Category Archives: Other
The importance of having a strong woman in your life
Behind every great man is a….lioness? In a shocking bit o’ local news, one of the trainers at MGM Grand got a little bit up by a male lion last week. The lion looks fairly relaxed until he starts running after one of the trainers…note that the fight was broken up not by the other [...]
“Ask Ernie” Call For Questions
[Ernie is my 5 year old bouvier des flandres. As a special surprise for my birthday, he has agreed to take some blogging burden off of my shoulders and answer some reader questions. -Joe] Hi everyone! I’d like Joe to have a fun birthday weekend, put the laptop down and play catch with me for [...]
A Day Without E-mail
Had my first day without email in a long time. (Ok, it was most of a day.) While it felt great to be de-tethered, it was not intentional. I took the wife and our smallest dog on a hike to some little-known hot springs outside of Las Vegas. Two hours there, two and a half [...]
I’m huge in Malaysia
Apparently they think chucking dogs off a bridge is as funny as I do. You Might Also Like…The Dog Project – Working a puppy in to the packBennie and the Lilly Family, Part 1. The Dog Project
Track Brother Doctor Sensei Reverend Jon’s Progress
The whole family is proud of my brother Jon. When he’s not busy being my older brother (which consists of listening to a lot of dick jokes), he and his wife run the Puget Sound Aikikai, an awesome aikido school in Seattle. When they aren’t busy doing that, Jon is a reverend of the Universal [...]
In other news, I suck at search engine optimization
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Part 2 – Bennie comes Home
Before we got Bennie to the house we decided it’d be a good idea to take him to The Soggy Dog, our neighborhood “do it yourself” dog wash. After all, he smelled like months of his own urine and very fresh ass juice from the anal gland expression. We got him really wet and started [...]
Bennie and the Lilly Family, Part 1.
Turns out that my interview snippet from the Associated Press has gotten around the block quite a bit. Stephanie’s aunt called us from Maryland yesterday wondering if it was the same Joe Lilly in Las Vegas that she saw on MSNBC. Although this is pretty cool, I want to clarify my “throw him off a [...]
Winning $1,000 by cutting weight
Some folks at the office started a “biggest loser” type contest a couple of months back. Weigh in is tomorrow. Although I started poorly (gained 5 pounds after weigh in), lately it’s been going well thanks to some kickboxing, healthy eating, and less drinking. As of this AM I’m down 16 pounds…not bad for 3.5 weeks. [...]