The Chicago Cops at OHare get around first class thanks to Dean and his Segway scooters... GOD I WANT ONE!

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Three Wise Men

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Mikey & Cary 'on the boat' near the lake in Chicago

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Just enjoying a beer... Chi Town is a cool place!

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A view up the smoke stack of a ship

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Driving In To Chicago's Lincoln Park Area

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Welcome to Chicago!

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Beer by candel light....

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Chicago's Lincoln Park Area

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Chicago's Lincoln Park Area

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Chicago's Lincoln Park Area

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Chicago's Lincoln Park Area

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Chicago's Lincoln Park Area

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Lots of cool places to see... all of these were in Chicago's Lincoln Park Area

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A cool bafe/bar in the windy city

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Lots of cool stuff to see

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A neat look at what people are looking for when they stumble across our little site.... Some of these are especially wierd like "mary kate wearing diapers"..of which we dont have (nor have ever seen) a picture.... too wierd

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Another quick snapshot of where the last 100 (of the 550) people who visited the blog have came from....

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Well its been a couple of days, but things are going well...
Getting a lot of stuff done at the office. Currently working with John B on a set of scripts to bulk load electronic document attachment links to existing metadata records in our physical data management application.

Other than that things are going well... Looking forward to the weekend.. Nothing special planned,.. Just hanging out with Pata... Walking the dog and enjoying life...

Hello kids, my name is Matt Foley, and I live in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!!!

Bruce Dickinson (Yes,.. the Bruce Dickinson) "Guess what... I got a fever and the only prescription... is more cowbell."

You can never really have enought SNL quotes... cause..." Babies, babies. By the time I'm done with you, you will all be wearing gold plated diapers."

Scene from Celeberity Jeopardy...
Sean Connery: I'll take "The Rapists" for $100.
Alex Trebek: That's "therapists", not "the rapists".

Here is wishing Mary-Kate & Ashley a happy 18th b-day! So.. ladies... How You Doin?!?!

Now a line showing the true love between a man and woman.... (From Pulp Fiction 1994)

Butch: Will you hand me a towel, tulip?
Fabienne: Ah, I like that. I like tulip. Tulip is much better than mongoloid.

And from the classic: Redneck Zombies (1987)
Billy-Bob/Ellie May: I'm-a goin' fishing now.
Junior: Ain't you got worms?
Billy-Bob/Ellie May: Yeah, but I'm going anyway!


See you all MONDAY!

Hello kids, my name is Matt Foley, and I live in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!!!

Bruce Dickinson (Yes,.. the Bruce Dickinson) "Guess what... I got a fever and the only prescription... is more cowbell."

You can never really have enought SNL quotes... cause..." Babies, babies. By the time I'm done with you, you will all be wearing gold plated diapers."

Scene from Celeberity Jeopardy...
Sean Connery: I'll take "The Rapists" for $100.
Alex Trebek: That's "therapists", not "the rapists".

Here is wishing Mary-Kate & Ashley a happy 18th b-day! So.. ladies... How You Doin?!?!

Now a line showing the true love between a man and woman.... (From Pulp Fiction 1994)

Butch: Will you hand me a towel, tulip?
Fabienne: Ah, I like that. I like tulip. Tulip is much better than mongoloid.

And from the classic: Redneck Zombies (1987)
Billy-Bob/Ellie May: I'm-a goin' fishing now.
Junior: Ain't you got worms?
Billy-Bob/Ellie May: Yeah, but I'm going anyway!


See you all MONDAY!

Memorable Quote

"Life is filled with things that you just can't predict. Ned Beatty goes on a rafting trip in "Deliverance," winds up getting sodomized by hillbillies. Eddie Murphy stops to give a girl a ride home, turns out she has a bigger schlong than he does. One night you go out for McDonald's and accidentally hack your ex-wife and Ron Goldman to death. These things happen. The point is that things can change 180 degrees in a split second."
-Peter Dragon TV Series "Action" made it 13 episodes before being canceled...

Now raise your goblet of rock. It's a toast to those who rock!
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A moment of blog silence for Ron & Ray.... Ronald Reagan & Ray Charles... may you both rest in peace...
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Happy Friday

I hope everyones Friday is going well. My Mom in visiting P & I,... its should be a fun weekend...
Look... even Billy is happy about the coming weekend!


Go ahead,,, she your co-workers what you really think!

--PHOTO REMOVED - We at Forknlife appologise to the source of the photograph.

Ethen must be with the 'PC' Police... he didn't like that last face...


He's not gonna like this one either....


WHAT DO YOU MEAN ITS THE LAST PICTURE


Have a great weekend!

LONG LIVE RADIO MUNCH!

Well I'm home today.. we are taking our final look at the 'Trey-be' today before we see he/she for the -first- time in August. Tisha & I just got back from walking Bosco the dog,.... we ran into a couple of our neighbors (this place is awesome),... Its a drippy day, kinda reminding me of Brussels (the attached picture is from a similar drippy day in Brussels last year - I was there for a big meeting - and this was a great cafe on the street). Anyway... later today I go to my GP to have my back looked at.. I am so much looking forward to not hurting every morning... Anyway... blog you this afternoon.... t-ray out

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Its 2:00PM, and although my back is feeling a bit better I'm glad I am seeing the doctor tommorow... I guess when I look at this guy, I should feel much better... cause things can always be worse..... :-)

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Morning,..

Still have a killer of a back ache.. going on my 4th or 5th day.. I've got an appointment tomorrow with the doc to see what the heck is going on...

