Sorry… not that anybody is reading this.  I’ve been very busy lately.  I got laid off a few weeks ago and have been beating the streets looking for a job.  When not doing that, I’m working on our new WINE BLOG!  Check out DecantStopTasting.com!

Several updates will be coming to this blog and our family blog (satoveillon.com) very soon, so stay tuned!  Subscribe to be notified when we do updates!

Everyone has stories about the DMV.  I have plenty too, but it seems over the last couple of years I’ve fallen victim to their poor “customer” information management.  Please, if there’s someone with influence over the DMV, get them to hire a consulting firm to help them get organized.  They have all the resources necessary to perform their job efficiently, but things are so out of whack on the back end that they continually drop the ball - aiding to their bad reputation. 

What keeps happening to me is that they have policies about when events take place that causes problems for them and us, their customers. 

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This is just some images in space I got from NASA’s website set to music.  No, I didn’t create the music, and I’m currently trying to figure out where I got it.  LOL  I created this using MS’s PhotoStory3.  It is freeware, and you can get it from MS’s download site.  I’ll provide the link later.  Hope you enjoy the show, and if you’d like a DVD quality version just email me.

I’m surprised it took me this long to notice, but maybe that’s because it is so unexpected.  There was a time when there was maybe 1 US rider in the premier class of motorcycle racing… this despite US dominance in history.  Because the Italians and Spanish seem to have such success I guess I was assuming they had a larger presence.  That is certainly true in the lower classes of grand prix motorcycle racing.  Read the rest of this entry »

Well, Nicky would have come in 4th if he hadn’t crashed near the end of the race.  What a miserable race it was too.  Or at least the conditions sucked.  The race was actually quite eventful… partially surprising, partly predictable.  Read the rest of this entry »