Archive for March, 2009

Elsewhere on the Internet (March 20th 14:36)

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Mar 20th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Scenes from 30,000 meters above – The Big Picture – Boston.com – Spanish HS students launched a balloon that made it to 30,000 feet – taking pictures all the way.



Gloomy March Mood

By From http://fredvegaschronicles.blogspot.com/ • Mar 20th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The weather has not helped my mood. Yes, it was nice to have a few 80 degree days, but the six days of rain and clouds have forced my gloom to return. My love life is just the pits, all of the gossip is the pits, and I’m sorry until I feel better my bl…



Meade’s Pyramid

By From http://fredericksblogger.blogspot.com/ • Mar 20th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I had the afternoon off the other day (courtesy of the crappy economy), so we decided to check out Meade’s Pyramid, off of Lee Drive in the Fredericksburg-Spotsylvania National Military Park. I hadn’t heard about this Fredericksburg oddity until fa…



Should I Short Sale My Home?

By From http://fredericksburgrealestateblog.com • Mar 20th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Every day in the Fredericksburg real estate market, people find themselves asking this question, “Should I short sale my home?”  They may be transferring to a new part of the country, maybe they have lost their job, or for some other reason, just can’t afford the payments any longer.  They need to “get out from under” […]



RE/MAX Bravo – Fredericksburg Real Estate

By From http://fredericksburgrealestateblog.com • Mar 20th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

As of early this week, my real estate team moved from Keller Williams Realty to RE/MAX Bravo. Transitioning from company to company is a common theme for a lot of real estate agents, and some agents do it alot. This is the first time I have changed brokerages.
Some people have asked about it, so I […]



Mountain Bikes to Descend on Devil’s Backbone Brewpub

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Mar 20th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Events

Mountain bike enthusiasts will soon converge on the newly opened Devil’s Backbone Brewpub in Nelson County. A chance encounter, at Devil’s Backbone, between owner Steve Crandall and mountain bike enthusiast Woody Elliott led to the creation of the Devi…



Is the Virginia State Police (VSP) extremely gullible or what?

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Mar 20th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

There’s a text message that has been going around that says there will be several people shoot at a Wal-Mart as part of a gang initiation. From the Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Virginia State Police are advising people to pay no attention to a text message that claims there will be a gang initiation at Wal-Mart stores sometime […]



President Obama pulled a Biden

By From http://rappahannockred.wordpress.com • Mar 20th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Politics

Obama’s “Special Olympics” joke: The teleprompter made him do it!
Pres. Barack Obama has been spending too much time with VP Biden and ended up mocking the Special Olympics in a lame attempt to make fun of his weak bowling skills. But of course, the White House says he “in no way intended to disparage the […]



You know, even drug dealing convicted felons have a right to self-defense.

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Mar 20th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

A former resident of New Kent was arrested in Alabama for federal and state drug charges originating in Florida. He’s also faces charges in New Kent County for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, unlawful disposal of a dead body, and possession or distribution of marijuana. Here’s what the Richmond Times-Dispatch had to […]



Eve of the first day of spring

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Mar 19th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

As I contemplate the approach of spring I am fighting a virulent strain of SDS (supercell deprivation syndrome) that doesn’t seem likely to be assuaged anytime soon here in the Mid-Atlantic. The above is a depiction of the GFS model prediction of conv…