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Southern California Wildfire Victims Save Family Portraits…

admin — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:52:51 +0000

My heart and prayers go out to all of you who are affected by these devastating fires. I sincerely hope you are out of harm’s way, that you & your family and loved ones are safe and secure, and that your lives are not directly affected by these catastrophic fires.

I don’t think people can comprehend the force of a fire that can move 20 miles in an hour, in the face of winds gusting to 60 mph. It’s impossible to understand unless you are there living in it and experiencing it, and that experience is not something I wish upon anyone… For those in the front lines in Santa Clarita, Malibu, Topanga, north San Diego county, Irvine, Foothill Ranch, Arrowhead… and especially for the incredibly tireless and couragoues firefighters… I wish you the very best.

I watched one interview after another of people frantically packing their most prized possessions in their vehicles during mandatory evacuations. And what are among the things that matter most? The family portraits. The memories we carry with us are really all that matters sometimes, and the time we have together is what is cherished and valued above all else.

Two Women Talking In Heaven…

admin — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:56:06 +0000

1st Woman: Hi! My name is Maggie.

2nd Woman: Hi! I’m Sylvia. How’d you die?

1st Woman: I froze to death.

2nd Woman: How horrible!

1st Woman: It wasn’t so bad. After I quit shaking from the cold, I
began to get warm and sleepy and finally died a peaceful death. What
about you?

2nd Woman: I died of a massive heart attack I suspected my husband was
cheating, so I came home early to catch him in the act. But instead I
found him all by himself in the den watching TV.

1st Woman: So what happened?

2nd Woman: I was so sure there was another woman somewhere that I
started running all over the house looking. I ran up into the attic and
searched and then down into the basement. I went through each closet
and checked under all the beds. I kept this up until I had looked
everywhere, and finally I became so exhausted that I just keeled over
with a heart attack and died.

1st Woman: Too bad you didn’t look in the freezer……..We’d both
still be alive.

Trust A Friend

admin — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:28:52 +0000

A man leaves home to go fight in the Crusades and decides that his wife should wear a chastity belt in his absence. So he locks her up and gives the key to his best friend.

He tells him, “If I’m not back in four years, unlock my wife and set her free to live a normal life.”

The husband leaves on horseback and about half an hour later, he sees a cloud of dust behind him. He waits for it to come closer and sees his best friend.

“What’s wrong?”, he asks.

“You gave me the wrong key.

When you want to get serious about relaxing…

admin — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:25:18 +0000

You really owe it to yourself and your significant other to visit the Collingwood Inn in Ferndale, CA. The food is exquisitely prepared, the owners Chris and Peter do an outstanding job of creating a friendly and relaxed stay… It’s one of the best places I’ve ever stayed, and I travel a lot. Looking forward to many return trips. I’ll be writing more about WHY I think the Collingwood is such a gem, but in the meantime, visit their website at www.collingwoodinn.com

Just dessert

admin — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:23:14 +0000

“What a difference a day makes…” It’s a cliche, but true. I think about my own children and how astonishing it was to see them grow as babies. Even now, they’re 13 and 8, and not a day passes when they do something that just blows my mind. That generally is a wonderful thing. Sometimes it just makes me laugh and shake my head. My younger daughter has this habit lately of wiping her hands on her shirt. So there we were yesterday at a restaurant, she finishes her cupcake, and before I could say anything, wipes her frosting-covered fingers across the front of her shirt… For the rest of the afternoon until we could get home, she had finger tracks…

I don’t mean to embarrass her. She already has shown me in eight years that she’s going to grow into a confident, beautiful, sophisticated young woman. But right now she makes me laugh every time she does that, and yes, shake my head a little… She is definitely my kid. LOL

Wait a minute… make that a few hours..

admin — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:35:34 +0000

I’m writing this while waiting for a plane at Denver International. It’s become almost a cliche with airline delays again… For the past few years, I’ve been really lucky with flights and getting through airports fairly quickly, even with the gear I usually carry. But not tonight. Weather outside of Chicago made the plane late to Denver, which is the aircraft I need to get to L.A. So here I sit, waiting for a guy I don’t know to get the plane here and get me home. A lot of life is waiting — waiting in line at the bank, waiting for a train to pass, waiting for the rain, waiting for the right time to ask the question… let’s make the most of those moments of waiting. Talk to the people around you, or at least observe and enjoy them. I’m upstairs at DIA in a computer station and an Asian dude in a bad suit is to my left pounding on his laptop to some tunes I can hear through his ear buds. The guy on my right has Bose-style headphones on and is having a VOIP conversation wtih someone, half of which (his half) I am hearing at full volume. This is broken by sporadic announcements from an over-annunciating airport service rep for various customers… Kids scream and leap in a nearby kids play thing, their dad standing with a comatose glazed stare… I talked to a woman earlier who had been at the airport since the previous DAY. Ideally, I’d like to be on my way home. But things could be worse, and it’s not a bad way to spend a couple hours. If I end up staying here till tomorrow, I’ll probably have a totally different opinion…. LOL

OPT – other people’s technology

admin — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:18:51 +0000

Last night, my MySpace account stopped functioning. It basically disappeared. No warning from MySpace — no violation of terms of service or anything like that. It just WENT AWAY… taking my 1700 friends, their lovely page and picture comments and my penetrating thoughts on the universe with them. OK, no great loss on that last part… lol

This just provides me a classic lesson of don’t rely on OPT — other people’s technology. MySpace has something like 185 million people in their network as of this writing. The only reason they care about any of them(us) is for the ad revenue; otherwise, do you really think it affects MySpace’s bottom line if they lose someone here or there? What is their level of concern?

I don’t know what happened to my profile. Many of my friends are on MySpace, so this morning I started another account — www.myspace.com/johnmichaelflynn

Come check it out, leave a message, add me as a friend and leave a pic comment or two…

What else can you do but laugh… lol

John