Dick’s Drive-In is opening a new location!

For the first time in 36 years, Dick’s Drive-In is opening a new location and they have a poll letting their customers decide where to put it. Time to throw it down and represent for the eastside!
Go vote now!
Here are the current results as of 9/1/2010 @ ~11PM.

More Posts

I’ll try to do more posts in the coming months.

Grandpa Punched Kids In Head At Walmart For “Thrill”

Too funny!
OP Link
A $150,000 bond has been set for the 68-year old man accused of punching kids in the back of the head at Walmart while their parents weren’t looking.
Ralph would put his keys between his knuckles and wack children while their parents were entranced by Walmarts fabulous bargains. He said he did it for [...]

School District Bans Obama Speech, then, plans to bus children to Bush Speech

Wow, just wow.
Link to Article
The Arlington Independent School District in Texas decided not to show President Obama’s address to students live yesterday because it reportedly didn’t want to interrupt its regularly scheduled lesson plans. However, the district has now decided to bus its students off-campus on Sept. 21 to hear President Bush speak:
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Labor Day Weekend + Movie Theater = Fail

I’d list this post under the fun category–but it wasn’t fun.
We saw District 9–which was mediocre. It’s been out for a while now, but the theater was packed. No more holiday weekend movies for me.

Obama unveils measures to spur retirement saving

Cool!
Payments for unused vacation time and sick leave could be converted into retirement savings under the new measures and Americans would be able to have tax refunds directly deposited into their retirement accounts or used to buy savings bonds.
The measures do not require congressional approval and most will take effect immediately.
Link to article.

Green Pizza Box

Sold!

Griffey chooses to return to Mariners

I’m too sick to work, and feel terrible. So, what do I do with my day? Good question. I watch “judge” shows on TV (People’s Court & Judge Judy) while refreshing MLB.com to see if my favorite payer is coming back home, and he is!

PEORIA, Ariz. — Ken Griffey Jr. is coming home.
The future Hall [...]

Verizon Customer Support Scares Me…

I don’t think my question was all that confusing. Customer Service like this does not make me want to switch from Comcast to Verizon.

Me: Does Verizon offer voip?
Jimmy: Well FiOS compatible with the VOIP
Jimmy: We are not offering Voip.
Me: What’s Verizon “voicewing” then?
Jimmy: Yes that is a VOIP but that is not available online you [...]

My Audacity of Hope

It’s just one of those days when I want to throw my hands in the air and give up– when all I have left is hope.
“Hope is not blind optimism.” Pause. “Hope is not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight.” Pause. “Hope is that thing inside of us that insists, despite all [...]