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Name: Phil
Country: United States
State: Illinois
Metro: Peoria
Birthday: 3/22/1978
Gender: Male
Interests: I love hanging out with my youth group, playing rook or just shooting the breeze. I also love playing volleyball (which I don't get to do enough). I also love being with my family (another thing I don't get to do enough, Dana, if you're reading this, get your butt home on the weekends every once and a while)
Expertise: Being a driver for Choice Books. Driving in Chicago (Never thought I'd be an expert at that, but, I guess I'm better at it than some people)
Occupation: Other
Industry: Other
Message: message meEmail: email me
MSN: chup78
Yahoo:  philipeugenemartin
Member Since:
1/6/2005
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| I walk through the wet September grass in the early morning. Who am I kidding? I’m never up in the early morning. It’s actually about noon. The hot sun beams down as I feel the grass poke up between my bare toes. I pause at the gate to watch my very tall horse before I slowly lift the lock and enter the pen. The horse whinnies softly as I approach. I pet him, speaking gently. I retreat, picking up the 6 foot stepladder resting against the fence. I slowly approach the horse once more and set up the ladder. The horse whinnies again and I reassure him. I start up the ladder; one rung, two, three, four. By the fifth rung, I’m finally high enough to climb on his back. Finally, firmly seated on my high horse, I begin……………
When did it become acceptable to leave off consonants?
If I remember right, double consonants make the preceding vowel short, single consonants make the preceding vowel long, or something like that.
Yet, in English (or American as the case may be), we are faced more and more with consonants just disappearing from words. And, according to the dictionary, it’s perfectly alright (or is it all right?).
Is my flight cancelled, or canceled? It could be either, but what exactly does “cancele” mean?
Yesterday I went to church and worshipped? Or is it worshiped?
How exactly do you worshipe?
Sometimes one letter can mean the difference between indecency and painting a road.
(Stripped vs. striped)
Is it kidnaped, or kidnapped?
Labeled, or labelled?
Leveled, or levelled?
The way I see it, it’s all about the pronunciation. These words NEED a double consonant so that the pronunciation stays intact.
I realize I’m rambling on about something that only about 1% of the residents of the US even care about (if I’m lucky), but it makes me feel better to vent. 
What set me off was seeing a commercial for a forthcoming movie called “Four Christmases”. As I yelled at the TV, I tried to figure out exactly what “Christmase” was, and told the TV, in no uncertain terms, that it is spelled “Christmasses”!!!!!!!!!!!
My rant completed, I kick my leg up over my high horse, step onto the ladder, and climb down. I set the ladder against the fence once more, and head into the house to eat breakfast. Since it’s now 12:30, it’s probably time to get the day started.
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| Ok, please don't die of shock or anything, but this is my 3rd post in a week :-o
I was at Forest Park Wal-Mart the other day. My phone rang. I fished it out of my pocket and saw that the screen said “Greg & Kathy”
“Hello?”
Nothing…….shallow breathing
“Dis uncle Phil?”
“Hey baby, how’s it goin?”
“I eatin i-cream”
“Really?”
“Yeah, you come a my house”
“Baby, I can’t, I’m in Chicago”
“You in a-cago? Where your pickup truck?”
“In Metamora”
"Oh, ok, bye"
Greg came on “you still there?”
He said,“I didn’t really need anything, she just came over to me, handed me the phone and said ‘I call uncle Phil’”
You gotta feel special when a three year old can think of nothing better to do than to call her uncle.
Some random pics taken on Labor Day
This is as close as she got to a legitimate smile
(She actually looks a lot like Jessica in that pic, now that I think about it)
I want YOU for US Army
The cutest pic I ever took of Linky
What is in that bottle?
Anyway, till next time....
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| Ok, Sarah Palin rocks! It's a shame she's not running for president. She mopped the floor with Obama!
I heard something on the radio today that made me say "all too true"
Obama wants to kill children and raise taxes
Palin wants to kill taxes and raise children
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| Colorado Pics (Sorry they're not very good, what can you expect from a camera phone?)
View of the Mesa from Kevin's place
Brent had to run to Ridgway for work, then we went sightseeing afterwards. The mountain range is the San Juan.
Brent and Kevin's little guys. Bet you can't guess whose is whose
Aubrey
Landon
Mini Golfing with Brent, Ashley, Annie, Nathan, and Matt
Ring around the Rosie, pocket full of posies (Aubrey and Autumn)
Tyson
Hello? Hello?
Landon's Cheesy Grin
More Scenery of the Mesa
Well, that's about it for right now. I should write a little bit about what I've been doing here, but I don't feel like it right now.
I'm gonna try to upload a video of Matt hula hooping, hopefully I'll be back in Illinois before he sees it on my site and kills me.
Never mind I can't seem to figure out how to do it. Anyone know how?
Go to my video section, it's in there.
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| August 14, 2008
Can life get better? I submit that it canNOT! I’m on the train at the moment, and though I have no internet, I do have a seat in a car that has an electrical outlet at every seat!! (You’d think this would have happened before, since this is my 5th time on a train). So, maybe this time, boredom will not get the best of me. It shouldn’t have anyway, considering I packed half of what I own, just ask Alissa. I have magazines, books, an ipod, a computer, oh yeah, and more books. It’s not like I can actually read on the train anyway. I think I have a marginal case of ADD when it comes to stuff like that. There’s WAY too much to look at.
Funny things that I saw recently:
I was in Culver’s last week. There was a guy who had both his ears pierced in two places. Not all that unusual. But, he had a kitchen match through each hole (4 total). HUH?
Does this guy not know that wood cannot be sterilized? That’s why you’re not supposed to use wooden cutting boards to cut up raw meat. Oh well, they’re his ears, not mine.
I was in one of my Walgreens last Tuesday morning buying something. The line was being held up by a 20 something woman who had on HUGE hoop earrings. Again, not that unusual. Inside both earrings was the word “SEXY”. If you need to use your earrings to advertise that you’re sexy, you’re not.
I was heading out of one of my Wal-Marts this week, after inventorying the rack. I saw 2 older ladies with a preteen boy. Apparently they were Jewish because the boy had a black yarmulke on his head. Again, not that unusual (well, not unusual for Chicago). On the front of the yarmulke were the words “GO SOX”. Isn’t that the religious equivalent of Alissa taking a black Sharpie and writing “GO CARDS” on her covering? I was a little baffled, and a lot amused.
We just left Burlington, Iowa. There’s still a LOT of flood water. They announced as we approached the Mississippi River that it was the result of a levee breach in June and that the tracks we were on were also covered in water and had to be completely rebuilt. They were out of commission for 3 weeks. Good thing I didn’t go to CO in June.
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