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Last weekend I did a movie showing for the boyscouts. Each year, after their big canned food drive, they celebrate by camping out in Klondike State Park. They prepare a nice meal and set up campfires and other comforts for an outdoor movie showing. I brought out all of my equipment, both 16mm and DVD, and hooked up my big surround sound system to transform a little section of woods into an open air movie theater. One of the families even brought out a couch and chair to make the viewing area complete. Here are a few photographs from the event. I first showed Mickey's Christmas Carol and next my technicolor print of 'The Court Jester'. Afterwards we fired up the DVD system to show the newly released 'Iron Man'. My lovely wife

Here's a link to a photo gallery showing off  Jerry Seinfield's Porsche 550 ; one of only 70 ever made.  Worth probably about 1.5 million or so. And, here is a photograph of my Beck 550 replica, worth about $23,000.  Nice car either way... split here

ol (A typical knife and fork Freemason) As I have mentioned in the past, I get a lot of traffic to this website from people who are interested in joining Freemasonry.  This leads to quite a few emails from people who are interested in joining and asking me for information about how to do so. This happened once again today and I thought I would share both the email, and my reply to the candidate.  The email from the candidate is very nice and typical of the thoughtful contacts I receive. The email read: John, Thank you for writing the Freemason bIog.  I read it and found that it was very informative.  I have been very interested in becoming a Freemason for quite sometime now.  When I was in the military, a lot of my instructors were Masons.  They would all talk about the unity and camaraderie that came with being a Freemason.  I consider myself to be a good man; with that being said, I am always looking to better myself and grow.   I do not know any Masons in my area, thus making it har