I love Dish, have for years, but they are really getting ready to get a round of .357 through the dish on my roof and a note to come pick up their receiver out of my front yard.

Transcript goodness (forwarded to support and CEO Charlie Ergen) We'll see if I get a response.

Dear Sir ( Read more... )

First the office lunch coupon-stravaganza is working like gangbusters. Soon as I don't feel like throwing things across the room every time I walk I'll write up something. If your budget needs a boost, and I pretty much think everybody does at this point, check in with The Angry Cheapskate in the preceding post. Much like Deep Thought had the ( Read more... )

It all started with my internet friend who runs this blog thing (she's a very cool individual, regardless of the coupon thing):

The Angry CheapskateIt didn't really resonate with me at first since, as a single guy, I don't buy that much coupon related stuff. (food items and paper goods, and toothpaste, etc.) Stuff I buy at the grocery store tends ( Read more... )

I read quite a few things weekly about some photographer being hassled by a random member of law enforcement for taking photos in a public place. Cameras have been "seized", phones taken, film destroyed and digital cards formatted or taken never to be returned. Resistance to this stuff can sometimes be met with detainment or arrest ( Read more... )

Once or twice a year the universe likes to jog my memory on just how much being sick sucks. Not deathly ill, or anything that's going to require a doctor, just something that gives you a good week of feeling like crap, then a week of feeling a bit less like crap while you recover ( Read more... )

Jon Stewart is a great and wonderful human being. He takes a terrible moment in our world and makes some sense of it, and in the process helps me wrap my brain around it as best I can at this point. This is after another wise friend pretty much said the same thing to me in a slightly different way. Thanks to her and to Mr. Stewart. I figure that ( Read more... )

Hopefully it's not a failure to communicate ( Read more... )

( Me being fed up and disgusted behind the cut, won't fault you for skipping along to something happy. )

So I went to the doctor this morning to drop off a vial of blood for lab work so we can discuss the stuff floating around in there at my appointment tomorrow afternoon. This involves myself, my arm and a very nice Nurse named Diane who is exceptionally good at getting blood from my arm ( Read more... )

Just wanted to put this one up here. When life seems to be a bit too big for me, or I think I'm a little better and more amazing than I really am, this video sets me straight every time. The Hoyts are a father son team that run marathons, triathlons and all kinds of other things together. The big difference is that Dick (the father) pushes or ( Read more... )