Sprouting out of lawns everywhere are another indication that spring is here – For Sale signs. On our street, in the 1/4 mile to the stop sign, there are 3 houses for sale. Well, technically only two because when the realtor put up their sign at one house, it already had the cute SOLD banner across the top.
Everyday when my wife packs up a lunch for me she includes 4-6 cookies for my morning snack.
My current favorite is Archway Iced Molasses Cookies, but I do rotate between a few different ones, so I don’t get burnt out on them. As a matter of fact this week we are having Oreo’s…
One of my all-time favorite morning snack cookies was Sunshine Co.’s Lemon Coolers. A few years ago they stopped showing up on the grocery store shelves, I figured it was just where I was shopping, but pretty soon it dawned on me you couldn’t get them anywhere. What happened was Sunshine Bakery was bought out by Keebler and those rat-bastard little elves in their hollow tree stopped making ’em.
While getting the links for yesterday’s Girl Scout cookie post, I noticed that one of the bakeries made something called a Lemon Cooler. Hot Dang! I started to formulate a plan to drive around to shopping centers this weekend and cornering the market on Lemon Cooler Girl Scout cookies. Of the four boxes Donna ordered, none were the coolers. As luck would have it though, the woman we bought our four from had a box that someone ordered but didn’t want. We didn’t have the $3.50 on us, but promised to gladly pay her Tuesday for a box today.
I ripped open the box and popped one of the half-moon shaped cookies into my mouth. Mmmm…wait a minute, they’re close, but not the same. Something was missing. I looked at the box and realized what it was, the fat. Right there on the front it says “Reduced Fat.”
Oh, well, on the bright side, I just saved a bunch of money.
What’s up with the blue lines in the snow? I can almost understand the ones that are marking a corridor down the hill, but if you don’t get points off for skiing outside the lines, why bother? And just what purpose do the ones perpendicular to the course serve? The lines are all fuzzy too. This is the Olympics, man, every 4 years, big worldwide audience, couldn’t you get them a little sharper?
Super G? Is there a Regular G?
Giant Slalom, same question? (And is it just me or does the word slalom look misspelled?)
Curling. Enough said.
If Skeleton is the opposite of the Luge, why don’t we have Backwards Bobsledding?
I’m thinking that those women’s ice dancing costumes might be sexy with all that “skin” showing, if they didn’t look like they were designed by the eliminees of Bravo’s show Runway.
Who designed the medals? They look colored CDs on a ribbon. And why does it take 6 people 10 hours to make one?
So far the coolest thing about the Olympics was in the surreal opening ceremony, red-clad in-line skaters with specially designed flame-shooting helmets. I gotta get me one of those. Wait here while I go check Ebay….nope, but it is only a matter of time.
Since rejoining Netflix on New Years’ weekend I have viewed and returned 6 discs. Every time I have mailed one back it has been received the very next day. The same day they have received a returned disc they have mailed one back to me. Four of the six have arrived in my mail box the very next day. The other 2 spanned a weekend, one of which was a 3-day holiday, which made the disc’s arrival a little late.
Movie #7 is another story, the sixth disc got back them the next day, a Wednesday, but the email informing me my next selection was shipped didn’t come until the next day, Thursday. The email informed me that I should expect my movie on or about Monday, not the expected Friday. So has Netflix started throttling me already?
In my quick research tonight on the subject, it seems that most people are experiencing this “smoothing” in relation to New Releases. That is definitely not the case with my next selection, Written on the Wind from 1956. But I also read that Netflix was aiming at keeping it’s subscribers cost to rent at around $2 a disc. The throttling is well documented, with the internet publishing of a customer service rep’s reply to a subscriber and the class action suit settlement. The $2 limit is hearsay for now, but seeing as I’m on the $10 a month plan, it appears that this slowdown for disc#7 is about right to keep me at that magic number.
First we added bread sticks. Then it was stuffed crust pizza. Then two crusts with one on top. We’ve had Thin, thick and deep dish. Square shapes. Four separate pizzas in the same box. Two for Two. Three for three. Five for five. They keep inventing new gimmicks to get you to keep ordering their pizzas. The latest, unveiled using a Super Bowl commercial is break free cheese stuffed bits of bread around the edge.
They just don’t get it, make a good tasting pizza and people will come back without having to resort to trickery.
None of the galleries of my pictures is working. I wonder how long that has been? I have been using a program called Simple PHP Gallery. A while back I went to the home page of the author to check for updates, but discovered that the web page was unavailable. There was a little note from the hosting company asking if I was the owner and would I like to renew my agreement…The script was still working so I just ignored that.
Something must have changed on my host to alter the way the script works, but I’ll be danged if I know what that might be. Might have happened in the recent spam attack or some upgrade of a pearl module or whatever. Guess I’ll be hunting up a new picture gallery method.
Regular readers will know that I’m struggling with my fledgling home network. Setting up the Linksys WRT54G wireless router was no snap, but I did manage to get both to wired desktop and wireless laptop to share an internet connection in short order. Sharing files and printers has been another story.
Last night after reading on the Linksysinfo.org forums and thanks to this one post with a nice little checklist, I finally managed to get the 2 PCs to talk to each other. I had most of the items taken care of already, but the thing I did that turned the tide was turn off DHCP and give the two computers there own IP address. After rebooting everything I was in business, woohoo.
One small problem, neither PC could access the internet!
To quote my favorite British Prime Minister:
Margaret Thatcher: “It’s a funny old world.”