- For some reason I’m having formatting issues and I can fix the problem. In case you haven’t noticed, the sidebar is empty and is placed at the bottom of the page. Sorry for the inconvenience.
- I’m going to adopt a practice I learned from some fellow bloggers and no longer post my own comments. Y’all can post as many comments as you want, but I think I’m just going to keep my thoughts to myself. If I feel the need to answer a question or respond to a post, I’ll email you using the email address you provided when making a comment. So if you want to hear from me, give me a valid email address.
- What was that ‘test’ posting all about last week? Well, I just learned how to blog using my cell phone. Speaking of which, I’m going to try a BON experiement this weekend.
One of my buddies is nice enough to take me and some friends to Vegas this weekend. I’m extremely thankful for his generosity. He says I got too much going on right now, and I need to get away. I’m also thankful wifeGeeding is letting me go with no questions asked. Why am I telling you this?
I plan on taking pictures in Vegas with the camera in my phone and making random posts this weekend. Should be fun. Back in Nov 2004 I kept a running diary of the Vegas trip on my old blog. I’m not sure if I’m going to do that again, but who knows.
Anyone have Vegas suggestions?
It’s that time of year again
I escorted wifeGeeding into Michael’s over the weekend, and this is what I saw:
I’m not sure if this is only a Texas thing or not, but for those of you that don’t know what’s in this picture, its called a homecoming mum.
When highschools have their homecoming football game, for some reason boyfriends or parents buy girls mums to wear to school the day and night of homecoming. I always hated the existence of these things for several reasons. Not only are they big and ugly, and cost a lot of cash, but most of them have small cowbells on them. That’s right, cowbells, and that is all you would hear all friggin’ day at school. It still gives me a headache.
How much do they cost? I’m not really sure since I never bought one, but I think the average price is around $75 to $100. But as you can see in the picture posted below, you can even pay $299 for one.
iGallop
WifeGeeding and I were in the mall, and we noticed a new exercise machine in Brookstone called the iGallop. That’s right, it simulates riding a horse, all for about $500.
It’s suppose to work your core muscles, but to tell you the truth, it just makes you look goofy, for instance, here’s wifeGeeding trying not to fall off. Look ma, no hands!
Born Without Fingerprints
The lack of fingerprints can cause vexing social problems, which are magnified because few people have heard of the condition.
Cheryl Maynard of Fairfax, Virginia, is part of the fifth generation of her family to have inherited DPR from her mother’s side.
Maynard has personally experienced many fingerprint-related snafus, often related to employment.
She works as a flight attendant and noted that a standard background check by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, which took about 2 weeks for most of her peers, took 14 weeks in her case.
“I applied for work at a jail facility, and they were naturally fingerprinting people who were going to be employees,” she said.
“I kept hearing, Of course you have fingerprints. And five or six different technicians were telling one another, You’re doing this wrong, let me do this. I have to tell them I was born without them.”