As part of their time-honored tradition of making really ugly cars, Pontiac put out the Aztek a number of years ago. You used to see them everywhere, and when spotted, the consistently produced one of two reactions from people. If you were human, your response was "My goodness, that's ugly". If you were Rosie O'Donnell, you went out and bought one ( Read more... )

So Halloween night, I answer the door holding Scooter so he doesn't escape. Upon opening up the door, the 2- or 3-year-old girl's eyes light up because she thinks I'm giving her a cat. Chloe bends down with the candy bowl and asks, "Would you like to pick one." The little girl doesn't hesitate for a second and is dead serious when she says, ( Read more... )

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I don't usually follow college football too much, but while at a poker tournament on Saturday, Texas and Oklahoma was on when this came on the screen:

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Five years ago, the world changed. Never forget how it felt.

This sound montage is from the Glenn Beck radio program. Please listen to it.

http://www.ryanblume.net/sound.mp3

That wasn't exactly how I had planned on spending the evening, but it's what happened

I flipped on A&E on a whim, wondering if I might catch Dog the Bounty Hunter, but instead, I got Flight 93. I'd meant to see it for quite some time, but just hadn't yet. I wasn't prepared for it tonight, but it's just as well ( Read more... )

You know what one of the most satisfying feelings in the world is? Hitting a gut-shot straight on the turn to beat the loud-mouth's Ace-King suited and put him out of the tournament, making him so mad he won't even shake your hand as leaves, muttering something about "sloppy poker" as he storms off in a huff.

As I sit here at 10:30 with a good bit of work ahead of me still, I find that I really wish that I were a person who could consistently go to bed at 11:00, get up at 6:00, have a quiet time, go work out, come back and shower, walk into the office a few minutes early, maintain focus for the nine hours I'm there, and leave with satisfaction, knowing ( Read more... )

I don't know who else will get this (Phil, probably), but I was so proud of my mad photo editing skillz I had to throw it out there:
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Last weekend, Chloe and I were on our way down to Loveland, and we had 97.9 on the radio. I was thinking about how while it isn't exactly the mix of music I would pick to listen to, it was fun to hear a lot of songs that I remembered from about middle school or so.At this point I said, "You know, I think what's fun about this station is that it's ( Read more... )