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Waking up, boy

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:47:10 -0600

This is the other photo that I had printed on canvas as a gift for Betsy this Christmas. It has yet to arrive but will hopefully be here tomorrow!

This shot will go next to the other Waking up, girl that I posted about a week ago.

I had one of these blown up to 12 X 18 and got it framed tonight for my mother-in-law. It looks awesome. Long live flickr and their partners!

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Waking up, girl

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:02:44 -0600

No, I am not having gender issues! It was the appropriate title for this photo of Maggie.

This is from May when we took a short vacation and she had just woke up. There is a certain lucidity of a child when they are in this state, sort of a catatonic Buddha.

I took the liberty of making the photo a black and white and air brushing out Maggie's hand from the left side of her face.

Since Betsy never reads this I can tell you that this photo is one of her holiday gifts this year. It is being printed on canvas and placed on a wooden stretcher.

I found the company that produces, imagekind, thanks to Flickr.

I'll let you know how they turn out. They meaning another one printed with Elliot on it.

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Betsy and her husband Kris Nov 02, 2007

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:21:44 -0500

Croncast - 2007-11-02.mp3
Show: #428
Length: 30:52
Size: 22.2mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris Nov 02, 2007

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Happy early birthday to Mark
He needs a cold turkey quit smoking partner
You up for it Betsy?
Does he have someone in Atlanta?
My birthday is then seven days after
Right after our three year mark
We'll be doing this until the wheels fall off
I get worried about our archive
Yeah, can't you just burn it to disc
Final paycheck from the day job came in today
Today was the contract execution date
So many things had to fall into place
We talk money and situation for a bit
For those of you who don't like this stuff skip ahead to 14:08
Many people have been in our shoes
You better get a job Mr B
It's already not been nice
We said we weren't going to talk about this stuff anymore
However, it's all be got going on right now
It is what takes up our waking hours
That's your problem Mr B
It's stressful
Yeah, we could end up moving . . . highly likely
Very little is going on here in Chicago
Not a leading edge city
The coasts are full of rocking gigs
Looking for jobs that are in wrong category
I found 10 different ones put away like this
Next is to contact the recruiters on these sites
Newly revised resume in PDF format (Yes, I know address is missing in this version)
Check it out
Though it's the same as my Linkedin Profile
I've had lots of people on this resume
Everyone is telling me that this will take longer than
Every time we talk about money it makes people crazy
Don't bother sending the hate mail
What do you want for your birthday?
Don't even say
Health insurance?
I have health insurance for us through January
Could this be worse?
Yes
I have contracts, things I can't share
It's up to listeners to fill in blanks
Dating the show
Part of being smart is that you should hate TV
I love TV Mr B
When you say kerchief it sounds like crew chief when you say it
Your references are all 80's TV
I am breaking into a new garage sale area
Hinsdale, a swanky Chicago suburb
Betsy puts the stereotype lifestyle
Kris finally tells the breast feeding plate story
The mosquito fogger driving down the street and chasing it
Breast feeding was the best time of my life
If you have healthy children
I will buy you your own plates, Betsy
With correct hair, eye and nipple color
You're gonna get me a titty plate?
You just don't bust those out that awesome
Oh, man your mom, Kris
You have no more awesome stories
I watched Three's Company
You watched Titty Plates

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Yes, I own you in Google . . . but I didn't mean to buy you

Thu, 24 May 2007 10:32:56 -0500

My apologies to Jennifer Cabala from the Q13 FOX News in Seattle for taking over your name in Google.

This might sound funny, maybe not so serious, and, yes, my tongue is a bit in cheek. But all the searches that I am getting for your name or those associated with the police officer calling 911 for the pot brownies have got me thinking about how people without a presence online are at the mercy of those who do.

Let me preface this by saying I don't think this is wrong or a flaw in Google; but a search for Ms. Cabala in Google by her full name will return my blog as the number one result. Why? For a myriad of reasons, but they are way to boring to talk about here.

My point is that most of the population at large who aren't playing online or making a living at it are going to be surprised when they, their friends or employer go online and see some guy/gal in Grandforks has the first say about them. It does depend on the content of that first salvo what the reaction will be. For the individual it can be the bee's knees or like waking up in bed next to me.

We talk an awful lot about reputation management in business but online you are your own business; at a minimum, your own brand. Look at Tom Green.

After all this, my two cents is to recommend that people without a presence online get one (like those not reading this). Be this presence through a free blogging website, social networking site or a photo/video sharing site.

Maybe I am just that much of a nerd to care what is highly ranked for myself online. But I have to think that this will matter to more people in the future as they see themselves portrayed in a way that they are not able to mediate by knowing the tools.

