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See all those categories right above this text? That’s only a smidgen of the stuff Lifehacker.org deals with regularly. It’s habit forming – but there are some fantastic tips and hacks for everybody.
I’m a sucker for commenting too. I just want to encourage those folks to keep on keeping on.
Here are my comments for the past few months and the posts to which they are attached.
GoingLikeSixty commented on Double-Check Confusing Words, Oct 10 
lie before lay except after egg more »
GoingLikeSixty commented on Top 10 Ways to Sleep Smarter and Better, on Oct 10 Stop worrying about getting to sleep. Concentrate on something that doesn’t cause stress. For example, I will try to replay more »
GoingLikeSixty commented on How to Iron a Button-Down Shirt, on Oct 6 If we can send a man to the moon 
…why can’t we make wrinkleless material! Conspiracy! more »
GoingLikeSixty commented on How Do You Give Criticism?, on Oct 5 “Feedback” HAR! How about “I want you to change, please do this from now on.” Doesn’t matter anyway. “associate” will go back more »
GoingLikeSixty commented on Do the Most Important Task First, on Sep 23 What happens if an email waiting should be your most important task for the day?Perhaps you should consider scanning email more »
GoingLikeSixty commented on Seventeen Uses for Tennis Balls, on Sep 12 Roll the ball of your bare foot on the ball of your foot to exercise, prevent, or relieve the pain more »
GoingLikeSixty commented on Remember where you parked your car, on Aug 14 Puhleeze. I get the airport and venue parking issue, but how about a little sticky arrow for the neighborhood? more »
GoingLikeSixty commented on Turn off email on vacation?, Jul 24 I like your “I’m away” and delete idea. If it’s important they will call you. Or not. more »
GoingLikeSixty commented on Where to find public records online, on Jul 23 Nope missed by a mile. I have a two word last name and they took the second word as more »
GoingLikeSixty commented on Watching television could cost you $1 million, on Jul 20 @Detoys got it right. I would just add that the TV may be ON for 4.5 hours, but it’s just background more »
GoingLikeSixty commented on The Internet Crash of 2007, on Jul 20 Oh crap, missed the ticker. Thanks for sharing this, I would have missed it otherwise. more »
GoingLikeSixty commented on Web-based or desktop RSS?, on Jul 16 Google Reader, convert from Bloglines because I moved all my email to gmail. Just wish there was an easy way more »
GoingLikeSixty commented on Here’s Our Winner! ‘Redbook’ Shatters Our ‘Faith’ In Well, Not Publishing, But Maybe God, on Jul 16 Hey! I can do that with my belly too! more »
GoingLikeSixty commented on Airline-hacking “mileage runners”, on Jul 10 Just for yuks, I drop by [flyertalk.com to see what the air warriors are up to. The mileage runners are freaks] more »
GoingLikeSixty commented on Stop naggers in their tracks, Jun 24 @Rob, glad that worked out for you. I’m just glad I have somebody cares enough. So I exploit it. more »
GoingLikeSixty commented on Dry out your soaked gadgets in rice, on Jun 18 Phones won’t last a good washing however. [goinglikesixty.wordpress.com] But I’m glad we tried after reading the posts about swimming and toilet dropping. more »
GoingLikeSixty commented on Bagged ice cream, on Jun 17 Whats more fun with the bag is to get the kids to throw it (easily) to each other. They usually more »
GoingLikeSixty commented on Hack your memory, Jun 9 @MrJR: I use the same trick with car keys, except I often associate a task with picking up my car more »
My wife’s cousin who just turned fifty and her mother who is seventy.
I dare you to call them elders!
Better yet, I dare you to call my wife’s uncle an elder. He’s a smart, nice guy and would probably give you benefit of the doubt. If not, he’s eighty and could kick my ass and probably yours (or your husbands.)
Imagine a room full of mostly 50+ women being directed to play with each other using movement, story telling, sound, music, and games. Wonder what picture you came up with? Well, I was there
yesterday in a woman’s Improv group that has just started in my local town.
I had the same experience with during my wife’s 60th birthday party. To refresh your memory, we picked her and a few of her friends up in a limo and met some more friends at Cracker Barrel.
Improv? OMG, these women were riffing off of each other’s comments so fast I couldn’t keep up. I couldn’t keep up, not because there was a lot of inside jokes from previous encounters, (there were) but because these women have the uncanny capability of talking in two conversations and listening to two different conversations simultaneously. Oh, and laughing like, well like hyenas!
Jaysus! When it came to the gag gifts, I’ve never heard a group of guys get as bawdy. I’m sure they cleaned up their act a lot because they were in a public restaurant.
Turns out the most memorable joke was at my expense. Someone speculated what people thought with me being the only guy at the table. Velma looked at my wife and they both said, “we know.”
It was their conclusion that everyone in the restaurant thought that I was my wife’s gay friend.
