All Opinion Items
Walmart Line Cutters
Posted February 21, 2011
It's a given that going to Walmart can be an experience - almost like a visit to a different world. As the popular site, PeopleOfWalmart.com, it can be a visual experience. Or a downright frustrating one as I had tonight.
Youth today vs. yesterday
Posted February 7, 2011
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways...yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
Communication Breakdown
Posted January 22, 2010
Let's face it - we are more dialed in than ever. We carry around our Smart Phones, we have wireless internet on our Netbooks etc. We are almost NEVER unreachable. But wait a minute. Is that true? How many times do you call someone on their cell and they don't answer? Seems to me that before everyone and their cat had a cell phone, people actually answered their phones on a much higher percentage than they do in our current 'ultra-connected' society.
Going on a Witch Hunt for something 'normal'
Posted June 13, 2009
I seem to go through this a lot...I'll be preparing a recipe that calls for a pretty ordinary ingredient - in this case, it was red food coloring. I had watched Bobby Flay's Throwdown show and he did a Red Velvet Cake. Intrigued, I decided I wanted to try my hand at this.
Car Pool Lane Cheaters
Posted April 22, 2009
What is it with some people thinking they are above the law? My commute to work takes me up the Nasty Nimitz into Oakland. Many times I am on my Harley and therefore allowed to use the Diamond Lane. I'll be going pretty quick - 75 or 80 - and then it happens. Someone is bearing down on me because they want to do 100 or so...and I move over.