Rangers in TX at 2:05. Schilling vs Millwood. I'm more excited about that than the Final Four.
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