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8Man

Out here on the perimeter there are no stars

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Pirates, wizards, groovy witches, radicals, wallflowers, shamen, visionaries, smugglers, bootlegers, poets, dreamy genies, musicians, tech nerds, bon vivants, women who can type with their feet, women who dress like cats, men who dress like birds, vikings, strippers, masked mexican wrestlers, explorers, mystics, fire eaters, aztec gods, conquistadors, gurus, sleepers, dreamers and ne'er-do-wells

Television:

Duck Dodgers, Time Squad, Teen Titans, Bugs Bunny, Looney Tunes Pokemon, Gigantor, Tobor the 8th Man (or 8man as sometimes he was called), Speed Racer

Heroes:

Phil Moscowitz - loveable rogue, Toshiro Mifune, James Coburn, Diego Rivera, Sun Tzu, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Miyamoto Musashi, Gomez Addams

My Blog

Hook Ups Id Like To See

Now that life is slowly returning to "normal", I have had a chance to relax and think about those crazy TV ads you see all of the time. For instance that guy Vince the Sham Wow pitchman. Call me ...
Posted by 8Man on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:31:00 PST

I am so tired.

   @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> It is hard to believe that it was only a week ago that I wrote my last blog. It seems like a million year...
Posted by 8Man on Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:16:00 PST

Hurricane Ike

I am scheduled to work tonight to man the Emergency Operations Center. The storm is suppose to make landfall sometime in the early AM on Saturday which  is probably in the middle of my shift. F...
Posted by 8Man on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:51:00 PST

Flotsam & Jetsam

Went to Quintana Beach this weekend. I love it there. They allow you to drive your car right up on to the beach and park where you like. It is a great place to watch the tide come in.It is quiet here ...
Posted by 8Man on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:38:00 PST

Creepy Deer in the Hotel Lobby

I have just returned from a five day trip to San Diego. I had to go there for work as I was representing them for the ESRI users conference that was held @ the San Diego Convention Center. Over all it...
Posted by 8Man on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:42:00 PST

Ramblin Man

Yes dear friends it is July once again and in keeping with tradition, the 8man takes his vacation in July. And yes as in years past, I have used the opportunity to visit state and/or national parks. T...
Posted by 8Man on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:26:00 PST

What a drag it is getting OLD

This weekend I can honestly say that I feel exactly like Danny Glover's Lethal Weapon's charcter, Detective Murtaugh,  "I'm too old for this shit!!!"For four days last week I got to get out of th...
Posted by 8Man on Mon, 19 May 2008 11:20:00 PST

I am not dead yet Earleen

As per request by my pal Earleen I am putting up this blog. No I am not dead. I have been very busy lately though. Work has been occupying a lot of my time. We are short staffed so we are making due w...
Posted by 8Man on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:37:00 PST

Gnu Year

I have been rather busy this holiday season which is a good thing however that has kept me from blogging as much as I would have liked. I had a chance to go back home to Chicago to visit family. Funn...
Posted by 8Man on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:55:00 PST

Random Weekend

I have not been blogging very much lately. Much of that is due to the fact that I have been busy as hell at work, which is a good thing. I really enjoy what I do which is play with computers, make map...
Posted by 8Man on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:43:00 PST