Pixar Problems
Is anyone else increasingly disappointed with the direction that Pixar has been heading recently??? I didn’t really care for Brave when I finally got arou...
Year: 2012
FINALLY Splurging for SunPass!
So I finally did it – I finally, after living in Florida for 9 years, broke down and ordered one of the transponders for our electronic toll system. We ho...
Fired Lifeguard Gets Kudos From Legoland
This was a nice update to see on a rather ugly story to come out of Miami a couple of weeks ago – basically, a lifeguard left his designated section of th...
wet and sunny in Downtown Tampa
Here’s one more photo that I took while we were downtown today – I’ve always been a fan of our downtown area because it’s big, but not I...
a day of local learning
Today was sort of our last day out and about with family before they head back early Monday morning, so we ended up taking them to see a couple of local sights ...
frustrated with fireworks
Let’s be clear – the 4th of July was 10 days ago. And yet here tonight, on the fourteenth of July, people around my neighborhood are still shooting ...
The Legoland Post
Oh boy oh boy oh boy – where do I even start?! So last Tuesday we took a big group of family over to Legoland for the day … anyone who follows me o...
“America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.”
I remember seeing at least part of this clip from HBO’s new series The Newsroom a while ago, but watching the whole 3.5 minutes in its entirety just now r...
Side-Stepping the Status Quo
I came across this little clip of an interview with Steve Jobs at random this afternoon, and it’s one of those things that a creative person in pretty muc...
Digg Finally Scrapped for Digital Parts
This was kind of a sad headline to read, although I guess it doesn’t really surprise me because I honestly stopped using Digg a long time ago myself. I re...