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The Bold Look of Kohler

Friday, July 31st, 2009

While driving around town, I happen, every once in a while, past a house whose negative edge pool is visible from the street.  Mainly because the house is elevated.  And every time I do, the slogan “The Bold Look of Kohler” goes through my head and I want to remodel.

Now I have no reason to think that this pool has anything to do with Kohler but I think they have a negative edge bathtub or something and the Kohler faucets are really quite pretty most of the time.  Recently the faucet in my sink developed a hole and was replaced with a new Kohler one.  To my dismay, this is clearly the low end of their stuff – not because it doesn’t work but because it is ever so plain.

I think if I ever tried to flip a house I would be one of those people who goes dramatically over budget because they have to have granite everywhere and want to add a second floor and want high end fixtures on every sink.  Yup, sounds about right.

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The Immunization Scourge

Friday, July 31st, 2009

My daughter survived her visit to the doctor today – even though she had serious doubts.  She had to get shots today to bring her up to date with her immunizations and they also tested her iron level.  It was a total of 4 sticks and 1 prick to get it all done and it covered 8 different diseases.  Now she doesn’t HAVE to have any shots until she’s 11 (or unless we lie and say we’ve got religious objections but now that this is on the internet I just burned that bridge).  Of course we might want to get her a flu shot here or there.  But we can say goodbye to Diptheria, Tetanus, Pertusis, Polio, Chicken Pox, Measles, Mumps and Rubella.

Wait, I forgot about her Hep A shot – she got that one too.

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Woops, I Didn’t See You Driving There

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Finding an attoryney on the internet can be a real challenge.  What do you do — Google something like ‘Pleasanton motorcycle accident attorney‘?  Do you need to be that specific?  Or do you just go to the online yellow pages and let your mouse do the walking?

I think for the most part, you ask around and find someone who has used an attorney before and who can give you a good referal.  Although if you have car insurance I think some insurance companies will defend you as part of the service in hopes that they don’t have to pay out too much.

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Gross Comments I Have to Censor

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Surely there is someone real out there who wants to post an actual comment.  If weird people who probably don’t exist put a comment on a board game post but only talk about ‘excessive mastu….’ (I can’t write the whole word) as if that was what was written about , then there must be one or two people out there who will post.  And even though this kinds of nasty comment will never make it past my keen editing section, nasty (mean) comments are more welcome.

Give me a “This drivel is a waste of my time.” with proper spelling and puncuation and I will let it past my audit.

‘Go to hell and tell the devil your blog got you in’ is also something that works.

But any comments about ‘S** Russian brides.’ will only get a scathing post written.

Someone actually used the word ‘Indubitably ’. (Sure I use this in conversational english, but it’s a little high brow for the written word.)

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Is the Best Really the Best?

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Is there such a thing as a best diet pill?  Some will say there is and then they will give you a list of 10 different kinds that they swear by.  Some will say they like to mix them together to get better results.  I say that if you aren’t being monitored by a doctor, you could be playing with fire by mixing things that haven’t been thoroughly researched.

If you are at the point in you weight loss journey that you feel like taking a pill may help you out, you talk to your doctor.  You look for information from independent sources that backs up the claims of whatever diet pill you are thinking of taking.  And I’m not talking about a post on a website – I mean some kind of research or study that says this won’t make things worse.

Then you go from there.

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Papers Please

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

So I after I renewed the registration for my husband’s scooter online and got the tags in the mail, I put his new registration on the keyboard at his computer.  The very same keyboard I’m using right now.  The very same keyboard from which I can easily read his vehicle registration because it hasn’t ended up in his scooter yet.  He’s got 2 days left before the old one expires and he’ll be in a world of hurt if he gets pulled over with an expired registration.

Then again, who am I to talk.  This is the first time in 10 years I’ve had unexpired proof of insurance in my car from the beginning of the policy.  It usually makes it in the car about 3 weeks before it expires.

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Math Lessons Learned

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Every advertisement I’ve seen for diet pills says that theirs are the top weight loss pills.  Thing is, we’re adults and we know from our math class and the logic we learned there that not ALL pills can be at the top or they would also all be at the bottom and the middle to boot.

We also know from math class and the probability we learned there that this claim probably isn’t true.

So we, as the aforementioned adults we are, have to do research and find out the truth before we use our bodies as test tubes for whatever chemical cobination comes our way labeled as a weight loss miracle.

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Think Fast

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

It turns out going shopping with my kids helps me make decisions faster.  It also results in my spending more money and buying a green pair of jeans.  Fortunately, I was able to resist their desire for me to let them dress entirely in camo for school.

I guess quick decision making does result in more errors of judgement but it also meant that they REALLY have enough clothes for the school year.  For my oldest it was a necessity.  I went through his clothes and tossed the torn and worn out stuff.  Then he had no pants. At all. None.

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Doh! I Meant to Back That Up

Friday, July 24th, 2009

My latest obsession on the web is going to IMDB and looking up trivia for movies I’ve seen.  I finished off the trivia for all the Harry Potter movies this morning and went through all 11 of the Star Trek movies this evening.

It was in doing this that I realized the importance of backing up my data.  One of the bits of trivia was that, through a computer malfunction, an entire class of starship was lost.  I would have thought that people who use the more technical powers of a computer would have the common sense to backup their data even if it is an enormously huge amount.  Actually, I would think that the fact that there is a huge amount of it would make it even more important.

Some people save it to disks and keep their disks somewhere but in case of fire, you’d need a safe deposit box to really be safe and that’s hard to access when your computer crashes at 7pm on a Friday night.  (Yes, your house burned down, but you saved the computer that then crashed.)

You could also save it to an external hard drive but that also gives you the risk of destruction through runaway fire in your house.  And how would you feel about your brilliant method of backup if you manage to survive the fire?  Not so good.  So it, too, needs to be kept elsewhere and even your parents aren’t going to be too happy that you’ve came to their house in the middle of the night to retrieve your life’s work.

The common theme here is that retrieval is inconvenient.  Unless there were some way to store it in a fashion that makes it accessable from, say a cable or phone line.  Wait – there is.  You use secure online storage so that you can use your parent’s dial up line to restore your computer, now that you’re crashing at their house after a fire burned yours to ashes.

Problem solved.

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Somewhere between 4 and 54 Places to Visit

Friday, July 24th, 2009

I know there’s a book out there about the 100 places you’re supposed to visit before you die but I’ve always had my own.  It probably omits most of the prettiest destinations but I’ve always been a cautious person so that kinds limits my ability to visit places like Cambodia, Afghanistan and pretty much all of Antarctica.

My list of places to visit:

1) All 50 states  - I thought I was up to 16 but I recently read that the 4 corners monument isn’t on the boundary so Utah’s not fair game anymore.

2) France – I just really want to say “Je suis une bette Americanne.  Common dit on “***k you, en francais?”

3) Great Britain –  Just to see the motherland (I’m refering to their colonial lordshipness not any blood realtion to the people)

4) Australia – When I’m older and ready to die, I’ll visit the shark infested Great Barrier Reef and try to find Nemo.  Also I want to see a kangaroo.

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