Well we’re off on our week-long Spring Break vacation to Ohio. I know. I know. Everyone else heads south or goes tropical. We head north to cold winds and freezing rain. Brilliant! Anyway we’re spending the first half of the week here in Dayton, splitting time between mom’s house and my brother’s. This is the first time for my brother and his family to meet my son who is six months old now. Should be a lot of fun, and so far the first day has been. Trips to Radio Shack, Toys R Us and Kroger were fun as my mom and I managed five kids ranging from age 14 to 2. Good kids.
How brilliant are the makers of soap? Somebody came up with a way to reduce actual soap to a tenth of it’s current content (the other 90% now being water) simply by designing a different kind of pump and the companies jumped all over it. LOOK! FOAMING SOAP! I wonder what kind of profit increase the companies are seeing on these foaming soap pumps? It’s gotta be massive. But does the smaller soap content now mean we need to scrub harder? use more? I wonder.
These have been out for a while and I can’t remember if I mentioned them before but Doritos has a new line called Collisions where they mix two flavors in one bag. And I love the Zesty Taco and Chipotle Ranch. Try it now!
One of the great things about the writer’s strike was with no new episodes airing, I found the time to watch repeats of shows I had heard good things about but never had a chance to try. While REAPER is a winner that I also recommend everyone try for its humor, NUMB3RS has been the real treat. While some character plots continue from ep to ep, the storyline is “done in one”, as in you can sit down and watch a single episode from anywhere in the show’s four (?) year run and when the hour is up - you have been told a complete tale. And I love that, especially having just now discovered the show. So I’m not lost at all despite starting late. Sure there are things I’ve mossed but I’m not missing them as I sit and watch an episode, if you catch my drift. The actors are great, the storylines are complex and I love the “math” thrown around that they use to solve their cases. (I really hope it’s all fact-based cause it’s very cool hearing the technical explanations.) Executive producers are the brothers Ridley (Alien, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down) and Tony (Top Gun, True Romance, The Last Boy Scout) Scott. Highly recommend you try this series out… even if its only a rerun.
I just got over a bad cold that lasted 5 days and now my wife has bronchitis or something. Not good. So far the kids seem okay though. My daughter was whiny last night and complaining she didn’t feel good but woke up this morning her same old happy-go-lucky self. Fingers crossed they both stay healthy. Not fun this week.
At this point I’d be voting for Obama. I like Edwards but I don’t think he’s gonna get the nom and something about Hillary just rubs me the wrong way. And with so much atory about the Democrats I know next to nothing about the Republicans outside of McCain. And I like Obama better than him. Heck I just like Obama outright. I’m not sure how much change he can push through but its nice to hear he doesn’t like the way our political sytem works now and wants to try and make a difference.
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