Taking shape

And the hot water is in!

Joel the crew chief taking charge!

The future ceiling is taking shape

The hole is filling up

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Framing is done!

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Wall? What wall?

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The kitchen is coming along!

Tired of football yet? Take in a movie this weekend.

Opening This Week:

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/d/11_dreamhouse.htm> Dream House
★½ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - Not knowing ahead of time where things were going may have
added some intrigue to the front half, but it wouldn't have solved the
movie's deeper fundamental issues. Overly familiar and rather dull, this is
a tepid, excitement-free Hallmark telepic dressed up in an A-list
thriller's clothing.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/d/11_dreamhouse.htm> Read the Full
Review >>

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/f/11_5050.htm> 50/50
★★★½ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - A beautifully written, achingly truthful slice-of-life
directed by Jonathan Levine. With no stereotypes to speak of and very few
contrivances, "50/50" is an uncompromising gem, the kind of film that hits
all the right notes as it navigates from gentle, unforced humor to knowing
pathos.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/f/11_5050.htm> Read the Full Review >>

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/w/11_whatsyournumber.htm> What's Your
Number?
★★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - The biggest sin of "What's Your Number?" isn't that it's so
ordinary, but that it squanders its chances over and over to break free
from the hum-drum antiquities of the genre. It's deeply frustrating, made
all the worse since Anna Faris is clearly trying her hardest with
substandard material.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/w/11_whatsyournumber.htm> Read the
Full Review >>

ⓒ 2011 Dustin Putman
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Be forewarned!

This is a piece of krap and does not have Wi-Fi!!

http://mashable.com/2011/09/29/best-buy-slashes-blackberry-playbook-prices/

Day 2 and the foundation is taking shape...

Day 2 and the foundation is taking shape....more

Day 2 and the foundation is taking shape....more

Day 2 and the foundation is taking shape....

BJGE continues to impress!

New days have brought a new challenges and the team at BJGE has stepped up
and delivered! See for yourself.

http://www.bjglobalenterprises.com/testimonials.htm

day one ends

Day one continues

The work on a new kitchen begins.....

This may not look like much, but just you wait and see........

NFL Kickoffs

Given the new rule,why even bother kicking off? Just let the opposing team start from their 20 and save us all a lot of time. Fewer commercials to watch and maybe achieve the unique milestone of and actual 60 minute game and 15 minute halftime! Wouldn't that be novel?

