tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230942652009-10-13T13:44:03.983-07:00This blog is designed to discuss ideas between the Shirley Family and friends. Ideas dealing with all aspects of Life are welcome.Steve the Creatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17130241321910152160noreply@blogger.comBlogger220125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23094265.post-17639152140186304602007-04-06T06:37:00.000-07:002007-04-06T06:46:22.013-07:00

Dadadad gagagaaheyabababmadadgabaya(sorry...have to translate..Kaleb insisted on singing happy birthday to you on line, Steve, but doesn't quite know the words yet! So...Happy Birthday to you...Happy Birthday to you...Happy Birthday to Uncle SteveHappy Birthday to you!!

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Well, thought you all might like to know that Kaleb took his first official "crawls" this weekend! Sure, he's been doing the army man crawl for a while and can get places amazingly quickly that way, but we were excited to see the effort made towards switching to the real thing:-)! In other news, we went down to the river last night as it was a balmy 70 degrees around 7pm, and John caught 2 good

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Well, this past week or so, John and I have made an effort to get out into Downtown D.C. We have a checklist of things we want to get to while we are in the area. Our first stop on Thursday was to watch the National Symphony orchestra play in the Kennedy Center. AMAZING. Both John and I had never heard an orchestra play so well (even the ones I have been in I am sad to admit!). We were

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Hello Everyone--I just wanted to let you know that our trip was a blast. We went all over the place. I sent some pictures to Steve, so we should have a little filmstrip of pictures to go with this post. The places that we traveled include: Venice, Italy; Lubijana & Bled, Slovenia; Budapest, Hungary; Bratslavia, Slovakia; and Vienna, Austria. I enjoyed most of the places, but I definately

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Well as all of you know, I proposed to Delia on Saturday and she accepted. We are officially engaged to be married. Not sure when or how, etc yet. We will let you know. Here we are kissing in the new year of 2007 on a patio of a San Francisco apartment while the fireworks were going off. It was a great gathering of friends. Delia will be here in Newport until Thursday which is nice. Ole'

Steve the Creatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17130241321910152160noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23094265.post-46860625048880739612007-02-11T16:16:00.000-08:002007-02-11T14:34:59.746-08:00

For all you GNC lovers out there, I've got a newsflash for you: Yesterday's news. GNC is the supplement and vitamins store you see at malls. John has one at the base store in DC. I used to go there in college, etc., to get some supplements, whey protein and other. However, it MUST be yesterday's news for me and all of you too. You can get the same stuff for literally half the price at

Steve the Creatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17130241321910152160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23094265.post-85986165665356213782007-02-11T13:10:00.000-08:002007-02-11T13:02:29.796-08:00

So Kaleb broke the silence. Great job Kaleb. I am really not sure if anyone wants to check this out from time to time or not. But if you do...I will be here. I have been pretty busy lately. I found some space today to finally clean up my office and get it set up the way I want. Basically, my roommate Sean was always unplugging the internet connection from my computer to his and it took a

Steve the Creatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17130241321910152160noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23094265.post-1169342108577695832007-01-20T17:06:00.000-08:002007-01-20T17:15:08.596-08:00

Hello:I am 8 months old (well, really only 7 months, but my 8 mo. birthday is coming up soon). I like to chew on anything I can grab. I am especially good at taking off my own sock and eating it. I can sit up on my own (well, until I fall down or mom and dad catch me). I have recently started eating rice cereal and just learned how to hold my hold bottle. Am interested in happy, fun, girls who

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Dear Mr. Jobs:I was driving the other day listening to my Ipod Nano in my truck. Cruisin' to the sweet tunes of the new John Mayor CD Continuum (A must have if you like JM). I love my Ipod. I guess it was inevitable that I would get one since I love music so much. I have tons of CDs of all genre of music. I have been a downloading fool by getting all my favorates to my Ipod. So I was driving

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Washington DC -- aka-John's back yard -- Delia and I sure had a good time at DC. John, Katrina and little Caleb were great! I got to run a marathon, play with Caleb, visit Keri, Collin and Abe, and best of all...I got to go on the best catfishin' trip ever with John!We traveled so far (2 blocks I think) to get there. I must say (Dad), that I have officially validated that little smokies do work

Steve the Creatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17130241321910152160noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23094265.post-1162232753361503492006-10-30T10:17:00.000-08:002006-10-30T10:27:04.780-08:00

Washington DC -- Well, I did it. I completed all 26.2 miles. I must say that the last 3.5 miles were the hard part. I had to fight through cramping up to get to the finish. BUT, I did finish. No DNF here!I was on track to complete the marathon at around 3 hrs 45 minutes at the 22.5 mile mark. Then-- Cramps. I cramped up on my left, lower quad. It wouldn't go away. I was devastated. I cramped up

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It's me, back home and settled back in after Steve's visit, our road trip and Keri's graduation. It was a long drive but we had my xm so it made for a lot of variation in our programs. I did have to suffer thru some rap here and there but teenagers aren't the only ones who can tune things out when they want to. Steve took his life in his hands(or so he thought) when he finally handed the keys to

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Oklahoma -- I had a great time in Oklahoma visiting Mom and Dad. I don't have a lot of time to write because I am going to eat Salmon with John, Katrina and Kaleb in DC. However, we went to Indian Lake (shown here), Elk Lake, and Ft Cobb Lake on the boat for a day. They were all great and it was a beautiful time back at home. There truly is no place like home.

