Happy New Years

Happy New Years
Originally uploaded by dino0477.

We are out at a bar watching a friend work having a good time spending too much money. We wish you a safe and happy new years. May all your hopes and wishes come true.

Last roadtrip for the year

Last roadtrip for the year
Originally uploaded by dino0477.

Well at least for work since we are going out of town for new years eve. I am back in charlottesville till tomorrow.

Frohe Weihnachten - Merry Christmas

Just a quick note to wish you all a very merry Christmas. Here are the pups in front of our tree. As you can see they can't wait for their presents. Lucky for them we are celebrating the German traditions and Santa comes Christmas eve so they do not have to wait much longer.Misty decided that her new favorite place is under the tree with all the blinking lights above.

Transsiberian orchestra

Transsiberian orchestra
Originally uploaded by dino0477

Keep your fingers crossed

I have a little but very important request - please keep your fingers crossed for tomorrow (Dec11) - someone very dear to me is having brain surgery which will determine if she can have the surgery that would "cure" her epilepsy and allow her to live a normal life. Erin was the youngest of the kids whose Au pair I used to be many years ago.If you want to read her story got to http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/eringard you will have to register but its free. Erin does read the messages in the guestbook too.

Stupid criminals

Stupid criminals
Originally uploaded by dino0477.

Two morons held up grumpys store this am. The idiots committed robbery getting them in jail for 25yrs once caught for less than 70bucks. Luckily noone got hurt. Of course I will not be able to sleep now whenever Grumpy works 3rd shift. I hope those guys are caught soon and someone throws away the key. I feel bad for the peeps that were in the store when it happened.

December 1st

Well its that time of the year again - when you hear about HIV/AIDS again. To bad this does not happen throughout the year. There are still people being infected every year in a disease that we know how to prevent infection. That is very disturbing to me. I have lost a lot of people to this disease in the early years. These days with the medication out people can live long lives - if they can afford the meds and tolerate the side effects. I find it sad that these days people accuate HIV with having diabetes and so do not take the precautions they should as they dont see at as an automatic death sentence anymore. While I think its great we can treat the infection I still think preventing it in the first place is more important. So lets remember those that died and are still dying all over the world.