Please Stop Telling Me How Great Costco Is
Pet Peeve of the Day: Proselytizing about Costco.
Enough, already. I believe you! Costco is obviously the greatest store in the world! They have everything under the sun for fantastic prices. Their food is to die for. Yes, yes, I know. I don’t think I’ve ever set foot in one, [...]
The Musical Albatross
Pet Peeve of the Day: Too much good music to listen to.
Boo hoo! Cry for me! Cry for the whiny little baby! I have too much music! I’m not buying very many CDs anymore – heck, I’ve only bought nine in 2008 so far, and five of those were Kayak CDs. No, the [...]
The Price Of Zoom
Pet Peeve of the Day: Bureaucracy.
This is a followup to my earlier post(s) about getting a Hybrid HOV Exemption – a permit that lets me drive my Prius in the HOV (High Occupancy Vehicle) lanes in Colorado during rush hour even though there is no one else in the car. Woo hoo! I [...]
Change Of Climate
Pet Peeve of the Day: Having to turn the furnace on in August. I got up this morning and it was like 65° in the house, so I turned on the furnace to get it up to a toasty 69 or so. It’s been raining mostly non-stop for the past few days and [...]
Almost Got Me
Pet Peeve of the Day: Server malfunctions.
Yesterday, the streak came very close to ending. “The streak”, of course, refers to the number of consecutive days of blog posting. I’ve been doing it every day since 10/30/07, which by my reckoning makes this the 291st daily post in a row. Originally, I was [...]
The Pirate’s Breakfast
Movie Review Sunday! I watched two discs yesterday.
The first one was A Dog’s Breakfast. This is a little low-budget comedy made by some of the Stargate Atlantis and SG-1 people during their hiatus from the show. I think I ran across it when Netflixing the new direct-to-DVD Stargate movies. If you [...]