Ohio Blows

The wind, I mean.

I had forgotten how freakin' windy Ohio is. When we got here, the temp. gauge said 50, so I hopped out of the car with just a T-shirt on, and immediately froze. Putting on my sweatshirt made no difference because the wind cut right through that as well. People always ask me how we can stand the harsh New England Winters, but give me 20 degrees on a calm day anytime over this crap.

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Redneck Piñata

yeah, what you see here is a Piñata made out of a diet pepsi box, speaker wire, and packing tape. I know a true redneck would have used a case of bud light, but I did the best I could with the materials at hand.

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Smart Car

I have seen this car on the highway several times recently. Every time I say to myself - why is that guy driving a golfcart on the highway? Turns out it is not a golf cart at all - it is a so-called "Smart Car". I'm not sure what makes it so smart - certainly not the driver who is taking it out on the highway.

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Cool features of the new Blogger

You probably have to be a bit of a geek to appreciate this, but one of the coolest features of the new blogger is the ability to post via email (which I’m doing right now). You can’t post pictures, but if your email client supports HTML instead of just plain-text, then you can do most basic formatting (BOLD, Italics, Colors, etc).

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Oh Yeah!

Well, it took a little bit of luck, waking up at 5 a.m., hauling my kids down to boston, waiting in line in the cold outsid of Fenway park, waiting around some more INSIDE the park, then waiting in another line outside, and then waiting in one more line once again inside the park, but I got what I came for. Yup, that's right - Red Sox Opening Day tickets. I have always wanted to go to Opening day, but have never been able to. These tickets are so popular, that already, you can find them on a scalper website for $349 each. That is over $300 MORE than face value for a game that is still 5 months away.

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New Rules

Everybody who has kids probably knows that every once in a while your kids will force you to make a new household rule that never occurred to you before. You know, like:

1. Don't put socks in the kitchen sink disposal.

2. Don't put your boogers on the ceiling.

Well anyway, at the Big A household, we had to make a new one last night. Last night my wife started up the dishwasher before going to bed. Lucky for me, I stayed up another 15 minutes or so. On my way to bed, I noticed that the kitchen sink was completely full of dirty water. Ugh. The dishwasher was backing up into the sink which means we have a clogged drain. Before tackling the drain I wanted to dump the water out of the sink, so I got out the mop bucket and started carrying buckets of water to the bathroom and dumping them in the toilet.

After my third bucket, I noticed an odd object floating in the toilet. What was it? Well, if you guessed "Lightbulb", then I would say you have a very active imagination. I would also say you were 100% correct. Not a full-size one, but a nightlight bulb - small enough to go down the drain, but certainly large enough to cause problems.

The irony is that the lightbulb did not actually cause the clog. In fact, I can't even be sure that it was in the sink - it may have already been in the toilet. But does it really matter? Neither place is the right place to dispose of lightbulbs.

So anwyway, the Big A household has a new rule - "No lightulbs in the toilets or sinks".

(And yes, the two rules listed at the beginning of the post are not merely funny examples - they are real rules in our house)

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