Hello CREW…                                                            03-31-13
 
While your reading:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFUabzkAjBQ 

Next  HAPPY HOUR CREW  event

  
           5:30 PM    Wednesday   April 3, 2013

 

   Ashley's    Restaurant 

          1609  Highway 1    Rockledge, Fl   636-6430

                   http://www.ashleysofrockledge.com/

                 

                April Birthdays:        8  Jerry Smith     13  Billy Hibbard

                                                 22  Judy McAllister    31   Ichabod Crane

 

                  WWW.Sandals.com  
The Good:  Monday BTB leaving for Montego Bay, Jamaica. 
The Bad:           Won't be at the CREW Birthday event!
The Ugly:             Darn it!   No Birthday cake for me!

                                   See ya at Wed April 10th event! 

 

Help?    Hope someone will take a few notes,  have the
             salute to CHS Classmates, record the Attendees,
           and if you do… you can have my  piece of cake! 

 

Today is National Cleavage Day      NCD
Anita Meiring, public relations consultant for Wonder Bra,
described the event:  It is a day for women to realize that
their cleavage is something unique and that they should
be proud of it.   It gives women a chance to be beautiful
and  glow in the furtive,  yet appreciative,  glances their
cleavage evokes from men and gives them a legitimate
reason to stare at boobs.   Hummm I didn't know we needed a reason! lol  

 

Did U know?  Women over 55 watch more TV per week

                           than any other age group in the U.S. 

                 While the men are staring at their cleavage!   ho ho ho 

 

Is it true that Easter Bunnies have good eye sight?
   Well you never see a bunny wearing glasses, do you?

 

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.

         Live your life so that when you die,

                  the world cries and you rejoice. – Cherokee Indian

 

Sent from my i-teepee while packing for powwow in Jamaica!  Irie Mon!

Hello CREW…                                               03-28-13 
 
No Bull!  Fantastic Longhorn Steaks & great company!

 
ATTENDEES:     Harvey & Sandy Baker, Ann Driskill,

      Clark True, Wilt & Donna Wagner, Myrna Swindell,

           Bill Weinberg, Barbara Thomas, Bill Hardy,

              Server:  Erin, cute, courteous and good! 

 

Email from Gerri Parker: 

    A memorial service to celebrate the life of Brent Parker

    will be held  11 AM  Saturday April 27, 2013  at the

         Wylie Baxley Funeral Home on Merritt Island.

    Thank you to all our friends who sent their condolences.

        I feel your love and support.  Best regards, Gerri            
 

Hippity Hop!    The Easter  Bunny will be here soon,

                         so get the food dyes out, and this year

                            be sure to fix a batch of:   (see below)

 

Pickled eggs?  Are hard boiled eggs cured in a brine.
       Done to preserve the food so that it could be eaten
       months later;  pickled eggs have become a favorite
      snack in pubs, bars & taverns where beer is served.
       Anyone remember having them at the Triangle Bar?

                           Hummm  wonder if  JD's  will have an adult  pickled egg  hunt?  

 

WWW.CocoaCrew.com     Have you visited this great

         website maintained by Conrad Koch?  Lots of info,

          music, pictures of CHS Classmates, a really nice

    8N Ford Tractor & one of Conrad's NH home w/snow!

  

Next event:   CREW Birthday Celebration @ Ashley's.

                         April:        8  Jerry Smith     13  Billy Hibbard

                                     22  Judy McAllister    31   Ichabod Crane 

 

There are no passengers on spaceship earth.

                          We are all crew.  – Marshall McLuhan  

Sent from my i-teepee while preparing Pickled Egg Trail Mix!   

A Chronology Of Events Surrounding The
Establishment Of Area Code 321.
by Robert Osband
Originator of Area Code 321
Ozzie@SpaceyIdeas.Com

1998 September

I learned that the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) would have a second round of Hearings on "407 Area Code Relief", and decided I would take time off from work this time, and attend. I did some research on the Internet, and prepared My Testimony to present before the PSC.

