Tag: Life

Paula Little, you’ve just finished your first semester of graduate school… what are you going to do now?

Thanks Denise for the tip on this Jamba Juice coupon: http://jambajuice.com/menuguide/featuredproducts.html

Starting tomorrow (12/1) people on the west coast will be able to request a free credit report at http://www.annualcreditreport.com/.  This new service will eventually be available to the whole country but is starting with the western states first, allowing the bureaus to do a gradual roll out (can you say beta test?).

I’ll likely be one of the early people who runs out and signs up for a credit report, using my personal information to shake the bugs out of the new system.  I’m sure everything will be just fine, what’s the worst that could happen? 🙂

The first states are: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.  For more information MSNBC ran a story on the subject a few days ago: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6576905/

You know they didn’t put this page up recently, but the number of things to see in Iraq makes me sad that the human race is so screwed up.  One more place I’m likely to never see in my lifetime.

On the entertaining side, I do like Atlas Tours’s tag line: “We are sincere”.  If we’re rude and obnoxious, don’t fret, you know we mean it. 🙂

Ever wonder where those turkeys come from and where they go?  National Geographic published an article in 2001 with some interesting details (like the trainers spend a lot of time dressed in blue clothing to mimic white house suits to socialize the turkeys).

I’ve always been jealous of my nephews and nieces with their bubblegum flavored toothpaste.  I’d buy some for myself but I’m assuming there’s something about the kids toothpaste that isn’t industrial-strength enough for gr’ups. 

But lo, what have we here?  Cruising Target the other day looking for the Shrek boxed set I came upon Colgate Cinnamon Spice tooth paste.  I couldn’t pass it up.  Mmmm tasty.  It’s the next best thing to brushing your teeth with maple syrup (not that I’ve tried… honest).

After complaining in jest about my wife I realized something…

…we have a really, really comfortable couch positioned nicely in front of our home theatre system… having to sleep on the couch for the night is not such a bad thing.

Now, if Paula ever figures out a good way to lock the refrigerator…

Well, we wondered if it would ever happen… but it did.  Dick proposed to Trina.  Congratulations you two! (Everybody else, check out the proposal story, it’ll make you teary :)).

I think the best thing is that in a show of Victorian geekiness they have maintained separate XBoxes… to share an XBox before being married just wouldn’t be appropriate, the neighbors would talk.