Geez - I just realized that it has been one year since I closed on my first piece of property!  Time flies, doesn’t it?

Upcoming social activities/trips

• My softball team will be participating in a tournament in Memphis during the 1st full weekend in October
• i will be participating in the Capital Classic in Washington, DC from October 21st-23rd.

Um….when did October sneak up?

Ouch.

Well - I lost in the semis - but is was VERY close:   4-6,7-6 (5),4-6.  No chance for revenge on my singles opponent.

I had fun in Indianapolis and made some new friends. I am hoping to do the Washington tournament in October.  I REALLY want a trophy.

INDIANAPOLIS - Won my doubles quarterfinals match 8-3 today (I REALLY hate pro sets) with my partner from Indianapolis. Woohoo!   I play tomorrow in the semi-finals against…the person who eliminated me in Singles yesterday.   Time for a bit of revenge?? 

INDIANAPOLIS - Posting on the road from rainy Indy…where I had to play “pro sets” - which is basically a one set game playing to 8.   Lost 8-4 to a nice guy from CA.  So…I move to the consolation round on Sunday for Singles.

Doubles - Match tomorrow afternoon - I met my doubles partner today.  I think we will play good together.

If you are going to have a coup, have it while the PM is away :Thai army chief leads coup while prime minister away

I’ve been to Thailand three times and it is a wonderful country.  The PM is very corrupt and I am glad to see him go.  I am very glad that the coup has been bloodless. 

Will be in Indianapolis next weekend for IndyTennis Classic 3, my first tournament since the Gay Games.  Should be a fun weekend, and I save on airfare since I can drive!

Always hated cigarette butts, especially when people throw them out of their cars or before entering a building. Cigarette litter represents over 20 percent of the litter collected in many community cleanup initiatives. 

Saw this - this is a great idea! From USATODAY.com:

Desiree Pederson used to think nothing of throwing her cigarette butts on the ground.

That changed last month when a Duluth, Minn., city employee offered the 24-year-old hairstylist a Keep America Beautiful pocket ashtray.

“It was kind of embarrassing to throw them on the sidewalk or in the street,” Pederson said. “Since I started using the pocket ashtrays, I’ve started to notice the butts on the ground more.”

That’s exactly what Keep America Beautiful hopes will happen as a result of its cigarette litter cleanup program. The organization started testing the program in 2002 and is expanding to more than 50 communities. Keep America Beautiful, with funding from Philip Morris, plans to distribute 50,000 pocket ashtrays by the end of the year.

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The palm-sized ashtrays have a sliding door that reveals a metal compartment where cigarettes can be snuffed and stored. The lid shuts snugly to protect clothing. The compartment is big enough for a few butts.

You go Keith!  Transcript here - Video here

The preview below looks like it will be another K.O. gem - tune in tonight at 8pm ET:

The only positive on 9/11 and the days and weeks that so slowly and painfully followed it was the unanimous humanity, here, and throughout the country. The government, the President in particular, was given every possible measure of support.

Those who did not belong to his party—tabled that.

Those who doubted the mechanics of his election—ignored that.

Those who wondered of his qualifications—forgot that.

History teaches us that nearly unanimous support of a government cannot be taken away from that government by its critics.

It can only be squandered by those who use it not to heal a nation’s wounds, but to take political advantage.

Terrorists did not come and steal our newly-regained sense of being American first, and political, fiftieth. Nor did the Democrats. Nor did the media. Nor did the people.

The President—and those around him—did that.

They promised bi-partisanship, and then showed that to them, “bi-partisanship” meant that their party would rule and the rest would have to follow, or be branded, with ever-escalating hysteria, as morally or intellectually confused; as appeasers; as those who, in the Vice President’s words yesterday, “validate the strategy of the terrorists.”

They promised protection, and then showed that to them “protection” meant going to war against a despot whose hand they had once shaken, a despot who we now learn from our own Senate Intelligence Committee hated Al-Qaeda as much as we did.

The polite phrase for how so many of us were duped into supporting a war, on the false premise that it had ‘something to do’ with 9/11, is “lying by implication.”

The impolite phrase is: impeachable offense.