RIP Murray Comarow

Death Notice

Murray Comarow

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COMAROW MURRAY COMAROW (Age 91) Lawyer, public official, and professor, died
of cancer at his home in Bethesda on September 23, 2011 He spent more than
70 years and his entire professional life as a resident of the Washington,
D.C., area, serving two Presidents and playing a critical role in reshaping
the postal system and significant parts of the federal government. Born in
1920 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn to Jewish immigrants from
Russia and Hungary, Murray Comarow spoke only Yiddish until he was five
years old. He graduated from Boys High during the Great Depression. Sixteen
percent of the labor force was still jobless, among them his father, a
furrier. The new graduate managed to find work sorting dirty diapers in a
commercial laundry, hefting iron ingots in a foundry, and hawking household
glue and personalized neckties in several small Pennsylvania cities as a
"demonstrator" for Woolworth 5 and 10 Cent Stores. A year of such jobs was
enough. He moved to Washington, D.C., where he thought his prospects would
be brighter, but he had only a high school diploma and a ferocious work
ethic to offer. His first job when he arrived in 1939 was as an assistant
messenger in the War Department, which paid $41.54-before taxes-every two
weeks. He began taking night classes at the National University School of
Law (later absorbed by George Washington University), enrolling during the
last year high school graduates in the District of Columbia were permitted
to go to law school, and graduated in 1942. Enlisting in the
<http://www.legacy.com/memorial-sites/army/?personid=153782714&affiliateID=6
00> Army that year, Comarow received reserve training and entered active
duty in the Army Air Corps at Warner Robins Field in Georgia. He was a drill
sergeant, and years later, men he had trained recalled the last quarter-mile
of their 25-mile hikes, when their pitiless drill instructor spurred them
into a full run into camp, wearing full packs and singing loudly. He went to
Officer Candidate School, was commissioned as a Captain, and served in a
judge advocate's office. Following World War Two he was an editor for the
Military Air Transport Service. In 1951 he moved to the Pentagon as a lawyer
in the general counsel's office of the Air Force and became an assistant
general counsel (as well as office touch football team quarterback,
nicknamed the Gray Ghost for his ability to sidestep onrushing opponents).
His problem-solving assignments involved bases around the world, from France
and Greece to Guyana and Libya. In 1965 Comarow was legal counsel to a
special committee charged with unearthing the roots of a major cheating
episode at the Air Force Academy. It was difficult for him to accept that
many young men at a service academy had routinely and systematically
cheated; he later called the investigation the most painful professional
experience of his life. In 1966 longtime friend Lee White, chairman of the
Federal Power Commission, named him executive director of the agency, which
at the time regulated interstate electric and gas utilities. (Comarow called
the appointment "pure nepotism.") The next year, President Lyndon Johnson
tapped him as executive director of the President's Commission on Postal
Reorganization, which a year later handed Congress a detailed blueprint for
a self-supporting, patronage-free federal corporation. Three years of
congressional deliberation culminated in the creation of the United States
Postal Service that resembled the commission's version; Comarow worried that
the differences could jeopardize its long-term viability. To be proven right
decades later did not bring him satisfaction. Following Richard Nixon's
election, Comarow joined the consulting firm Booz, Allen and Hamilton, where
he played a key role in the launch of a Washington, D.C.-based School of Law
for Antioch College. He was then drafted by the White House to run the
President's Advisory Council on Executive Organization. The council's
recommendations included new agencies such as the Environmental Protection
Administration. After a brief return to Booz-Allen, Comarow joined the
Postal Service as Senior Assistant Postmaster General, overseeing retail
operations and mail delivery. Teaching administrative law at Antioch in
1974, Comarow discovered the appeal of the classroom, and in 1975 he
accepted American University's offer to teach law-related subjects to
students majoring in political science and public administration. He was
distinguished adjunct professor in residence for 20 years, including one
year as acting dean of the College of Public and International Affairs. He
liked to inform his students in the first session that he didn't have a
college degree, let alone a Ph.D, so he was a "fake professor" or "fake
dean" who should never be addressed as "Dr. Comarow." In 1974, Comarow was
elected a Fellow and served as a director of the National Academy of Public
Administration. He participated in studies of intelligence activities and
prison reform, among others, consulted for the Brookings Institution and
other think tanks, and contributed two chapters on government in books
published by the Johns Hopkins University Press and NAPA. Comarow strongly
resented the routine denigration of government workers by politicians
looking for easy scapegoats. He felt that it discouraged top graduates and
highly talented people from seeking government careers, and he wrote and
lectured repeatedly on this issue. His Op-Ed pieces in the Washington Post
in 1981 decrying the "War on Civil Servants" were reprinted in the
Congressional Record by Sen. Patrick Moynihan and Rep. Patricia Schroeder.
His honors include commendations from Presidents Johnson and Nixon,
Distinguished Service Awards from the Department of the Air Force and the
Federal Power Commission, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the
Association for Postal Commerce. He was president of Temple Emanuel in
Kensington, MD, and later a board member of the Washington Hebrew
Congregation. He attended services at Sixth & I Synagogue and was a longtime
member of the Cosmos Club. And he took up tennis at age 59, laying down his
racquet more than 20 years later when his damaged rotator cuff could no
longer be repaired. His first wife, Dena Blitz, died in 1978. Survivors
include Donna Duhe, his wife of 31 years; a son, Avery, of Potomac, MD; a
daughter, Beth, of Reston, VA; stepchildren Mark Duhe of Kansas City, MO,
Marie Elaine Aronson of Virginia Beach, VA, and Elizabeth Stohr of Temple,
TX; a sister, Helen Lipson of Glen Oaks, NY; two grandchildren, two
step-grandchildren, and a great-grandson. Services will be held on
Wednesday, September 28, 10 a.m. at JOSEPH GAWLERS SONS CHAPEL, 5130
Wisconsin Ave., NW, Washington, DC. Interment private. In lieu of flowers,
donations may be made to the American University School of Public Affairs,
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington DC 20016-8060, to Montgomery
Hospice, 1355 Piccard Drive, Suite 100, Rockville, MD 20850, or to a
favorite charity.

Published in The Washington Post on September 25, 2011

A little bit for everybody if you feel like missing a few football games......

