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There is nothing funnier than Carol Burnett Show skits that go completely off the tracks with Harvey Korman and Tim Conway ad-lib themselves into hysterical fits. Today I was sad to read that Harvey Korman died today at the age of 81.
Here is Harvey playing straight man to Tim Conway’s dentist. Comedy genius.
We’ll miss you, Harvey.
I’ve been having some fun with the RBC Plaza webcam. Click on the presets at the bottom of the screen to look around downtown Raleigh.
My building can’t be seen as its on the north side of the RBC Plaza building. Its fun, nevertheless.
Only in Florida could a substitute teacher doing a magic trick be fired and accused of wizardry. Jim Piculas wowed his students with a simple toothpick trick and wound up losing his job when the principal wanted him out.
Man, you gotta love the state of my birth.
Saturday, the family and I decided to explore our world by bike, so we rode through the neighborhoods to the nearby Raleigh city greenway. Our destination was the section of greenway between Raleigh Boulevard and Capital Boulevard known as the Middle Crabtree Trail. Getting there wasn’t a problem, as we could ride on low-traffic streets all the way to Raleigh Boulevard. Once to Raleigh Boulevard, though, we had to stick to the sidewalks for a block as that street appears too dangerous for safe biking.
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It must be math day. My buddy Greg shows us a pie chart we all can understand, while my friend Chris points to some word problems for future hedge-fund managers.
Might as well throw in this pie chart Jeff found that shows what Rick Astley will never do (and no, there’s no Rick Roll here).
During my last swing past the North Carolina Transportation Museum, I asked one of the staff members there if they were going to run another excursion train anytime soon. He couldn’t give me a firm answer and I was worried I’d missed my chance.
Woo-hoo! I found out today that the museum will be running another excursion passenger train this fall! Its called the Virginia Autumn Flyer and will make the round-trip between Spencer and Charlottesville on November 1st and 2nd of this year.
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I saw this on the Longview Gardens website. Its a nearly 5000sf home on a 1.2 acre lot two miles from downtown and across the street from the Raleigh Country Club and its Donald Ross-designed golf course. How such a stately home can be only $315,000 is amazing to me.
Yeah, it fronts New Bern Avenue, but wow what a value. If I had some money to invest in places like this, I’d be all over it.
Remember the deal on Levolor blinds I mentioned way back? Looks like the promotion is still good! Our new home needs 7 sets of blinds, so I ordered them through Levolor and bought them all for $334 with free shipping. That would’ve been over $600 at my local big box hardware store, and I would’ve had to make two trips and waited all day for them to be cut!
So, if you’re still needing some amazing blinds at an amazing price, shoot me an email or leave me a comment. You can get 50% off, too!
Thursday night Raleigh’s ESS Lounge will be hosting another fundraiser for the Children’s House of Raleigh, the wonderful Montessori-based preschool Hallie once attended. Featured are a wine-tasting, fashion show, and silent auction. Advance tickets are 20 bucks and you’ll definitely get your money’s worth.
Come out and support a great cause and have fun doing it at the ESS Lounge!
The Janet Cowell campaign commercial I mentioned is now available on YouTube. The first few times I watched I actually missed our scene. Then I realized we’re on the bottom of a split-screen part. Its not much screen time, but considering how Travis was making faces and our nerves were getting a bit shot, the scene is better than I expected. Regardless, it was a lot of fun!
Look for us 19 seconds into the commercial across the bottom of the screen when the announcer says “improving our schools.” Blink and you might miss it: we’re there for less than half a second!
