There’s no cheerleading in baseball.
We got a letter from our waste disposal company today.
It turns out that they’ve used our hard-earned fees to buy some spiffy new trucks. Now the waste disposal specialists don’t have to handle anything that might resemble garbage. Your “tote” (formerly known as a “garbage can”) gets picked up and its contents are [...]
Like many Americans, I wonder why the cost of postage keeps going up.
Yes, I know pretty much all prices rise, with the exception of high tech gadgets (though HDTV is still beyond our budget).
But it seems as though by the time I can figure out how much a first class stamp costs, the USPS raises [...]
January 31, 2008 – 11:52 am
As you may recall, I had to switch doctors last year due to an insurance change.
Several months later, my new doctor closed up shop and moved out of town. Her parting letter assured patients that a replacement was on the way.
The replacement apparently got a better offer, because she never materialized.
So here I am, [...]
January 23, 2008 – 7:22 am
(Today’s “Thought for the Day” is courtesy of a neighbor with some vigilante tendencies.)
If you spy people driving around your neighborhood in the middle of the night with headlights off, then creeping up on porches, you might want to call the police instead of loading your gun, jumping out at them, and firing a shot [...]
November 13, 2007 – 9:06 pm
Apparently there are still people out there who believe that (insert name of just about any company here) can somehow track their forwarded emails and will send them a gift certificate for sending on an email about their company.
Just in case you are one of these suckers non-techno-savvy people, this is not only not true, [...]
November 6, 2007 – 8:19 am
It’s Election Day here in the Commonwealth. And besides being one of the few states to call itself a “commonwealth,” we are also one of the few to hold elections for statewide offices in non-Congressional race years.
Which means that we do not get this year off from all those annoying political phone calls (funny how [...]
August 20, 2007 – 2:35 pm
Well, probably not. I just received one of those standard spam messages from some stranger wanting to transfer $15.5 million to me.
This one, however, was a little nervewracking in that it was personalized. The subject heading had both my maiden and married names, and the body of the text refers to someone in the UK [...]
Dear Driver of the White Jaguar:
You may be wondering why the back end of your car was hanging so far out of the space in the supermarket parking lot.
That would be because it was not a parking space at all. I’m not sure where you come from, but around here we call those metal bars that were [...]
Would you believe that the air conditioning is still out? The manufacturer reshipped the part, and it arrived Friday. Broken again. They’re blaming the shipping company. I think they need to take a look at their packaging. The new plan is to ship the part on one of their own trucks, because apparently they will care [...]