(Apologies if you've received this twice, but a number of subscribers reported not receiving it yesterday. Thanks!) Opening This Week:   Abduction ★½ (out of ★★★★) Nationwide - Sure, Taylor Lautner looks good when he's ripping off his shirt and turning into a werewolf, but does he have what it takes to carry an entire film? "Abduction," his first solo headlining gig since hitting it big with the "Twilight" series, answers this question with a doubtful shrug. In the meantime, the viewer is left to marvel at the number of bad lines, choppy editorial cuts, and just plain asinine occurrences that take place throughout. Read the Full Review >> Dolphin Tale ★★½ (out of ★★★★) Nationwide - Director Charles Martin Smith and screenwriters Karen Jaszen and Noam Dromi may be guilty of some overdone flourishes and a few hamstrung plot developments, but no one can accuse the makers of not being genuinely sincere. Curmudgeons could probably pick it apart 'til the cows come home, but "Dolphin Tale" is exceedingly hard to dislike. Read the Full Review >> Killer Elite ★ (out of ★★★★) Nationwide - It's not about aesthetics, and it's certainly not about people, so the film settles on a lot of chaos and whirring bullets. Thank goodness for the opening title text, which informs the viewer right off the bat that "the world is in chaos." Point taken. "Killer Elite" is a waste of time and resources. Read the Full Review >> Moneyball ★★★ (out of ★★★★) Nationwide - "Moneyball" is not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill sports movie. It takes a brave studio picture to recognize that there's sometimes more to the genre than the common trifles and clichés audiences have been predisposed to expect these days. If all a baseball fanatic is looking for is some on-the-field action, they would be wise to look elsewhere. Read the Full Review >> Tucker & Dale vs. Evil ★★½ (out of ★★★★) Now OnDemand, In Select Cities Sept 30 - More depth and levity to counterbalance the silliness would have lifted the project a notch above being a merely airy confection, but maybe next time. Make no mistake, "Tucker & Dale vs. Evil" is a total lark, yet it's also very clever. Real thought and ingenuity were brought to its making, and it shows. Read the Full Review >>

© 2011 Dustin Putman dustinputman.com twitter.com/DustinPutman

 

Enable your timeline page on Facebook now!

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14 most corrupt Members of Congress

http://www.businessinsider.com/meet-crews-14-most-corrupt-members-of-congres
s-2011-9

See what you want to see on FB! Not what THEY want you to see!

If you want your feed to go back to normal, click the down arrow next to
"Home" by top right of your page, go to your account settings , then go to
notifications, which is located at the top far left just under the Facebook
logo, and click that. At the top right of your notifications page is a box
that says email frequency. Uncheck that box and your feed will show all the
posts again. Then go to your home page and anything in the "Top Stories"
click on the down arrow in the upper right and "unmark as top story". Now
your news feed will be setup by time stamp rather than randomly picking "top
stories."

Facebook

The new format for Facebook absolutely sucks! It is hard to understand why
you fix something that isn't broken!! Obviously, there are a lot of smart
people sitting around figuring out how to piss us off each morning!!

RIP Eleanor

Eleanor Mondale, daughter of former Vice President Walter Mondale, dies at 51 after battling brain cancer.........
I had the great opportunity to work with Eleanor. A consummate professional. God bless and may your soul rest in eternal peace......

Walk, bike, metro or "Drive" this weekend!

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Opening This Week:

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/d/11_drive.htm> Drive
★★★★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - A godsend from the cinematic heavens-an air-tight,
stripped-down, heart-rending, blood-drenched, anxiety-fueled godsend, but a
godsend all the same. In a year of near-perpetual ennui at the multiplex,
"Drive," at long last, is a real, true, passionate motion picture to
replenish a doubting cinema lover's soul.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/d/11_drive.htm> Read the Full Review
>>

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/i/11_idkhsdi.htm> I Don't Know How She
Does It
★★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - A slice-of-life that locates certain common truths about its
subject without daring to become the least bit hard-hitting. The film,
highlighted by another warm and vivacious performance from Sarah Jessica
Parker, remains pleasant but consistently rather bland, a light, low-key
Lifetime movie with an A-list star and wide theatrical distribution.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/i/11_idkhsdi.htm> Read the Full Review
>>

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/s/11_strawdogs.htm> Straw Dogs
★★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - The best remakes are the ones that take heed of what made their
predecessor work so well while having the courage to put some kind of new
spin on it. With "Straw Dogs," director Rod Lurie is so faithful to the past
movie that he practically cancels this one out. There is simply no point to
its existence.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/s/11_strawdogs.htm> Read the Full
Review >>

(c) 2011 Dustin Putman
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Day 3

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Why can't this be my view?