Someone asked my if I had tried someone walking on my back.. I said no, but I would throw myself into traffic if I thought it would help...

don't want to bring you all down... I'll see if I can post some funny/strange stuff today, to being everyone's (even my) spirits up...

Your truly (with the smell of ice hot patches on his shoulders)... Trey

me and my aching back are gonna limp down to the van... and hopefully feel a bit better... adios
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And now the latest stats, hot off the presses.. (and remember this is only the last 100 visitors, not all of them)

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ouch.... I tell ya my back is really killing me..
the pain relievers I am taking are not even begging to work well..
I am almost too much pain to concentrate at all...
This really sucks... I'm just glad I don't have to drive back to the house this afternoon. I might even have tish pick me up at the van drop off....

It feels like I got into a really bad rear-end collision...

Ok, now I am trying to get my mind off of this and on to something else...
Did any of you see the season finally of the Sopranos last night... I though it was a bit weak.
I was expecting them to go to the mattresses, and all out war... with tons of people dropping... instead he off's his cousin.
BAM - Bye bye Buscemi (shotgun to the face) ** Sorry for being so graphic **
It was too funny to see Johnny Sacks slip face down into the snow whilst being chased by the feds...

One spin on the whole episode,.. if Tony had waited just a day or two longer, Johnny would be in Jail and Tony
Blundetto (The cousin) would not be at room tempature...

Ok.. Enough of the gangster world.. now back to my happy shiny back-ache...

UGH

Good Monday!

Well its just after lunch and the week is starting out OK... Just the normal madness.
My back is killing me... And this is going on 4 days.. I'm on a couple of pills (thank god I'm not driving) but it still hurts pretty bad... may take the opportunity to got o the doc on Wednesday..

Anyway... no rest for the wicked...

YAHOO!!! (no, not the search engine for all you techno geekophiles!)
Good news! A good friend of mine just emailed me and told me that she is getting married...

These two are both Parrot-heads (as I am), she is a former co-worker of mine who was smart/fortunate enough to continue life's journey and end up on the sunny west coast,... And although I have only met him briefly, I know from her, (and from how happy she's look on they few opportunities that I have the chance to see her since she has left) he's a great guy!


So,.. congrats Susan & Dave!! All the best!

Hey just quick note (real this time) to thank all of you whom I don't know for all of the nice words and comments,.. I never realized how many cool people there are out there..
Hope I keep you entertained... And have a great Sat night!

Well another GDMA,.. if you don't know what that is... then your not in my position.
I am sure things will get better, but it wears ya thin sometimes...

Imagine that me... thin...

HA!

Anyway.. I am going to try to salvage the best of this day... Maybe run down to Houston to catch up with my Friend Brent and see what he is doing...

If you know how to get in touch with me and feel like getting together for some drinks, pool, etc.. let me know!

later...

Well folks... as another Friday night starts to come to an end I would like to take a moment to thank all of our sponsors:

Bud Light & Soileau Distributing
The Lake Jackson Greater Chamber of Commerce
Pete's Fine Meats
Wes Sandel Photography
Mylef Knutt & All of the fine people over at Knutt's Deli
Mayor Lydia Champlin of Chagrin Falls Ohio
The Betty Ford Clinic
Walter Fredrick Mondale - 42d vice-president of the United States (1977 - 1980)
Film Director and Actor Ron Hyatt
And last but certainly not least Miss Wilma Elizabeth Henry (Nursery Assistant Room MR019 Student Support (Child Care) University of Ulster Magee campus Londonderry UK)

and the mischievous garden gnome that taunts me in my dreams... you bastard!

Happy Friday Everyone!

The weekend is ramping up. We went to eat at French resturant last evening! It was great!
I recommend Bistro Le Cep (or something like that) I strongly recommend the Bouillabaisse (seafood soup).

My sister in law Anna will be here through saturday, so we have a bit more time to visit.

I hope the weather keeps up!

No camera phone today, so we might not see any pictures, but ya never know..

Just about 5 hours left till the weekend!!!!

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OFFICE RAID FOR THE BLOG - NO ONE IS SAFE!


Hiding amoungts the boxes!

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Ian's Daughter,.. too cute!


(taken from a picture on his desk)

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Do you know these halls?!?!?


Miles and miles of cubes and piles....

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Don't be taken my picture!


The princess at work!
GOTTCHA!

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"Ordnung muß sein!"




famous German saying: (There must be order!)

Another little 'Blast from the past',.. a face shot of Patricia & I in Paris!

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Capt. America

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Bosco In Jail

This is what you get if you search for 'Forknlife' on Google!

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ARGH! Nothing makes you feel so old as find an old school ID photo! Me at around 16-17...

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Me in the Abu Dhabi Desert!

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I will be going up to Chi-Town on or near the weekend of the 26th to visit my friend Cary, who I havent seen since he moved out of LA! It should be a kick in the pants!

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Just talked to my old friend Jennifer Summers. She is living in Louisiana and working for the goverment doing some enviormental stuff.. I was trying to find old pictures to post but hey are not on this PC.. so those will come later...
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Just gave ForknLife its first face lift... the pictures are now a bit smaller, but there is more info on the screen. Hope you like it... And please say hello if your just passing by, we'd love to hear from you!
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A little thing to keep in mind as we walk into our daily staff meetings...

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Just thought you guys might want to see where all of the visitors are coming from! (And this is in the last two days!!) ForknLife is WORLD WIDE!!!!

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We actually made into the Google Search engine...
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This really feels like a monday.... UGH!