I really think that was a great decision. It just gave me goosebumps and tears to my eyes. I would love to have him close to home and do exactly as John said. Thank you all. That is just awesome. And that idea of roach row aint a bad one. I want to be buried next to my boys... John, can you post a picture (or have you?) of Luke's memorial over in Garnder? I really want a good picture of it. Maybe better to send it in full format via email (bsroach@charter.net). I want to make a picture of it. Thanks a lot.
bpr
Friday, June 30, 2006
Luke's Final Resting Place
Of course, -LR still lives strong in all of our heart, but a decision has been made as to the internment of his remains.
After much deliberation, (and after the unveiling of the INCREDIBLE memorial to Luke in Gardiner last month), it has been decided that Luke's ashes will be buried in the Pasco Cemetery. A literal stones throw from Grandpa Jack (And eventually Grandma Pat) and within shouting distance of the Sullivan great-grandparents.
It will be nice to have a place we can go to reflect, to be near, po' out some liquor, and enact our own small rituals in remembrance of the Long Rifle.
Through the course of this, my mom (Nancy) has discovered that there are inexpensive plots available in the same row as Luke's. It has been suggested that this could become "Roach Row", which may sound morbid but for a family with a legacy like ours it could be a great thing.
All inquiries about this should be directed to my mom (Nancy), and we will keep you updated on the status of the internment process via this blog.
After much deliberation, (and after the unveiling of the INCREDIBLE memorial to Luke in Gardiner last month), it has been decided that Luke's ashes will be buried in the Pasco Cemetery. A literal stones throw from Grandpa Jack (And eventually Grandma Pat) and within shouting distance of the Sullivan great-grandparents.
It will be nice to have a place we can go to reflect, to be near, po' out some liquor, and enact our own small rituals in remembrance of the Long Rifle.
Through the course of this, my mom (Nancy) has discovered that there are inexpensive plots available in the same row as Luke's. It has been suggested that this could become "Roach Row", which may sound morbid but for a family with a legacy like ours it could be a great thing.
All inquiries about this should be directed to my mom (Nancy), and we will keep you updated on the status of the internment process via this blog.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Hello from the other side of the World
I"m in New Zealand. This is my third week. My travelling companion, Bridget Esterhuizen, and I part ways today, she to Australia and I go up north to Paihia, a beach town, comparable in temperature to southern california. But it is now winter, so I've gotten a cold look at New Zealand. It's been a good experience. The country is beautiful, lakes mountains streams rivers pacific ocean and tasman sea-- I've seen most of it in three weeks-- but there is so much more to see and do.
Some highlights for me have been to climb a moving glacier, to search for jade on the beach in the pouring rain, to dance salsa with Bridget, to take a gondola ride at night up the side of a mountain, to see a kiwi-- large native bird long beak very unusual looking. I've had two massages and I've found a couple pools to swim in. Running stopped when Bridget arrived-- it's been to cold!
I'm looking forward to my week on the beach. When I get back to Auckland on the 3rd of July I'll meet up with a traveller from Argentina that Bridget and I met in Wellington-- We took a ferry across Cook strait in choppy seas and alot of people barfed. not me, although I was close.
I'll have more stories to tell you when I see you!
Some highlights for me have been to climb a moving glacier, to search for jade on the beach in the pouring rain, to dance salsa with Bridget, to take a gondola ride at night up the side of a mountain, to see a kiwi-- large native bird long beak very unusual looking. I've had two massages and I've found a couple pools to swim in. Running stopped when Bridget arrived-- it's been to cold!
I'm looking forward to my week on the beach. When I get back to Auckland on the 3rd of July I'll meet up with a traveller from Argentina that Bridget and I met in Wellington-- We took a ferry across Cook strait in choppy seas and alot of people barfed. not me, although I was close.
I'll have more stories to tell you when I see you!
Monday, June 26, 2006
New Find: Cartidge World!!!!!
