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Just wanted to take a brief moment to wish everyone a Happy New Year! One more time 'round the sun. I probably won't be posting much later today (possibly this evening) as I am getting ready to go in to work and don't get off until 1pm this afternoon. Ugh. Not much fun.

That sucks. Kevin foster spent seven years in the Major Leagues mostly with the Phillies and Cubs and has died of Renal Cell Carcinoma after fighting it for the last six months. His brother Mark Foster said that "He loved baseball, he loved people and people loved him. He was a happy person who got along with everybody and we will miss him."

I've been spending a great deal of time at my main blog writing about the disappearance of Caylee Anthony and her ne'er-do-well mother Casey Anthony. So far there isn't a whole lot of ground being made in the case. I received an email from someone earlier wondering what was happening in the case and my honest opinion is that law enforcement has been pretty smart about it. If they were to arrest Casey Anthony right now and charge her for murder and she gets off, they can never try her again.

The best thing they can do right now is to hopefully convict her of the economic crimes she's been charged with and hope the body turns up soon so that the police can have DNA testing done on it. Once there's a body she's convicted for sure.

Over the last few months the wife and I have talked several times about relocating if I get promoted. I did finally apply for a promotion and am on a development plan. I pretty much expected that so it wasn't a shock, particularly since right now I don't want to move.

There are a couple of different states we wouldn't mind living in depending on if we could even sell the house. North or South Carolina would be OK. My brother lives in North Carolina and while he has a few issues with the schools there everything else is OK. He moved down from the metro DC area so everything is cheaper. North Carolina health insurance, homes, auto insurance, even groceries are much more reasonable. I sure would be nice to be closer to him as well.

Most likely we will stay in the area though because if we do move the wife ends up losing something like 60% of her teacher retirement and we just can't afford that.

The Orange County Sheriff's department has filed new charges against Casey Anthony. There are also some other news items related to the search at http://tinyurl.com/56w8ud

I was doing very well earlier this year trying to keep fit. I was working out on an almost daily basis, had pretty much quit smoking and was really starting to feel good and lose a bit of weight as well. I don't take any kind of supplements or diet pills, just exercise.

Lately I have been doing pretty badly at it though. I need to start going to the gym again and get back in shape. I have been maybe once in the last month and I am getting tired earlier in the day. I can really tell the difference.

It's just a matter of mind over body I guess and making myself do the right thing.

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Earlier when I was talking about going on vacation in the spring I forgot to mention that we are also considering going to Bermuda. Now that we both have a valid passport we can actually travel outside of the country. The only place I have ever been outside of the U.S. is Nassau and I would really like to see some more places.

It does mean leaving the girls with a babysitter though which also means that we will only be able to go for the weekend rather than an entire week. That's not really a bad thing because I am trying to start setting more money aside for an emergency account. I don't have nearly enough set aside should we have some sort of emergency.

Every once in awhile I will get on here and talk about vacations. Mostly where we have been but sometimes I will discuss where we want to go, real estate in the area and available rentals. I like doing vacation rentals simply because you get more bang for the buck.

We have been thinking about going to see my brother at some point in the spring and am hoping that if we stay somewhere on te Carolina coast that he and his family can come out for a few days and stay with us. I have been looking at prices for Outer Banks rentals and there are some really affordable places up there that look just beautiful. If we don't go that far north we may stay on the bay in Beaufort, SC. We spent a couple of days there when my son graduated from boot camp and I really liked the area.

One of the things we have started doing around the house over the last few months is to try and eat healthier and well as doing other things that get us in shape. The wife is doing a much better job of it than I am but I am at least trying to participate. We don't eat as much junk and we are taking supplements that we know work as well.

My wife was looking at different drinks the other day. One of the big things right now are energy drinks. The problem with most of them is that they are full of sugar and other stuff that work temporarily but don't really have any kind of beneficial effect the way that Orovo and other good juices do.