What now?

Have we completely grown up to the point of never blogging again? Come on people! Even I am willing to start one every now and then. As for what's going on with m: am I the only one who is someone with Republican based e-mail from Mr. T.? I think we need to form a coalition against it because I never get e-mail that will help me out and I don't have the time to fight back like my bro. Rosé, Miguel, no offense, but let it be known that somehow you will soon have to change the ways of the one from whose seed you prevailed because the Democrats will be victorious (meaning Obama, not Hillary)!

No More Stucrew.com

The renewal for the stucrew.com domain is coming up, and I've decided I'm not going to renew it any longer. If someone else wants to buy the domain, let me know and we can set up the blog to point to the domain. Otherwise, the Stu Crew blog will still be available at http://stucrew.blogspot.com.

Back In Black

I am finally back in wit my peeps! What's up with me? I hate grad school apps and GREs. Besides that, I'm gonna do a live show at Jose's this year or else! Congrats to Grownz on the fam expansion, too...

Alexis Marina Negroni has arrived!

Hi all,

I know nobody has posted to the StuCrew website in some time, but I refuse to believe that it is defunct. I am in the hospital right now writing to announce that yesterday, August 4, 2007 at 5:12 pm Eastern my baby daughter was born healthy and kicking. Her name is Alexis Marina Negroni. She weighed 7 lbs 6 oz and measured 20" long. That's almost as big as stonehenge (obscure Spinal Tap reference). Anyway, I am attaching a picture of her I took with my cell phone since I have not gotten a chance to download the ones from my camera yet. I hope everyone is well, and Alexis says "hi" to her new extended family.

New House

For the folks who don't know, I finally bit the bullet. I've come to realize that Gainesville is my home so for all you who said "Jose's staying in Gainesville forever"- you were right. Maybe. We'll see. I found a house about two and a half weeks ago and put an offer on it. They accepted the offer and I closed yesterday, Friday. Now I've got tons of work ahead of me.

I've got to do some electrical, some plumbing, a lot of painting, I'm sanding and restaining the baseboards. I've got all wood floors that need to be sanded and refinished. I will be putting up over 30 panels of privacy fencing so my Sanford, Tepedino, and Sons junk company can sit behind the fence without anyone being the wiser. I won't move in right away, but when I feel like the house is ready to take the furniture, I'll start moving in. I did take my picnic table over with the benches and a few chairs. There's a radio too. Right now it's a whole lot easier to work on the house with it virtually empty.

Lucky for me I closed just in time for my Spring Break. This whole week I'm on Spring Break and I'll be at the house. If you feel like it, just stop by. If I'm not there, I'm out for supplies and will be right back. If you owe me a favor, now's the time to help out. If you want me to owe you a favor, stop by. Yep, I'm already calling in my markers. If you want to give a weekend or several evenings to it, let me know. I'm moving quickly on all the projects and hope to have the majority done by next weekend: Sunday, April 8. I love you all and look forward to hosting you at my (new to me) house. Of course, when I have a housewarming party I'll be sure to post that news with time to spare. There's a slight likelihood of the party being in May, but with all the bachelor parties, school trips, and weddings coming up I might just push it into July.

It's really easy to get to the house. It's in the neighborhood across from Ballyhoo Grill and Stonewood. You remember the "new" Royal Park theaters on Newbery Road? There's a stoplight that gets you into all that area. Well, instead of turning into the Plaza Royale, turn down into the neighborhood and make a right onto second avenue. Look for my house to be the fourth or fifth one on the right with the basketball pole that has no goal or backboard. :) She's a green-trimmed monster, but I love her. Wish me luck.

New Post

Ok, I kind of got tired of looking at the same old post for two months. This blog will be revived dangit! So, let me start off by saying hi to all the fellas up in the north (being in South FLA pretty much everything is to the North). Also, I saw Jorge's daughter Gabby the other day and she's super cute.

Anyway, it's great to be a Florida Go Gator recently. I miss the partying that must be going on in Gainesville with every victory. I am there in spirit. As for me, not much is new. You guys probably know that I opened my own law firm at the beginning of 07. So far it has been going well. We're working hard at chasing ambulances - I think a motorcycle would help :) Also, Thania is pregnant with a little girl. She is about 22 weeks (I think). Her name is Alexis Marina Negroni. Marina is for my grandma. Well, that's about it. I hope all of you are doing well, and Go Gators!
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Join the New Blogger Dammit!

So far, only Shidog, Grownzup, and I have joined the new Blogger. Sign up for it dammit, so you can post on the Stu Crew!

Champions!

Well, U.F. did it again. We won another national championship. It's been ten years since the last one. My memories of the old championship have gotten faded, but the 2006 championship season will tide me over until the next one. It's unbelievable that we hold both the basketball and football championships together in the same season. The probabilities of that ever happening again anywhere are low.

