BenSpark Family Adventures

Well Day 2 of the 3-Day walk is finished. Allison is out there giving it her all. I am so proud of all the work that she has done thus far. Sherrie is walking hard too, her parents came up from New Jersey and surprised her today. I was cheering with Dan (Al's dad) and Harry (Sherrie's husband) and Steven (Sherrie's Son) and Otis (Sherrie's dad) and Elaine (Sherrie's mom). Allison's friend T.R. is also walking and sticking with Allison each day. Today's cheering section was better than yesterdays. More people. I picked up a wipe off board for inspiring messages and I had gotten some Bang Sticks from the Wolves game last night, but left them in Alicia's car. Hopefully I can get them for tomorrow. Great job walkers!!

This is a trailer for the movie called Cellular. It looks awesome! But then again so did Speed when it first came out. Not every day you see a flying bus.

I'm sick of Reality TV. However, the show I can't miss is the Last Comic Standing. And it isn't even the "reality" TV part that I enjoy anyway. I've always loved watching comedians. When I was younger and HBO was just invented (man I feel old) and for some reason we had it for free for about 4 years in the 80's there were many comedy specials. My two favorite ones were Robin Williams Live at the Met and Bill Cosby Himself, I didn't get to see Eddie Murphy Raw or Delirious till I was well into High School. These are classic comedy specials that were so funny to watch over and over because the material was truly funny. I think we need more funny shows today. And Today, Thursday July 29th premieres a brand new show called Blue Collar TV (on the WB at 8:00pm 1/2 hour show) and tonight we find who made it though the wildcard set on Last Comic Standing (If it is Ant I'm going to scream!) I think we need more comedy in our lives. The news is so depressing...

As you probably know by now Allison has been preparing to walk 60 miles over the course of 3-Days for the Breast Cancer 3-Day. The culmination of all of her training is this Weekend (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.) Listed Below are the Day,Places and Times that have been set up for "Cheering Stations". If anyone is interested in meeting up to Cheer I am planning on getting to the afternoon cheering stations on Friday and Saturday and I'll be at Closing ceremonies on Sunday night. If anyone would like to meet up for dinner on Saturday night in Salem after the 11:00am-4:00pm Cheering station at Derby Wharf please let me know. Also it is not too late to support Allison with a donation. She has raised $3200 already (surpassing the goal of $2,000) Donations can be made at the Breast Cancer 3-Day See Cheering Stations Below. DAY ONE (Friday, July 30) Endicott Park Route 62 to Forest Street, proceed 1/4 mile then turn right into the Park's main entrance. 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Bri...

Erin and Bart came over to go to the Ice Cream Machine with Allison and I last night. Erin has a new job in Portland, Maine. While we are certainly happy for Erin's new job. We are sad to see Erin and Bart moving. Especially after Allison volunteered our moving services :-). But seriously we will miss Erin and Bart and we'll be spending more time up north in the future. Yesterday Tara and Erik got a new puppy. She came with the name Phantom but I think the name that they are going to go with will be Daisy, because she is a southern bell. Lazy Daisy, is black and white and all legs. She's gonna be big. Such a cute puppy. Daisy is so relaxed and she lets anyone pick her right up and carry her around like a baby. Welcome to the family Daisy.

I finally got a chance to take the motorcycle out for a ride yesterday. It felt really good to get back out there. What a nice afternoon for riding. Gotta do more of that.

So today I contemplated the length of time that it is going to be before I am in my new position with the Marketing Support Reps here at work. After all I am very excited about it and this has been in the works since back in March. I have my transfer date of October 1, 2004. And I wanted to know how much longer I had to wait. Well I found a countdown app to put on the site and after that all the other countdowns I could think of went up. It's kinda weird that 100 days after I start my new position I'll be running my first 1/2 marathon.