Good behavior by restaurant staff – again

I posted the other day about how an alert waiter in Colorado Springs recently prevented a woman from being victimized - by a drug placed in her drink by her date while she was away from their table. 
Yesterday I read another story about the good deeds of restaurant staff.   Details here and below the fold if the [...]

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Hurry! Join the wrinklies class action suit now!

My Inner Snark has been having fun with a comment recently submitted to my post “Anything but Pink.”   From someone we’ll call “Minnie.”  Which is NOT what she called herself when submitting her comment, so all you real live Minnies out there who are also starting lawsuits, this is not about you, OK?
Anyway, I’ve held the comment in the moderation queue while deciding [...]

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Adjusting

Thanks to Fighting Windmills for asking, I’m getting adjusted to having these braces on my teeth.  I’m even able to eat again.  No fear that The Pigout Queen here would ever fall victim to any condition that would keep her from eating for any serious length of time.  Like three hours or more.
I’m busy – [...]

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Stats

I made up a term for a condition I have in a very mild form, but just enough to notice:  numbers dyslexia.  (And no, I haven’t looked it up to see if there is such a thing recognized and named by the experts.)  The thing is, I occasionally transpose digits.  Besides generally having trouble memorizing phone [...]

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Ink-stained riches

I hear that the future of American newspapers is in doubt.  Which makes me sad.  As much as I love rooting around online, I also love hearing the slap of today’s local daily hitting the doorstep, and paging through the paper while sipping the day’s first cup of coffee.  And I’m even used to having [...]

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Shakes, seeds and the pik

After 36 hours wearing them, I think that getting these braces may have been one of the worst decisions I ever made.
They hurt.  Although I can slap bits of wax on the worst poking bits for a little relief.  
And eating is pretty much unbearable.  Chewing with all those foreign objects attached to all my teeth?  [...]

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Never thought I’d live to see it

The pig-out queen here doesn’t want to eat.  Who would have thought?
I’m staring at my bowl of cereal and yogurt.  It’s cereal that I like, and yogurt that I like.  (I have cereal with yogurt instead of milk because my tummy likes that better.)
There’s nothing wrong with it.  I know that this modest breakfast will [...]

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Clutter and change and letting things slide

I mentioned here the other day that I’ve realized I pretty much hate almost all of my furniture.  I didn’t say so then, but the sad truth is, I’ve Allowed Things to Slide around the condo.  As Garrison Keillor explained in his recent newspaper column, they are at present working hard at cleaning over at [...]

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Not the most tactful shopping suggestion

If you shop at amazon.com you may have noticed that the friendly folks there always suggest a second product you could buy along with the item you are looking at. 
If you’re looking at a book, amazon.com will often suggest another book by the same author, or on the same subject.  If you’re browsing a software product, you [...]

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Smile

I used to hate it back in high school, when I would be walking down the hall between classes or something and somebody, usually a guy, would look at me and bark “Smile!” like it was an order or something.  Like maybe I wasn’t providing the proper high school background crowd scene for his damn day. 
Not [...]

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W00t

Fightingwindmills asked a very good question yesterday:  what’s the origin of “woot” – also spelled “w00t”?
After fooling around with irreverent responses to her question, I decided to act like the responsible educated adult I play in real life.   And look it up.
The Urban Dictionary has several pages of definitions of Woot/W00t.  The top one says:
Woot [...]

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Comment from the TV front

7:30 p.m., Sunday night.  Watching the Super Bowl.  Fourth quarter, NY Giants are leading, Patriots just got a first down inside the 10.
When I started watching this game, early in the second quarter, I really didn’t care which team wins this.
But I am so tired of hearing the relentlessly pro-Patriots yammering of the Fox sportscasters [...]

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Reports from the cultural front

Last night I had dinner with friends at the new Limelight Supper Club.  I had salmon; the meal was good and the service almost too enthusiastic – no doubt a reaction to a recent newspaper column slamming the Kevin Taylor restaurants, including the Limelight, for shoddy service. 
The Limelight’s just opened in a space formerly occupied [...]

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Getting down to basics

A few weeks ago I finally realized what’s wrong with my condo.  Why I don’t feel happy when I’ve finished cleaning and tidying the rooms.
I don’t like my furniture.  I do like the large oriental area rug in my living room that cost more than a month’s salary two years ago.  I have some bits of [...]

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Done.

Thank you, TurboTax.
It is 11:05 a.m. on February 2, 2008. 
I have just completed, printed, copied and signed my 2007 federal and state income tax returns. 
Because I’m getting refunds, they will be in the mail later today.
Sometimes, I just adore technology.
Of course, it didn’t hurt that for nine months last year, I was retired and had [...]

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