NEVER JET HOT

I was driving around listening to KISM classic rock out of Bellingham, they had an ad for a new Ace hardware opening up in Blaine this very weekend! It renews my faith in small business tenacity to hear that. There will probably be free hot dogs and a marching band and all manner of specials and deals. If I had this weekend free, I would make the trek north just to pick up some duct tape, and uh, batteries, maybe get a new sprinkler.

Dr. in Canada was having an affair with a gal in his office. Soon enough, she told him she was pregnant; The dr paid for her to go to the US, live there until the baby came. He instructed her to send a card w/the word SAUERKRAUT on it when she gave birth. About nine months later, his wife said that he got a rather strange postcard in the mail. It read; SAUERKRAUT,SAUERKRAUT, SAUERKRAUT -- TWO WITH WEINERS & ONE WITHOUT! (I tried to "Twitter" that but I couldn't make it short enough) (Had to google to get the spelling of "SAUERKRAUT" YMMV)

I've noticed an uptick in hits on our "Supervisor Appreciation Day" page. Could it be that the real holiday, I think they call it "Boss's Day", is approaching? Who cares?

I subscribe to a free service called "Plinky" that suggests ( "prompts" ) subjects to blog about. Just got the latest: What's the worst way you've ever dumped or been dumped by someone? Breakups are never easy. How did you or your significant other make it even worse? Now why did they have to go a and dredge that up? No, I don't want to talk about it!

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We are always desperate for traffic to our website. This is the online equivalent to having a guy in a gorilla suit waving at people by the highway.

A rather bossy sign in Thailand. It's at the entrance to a temple, hence the prohibition on dolly-dangling. From Gadling.com

... So I finally got the two sets of "Wonder Hangers" plus the soft hangers and the closet lights, total $19.99 which is reasonable, plus about $30 for shipping and handling, which is by no means reasonable. Contrary to the experience reported elsewhere on the Internet, the quality is good, the hangers are thick plastic and I can't imagine them breaking under normal use. However, in practice we found that you don't save much closet space, they use almost as much room as the same number of items hung on regular hangers. The closet lights are of good quality and very bright. I got them in about three weeks, the ad said to allow six, so I can't complain there. Probably what gets people all riled up about these, is the ridiculous S&H charge. It put me off of buying from TV ads, and when buying items online, from now on I won't click submit order unless I see the actual total first. Buyer beware. Hopefully there will be a class action suit that resu...

Great human interest story picked up by the Seattle P-I this morning, about two brothers exchanging the same birthday card since 1973. The card has a cartoon of a masked bandit on a motorcycle with the caption, "The Phantom Cheapo strikes again!" The card is getting full now, and it's all taped up. These days a person could go one better and send an email card instead. Now that's cheap!

I saw a pickup truck on it's side at milepost 205. A semi passed me just then and denied me the rubbernecking. Those horse pills for the diabetes are already working; normally I get thirsty as all get out toward the end of the shift, and dry mouth. Not so today. When I got home Petey grabbed a squeaky toy and started galloping all over the house with it. Who put a nickel in his jukebox?

Petey likes to pick up this green tennis ball that has been kicking around the Arlington airport trail for weeks, then I think it starts to taste icky and he drops it. I hope he doesn't get dog mono or something. I bought him his very own green tennis ball and he is completely uninterested. Go figure.

I was looking at one of those newspaper comment threads, and I had to laugh when I read this about Wal*Mart. It's funny because it's true! "Walmart is one store I will never go in to again. Every time I have ever been in one, the employees and customers all seem to be like zombies. Slow moving, and at appears that someone has taken their brains out and eaten them. I don't like it."