First off, Happy Birthday LSB! Yay, party time!! :-)

Secondly, LA Galaxy is playing the Railhawks tonight!

What a great way it would have been to celebrate Andrea’s birthday! But both Beckham and Donovan aren’t scheduled to play. Beckham played a full game on Saturday, and Donovan is with the USA Men’s National Team preparing for a friendly against Brazil on Wednesday.

I’m also bummed to learn that the US Men’s team didn’t qualify for the 2012 Olympics in London. What?!?! Depressing. We’ll have Brazil, Great Britain (as hosts), Japan, New Zealand, Belarus, Egypt, Gabon, Honduras, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates and Uruguay.

Of course the US Women’s national team (USWNT) will be there, with Hope, O’Reilly, Rapinoe, Rodriguez and WAMBACH, BRING IT LADIES! :-)

So… I know what Olympic event will have me glued to the TV this year!

andrea and i and all our neighbors went b4 town of fuquay board of reps to fight a zoning density increase – r10 when we r all r40 – with clustered housing and mobile homes a possibility adjacent to multiacre horse farms. after a dozen of us spoke for an hour, the board took 10 seconds to unanimously vote against us. turns out half of them were buddies of the developer. sigh…

notes on my speech…

a lot of people are in fuquay bc of the availability of a bit more land

as suburban sprawl edges outward, cities have an opportunity to commit to green spaces and lower density housing, but its a limited time chance. once the density increases, the chance is lost

we r here bc we want fv to have an identity that rejects the sprawl and density. id like the town to focus on the linear parks and greenways it has planned, and reject these kind of zoning changes. thanks.