This has been a BUSY summer for Mom’s and Dad’s! It is so much fun watching all this life fly into the world!
First Mike and Annie Prodoehl invited a very special little man into the world. Lincoln James Prodoehl! I love the name Can’t wait to meet this guy!
Saturday June 26th at 8:02 AM, weighing 7lbs 6 oz, 21 inches in length.
Nick and Candice Hester introduced a new Baby Boy on July 17th at 6:03pm EST. Beautiful little boy. Can’t wait to meet this guy too! Here is Nick’s announcement to the world via Facebook
Nicks Facebook Announcement
Beautiful Boy!
Davin and Megan are expecting another. They are once again waiting to learn the sex. I don’t know how they do it!
Davin, Lena and Megan Rausch
Last but not least JP and Allegra have another little girl on the way! I hope I get to see her before she goes into labor so I can pet her belly
Justin and Allegra visit Egypt
I hope everyone is having a great Summer Karen and I have been watching ZJ stand and crawl all over the house. We are still waiting on the Sellers bank approval on a short sale. Hopefully we will have some good news in the next couple of weeks. In the mean time my thoughts are with my Father who will be going into sugary next Wednesday. Luckily he is the toughest guy I know and I know he will do great.
Neat! We’ll be thinking about your dad…what day is the surgery? I tried to call June yesterday, but did not get an answer. Have fun with that little ZJ!
Just watched Capitalism: A Love Story last weekend. You really learn a bit in the movie. I recommend it to all. Of course it only gives you half the story but some of the facts presented blew my mind.
I do believe that the rich are getting richer. That the middle class is getting poorer. Unions have or are being dismantled systematically. Bankers run our economy like a casino. College is getting more expensive thus makes the ability to make yourself rich by hard work is getting tougher (thus the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor).
We should have definitely let the house of cards crumble (in my opinion) when the bankers destroyed our economy. It would have hurt everyone but it would have eventually corrected. New banks would have been born and new critical regulations would have been placed. Since we only patched a hole the issue still exists and the necessary disdain that is needed to drive passage of such regulations is not there.
Final note, the role of propaganda that effects our every day lives is amazing. The movie made some claims that Regan was nothing more then a spokesman/puppet for Donald Regan, who was Merrill Lynch’s chairman at the time Reagan tapped him to serve as Treasury Secretary. Remember, prior to his presidency Ronald Regan was a spokesman. After becoming president he advocated reduced business regulation, controlling inflation, reducing growth in government spending, and spurring economic growth through tax cuts. Sounds like a good pitch for a president to give for a bank!
I believe the following of Moore’s theses was correct…
“But one of Moore’s theses in “Capitalism” is that those who have extreme wealth exert extreme influence over our political system, with the goal of enacting legislation that will help them accumulate even more wealth. Moore laments the system that “worked” in earlier decades when so-called captains of industry were taxed sufficiently so that the U.S. could grow along with the corporations–the money put back into infrastructure and education and hospitals. He also suggests that the very rich had more of a social conscience.”
I think it is going to get even worse with the recent Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the 102-year-old ban against corporations spending large amounts of money to elect or defeat congressional and presidential candidates. And as Fox News continues to perfect its method of broadcasting propaganda future elections are going to be a disaster for those fighting for an equilibrium between the rich and the poor.
Very good blog, Zane! MSNBC was hitting the idea of the rich getting richer and the middle class getting poorer pretty hard yesterday. I hope that the concept starts taking hold. It seems logical that if the rich are only 2% that the rest of us could band together to make a difference.
Another month has goes by. Two months since my last post!
March has been a wonderful month! Other then the start of the allergy season and a losing bracket I can’t complain. Quite a few experiences for me to write about. I hope you enjoy.
Dusty’s Last Hoorah!
March started out with a bang with Dusty’s Bachelor Party in Orlando Florida. While I can’t post much about the experience… I can say it was a blast!
Dusty's BP
ZJ
ZJ continues to grow at an unbelievable pace. If you haven’t seen it yet check out Video Clip’s of our Growing Son! ZJ is currently 15 lbs.
