A Stroll Down Main Strasse

I've lamented before not being able to walk anywhere from where I live. This shot here is just a few blocks away from J & B's home in Covington, KY taken yesterday. Nice night, outside dining, musical entertainment, and great fish and chips. City living at its best.

Orange & Ginger

Bath and Body Works has this great scent - orange & ginger. We have the soap in this aroma therapeutic scent and need to get more. Two stores we went to said the same thing - this is our top seller and we always sell out in a day or two. It takes weeks to refill orders, we're told. Don't you think the operations whizzes at Bath & Body would figure out they need to make more of this stuff and less of the other? Actually, they sound like some car companies I know.

Last post of the month

Watching the White Sox - Twins pre-playoff game and the new show Fringe. All I can say about Fringe is - ANOTHER AUSTRALIAN ACTRESS??? I like this Anna Torv actress but really, aren't there any American thespians?

Urinetown

Instead of watching the Browns finally win an ugly, ugly game, we went to see the musical Urinetown at a local theater in Lakewood, OH, The Beck Center. Look them up at http://www.beckcenter.org/. As one of the characters in the play said - this is not a happy musical and it has a name no one will like - what kind of musical is this???

Actually it was quite good. Too bad only about 50 people were there out of about 300 seats.

Great Test Answers

I usually don't include jokes as a posting, but what the heck. I could talk about how Rich Rodriguez is now a hero at Michigan for beating Wisconsin, or how instant replay in College is turning out to be a good idea, or how Florida had a shocking upset loss, or that Charlie Manual has led the Philadelphia Phillies to its second straight playoff, or that Joe Torre is in the playoffs again even though the Yankees (spit on the floor) are not. But, I won't.

Full Court Press for United Way

We have a Sr. VP at work that has been with us almost a year. This guy can get anything done. He's responsible for raising $100,000 for the Lorain County United Way just in one golf outing. He has managed to get 100% participation from his team at work. Last week, he sent an email to the managers saying we were short of our goal and that whatever additional we would pledge, he would match. Raised $3000 in 15 minutes.

The picture here, by the way, is of the Executive Director of the county United way.

Printing web pages impossible?

For over a year, I have been trying to figure out how to print my blog pages so they capture all content. As many of you may know, if you just use your print function on your browser, a lot of information gets cut off or doesn't show up. I finally found something called HP Smart Web at http://h71036.www7.hp.com/hho/cache/482779-0-0-225-121.html. I downloaded it OK. However, my home computer only uses Mozilla Firefox because the wonderful Bill Gates Microsoft operating system broke and will not run Internet Explorer. Any way, I upgraded to the latest Firefox version because it's supposed to be safer. This HP Smart Web, however, will not run on version 3 of Firefox, just version 2.

So, I had to use another computer that has Internet Explorer. Then, I printed my blog pages onto a pdf file using something called pdf995. This way, I can print it any time I want or can email it. If you don't know what I'm talking about, don't worry, I don't either.