… go to the McDonald’s on E. Virginia Avenue in East Point, Georgia and order a sugar free iced coffee For some reason, they ring up as $0.00. You would think this has happened before and that they would know how to handle it, but no. I’ve ordered them three days in a row now and every time it throws… read entire post
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Road Warrior
While in Atlanta for work this week I received an invite to a meeting next week in Washington D.C. So … looks like I’ll be driving from here (Atlanta) to there (D.C.) at some point over the weekend. I’ll have to do laundry at some point. I’m out of clean dress shirts.
Susan surprised me yesterday by informing me that… read entire post
Weekend in ATL
Those of you who follow me on Facebook may have seen a few posts and check-ins over the weekend from Atlanta. That’s true, I am in sunny Georgia for the week.
Early this year, my life-long buddy Jeff moved to Atlanta. This week I have a meeting in Atlanta, so I took advantage of the situation by taking vacation last… read entire post
Meet the Man who Almost Killed Us
Just last week I was talking about UFO sightings and how human beings by design are terrible witnesses. With that in mind, here is my best recollection of what happened Friday afternoon.
At approximately 4:45pm. Susan and I had just left work and were sitting at the intersection of SW 44th and Council Road. In the diagram below (which I… read entire post
Pinteresting or not? A look at #Pinterest
The technical cost of admission to participate in online activities has been steadily dropping for thirty years now. Back in the dial-up days modemers had to possess (on at least some level) knowledge of DOS and terminal software and modem initialization strings to get their computers to talk to one another. It wasn’t until I first saw the World Wide… read entire post
Toy Firemen’s Helmet
Back in 1976, I received this plastic helmet for my third birthday.
That toy helmet is the closest I ever got to becoming a fireman. One of my best friends, however, continued down that path.
In the early 90s while I was busy delivering pizza, flunking out of college, and wondering what I wanted to do with my life, my… read entire post
UFO Sightings: Who Not to Trust
Last night after the kids went to bed, Susan and I (while flipping channels) caught a television special called “The World’s Most Convincing UFO Footage.” As you might imagine, the special featured several (six, I think) video clips of alleged UFOs, followed by interviews with the witnesses who filmed them. One by one while watching these witnesses tell their stories,… read entire post
The Modern Rarity of Musical Rarity
While flipping XM Radio channels on the way home today I caught the tail end of LL Cool J’s song Going Back to Cali. If you haven’t heard this twenty-five-year-old song by now I can’t imagine you wanting to start today, but here it is nonetheless:
I first heard Going Back to Cali on the radio (KJ-103, I think) in… read entire post
Weird Thoughts about Scale
When I was a kid my Dad told me about this theory that you could never actually get anywhere you were going. The idea behind the theory is, say you are standing at point A and needing to get to point B. In between points A and B is the halfway point — let’s call it X. So before you… read entire post