Hyannis 1/2 Marathon

Hyannis Road Race WebSite

When: Sunday February 26th 2006
Where: Sheraton Hyannis Hotel (start and finish)
Pre Race Meal: Grille 16 on Saturday February 25th.
Race: 10k \ Marathon Relay \ Half Marathon \ Marathon
My Race Number: 1884
Race Time: 10:00am

Race Results

Movie Screening

Here is THE GAME plan:
7:00 – 7:30 -Appetizers (Meatballs, Buff's Wings & Santarpios Pizza) and 40's.
7:30 – 8:00 – Comedy Central roast of Pamela Anderson(unsensored):
Watching the sets from:
Jeffrey Ross
Lisa Lampanelli
&
Nick DiPaolo
8:00 – 9:30 -The world premiere of STOP SNITCHIN, STOP LYIN
10:00 –------ Hit the town for some Adult Beverages…

What you are required to bring:
40 oz beverages of your choice.
Brown Bag Required

Avon Walk for Breast Cancer

Click here to help Patti reach her goal

Dear Friends and Family,

I have decided to participate in Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. This is such an important cause to me because this year, an estimated 40,000 women will die from the disease. Breast cancer takes another life every 14 minutes. Another woman is diagnosed with breast cancer every 3 minutes. An estimated three million women are living with breast cancer. One million of them don't yet know it.

As part of the event, I pledged to raise money. People can make donations on my behalf, so that I can reach my fundraising goal. With the donations raised, the Avon Foundation will provide support and resources for women affected by this terrible disease. This will help so many people in our own community and throughout the country. Any amount you can give is great; I just appreciate your support.

It is faster and easier than ever to support this great cause - you can make a donation online by simply clicking on the link at the bottom of this message. Whatever you can give will help! I truly appreciate your support and will keep you posted on my progress.

Thank you for supporting me always, but especially in this challenge; you really do make a difference.

Patti

Avon Walk for Breast Cancer

Spring Training 2006

ATL = Atlanta Braves - 12
BAL - Baltimore Orioles - 17
BOS = Boston Red Sox - 8
CIN = Cincinnati Reds - 6
CLE = Cleveland Indians - 10
DET = Detroit Tigers - 9
FLA = Florida Marlins - 16
HOU = Houston Astros - 11
LA = Los Angeles Dodgers - 14
MIN = Minnesota Twins - 7
NYM = New York Mets - 15
NYY = New York Yankees - 4
PIT = Pittsburgh Pirates - 5
PHI = Philadelphia Phillies - 2
STL = St Louis Cardinals - 16
TB = Tampa Bay Devil Rays - 3
TOR = Toronto Blue Jays - 1
WAS = Washington Nationals - 13

Great Restaurant

Phantom Gourmet's Review

1525 Washington St.
Boston, MA 02118
(617) 247-7747
http://www.bostonstella.com/

Whineys

Click here to purchase your tickets now!
WEEI's Glenn Ordway and The Big Show crew will recognize the top whiners from 2005 in the biggest Whiney Awards yet. The Whineys feature the best "whines" recorded on The Big Show's Whiner Line. The Whiner Line, which airs every weekday between 5:45pm and 6pm, is the highest rated 15 minutes of radio on WEEI. Callers use the Whiner Line to vent about Boston's sports teams, athletes, personalities, current events, and more. The Whiney nominees will be honored for their creativity and wit among Boston sports celebrities and of course all your favorite WEEI personalities.
General Admittance tickets are $40. VIP tickets are $250 per ticket, which include a VIP floor seat for the show, admittance to a VIP cocktail reception and dinner at the Legends Club from 5-7pm where you can watch the Big Show live broadcast, and a complimentary copy of the 2005 Best of the Whiner Line CD! A portion of the proceeds from the Whineys will benefit the Boston Bruins Foundation and the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation.

Winter Restaurant Week 2006

Restaurant Week 2006

Winter Restaurant Week 2006BostonChefs.com's Unofficial Guide to Boston Restaurant Week is back for the 2006 winter edition of Boston Restaurant Week. From Sunday, March 5 through Friday, March 10, 2006, nearly one hundred restaurants in and around Boston will be offering special, three-course prix fixe menus for lunch or dinner (or both) for $20.06 and $30.06 respectively.Scroll down to view all participating restaurants or search for a restaurant by neighborhood. You can view the actual Restaurant Week menus, take a look at delicious food photos and even make reservations on-line. This guide has everything you’ll need to make the most of Winter Restaurant Week 2006.

DATE:
March 5-10th, 2006

PRICES:
Three-course Prix-fixe Lunch Menu: $20.06
Three-course Prix-fixe Dinner Menu: $30.06

Must See Movie

Lord Of War

Tagline: The first and most important rule of gun-running is: never get shot with your own merchandise.

Plot Outline: An arms dealer (Cage) confronts the morality of his work as he is being chased by an Interpol agent (Hawke).

I give this movie 8 out of 10...

Blow is to cocaine what Lord of War is to guns.

Gretzky recorded on wiretap

The Great One

A Great Site for Real Estate

Your Edge In Real Estate------Zillow

Bones in Motion gives runners cell phone help

Phoenix--If you're a runner or cyclist and sick of toting both your cell phone and some sort of heart monitor/performance meter, Bones in Motion might have the answer for you.

