Adam's Thoughts and Ponderings
I really want to go to Chicago and watch the Cardinals come into town to play the Cubs. They do that twice this year, once in August and again in September.
I know this is a big sports rivalry, but it just doesn’t seem fair to the public to have all those games in the series completely sold out from the official box office. The only way to get tickets is to buy them from scalpers or online ticket resellers. That just seems wrong.
I see that Yahoo has introduced two new email service extensions to their free emails: @rocketmail and @ymail. I guess the @ymail is a slam on Google for their @gmail accounts.
I got my very first email account at MSN about 20 years ago. I had one at AOL for a while but didn’t like the AOL service and gave it up, although I have to admit that a few other times over the years I would get suckered into signing up with AOL again for accessibility issues or some reason. But AOL just never did it for me.
I can’t get past the fact that I was invited to go to work for them when they first opened offices back in the 80’s. When I went for the interview and took a tour of their offices, I was struck by how stressed out and anxious everyone seemed. There was absolutely no laughter or happiness evident in any of the cubicles or offices.
I knew after that tour that I didn’t want to work in an office environment like that. Quality of life is more important to me than the paycheck. So I turned them down and have had a bad taste for AOL ever since.
What is the deal with all these weird sayings printed on the inside of the bottle caps on Sobe drinks? The new version of fortune cookies?
I can’t pay top dollar at the convenience stores for a bottle of flavored water. At the local Dailey’s stores, the Sobe drinks are $2 and sometimes $2.29 for just one bottle. But they do go on sale every once in a while at the local grocery, so when they are featured “10 bottles for $10” I will stock up.
This week I’ve enjoyed two bottles of the Sobe green tea. It’s an acquired taste but now I’m hooked. I also like the citrus and the Nirvana flavors.
Under the bottle cap of the first one it says, “Scorch Muffins.” WTF is that? A band? Instructions?
Under the bottle cap of the second one it says, “You’re kind of a big deal.” Well, YEAH!
As a kid we had English Muffins in the pantry just about any given day of the week. It was a staple that we bought every week at the grocery store.They couldn’t be just ANY English Muffins – they had to be Thomas’ English Muffins. The ones with the “nooks and crannies” for the melting butter to run down and pool up in little delicious butter puddles for each bite.
The English Muffins are much more than a breakfast bread. I eat them in the afternoon as a snack, with a coating of peanut butter on top that melts down into the nooks and crannies and makes each bite a smooth delicious mix of muffin and sweet peanut butter.
Sometimes we use English Muffins in place of hamburger buns . . . gives a grilled burger and your favorite toppings a whole new take on delicious.
Does anybody that is not a practicing Wicken even know what Beltane is? Does anyone understand the origin of the May Day celebration?
I don’t recall learning any of this in school. You would think that with all those years sitting in a classroom with all those different teachers and all those different subjects, that someone would have introduced a mention of the ancient days in England and the surrounding countries.
World History is a lot more than just World War I and World War II. I honestly don’t remember anything else from school about world history. Everything that I’ve learned about the world has been from documentaries on TV, books from the library and bookstore and the internet. There is a lot to learn about other places and other people’s cultures.
Americans are being shortchanged not learning these things – or at least being introduced to some of the topics for further independent research – in the public schools and colleges.
I hate paying taxes on April 15.
To me, if I have to pay money in on tax day then I screwed up figuring out how much I will owe at the end of the year and didn’t have my withholding set correctly. No one should have to pay in more taxes on April 15th if they paid the right amount through the year from their payroll withholding.
The worst hit are the people who work for 1099’s. Having to keep up with forms and schedules and deadlines is really hard for a lot of people. Surely there is an easier way to handle collecting and figuring out how to pay your fair share. why doesn’t the Government take a set amount from everyone and just call it even instead of going through all this crap everyone April?
I have to say that I check the ESPN web site every day – at least once and sometimes more than that. I even saved the site as a quick link on my blog so I can get to it quick. If I wouldn’t get in trouble at work, I’d leave the ESPN site up on my screen all day as the default – only clicking away when I needed to work on MS Word or Excel.
Some of my buddies want to find a sports bar to hang out on the weekends. I’m not that big on watching a game in a crowded noisy place unless it is the arena or stadium, but I might give it a try and see if you can really watch the game and hear what’s going on. Or do you just go for the beer?
Every Thursday I listen to sports talk radio. It’s FM, but I know there are some decent AM stations out there and if I’m driving late at night I might surf the AM airwaves for something different.
I do listen to Jim Rome. He’s a bit of an ass but he is plugged in and has some good interviews. I hate the callers who read their “call” from a written script like third graders struggling to read aloud in class from their Dick and Jane primers.
Dan Patrick puts on a good show but he’s a pompous ass, too. I’m starting to think that the ass syndrome is part of the radio hiring requirements.
Our local boys do a better job with their show. George Plaster is a good host and another with the ass syndrome. But he has access and that’s what I’m paying for, I guess. Plus, when I really have something to say, he will take my call.
So, in the words of another radio pompous ass, “Well, there you go.”
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