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Hello Jim & Kim fanatics...and welcome to JimmyPowell.com!
A fun & entertaining site where you can get a glimpse into our little world!

A new billboard is starting to spring up in and around LA and it's truly sad and insulting at the same time. It's an ad for Spanish TV station here in LA and the billboard has the words Los Angeles, CA with CA marked out and replaced with Mexico. With an estimated 1000 illegal immigrants coming across the border each day, this is truly becoming Mexifornia.

DAMN! Our personal fav Constantine got eliminated this week on American Idol and he really has no one to blame but himself. He chose a song that he couldn't pull off vocally and he paid the price. Granted, Scotty should have been gone weeks ago and still needs to go but Constantine gave the worst vocal we'd heard from him all season this week.

Too bad...I think he's way more of a rocker than Bo but hopefully we'll see him doing something soon. Rock on Constantine!

As you may have noticed there are a few empty blocks in our Photo Gallery. Well, I've gotta say...I've done my part in preparing all the pix for those as well as the pix for 9 more galleries. The hold up is w/the Supreme Webmaster - NOT me. So, if you'd like to see new galleries posted, post a guestbook entry or send him an email. Maybe it'll light a fire under him.

Sorry hon...you brought this on yourself! Remember our deal: I'd do the pix if you'd do the gallery & post them? <lol>

Just wanted to say "Thx" to my "boss", Mr. Powell for the flowers for Admin Professionals Day. He hand delivered a beautiful bouquet of flowers to me at my "other" job. You see, I've two Admin Asst jobs - one with International Rectifier & one with Stellar Media Group. My SMG boss can be such a sweetie...but then there's always the non-stop sexual harassment I have to deal with!  <LOL>

I also was surprised by two of my co-workers/friends at IR w/a lovely flower arrangement and a big bag of Jalapeño chips. (They know I'm a junk-food junky cause I'm always eating those hot chips out of the snack machine.) Thx Marissa & Myanh!

And on top of all of that, another coworker & friend, Susan, gave me a gift card to Macy's. Thx sooo much Susan!

Kim sent me this last night and it's a pretty funny little spoof of the Captain's Message...post 9/11. You'll need to have your speakers on and NO, this isn't one of those things that's gonna scare the crap out of you two minutes in. I promise Mike!

http://www.barry.fireflyinternet.co.uk/fun/files/pilot.htm

This has got to be one of the funniest vids I have ever seen. I was seriously laughing out loud while I watched this. It's a clip from Jamie Kennedy's old show The Jamie Kennedy Experiment and he's the life guard in this skit. I swear I've watched it like 10 times already and if you can't laugh at this...there is something wrong with you. :^P

• http://www.kontraband.com/show/show.asp?ID=1448

More great video clips...

• Bill Hicks on burning the flag and the war in Iraq

• The Ultimate Star Was spoof (in case you missed it before)

• Talk about being unlucky!

• Shawshank Redemption...the remix!

Spring is finally here and although it was a little overcast this weekend, we could still tell the difference with the temps starting to rise and the sun staying out later...the way it should be all year! Kim came with me to the SpringFest Saturday afternoon while I photographed and we partook in some delicious carnival food along with playing a few games. Later that evening, I cooked mesquite pork chops on the grill along with scalloped potatoes and asparagus....hence the picture.

Updated Monday, April 25th, 2005 :: 2:46 AM PST

Sunday was a beautiful day with clear skies and lots of sun so we laid out by the pool most of the afternoon working on our tans...getting a late start this year. Then came the worst part of the weekend...clothes. We'd been putting off washing clothes for too long and got started around 7pm Sunday nite...so much for relaxing. Kim eventually had to go to bed but I stayed up late and got all the clothes washed...kinda weird washing and folding clothes at 2 in the morning...and yes, I'll be sleeping late today...one of the benefits of working for yourself.

I'll be glad when we win the lottery and can hire a maid...ha-ha!

The Redondo Beach Spring Festival was going on this weekend and as always, I was commissioned to photograph the event. This year I decided to also go at night and do some time lapse photography to get these cool motion shots. And of course walking around at night with all the young peeps out brought back memories of when I used to to the fair back in Halifax, Virginia....except it wasn't freezing cold! The only things missing were the fireworks and the Round-Up and my partner in crime...Mike D.

Here's an odd experience I had yesterday. I host and maintain several realtor websites in my home town and was adding some new listings when I got this weird feeling...but I didn't realize why at first. I do so many real estate listings that I barely pay attention to the homes but something about this one just struck me as odd or at the least...not right.

Then it hit me...this was my grand parent's house! Talk about having one of those "Oh wow!" moments.

I started having all these flash backs of childhood summers and Christmases and football games with my cousins and uncles...and who would have ever thought I'd be doing the website listing for my grand parent's house one day? Even weirder thought...will I be doing the website listing for my own parent's house in 20? 30 years? I plan to be rich by that time so hopefully I'll be able to buy it and well...I don't know...just not sell it.

Not something I want to think about right now though. This was weird enough.

After two years of protesting the war in Iraq, the French finally decided to pitch in and help. First to arrive was the French Navy and luckily, someone managed to get it on film. Check out this hilarious clip of the French storming the beaches.
    
(Maybe it's a good thing they didn't help after all!)

• http://www.big-boys.com/articles/frenchtroops.html

Finally...I've been waiting for nearly 5 years for this domain to become available and it finally did last nite. Some guy in Germany had been using it all this time but now it's mine...all mine! Ahhh-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! (Evil laugh)

So I guess you're all wondering what in the world I'd put at JimmyPowell.net that I don't already have here? Well...more than likely, I'm going to make it my photo site where I showcase all my photography and let people buy prints, download wallpapers, etc., etc. I've been thinking about doing something like that for a long time but I really wanted to have the .net domain to do it with and now I do. It's now on my project list but don't expect it to spring up over night. I have about 100 things on my list in front of that...but we'll see. 

No one's sent me any good jokes in the past few days so I don't have a Joke of the Week just yet. I'm sure by the time I get up tomorrow I'll have a few but don't everyone send me every lame joke that's been going around the net for 10 years now. Worthwhile content only!

So for the time being, here's some interesting links to keep you from doing what you're supposed to be doing right now...working!

• Rubber Band-It - Fun, flash game involving shooting rubber bands at your co-workers and a great way not to get your work done.

• Flat Earth Society - There's actually an organization of people that believe the world is flat, Australia doesn't exist and the moon landings never happened. Sad and amusing at the same time.

• Copycat Recipes - A great page for anyone that wants to make their favorite restaurant foods at home...even KFC chicken!

• Only In... - Amusing photos about cultural differences in the world. Glad I don't live in Africa.

• Growl Karaoke - A hilarious little parody of what karaoke would be like if you chose one of the worst metal songs ever! I think I could be a huge star if this kind of music were actually popular.

• The Earth At Night - Amazing photo showing the city lights all over the world. Look how bright our neck of the woods is at night.

If you ever run across any good links, email them to me and in most cases I'll put them on here. No $$ involved but I'll give your credit! Enjoy!