Archive for January, 2009
A Fistula Called Maceo
I got staples taken out of my arm today. Apparently, Mickey Rourke has staples removed from his back in The Wrestler. It feels about how I imagined it would feel. My surgeon thinks everything looks great. He told me to take care of my fistula. In kidding around with him and [Read More]
Bush’s Note to Obama
I was inspired by this post on Pam’s House Blend to imagine what the contents of that note that George W. Bush left for Barack Obama in the Oval Office might have been: [Read More]
List of 343 NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball Teams
Why is this is a blog post? Because I’m working on a project and needed to obtain this information. It was not necessarily readily available in easy-to-digest form. Now that I’ve got it, I’m putting it in up on a web document to share my newfound knowledge [Read More]
38 versus 7500
That’s my federal refund for 2008 after an initial run-through with TaxACT, which I’m new to after many years of TaxCut and Turbo Tax. TaxAct is either free or very cheap if you want the Deluxe version, and, for my purposes, seems to have all the functionality [Read More]
JP Morgan Chase Hates Pets
Dear Valued PetSmart PetPerks Visa Cardholder, As you may know, certain assets held by Washington Mutual, our partner for the PetSmart® PetPerks® Visa®, were purchased by JP Morgan Chase. This transaction included all of the credit card accounts that were part of the [Read More]
Online Trivia Resource FAIL
I am rummaging through my six-year-old desktop and found this web development effort: I have no recollection of what I was thinking. Google existed six years ago. Maybe I was playing some online trivia game and was hoping to create a way to cheat. It’s like I was [Read More]
Toastie Plays The Blog Tag Game III
Except this time, the tagging was done on Facebook. I was asked to list 25 random things about me. I had already done the same exercise twice in this blog in the past year. So I just copied ten items from March 24, 2008 and six from November 30, 2008. That left me with nine [Read More]
