Airport Extravaganza This weekend's trip to Alabama for Hamp and Kelly's wedding reception, which I fondly call The Alabomination, has suddenly become so much more. Not only am I taking Cleveland to Nashville to Birmingham, via Southwest. Now I'm also going from Birmingham to Atlanta to St. Louis via Delta on Sunday. And then St. Louis to Cleveland via Continental on Tuesday. That's five airports in five days with three different carriers. I think this proves that my company officially owns my soul, and I'm just renting it back for awhile. Link to this article Posted at 12:56:40 PM EST by copus
Hit the bump and take a dive I was talking about the different sections of an organizational chart at work today. An excerpt from the conversation: Employee 1: Wow.. how much lower could you go on the systems ladder? Me: All the listings are parallel, so technically, it's not a ladder.... it's more of a slip and slide. I like to think of my career as more of a Crocodile Mile. Link to this article Posted at 11:28:45 AM EST by copus
Soap to the eXtreme I have a bad habit of taking home hotel soap, lotion, conditioner, shoe polish, and other assorted items when I go on work trips. I use it, albeit slowly. I seem to have quite a collection at the moment: 
I'm still trying to figure out how to jam the hotel room coffee makers into my luggage. On a completely unrelated topic, congratulations to the Georgetown High School G-Men for winning their first state basketball title. Oh, the memories... of 1989, when I last lived there. Now that I think about it, I lived there longer than any place except for my long, drawn out college career in Columbus. Link to this article Posted at 08:39:25 PM EST by copus
Baby in a cage "Man, that was so easy it was like punching a baby in a cage..." Link to this article Posted at 10:27:07 PM EST by copus Let the Body hit the FLOOR After landing at the Cleveland Hopkins Airport from a week in St. Louis, rushing straight to downtown Akron to catch the OSU basketball game, and watching one of the more improbable comebacks I've ever seen, the fun started tonight. As my coworkers and I left after the game, we heard a yelling match between two young guys and an older guy. We started walking the other direction, but as I turned around to say goodbye to the guys, I saw the two young guys shove the older guy down to the pavement. He hit head first hard enough that everyone could hear it from over 50 feet away. He was out cold... the two guys hurried away and we went over to see how the guy was. He was in bad shape... still breathing, and eyes slightly open and dilated, but completely unresponsive. By the time the cops came (we had someone call 911), he was awake, but not in great shape... probably from a combination of alcohol and the huge bump on the back of his head. What kind of guys beat up an old drunk dude? For some reason, the police only cared whether the assailants carried a gun. I guess that's important, though. What a strange return to Akron *from* what is supposedly the most dangerous city in America. Link to this article Posted at 01:49:37 AM EST by copus
SSSSSSSHHHHHHHH I bet airports were a LOT quieter before cellphones were invented.... especially phones with speakerphones.... Link to this article Posted at 11:56:24 AM EST by copus
Caulk Fight Well, the hot water knob on my "master bedroom" shower stopped working yesterday. No problem. I just used the basement shower, in the "murder bathroom." No one had used that shower since I bought the place last year. It was fine, though. Really hot water, since it was right next to the hot water heater. And really cold water, since the line coming into the house goes into that bathroom first. The only problem was that the bathroom floor was covered in water when I was done. I sealed up some suspicious cracks in the shower with caulk, and tested it again today. No leaks that I could find, so I tried taking a quick shower. No water when I got done, but a few minutes later, water seeped out from UNDER the shower enclosure. Hmmmm.... this is going to be a problem. Link to this article Posted at 08:25:37 PM EST by copus
HD is for Carolinians I just watched the first round NCAA tourney game of OSU vs. Central Connecticut State. Good game, but I was disappointed it wasn't in HD. As soon as the game ended, the Duke vs. VCU game came on. THAT is in HD. Why does a 6 seed merit a high definition feed, but the Number 1 seed and Number 1 ranked team in the polls get a standard feed? Watched standard definition on my projector is like pouring ashes in my eyes! Link to this article Posted at 09:06:52 PM EST by copus
Quake and Shake What if God threw an earthquake and I didn't even notice? I got a call from Raj while I was at work last night, asking if I heard or felt an explosion. Well, it turns out he was near the epicenter of an earthquake in Northeast Ohio. According to the radio, I might have felt it if I were at home. Not so much at work. Oh well, maybe I'll notice a tremor when the Big One comes and tears Ohio off into the Pacific Ocean. Link to this article Posted at 06:34:57 AM EST by copus
Random Girlfriend Quote of the night, "I don't even know her name, but I've GOT to break up with her." I'm glad I'm not you, anonymous quote-getter. Link to this article Posted at 03:55:30 AM EST by copus
Mythbusted  I forget why I was even looking for stuff like this, but I found a great site that dispels cooking myths, such as keeping the avacado pit in a bowl of guacamole so it doesn't turn brown (I was yelled at for not doing this with the first batch of guacamole I ever made.) And mayonaise-based foods don't actually spoil quicker than without mayonaise. And I do lay awake at night worrying about aluminum pans causing Alzheimer's disease. Link to this article Posted at 11:20:27 PM EST by copus
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