New Kid in Town...

Janet Tansy Christina Tansy

Did anybody notice that we have a new crewmember onboard? Another circle rat came out of hiding and is our link to the whole Quin family. Just kidding Matt, we who remember them loved your family dearly. Mary Jo was hot, and I still have a scar on my thumb from when Janet tried to bite it off. My brother Dan and Brian were good friends, and your Dad never cut any of us hoodlum-degenerate circle jerks any slack. You were situated right next to the Copelands, which in those days was prime real estate, with Barkey Barton as your back door neighbor and home of the midnight swimming hole. Please give your entire family our best regards and encourage them to sign on and sail with us, as we take this sentimental journey into the future. Write often and post every old Dean's Circle photo that you can muster. Thanks for googling DC.

Vegas Baby Dean's Circle Reunion Packing List

For those going to the Vegas Baby Reunion here is a list of suggested items to bring along:

1) Photos, old and new
2) Yearbooks
3) Dean's Circle Legacy photos of loved ones passed for our Memorial table
4) Dean's Circle brat attire: Most original old Guam clothes you can find (there will be a contest)
Example: OP shorts, Island T's, Cut off jeans, Island shirt, Pukka shells, flip flops etc...
5) Appetite for Guamanian Food
6) Wrapped White Elephant gift up to $20 limit (Reunion gift exchange to take place)

I'll be hangin out at the bus stop over the next few days (the neighborhood seems to have grown).

Itinerary:

6/19 - Dallas
6/22 ~ 6/27 - Philadelphia
6/30 - LA

Its a business trip and someone else arranged the meetings so I'm not sure how much wiggle room there is.

Laters

Hey, I just achieved human levitation!

OK, so I really didn't! Just was throwing a hook out for the 'RAC'miester' to make a comment. Where are you RAC'man? We miss you man!

Vegas Baby - Advance Reconoiter

I'm on the way to Las Vegas for a technical expo. I'll do some advanced scouting while I'm out here. I'd like to check on that Chamorro restaurant that was listed on the web.

Happy Fathers day to all you good Dads

I miss my Dad. He was so special and when I was a little girl I thought he was the most perfect man in the world. He and Mom seemed to spend their lives trying to send us all down the right path. (not that I always took that path), but I always knew the path to home and safety and love and they always picked me back up when I fell. happy fathers day Daddy.

Guam Mafia

Hey Dean's Circle peoples,

I think I already know the answer to this question, but I also know I'm usually wrong about such matters :)

A related group of folks with Guam brain damage to y'all is the Guam Mafia. Rod Duncan and I are members. The Guam Mafia are the Suttle, Hale, Duncan, Thomas, Gourley, and Farrow familes. There are some other wannabes, but these are the families who provide the Dons for the Mafia. Rod and I are second generation Dons. The Mafia actually pre-dates Guam with my dad, my name sake James R. Hale, and John Suttle working for the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratories in 1966 in Montana. For my 5th birthday at Flathead Lake near Kalispell, Montana Sara Lee Suttle gave me a scrap book with my picture on it announcing "Hi, I'm Jimmy Hale, and I tell a tall tale". Ain't nothing changed since then, man, look out :)

Actually, the old men may not have been working for the NWREL, the outfit they were working for on Guam. I think there's a college in Kalispell they had a gig at. But seems to me the Sandbergs, and a couple of the other families whose names escape me who did stints on Guam via the NWREL was there that summer. Oh ya, the Tylers, Joyce and Ed and their daughters, and the Sandberg boys, and the water skiing incident where they almost decapitated a fisherman. Hey, this isn't just one of my tall tales Sara Lee was warning y'all about, this actually happened. Them stupid dudes ended up spending some time, overnight I think, in the county clink. Rod would know nothing about it, it pre-dates the Duncan's admittance into the Mafia :)

Anyway, I'm majorily sidetracked as usual. My question for y'all is that the Guam Mafia is in desperate need of a Blog home. I can either start a separate blog or we can just kind of crowd in with y'all. We could start off with crowding in with y'all, and if that get's to be no good, the break off into our own blog. What do folks think? Seems to me rather than having 2 minorly busy blogs, why not have one semi busy blog. Some folks may get up tight and say "we should have a blog with our own name on it". Ya, whatever, do you name every new mole that shows up on your ass too? I mean get real?

So, let me know what you guys think. The level of activity the Guam Mafia will add is likely to be pretty sparse. There will be a feeding frenzy come Civil War time, that's the annual Oregon/Oregon State football game. Our opinion has always been the more people we can drag into that ridiculousnesses the better. Most people find it a lot of fun. Some find it complete wrong and think the whole mafia should be put in straight jackets, thrown in padded rooms, the doors locked and the keys thrown away. I keep waiting for it to happen, sounds like a hoot to me. You know those giant blow-up sumo suits they stick people in so they can bounce off of each other, I think we could get some of that action going, except you add being able to bounce off padded walls. Sounds like fun, don't you think?

Take care,
Jimmy Hale


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Hydro God Rod

Yo, Duncan, I'm calling out Hydro God Rod !!!!!



These here are promotional beers Rod gave me for his Hydro Bronc biz. I haven't drank...drunk...drink...booze in years, so now they ornamate me home office. How many of y'all have seen the "promotional" video for Rod's Hydro Bronc biz? I think some of you are having a pow wow this July and Rod is suppose to be in attendance. Insist he bring this video and show it.

OK, Rod, you can kill me now or kill me later, man, put me out of my misery, I can't seem to do it myself :)

Hafa Day (sp?) you mother wuckers!!!!