I thought you'd all be interested in saving a little bit of moulaa! I just took two of our HP96 printer cartridges in to the local Cartidge World on Rd 68 and they refilled/exchanged them for I think half of the price that I usually pay at Costco for the same cartridge......thought you'd want to know. And they deal in all shapes and sizes.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Now that's what I call a blogg. Even considering the fact there were little to no paragraphs involved in that 1 page stream of consciousness from EA, that's the essence of this tool we all have at our disposal called email. Eamonn, as much as I regret saying this-- and memorializing it in writing nonetheless!-- yours are the most single spaced, wind on sentence, no paragraph having, James Joyceish travel adventure emails I could ever wish to have, read, and save on the hard drive. I literally live, in my imagination, exactly what you are saying as you type it. As I no doubt have expressed to you before, I am utterly envious of your EA World Tour. (Kindof like the Rolling Stones concert tour or something, but a one man act...). It just keeps solidifying in my mind how important what you're doing is to the overall "wisdom" one accumulates in a lifetime. You've gained decades of perspective in this short trip of yours. Revel in it for the last couple of weeks you have left. What a treat-- even to us who arent there, just to hear about it... I just LOVE IT.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Taking the advice of maybe my favorite aunt on the Roach side
Hello all I figured I'd make my entrance casually late and hope you'd all be presently suprised by a few choice words that I had to say about my travels that have continued since Im not sure when. Im not sure about my speech patterns, spelling, or strong language that might offend the ladies, but bear with me. Im running on minimum sleep and maximum sightseeing to pack a year into 2 months.
I started from Puebla, Mex two weeks before June 5th, so End-ish of May to continue my travels south. With my class from Seattle U we went to Chiapas, Mex to stay in San Cristobal de las Casas where the local dress is incredible and it doesn't matter if your spanish is any good because they all speak a dialect of Mayan, I believe, I dunno, I couldn't ask them what they were speaking and I wouldn't have understood their answer. Continuing on we went to Palenque where I met up with my roommate from SU and he and I and the class went to Palenque to see the Pyramids and to get real sick. Well, me anyway, I dont know how to explain it, so for pure pictographic splendor Ill just say the poo wasnt as solid as I might have liked it to be. So I didnt enjoy the next stop, Merida too much or the overnight bus rides that lasted forever.
Chitzen Itza was amazing though, but stupid tourists seemed to be throwing themselves off of (in the case of Palenque) or falling off of (in the case of Chitzen Itza) every tall pyramid so they were all closed to the public. The next stop was Playa del Mar which is just south of Cancun to take it all in, considered to be SU's "finals week" I found myself visiting Tulum, another ancient site, but this one nestled right on the Carribbean in the most beautiful setting ever. And sitting on the beach, or swimming, or not drinking (since I was taking a hefty dose of poo solidifier, or as uncle mike would say, antibiotics).
Once I could finally get away from my class I jumped the first bus to the border and stayed my first night in Corozal, Belize with some canadian that had a house there and an apartment. I took him up on his offer of staying in the Apt. for the night and went to Ambergris Caye via Water Taxi the next day, stayed there for a few days then headed to San Ignacio, on the west border of Belize via "chicken bus" for a grand total of $6.50 american. Met up with a bunch of Brits even though I gave them hell for 3 days straight for what they did to the irish until I found one that was from north ireland and had a cooler accent and we both hated the british together.
I left there (Belize) on a sunday, not sure of the date and got to Tikal to see the pyramids there that you could climb to the top of since there are even less rules in Guatemala than in Mexico. If you dont remember (or dont know) what the ruins look like, supposedly watch Star Wars Return of the Jedi and It was filmed as the planet of the Ewoks. I headed then to Rio Dulce to swim in the lake and jump out of tall trees into the lake and canoe in the lake and whatever else one does with a lake. Thought about how much I'd like to have a cool uncle that had a seaplane that could take me to every lake in central america, then realized that we should rent a spruce goose and load it with roaches to have a tour of america central to have a roach reunion that could never be bested ever by any family.
