Archive for the ‘Random’ Category

The price to park…

January 14, 2008

at a hospital is unbelievable…until you pull up to the booth to pay…then you know that these people are not playing around.  I have diabetes so I visit the hospital every 3 or 4 months to see my endocrinologist.  Today I was there for about an hour and 15 minutes and it cost me $5 dollars to park.  While this adds up to $15-20 a year I feel sorry for the staff of the hospital who most likely have to pay to park where they work.  Now they may get a discount or a free pass but I know that is not always the case.  It would be like me charging the staff and the members of the church to park in our garage.  While this may be profitable how does something that seems to make no sense work?  Just another interesting fact…to valet park costs $7 at the same hospital.

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Can you hear…

January 10, 2008

me now? I saw this antenna over Christmas break and was wondering who this person is trying to communicate with…antenna.jpg

Have you stretched…

January 8, 2008

today. I am possibly the most inflexible person in the world so this 6 yr. old boy amazes me. Check this video out! He is like a human spider.

Neti pot…

January 7, 2008

is a nasal passage cleaner. Apparently this is all the rage.  I have never tried one of these things, and am not encouraging you to do so, but I did something similar when I was a kid. When my nose became stuffy I would go into the bathroom and turn on the faucet. I would cup my hand under the stream of water and fill it up. Then I would “carefully” sniff the water up into my sinuses. This is probably not safe but I was a kid and just wanted to breath through my nose. After a few minutes the water would loosen up the junk in my nose and sinuses and I could blow it out. Why did I not patten something like this and make millions of dollars?

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Three big pigs…

January 3, 2008

were in the back of the truck…then there were two. Brian Miller and I ran to North Point today to pick up three Styrofoam pigs for KidStuf this Sunday and on the way back down 400 at 65mph one of the pigs began to fly. It was the coolest thing I have seen in a while but I am sure that’s not what the Semi-truck driver behind us thought. Fly big pig fly!

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People invent the…

December 19, 2007

strangest things. I saw this in a local restaurant this past weekend. I have issues with opening bathroom doors with my cleanly washed hands because the guy in front of me most likely did not wash his hands. Now I don’t have to worry about getting my hands dirty…I can leave that to my wrist.  Thank you sanitary door opener!

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I saw this clown…

December 19, 2007

in Brazil over a year ago.  Thought it was a great picture!

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Can your phone…

December 12, 2007

do this? Jerry dropped his blackberry 8800 earlier today and the whole thing came apart. Battery, battery cover, pearl, and pearl cover all came apart. Jerry is very proud of this feature of his phone and his response was…”let’s see your i-phone do that!” As soon as all the pieces were gathered he reassembled the phone and turned it back on. Can your phone do this?

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UGLY…

November 29, 2007

socks. I know, I know, I know. Socks are made to cover the ugliest part of our bodies but when I put these things on at 5:45 this morning the first thought that went through my head was, “These are the ugliest socks I have ever seen.” Now that I think about it these things just found their way into my sock drawer. Jill so lovingly decided that she no longer wanted these socks (I can’t imagine why) so she stuck them in my drawer. I though I would give them a shot and when I took my shoes off around 12 hours later the same thought went through my head again. I don’t know who would spend so much time to make socks this ugly but it was not worth it. At least they don’t smell as bad as they look…yet.sockss.jpg