Jeff and I do most of our grocery shopping at a nearby Giant Food store. Like so many large grocery chains, this one has a customer loyalty card (read, marketing and research device). In addition to the supposed discounts the card offers, it also accumulates "points" that can be used for discounts outside the store. The chain has partnered with ( Read more... )

I have a rather large friends list as part of my LJ Experience™. The cool part is not the number of people, but the variety. So many different talents, abilities, viewpoint, and so many expressive people. While I might not comment everywhere, I do try my best to read every post in its entirety. This includes those entries I might not agree or align ( Read more... )

It seems these days that I have to "fix" various products and tools I buy to rid them of large, sometimes multiple warning labels written in several languages. Case in point:


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I poked and hammered a bit more on the truck this evening, plus sanded and polished the gouges out of the taillight. It aint perfect, but it's at least it's less heinous than before:


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This past weekend, while enjoying our company with champdaddy, not everything was all sunshine and lollipops. Our usual spot requires an intricate series of maneuvers with the truck and trailer not unlike a sliding-tile puzzle of sorts, with backing, turning, swinging and other wheeled dancing in order to slide the trailer into it's spot and leave the most ( Read more... )

I'm practically in stitches over this. Society is doomed, the tairists have won, it's all over but the crying.

The city of Boston has been thrown into a panic by an advertising campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force. For those not in the know, ATHF is a subversive animated thing run on Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" segment of not-for-the-kiddies ( Read more... )