949ThePoint: Does she get some of the $$$? Betsy DiJulio - the owner/Mommy of Huff the Great Dane joins us next! Huff is famous... http://t.co/rItdaaFE
Okay, so today I got more than a few looks over my phone ringtone. What got me was that people seemed genuinely disturbed by this...and why, I ask? I have a rather common phone.
How may times has someone else's phone rang and you thought it was yours? Getting my point? When this phone ringtone plays, I want everyone to know without question "oh, that's Doud's phone.
...so Did I succeed?
So long to a guy who has great things ahead!
Lot's going on lately...Just today I found our a great guy in our building received an opportunity for a promotion within and will be leaving around the end of the month. Though, technically, he works for a competing radio station, we work for the same company and I have always enjoyed his positive energy and get it done attitude; and he's a good guy...so I knew eventually he would wind up getting a promotion and moving to a new challenge.
Sure, it'll be different not seeing him, but, I'm truly happy for him...he deserves this and will do great things. ...but, along with being a person who is liked and respected (rare finds these days)...he taught me (several years older than he) how to choose a good tequila; and that's saying something!
He didn't have subordinates, he worked with people...and though sometimes I'd shake my head at some of the off air stuff we'd work on, people who make you 'check yourself' every now and again are important. They keep your game on. He was that guy when he needed to be...not when he had a bad day.
T, all the best in your future. Sure, we competed on a 'how many listeners' standpoint, but, when it came down to it, you were always looking out for the 'common good'...and...well...you deserve the best! Proud of you, my man!
I'm pretty ecxited! In the next few days we will be launching the all new Morning Point Page!!! Yay! Hooray! ...and there was much rejoicing.
So whats going to be so "new" about this page? Well...as I like to say, we've been kind of lacking on that page in the substance department. ...and though in the true spirit of capitalism I would like to find someone to blame for the shortcoming, really, it ultimately falls on my lap. So what did I do? Well, I took up a quick class on coding so I could learn the 'back end' of designing and laying out the page.
Don't you have someone to do that? you ask....well, we do now, and you're looking at him.
So be on the look out for the new page within the next couple of days. If you heard it on the show, need the info again, or just want to investigate the goings on as you heard them...you'll be able to click in and get the info.
This sniffer belongs to one of those reality stars we learned to dislike at a level rivaled only by Kate Plus 8's, Kate Gosselin. But, much like Kate, this reality star made opportunity for herself by hanging out with United States Leadership and Government types only to ditch that journey and her husband of years. Sure, we all saw this one coming...but for most of us we just could not stop believing that his housewife could not just work it out with her husband...who loved her....faithfully. (come on...I'm handing it to you, here). :)
Welcome to 2012! ...but first a look back.
Can you guess the "Secret Shnoz" of the day? Here's a riddle for you on figuring out who this famous nose belongs to: Though this fetching bride was
common conversation...she made a big score when she landed
one of the worlds most eligible bachelors and had the fairy tale
wedding every girl dreams about....
So who's sniffer is this? ANSWER: IT'S KATE MIDDLETON! The bride of Prince William and the center of The Royal Wedding of 2011!
My first thing personally "to do" was to get back in the swing of taking pics of my kids. I had gotten a little slack and so I started clicking again and getting more archives of The Douds. Here's a picture from New Years Eve at Chesapeake City Park.
The last day of 2011 was not a deep, brooding look back for my daughter, Theresa's idea (she's 5 , mind you). Nope, she wanted me to take a pic of her next to the cement shark at the park and "Make it look like the shark is biting my butt"....okay then... :) Well...that's her legacy to 2012
So I'm driving down the road thinking of ways to avoid eating a delicious Hickory Farms "Summer Sausage" (as I do every Christmas Season) and I bust out laughing.
I started thinking of things I would like to do...and thought how great it would be to go on some crazy trip to find the 'actual' Hickory Farms...(though I know they do not exist). Next thing I know, Im getting scenes in my head from an independent movie featuring a guy having a mid-life crisis who loses it and breaks out on the open road in search of the original "Hickory Farms".
There's one scene with him eating at a diner where the TV in the background is playing "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" with the "there's no basement in the Alamo" scene as he realizes in shock that "Hickory Farms" is just like the basement of the Alamo...it's not there...and in realizing this, realizes his entire life as a marketing exec has been based on creating things that do not exist...and he has become a victim of his own devices.
Thank you! by Chuck Doud, posted Dec 11 2011 11:47AM
Thank you Hampton Roads!!!! Together, we all brought a great amount of funding to CHKD, which will continue to help save the lives of our community children.
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