The Blue Screen

As we prepare for Halloween Friday night, most of the kids knocking on our door will have no idea what the Blue Screen of Death was.

I guess Windows (even Vista) has been getting better over the years.

The Truth About our Pets

As a former dog owner and current cat owner, okay 2 cats, I've always had my suspicions that my animals had the intelligence but lacked the language skills, (and thumbs) to be our equals....

But what if that wasn't so....

In honor of JoHo

Whose favorite cartoon is Calvin:

Explaining the Unexplainable

Because sometimes we don't need to know....

Lost Interviews Part 1

Peanuts creator Charles Schultz:

How to win Any argument

What's a Hoosier?

One of the most famous Hoosier's was the now retired Indiana University Basketball Coach, Bobby Knight. Hoosier is the nickname for the school. But it also refers to people who live in Indiana, the state. You could Google it, but you'll get multiple answers.

Bonnie, our crazy Canadian receptionist, that's what it says on her business cards), sent me Jeff Foxworthy's list, and I found 13 of them apply to me although some of them occurred when I lived in Michigan:

Forget Rednecks, here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about

Hoosiers...

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you

may live in Indiana.

If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't

work there, you may live in Indiana.

If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you may live in

Indiana.

If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who

dialed a wrong number, you may live in Indiana.

If "Vacation" means going anywhere south of Muncie for the weekend,

you may live in Indiana.

If you measure distance in hours, you may live in Indiana.

If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you

may live in Indiana.

If you have switched from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back

again, you may live in Indiana.

If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging

blizzard without flinching, you may live in Indiana.

If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave

both unlocked, you may live in Indiana

If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife

knows how to use them, you may live in Indiana

If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit,

you may live in Indiana.

If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph -- you're going 80 and

everybody is passing you, you may live in Indiana.

If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled

with snow, you may live in Indiana.

If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and

road construction, you may live in Indiana.

If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you may

live in Indiana.

If you find 10 degrees "a little chilly", you may live in Indiana.

Sounds like the Hoosiers are very nice people

What's in your grocery cart?

A line from some comic:

Why is it that whenever we get blizzard warnings, we go to the store and buy the fixin's for French Toast? Bread, Eggs, Milk?

In my email this week came the following... (I'm glad T.P. made the top ten):

Top 10 Best-Selling Grocery Items

	Item	'07 sales*
1	Milk	$10.86
2	Fresh bread	$6.39
3	Cereal	$6.11
4	Cookies	$3.89
5	Toilet tissue	$3.78
6	Canned soup	$3.32
7	Fresh eggs	$2.92
8	Chocolate candy	$2.89
9	Potato chips	$2.82
10	Batteries	$1.59

* In billions

Source: Nielsen Strategic Planner

53 degrees and climbing

Tomorrow we are supposed to hit 63. Normal temp is about 1/2 that. Looks like the only snowmen are in these old Calvin and Hobbes cartoons...

A link to the boy and his tiger

My Favorite Son has a fascination with a comic strip that no longer exists. Well, it still exists, but it is no longer being created. It is the classic Calvin and Hobbes. While cruising thru Stumble! this weekend, I found a link for him and anyone else that wants to check out the boy and his tiger.

While MFS is off in Maine, I doubt that he packed his collection of Calvin books. This way he can have a Calvin fix from the comfort of his laptop.

Trivial info: The First Calvin and Hobbes appeared almost exactly 1 year to the day of MFS's 1st Birthday. The strip continued until MFS was 10 years old. Only MFS knows for sure when he started reading Calvin and collecting the books.

One other bit of trivial info: MFS's dad (that's me) had a stuffed tiger as a favorite for many years until I puked on it and it was to disgusting to save (according to my parents).

Somewhere I still have my stuffed bear that has these weird, life-like 3 dimensional eyes that watch you from the corner of the room.

And one day I'll find, scan and post a picture of the giant 5 foot Easter Bunny that I had as a kid.