We had a great crowd at the house. In 40+ degree weather we had people sitting outside in the courtyard to watch the game on the big media projector-fed screen. On the porch and inside we cleared out all the oversized furniture and set up stools and chairs a la theater seating to watch the four televisions we had tuned to the game. We ran out of toilet paper in the fourth quarter. We ran out of keg beer at about the same time. 40-60 people were here at any given moment throughout the night, but as soon as we won everyone took off running up 17th street to get to University Avenue. The celebration was similar to the one after the '06 NCAA basketball final. People on lamp and telephone poles, mortars fired into the air, a huge mob spilling out onto University Avenue. People were elated throughout. It was an amazing experience. It was beautiful. I'm just happy I had already taken Tuesday off work. ;)

I'm happy I live in Gainesville. I know I always said I was going to leave at some point. Some folks told me I'd stay in Gainesville. Well, I guess they might be right. It just doesn't seem as if I'm going to leave anytime soon. A friend recently bought a house and I think to myself, "if she can do it, so can I." Miguel and Kelly will be here for a while longer and I like being close to family. I've got a great group of friends up here (although I seriously miss the rest of the gang). I've got a ton of reasons to stay right now. I think I'm going to buy a house here and soon. Wish me luck.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!

While life has taken us in many different directions, we're all still brothers and sisters. All of you are dearly missed, and I wanted to take this opportunity to say that every single one of you has meant something to me, and I'll never forget that. With that, I wish you all a very Happy New Year and a safe and wonderful 2007.

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Blogger Upgrade

I've upgraded the blog to the newest version of Blogger. I think in order to add new posts, you'll need to sign up for it. The new version is really neat, and makes it a lot easier to update the template if you so desire. I think as new people sign up for the new version, they should appear in the profile/contributors container to the right. To sign up, just log into Blogger as usual. You should see a link in the dashboard to upgrade. Click the upgrade link and follow the prompts.

Jeez Louise, Even More News!!

Well, as some of you may already know, Thania is pregnant. Not only is she pregnant, she is having twins. At this time she's about eight weeks into it, and apparently the risk goes down after 12 weeks, so we're not out of the woods yet. I'm totally stoked about being a dad, and I will be bugging Yorgi a lot for advice.

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Legal News...Sort of

Well guys, I'm happy to announce that I am splitting from my current law firm, and I am opening my own firm. Actually it's a partnership between one of the lawyers working at my current firm and myself. We already have a place and have been working on outfitting it. We will be officially open for business on January 2, 2007. As you all know, I specialize in personal injury, but at this point I plan on practicing Door Law (anything that walks through the door). I'm very excited about this, and I couldn't resist notifiying you guys. The next time any of you is down in this area, please let me know so that I can show you my place.

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Care Package for Juan

Sheila had a great idea to send Juan a care package. Please feel free to add some comments to this post, and we'll attach them to the care package. It would be really nice for Juan to see all of the best wishes from the Stu Crew. Grownzup said he'd like to contribute towards the package. If anyone else would like to contribute as well, feel free to send money or items. So far we have:

• Cuban crackers
• Guava paste
• Homemade double-chocolate brownies
• Buttermilk pancake mix (for Parisa)
• Life savers
• Jello
• Family Guy Volume 4 on DVD (comes out tomorrow, and Sheila is going to pick it up)

Bad News

I don't know a lot of details at this point, but Juan was in an auto accident yesterday. I'm not even sure what time it happened, but Parisa called my parents late last night to let them know. I don't know if he was walking or if he was in a car when it happened. He broke his arm and they had to perform surgery on him. They are performing a second operation on him today.

My mom told me that other than the broken arm and some minor trauma to the head, he's doing okay. They expect he should be released from the hospital in about a week. More than likely, he won't be coming to the States for Thanksgiving, so I don't think the reunion is going to happen. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers, and I will keep everyone updated on his condition.

100% Stu Crew Reunion?

I'm not sure if you have all heard or not, but Juan is going to be in South Florida for a very brief time this year for the Sangibing holiday. We have been discussing a reunion halfway up the state, perhaps in Orlando. Mark says he's not sure because his Uncle Cousin is going to be in town. However, Uncle Cousin has 3 boys and they also have a cousin visiting from Bolivia. I think it is a perfect opportunity for them to visit Orlando for a day and a night and get their drink along with all of us.

Juan and I could head up to Orlando on Friday evening and we can hook it up. Sadly enough, we would probably leave early on Saturday, because Juan is only going to be here for 4 days (Thursday - Sunday). So who is down for a 100% full Stu Crew reunion in Orlando on Friday, November 23?!?!?!

Mountain Biking

I want to say an official "thanks" to Mark and Miguel. These two cats got me into mountain biking. I started shortly after the first UF game this season and haven't stopped since. I'm already doing advanced and expert trails and can't get enough. I've taken a couple of spills, but they have been relatively minor. Plus, I've lost a couple of pounds as a result. Again, thanks dudes, and Miguel we should ride one of these days.

Technical Difficulties

Seems something went wrong with the site, and somehow a blank page was published. I've republished and it should be working okay. However, I'm still having some problems with the DNS and GoDaddy. http://stucrew.com should be forwarding to http://blogspot.stucrew.com, but it doesn't seem to be working. I'll try to get it fixed soon.

U.F. Homecoming

Who's coming to town this weekend for Homecoming?

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sorry

I'm sorry if I offended people I took the blog off. I thought I could joke with my brothers but I guess I can't. Again my apologies.