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This is what a playdate looks like for men.

Dustworth enjoying a 1554 while relaxing by the fire.

Me with a frosty pint of Guinness, speaking of theological issues.

You will notice no kids in the picture. They are all coralled into the back yard as it should be.

Best. Playdate. Ever.

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It’s 1:30, and I’d love to go to sleep, but how could I when tonight was so perfect?

The show was fantastic tonight… So many dear friends in attendance. I played with some very close friends who I respect so much. Im truly humbled by their talent.

Then, special Shack time with guests that don’t normally make it. And if you study the picture above, you will see that it is a special Shack Cake, made by Kelly Hall. Wow.

All in all an amazing night. I’m sorry that tomorrow has to be normal.

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Mrs. Wonka getting sassy-pants at The Macaroni Grill.

After shoe-shopping, Old Navy, Barnes and Noble and yummy food, we are ready to head back to the house to snuggle under the blankets and watch the Food Network. (you believe me, right?)

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Background? Old Navy
Willy Wonka Glasses? Party Palace
Rock Star Attitude? Captain Awesome

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This is what happens when Shack, Brent and Jenny meet The Darkness… I believe in a thing called love.

Yeah. Heh.

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Here we are in front of Carie’s paintings. (my favorite is the blue one)

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My good friend, Carie Faricelli is being featured tonight in the Artful Eye gallery in Chattanooga.

The theme is horses, and there are really cool pieces here. Hers, of course, are the best. (that’s actually true)

I’m so proud of her. I love seeing an artist being recognized for making something beautiful.

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So apparently these little burgers can go to a whole new level. Who knew?

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I have heard it called “the Twitter killer” and an alternative to Facebook. Even Foursquare people are getting uptight.

But if Buzz has only amazed me in one area (hint: it isn in the area of breakout tech) it’s this- Google knows how to roll a product out like no other tech biz in the industry.

Last night, it began… People throwing a fit over the fact that Buzz had been forced upon them. Wanting to know how to turn it off. These same people only 24 hours previously were the ones complaining about the changes to Facebook.

What has been missed in all of the anger is the fact that millions of people who were never tweeting or facebooking have suddenly begun buzzing. They have no hang ups whatsoever. In fact, they seem pretty pleased with the upgrade! This was a huge understanding on the part of Google.

It makes me think that this was less about flexing muscle in the current market and more about simply grabbing more market share in the realtime search/news medium.

Brilliant.

After all, the tweeters will still tweet. (at least for a while) and the facebookers will facebook. (even though FB infuriates them with innovation)

But the millions of Gmail users who do neither of those things and have no attachments or loyalties just got a very peasant, understandable upgrade to their email service, and this is exactly what Google wanted to do.

Why go after Twitter and Facebook when you have millions of people do neither?

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