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San Diego… Denny and Michelle came for a visit this last Spring and brought good weather with them.
Huntington Beach… Toby's got a girl friend, Toby's got a girl friend. That's a good thing.
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Mom and Artie are hanging in there through these challenging times.
Also here's a big shout out to Roy Mildner for calling mom and helping her with some legal matter. Dude you rock!
Big Mike came Wayne's funeral. Wow, it was great to see him and to connect again.
Terry talked on the phone for some time around Christmas. He seemed pretty happy with the life he now has. Working on older homes and doing restoration work seems to agree with him. He and Caroline are still together with their fabulous dog, Athena.
Tony and his wife Shanti are moved to the Santa Barbara CA area. Neither was impressed with our Seattle Fall weather and I guess she isn't too keen on Santa Barbara either!
Joanne Tazvel recently changed companies and seems to be doing well.
Houston
My old friend Chris Boyett is a being a dick and won't talk to me anymore. I know he is still in mourning over the election of a black President.
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Lindsay is a happy College student and has gotten thinner and thinner. She's amazing and has my total support.
My only son Jordan drowned while swimming in Eastern Washington on the Snake River on July 14th 2008. Here is the news story: Click Here. After 16 months we are trying to adjust to a world without him. Is it any any easier, not really. Sometimes, the agony of this loss makes me not want to go on.
Mike and Sara have been helping each other through another phase of our lives. College student, self employment ups and downs, death in the family and caring for those around us.
Alfred married Laurine and they are so cute together. I've known him most of this life and am very happy for him.
We haven't heard anything from Wayne Jr. and his new girlfriend, Barbara.
It was great to see Karen Renee and Ryan again. Wow, they're all grown up with families of their own now.
Frankie seems to be hanging in there after losing his mom, dad, uncle and now another uncle. And then a best friend. Crushing.
Also, what an amazing coincident meeting Richard Stewart in Duluth in July. It really is a small world!
SPORTS
The Seahawks had an amazing preseason and then won their first game. And now, they've turned to shit!
Our Seattle Sounders soccer team is rockin' I sure wish Jordan would have been able to see a Sounders game, he thrived on soccer.
Mariners
The M's season wasn't a total disaster and having Ken Griffey Jr back has been a real treat to long time Mariner fans. It's a shamed that they couldn't pull it all together and make a run at the pennant this year. Ichiro had another 200 hit season, Lopez kicked butt, Felix was great, the big surprise was Russel Branyon.
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NORTH CAROLINA
Stuart is learning to deal with limited mobility after breaking both of his heals. He is learning autobody repair and can sling bondo like nobody's business now. He's rebuilding an International truck so he can haul cars.
Nadya moved to Texas and is living with her brother David and Aunt.
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Montana
Steve and Mollie were nice to send their love after Jordan's passing. And is was great to hear from David and Mary in Houston..................................................
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Arts:
Too Bad is
New in the Arts.
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Barack Obama has been elected President! I can hardly believe it. Shades of blue are dancing in my head.
The economy is seemingly stabilizing but jobs are not. The question is why are oil prices sticking up so high?
The leaders of the world are now scrambling to reinvigorate their economies in the wake of a worldwide financial system collapse. Protests against the leaders in Iran after the sham election.
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A moment of silence please, for Harold Wayne Johnson, the family Patriarch has passed on. He died Sunday 12:30am, October 21st, 2007. Saturday 10:30pm Pacific time. It's the end of an amazing life. Wayne was bigger then Olive Branch Mississippi and in his life traveled the country and the world. He was father to at least 9 children, many of which were sired by other men but raised by him and his wife of 35 years. His funeral was held on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007.
COMMENTARY
As if war were going to solve our problems, on March 19th, 2003, George W. Bush started his campaign against Sadam Hussien. Images and information are streaming back in nearly real time from the embedded reporters. As before, the march to Bahdad seems like a hot knife through butter. But now, the war is basically over and Bagdad and IRAQ is a mess.
In rememberence of 9/11/01...................................
Our lives have been changed forever by the events of 9/11/01. I can never look at a middle eastern person again with the same objectivity. Are they a member of a cell in waiting, waiting for instructions, waiting for orders, waiting to die for Allah?
Will we as a nation ever have the same freedoms that we once knew? How could the people at the source of this destruction expect to get away with it?
Most disturbing images:
1) Jet hitting second building
2) Woman who said that she just sees all the dead people, not the rubble
3) Children and people dancing in the streets of Palastine and Egypt
4) Video of New Yorkers talking to reporters who have pictures and stories about their father, husband, and other family members that are missing or worked in one of the Towers
5) Stories of flight attendants being killed to lure the pilot out of the cockpits
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Last updated 09/18/2009.
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