Hanging In Richmond

Mike's Festivus Party

Partying @ Hill's

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Warm Summer's Day
Posted by Jimmy :: Thursday, January 5th, 2006 :: 5:08 PM PST :: Comment On This Post

I was pleasantly surprised today when I opened the back door to discover it was 84 degrees outside. There was a warm breeze blowing and birds were singing and for all intents and purposes, it was a gorgeous summer day even if the calendar says it's January. I quickly donned my favorite pair of camouflage shorts, a t-shirt and sneaks and decided I needed to run some errands. Hopefully it'll stay like this for the next few days and we can go to beach. Oh wait, we have to do laundry and take down the tree...oh well!

Pat Robertson Is A Moron
Posted by Jimmy :: Thursday, January 5th, 2006 :: 4:34 PM PST :: Comment On This Post

Sometimes I don't know who's stupider, TV evangelists like Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell or the idiots who follow them and send them money. On his 700 Club show today, Pat Robertson said that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's recent strokes were divine retribution (from God) for the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. I'm probably not alone in thinking that Ariel Sharon had a stroke because he's old and not because God was pissed at him. I can't wait for Pat Robertson to have his first stroke or heart attack. I'm gonna be the first to blame it on God's anger with Pat for being such a world class dick!

And what about Jerry Falwell you ask? In case you forgot, he's the idiot (along with Pat Robertson) who blamed 9/11 on abortionists, feminists, gays and lesbians.

Don't you just love religion?

Great Comeback Line (Joke of The Week)
Posted by Jimmy :: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006 :: 7:49 PM PST :: Comment On This Post

This is one of the best comeback lines of all time. It is a portion of National Public Radio (NPR) interview between a female broadcaster and US Marine Corps General Reinwald who was about to sponsor a Boy Scout Troop visiting his military installation.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: So, General Reinwald, what things are you going to teach these young boys when they visit your base?

GENERAL REINWALD: We're going to teach them climbing, canoeing, archery, and shooting.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: Shooting! That's a bit irresponsible, isn't it?

GENERAL REINWALD: I don't see why, they'll be properly supervised on the rifle
range.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: Don't you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children?

GENERAL REINWALD: I don't see how. We will be teaching them proper rifle
discipline before they even touch a firearm.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: But you're equipping them to become violent killers.

GENERAL REINWALD: Well, Ma'am, you're equipped to be a prostitute, but you're not one, are you?

The radio went silent and the interview ended. You gotta love the Marines!

Courtesy of Shannon Powell

I've been too busy to do an update on our exciting New Year's Eve festivities but I thought I'd take a few moments to share an interesting fact with everyone. It was 15 years ago today (January 2nd, 1990) that the very first web page was posted on the emerging world wide web. Appropriately enough it was designed by this man, Tim Berners-Lee who invented the internet in 1989 while working at CERN. Hi is widely recognized as the father of the web. Can you imagine being the guy that actually invented the internet? He also created the first web browser and web server cause you can't very well have web pages without a browser to view them on or a server to "serve" them up.     

This is pretty hysterical...if you have a sense of humor. And don't get mad at me, I didn't write the Bible, make this sign or take this picture!

After we got back from our Christmas vacation, I had planned to spend all day Wednesday doing my annual 2006 billing but instead, my pc got infected with the worst virus ever and it took me about 7 hours to get completely uninfected. Despite the fact that I'm running XP Pro and using Norton plus several other virus and adware programs, I got nailed on Wednesday by what Microsoft is calling "an extremely critical flaw" in Windows...surprise, surprise. They're currently tracking thousands of websites which are distributing the virus which pretends to be a windows alert telling you that your pc is infected and that you need purchase a program (SpySherriff) to remove the virus but it's a trick to get your credit card number. You've been warned.

I like to remove my pc viruses manually but if you are unfortunate enough to get nailed with this virus, I recommend Spyware Doctor. It's $29.95 and will definitely get rid of the virus cause Norton doesn't seem capable of doing it.

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Just an FYI...we're back in Cali after our short visits to Richmond and SoBo respectively. It was a looooong day of flying especially after getting picked for special screening and having all of our luggage checked in Richmond. Granted, I didn't see any Muslims breeze thru inspection while we were being screened but in any event, we're home! More Christmas updates later in the week...maybe, I got a lot of work to catch up on now...as always!

Anyway...hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and we had a great time with everyone we saw and ran into and sorry for those we didn't get a chance to see during our brief visit.

Proving its never too late to make new friends, we stopped by the home of W.R. & Christine Privette on Christmas Eve. Kim went to school with Christine and she's been a long time fan of JimmyPowell.com so we took her up on her offer to stop by and see their beautiful home on the corner of Berry Hill and River Road. They gave us the grand tour and showed us all their historic artifacts before sitting down and just having good conversation. I gotta say they were two of the nicest people I've ever met. It's rare that you meet people these days who you can strike up a friendship with in less than 5 minutes but that's how it felt with W.R. & Christine. We're looking forward to seeing them again "sometime" in 2006.

Thanks for the Christmas Eve tour of the old Osborne House, W.R. & Christine!

Chris, Kim's bro and my best friend from back in the day, had to work Christmas day cause someone had to keep the power going, but we got to go see him for a little while. He gave us the insider's tour of the power plant and it was actually a really nice day outside. Seeing where everyone gets their power from was a trip, especially on Christmas day.

After opening gifts at my parent's house, we went up to the Wilborn's house for lunch and I got to photograph all the pretty Wilborn girls i.e., Kim, Sandy, Sidney and Lacy! Kim started coming down with a sinus infection so we didn't stay too long, but lunch was good as always!

We headed over to my parent's house on Christmas morning to exchange gifts and most importantly to see Alexandra (my niece) get her four-wheeler. Barry picked it up and brought it to the house to surprise both Alex and Tiffany Christmas morning. Looks like the neighborhood will have a new Powell wreaking some havoc in the coming years. :-)

After hours of fun at Mike's house, we decided to head down to Hill's in SoBo and see if we could run into any of the peeps we normally see around the Holidays. We ran into Wyatt Barzack, Charles Womack, the infamous Shayne Gravitt, my favorite cuz Dawn Church, and Tiffany Jackson...not to mention Lisa and Melanie Womack and a few others.

Friday was Festivus and Mike had a few peeps over for drinks and several hours of pure alcohol-driven silliness. Wendy and Jerry were there and Stacy dropped by for a while to reminisce about our Seven Oaks days and all our adventures. Mike didn't let us down and entertained us with his usual antics. We even got some on video.

We spent a few days in Richmond this Christmas hanging with my brother Barry and his wife Shannon. They gave us the tour of the city and took us to a few of their favorite hangouts. We also watched a few movies and had a lot of drinks. The one thing I can say about Richmond is that it was COLD. We'll be back in Richmond on Monday and flying back to LA on Tuesday. Thanks to Barry & Shannon for taking us in for a few days.