Los Angeles may restrict outdoor smoking. The city is essentially broke and they are worried about outdoor smoking. Wow.
Obama Predicts Years of Deficits Over $1 Trillion
Obama predicts years of deficits over $1 trillion. Slowing tax revenues usually have to do with overtaxation of your highest earners. More on this later.
This is the Fun Stuff
Cadillac Ranch – Amarillo, TX, originally uploaded by Stephan Segraves.
Jessica spent a portion of her break from work hanging pictures around our home. Even though this picture was not one chosen to be put on the wall it is a great representation of what we love doing together.
Cadillac Ranch is one of those “off-the-beaten-path” tourist attractions that is just fun to walk around and take pictures of. On this particular day there was a family at the sculpture and they were all carrying spray paint, part of the tradition behind this place. They were running around, painting their names and messages on cars and just having a good time.
As we walked around, I realized that it was quiet for being so close to the highway. I started reading the messages that people had left on the cars and saw plenty of hearts and peace signs.
So, if you get the chance, head to Amarillo, put the windows down, and just enjoy the fun stuff.
Child Elopers’ Africa Plan Foiled
A child, her sister and her “boyfriend” were foiled in their attempts to head to Africa and elope. Did I mention they are five, six, and seven years of age?
Links for 2009-01-03
A Jerk You’ll Want to Buy Rags From
Salesjerk – Meet the next great TV pitchman — These commercials are fairly common even during early evening television. It is sad but I do find myself wanting to buy one, just to see if it works.
A Year of Firsts
As 2008 draws to a close, the realization that it was a year full of “firsts” for both me and now my family is finally sinking in. The year has been a great one, with highs and lows and every combination in-between.
Jessica and I were married this year and will always look back at 2008 as the beginning of our lives together. We traveled to Belize and endured a hurricane in Houston — something that I hope stays a “first and only” event. I became a co-host of the SitePoint Podcast and rebuilt this site. Our new family celebrated its first Thanksgiving and Christmas and just recently we decided it was time to add another member to the family and adopted a puppy named “Sofie”.
A year of firsts is coming to an end and leading us to a year of seconds, thirds, but hopefully some more firsts thrown in along the way.
Happy New Year!
May your 2009 be blessed and full of joy.
The long decline of (book) reading
The long decline of reading. I’m working on “Everything Bad is Good For You” but I need to speed it up.
My year in cities, 2008
Maybe this will become a yearly thing. I decided to post a list of cities I visited in 2008.
- Austin, TX *
- San Pedro, Belize
- Amarillo, TX
- Lubbock, TX
- New Martinsville, WV
- Philadelphia, PA
- Denver, CO *
- Los Angeles, CA
- Honolulu, HI
One or more nights was spent in all locations except for Amarillo, where we spent an entire day. Cities marked with an asterisk (*) were visited multiple times on non-consecutive days.
