Do, Do, Do, Looking out My Back Door

Actually, it was a side window. The window has blinds and a screen over it, and I only had my phone camera, which isn't that high quality, so it's a bad picture. If you squint just right, you can see the deer that walked through my yard this morning. It was a buck deer. It was about a 4 or 6 point, from what I could tell.

So how can you make money like that?

So I asked Danimal (and anyone else who cared to chime in too, although Dan was it) to recommend some comics. He recommended a series called Spiderman:Blue. I found one that had $7.99 shipping. That was less than 2 bucks an issue (Spiderman:Blue is a 6 issue series, and I didn't see a collection) so I bid 99 cents and expected to be outbid. I ended up winning, so I thought I got a pretty good deal. When the box arrived, the shipping was like 11 bucks, so they've already lost money on this deal, unless the post office did something wierd, Then when I openned the box, not only were there 6 Spiderman:Blue issues, there was also a Spideman and Batman book, Spiderman and Gen 13, and Spderman:Kingpin To the Death which was written by Stan Lee and drawn by John Romita, plus a The Legacy of Spiderman sketch book from Wizard. Lots of stuff for cheap.

Of course all the books were great, but you know how I judge.

9/11 Memorial- Eugene Raggio

I signed up for the 9/11 Memorial Project and received Eugene Raggio as my person to remember. Now, I never met him, so all I had to go on was what I could find on the web. I hope that if his family and friends stumble onto my blog, that I do his memory justice.

Eugene was a 55 year old Port Authority operations supervisor. The picture I have is from his ID, I believe. He was trying to help people get out when the towers came down. Here is an article about that. Of course, there was more to Mr. Raggio than his job and his tragic demise. According to this website, he liked to bowl. According to this one he had a dog named Tinkerbell that he loved.

As an editorial comment, I had done some research when I first signed up for the 2996 project. Today (Sept. 6) I ran across this page which is better than anything I could write. It includes comments from people who knew Eugene (who was apparently called Gene or Gino by his friends). I also learned that Eugene was around during the first WTC bombing in 1993 and helped people out that day as much as he could also.

For a better understanding of who Eugene Raggio was, follow the link above. I hope his friend doesn't mind, but I'm going to copy part of the rememberence from his friend, Freddie V. Torres from that page so you can see what type of guy Eugene was.

"But one thing that I respect about you was that you truly was a professional at what you did. Mrs.Raggio, oneday I was attacked when working at the WTC on liberty street. Gene, made sure that I recived care and that my wife was called and taken to meet me at ST.VINCENTS. He then visited me and asure me that my job would be waiting for me when I returned. You see Mrs. Raggio, usully if you got hurt you would never return or you would be placed some place in the basement. but Gene got me back. I will always remember him and thank him for that."

A couple of old pictures

I was searching my hard drive for a picture I used to have. I didn't find what I was looking for, but I did find these to old shots from races long passed.

If you've seen the movie Chicken Run

You might recall the comments after a near death experience by the hen Babs. She said "All me life flashed before me eyes. It was really borin'."

And so it is for me. If I had posted over the weekend, you'd have been treated to such excitement as:

Watched TV.
Went to Wal-Mart.
Ate dinner.
Mowed grass.
Changed oil in Nuggie Buggie.

I can barely keep my heart in my chest!

Oh well, at least I have a week or two of rest coming up.