You might be old if... you spend your Sunday afternoon researching bagless vacuum cleaners that work well on pet hair. The review below actually made me laugh out loud (or "lol" for those of you who now only speak Internet English ( Read more... )

I'm not so sure Thunderchicken will make it into 2009, so I've been bracing myself for the fact that I'll likely have to get another car by the end of the year. I'll probably go with something used, but want to keep the miles under 50k. I've been eyeing the Nissan Altima, but recently saw this - Read more... )

In case you've been living under a rock - Colombian special forces rescued 15 hostages from the FARC about two weeks ago by posing as UN aid workers who purportedly had orders from a FARC commander to transfer the hostages ( Read more... )

After losting Grommit just over a year ago, I wasn't sure I'd ever be ready for another dog. However, I came across Toby, a senior of about eight years old, today on the Carrollton Animal Services website and forwarded his picture to Cassie because he was just so precious. She recalled seeing him on the email kill list that went out last Friday. I ( Read more... )

As we were leaving House of Blues, I overheard several too-cool-for-school 20-somethings bitching that the show "sucked," which I found almost angering. Bob Dylan was never known for his incredible singing aptitude. Rather, his legendary rock status comes from his social relevance, passion and poetic abilities. Our generation will never appreciate ( Read more... )

So I'm going to the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo tonight. I don't have a particular interest in rodeos, nor am I generally a fan of all things country. However, I grew up in Texas and this is the longest running rodeo in the country, so as Kinky Friedman would say, why the hell not? Plus, they serve food and alcohol - two things I generally am a ( Read more... )

It's much easier to listen to things rather than watch them, so I've gone a bit crazy on iTunes this week. I've been jonesing for some new tunes, so my recent eye ailment was a great excuse ( Read more... )

... was the TX/OU game this weekend. We lost, but it was still a decent game. OU shouldn't be too proud. They barely beat a team that lost to K State the weekend before. Blah. And tickets surprisingly weren't that hard to get. You can basically either pay a slight premium above face value five minutes before the game OR pay a Cotton Bowl employee $ ( Read more... )

It's official! I leave for Rio de Janeiro at the end of this month and fly back from Buenos Aires two weeks later! We're going to wing everything in between. Dealing with the airline in Argentina to book tickets to the Patagonia region was a huge pain in the ass, so I gave up. Plus, I think I was trying to cram too much in because I didn't want to ( Read more... )

I couldn't find anyone with the money and/or time for Europe. Everything is even more crazy expensive than usual right now. They'll probably start scrubbing bodais (however you spell that word) with dollar bills soon because our currency is worth about that much right now ( Read more... )