Back when I noticed I was starting to lose my hair I decided to do a pre-emptive strike and shave it all off. Mrs. Fancy-Pants (check out her blog, it’s awesome) recently made a comment on a previous post where she mentioned that her friend tried to use an Epilady on his beard. This reminded me of the time I thought it would be easier to wax my head than shave it every day. So I got my wife, Michele,…
All you women asked for them, all us men bought them for you in December of 1988. As promised in an earlier post, this is my story about the Epilady. I’m betting it is quite similar to many others. Sometime in the fall of ’88 the below commercial was constantly on TV. I’m sure it would have been on You Tube videos and banner ads if there had been an Interweb back then, but it was just TV. Take a look….
Recently my team had to work a grave yard shift (10 PM – 6 AM) for a week to do some testing on a naval radar system. You can imagine that around 3 AM we all get a little punchy. We fuel up on 5 hour energy, Monsters, and Slim Jims to stay awake. In some of the down time between tests, our caffeine fueled minds get to racing and all kinds of conversations are started. During one of these times, several of my…
I’d like to introduce you to Tim. Tim is my best friend. He’s a racquetball. Yes, I’m weird, I’ve heard. Tim goes with me most everywhere. He likes to bounce along with me when I take the dog for a walk. He likes to bounce off the wall and return to me when I sit on the couch. He also likes to stare at me with that eternal optimistic grin of his. Sometimes I like to squeeze him over and over when I’m…
Do little children even need night lights these days? I was lying in bed the other night and shut the TV off to go to sleep when I noticed this glow all around me. It hit me then. My house is never completely in the dark anymore. When I was a little kid I remember when turning out the light to go to sleep meant total darkness. Darkness unless you had a night light, which of course I didn’t. Oh…