Holiday weekend.

Business guys on business has the most brilliant cartoons.

Size counts

After reading this Insurance report and Smart car reponse I am very glad we did not get a Smart car. It's amazing how things work out. We probably would have purchased one if the folks at Phill Smart in Seattle had been more helpful.

If you think about it most of the cars around here are large. There are a lot of SUV's, trucks and big sedans and if they drive into you it hurts as Griselda found out when she was rear ended by a Ford F350 in our Jeep wrangler (which ended up being totaled). I can only imagine what would happen if you are in a Smart car and get hit by a Hummer of big F series truck.

The truly interesting part of the article for me was the last page where you see the amount of injuries that have increased in these small smart cars.

Yay alergic reactions

Good times, looks like I'm allergic to Penicillin :-(

The annoying thing about this (apart from the obvious) is that I have never had any drug reactions and now that I have had one it looks like I have the joys of a comprehensive allergy test in my near future to find out if there is anything else.

Microsoft Layoffs

Well we have had a lot of questions from far and wide asking if we were laid off. Fortunately I can say all is well at this stage.

For more detailed information on what is actualy happening I would suggest having a look at http://minimsft.blogspot.com/


Photo credit: New York Post

Think I will take the car this morning.

No snow, but then again this is cold and I don't like ice


The deck


The road.

This guy needs to join the Carnation parade

Yup, we have a contender folks. If you follow the link you can see some of last years winners

You know the economy is getting bad when

A speaker company offers to give you your money back if you loose your job with the following signage:

Announcement
Buyers of our loudspeakers will get most of their money back if losing jobs and choosing to return the loudspeakers within a certain period of time after purchases:

1 year -- 90% money back
2 years -- 75% money back

The money can be put aside in a escrow account if a buyer prefers.

Hopefully good music may pull you away from the daily bombardments of bad ecenomic news -- you won't lose your job!

* Conditions may apply, see store for details

Sign outside eficion audio in Redmond town center

OMG the horror

Well today was an epic fail. We went out for a happy hour at Desert Fire in Redmond Town Center this evening and I discovered the worst mohito in the world. Fortunatly a bit of malercizing made up for it.


The worlds worst mohito


Resist the temptation, it's not worth it.

Damn you HOV violator

As a legitimate car pooler it is incredibly annoying sitting in a blocked up HOV lane because some inconsiderate fool has decided that it is quicker for him to be in it even though he is not car pooling.

Here is hoping that the Redmond Traffic Department decide to actually enforce an existing useful law for a change instead of just harping on about their new zero tolerance policy.

Come to think about it if the traffic police do have their mythical quotas to enforce you would think that this would be one of the easiest ways to net a huge amount of violators for relatively little effort.


White Lexus registration 744RLO

[EDIT 1/12/2009 14:32 PST]
It looks as if this is being addressed by the Washington State Patrol HERO program tracks violators and targets enforcement based upon complaints.

Sad, sad day

We are down to our last Nespresso capsule and our shipment is only going to arrive next week Tuesday. When you buy the machine you get a sample pack of 12 capsules. This does not last very long. The worst news is that this machine makes the most amazing expresso so it's not like you can just go out and get something else.

The market is also highly controlled. You can only buy the capsules on-line and through Nespresso boutique stores which of course we don't have any of in Washington.

We now know how a crack addict feels waiting for the dealer to provide the next hit...

Seattle decides to use salt as a deicer.

MyNorthwest.com has an article on how Seattle will now use salt on the roads as a deicing agent in the event of severe weather. All that I can say is that I am really glad that I don’t live in Seattle and am on the outskirts now as I have no desire to see my car get corroded/ eaten by the deicer. Granted I probably am paranoid as I am the only person I know who religiously cleans the car and washes the chassis during the winter months.

So congratulations Seattle folks. You probably are going to be in a similar situation as this year but can now look forward to corrosion as well. Why not just get some chains and shovel your street like the rest of us do?

Radio Hart TV and appliance rides the fail boat.