IRISHMAN FOR HIRE

We bought our home back in May of 2001. Stephanie was pregnant with our son and we decided it was time to buy a larger home to prepare for our growing family. One of the major selling points of our home was the finished basement. It was a place that I could call my own and a place where I would be able to hang out with friends and know I wasn’t making a mess of the rest of the house.

When we closed on our house, it turned into a tough move. So once we finally settled all of the problems that occurred during the move, we did everything that first summer to make the new house our home. We decorated, we painted, we created a nursery for our first child and in the basement, I placed all of my New York sports paraphernalia on full display. It was my place of solitude in my home that reminded me of my New York roots!

A month after our son was born; I came home from work to find that my wife had painted a Wall of Champions on the door heading down to the finished basement. She pinstriped the door, listed every year the Yankees won the World Series and adorned it with Yankee emblems. It was the first thing that greeted anyone who went into the finished basement and it was awesome.

Continue Reading »

Halloween is over or so I thought. I spent a big part of the last month hearing about the inevitable Zombie Invasion and I have even learned how to defend myself in case of an Attack of the Killer Poms, but nothing could have prepared me for the fear of what I learned about next; Koobface Friends!

It sounds like a hoax but it isn’t. The term Koobface comes from a worm that has been spreading on social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace but unlike its virtual counterpart that can be cleaned up and rectified, Koobface Friends are wreaking havoc in the real world with catastrophic results! And by the time people realize what has happened to them, it’s too late. The damage caused by Koobface Friends has been completed with devastating precision.

“She ruined my life,” said Ima Frayed when she agreed to be interviewed last week. “I met a woman at the park one day. Our children played so nicely together that we started meeting up at the park on a daily basis. We went to the mall together and before I knew it, we did everything with each other. We quickly became the best of friends.”

Continue Reading »