Monthly Archive: May 2008

Poetic Justice 0

Poetic Justice

Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, a local family built a gas station/convenience store in a little rural town. Everybody knew everybody, and it was a fairly clean, family oriented...

Please Consider the Environment 4

Please Consider the Environment

I’ve noticed this email signature showing up in more and more emails lately: Please consider the environment before printing this email Why not print the email if I want/need to?  My take on this...

Large Corporations Contributing to Economic Slowdown 2

Large Corporations Contributing to Economic Slowdown

For those of you who know me, yes, this is a gripe about the company I work for.  For those of you who don’t know me, it is still a gripe about the company...

A Productive Weekend 1

A Productive Weekend

It was a good weekend.  I’m worn out from it, but it was fun.  On Friday, when I got off work I got some new tires put on the truck.  They were needed badly. ...

Skimpy Prom Dress Gets Teen Handcuffed 0

Skimpy Prom Dress Gets Teen Handcuffed

First of all, I won’t link to anything related to this because there are pictures everywhere, and this is a family friendly site.  But if you’ve seen the news today you’ve probably seen at...

“Free Range Kids” 0

“Free Range Kids”

I’ve never heard of Free Range Kids until just a few minutes ago.  Growing up as a kid, I pretty much fit the criteria of what a free range kid is, because I was...

Pit Bull In a Truck 0

Pit Bull In a Truck

Some guy in Northern California went outside to work on his pickup and caught a big surprise.  A Pit Bull had chewed his way through some wires from underneath the truck and wound up...

Keep Your Pennies 0

Keep Your Pennies

Apparently it costs more than 1 cent to make a penny these days with the rising costs of metals.  I wonder if the metal in the penny is actually worth more than 1 cent,...

Outlook Add-On 0

Outlook Add-On

As much as I dislike Microsoft and its products, unfortunately they are here to stay.  I am forced to use them at work because they love paying too much for corporate applications.  But that’s...

What to Do With Your Stimulus Check 2

What to Do With Your Stimulus Check

By now, everyone in the USA has heard that they’ll be receiving an economic stimulus check from the IRS this year.  Some of you may have already received yours.  I’m still waiting for mine...