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Corcoran Family Summer schedule

With summer almost here its time to start planning our summer vacations. Noah will be gone between June 21st and late July. Kay-la is heading off to Job Corps soon up in Seattle. So, that means that we have some time this summer to go camping, or day tripping. If you are coming into town this summer, or taking a vacation let me know so that we might be able to meet up.


Jenn is working in a new positon and won't be able to take vacation until this fall so that rules out anything longer then a weekend for her, but I plan to attend the Oregon Beer Fest in late July in Portland. We are also working on a weekend coast trip.

Spring Term update

Man it been awhile since I posted on here! Well, I am just about to start classes for my MCSA and am going to test for my A+ certification so I've been busy studying. Other then that I have been fighting my Media Center PC. Its been randomly rebooting. Thought it might be an update issue, but wasn't. So, I tore it apart, cleaned it up, reinstalled a lot of stuff, uninstalled all the unneeded apps and what not, and it was still rebooting. Finally, I just wiped the hard drive and upgraded to Vista....still not sure if that was a good idea or not 'cause now I have a whole different set of problems :)

On the kid front, Noah is back in soccer now. I'm not sure how much he is enjoying himself. I suspect he would rather stay home and play video games or go out and play with friends. Kay-la is back home with us now. Seems to be that her time away from home was somewhat beneficial. Its been a week now and she willingly cleans up when asked, and often with out being asked at all.

I've been brewing a lot of beer for the last year or so and have been brewing "all grain" since the start of the year. All grain brewing is when you start with just malted wheat and barley, not using the syrupy malt extract. Takes a lot more time, but gives you a lot more control over the final project. About Oct of last year, I joined a newly formed brew club which has been a lot of fun. I've met a lot of fun people.

Hopefully, I'll be able to keep up on posting here. I've also decided to start a new beer related blog, Everyday Drinking, though so far haven't been able to post much, lol. My hope is that each weekend I can post there what I have been drinking (along with photos, description, availiblity, etc.), and write about the local beer scene and any beer related events coming up.

At this time I am planning on going to the Oregon Brewer's Festival, and Hop Madness, and my 30th birthday is just bout 6 months away. Expect to hear more details soon about the party to beat all parties!

Snow Day

Ashland got 10 inches of snow over the last 24 hours! Needless to say, everywhere is closed including work. We are going to spend the day curled up in front of the new big screen tv and playing video games.

RIP Robert Jordan

I guess I'll never find out how the Wheel of Time was to be finished. I fell in love with oh so many years ago. I've reread his work many times...usually right before the next book came out. Read more on Boing-Boing.

Fall 2007 Premier dates

Here is a list of permier dates for the fall 2007 lineup. This is from TVSquad, I love that website! As a side note here is a short list of the show I can't wait to see!
Pushing Daisies, Reaper, Lost, BSG, Bionic Woman, Dirty Sexy Money, and Heros.

August 22nd

• ANCHORWOMAN (FOX) (Premiered and canceled on the same day!)
  

September 6th

• Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (FOX)

September 8th

• Cops (FOX) -- Starting its 500th season
• America's Most Wanted (FOX)

September 11th

• The Biggest Loser (NBC)

September 14th

• NASHVILLE (FOX)

September 15th

• MADtv (FOX)
• Talkshow with Spike Feresten (FOX)

September 17th

• Deal or no Deal (NBC)
• Prison Break (FOX)
• K-VILLE (FOX)

September 18th

• Beauty and the Geek (CW) -- Two hour premiere

September 19th

• KID NATION (CBS)
• America's Next Top Model (CW)
• GOSSIP GIRL (CW)
• BACK TO YOU (FOX)
• Til' Death (FOX) -- No, seriously
• KITCHEN NIGHTMARES (FOX) -- This is the one where Gordon Ramsey is only slight less nasty than he is on Hell's Kitchen.

September 20th

• Survivor:China (CBS)

September 21st

• Friday Night Smackdown (CW) -- Oh, frabjous day!