Steve the Creatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17130241321910152160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23094265.post-1158701712517120302006-09-19T14:32:00.000-07:002006-09-19T14:35:12.540-07:00

Newport, RI -- I thought I would put some new (old) pictures on the slide show. I am staying here in Newport, RI with my good buddy JR who was my roommate on my last ship. Anyway, he had a bunch of pictures from when we were there. Some of these are during a fantail cookout. Some are of when we went to the DMZ in South Korea. And some are of our celebration in Seoul, Korea on St. Patrick's

Steve the Creatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17130241321910152160noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23094265.post-1158075100904006912006-09-12T08:23:00.000-07:002006-09-12T08:31:40.956-07:00

Hello all from Sunny Newport!! I think it is great here. Aside from missing family and friends, this is a good time. The area is absolutely beautiful. I would like to go see more of it after graduation. To respond to Steve's "where were you," I was at home asleep. Mom called me on the phone to let me know what happened (9/11). Collin and I turned on the TV and stared at it in awe. I called

MamaKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12918321528001196044noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23094265.post-1157965797583844702006-09-10T23:15:00.000-07:002006-09-11T02:10:04.106-07:00

There were a lot of heroes during 9/11. Today makes 5 years since this earth-changing event. So, it begs the question: Where where you on 9/11?What does being a hero mean? I looked up the definition just for kicks. Here is what dictionary.com says a hero is:hero–noun, plural -roes; for 5 also -ros.1. a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble

Steve the Creatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17130241321910152160noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23094265.post-1157885220521987852006-09-10T03:21:00.000-07:002006-09-10T03:52:46.650-07:00

I wonder why I bought this book? It is called "WHY" by Charles Tilly. It was recommended by Malcom Gladwell on one of his New Yorker articles on his blog site. I thought I would order it and give it a try. I mean this book is about: what happens when people give reasons...and why.The first couple of lines are: "Did you ever wonder why people give the reasons they do for what they have done, for

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I guess I am the only one that just cannot understand why Panda Bears always grab the headlines? BTW, save the dolphins, SURI!!!!!!!!!, and bla#% Katy Curic or something.

Steve the Creatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17130241321910152160noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23094265.post-1157166942464449312006-09-01T19:08:00.000-07:002006-09-01T20:15:42.900-07:00

I was thinking the other day about black people in certain jobs. What made me think about it was that our channel 9 has a black man news caster in the evening now. Had I not seen him , by his voice I would have thought him white. I couldn't think of ever seeing one before and it seemed strange. Why do some talk jivy and where you can't understand them and others more distinct and intelligent.

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I ran accross the new SAT scores accross America and it got me thinking of different people and cultures. There is a "view-state-by-state" link in the article that is pretty surprising. I expected the coastal states to do better than the fly-over-midwestern states. Not so...the midwest and "ole' south" does surprisingly well. Then I started thinking about if there were any other correlations that

Steve the Creatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17130241321910152160noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23094265.post-1156831359186984232006-08-28T22:54:00.000-07:002006-08-28T23:02:39.203-07:00

Every time I tune into ESPN I witness another murder. Boston Red Sox that is. These guys are done for the season as I am concerned. The Yanks have them this year. According to a recent poll that I conducted on this site, 3 of you think the Yanks will win the World Series. One for Detroit. All were wrong though. Turns out there was only one winner in this poll and that was me with my choice

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If you would have told me 4 months ago that I would be training at 60 miles of running in 8 days...I think I would have told you to go f--- yourself. But that was 4 months ago. Over the past 8 days I have had two days of rest. The other 6 days I covered 60 miles of running. That's an average of about 10 miles each day of training. I just got done running 18 miles for my long run. I was even

Steve the Creatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17130241321910152160noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23094265.post-1156513999796281062006-08-25T06:48:00.002-07:002006-08-25T06:53:26.886-07:00

For all of you that haven't read Blink or Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell -- you are missing out on two page turners. They are both very interesting reads. Like the boys of Freakonomics (blog is linked in the blogroll on this site!), Malcom has been blogging as well. I decided to add his site to our blogroll because reading their (sometimes daily) entries is like reading their book all over

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