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A tale of two toilets
Huge news on the O’Shea toilet front: the two upstairs toilets have officially crapped out (pun totally intended). You know what this means?!? YES!!!! TOTO TOILETS!!!! We are going G-MAX to the limit! How cool are we? I couldn’t talk Chuck into going all the way and getting the MP3 player and the remote control,
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El Prieto 2006 edition and assorted other weekend activities
This past weekend was quite a whirlwind of activity. In fact, all of last week was a whirlwind of activity. We were in San Diego from Tuesday around noon to Friday around noon on business, then we drove to Pasadena so we could mark the trail for Chuck’s annual El Prieto Handicap. We were done
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What’s in your wallet?
Chuck was wandering around the house this morning with a puzzled look on his face. I asked him what was wrong, and he answered, “I can’t find my business check card.” Uh-oh. He was pretty sure of the last time he used it, but it wasn’t in the usual places: by the computer (for online
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Geek alert — hot off the presses!!
Too cool for school! Apple JUST released the new MacBook – the Intel-based iBook replacement. And it comes in COLORS! Okay, it comes in black & white, but you gotta see the black one, it’s fab!! Weirdness: black is $200 more than white. Go figure. Weight is 5.2 pounds versus 4.9 pounds for the iBook
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Up close and personal
This past weekend was USC commencement, and as a friend of ours was graduating, we attended with her family (several of whom were also staying at our house). It was quite the orgy of celebration – it started with dinner the night before, then continued all day Friday, concluding with a final blow-out meal at
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Jokes of the day
These were sent to me recently. Had to share. A man enters a bar and orders a drink. The bar has a robot bartender. The robot serves him a perfectly prepared cocktail, and then asks him, “What’s your IQ?” The man replies “150”, and the robot proceeds to make conversation about global warming factors, quantum
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