The company's new BiM Active software is designed to turn your cell phone into that single device that meets all your running needs.

By incorporating GPS, it can track your speed as you run or cycle, as well as keep track of all kinds of performance measurements, such as minutes per mile and calorie burn.

It's connected to a network, so it keeps track of your route and shows where you've been, and it lets you share that that data with others via the Web.

BiM Active also incorporates community-oriented features: you can rate the routes you run or cycle and signify what kind of conditions they offer. Thus, when someone accesses routes you've submitted online, they can tell whether there will be a lot of traffic, many hills or anything else you want to mention.

At the Demo conference here, Bones in Motion unveiled BiM Active and said Sprint had just agreed to offer the software as a location-based service on its network for just $9.99 a month.

bonesinmotion.com

bonesinmotion.com products

Hustle & Flow

Hustle & Flow
Plot Outline: A rap star from the Dirty South who is trying to make it in the hip hop world, he has to deal with many different types of people who try to bring him down, including strippers, baby's mama, and all the things that try to keep a player down. This is probably his last chance to make it, he is approaching his 40's, and his life is looking downhill.

My Rating: 6.5 out of 10
Terrence Howard gave a great performance... Not sure it is Oscar worthy?

2005 Vs. 2006

The infield
An overall comparison of the new-look infield compared to last year’s version: 2005 2006
1B Millar/Olerud ............Youkilis/Snow
2B Graffanino ..................Loretta
SS Renteria .....................Gonzalez
3B Mueller .......................Lowell

Offseason overview
Overall, the Red Sox lineup looks vastly different this year. Here’s a look at the projected lineup compared to last year’s: 2005 2006
1 Damon................ Crisp
2 Renteria............. Loretta
3 Ortiz................... Ortiz
4 Ramirez............. Ramirez
5 Nixon................. Varitek
6 Varitek.............. Lowell
7 Millar................. Nixon
8 Mueller.............. Youkilis
9 Graffanino........ Gonzalez

The rotation
Here is one projected Red Sox rotation (it's a very rough projection ... basically, our best guess; it's also assuming David Wells gets traded) compared to last year's: 2005 2006
Schilling............. Schilling
Wells.................. Beckett
Clement............. Wakefield
Wakefield.......... Papelbon
Arroyo............... Clement

The bullpen
An overview of the new-look bullpen (again, our best guess; we've included seven pitchers for '06 ... the 'pen will likely be six) compared to last year’s version: 2005 2006
Lefty: ........Myers.....................DiNardo
Long man: J. Gonzalez.............Arroyo
Setup: .......Bradford................ Seanez
Setup: .......Papelbon............... Tavarez/Riske
Setup: .......Timlin.................... Timlin
Closer: .......Foulke................... Foulke

‘Sopranos’ big may be sleeping with fishes in Boston Harbor

Now, it’s all supposed to be hush-hush and kept inside the family, but we hear that Boston will play a pivotal role in the upcoming season of “The Sopranos.”

Our well-placed rats report that one of the show’s “big characters” is going to get whacked in Boston — known on the hit HBO mob drama as “Scranton with clams.” The hit goes down during “The Sopranos” sixth season, which debuts March 12

Oh, but wait. There’s more.

“Sopranos” creator David Chase’s writers, who like to go that extra mile to set a scene, wrote into the script that as the gun action goes down, a Boston Celtics broadcast is blaring in the car.

Team spokesgal Farra D’Orazio confirmed yesterday that someone from the show contacted NBA Entertainment for permission to use one of last year’s radio broadcasts by Sean Grande and Cedric Maxwell.

“That’s standard operating procedure,” she told the Track. “But that’s all we know.”

However, someone did snitch that a member of the Green Team’s front office was sent a copy of the episode’s script. But all the characters’ names were blacked out. Dammit!

Guess Chase & Company is all too aware that omerta means nothing in Boston . . .

Super Sunday

Matt is giving 2 point to Casey.
Casey is taking Seattle.
Matt is taking Pittsburgh .
If Casey wins - DINNER for 4 at Abe & Louie's .
If Matt wins- BRUNCH for 4 at Abe & Louie's .

Bet must be paid by March 1st, 2006.

SuperBowl Pick

Seattle 31 Steelers 24

Today Is -- Groundhog Day

Ned: Phil? Phil Connors? Phil Connors, I thought that was you!
Phil: Hi, thanks for watching.
[Starts to walk away]
Ned: Hey now, don't you tell me you don't remember me 'cause I sure as heckfire remember you.
Phil: Not a chance.
Ned: Ned... Ryerson. "Needlenose Ned"? "Ned the Head"? C'mon, buddy. Case Western High. I did the whistling belly-button trick at the high school talent show? Bing. Ned Ryerson, got the shingles real bad senior year, almost didn't graduate? Bing, again. Ned Ryerson, I dated your sister Mary Pat a couple of times until you told me not to anymore? Well?
Phil: Ned Ryerson?
Ned: BING!
Phil: Bing.

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Ned: Phil?
Phil: Ned.
[Punches Ned in the face]

HaPpy BiRtHdaY to Patti!