Archive for July 31st, 2009

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.

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.

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.

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.)