Calling All Erics & Jaes

Hello everybody! So... I'll be moving to GA this Saturday, and anticipate being out of work for at least a few weeks (hopefully not too much longer than that though!). In my downtime, I'd like to start up a fitness blog, and therein lies my question. Can somebody help me get started? Never created a blog before - only contributed mindlessly to existing ones :)

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Free Hotel & Flight Option

Hey everybody I just thought I would post this and see if anybody is interested. My parents are staying is this place called The Shores courtesy of the Canales family. They had some time shares that they had to use and this place was able to accomodate them so they gave 2 of them to my parents. Now my parents will be staying in this place Friday night through Sunday night, then the rooms will be unused the rest of the week. It is not really the nicest place kind of has that old school feel to it, but it is free (It is nowhere near as nice as The Island on our website). So if anybody was going to hang around after the wedding and wanted to possibly stay here we can work it out. Obviously there would be no cleaning service that would come in after my parents left, but I am sure they could throw some sheets in the washer or something. There is no cost to you or for that matter my parents. It becomes available Monday night if anybody is interested let me know.

Also, just wanted to say for anybody flying out of Tampa make sure to check Southwest as they don't show up on all of the classic search sites.

Catch you on the flip side.....

Nick D > Rory * 2

Update on Wedding Plans...

We ended up booking a 3 bedroom condo at the Lake Travis resort with Ramdin, Brenda and Jared since they will be meeting us there Thursday-Sunday too. It was a little pricier than the hotels but the extra amenities (living room, kitchen, pools, views, jet ski rentals, etc.) seemed worth it. They still had two more 3 bedrooms and a bunch of 2 bedroom condos available so hopefully we can make this the place to hang.

P.S. - Brenda has offered to babysit any little ones if you end up staying in the condo place...:)

Repub Primaries

Risk Legacy

This game was mentioned in a blog that I read regularly. The author is a fan. I did a little reading about the game and it sounds so awesome that I feel compelled to play it. In short, it is Risk reimagined. Rules are made and changed during gameplay, the board is phyically altered and decisions made in one game affect all future games. The catch is that the game is designed to be played 15 times and the same players (up to 5) have to play all 15 games. After 15 games the rules are set and it becomes vanilla Risk more or less. Any takers?

Football vs Baseball vs Basketball

I cooked up this little chart today in Google Insights...

Wedding Plans...

Just wondering if anyone has started looking into lodging for Irene and Nick's wedding. Jae, Braden, and I will be flying in Thursday night, and leaving Sunday. Their website shows 3 nearby hotels and 1 condo-type place that I believe is even closer. Have any of you booked anything? And if so, where?

P.S. - The title links to their website.

Ummm...

Believe it or not, this is for real. What ever happened to just putting on pants?

Sausage Making

Anybody who took some photos and or videos of the sausage making could you kindly post them at your earliest conviencence. For those who could not attend it was a fun event and we absolutely ate ever single piece of sausage made, for a first time ever, which left us with no leftovers...booo. We had to incorporate a bunch of new people into some skill positions, but we manged it ok. Adam as others can attest too I was a very poor sub for your role in casing the sausage. The two I made turned out flacid and not up to par. Others like Logan and Alex stepped up and filled in admirably though. Thanks for coming everybody it was fun!!

Nick D

Redneck celebrity [L]

Just thought everyone might want more reasons to root against the updykes tonight. However, I will not be watching the game considering I saw it the first time. WDE

New Address

Happy New Year and Happy Holidays everybody! In typical Bryan 'The Nomad' Leighton fashion...I moved this weekend. New address below...

8450 Gate Parkway West Apt 502
Jacksonville, FL 32216

Please update your records accordingly.

Happy New Year!

Yes, this is what New Years has come to for us.... so :P.

New Years

Hope everybody is having a good post Xmas week. Just want to see if any of the FL locals have plans yet. Chances are me and Irene will be staying up here and try to do something (aka maybe going out, so if anybody is up for that let me know). Or if a party gets thrown together or something is going on in Btown we could come down. Chime in with any helpful info so basically Rory keep you damn mouth shut.

Merry Christmas from the Sammy's

What do you want for Christmas little boy?

I want an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred Shot Range Model Air Rifle!

You'll shoot your eye out, kid

Merry Christmas everyone!

Merry Christmas

Patric Young is a beast!!!

http://gif.mocksession.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/PATRIC-YOUNG-WAT.gif

Check out the link. I think you Noles might not like it though!

Sanka, you dead maaan (Jamaican accent)

Just want to make sure people are still alive???

Jolly old Saint Nicholas.....

College Bowl mania {L}

Hey guys it is that time of the year were we get to pick College Football games. I created a league on ESPN so feel free to join up. This to me is much more challenging than the NCAA basketball tournament. Anyway let's match up some whits here.

Group: Elf Bowling
Password: bowl

Charlie Weis

HAHA Nooooooo....I don't know about you guys, but I am sad that blob will not be coaching UF anymore. Now I need somebody knew to make fun of. He really kicked some ass for you guys and showed what he is made of. As UF fans tell me your opinion. Happy, pissed or waiting to see who the hire to see how you feel then??

One thing I do know is that the cooler on the UF sideline is breathing a huge sigh of relief.

Decent BCS article {L}

Not trying to get everybody riled up or in a discussion of who "deserves" a title shot, but this is a decent article. It is funny by limiting the computers that nobody trusts we brough human more elements into the poll, which by all accounts are much much worse. I knew terminator scared a lot of people away from machines and computers, but sheesh.

Also, if I was Nick Saban I would have voted OK State low as a I possibly could without suffering extreme backlash, which he more or less did.

Nick D > Rory (even though he now owns a house...just saying.)