The Countdown

[def59]

I'm back.

Did anyone miss me?

[dmiller]

Def -- welcome back!!

(but --- you showed up eight days too early!! )

Raf was going to announce your return in Grand Style!!

(Isn't that what the countdown is about??) ;)

[Raf]

Ah, but Def jumped the gun, so I'll have to find a new thing that's going to happen Saturday night to count down to.

Welcome back, Def!

[Raf]

Just FYI:

Today, thanks to a colleague in Virginia, the end of this countdown became pretty easy to find. I'd say thousands of people now know it, but I doubt any of them are Greasespotters.

[Cynic]

Hmmmm. June 17 is also Barry Manilow's birthday, but Rafael just might have won a trip to de Zaal van Bekendheid.

Edited June 10, 2006 by Cynic

[dmiller]

Just FYI:

Today, thanks to a colleague in Virginia, the end of this countdown became pretty easy to find. I'd say thousands of people now know it, but I doubt any of them are Greasespotters.

Awwwwww !@#$%!!!!!

Left in the dark --- again!! :( :( :(

[Littlehawk]

Raf...I know the answer,,,,,, its Pear jucie day!!!!!!

Raf .....I still gots a taste left too....next tie yer up this way I take ya on a mule ride and let ya sample some of it agin

[oilfieldmedic]

I know...it's until I come home.

[topoftheworld]

We'll all pray for that, Oilfield!

[Raf]

Come home safe, medic.

6

[Tom Strange]

Are we still counting down?

[Raf]

Yes. We're at 4.

Won't be at my computer much after this until the countdown's over, so have some fun with it. The day is Saturday, and it's all revealed Saturday night (or sooner, if you're resourceful).

[Linda Z]

I know what it is, I know what it is, nyah nyah, nyah nyah nyah.

[George Aar]

Oooo,

Looky what I found:

http://www.maynardije.org/columns/dickprince/060609_prince/

Congrats Mr. President!

[dmiller]

BINGO!!!!!

Way to go Geo!!!!

[GarthP2000]

(((clap clap clap)))

WHOOO HOOO!! Way to go Raf!!

[dmiller]

Prez Raf. Has a nice ring to it. :)

Congrats Raf.

[Suda]

Congratulations, Mr. President!

Suda

[dmiller]

Rafael Olmeda is an assistant city editor at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He joined the staff of the paper as a general assignment reporter in 1999. Before that, he spent six years as a reporter for the New York Daily News,covering his home town of the Bronx.

He and a co-writer won third place in the Florida Press Club's contest for Crime Reporting in 1999, and Mr. Olmeda was part of a team that was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 2004 hurricane season.

Mr. Olmeda joined the board of directors of NAHJ in 2000 as an at-large officer. A year later he was elected Region 4 director, where he organized two Spanish-language journalism conferences while serving as chairman of the association's issues committee. In this role he advocates for fair and accurate reporting of Latino communities and issues while upholding the highest standards of journalistic excellence.

He is also an adjunct professor of print journalism, general writing and grammar at Florida International University.

Methinks these folks know nothing of his MANY contributions, here at GSC, as well. ;)

We're proud of you Raf. :)

(Just my IMO)!!

[topoftheworld]

Feliciaciones, Senor Presidente!

[Shellon]

Congratulations!

[Linda Z]

i was tryin' to be good and keep my lips zipped, but since Geo spilled the beans....

CONGRATS!!

[Tom Strange]

where he organized two Spanish-language journalism conferences

it's said that they were so impressed by how straight the chairs were at the conferences that he was a shoe in for the presidency!

just kidding buddy... congrats to you!

[jardinero]

Very cool, Raf. And no doubt, very well deserved.

Congrats.

J.

[shazdancer]

!!!Congrats, Raf!!!