Dear Arby's: "Beefs" is not a word.

Dear Taco Bell: "Stuft" just plain looks wrong.

Huh. I must be on a curmudgeon kick.

This weekend we planned to visit my mom up north. It funny how one phone call kind of threw that plan into disarray for a bit.

While exwxgirl and I were out having lunch with the kids at school, we got a call from our karate school's owner and chief instructor. ATA Master Mertens was to be in town Saturday to give an all-day seminar on the business side ( Read more... )

Dear SciFi Channel,

I'd like to go out this evening, but I also want to watch the series finale of Battlestar Galactica tonight. Could you please broadcast it just to my satellite dish so that I may watch it this afternoon? I promise I won't tell anyone.

Thanks,

weatherguy2000

P.S. "Syfy? Really? Really? --wxguy2k

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This is what I did since Friday morning, roughly in chronological order,

• cleaned up the kids' toys (and some of the parents')
• six loads of laundry
• cleaned three bathrooms
• swept the kitchen floor
• vacuumed the lampshades

exwxgirl and I attended our first taekwondo black belt camp this weekend. It was held at Camp Okoboji in northern Iowa. Although I'm not in the certification-in-training program, I was eligible to attend. (exwxgirl is in the CIT program ( Read more... )

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I just heard this.

"The Wedding Singer, sponsored by Plan B contraception."

"This week's episode was inspired by a question from [weatherguy2000], a listener in Lakeville, Minnesota. [weatherguy2000] writes ( Read more... )

I know this is really irrelevant of, well, everything, but I just found this amazing ( Read more... )