Friday, June 29, 2007
I Wonder Why....
Today was "Cake Day" at the office. That 's the last Friday of the month. We all wear jeans to the office (even the corporate executives!) and we get together at 4:00 for half an hour of cake and ice cream. The cake has the names of all of the people who celebrated a birthday that month, and the...
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Thursday, June 28, 2007
An Odd Way to Watch Television
Monday night is all about Hell's Kitchen at our house. It's one of the few shows I will actually record if I can't be home to watch. This past Monday, though, presented us a real problem in getting to watch our show. Hell's Kitchen comes on at 8. On Monday at 6:30, a severe thunderstorm moved...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Keep Your Hands Off My Car!
I got something in the mail yesterday that really has me seeing red. Apparently there is a bill making its way through Congress that seeks to limit the type of vehicles we can drive, the type of engines we can have in our vehicles, and the gas mileage of those vehicles. Whatever happened to the land...
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Thursday, June 7, 2007
Put the Pampered Princess Back in the Clink!
Paris Hilton wouldn't stop crying, and, in a mere 72 hours of lockup time, was "sinking into a deep depression," so they let her out. Sure, she's confined to home, but, crikey!, have you seen her home?! Look, the spoiled little brat broke the law. And she needs to pay the penalty. And she needs to...
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Monday, June 4, 2007
Hell's Kitchen -- the "Kitchen B--ches"
Gordon Ramsay has his work cut out for him this go-round on Hell's Kitchen. Now, I want to say first off that I find Chef Ramsay's foul-mouthed ranting to be very unprofessional and off-putting. But with the stress and pressure of running a top-notch fine-dining establishment, I suppose one's...
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Monday, May 28, 2007
Memorial Day
It's Memorial Day here in the States, and I'm off work. Seemed a good time to catch up on a lot of tasks, and since I haven't been able to blog for a week, writing a few posts was top of the list. It's Memorial Day. I remember. My brother, who was in Marine boot camp at Parris Island during the...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Want a Good Laugh?
This made me laugh so hard I almost fell out of my chair. You must use an address in North America for this to work. If you live elsewhere, pick a random US address like 200 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC, USA. First, open Google Earth on your computer. If you haven't already done so, you will...
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Monday, May 7, 2007
Lessons Learned at a Baseball Game
What they say is true: you can learn a lot of important life lessons playing baseball. Here are some lessons that my children learned this weekend. On Saturday, we got to the field about 15 minutes early. The rest of our team trickled in over the next ten minutes, and by game time, we had ten...
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Thursday, May 3, 2007
Tax Credits for Stay-Home Moms
It's an idea whose time needs to come. And come soon. Salary.com's most recent survey quantifying the wage equivalent of a stay-home mother's work shows that stay-home moms log 92-hour work weeks, and perform at least 10 discrete jobs, including day-car teacher, cook, housekeeper, and CEO. Yeah, you...
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Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Office Romance?
There's a time when you have to evaluate your behaviour based on the reactions that it gets from other people. There's a person in my office who, it is widely believed, is hooking up with another person in my office. The guy is a perennial flirt. He's even flirted with me, which I KNEW wasn't...
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