TD/Allianz Insurance (via telephone; 10:15am ( Read more... )

Our room.  Kid #2’s ear is a little better than yesterday, so we decide not to find out whether our “Foreign travel medical insurance” actually works.  The USA is a nasty country to get sick in - they let uninsured people die in the gutter of treatable illnesses - so we’d rather not try our luck with the foreign insurance unless truly necessary.
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Staybridge Suites (10:49am).  We did place the “Do Not ( Read more... )

September 6, 2015.  The big day is finally here!  This trip has been planned for over two years now, since soon after my mother-in-law died and we started trying to decide what to do with the inheritance.  Well, after almost two years the lawyers finally ran out of excuses and let go of the money.
      I had wanted to fly on Allegiant Airlines ( Read more... )

The Imagination Station is a science museum in Toledo OH.  Under "News and Events" is a notice that they will be closed from September 8th to September 28th this year.  I guess I won't visit them.

Here is a set of (computer-generated) reasons to leave Columbus OH and move to Gilbert AZ instead.  In this discussion, some people are pointing out ( Read more... )

"Senator Harry Reid is resting in pieces this morning as he recovers from broken ribs and facial bones he suffered while he was using a piece of exercise equipment that broke.  But the good news is he didn't break his lower leg bone, thus avoiding a protracted fibulabuster."

--Bill in Portland, Maine

Because every visit to Massachusetts should include a trip to the MoS!
Museum of Science exhibit halls (Boston MA, 11:51am ( Read more... )

I'm on the free-public-email list for Humor Labs.  They haven't updated their website recently, but they're still cranking out the daily joke-emails.  Except they're on vacation right now until October 6th so they're re-mailing old lists.  Here is the one from July 10th, 2001:

The Top 5 Least Popular Street Names:⑤ Vicious Circle ( Read more... )

"You know how much threat ISIS represents to the United States?  None.  That's how much.  Exactly none.  If there was a value less than none, then it would be that, but there's not, so none is the answer.

"You know what does represent a threat to the the United States, a bona fide danger to our continued existence as the land of the semi-free and ( Read more... )

The title of this post is from an article about Scott Fistler, the Arizona Republican who changed his name to "Cesar Chavez" and is now running for office as a "Democrat" (but still using Republican tactics).  I used a wildcard Google search "a few * short of a *" to find other examples of this snowclone.

The first hit is A few sandwiches short of ( Read more... )