March 30, 2007 – 12:22 PM
I was appalled to read that a major electronics chain is firing its highest paid store workers in order to replace them with new (cheaper) hires. All is not lost, of course, as they are allowing these employees to reapply after ten weeks–as new (cheaper) hires. That’s assuming any jobs are left by then, of course. [...]
With the arrival of spring and all the interesting creatures outside, Bootsies has been high as a kite cat lately.
Ah, it must be spring. We just had the annual Distribution of the Season Tickets for our beloved Bats. It’s a little tricky, with one person taking 1/3 of the tickets for business, three families each taking 1/6 of the tickets, and two families each taking 1/12. The tickets are in our name, so we [...]
The spammers have discovered this little corner of the blog-iverse.
In the past they came, left a bazillion comments in the space of a few hours, then disappeared. Apparently, more tenacious marketers have now moved into the neighorhood. I’ve already blacklisted a few drug names, but I hate to blacklist the more generic words used by the spammers who are [...]
You might want to think twice about that piping hot cup of coffee the morning after you burned your mouth so badly on that pizza.
Faithful readers may recall my joy sometime ago when I learned that I am actually taller than I’d always thought. Newer fans can read all about it here.
Due to an insurance change, I have had to switch doctors. On my first visit last week, the tech measured me. Probably assuming that at my age I should already know how [...]
Every year Mr. B, HS & I have a little NCAA competition. No money involved, so don’t bother reporting us. Winner gets to pick where we go out to dinner. If we ever get around to going out.
I tried uploading my bracket, but can’t get it to show up legibly here. So you’ll just have [...]
Sixth grade wasn’t a whole lot of fun when I went through it in 1969-79.
We survived it with HS ten years ago.
This year, however, may do us all in.
UPDATE: My little sister was the only one to catch my typo in my sixth grade dates. Guess it just seemed like 10 years! It was really 1969-70.
I picked up a meme at Annie’s. It’s about books, so I had to do it.
Here’s what you do:
Look at the list of books below.
Bold the ones you’ve read
Italicize the ones you want to read
Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in.
If you are reading this, tag, you’re it!
1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan [...]
I have plenty of good news to share, but I got stubborn and was holding off writing till at least one person commented on my last post. Many thanks to Marie for stepping up to the plate!
HS has been home on spring break this week. That, of course, is good news in itself. But while [...]
