Mortgage Refinance
April 30, 2009I locked in a new interest rate and completed an application for a mortgage refinance today. We're going to save $363 per month with the new rate.
Ka-ching!
12 years ago
GHS, Southside, Mathews, and Central
April 25, 2009Checking in on some changes going on at schools I attended here in Greenwood
Greenwood High School (click to enlarge)
Greenwood High School (click to enlarge)
Site of the old Southside Jr. High (click to enlarge)Speaking of Mathews...
Mathews Elementary (click to enlarge)...it still looks the same.
Mathews (click to enlarge)This is the car-riders' entrance to Mathews. I can clearly remember the first time I walked in there in 1981. I spent the following school year bored. I actually didn't learn anything I did not already know until 2nd or 3rd grade.
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Central Instructional Center (click to enlarge)Scurrrrp
April 23, 2009
MustangHere's a Mustang (I'm guessing late 1960s) we saw parked in Washington. I like its license plate.
SCURRRP
SCURRRP
The Lost Symbol
April 22, 2009The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown's sequel to The Da Vinci Code, is set to be published on September 15, 2009, and I just pre-ordered it on Amazon.
I know The Da Vinci Code caught a reputation as being the literary equivalent of the shallow end of the swimming pool, but I enjoyed it is spite of that.
Hey, I like George Orwell, Anne Rice, John Steinbeck, David McCullough, Harper Lee, and Mark Twain as much as anyone else, but that doesn't preclude me from being captivated by authors like Dan Brown and J.K. Rowling, whose books are absolutely fun to read.
I know The Da Vinci Code caught a reputation as being the literary equivalent of the shallow end of the swimming pool, but I enjoyed it is spite of that.
"Probably J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter stories, is the current champ when it comes to back story. You could do worse than read these... (also, the Harry Potter novels are just fun, pure story from beginning to end.)"
-- Stephen King
Hey, I like George Orwell, Anne Rice, John Steinbeck, David McCullough, Harper Lee, and Mark Twain as much as anyone else, but that doesn't preclude me from being captivated by authors like Dan Brown and J.K. Rowling, whose books are absolutely fun to read.
Sunset at the Reflecting Pool
That's Will and Haden at the edge of the fountain
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MEL,
PLACES IN MOVIES/TV WHERE WE HAVE BEEN,
road trip,
The Lincoln Memorial,
The Mall,
WASHINGTON DC,
will
Resting in Front of the Capitol
April 18, 2009
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tai,
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WASHINGTON DC
Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
One of the first things people learn upon approaching the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is that you will conduct yourself in respectful silence while you are there, or the guard will call you out by shouting at you.
Dinosaurs
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Dinosaurs,
haden,
road trip,
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History,
WASHINGTON DC,
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Hershey's Chocolate World
April 17, 2009
carrying all the gifts 
five-pound chocolate bars
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Hershey Pennsylvania,
largest chocolate bar in the world,
MEL,
road trip,
will
The Capitol
April 16, 2009
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road trip,
TAI NGUYEN,
The Capitol,
WASHINGTON DC,
will
Inside the Capitol
If you're going to tour the Capitol, I recommend arranging your tour through one of your Senators' office, versus getting a tour through the Capitol Visitor's Center.
We arranged the tour through DeMint's office, and we got a tour guided by one of his interns and we got to ride the private subway used by Senators to get from their offices to the Capitol. I requested a tour from Gresham Barrett's office first, but they never responded.
Haden checking out the dome in the Capitol
That's all the pictures I have for today. We took the subway back to the hotel; it would have been more exciting if we had not been dead tired.
We're going to the Hershey's Chocolate factory tomorrow.
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Jim DeMint,
MEL,
PLACES IN MOVIES/TV WHERE WE HAVE BEEN,
road trip,
The Capitol,
US CAPITOL TOUR,
WASHINGTON DC,
will
The Capitol
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MEL,
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road trip,
tai,
The Capitol,
WASHINGTON DC,
will
Around the Mall
Haden resting at the World War II memorial 
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MEL,
PLACES IN MOVIES/TV WHERE WE HAVE BEEN,
road trip,
tai,
The Mall,
The Washington Monument,
WASHINGTON DC,
will
The Lincoln Memorial
Melissa reading the Gettysburg address inside the Lincoln Memorial 
in front of the Lincoln Memorial
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