Two weeks ago, Karen and I got back from another vacation in Las Vegas (“Vegas”). This time we stayed five days (May 27-June 1, 2007). Originally, we planned to only stay for three days because our hotel, The Venetian, was comping us the room for that time, but we chose to extend our stay. The reason we got the room comped was because of the ( Read more... )

NOTE: Due to the size of this post, a recounting of my trip to Las Vegas, consider it a work in progress that I'll be adding to as seach section is finished--right now the draft is eight pages long in word. So, I urge you to check back periodically to look for updates.

”Vegas baby! Vegas!” -Trent (Vince Vaughn) in the film Swingers (1996)I ( Read more... )

“We do have more than our share of campus leaders. Something that never looks bad on your permanent record, Chip.”--Greg Marmalard (James Daughton), President of Omega House, Animal House (1978).

Recently, I was looking through my undergraduate college yearbook and I was reminded of how active I was on campus. My extra-curricular activities were ( Read more... )

Wow! Everything old is cool again. I remember playing this type of game back in college. My assassin was my fraternity brother, whose every attempt to get me I countered until he finally got me in a four-way water gun battle. I went after my target, who was going after his target. My target made me, and a water gun fight while he was trying to kill ( Read more... )

While reading the Boing Boing entries for today, February 20, 2005, about breakfast related topics, I followed several links to web sites that led me to the Freakies Cereal Tribute Web SiteI was really happy to discover the site, the cereal was my absolute favorite when I was growing up. I remember it as being very tasty. I also remembered there ( Read more... )

I came across this tribute web site to the Mego Toy company and its products, it's called The Mego Museum.If you're of a certain age, you grew up with Mego action figures. It may have been DC or Marvel superheros, or action figures based on such TV shows as Star Trek or Planet of the Apes, or Action Jackson (Mego's answer to G.I. Joe.), or it may ( Read more... )

I'm feeling very nostalgic tonight for the "metal years" of the 1980's (when I was in high school and college) and early 1990's when hair bands reigned musically. I think what brought this on is I have "Metal Mania" playing in the background on the VH-1 Classic cable TV channel as I am playing and working on the computer. After being inspired, I ( Read more... )