Daytime television is extremely bleak. I caught an episode of The Price Is Right this morning. At first everything on the show was as I remembered it from when I was a kid. There were prizes and whoever guessed the amount closest to the prize got a chance to try for another prize. I was disturbed when the show actually tried to play it off like ( Read more... )

Not that this is on everyone's list of Must-Do-Before-I-Die, but if you plan to read one book about The Doors - just one book - then read No One Here Gets Out Alive. Do not read Riders on the Storm by band member John Densmore. I don't care what Robby Krieger says about this book being the "real story". I'm sorry but it is among one the worst ( Read more... )

Extreme boredom leads to some ridiculously wasteful uses of time. For example, when I have nothing better to do I spend a lot of time trying to find movies to add to my netflix queue. It's a project in and of itself because it isn't like going to Blockbuster and having lots of movie covers presented to you, just waiting to be glanced over, ( Read more... )

People can get a little hopped up over the dumbest things. For example I had this man come in with a stock certificate. The thing had an issue date that went back to the 30's. The company was long since gone and the certificate was worthless. I got to break the bad news to the man and he asked to see the certificate. I handed it over to him ( Read more... )

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Dinner is always a little strange. I listened to David and Brian talk about how one of the gyms has these alarms where if you grunt or make too loud a noise it causes them to go off. I don't know what the point of that is. Frankly I could see that being problematic - for example if someone is lifting really heavy weights and someone comes by ( Read more... )