So, once I lived out that fantasy I went to Antigua for a few days and met up with a bunch more brits to see a volcano that has lava flows that you could touch, if you wanted to, remember, guatemala has no laws of that sort, its a society where if you really want to do something, you do it. That is also a reason that I have tended to see a lot of pistol grip pumps in the hands of law enforcement, in front of banks, in banks, jewlery shops, in the hands of tour guides going up volcanoes, what have you. (Even riding in the Rum delivery truck today, which was my personal favorite, apparently nobody drinks for free.) From there I decided that a week for each country is BS and I need at least a year so Im thinking maybe my dad will understand if between this round of schooling and the next I might have to take a little time off, im trying to remember how much time he took? So I overstayed in Guatemala to see Lake Atitlan which is the most exotic site that I have ever seen in my life, starting with 2 dollar a night lodging and ending with stuff a little more extreme, like the local wardrobe, quantity of volcanoes, lake temp, culture, etc.
Tomorrow I leave for El Salvador to stay there for a few days, see what its all about and head off to Honduras then Nicaragua then Costa Rica then Panama. So, I don't think that I will be writing anymore in the next month but follow my lead cause I want to hear what everyone is doing also, especially will chambers who I think is dead cause I havent heard of or from him in no less than 2 years, the two pregnant roach girls, shannon?, colin who is definitley different after his boot camp, caitlin who has joined the workforce and is probably living and loving Cali which is where she belongs, and Joe and his little doggie whom I still havent seen, and patricio si el puede escribame en espanol, and whomever else. Ill be back for Boat Races and might chat with you all when Im not at the office making enough money to pay for my next adventure which is already halfway planned. Eamonn Patrick Sullivan Roach
I started from Puebla, Mex two weeks before June 5th, so End-ish of May to continue my travels south. With my class from Seattle U we went to Chiapas, Mex to stay in San Cristobal de las Casas where the local dress is incredible and it doesn't matter if your spanish is any good because they all speak a dialect of Mayan, I believe, I dunno, I couldn't ask them what they were speaking and I wouldn't have understood their answer. Continuing on we went to Palenque where I met up with my roommate from SU and he and I and the class went to Palenque to see the Pyramids and to get real sick. Well, me anyway, I dont know how to explain it, so for pure pictographic splendor Ill just say the poo wasnt as solid as I might have liked it to be. So I didnt enjoy the next stop, Merida too much or the overnight bus rides that lasted forever.
Chitzen Itza was amazing though, but stupid tourists seemed to be throwing themselves off of (in the case of Palenque) or falling off of (in the case of Chitzen Itza) every tall pyramid so they were all closed to the public. The next stop was Playa del Mar which is just south of Cancun to take it all in, considered to be SU's "finals week" I found myself visiting Tulum, another ancient site, but this one nestled right on the Carribbean in the most beautiful setting ever. And sitting on the beach, or swimming, or not drinking (since I was taking a hefty dose of poo solidifier, or as uncle mike would say, antibiotics).
Once I could finally get away from my class I jumped the first bus to the border and stayed my first night in Corozal, Belize with some canadian that had a house there and an apartment. I took him up on his offer of staying in the Apt. for the night and went to Ambergris Caye via Water Taxi the next day, stayed there for a few days then headed to San Ignacio, on the west border of Belize via "chicken bus" for a grand total of $6.50 american. Met up with a bunch of Brits even though I gave them hell for 3 days straight for what they did to the irish until I found one that was from north ireland and had a cooler accent and we both hated the british together.
I left there (Belize) on a sunday, not sure of the date and got to Tikal to see the pyramids there that you could climb to the top of since there are even less rules in Guatemala than in Mexico. If you dont remember (or dont know) what the ruins look like, supposedly watch Star Wars Return of the Jedi and It was filmed as the planet of the Ewoks. I headed then to Rio Dulce to swim in the lake and jump out of tall trees into the lake and canoe in the lake and whatever else one does with a lake. Thought about how much I'd like to have a cool uncle that had a seaplane that could take me to every lake in central america, then realized that we should rent a spruce goose and load it with roaches to have a tour of america central to have a roach reunion that could never be bested ever by any family.