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Betsy and her husband Kris Apr 13, 2007

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 06:53:41 -0500

Croncast - 2007-04-13.mp3
Show: #349
Length: 36:01
Size: 24.7mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris April 13, 2007

Triscadecaphobes, yes it's Friday the 13th
Does that mean you are phobic of triscuits?
Afraid of woven wheat?
No, it means that I am afraid of Sandy Duncan
She's creepy
Smack her on the back of the head and one of those eyes is coming out
She's old lady porn, one eyed porn a new genre
I don't think so Booba
Edison was shooting that porn way back when
Getting back in to small town mode
All over a golden plump
Maybe that's how they get so plump
I grew up really, really small town
My folks weren't farmers . . . just passing through for the rest of their lives
He was held back
Other people are telling this story about you, just differently
He had the 13 year old creepy boy stache in 3rd grade
The epitome of backwoods Virginia
He had tight curly brownish/black hair
Might have been the fact that they didn't have running water in the house
Sometimes it's like someone dropped you off on a journey from the center of the earth
My dad raced stock cars at the county fair grounds on weekends . . . I'm class all the way
We would go out to their house
Push the car off the property to work on them on the gravel road
Wild animals in all the junk they
You had wild ferel cats in your yard . . . different baby, I lived in town
He's come out in his underwear and run around
Half a mile from the compound
Of course we have to push it off the property
I don't want a cupcake from you
Farms are junk car magnates
That's what we near Bear, a some property where we can abandon our shit
Making me hold it till we got home
They had the 21st century green toilet paint bucket with sawdust like your friend
You didn't catch him that's for sure
I spied him with his junk in his hand
Enjoying himself in nature and chickendom
What is he doing now? It's a success story
He was an Edison savant
You don't need electricity to run a phonograph
Gotta get rid of your bear plug Betsy
That is so gross
Great day for me Mr. B
My sisters kids were sick and I didn't have to babysit
They just don't get my sarcasm it washes over them
She looked at me blankly
Maggie thinks her name is moo moo
Today was the first day of garage sale season
Twins and triplets sale was training camp compared for this
They were there . . . my people
The Mexican guy in his Astro van with his kids on a school day
The Blue hairs early in line
I'm here for a free bowl of soup or the sale
She goes off about resellers and waking up early
She's 97 Kris, she's so old that she doesn't have an old AOL address
She's grandma1@webtv.com
That man has his kids helping him out
Thank you Mr. B it's a business
You can't match this flow
And there it is Mr. B
I was put on earth to do this
The Madeline in Paris Doll house with all the stuff
Why Wednesdays show sucked
Betsy had Elliot's neuropsych evaluation on her mind
They were really arguing that it was his semen that caused the problem
The genetic crap
Kids with medical issues
At a kids party you can pick the parents based on their behavior
Haven't you been tested for bipolar yet? You're eight! Shit could be going on up there
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Betsy and her husband Kris Apr. 17, 2006

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:31:40 -0500

Croncast - 2006-04-17.mp3

Show: #216
Length: 35:12
Size: 24.1 mb
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Betsy and her husband Kris Apr. 17, 2006

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Show Notes

Betsy rips me for my voice and tries out one of her own
My true voice, the one I hear in my head
Madonna's accent
Betsy's dipthong-ish breakdown
The same voice I use for calm
Betsy did show prep!
We gotta talk about that on the show
Married 10 years this year in August
Waking up with a mouth full of limestone
Betsy's top 10 list of reality shows
Betsy's true guilty pleasure
Comcast with DVR makes it so much worse
What planet are you from?
Throw you a corn chip every once in a while and you'd be a happy boy
Cursed with back to back shows on opposite channels
Here's the list (full of commentary):

1) Little People, Big World
2) Blow Out
3) Flip This House
4) America's Next Top Model
5) Real Housewives of Orange County - They got great counter tops
6) Flavor of Love
7) Project Runway
8) Rocksar INXS
9) Breaking Bonaduce
10) The Apprentice

Santino where are you?
Kris's favorite is Drawn Together on Comedy Central
Betsy's big week - she's throwing a garage sale, damnit!
It's political
Betsy shush's Kris, I got shushed
Shakeira Carter - thank you
Two words: Trailer Bank

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Betsy and her husband Kris Apr. 3, 2006

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 07:30:00 -0500

Croncast - 2006-04-03.mp3

Show: #210
Length: 48:16
Size: 33.1 mb
Format: mp3

Croncast - Betsy and her husband Kris 165

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Show Notes

The show is uploading as I type and is going to take too long for me to get out the door to work to put up show notes .

This 'spring forward' business has messed up my body clock and the waking up at 5 a.m is going to be brutal.

However, this line sums up the entire show, "Honey. Honey. Wait, wait. Listen to me honey, my husband is a coach and he wears these shoes with a suit."

More benign than Betsy would have you believe.

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Croncast - Betsy and her husband Kris Ep. 88

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 05:29:35 -0500

Croncast - 2005-06-13.mp3

Show: #129
Length: 36:36
Format: mp3
Bit rate: 64 kbs
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Croncast - Betsy and her husband Kris Ep. 88

So my voice is coming back, slowly, got a bit of my laugh back and . . . I got a new car, a Scion xB. I am going to take some photos and I'll be right back.

Here they are with a couple of reflections of the Lincoln.

Thirty with bald spots on top and a bass tube and neon lights illuminating the inside, I will travel the suburbs frontin' as a 20 year old with his first gig. We talk about my rejection letter from WBEZ in Chicago, at least they were still thinking of me.

We also get into buying the car and how if they knew us they probably wouldn't loan us the money because our payment history with them is not indicative of our bill paying habits, what Kris could go without if we no money, Betsy inheriting the Lincoln, the subdivision block party which marks the one year anniversary for us in this house, buying children.

And then we get into Betsy telling me that camping isn't waking up in the back of a truck bed in a cornfield but is Wolfgang Puck Latte's in a personal cup, we do the show shout outs, special one for Timothy Vojta for a generous donation, my childhood viewing of Miami Vice (I never wanted to be Tubbs).

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