POTW

Chovin and I went diving to day. Here's a couple of pics from the dive.

How to draw RAC out of the woodwork..... ?

Just mention politics.

Are you ready for "change"? Do you have "hope"?

http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?RsrcID=2036

A new dating system over shadows Carbon dating

Yes, that is right!

At a deep earth construction site, a group of scientist consisting of Geologist, Anthropologists, Geographers, and Paleontologists have discovered a new method of dating ancient artifacts and other previously unknown dispensations.

It was descovered through extensive studies and extra endevor for coraboration that
Desi Larson is older than dirt.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DESI!!!!!

I love you

POTW

On our way to find my BDay din din.

GLOBAL WARMING CONFIRMED!!!

This just in, June 11th, 2008. It's snowing and 38 degrees in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Al Gore is right!

I know us podunk folk in Idaho don't know as much as Al Gore, but holy cow. We still have standing snow in the bench (foot hills). We have not been able to pull the camper in the hills yet because of the standing snow. So would someone who believes all this bunk science explain this too me. I know, I watched "The day after tomorrow", and global warming means a deep freeze, but that seems backwards to me.

Hafa Adai Deans Circle Gang how is everybody doing I hope everyone is doing fine sorry I have'nt been in contact but I've been pretty busy. kind of got involved with the Presidents race over here my nephew was appointed the director for the Obama office over here on Guam and we had to do a special election and also gearing up fo the senatorial race and mayors race for next year and also getting a little involved in the Miss Guam Universe In which one of the contestants picked my Aunt my mom's sister as a mentor for the pageant which was held at the Governors House and also my nephew being thee MC for the pageant itself would one my neices from my second cousin the Cruzs from SInajana won for Miss Guam Universe. I know the Vegas trip is coming up if anyone wants too know there is a Guam ( Chamorro restaurant) in Vegas.
I will get more information on my next post for other info ps let me know or I will keep everyone posted. this Tophersguam signing off for now.

Back from an extended Tahiti surf trip

Ia Orana & Hafa Adai Rick, and Juliet, and all,

Just got back from being overseas ... Tahiti of course. Surf was beautiful, but nasty as always.

Vairao, Teahupo'o and Taapuna are all just like left side Merizo or left side Boat Basin on Guam, and I did get my share of being pitched out onto shallow reefs. Sold a couple of my latest epoxy sticks to my Tahitian surf buddies.

I finally got to speak with Hank Pickop a couple months ago, and he is living in Las Vegas.

I'll be in Las Vegas on Monday for a whole week, and hope to see that dude while I am there. Other than that, I will be back in Tahiti in mid-August, Connecticut in late August, then to Oahu in mid-September, and then to Paris for the end of September and first week of October.

Any word from the illusive Ben Bast yet? I've heard from Coco Joe Hipolito several times already. Laters!

Quotes of 'our' day.

Does anyone remember being called a 'Kumquat', or when wanting to ride back seat on a bicycle around the Circle, one would say "can you pump me" (meaning; can you give me a ride on your bike)? Or that the 'Philippiniose only like to eat the doggie doggie". What about "no way Palaia"

Just going down memory lane, again! That's all.

Vegas Baby Room Reservations

Hi, just checked on our rooms. We have 6 out of the 10 reserved. I will list who they are, if you think you should be on this but are not, let me know.

Me
Ric
Julie
Doug
Cindy
Matt (has the Vegas Baby Dean's Circle Fiesta Suite)

If you want to be there before or after the 25th an 26th, let me know. I can set rooms aside for a discount as well. But I do need to know how many rooms for befor and after. Julie has said 1 day before, and I will be staying 1 day after. I flight plans or just time off dictates such things, let me know. We have until June 25th to fill the other 4 rooms. So if you are coming and have not reserved your room take your time, this is just a reminder of the deadline.

For the Hotel room reservations
(800) 634-4000
Group code: SDC0708
Group name: Dean's Circle ( it is best to give the group code. If you give the name, I have heard that they ask for the code anyway)


Dave R. Larson (DRL)
(208) 589-6470
(800) 336-1034 Ext. 33121
other.dave.larson@gmail.com

This one is for Joanna in the most part.

Joanna, Your bother Sam use to hang out with a guy about his same age in High School. He came from a good Morman family, I believe. He was also half Japanese and half white. I think the guys name was Tom? Don't think that he or his family ever lived in the 'Circle'. I remember hanging out with Sam and Tom (if that was in fact his name) when you all lived in the 'Guam Towers'. Could you ask Sam about him and his family, and if Sam still keeps in touch with them? Maybe you or others from this blog remember them too?

As promised.

Possession Renotice

As in "to give notice again of possession", or maybe reclaimation, "the act of claiming again", but it could also be like renewing an insurance policy or service contract, but contracts mean lawyers and service in a relationship sounds like money might be exchanged.


My wife and I celebrated our 20th Anniversary today.

YAPOTW - Memories anyone?

My Dogs chase the regular brown ones but there arn't any blue tails near my house. This was taken at my parents "ranch" between Malojloj and Inarajan.

Someone's updating the blog!

Just noticed a few new gadgets added to the blog! RAC? Your back?

Of all things!

Of all the things that I always wanted to do, could have done, may have had the chance to do, or it was just 'way out of my reach', but dreamed about it anyways.

POTW

I was sucking on a Coffee/Rum Raisin milkshake on the beach watching this, sigh. It was clear all the way down but no green flash tonight.

MOTW - Water Puppies