So, once I lived out that fantasy I went to Antigua for a few days and met up with a bunch more brits to see a volcano that has lava flows that you could touch, if you wanted to, remember, guatemala has no laws of that sort, its a society where if you really want to do something, you do it. That is also a reason that I have tended to see a lot of pistol grip pumps in the hands of law enforcement, in front of banks, in banks, jewlery shops, in the hands of tour guides going up volcanoes, what have you. (Even riding in the Rum delivery truck today, which was my personal favorite, apparently nobody drinks for free.) From there I decided that a week for each country is BS and I need at least a year so Im thinking maybe my dad will understand if between this round of schooling and the next I might have to take a little time off, im trying to remember how much time he took? So I overstayed in Guatemala to see Lake Atitlan which is the most exotic site that I have ever seen in my life, starting with 2 dollar a night lodging and ending with stuff a little more extreme, like the local wardrobe, quantity of volcanoes, lake temp, culture, etc.
Tomorrow I leave for El Salvador to stay there for a few days, see what its all about and head off to Honduras then Nicaragua then Costa Rica then Panama. So, I don't think that I will be writing anymore in the next month but follow my lead cause I want to hear what everyone is doing also, especially will chambers who I think is dead cause I havent heard of or from him in no less than 2 years, the two pregnant roach girls, shannon?, colin who is definitley different after his boot camp, caitlin who has joined the workforce and is probably living and loving Cali which is where she belongs, and Joe and his little doggie whom I still havent seen, and patricio si el puede escribame en espanol, and whomever else. Ill be back for Boat Races and might chat with you all when Im not at the office making enough money to pay for my next adventure which is already halfway planned. Eamonn Patrick Sullivan Roach
Monday, June 19, 2006
Friday, June 16, 2006
Washington State makes online gambling a FELONY?
This is crazy! What would Bill Bennett say?
And, just recently, a man was charged under the new law just for having a website that WROTE CASINO REVIEWS.
I don't even gamble, but this is so far off the mark I can't even believe it.
Family lawyers (and anyone else) can you please explain the logic of this in a state where casinos are popping up like daisies?
And, just recently, a man was charged under the new law just for having a website that WROTE CASINO REVIEWS.
I don't even gamble, but this is so far off the mark I can't even believe it.
Family lawyers (and anyone else) can you please explain the logic of this in a state where casinos are popping up like daisies?
Monday, June 12, 2006
If you saw and liked the Mother's Day video that got sent around, you should check this out: The Good Word. It's by the same two kids as the other video, who are from Gonzaga. And is it just me, or does the short one have an eerie resemblance to michael (marty)?
Notre Dame's Tom Zbiekowski wins Pro Boxing debut
Man, I LOVE that guy! He was my favorite player last year, and now he wins his pro boxing debut in 49 seconds at friggin' Madison Square Garden!
Awesome!
ESPN Link to story and video...
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Has Uncle Jerry Instituted this Method?
Judge to Lawyers: Play Rock, Paper, Scissors to settle dispute.
I once won a best-of-fifty RPS tournament in New York City, at three in the morning. The prize was the last piece of cold Michael's Pizza, and MAN did victory taste sweet!
I once won a best-of-fifty RPS tournament in New York City, at three in the morning. The prize was the last piece of cold Michael's Pizza, and MAN did victory taste sweet!
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Monday, June 05, 2006
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Perpetual Roach Reunion
This is TRUE !! I checked with Truth or Fiction.
-----No charge for directory assistance
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-----No charge for directory assistance
Phone companies are charging us $1..00 or more
For 411 / information calls when they don't have to.
When you need to use the 411 / information option! ,
Interested in FREE telephone Information?
Simply dial 1-800-FREE-411 or 1 800 373 3411
Without incurring a charge.
This is information people don't mind receiving -
Pass it on.
