It’s going to come as a shock to some of you who know of my tea snobbery but I recently tried Lipton Loose Leaf Tea – and it’s totally drinkable! Oh, and Lipton didn’t pay me to say this either. I was just walking through the tea and coffee isle of Walmart last week, and [...]
PP I got into reading books from Quirk publishing beginning last year when I picked up Dirty Jokes Every Man Should Know. Then I read just plain Jokes Every Man Should Know. Of course, like many people, I had also read the Worst Case Scenario series, including the one for kids, to my kids. These [...]
PP The Boulder Parks and Recreation department has been good to me for 4 years. That’s the number of consecutive years in which I’ve purchased yearly memberships at the City of Boulder Recreation facilities. I have felt in each of these past 4 years that I have gotten my money’s worth. I was content, if [...]
We all have our own house rules. My rules are pretty basic. No jumping on furniture, no yelling, put food away after eating, and always flush the toilet. I don’t have a list written down. My rules are what I consider to be common courtesy sorts of rules, not weird or memorization worthy. I think [...]
FF The good folks at Toro sent me a Power Curve 1800 snow blower last week. My assignment was to test it and tell all of you what I think. Now, those of you who are into marketing know that bloggers get dozens of review requests every day from marketing agencies for all sorts of [...]
FF It was a long time coming when I decided last week to unplug my family from our various forms of electronic entertainment – TV, Internet, video games (XBOX, Wii, 3DS). It was an experiment born from frustration, and you’ll be interested to know that it was mostly successful. I say mostly because of [...]
FF I‘ve gotten sufficiently annoyed recently by one of my sons (and I’m not going to say which one) and his dependence on electronic entertainment that I’ve decided to run a family experiment. This morning I unplugged the television, took away the Nintendo DS’s, and banned them from the Internet. To be completely fair to [...]
PP I have a theory about resolutions. But first, to be clear, I don’t like resolutions even though I repeatedly make them. Resolutions are preemptive failure admissions. The declaration of a resolution is, many more times than not, really just an announcement concerning the thing you’re about to fail. And guess what I do every [...]
I don’t understand why parents lie to their kids about Santa Claus. I can’t do it. I know what some of you are thinking; this must be some religious stand I’m taking, right? No, surprisingly, it isn’t. This is just a parenting style. I made the decision when the boys were born that I would [...]
Everyone is talking about Christmas now that Thanksgiving is behind us, but I’m still thinking about Thanksgiving. “Why?” You ask? Because I got to eat a 90 dollar turkey this past Thanksgiving! That’s why. Yes, I ate a 15lb turkey (or at least a portion of it) that cost someone at our dinner table, and [...]
A friend of mine wrote what has become Almightydad’s most commented on article. The article has 1,054 comments as of yesterday and has shown no ebb. Almost every day I get one or two, and it’s been more than a year since publication. The subject of the article is an MLM company called Send Out [...]
