i felt sorry for the president as well as those that expected him to speak today in elmwood, il. the weather in illinois changes every 10 minutes, so to some extent it must have been expected. i hope that everyone had thoughts of the men and women that protect us 24x7x365. i know that i [...]
things
insurance…
sucks. illinois approved a rate hike that started at the first of the year for home owners insurance, as well as others. i have had a home, and therefore, insurance for 15 years. in that time, i have never had a claim. i have certainly had the opportunity too, with a couple floods and the [...]
i just thought this was cool…
Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull – May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.
stamps…
i used to use stamps.com for all my mailing needs. i wish, that they had taken a page from the uk, and done what they did by making stamps that covered the covers of famous albums. just check these out! why can’t we do this? we had elvis stamps. i presume someday, we’ll end up [...]
not enough time on my hands…
hi. been a while huh? there just isn’t enough time in the day. so. i listened to some, but not (as yet) all of the health care summit today. i was quite taken with the passion that the president and the rest of the democrats during what i heard. i was, as usual, not impressed [...]
my week in review…
the good: two of my kids hooked up with me on twitter. devin and ian. interesting tweets. my better half has started her observations for school. won’t be long now before kids will be bringing her apples. there was a reunion of the hudson flight survivors. what a great story. last weeks house episode was [...]
‘b’…
sorry. i couldn’t find anything i wanted to specifically chat about that started with the letter ‘b’. but i did find some interesting ‘b’ articles. there are links below for your perusing: bugatti going to auction after living under water for 70 years. ‘bra color’ charity campaign on facebook. ‘beck’ rambling again. boxee—the xbmc media [...]
saturday shameless plug…
bit.ly. i hate long url’s. really. hate them. so. i use bit.ly whenever possible. i hope that they continue business, as many other have gone away. but. whenever possible, you should use a short-ner to make it easier to share long url’s. especially in twitter and fb links. just makes it easier. just something to [...]