Works on home phones and cell phones.
DIsclaimer:
I received this info from Ed Johnston and later Cal Kees, but have NOT tested the concept myself, so I cannot attest to it's veracity.
Dear All,
As you all know, mom is in Lourdes Medical Center presenting with a profound iron deficiency anemia, fully compensated with no shortness of breath (SOB), stable vital signs (pulse 84, bp 124/80), guaiac negative stool. Chemistries were: Hct 25, Hb 6.5, MVC 61, SeFe <10, TIBC 579, %Sat 1%, Ferritin <5, INR 1.8-2.0. Admittedly, there is some disparity between the Hct & Hb, but after 3 units of packed red blood cells (3 unit transfusion) her H&H yesterday morning was only 26.7/8.8 so then Stan Hales & I decided to transfuse her an additional 2 units for a total of 5! Her H&H post transfusions and equilibration is a healthy, respectable 37.0/11.3.
We then also decided to get her double endoscoped as it had been 2001 since her last colonoscopy, but only 6-8 weeks from her recent EGD-upper endoscopy. Stan & I spoke with Dr Maher and he was most willing to come in on his Saturday off, not on call, for her. He attended to her from ~6pm-10pm. Mom was double endoscoped last PM by Dr Donald Maher. We finished @ 10:00pm. Her upper endoscopy was unremarkable except for her large hiatal hernia, but no mucosal breaks, etc. Her colonoscopy and terminal ileoscopy was normal but for a bit of left sided diverticulosis.
The summation is that she likely has small bowel telangiectasias (AVMs=arterio-venous malformations, microvasculature bleeds) which ooze blood from time to time, especially while she's on her Coumadin. I need to review again with Dr Markle the indication for her coumadin anticoagulation. I believe there is a concern re a history of Pulmonary Embolism (PE) and atrial fibrillation(AF). In any event, she is good, will be discharged this morning and will need iron supplimentation for a few months to get her iron stores replenished.
Thank God for good doctors like Dr Hales, Dr Maher and Dr Markle and mother LeeAnn!
Pray for her in Mass today!
Mike
As you all know, mom is in Lourdes Medical Center presenting with a profound iron deficiency anemia, fully compensated with no shortness of breath (SOB), stable vital signs (pulse 84, bp 124/80), guaiac negative stool. Chemistries were: Hct 25, Hb 6.5, MVC 61, SeFe <10, TIBC 579, %Sat 1%, Ferritin <5, INR 1.8-2.0. Admittedly, there is some disparity between the Hct & Hb, but after 3 units of packed red blood cells (3 unit transfusion) her H&H yesterday morning was only 26.7/8.8 so then Stan Hales & I decided to transfuse her an additional 2 units for a total of 5! Her H&H post transfusions and equilibration is a healthy, respectable 37.0/11.3.
We then also decided to get her double endoscoped as it had been 2001 since her last colonoscopy, but only 6-8 weeks from her recent EGD-upper endoscopy. Stan & I spoke with Dr Maher and he was most willing to come in on his Saturday off, not on call, for her. He attended to her from ~6pm-10pm. Mom was double endoscoped last PM by Dr Donald Maher. We finished @ 10:00pm. Her upper endoscopy was unremarkable except for her large hiatal hernia, but no mucosal breaks, etc. Her colonoscopy and terminal ileoscopy was normal but for a bit of left sided diverticulosis.
The summation is that she likely has small bowel telangiectasias (AVMs=arterio-venous malformations, microvasculature bleeds) which ooze blood from time to time, especially while she's on her Coumadin. I need to review again with Dr Markle the indication for her coumadin anticoagulation. I believe there is a concern re a history of Pulmonary Embolism (PE) and atrial fibrillation(AF). In any event, she is good, will be discharged this morning and will need iron supplimentation for a few months to get her iron stores replenished.
Thank God for good doctors like Dr Hales, Dr Maher and Dr Markle and mother LeeAnn!
Pray for her in Mass today!
Mike
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