Woo’s World

It’s been a long arduous couple of years for two seemingly unrelated parties in American life.

But in a another pathetic moment for both Chris Henry’s career and the national mortgage/housing crisis, Henry’s crib just sold for 2/3 of appraised value at a foreclosure auction — and the bank itself was the only bidder. (is that really even a “sale”?)

Good luck calling the bottom in either one..

In somewhat related news, the Bengals have upgraded their scouting dept.. about time.  

Previously posted by me as contributor at ibreakforbuckets.blogspot.com

.. that Franco Harris’ 1972 “Immaculate Reception” was a play on words.

In researching various Christian doctrines on Wikipedia today, I run into this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_conception

Moral: Be careful who you do business with.

Thanks to Sue for forwarding.
I’m curious if these are true.. your comments are certainly welcome.

There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies. Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it:

FIRST Emergency

The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile; network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. Try it out.

SECOND Have you locked your keys in the car?

Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their mobile phone from your cell phone.
Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to
drive your keys to you. Distance is no object.. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other ‘remote’ for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).
Editor’s Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a mobile phone!’

THIRD Hidden Battery Power

Imagine your mobile battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your mobile will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your mobile next time.
FOURTH How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone
To check your Mobile phone’s serial number, key in the following digits on your phon! e: * # 0 6 #
A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won’t get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can’t use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.

So on-point !

From my most recent experience (2003?), I remember Hotmail letting all sorts of spam email thru to the Inbox.. porn, mortgages, fake jobs, fake boobs, fake lottery winnings. You name it.

But today, I get this reply after trying to send something to my father’s Hotmail address. I had never seen this before:

Remote host said: 550 OU-002 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for policy reasons. Reasons for rejection may be related to content with spam-like characteristics or IP/domain reputation problems.

Now I’m the spammer? Policy caught me? I’m such a threat. Right.

Get outta here. And if you’re a long-termer.. buy some Apple and short both Microsoft and Dell.

I am one lucky S.O.B.

This is the photo from the “infield chalet” where myself, Meredith, Karl & Katie watched Big Brown run away from the field down the backstretch.. while hanging out with Big Brown’s owners & their families !

Thanks so much to JC Faulkner of Quint Events for the hookup. Ken Murrah (also with Quint) was an extremely nice contact to make there too.

I am bad about taking digital pics myself, but Karl’s Flickr photo gallery is here..

It was an unforgettable 1st Saturday of May.

Two Saturdays ago (4/26/2008) we attended an extremely nice party / fundraiser event in Paris.. Myself (talking with the Owens’), Elizabeth and her boss Steve Nichols, and Meg & her father-in-law James Nelson were photographed in the Lexington Herald Leader story about the event. Albeit with our backs turned..

Shades of Twelve Oaks

Last Saturday couldn”t have been a more perfect evening for ”April in Paris.“ The historic Wallis House and Arboretum on Pleasant Street in Paris was the scene of the first gala benefit for St. Mary School.

When I walked through The Wallis House onto the back porch, I was awestruck. All I could think of was the Twelve Oaks barbecue in Gone With the Wind. It was stunning.

More than 200 guests mixed and mingled around white tables and chairs, some under white tents, and sipped wine and ­champagne and nibbled on hors d’oeurves as Miles Osland and his Little Big Band played jazz and other favorites.

This was just a prelude to a delightful supper catered by Migdalia’s Restaurant of Paris: shaved beef tenderloin on crostini, shrimp cocktail, lamb chops, salmon and brie bundles, sushi, blue cheese and pine nut tartlets, and asparagus wrapped with prosciutto. Mini crème brûlée and chocolate mousse torte were offered for dessert.

The catalysts for this benefit were four women, all Parisians and mothers of students at St. Mary: Holly McMillin, Betsy Lankford, Pam McFarland and Barclay De Wet.

”We raised approximately $50,000 for the school,“ McMillin said by phone after the benefit.

Aside from the ticket receipts, the benefit included a silent and live auction. Many of the items auctioned were made by students at St. Mary. A couple of interesting items sold were two adorable miniature donkeys, named Joseph and Mary. ”They sold for $900,“ McMillin said.

The top moneymaker was a trip to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. ”It went for $6,700,“ she said. ”We will be doing it again next year, and the theme will be the Gardens of Paris.“

If you’re interested in receiving an invitation for next year’s benefit, contact St. Mary School at (859) 987-3815.