Bubba Dogs

1/4 Mile Swim~12.3 Mile Bike~3.1 Mile Run

One more shout for the Sea Isle City “Tri for Our Veterans” triathlon. It will be held in Sea Isle on Saturday, May 24th (Memorial Day Weekend). You have a full 3 months to prepare. It’s is a sprint distance event, complete with an ocean swim, a fast bicycle course, and a beach run. Proceeds from the triathlon will benefit the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund and Sea Isle City’s VFW Post 1963. Please join all the runners and Team Semper Fi as we remember our country’s veterans and kick off the summer season with an exciting triathlon.

If anyone is interested in forming a Team Bubba Dogs, shoot me an email.

Registration and more info:

Sea Isle City Tri for Our Veterans

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Don’t be using that cell phone in Jersey. Beginning on Saturday, you may be subject to a $100 fine. Previously, you could only be ticketed if you were pulled over for a separate offense. No more. If you’re seen talking (or texting), expect to get fined.

Time to get a hands free device (or a real big rubber band).

Story:New Jersey Bans Cell Phone Use

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And now, for some great news…

Oil hits a high; some in U.S. see $4 gas by spring.

Gasoline prices, which for months lagged the big run-up in the price of oil, are suddenly rising quickly, with some experts fearing they could hit $4 a gallon by spring. Diesel is hitting new records daily and oil closed at an all-time high on Tuesday of $100.88 a barrel. Story…

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1. While I have not yet read this memoir, it comes highly recommended from a Bubba Dogs regular. The name of the book is My Father’s Heart. Here’s a brief snippet:

Sixteen-year-old Steve McKee watched his father die of a heart attack on the couch in their TV room. A lifelong smoker and workaholic, John McKee had been floored by a heart attack five years earlier. The McKee clan-perhaps including a demoralized John himself-had long been waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Website: http://www.steve-mckee.com/sm/index.php

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