Day two and deck continues. One more day to completion...

Day 1. A new deck in two days!! Watch the progress.

Day 1. A new deck in two days!! Watch the progress.

A friend found on 9/11/2011

Reconnected today with and old friend. Why is this worth writing about?
Because the old friend is Jules Roinnel and he was the manager of the
restaurant--Window on the World atop of the World Trade Center. Until
today, I thought he perished with thousands of others on September 11,
2001. Miracles do happen and am thankful to have been able to talk with and
catch up with Jules this evening. God Bless.

Mail? What Mail?

<http://email.foxnews.com/t?r=6&c=7561&l=71&ctl=13C12:32B1767788FF35A3CBED69
573FEAAB47&> No More Mail? What Would Ben Franklin Think?

Just five minutes.......

Take five minutes to read this. Take five minutes to give thanks. And take
five minutes to say a prayer for all who perished wishing they had just five
more minutes..........

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/09/09/my-dad-windows-on-world-and-11/?cm
pid=NL_BestofOpinion_20110909

Go figure!

Dow tumbles more than 300 points and CNN is/has spent the morning talking about the positive impact of Obama's policies on the nation and our economy. A whole new meaning to "the blind leading the blind". Just be honest and tell it like it is!

The Bridge that was.........

If the rain doesn't stop..........I may see all of them.

Opening This Week:

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/b/11_buckylarson.htm> Bucky Larson:
Born to Be a Star
★★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - Blatantly silly and a bit bland, "Bucky Larson: Born to Be a
Star" is just okay on final assessment, but it's the kind of film one could
imagine passing the time with on a gloomy Sunday afternoon. Better than
nothing, yes, but still more often than not on autopilot.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/b/11_buckylarson.htm> Read the Full
Review >>

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/b/11_burkeandhare.htm> Burke & Hare
★ (out of ★★★★)

Select Cities - "Burke & Hare" is a blundering misfire that somehow manages
to waste both a quirkily macabre premise and an ensemble of usually
outstanding character actors on a depressing comedy with maybe one fleeting
laugh to offer over the course of 91 minutes.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/b/11_burkeandhare.htm> Read the Full
Review >>

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/c/11_contagion.htm> Contagion
★★★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - It is easy-and sobering-to imagine how something could
potentially happen exactly like this, and on such a massive scale. Therein
lies the grim beauty of "Contagion," which avoids sensationalizing its
subject in lieu of treating it with grave realism and fatalistic
forthrightness.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/c/11_contagion.htm> Read the Full
Review >>

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/c/11_creature.htm> Creature
★½ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - Just as "Creature" should be getting to the down-and-dirty
business at hand, it keeps heading off on unnecessary, incomprehensible
tangents. With no understanding of how to build tension and scares along
the way, the film unravels quickly before wearing out its welcome.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/c/11_creature.htm> Read the Full
Review >>

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/t/11_tannerhall.htm> Tanner Hall
★★½ (out of ★★★★)

Select Cities - At once out-of-touch and universal, the film takes up space
on its own plane of existence. Slowly, but surely, the people on screen
become more familiar to the viewer. There is an empathy in "Tanner Hall"
that overcomes its familiar trappings and iffy low-budget scope.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/t/11_tannerhall.htm> Read the Full
Review >>

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/w/11_warrior.htm> Warrior
★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - An immature, contrived, sap-infested drama of feuding family
members, feel-good histrionics and mixed martial arts, the film opens with
a certain cautious promise before falling into rote, melodramatic formula.
The longer it goes, the more insanely moronic, supremely annoying and
egregiously manipulative it dares to become.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/w/11_warrior.htm> Read the Full
Review >>

ⓒ 2011 Dustin Putman
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<http://www.twitter.com/DustinPutman> twitter.com/DustinPutman

here are some more pictures.......UNBELIEVABLE!

 

I think God really got pissed off!!

We have lived here for 11 years and never have we seen the water so high.
For those who know where we live, the one lane bridge is gone!!!! The
driveway to our development is gone!!! We are all safe...Shukar!

See the pictures.....unbelievable!!