Growing Strong
Heading to Daycare
ZJ love’s his bouncer!
Fire Scare
While Lauren Cattaneo and Lissa (who always seems to bring the heat) were in town we came home to a 2 alarm fire in our townhouse complex! Scary day. Jess Zaks and Lauren came to Maddy and Molly’s rescue and put them in Jess’s car while the fire was extinguished.
Fire Damage
Forced Vacation
I apparently accumulated too much vacation over the last 6 months and was forced to take an unscheduled break from the daily grind. I happened to play the break during St. Patricks day and Chris Odom saved the day by coming to Charleston to party it up! It was great to catch up and slam a few car bombs with a good friend. The day after St. Patricks day we were pretty hung over so we decided to do something fun and sober so we checked out the Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum.
This picture cracks me up!
March Madness
Maryland’s defeat was brutal and my bracket is shot. Enough said
Work Projects
1. I am still working on Dunn & Bradstreet Reverse Transition Application Inventory & Compliance. I have learned some interesting processes on managing application inventory, licensing and compliance.
2. I am starting up my role as PM in charge of managing all items network related in a mainframe migration for Zurich. We are moving a Mainframe from a Zurich Data Center in LA to a CSC Data Center (CDC) in Chicago. Hopefully I can find an excuse to travel to either as I would love to see the Piaggi’s in LA or the (soon to be) Walkers in Chicago.
Personal Projects
Small projects moving along.
1. My projects for Paula vW. Dail, PhD are almost complete
4. I finally finished creating Erin Shaklee’s DVD of her wedding. It includes a short video that is fun to watch
5. I need to make Jimmy and Christa’s wedding video. Now that I am done Erin’s I can get to it.
Fun Month coming up…
April 9th - Lance Visits Charleston to meet ZJ We also timed his trip right so he could catch…
Spiritual Rez plays Sunday April 11th @ Chai’s Lounge & Tapa’s. It is definitely the best place in Charleston to watch them play and grab a drink. If you have no plans definitely come.
April 23rd – Mom & Pop’s fly down from Maryland for ZJ’s Baptism
April 25th – ZJ gets Baptized
April 27th – ZJ’s Half Birthday! 6 Months Old
April 28th – Taylor visits Charleston!
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That’s it for now. I hope everyone has a good April Fools planned
Well it has been over a month since my last post. I am sure my audience of 4 have been holding their breath for me to post! It is hard keeping 2 blogs alive. Hell, it is hard keeping one blog alive.
I have titled this post 01/10 as I have no real subject. Just a few updates on projects I am working on.
1. http://www.sphs99.com – In an attempt to get an email address from everyone in my graduating class I created a Joomla CMS hosting a PHPBB3 forum and Gallery2 gallery (merged using JFusion). It is pretty much an exact replica of http://www.umdphidelt.com . Check out the yearbooks I have been scanning into the gallery. Others have offered to scan theirs in as well but I am not holding my breath! As of right now 63 of 409 classmates have registered.
2. Photoshop Phunhouse – A fun place to post images I photoshopped. Currently only Melissa Barrick and I post and not very often. If you play with photoshop send me a message and I will add you to the page admins.
4. I am proud of Karen for writing her first blog post on Jr’s blog titled A Perry Wonderful Christmas. Karen did a fairly good job of capturing the Christmas spirit.
5. Karen recently discovered our friend Katie’s new cooking blog http://sotastysoyummy.blogspot.com/ . She is a huge fan and is having a good time following some of the recipe’s she is finding. Karen’s first dish from So Tasty So Yummy… Pasta Pie
Katie’s Pie
Karen’s Pie
6. With my Fathers help I updated my website Project Page
7. Sonny Maxwell Perry Jr. has his own projects going on
SKYSPOT Enterprises
That is it for now. Plenty to keep me busy.
We miss home and look forward to the weddings to come this summer! Can’t wait to introduce ZJ to everyone.
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