Is anyone else here familiar with Papo figurines? They are a French company that makes neat little toys, many of them fantasy- and history-based. I fell in love with them a few years back when I found their female pirate figure at a toystore, and have bought several more since then. Yesterday, I bought the female farmer and the (discontinued) ( Read more... )

I wasn't planning to write a review of Green Wing, but it seems I am not going to be able to sleep until I do. First, let me start by saying this is a weird show. I have no problem with weird. There were a lot of things I enjoyed -- enough to keep me watching through almost 20 hours of television in the hope of a satisfying resolution -- but there ( Read more... )

I hate today. I hate it a lot. And I'm just gonna throw yesterday in there right along with it. Yesterday morning I got off work at 6:00 AM, after working a highly unusual five days in a row over Thanksgiving weekend. I was very much looking forward to my three days off. But no. Got home, went to bed, and was awakened around noon by construction ( Read more... )

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I cannot focus on anything else at the moment. I can't even bring myself to censor my profanity. Because Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church has got to be one of the most douchebaggy douchebags ever to stain the city of Seattle. A little while ago, I was checking through the normal roll-call of blogs I follow when I came across this post*, discussing ( Read more... )

I make no secret of the fact that I have a number of beefs with the Seattle-based megachurch and its celebrity pastor. This collection of links and resources is largely for my own reference, but I hope others will find it a useful resource as well. Please feel free to comment if you have any others you think I should add, or if you just want to ( Read more... )

Sometimes I feel like the airline industry is a massive social experiment to find out just how much crap people will put up with. Can we make them pay extra for every little privilege and luxury, like, say, wanting to take luggage with them? Yes! Can we make them unpack their entire bag and take off several articles of clothing? Yes! Can we ( Read more... )

If something sounds too good to be true, it probably isI don't know why I didn't check it out more thoroughly before I signed up, but I didn't. If you are thinking of signing up for this service or know anyone who is, I'm here to tell you it's a bad idea. The service is overpriced and fails to deliver on all those free and discounted events they ( Read more... )

Between sorting out buses and bank cards and hostels, the past two days have been more or less wasted. Bleh. Very frustrating. We did see the Loch Ness Monster, though. She works behind the till at the Urquhart Castle visitors centre. We spent an hour walking out there and arrived half an hour before the castle closed for the evening and she ( Read more... )

So as I may have mentioned several weeks ago, we found our dream home just outside of the tiny town of Dillwyn, VA. It was a beautiful red brick house on three acres. The house has five bedrooms (with two more potential bedrooms) and the property came with an *extra house* on it. Or at least, it will be an extra house once the insulation and ( Read more... )