FREE PIZZA FOR CAMARO OWNERS - TODAY ONLY!!!

Who ever said there was no such thing as a FREE LUNCH??? If you own a Chevrolet Camaro, you can get yourself a free large, one-topping pizza TODAY ONLY, Wednesday August 26, 2009, at any Papa John’s pizza restaurant. This promotion is to celebrate the fact that John Schnatter, the founder of the Papa John’s, was able to locate his own original Camaro which he sold back in 1983 when he was just 21 years old. He sold the car to help his father save his bar from bankruptcy, which was located in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The money was used to help fix & save the bar, and the bar is where John Shattner started selling Pizzas - the rest is history.

The Camaro was purchased by Jeff Robinson in 2004 for $4,500.00, who agreed to return the car to Schattner, after a friend of his heard about the search by the pizza executive during a preseason NFL football game interview & told him about it. Robinson also received a check for $250,000.00 for returning the car – not a bad return on his investment!

Although a free pizza is not so bad, either...

Source: WLKY.com, Louisville, Kentucky. The full story can be found HERE.

Visit http://www.papasroadtrip.com/ for details on the promotion.

Rest in Peace, Freeman...

After 15 happy and fulfilling years, our beloved cat Freeman passed away peacefully at home last week after a brief but quickly progressing illness, and was laid to rest peacefully under a shady tree where we now visit him often.. We will always remember our little Freeman, or "Free" as he was affectionately known to us.. I used to like to joke with my daughter that Free was "older than the internet", as it was so new when he was born in 1994. At the time, I worked in the Information Technology Department at Hanna Barbera Studios in Hollywood, coordinating the purchase of computer equipment for the studio. At the time, the internet was a pretty new concept & hadn't yet really gone mainstream.. The idea of everyone having the internet on their desktop at work was still a pretty state-of-the-art thing and cutting edge in '94. One of the projects our department helped roll out was setting up company-wide online messageboards.. One day I saw a post from a co-worker that she had found some kittens in an abandoned house near a bookstore owned by her family, Dutton's Books in North Hollywood, CA. At the time, my wife and I were looking for a new kitten to share our home, and so I went to see the little guys.. One of them was a cute little gray tabby with a lot of spunk, who was the one I chose... After debating what to name the cute little guy, we happened to glance down at a box cover of a video on the coffeetable of the movie "Shawshank Redemption".

"How about Freeman?"

And the little guys name was born... That was when I was twenty-five years old. I'll be forty-one next month, and thats a lot of years to spend with a member of the family & its awfully sad to lose him... Thanks to Juliet Dutton for bringing the little guy into our life...
















Rest in Peace, Little Fella....