And now, most important of all, I’ll never have to worry about sitting next to needy annoying pirates. What airline can offer you so much!
Whoever wrote those commercials must have been having a blast.
There was no mid-April blog entry because I was in a small accident. On the morning of April 16, 2005, I went shopping at a local grocery store. I was pushing my shopping cart to my vehicle and had gotten halfway across the parking-lot road when a minivan turned left into me. She hit the…
I’ve really been noticing birds lately. Maybe its because they’re singing their little hearts out. The last several weeks, I’ve been watching woodpeckers in my neighborhood. They flit from palm tree to deciduous tree and back, occasionally pecking at the wood, but most of the time singing. I didn’t know that woodpeckers had such a…
I guess there are times when you need to be reminded that there are very superficial business people out there. Last week I got an email in response to my resume posted on Craig’s List. This is what it said: “Can you send references and salary history?” That’s it. No mention about what kind of…
I listen to a lot of radio, and therefore, a lot of radio commercials. My current favorite is for Cingular. A young man seeks the secret of happiness from a “master on the mountain.” It turns out that the secret to happiness is switching to the Cingular Nation plan and never standing on the left…
This weekend, one of the staff over at the New York Journal of Books shared this interesting article about book reviewing with all us reviewers. Apparently, an author was awarded a hefty sum for damages caused by a scathing book review. The article is a very interesting read and if you have any interest at…
Last night I caught up on some old The Simpsons episodes recorded by our Tivo. One of them was “Rosebud” where Mr. Burns longs for his childhood teddy bear, Bobo. It made me think of something that happened during our recent move out to Phoenix, Az. The day the movers drove our stuff from California…