Month: August, 2008

I. Hate. eBay.

I hate eBay. Yesterday was almost the worst day of my life. Imagine everything in your world that could go wrong at once — then double it. That was my day. I’m late picking up Mavis. When I get the third response from eBay’s ridiculous excuse for customer support, and it’s the same old tired [...]

Son of 50 More Trivial Things

I was searching finkweb for a photo this morning, and ran across this post from back in May. Ah, May. Maius horribilis. I hated everything in May. And almost everyone. Except you. So I decided to put off today’s post until tomorrow in favor of riding the stream-of-consciousness bus today. Hence… Son of 50 More [...]

Goliath wins – for now

Props to New York Giants fans everywhere, but really, the Super Bowl champions (their benches, anyhow) got a bit more than they bargained for last night with the injury-plagued (already) Browns. The Browns just keep *almost* getting it right. I’m not as disappointed about the 37-34 loss last night (I mean, it was a 30-3 [...]

Seven

Ok, so I stole this idea from another blog I happened upon this morning. I liked it because it made me write out a list. Prioritize. (“But, I want fifty things on my lists…”) I’m a terrible list-maker, you know; anyone in my family can tell you that (especially the Thriller). So this was good [...]

This con was a pro

I’ve followed the case of “Clark Rockefeller” with interest. Last night I read that the FBI finally figured out who he is. No small task, as he had used at least four different aliases in the almost 30 years he lived in the US. Turns out he’s one Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, born in Germany. It’s [...]