I usually don’t bother watching the NHL All-Star Game because it’s not even close to being “real” hockey. But today I didn’t really have anything better to do, so I ended up tuning in. As expected, there was plenty of scoring, as Team Lidstrom (god, these team names are stupid) defeated Team Staal 11-10. Patrick [...]
Archive for January, 2011
I just discovered that the sink in the downstairs powder room is chipped. We have one of those pedestal sinks down there, and the base has a gouge about the size of a nickel in it. I have no idea how it got there, but have a feeling my son had a hand it. I [...]
I usually pay careful attention to my household budget and make sure we have enough to cover our bills (unless something unexpected comes up), but the past couple months have been hard. The holidays meant I had a bigger credit card bill than usual (as well as higher energy bills), and there was a significant [...]
I usually don’t pay much attention to Oscar nominations and snubs, but this year I couldn’t help but notice that Andrew Garfield, the guy who played Eduardo Saverin, one of the co-founders of Facebook who subsequently sued Mark Zuckerberg after essentially being forced out of the company. I thought Garfield turned in a tremendous performance [...]
I sometimes miss working with other people. I used to have a job in a testing lab where I measured various products with all sorts of cool tools like micrometers, coordinate measuring machines, hardness testers, and tension testers. I was very good friends with some of the people I worked with, and used to have [...]
Well, I haven’t been able to post about this game until now, because I was pretty bummed about how the Bears played. I was certainly hoping for a lot more from the offense when Jay Cutler was in, and then was horrified to see the team turn to Todd Collins yet again, despite knowing how [...]
Ugh, I saw some limited edition Banana Twinkies at the grocery store last night and ended up buying a couple of boxes. Is it any wonder that I spend half my time online reading through diet pill reviews and wondering why I’m not losing weight? I know I need to stop these impulse purchases, but [...]