UN-Srabulous!

This is just a short blog entry to address the mass hysteria spreading across the Facebook globe. As of July 30, 2008, Facebook users in the U.S. and Canada will no longer be able to access their Scrabulous games. Maybe your asking why, or maybe you're so disinterested that you haven't even made it to 'Maybe'. Anyway, from what I hear, Hasbro is suing Facebook and has gotten a temporary cease and desist order. So, as of July 30, 2008 I hereby blogify to the world that I will no longer be purchasing products made by Hasbro. This includes but is not limited to; Spirograph, Battle Trolls, Glow Worms, Lincoln Logs, Lite-Brite, Trivial Pursuit, Play-Doh, Easy Bake Ovens, G.I. Joes, Luke Skywalker Action Figure, My Little Pony, CandyLand, Parcheesi, Boggle, Nerf Footballs, Battleship, Yahtzee, Twister, Monopoly, and finally...SCRABBLE! Please join the movement, and say "HAS-NO"!! That's all I have to say about that...Wait, I should point out that I don't actually OWN a My Little Pony. That was the first thing I got rid of yesterday.

Summer Days

As I was driving to work this morning, I started to think about how great it is to live near the beach. Unfortunately in New Jersey, living near the beach also means dealing with the cavalcade of Philadelphia drivers, who apparantly think the term "safe driving" has more to do with golf courses in friendly neighborhoods, than it does with avoiding large moving objects, and singlehandedly making the Somers Point Circle an optional death trap. However, with that being said, there is no other place quite like summertime in South Jersey. From the pizza thieving seagulls on the boardwalk who remind us it's OK to look up every now and then, to the unskilled 'surrey' bicycle riders who are more than capable of running over 3-4 pedestrians at a time while simultaneously shoving a loaf of Monkey Bread down their throat. Which reminds me, don't forget all the GREAT Food! , Mack and Manco's Pizza, Johnson's Popcorn, George's Macaroons, Steels Fudge..(OK, I need to stop). Wow...I am really hungry now. I think I will go to the boardwalk after work. Yes, I think I will.

I Hate To Complain, But...

Let's face it. Complaining about things rarely does any good. In fact, it usually just makes you feel worse. So for most of the week, I've tried not to complain. No matter how bad things were I just kept it to myself, at least most of the time. After all, nobody's perfect. But after one week, it seems I'm beginning to weaken, and I may not be able to keep it in much longer, so I've decided to take a minute and list some things that really annoy me, in the hopes it will relieve some tension:

1) Best-Buy tech-support geeks that look at you like your an idiot when you are unable to tell them what the sub-ratio of your dual processor is in relation to the syntex decoder speed.

2) Any one of my towns (6) six fast food drive thru workers who mysteriously hear the word 'mayonaise', every time I say 'ketchup'. I've even tried saying 'catsup', but to no avail.

3) No matter what time in the morning I go to get my coffee at WAWA (it's a convenient store to those who have never been east of the Mississippi), there is always the same thrift minded, middle-aged woman in front of me who ceremoniously decides to pay for her Newports with $6.10 worth of ziplocked nickles, dimes, and pennies.

4) It's hard to walk 20 feet on our city's bikepath, without stepping in some dog turd left by an owner who apparently thinks that because it's bio-degradable, that it's somehow good for the community's local flora and fauna.

5) MONDAYS!