April 2008

American Idol 7 Neil Diamond Song Predictions

Tonight is Neil Diamond week on American Idol, and I’m going to try to predict a few of the songs that might be sung. But first I must admit that I am a Neil Diamond fan, and I’m excited about the show tonight. I know all of Neil Diamond’s songs because my mother [...]

Earthquake Safety Preparation for Illinois

So what exactly should you do during an earthquake to keep yourself and your family safe? And what can you do before an earthquake happens to make you safer during an earthquake? Many Springfield Illinois residents and midwesterners are wondering that since the earthquake in southeastern Illinois last Friday, April 18, 2008. [...]

Omni Goes To National Addy Awards Competition

My company, Omni Communications Group, has just found out that we are advancing to the national Addys competition in May 2008 in Washington D.C. after recently winning a Gold Addy Award at the district level of the Addy Awards Competition. We won for our Star De Azlan promotional brochure, produced for client Curb Records. [...]

Aftershocks Earthquake April 2008 Springfield Illinois

The State Journal Register reported this morning we’ve had at least 22 aftershocks since the earthquake in Southeastern Illinois last Friday, April 18, 2008. I’ve personally felt only one, and that was the 4.5 on Friday morning around 10:15 am central time. The earthquake was a novelty, but I must say I didn’t [...]

Lyrics By Sting A Poetry Book

I finally broke down and added the book “Lyrics By Sting” to my Sting collection. It was published back in October of 2007, and at that time I swore I would not buy it. I convinced myself that I didn’t need it because I already knew all the lyrics to Sting’s songs by [...]

Goodbye Ozzy Survivor 16 Micronesia

I was really rooting for Ozzy from Survivor 16 Micronesia this season, but knew it was going to be hard for him to win. I was so sorry to see him voted off this week, then I watched his final words and felt that my support for him was misplaced. I even watched [...]

Earthquake In Springfield Illinois

I was woken up this morning at 4:40 am to my bed shaking and a strange rolling thunder noise in Springfield, Illinois. News reports are just now coming in, it was an earthquake and that doesn’t happen much around here! It lasted for at least a good minute or longer and was definitely [...]

Goodbye to Kristy Lee Cook American Idol

Goodbye to Kristy Lee Cook. Country is not my thing, but I’m actually sad to see her go. She seemed to be getting better and better and has been pretty good the last few weeks.
Note to David Archuleta, no more leather pants! It’s not your style, leave the leather pants to David [...]

Springfield is Growing

It was just announced today that Springfield’s population has topped 120,000 in the SJ-R. Congratulations to the fine city of Springfield on its continued growth and prosperity, we’ve now passed Peoria in population and fall behind only Chicago and Rockford in Illinois (well, and several Chicago suburbs, but they don’t count in my mind, [...]

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