I met a real nice person a few weeks ago.
Honestly, really nice…
Archives For November 30, 1999
Just what it says…General
A co-worker hit me up about buying an Entertainment 2012 book from his daughter today.
My immediate question was: cash or check?
He said that a credit card was fine – he’d email me a link to order the book online. [giddy-up!]
I guess the days of parents lugging around heavy boxes of coupon books are gone!
The next thing we’ll see will be Girls Scouts in front of Safeway with Square-equipped iPhones asking “…ship to your home or would you like to use our new gift-delivery option!”
My wife’s car rolled to 24,000 today while I ran an errand.
Took her seven years…she doesn’t venture far from home base.
Random purchase by my wife last weekend while in Monterey.
Sometimes they are more active – I think they knew they were being filmed!
When I see the original colors from 1903, I hear Dana Carvey doing his Grumpy Old Man character from SNL…
“In my day, we only had eight crayon colors…and we liked it!”
Still, this is pretty cool!
Click the link below to get the full experience – “mouse over” the 2010 colors to see their creative, yet hard-to-remember-and-oft-confusing names! Oh for simple red, brown, orange, … days!
[YouTube link]
This “Praying Mantis” or Mantodea emerged last night from a bush in our backyard after I gave it a good watering…
Interesting fact: The scientific name Mantodea comes from the Greek words μάντις meaning a prophet, and εἶδος for form or shape. (Source: Wikipedia)
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