 

1998 September 24

Presented My Testimony to the PSC at a Public Hearing at Orlando City Hall.

 

1998 September 25

Attended a second hearing at the Brevard County Commission Hearing Room in Viera FL (a development in Melbourne), where I suggested that 10 digit dialing should be allowed, even in local areas. This would allow Alarm Companies to always program 10 digits into their alarm diallers, so that only half of their equipment (statistically) would be impacted by any future area code changes.

 

1998 December 29

PSC issues Order No. PSC-98-1761-FOF-TL. From the order:

• Customer concerns also are extremely important to our decision. In his testimony, public witness Robert Osband suggested that we implement a split using a new area code. He had searched the database of the NANPA for all the available area codes, and he recommended that we implement the "321" area code to signify the countdown, fitting for Brevard County, where the Kennedy Space Center is located and commonly known as "the Space Coast."

 

1999 February 10

The Florida PSC issues its Press Release on the Order that created the 321 Area Code.

 

1999 April 01: 10-digit dialing permissive period begins – Overlay Area.

The permissive period begins, allowing 10-digit dialing in Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties so that alarm diallers and automatic modems can start being programmed for 10 digit dialing. All local calls that can be placed within the Overlay Area, can now be placed using 10-digit dialing.

 

1999 April 03

Published an issue of Via Oz, a "fanzine" explaining the development of Area code 321 up to this point.

 

The Area Code 321 I originated appears on Jeopardy

1999 April 26 Met Governor Jeb Bush before the National Space Club dinner in Cocoa Beach. He called the 321 Area Code "a brilliant idea".   1999 July 08 In the catagory USA, The Final Jeopardy Answer on the popular TV quiz program was, "In 1999, several counties around Cape Canaveral, Florida were assigned this new telephone area code." The Final Jeopardy Question, of course, was, "What is 321?".

Ozzie (right) explains to Governor Jeb Bush (left) how he came to discover the availablility of Area Code 321.

1999 September 07

Florida Today published an article today about "Area Code 321 confusion" which was caused (In My Humble Opinion) by Bellsouth's "informational ad campaign" which concentrated on the "Overlay Area" of Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties, and were also published in Brevard county newspapers – without information on Brevard's future with the 321 Area Code.

 

1999 September 12

Florida today published an article entitled "Brevardian seeks big bucks for 321 LIFTOFF number". This stemmed from a demand from the Brevard County Tourist Development Board insisting that I quote them an "asking price" for the telephone number I recieved from BellSouth Mobility – 407 546-8633, which spells the word Liftoff. I have never had the intention of selling the number. As of November 01, the telephone number becomes 321 Liftoff.

 

Governor Jeb Bush teleconferences the First Official Phone Call into Area Code 321 at the Kennedy Space Center. Ozzie is the bearded fellow in the first row"

 

1999 November 01: Permissive Dialing Period begins – Non-Overlay Area.

Area Code 321 will completely replace Area Code 407 in Brevard County only, allowing those residents to maintain 7-digit dialing. In the remaining 407 Area, the 321 Area Code will be an Overlay where residents will be required to have 10-digit dialing for all calls – local or long distance. Callers to Bravard County may use either 407 or 321 to reach their party during the Permissive Period. It is at this time that the public is informed to use the new Area code. Brevard County residents will need new stationery and business cards to reflect their new Area Code – but have 11 months to make the transition.

 

1999 November 01

Governor Bush placed the First Official Phone Call from the Public Service Commission Hearing Room in Tallahassee to the Teleconferencing Room at Kennedy Space Center where Center Deputy Director James Jennings took the first call with Osband at his right hand. The room was filled with Space Center Senior Staff and Contractors. Photos of the event are available for viewing (most are "screen shots" taken from videos of the event).

