I’m thinking of taking up scrapbooking as a hobby. I was at a friend’s house the other day, and she totally wowed me with all her scrapbooks. What a fantastic (and fun) way to preserve photos, wedding invitations, graduation announcements, and all the other mementos that we accumulate over the course of a lifetime. I’m [...]
Archive for September, 2011
To be honest, I couldn’t even watch the whole game. I turned it off when there was still plenty of time left in the 4th quarter. Jay Cutler had just thrown his second pick of the day and the Bears offense had mustered all of 2 net rushing yards to that point. And all that [...]
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born 115 years ago today, on September 24, 1896. He is one of my favorite writers, and had a major impact on my formative teen years, so I will certainly be taking a moment to recall and appreciate his works. So we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaselessly [...]
I don’t know when this started, but I was recently checking out my local library’s website and noticed patrons can now “check out” books for the Kindle! Previously, ebooks were only available in EPUB or Mobi format, which meant they couldn’t be read on Kindle. But now I guess Amazon, the publishing houses, and libraries [...]
Thank god the new TV season is here! I watched Castle last night, and am anxiously awaiting the premieres of NCIS, Modern Family, Criminal Minds, Community, The Good Wife, and the rest of the shows that I love! Say what you want about what the “boob tube” does to brain cells, but I have been [...]
How can the same team look so vastly different from one week to the next? After handling the Atlanta Falcons with little trouble in the season opener, the Bears looked godawful against the New Orleans Saints today. The offense could get nothing going outside of some screens to Matt Forte, and QB Jay Cutler was [...]
Obama’s AttackWatch.com is the joke of the Internet!
Posted: 16th September 2011 by T.F.P. in Check it outHahaha, in yet another move that shows how thin-skinned Barack Obama is, his campaign has set up a site called Attack Watch, where concerned Obama supporters can report rumors, untruths, and other verbal attacks against the president. There is a form to fill out on the site, with a dropdown menu giving you a list [...]