Not that there is anything wrong with that. But I did make sure a copped a feel during one of the pictures.
Not off to a very good start. After Beer 1, I figured I better do my running around town.
So I changed the headline to reflect current reality.
I’ll just update this post from now on, in case you will be keeping score.
My wife has my car, I have hers. It’s a convertible, with leopard fuzzy dice, leopard steering wheel cover, and leopard seat belt covers. No problem, I’ll put the top up and remove the fuzzy dice. Wrong. She has a license plate bracket that says: Knitting It Takes Balls. Yeah, I love driving around town in her car!
So while I was out, I stopped at my favorite mexican place for a quesadilla and rice. You’ll have to trust me on this: I had a beer with lunch.
So that’s two.
While I was there I pondered if I had early onset Parkinson’s because the rice kept falling off my fork.
Here’s another observation: the beauty school girls are way too young, and they wear better uniforms than nursing students.
Beer three in hand.
UPDATE: Three beers down, two at home and one at lunch.
Watched the dogs run around outside and when their tongues hit the deck, I brought them in. Beer three went down really easy.
Dogs can only sweat through their tongues.
They are killing Big Ben. No more bongs for Londoners. Londites? They will silence BB because they need to repair his four faces.
I’m fascinated by Violent Acres. I believe what is written. Today is one of those posts that make you realize there are some pretty messed up people who ended up with seemingly decent kids. And I buy the argument that a college degree is way overrated. I don’t see it changing however.
I’ll probably spend the afternoon readding RSS, so be prepared for some disjointed stuff. I’ll watch Ellen’s monologue because she is clever.
Beer four down while writing this.
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UPDATE:
Entering this contest. The answer is about midnight.
Hope I win. But I hate this person because she got some personalized M&M’s. Just remember this: for every M&M candy consumed you have to walk 100 yards to burn the same calories.
Mail’s here. Gotta walk off one M&M.
That’s five.
UPDATE: Six. Just walking to the mailbox made it easy to down #6. I found in the lower fridge drawer some miller Lite. So since I like Chill as a cooler-downer, I’m moving to Lite.
I told you I got a check from Google, if you dn’t remember. click. Here’s blatant promotion for the site.
My bookmark for to login to this blog is right next to my bookmark for my portfolio. I launched that site instead. Wholey Crap. I’m gonna have a Bourbon and Coke next. And that won’t count.
Stu9id markets, this volitility is killing me. We’re one of those people that the experts say not to be: we check our investments everyday. Yesterday was dynomite, today it exploded all over me.
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UP”DATe: You know what they say about drinking alone? Their right. As soon as I get through my 200 RSS feeds to read, I guess I’ll stop. Nah, just joshing.
But I missed ellen’s monologue. Wife called, the had a 12 passenger stretch pick them up, with Clarence the driver.
UPDATE:
Seven. I have this website playing in background. Good taste in music too. The Asian Cole Slaw sounds good.
Three Dog Afternoon. Never can get all four in one place. Maybe we only have three and a stray wanders in occassionally. (Whoa, check that out, spelled it right!)
Here’s a tip for taking photos of people to make them look thinner. I tend to do the chin tuck, I try to remember to stick my neck out and it does help. But those loose shirts just don’t do the trick anymore. I have a belly like Tony Soprano. Probably from eating too much coleslaw.
Beer Float anybody?
UPDATE: Market closed down 387. Our equities were down only $356. Mutual Funds won’t figure until later. LOVE Jails CXW, up 4%! Mutual Funds – the supposedly conservative way to invest will kill us when they figure. Ah tomorrow’s another day. George says it’s OK.
“If markets are given a chance, they will adjust in a way that is a necessary reaction to a flood of liquidity that came into the market over the last couple of years.”
“I happen to believe the war has clouded a lot of peoples’ sense of optimism.”
“It all depends on if you’re a glass-half-full or a glass-half-empty kind of guy.”
With Mr. Bush’s approval ratings hovering at around 35%, the glass is considerably less than half-full for him. More like 65% empty.
It’s really a sign of the president’s lack of credibility that no one really cares what he thinks about the economy at this point.
Ah I think Ah’l have another beer. My typing is actually getting better.
UPDATE: OK, done. You know what they say about drinking alone! I’m done with my RSS feeds, and I’m getting bored with this as I’m sure you are too. Nobody likes me. Grandad says I can’t hold my beer. Prairie Gourmet says I belong in a car with leopard print. BadBadIvy called me a dude. (Dude: I haven’t been a dude, ever. I’m male, but I’ve never been a dude.) The rest of you prawley dissapprove of my drinking in the middle of the day in the middle of the week.
S.H.I.T. Sure Happy It’s Thursday. Except in Ireland, where it’s either Wednesday or Friday. So I’m done.
dood night and good luck.
So you aren’t really recommending Sangria and Coke? We could call it Coca-loo, or K8gria, Carlos and Coke (Gallo wine)