 

1999 November 23

The New York Times covers "3-2-1, Call Cape Canaveral".

 

InsideCentralFlorida.Com put up a web page explaining 10 digit dialling, and links to this page.

 

1999 December 01: Manditory 10 Digit Dialing Begins – Overlay Area only.

Area Code 321 will begin issuing numbers to users in the Overlay Area of Orange, Osceola, and Seminole counties. This means that people in the Overlay Area must use 10-digit dialing, since the number they are trying to reach might be assigned in either area code, or both. Residents of the Overlay Area will keep their old telephone number, and will not need to change their stationery and business cards. Only newly issued telephone numbers will get numbers in the 321 Area code.

 

2000 October 01: Manditory use of 321 Area Code begins – Non-Overlay Area.

Permissive Dialing ends. ALL callers MUST use the proper area code when calling into Brevard County. Since Brevard County still has only one area code, residents maintain 7 digit dialing for local calls.

 

An area code to reflect the 
Countdown Capitol of the World?
"What a Spacey Idea!"™

Murray Rothbard’s recommendations for reducing deficits.

Major Points

• “While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the patient

•  “Deficits, then, should be eliminated, but only by cutting government spending.”

The deficit debate is often misleading, because it tends to ignore a huge difference between the two kinds of deficit reduction.

(Reduced Government spending and Taxing the public … the parenthetical phrase is mine) 

The evidence speaks loud and clear: when governments reduce deficits by raising taxes, they are indeed likely to witness deep, prolonged recessions.

But when governments attack deficits by cutting spending, the results are very different.

Peter Schiff is one of only a few people that I know of who has the common sense to tell it like it is.

I hope everybody that has access to this blog  watches his being interviewed.

Here's the link

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZTlsDepd08 

Once finished watching it I would like any one to tell us why they think he is full of that 'soft brown stinky stuff".

 On the contrary, the people who have been elected are guilty of ravaging our economy for the sake of ever increasing expense of government programs.  

We are on the brink of disaster and few people realize it.   If you are one of those people, please use common sense and begin to understand why we are headed that way!  

Let us know what you think.

Hello CREW…                                                       03-24-13
 
    So much for Doom & Gloom…   USA is Alive & Well!
  Saturday 3-23-13  NO civil war or USA financial collapse.
 

 
Next  HAPPY HOUR CREW event 

      5:30 PM   Wednesday   March 27, 2013
 
         LONGHORN'S   STEAK   HOUSE  
             770 East Merritt Island Causeway
        Merritt island, FL 32952  (321) 456-5559
           Website:  http://www.longhornsteakhouse.com/

 

    Your gonna order what?    

      To heck with eating more chicken! lol

 
Correction:    John and Peggy Ramsey have been

          married 32 years and in the auto business for 30!

             Ole Indian got smoke signals backward in last email!   
 

Condolences to the family:   Email from Judy Parker, her

brother Brent Parker CHS Class of 60 passed on 3-22-13. 

Email from Dick Nelson  CHS Class of 59

After a week long battle with pneumonia in the hospital

(compounded by my emphysema) I am back home and in a

home hospice program. My get around ability has pretty much gone.

I am not bed ridden, but I am limited by the length of the oxygen tube

providing life giving oxygen 24/7.   I am able of having visitors, and

will be spending a lot of time on social media keeping up with

 all of you.  Watch for my sage posts.

Thank you for your thoughts and prayers this past week.

Gordon “Dick” Nelson 
 
Who called?  Try this:  http://www.anywho.com/reverse-lookup
 
Executive ability is deciding quickly and

         getting somebody else to do the work. – J. G. Pollard 
 
Sent from my i-teepee while rebooting smoke signal generator!  Ugh! 

You gotta see this video!  It shows an incredible miniature wonderland in 1300 Sq Meters.

Ronnie Wegelin sent ithe link to me!

https://www.youtube.com/embed/ACkmg3Y64_s?rel=0