Going to try my first bike ride in Texas ever. I m down in
Natalia and going to try a 15 mile ride. Hit 500 miles since
July 4 and hope to hit 800 by Jan. The heart surgery after my last post set me back a bit. Hope I dont have many inclines AKA hills on the ride. After my 30 ride in the car to get down here today, not up to any more than moderate
work.

Buzz

 Phase 1 


You are listening to jazz -- Your first day at work is great.. 
Your co-workers are wonderful, your office is cute, 
you love your boss.
Phase 2

You are listening to pop music -- After a while you are 
so busy that you are not sure if you're coming or going anymore. 

Phase 3

You are listening to heavy metal -- 
This is what happens after about SIX Months! 

Phase 4

You are listening to hip hop -- You become bloated due to stress, 
you're gaining weight due to lack of exercise because you are so 
tired and have so much work to do and when you get home you have more work to do. 
You feel sluggish and suffer from constipation. 
Your fellow co-workers are too cheerful for your liking and the walls of your cubicle are closing in. 

Phase 5

You are listening to GANGSTA RAP -- 
After more time passes, your eyes start to twitch, 
you forget what a 'good hair day' feels like as you 
just fall out of bed and load up on caffeine.

Phase 6

You are listening to the voices in your head -- 
You have locked the office door to keep people out, 
You wonder WHY you are even here in the first 
place and WHY did I come to work today! 

Peggy Keefer Gillis



PEGGY KEEFER GILLIS, 71, passed away April 15, 2009 after a brave battle with colon cancer.

Peggy was born March 26, 1938 to Ina and Ferrell Keefer. She attended W.B. Ray High School (class of 1956) in Corpus Christi, Texas. After High School, Peggy attended Texas State College for Women in Denton, and The University of Texas in Austin. After raising 4 children, she became an entrepreneur. Peggy spent the next 17 years as a Hospice caregiver, while continuing to help others.

Peggy is preceded in death by her father, Ferrell Keefer. She is survived by her mother, Ina Keefer; sons, Jeffrey V. Gillis (Sandy) and Gregory T. Gillis (Linda); daughters Shelley P. DeLuna (Louis), Kimberley G. Minchich (Matt); Grandsons, Nicholas, Joseph and Michael.

A memorial service will be held Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 2:00 P.M., Brookside Funeral Home Cypress Creek, 9149 Hwy 6 North, Houston, TX.

Peggy's family would like to thank the staff at Houston Hospice and ask that in lieu of flowers, please make a donation to Houston Hospice, 1905 Holcombe, Houston ,TX 77030. www.houstonhospice.org

Are you ready to move it?!

It’s MS Awareness Week and there are so many ways to move it toward a world free of MS!

Make your mark today!

http://www.nationalmssociety.org/get-involved/events/ms-awareness-week/index.aspx

 

The Gillis Clan Directory and Family Tree
seems to be going well after only two weeks.
I got an input from Dorcas this weekend and
will send an update out this week. I've tried to
post previously and was unable so this is really a test. Greg has a great start on the
Family tree from MoMo on down and Mike
White is sending the copy of the tree up from
there. So, we should have some good ideas
of origins and where we have arrived in 2009.

Mailon " Buzz" Gillis

I just talked to Greg for the first time in our
lives this morning. Long lost 2nd cousins.
Talked to Jim his father and Peggy his mother over the last two days, its been since around
1960 or so for that. I m putting together a Gillis
Clan Directory, and with Greg s help a
Clan Web Site. I told Greg I like the model
he has created here, and I am going to introduce my Grand Daughter to some of
her cousins via this site later this month.

I m currently residing in NC working for Boeing
teaching kids how to bend, break and kill things with the F15E Strike Eagle. I mark 21
years doing this as a civilian instructor next week. I taught our Air Force aviators now in the F4 Phantom, the Flll Aardvark and now the
F15E. My part for fighting the War on Terror.

I spent 20 years flying the F4 in the Air Force and Air National Guard. I had 200 combat missions in Viet Nam and totaled 2500 flight
hours in the F4.

I m a flyfisherman, traditional archer, wood-carver, and would be novelist. I ll be retiring
next year and moving back to Texas. I graduated from Aggieland Class of '67, so
I do add to the aggravation of the numerous
TU or is that UT graduates within the Clan.
It is a good thing there are a few Aggies in
Gillis Tartan.

Cheers, Buzz

Thanks to Kim, Matt, Nick and Mike for the great time over the Fourth of July !

 

Nick and Max	Nick and Max	Nick and Mike
Nick and Mike	Matt pulling Nick	Nick Tubing
Nick Tubing	Nick Tubing	Nick Tubing
Nick Tubing	Mike Tubing	Mike Tubing
Kim Tubing	Kim Tubing	Kim Tubing

Why are we even bothering to hold an election?

On one side, you have a bitch who is a lawyer, married to a lawyer running against a lawyer who is married to a bitch who is a lawyer.

On the other side, you have a war hero married to a good looking woman with big boobs who owns a beer distributorship.

Is there even a contest here America?

 I heard a sound bite on the radio today of Hillary on the Bill O'Reilly show. She was explaining that she wanted to tax the oil companies if their profits exceed some baseline amount that she wants set. She is either ignorant or is pandering to the bleeding heart liberals when discussing oil company profits. She demonizes the oil companies by inferring that they are bandits stealing from the gas buying public. Horsehockey.

If the oil companies keep their profit margin exactly the same and have an increase in the production costs due to rising oil prices then the total profit will be increased. This is pretty basic economics. Hell even I understand it. She's a lawyer and she doesn't get it?

See the examples below.

If I am just buying and reselling 1,000,000 gallons of gas at a 10% profit margin and the wholesale price increases from $2.00 to $3.00 a gallon then my overall profit also increases.

Read More to Look at the chart.