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My last post on Father’s Day gifts is too old and starting to annoy me every time I look at my blog… so it’s time for an update… not that anyone is paying attention lol

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Summer is in full swing now here in San Diego. The days are beautiful and sunny in the mid 80’s, but unlike the east coast, we don’t get the high humidity. The past few weeks have been great. Last weekend a few of us ventured up north to Del Mar for the 2008 San Diego County Fair. I’ve actually never been but I thought what the hell and caved to my friend’s peer pressuring. Normally the thought of fried-food eating fat country folks in spandex doesn’t sound fun to me but I guess you have to try everything once. It ended up being a good time. Andre and my friend Richard were like a couple of teenagers and just HAD to go on every damn ride. I, of course, being the weak-stomached pansy that I am, just watched from the sidelines. It occurred to me while sitting on benches in the shade watching the kids run by with cotton candy and lolly pops that I am getting old lol

Of course the most ridiculous thing we ran across was Charlie’s Chicken… a massive trailer that sells pretty anything you want fried. Fried avocado, fried Twinkies, fried Oreos, fried Spam and the real kicker… a fried chicken patty sandwiched between two glazed Crispy Creme donuts!!! We just had to sample a few, so at the counter I told the kid, "We’ll have an order of the fried Twinkie, fried Oreos, fried Spam and fried Avocados and an ambulance on stand-by please, thanks".

This weekend Dylan is in town (my old roommate who moved back to Seattle for the summer and then is starting film school in San Francisco in August). It’s been nice hanging out with him again. Yesterday and today we just sat by the pool at my Friend Nick’s house. It’s perfect pool weather.

The 4th of July is Andre’s birthday so we are planning another big "shindig" pool party at Nicks to celebrate. That should be fun. Hopefully I won’t be too drunk to snap a few photos to post here.

Summer is ticking by so quick. I need to schedule in a trip back east to see the family in New England. Hopefully soon I can get off my butt and plan it before it gets into fall.

That’s all for now I guess.

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If you’re looking for that last minute perfect Father’s Day gift for dear-ol-Dad, here’s a few suggestions courtesy of Camping World and Wine.com. Father’s Day is June 15th.

Coleman RoadTrip Classic Grill – Blue	Vu Qube Portable Satellite TV Antenna
Coleman RoadTrip LXE Grill	Big Wide Diamond Recliner
Air Lift Heavy-Duty Air Compressor	Folding Safety Step
Big Wide Rainforest Recliner	Weber Q Gas Grill
Chuck-O	Roll-up Table – 32″ Square

Gnarly Head Barbeque Set
Gourmet Gift Basket

Get 10% off any 6 month wine club membership at Wine.com! Enter code DAD10 at checkout. Offer expires 6.15.08

Get 20% off any 12 month wine club membership at Wine.com! Enter code DAD20 at checkout. Offer expires 6.15.08

Summer Clearance Sale at Wine.com! Save 20% off any 6 or more bottles of clearance sale wines.

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Did it work? You’re asking yourself, “did what work?”. Well, if you are reading this post, then I guess it did. I’m just doing a little testing here that’s all. I read an article that discussed grabbing readers attention by using clever titles instead of traditional descriptive ones. That being said, I’m only making this post so that I can test out the new advertising block that appears below this post.

Do you like it? Are the ads interesting? Go ahead and click on them, send me some money… see if they work… I dare you. Nobody is even paying attention anymore are they? lol

Well, I can’t test ads on my work blog so I have to use my personal one here.

So, before you go clicking off someplace else… click an ad title below.

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