Naomi's last days at school

Please, make him go away

It's not even funny anymore!

Crude oil prices per barrel

Bush doesn't rule out military strike in Iran

Tommeke, Tommeke, Tommeke, wat doet ge nu?

Got talent?

Terry Fator, winner America's got talent 2007





Cas Haley, runner-up
(my personal favorite)


Alexis Jordan America's got talent 2007 (14 years)


Sweden's got talent (10 years)


Jeremy Lynch Britain's got talent 2008


Craig Harper Britain's got talent 2008

Update pics home

This is the color scheme of the outside of the house.

Our cabinets have arrived, these are the standard ones. No dark wood and no special design, just the way we like it.

Here comes our block wall, next to the house.

Table tennis

I try to visit the PTTC ( Phoenix table tennis club) once a week. It is a 41 mile drive (one way!), and takes about 50 minutes. A few months ago there were so many people you had to wait 45 minutes before you could play, with high gas prices ... I didn't have to sit down at all the last few weeks. Me likes high gas prices, oil $200 would be great.

It is the only place I really feel at home, because nobody speaks decent English there. We have people from Romania, China, Korea, Japan, Poland, UK, Peru, Mexico, ... and a few Americans.

Naomi is going to 3rd grade next year

She has done an incredible job this year, her English has improved much more than we could have ever imagined. She is in a very difficult high level school, where kids in 2nd grade have to perform on a 3rd grade level (compared to public schools). We are soooo proud of her. We will be hosting her birthday party next weekend.

Car windows

We have tinted our car windows.
The company does the job at your own home which is very convenient. They attach a film on the inside of the window. That varies from 5 (blocking 95% of light) to 65 ( blocking 35% of light). The windshield can't be tinted (law).

Before

After

UFC 85

TOPEvent of the evening UFC 85 (ultimate fighting, not for the faint of heart)
Zuffa, the company that owns the UFC demands $45 for a live pay per view event...I prefer to watch it online an hour later for nada.
Matt Hughes - Thiago Alves

The Internet is a great medium to

launch s-c-a-m-s



When it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
The light at the end of the tunnel MAY be an upcoming train...

Now the 9/11 trials have begun...

Moussaoui can maybe explain to us mortals, how his Muslim group let a 757 vanish into the Pentagon, Copperfield style?

The billionaire next door

August 2007


Berkshire annual meeting 2007

Elections 2008

The average American has either lost or is in the process of losing his job.
The average American is spending huge amounts of money to commute.
The average American can't travel abroad because the value of the dollar has collapsed and everything is sooo expensive there.
The average American is feeling the pain of inflation, prices have gone up more than their income. (that is especially true, if they don't have a job anymore)
The average American has lost $100 000 of artifical home value and is now underwater on their home.
The average American has given back the keys of their leased Lexus, BMW, Infinity Q56, Nissan Armada and Hummer and is now considering the bus.
The average American can't pay for health care.

So, considering ALL of the above... the $64000 question is, who will they vote for?
a) They will vote for McCain, because it can't get any worse than this.
b) They will vote for McCain, because they are a foreclosure expert and he will make sure we will stay in a depression for his whole elected term.

c) They will vote for McCain, because they are ignorant and hence they don't care.
d) They will vote for McCain, because the occupation of Iraq is a good thing and McCain wants to send more troups there. The money that is spent over there would be squandered by the government anyway.
e) They will vote for McCain, because they are sadomasochists.
f) They will vote for McCain, because they have always voted for the Republican candidate, disregarding the capabilities or the IQ of the Republican candidate.

g) They will vote for Obama

That will be a very hard choice... like it was in 2004...

First help at bar fights with Bas Rutten

First door

They have applied stucco to the outer walls of the house. It is a sort of cement based paste, I think it is about 3 inches thick.

First door, on the patio of the 2nd floor close to the streetside.

Do you see the 2 birds?

Bush round up

Got a drink?
Top 10 funny moments Bush

Good example

Sovereignty

This is kind of sad

This is even more sad

Maricopa housing stats

I have added the new sales numbers for May:

Graph

blue: # sold

pink: days on market

yellow: $/sq ft

Inventory
Numbers

Let's visit Amsterdam

87 000 000

The oil companies produce 87 000 000 barrels of oil each day.
1 barrel = 42 gallons = 159 liters

In other words, the oil industry produces 3 654 000 000 gallons of oil per day OR 13 833 000 000 liters (14 BILLION liters)...

And that is not enough to cover the demand... Oh My God, we are all doomed!

Foreclosure backyards are like a box of chocolat

you never know what you're gonna get...

DJ Tiesto is in Phoenix

so Lisa went to the party: LINK

Update pics home

They plastered the walls.

Last day of school

Last day of school, party at our house.

About 25 teachers showed up.

Beer pong: throw the ping pong ball in the cup of the adversary and he has to drink it bottoms up.

Our beer triangle.