Dog House Ramblings

Random Ramblings

My spam trap email address now has 16,927 spam email messages in the bucket.

Hurricane Ike was ugly down south, but mostly a non-event here. Except for gas prices. They've jumped 24 cents a gallon since Thursday morning. We actually could have used more rain. I hope all everyone down south is OK.

Carnival Cruise lines will sell you personal information to everyone on the planet. Since taking a cruise in April, the junk mail at the house has doubled. I know it's because of Carnival because it says so.

One of my coworkers has a mother in hospice. She's not doing well. And it sucks.

Looks like the Tennessee Volunteers may suck this year.

Did I mention that I bought a new rifle in honor of Joe B getting chosen as Obama's running mate? I did. And while I really don't care for McCain, his choice of running mate has me wavering. I had intended to pick None of the Above. Who knows.


There's a "new" liquor store in town. Beverage Depot has added a second store over off of I-35E and Northwest Hwy. You can see it from the interstate, but it's hard to get to... Which is why it's never busy. I'm afraid it will close soon if business doesn't pick up. Which is a shame because it has a great selection of adult beverages, along with the most cooler doors I've ever seen in one store. And the prices are good. Here's a map - Beverage Depot. I highly recommend a visit. You won't be disappointed.

Lynne is officially a full professor at the Baylor College of Dentistry. That means she can pretty much get away with murder.... as long as she cleans up the mess before she goes home for the evening.

I'm thinking about taking a month off to go sailing. I haven't sailed enough this year.

Closing in on 114,000 miles on my '95 325i, or about 70,000 miles since I got it. Thanks for the deal, Dad.

Seems like the charitable organizations are really scrambling for money. And as much as I'd like to help out, I'm not pleased with how my donations are being spent. Instead of using the donations to "take care of business", it seems like they're only using your money to send you solicitations for more money. Even when I specifically ask a charity to not solicit me, the solicit me. So I've started cutting back on the people I send donations to. But that's good for the groups who've listened - cause they're getting the money I used to send to other organizations.

My wife gave me an Oregon Scientific weather station for my birthday - the WMR968 wireless rig. And as slick as this unit is, the instructions for it just plain SUCK! It also appears that the rain gauge does not do well in wind driven rains. So as much as I like it, I definitely can not recommend it for anyone but a serious techno geek.

That's all for tonite.

posted by The Dog @ 6:08 PM