Anybody with kids will appreciate these rules.
Month: September 2004
If That Isn’t Ironic
Sara Lee has always made a great deal of frozen food, so when you’re looking for a missing retired Sara Lee exec, you might find him in the fridge. Link via TheDren.
Honey, I’m Home
Have a pile of links to post over the next couple days, will get to them later. Meanwhile, we had a good trip to the coast — beautiful sunny day on Friday — and enjoyed the weekend. But I do know that I’m not going on a trip with a one-year-old again — ever. While she was generally pretty good, we had to keep an eye on her all the time. My grandparents live right on Hwy. 101 on the Oregon coast, and if we weren’t watching her, she would’ve bolted onto the highway. One thing’s for sure, we’re not going anywhere until she’s older. We needed this vacation, needed a break, etc… . It was certainly nice to get out of the house, that’s for sure. I’m not entirely looking forward to going back to work tomorrow, but what are you going to do — the bills have to be paid after all.
Back to regular blogging tomorrow after I get through all my e-mail and RSS feeds.
Heading Out For A Vacation
No blogging until Sunday at the earliest. I’m heading out on a much needed vacation tomorrow morning, leaving my laptop at home. I’m heading over to Salem Thursday morning, playing at the A.C. Gilbert Discovery Village with the kids, hit the Salem Carousel, have a nice dinner, and then sleep. Wake up the next morning, head over to the Oregon Coast Rockaway, specifically), maybe stop and sample some cheese. Stay a couple nights at my grandparents beach house on the lake there. Come back Sunday. Sleep. Go to work on Monday.
See you on Sunday, folks. I don’t have MovableType’s scheduled publishing feature setup yet, so I can’t pre-write a bunch of posts for the weekend. I left you with a bunch of links to read and digest today, so have fun.
For those of you on my mailing list, I apologize as you’ll see these same links for a couple days as I can’t get the thing to not send when there isn’t anything different. Sorry.
Why Condoms Are Good
Otherwise you end up with demon-spawn kids that pull stunts like this. Thanks Greg for the hilarious commercial.
Want to Save On Your Amazon Purchase?
If you use the Amazon’s new A9 search engine (which is actually a pretty slick system), you’ll get approximately 1.5% off your Amazon purchase. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me, and a great incentive for people to use the search engine.
On a side note, if you want to send a few pennies my way, you can search for Amazon goods using the form on this site (down in the right column). I think I’ve gotten a total about $.43 (yes, there is a decimal-point there) from it, but I figured I’d plug it anyway.
What A Sad World
Barry Bonds’ 700th home run ball was in the hands of an 11-year-old kid before the greedy, heartless buttheads in the stands tore it away from him.
A Simple Profit Scheme
This goes under the “Why hasn’t anybody else thought of this?” category:
1) Create duplicate of local parking tickets.
2) Modify them to contain your PO Box.
3) Distribute
4) Profit.
Or something like that.
Oprah Car Giveaway Not Totally Free
Leave it to the Government to screw up a great gift:
It turns out that free car wasn’t so free.
That’s because while Pontiac agreed to pay for most of the local charges — things like state sales tax and licensing fees — the recipients have to report the cars as income once tax time comes.
By adding $28,500 to someone’s income, it can push them into a higher tax bracket — which means they will have to pay about 25 percent or more of the car’s value in taxes. And for a nearly $30,000 car, that probably means, for most of the recipients, shelling out $7,125 for the “free car.”
Arrest Made in Drake Park Slaying
And he’s one scary looking S.O.B. Previous story about the discovery of the body here.