http://mshepherd.com/blog Personal Blog of Michael Shepherd Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:15:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This being the first Summer with our new pool, having guests and barbeque happens quite often at the Shepherd household. I thought I’d share with you an appetizer that my Sister’s Husband turned me on to. This wonderful Shrimp dish always gets rave reviews at our cook-outs. ... http://mshepherd.com/blog/2006/07/14/shrimp-on-the-barbie/ O.K. folks, I’m off my W.o.W. addiction long enough to finally update my blog! Here’s a pix Wendy took of a Black-Snake in our front yard. I think most people have an irrational fear of snakes, I grew up in the Arizona desert and snakes of all sorts ... http://mshepherd.com/blog/2006/07/13/snake/ I was over at fark.com the other day reading comments on a post about the killing of “Abu Alzarkowi-terrorist thingee”. Although most everyone agrees the death of this scumbag was a good thing, the thread quickly dissolved into a partisan “Shoot-Out” between the “neocons & libs” (far left -vs- ... http://mshepherd.com/blog/2006/06/10/blame-bush/ With temperatures in the 80’s & 90’s this past week, our pool has warmed very nicely to almost bathtub-like water. We are thrilled to finally have something fun to do on those sweltering hot summer days that would otherwise be spent hibernating indoors with the A/C turned up full ... http://mshepherd.com/blog/2006/06/02/swim-season/ My parents have decided to sell their house and possibly move away to Indiana. They have been busy packing for weeks now. My Mother wants to pass on her legacy to her Son & Daughter and has had my Sister and I over to “shop” for anything we ... http://mshepherd.com/blog/2006/05/27/legacy/ I just came across an interesting news story that I’ve been previously unaware of. Apparently, back in the late 1800’s during the Spanish American War, our Government enacted a luxury tax of 3% on all long distance calls placed in the United States. Billions if not Trillions of ... http://mshepherd.com/blog/2006/05/25/tax-man-loses/ WhooHoo! According to my “Stats”, my blog has had close to 20,000 unique visitors. None of you “regular people” understand this or even care about it but to us HTML’ers, uniques are the “Holy Grail”. For what reason do we toil placing code upon a server? ... http://mshepherd.com/blog/2006/05/21/stats/ I got this movie on a recommendation from a coworker. I pretty much grew up with the comedy of Jim Carrey and I absolutely loved Tea Leoni in “Family Man” so I thought I’d give it a shot. Carrey and Leoni play an upper class suburbanite couple who ... http://mshepherd.com/blog/2006/05/20/movie-time/ I’ve been ranting for quite a while about how our Government is really not serious about researching alternative fuel sources other than oil. It is my firm belief that Capitol Hill has been “Bought & Paid For” by special interest groups. No serious laws get passed, no serious ... http://mshepherd.com/blog/2006/05/17/alternative-fuel/ Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms out there! A little over a week ago, I began racking my brain over what I could get my Mom on Mother’s Day. She is so difficult to buy for, she doesn’t like Jewelry or perfumes and her tastes are very ... http://mshepherd.com/blog/2006/05/14/moms-day-bbq/