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Just to Avoid a Lawsuit

I purchased a new toilet bowl cleaner and read the instructions before using it. I know that seems silly, but some cleaners are supposed to sit awhile before you scrub and some don’t have to. Wanting to maximize the effectiveness of the cleaning product, which hopefully reduces the required manual labor, I perused the instructions. [...]

Campaigning at Polling Places

I had the following conversation as I walked into my polling place today:

Woman trying to hand me something: "VOTE for Obama!"
Me (not taking the Obama flyer): "Excuse me, you can’t do this at a polling location."
Woman: "I’m the only one here."
Me (walking on to the school): "Isn’t it illegal to campaign at a polling location?"
Woman: [...]

Tales of Babysitting Horrors™

Speaking of The Candidate reminded me of a story involving one of his little sisters. It was during the dead of winter, back when we had even colder and snowier winters than now; sometime back in the 1970s. At the time I was in junior high and The Candidate’s little sister, we’ll call her The [...]

Cheaters Lose!!!!

Oh yeah!!! Tough luck, cheaters! Giants win 17 to 14!

And the Patriots’ leading cheater didn’t even stay on the field to see the end of the game. Sore loser? Coach Belichick came on to the field with one second left, shook hands with the Giant’s coach and then went to the locker room even [...]

Super Bowl 2008

The Super Bowl starts in less than an hour. I’m not a fan of either team, but I think the New England Patriots are smug, narcissistic cheaters. They’ve been caught and admitted to cheating and they’ve been accused of additional cheating. There were new headlines this morning on the Internet that they cheated by filming [...]

Do you Know your Money?

Jane Eyre over at the Blue Notebook challenged her readers to take the Quarter Backs test. Those of you living in the U.S. know that the U.S. Mint has been issuing five new quarters each year. Each new quarter represents one of the U.S. fifty states.

The Quarter Backs test challenges visitors to match quarters to [...]

Need Snow?

We’ve got plenty!

This is my snow thrower as I’m clearing the walk from the driveway to the front door. I’ve posted pictures before of the snow being as high as the thrower, but I think this is the first time the snow has been over the thrower. It wasn’t this thick everywhere, but some [...]