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Tiger Woods Just Keeps Getting Better! Another Huge Putt at the Arnold Palmer Invitational!

There is nothing like watching Tiger Woods playing on a Sunday in contention. Only Tiger Woods is in contention when he starts a round five strokes back and still everyone thinks he is going win. I decided with Tiger in the prowl on a Sunday I would sit down and watch the final round at Bay Hill. You may remember my post from this time last year, "Tiger Woods Does it Again" where Tiger putted the amazing winning birdie on 18. Well Tiger had that same opportunity this year, and guess what, he did it again! Tiger Woods is hands down the most exciting athlete to watch. After having knee surgery, he is back like he had never left at all.

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Watchmen Ends Up Being a Big Disappointment

There are a lot of movies I look forward to, but Watchmen was a moving that I was looking forward to more then many others in the first half of 2009. I really enjoy comic book based movies and I was really impressed with all of the trailers leading up to this movie so needless to say I had high hopes for the movie. But boy was that a let down.

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Personal Joel Personal Joel

Living and Working on a Budget

I don't know about you but I am not a big fan of budgets. Its not that I don't see the usefulness, I do, its that it means I have to watch every penny I spend. Jenn and I are working really hard both at work and on our budget. We are looking at getting our first apartment this summer and our main goal is to have plenty of money to furnish the place really nice. So we have scheduled a budget for the coming months that we are going to try and stick to to the best of our ability.

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Personal Joel Personal Joel

Jenn and I Have Completed Our Pre-Marital Class

It is with great joy that I write this post today, as Jenn and I have completed our six week Pre-Marital class that we have taken at the church we attend The Grove. We have loved attending The Grove over the past 3-4 years, we feel it is a really great moving stone forward in our faith and has been a true blessing for both Jenn and I. With that being said this class has been a little disappointing. That is not to say that Jenn and I took away nothing from the experience it was just a really hard time for Jenn to be taking the class. Jenn's new job at SCE has been tough on her, who is to blame she takes the train at 6:00AM each morning and doesn't get home until 6:45pm and works extremely hard so the weekend is her time to just relax, so I can't say we were going into this with complete open arms.

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A Great View of Online Video Gaming At Its Worst

I don't play a lot of online multiplayer on my free time. I do play more for review purposes, but if I had my personal preference I would stick more offline then online. This video that I have taken from YouTube is an example of what I don't like about online gaming. First off your playing with a lot of 13 year old kids who swear like a sailor and make games not all that enjoyable. This video however takes a lighter look on online shortcomings and to me its pretty spot on. The video does have some rather poor language which is why I battled on whether or not to put it up, but the underlying message is rather funny and these days we all could use a laugh or two.

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