lakebernadette.org has been registered. Just have a temporary page up for now, but should have some real content up there soon. I'll put another entry up here when it is functional. After that, all future Lake Bernadette info will go there.

Go ahead check out my exciting coming soon page:
http://lakebernadette.org

I had this big long post written out. I probably spent 30, maybe 60 min on it. I was finally happy with it. I hit submit and walked away. I came back to find a login page. My session had timed out and the crappy software just ate my entry. No "please log in again". Just back to the main page.

I'll be getting rid of this crap as soon as I can....

So you can avoid it... I'm using "Simple PHP Blog". It maybe simple to setup, but it has some real annoying "features". WordPress, here I come...

We live in a place called Lake Bernadette. Like many newer communities in FL, we have a CDD and an HOA. These two things came close to me saying no to living here. Finally decided I could probably live with it and here we are.

Starting probably 6 months ago or so, we wanted to start getting involved in our community. We had tried doing some research, finding minutes online, etc. for the HOA and CDD. Almost nothing. The ony thing we found was:
http://www.greenacreproperties.com/associations.asp
From there, you can search Pasco county for "Lake Bernadette" to find some broken links. That's it (other than ads for the golf course and Realtors).

After over a year, finally made it to the first meeting. It was a CDD meeting. All of about 15 people out of almost 1000 households turned up. One was a student there for a civics class project. Other than myself and two or three others, the rest appeared to be retirees. I just kind of sat and listened this time. Next time, at a minimum, I'm going to start asking about records. With two young children, making these meetings is rough. Would be nice to at least have easy access to the meeting minutes.

I, Michael, am a serious slacker. No updates in half a year. No new pictures, etc. At least I got the software for this thing patched so it probably won't get hacked. One of these days...

Happy 30th Birthday Karen. 30 is a real milestone. You have been around for almost 11,000 days. That is almost 16,000,000 minutes. Time sure flies when you are having fun.

Gift was (of course) a little late, etc., but we where a little busy around that time. Took a few pictures. Some Gregory cuteness as well.

http://berman.nu/gallery/karens_30th_birthday