Harry Potter and the Truck Load of Money
Monday, July 23rd, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I read that on fark.com today and I snicker each time I think of it. Other Harry Potter related articles/headlines I've seen are: (fark.com) To the surprise of absolutely no one, "Harry Potter and the Truckload of Money" sells 8.3 ...
Bad Trend in Customer Service?
Monday, July 23rd, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »As part of finishing my basement, I opened a Home Depot Credit Card to take advantage of the "no interest/payments for 6 months". Just now, I got a call from Citibank customer service related to that card. It was the ...
Harry Potter and the Photo Metadata
Friday, July 20th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The latest Harry Potter book comes out tonight at midnight. It's supposed to be the last book and millions of copies will be sold between midnight and 3am. There has been tremedous security regarding the book's release. I read one ...
Now THAT is a Good Tickl’n
Monday, July 16th, 2007 Posted in kids | 1 Comment »My 5yr old son was in a fun mood this evening. I was playing with him on the floor and started tickling him. It was one of those "no please don't" moods that really means YES YES, PLEASE DO! Sometimes he ...
Outstanding Command of the English Language
Monday, July 16th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Below is part of an email I received from a coworker today. It is so bad that when I tried to read it to my office mates, it took me several tries just to read it aloud as it was ...
Socially Conscious Investing
Friday, July 13th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »My 401k has a tidy sum in it. I check it (probably more often than I should) to make sure everything is looking good and to see if I need to make adjustments. Recently I made some adjustments and was ...
Stupid Email Rumors - $1 Coin does not have ‘In God We Trust’
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »My mom is very religious and recently forwarded this email to a small group of people. My aunt then proceeded to forward it to everyone she knows:U.S. Government to Release New Dollar Coins You guessed it 'IN GOD WE TRUST' ...
My Semi-In-Laws
Monday, July 9th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »In Ferris Bueller speak, they're my wife's sister's husband's brother's family. More simply put, they're my brother-in-law's brother & family. More simply put, their now my semi-in-laws. We've lived really close to my brother-in-law and sister-in-law for several years. We slowly ...
My worst A&A beating
Monday, July 2nd, 2007 Posted in Memories | 1 Comment »I've issues many A&A beatings in my time, but this is the story of the worst one I ever received. I made it to the finals of the masters tournament at Gen Con. Basically, that's the holy grail of Axis and ...
Axis & Allies memory
Monday, July 2nd, 2007 Posted in Memories | 4 Comments »When I first went to Gen Con, it was specifically to play Axis & Allies against others not in my immediate group of people. I'm pretty good at strategy games and stuff, and I fancied myself a very good A&A ...