My first used car cost substantially less than the stockpot I just ordered.

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-in-labs-stop-sending-mail-you-later.html

Two committees is almost two too many!

In 1978 the EPA decided lead-based paint was bad and banned its use in residential construction.  In 1994 the EPA decided to require people to be certified to work around lead-based paint.  It took them until April of 2008 to write a law setting forth standards for mitigating the hazards of lead-based paint.  The law went into effect April 22 of ( Read more... )

I noticed that I don't have any work lined up for a while, so I attacked my powder room with a sledge hammer.  (The powder room floor was 3X3 white tile with yellow speckles.  The speckles were in the glaze but made it look like yuck.)   I also ordered new sink, wall sconces, faucet, tp holder, towel ring, and picked paint.  Maybe ordering all new ( Read more... )

It irritates the &*(%# out of me that Bobby Jindal is on the radio complaining that the federal government isn't doing enough about the oil spill in the gulf.  He is one of the poster children for the government being too large.  Clearly private industry should be able to regulate itself and he should quit whining.

Today when my sister was picking bits of oil-based primer out of my hair I was wondering:  Do chimps ever feel that level of defeated when they get groomed?

I brought home an ear infection from San Diego.  Of all the things I might have inherited from my father, "exploding eardrums" would not be my first choice.

( Eating our way through San Diego. TMI behind cut )

I forgot how weird California is.  Leigh and I are in San Diego for her audiologists' convention and she just had an omelet with sprouts.