Navyblue at the Ritz

We went and saw our friend's band play at the Ritz in New Holland last night. It was a great night and we got the chance to hang out with a lot of friends. Becky said it was "the weirdest night ever." I'm sure she'll be posting about it later.++++++++++++-

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Trying out a new browser

I have used firefox for a long time and I love it. I like being able to customize it with extensions and themes. I have tried using safari for a while but there were too many quirky things that would happen with it. Flock is another social networking browser that I have used in the past and liked, but still found myself going back to Firefox. Recently, I found out Flock will be releasing a new version in the next week or so. I was very excited to have more options when it comes to web browsing and the integration of social networking.
For those who are not familiar Flock is built off of the same frame work as Firefox so most of the extensions that you have come to love will work in Flock as well. The best thing about Flock is the intergreation with all of your accounts and networks that work with if not multiple times a day at least once.

• Facebook
• Flickr
• Xanga
• Blogger
• del.icio.us
• Twitter
  

The list goes on. . . Not to mention a built in RSS reader and many other amenities.
Below is a screen shots of the facebook integration:



The new version of Flock will also integrate an email notifier as well as other options I'm sure. I'm currently using the blogging tool to post this message to my blog. This tool allows you to type and post new blog entries in a separate window without actually having to visit your blog page. So far it is working quite nicely. I'm sure I will have more to say in the future.

update: The image uploader in the blog tool could use some work. I had to log back in to blogger and fix the image.

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Snowboarding continued

I had an awesome time snowboarding. You couldn't have asked for a better day to go! It started snowing at about 1:00 and didn't stop until after 9:00. We probably got close to 3-4 inches of fresh powder it was great! I think I'm finally recovered from the soreness of snowboarding.

Although, I'm still sick. I probably shouldn't have been on the side of a mountain snowboarding all day Thursday, but I was and now I'm paying for it.

I feel asleep on the couch during the Giants/Packers game last night and Becky made me get off the couch and go to bed. That was about 9:00. I slept straight through till my alarm went off at 6:15 (ew... I dislike getting up) Still not feeling the greatest, but I'm sure I'll pull through.

Snowboarding . . .

I'm working from home this morning for a few hours and then I'll be hitting the slopes. I'm going snowboarding up at bear creek with a group from our church. I can't wait! It's been a long time since I've been able to go snowboarding and I love it thats the annoying part. So I'm leaving our house at around 2-2:30 to head up to bear creek. Looking forward to a fun evening!

I've got to get better...

. . . at updating this blog. . .

Christmas day was crazy busy we started it at mom and dad's in the morning . . .

and

after 5 stops and about 12 hours

we finished the day at John and Bev's (another Christmas tradition)

Last weekend we went to Pittsburgh with my parents and In-laws. My parents came from Michigan and Becky's parents, who live in the same town as we do, left a few hours before us. Becky and I drove out after work. It was a great weekend. I'll try to post some pictures later on. . . (this time I hope it's less than 2 weeks later)

We stayed south west of the city in Green Tree it's about a 10 min drive into downtown. Of course the weekend we plan to go is the same weekend that the Steelers and the Penguins BOTH had a home game. It was a good time and it was good to see the family.

Now it's back to the full work week. . . This weekend we are planning ANOTHER trip this time we are going to Virginia to see Ryan, Emily and Baby Brooke.

Back to the Grind

Well it's the day after Christmas and I think I was the only one driving into work today. My usual 30-45 min drive took 15 min, and I got to work to realize that I have nothing to do today. This will be interesting. . . I'll recap Yesterday later on . . .

Annual Christmas trip to NYC

Saturday was our second annual trip to NYC. We took one of Dad's buses up to the City. I think there was about 25-30 of us that went.

This year My father-in-law made a phone call and got us tickets to the American Museum of Natural History. (That place is huge.) Only 5 of us went to the Museum, Dad and Mom Brynan, Becky and Me, and our friend Amanda. We walked for hours, and still only saw a fraction of the Museum. We had picked out a few select portions of the Museum that we wanted to see. Mom and Dad had just watched "Night at the Museum" and Mom wanted to see the T-Rex! Unfortunately it's tucked away in the corner of the fourth floor not in the main rotunda like in the movie.


We also had to make our way to the Pacific Islander Section of the Museum to see this guy:

"Hey dumb dumb, you got gum gum?"

After the Museum we caught the subway back downtown to catch up with the rest of our group down by Radio City Music Hall and Rockefeller Center.

Becky and I almost got a ticket before we boarded the subway. We both purchased a subway pass and Becky went to go through the "gate" first. She swiped her card and then pushed the gate but it locked before she could get through. So, we just decided to swipe mine and go through at the same time. Apparently, there was a cop watching us do the whole thing and then approached us when we started to walk downstairs.

"Excuse me!", he said, "what did you guys just do?" and then we tried to explain and then he said . . . "I know what you did." My question for him is? "why the heck did you ask us what we are doing and then tell us you saw what we did?" Anyway, he told us that it looked like we were trying to steal a fair on the subway. IT'S TWO DOLLARS!! why would I want to steal a two dollar ride on the dirty subway. He said that we should have went and bought a THIRD ticket! Just because the City of New York has a bad subway gate design. Mom bolted as soon as she saw the cop walk up to us "thanks mom" and Dad came back to talk to us, too. Well, we didn't get a ticket and nobody was arrested for "stealing" a subway ride.

From the Museum on 79th we took the subway to 42nd and walked to Radio City & Rockefellar Center.

"Becky and JT"

From there the 5 of us went and had dinner at Rosie O' Grady's and then it was back to wait for the bus. The poor bus driver got stuck in traffic for 30-45 min trying to get back to pick us up, but it was a good time to take pictures while we waited. Amanda took a couple of Becky and me I'll post them once she sends them to me. But here are a couple others . . .

"Little Man, JT"

"Me and Nicky"