Driving on the Sidewalk

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Saturday, December 15, 2012

This is actually a review of the halloween house kit from Target as an option to replace actual gingerbread house kits, or actually making a gingerbread house from scratch:

cons:
1. The "gingerbread" was actually chocolate cookie
2. the "gingerbread was crunchy like a graham cracker instead of soft like gingerbread cookie, and sometimes broke apart like graham crackers as well
3. Necessary to make white frosting and buy Christmas candy to replace the black and orange frosting and candy bats

pros:
1. replacement frosting and candy went fast and most of the candy didn't end up near the houses
2. the kit only cost $2.50 on clearance after halloween and contained five small houses instead of one big one
3. low fear of failure due to low time and/or money investment

results:
see above

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Two things, unrelated, and one more unrelated thing.

1. While shopping for a new plunger, I was reading the label, and wondering, who at Clorox, Inc. has the job of writing the marketing "plug" for a plunger? SPLASH GUARD. Really? Ergonomic handle? Whatever. But by the time I had finished driving home from the store, I decided I could write a totally awesome ad for a plunger. I bet you could too, if you tried.

2. Danjo is watching some sort of cop show on TV. The main character was diffusing a bomb. You know, cutting the wires with a pocket knife, hoping he's got the right wires, and is in time, and all that. You know it's going to work. After all, when does the main character ever fail to diffuse the bomb? Just once, the strong male lead should blow up. Oops! Wrong wire! All the future cop shows with a bomb diffusion event in the plot line would suddenly become more suspenseful.

3. Also, if you are near here, Venom has a ring in an art show at our town's civic center. I haven't seen the ring yet, but I've heard it's cool.