September 23rd

• 60 Minutes (CBS)
• Cold Case (CBS)
• Shark (CBS) -- New time slot
• The Simpsons (FOX)
• King of the Hill (FOX)
• Family Guy (FOX) -- One hour premiere
• CW NOW (CW) -- Filler Show Number 1
• ONLINE NATION (CW) -- Filler Show Number 2

September 24th

• Dancing With the Stars (ABC) - 90 minute premiere
• The Bachelor (ABC) - 90 minute premiere
• How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
• THE BIG BANG THEORY (CBS)
• Two and a Half Men (CBS)
• Rules of Engagement (CBS)
• CSI:Miami (CBS)
• CHUCK (NBC)
• Heroes (NBC)
• JOURNEYMAN (NBC)

September 25th

• Dancing With the Stars (ABC) -- Perforance show
• Boston Legal (ABC) -- 90-minute premiere
• NCIS (CBS)
• The Unit (CBS)
• Bones (FOX) -- New Time
• House (FOX) -- With five new cast members!
• CANE (CBS) -- Now, this is a new show!
• REAPER (CW)
• The Singing Bee (NBC)
• Law & Order: SVU (NBC)

September 26th

• Dancing With the Stars (ABC) -- first results show at 'special' day and time
• PRIVATE PRACTICE (ABC)
• DIRTY SEXY MONEY (ABC)
• Criminal Minds (CBS) -- Sans Mandy Patinkin
• CSI:NY (CBS)
• Deal or no Deal (NBC) -- This is the Wednesday debut of the program
• BIONIC WOMAN (NBC)
• LIFE (NBC)
• Ghost Hunters (SciFi)

September 27th

• Ugly Betty (ABC)
• Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
• BIG SHOTS (ABC)
• CSI (CBS)
• Without a Trace (CBS)
• Smallville (CW)
• My Name is Earl (NBC) -- One hour season premiere
• The Office (NBC) -- One hour season premiere, and hour episodes for about a month
• ER (NBC) -- One hour seas . . . Oh, they are an hour show. Never mind.

September 28th

• Ghost Whisperer (CBS)
• MOONLIGHT (CBS) -- the show so nice, they renamed it twice. Or was it three times?
• Numb3rs (CBS)
• Deal or no Deal (NBC) -- Move to new time slot
• Las Vegas (NBC) -- Two hour season premiere
• Stargate: Atlantis (SciFi)

September 29th

• 48 Hours Mysteries (CBS) -- This is not an hourly series featuring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy.

September 30th

• Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC) -- Two hour premiere. Can't they just rename the show Extreme Home Makeover or something and move along?
• Desperate Housewives (ABC)
• Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
• American Dad (FOX)

October 1st

• Everybody Hates Chris (CW)
• ALIENS IN AMERICA (CW)
• Girlfriends (CW)
• The Game (CW)

October 2nd

• CAVEMEN (ABC)
• CARPOOLERS (ABC)
• Dancing With the Stars Results Show (ABC) -- Regular time-slot premiere

October 3rd

• PUSHING DAISIES

October 4th

• Supernatural (CW)
• 30 Rock (NBC)

October 5th

• Friday Night Lights (NBC) -- New time slot

October 7th

• America's Funniest Home Videos (ABC) -- Shouldn't the show be called America's Funnites Home DVDs to stay with the times?
• LIFE IS WILD (CW)

October 12th

• 20/20 (ABC) -- New time slot
• WOMEN'S MURDER CLUB (ABC)
• Men In Trees (ABC) -- New time slot

October 15th

• Samantha Who? (ABC)

October 18th

• VIVA LAUGHLIN (CBS) -- Series preview

October 21st

• VIVA LAUGHLIN (CBS) -- Time slot premiere

October 25th

• Scrubs (NBC) -- One hour Office shows dominate the schedule through October; hence, the reason for this late season premiere.

November 27th

• CASHMERE MAFIA (ABC) -- Premieres after Dancing With the Stars finale

December 4th

• CASHMERE MAFIA (ABC) -- Regular time slot premiere

National Shutdown Day is Tomorrow!

March 24th is National Shutdown Day. One day a year dedicated to turning off the computer and maybe even getting outside a bit. Whodathunkit?