Today’s thought for the day is courtesy of Mr. B.
If you’re going to go swimming with a cell phone in your pocket, do it the month a month before you upgrade your phone with a two-year commitment, not the month after.
Once you reach the age where your short-term memory starts to go, you might want to write down those great blog post ideas as soon as they occur so you don’t end up facing a blank screen wondering what it was that seemed like such a winner just an hour or two ago.
You might not want to try to turn on your microwave’s night light in the dark, or you may inadvertently press the wrong buttons and turn on the oven’s child lock, then have to find the manual to learn how to turn it the lock off again so you can use the microwave.
If you potty trained your youngest child in 1997 and are checking out at Target and the last item of the shopper in front of you is a large box of Pampers, you might want to make sure the cashier doesn’t scan them into your order or you may have a nasty case of sticker [...]
While empty produce bags can come in handy for scooping out the cat litter box, you might want to find another use for those plastic potato sacks with the air holes in them.
If you schedule your March mortgage payment by electronic transfer, you might want to make sure that you haven’t already set up the whole year as automatic transfers, or you may end up making your April payment a month early and requiring some fancy financial management to make it through the rest of the month.
February 21, 2008 – 8:34 am
If you are a good college football player with hopes of making the pros, armed robbery is probably not a smart career move.
Update: For those thinking the coach jumped the gun (pardon the expression), here’s a little more info on the case.
January 29, 2008 – 11:33 am
If you delete a user account and XP shows you a message about saving that user’s files in a folder on your desktop, that message is a prompt, not a promise. Save them yourself as XP is not going to do it automatically.
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 [...]
December 28, 2007 – 11:13 am
It’s rather scary to feel a sneeze coming on while a dentist is using sharp implements in your mouth.
