Entries from February 2008 ↓

I don’t take credit for this… and I won’t take the blame either.

Buying gifts for men is not nearly as complicated as it is for women. Follow these rules and you should have no problems.

Rule #1: When in doubt, buy him a cordless drill. It does not matter if he already has one. I have a friend who owns 17 and he has yet to complain. As a man, you can never have too many cordless drills. No one knows why.

Rule #2: If you cannot afford a cordless drill, buy him anything with the word ratchet or socket in it. Men love saying those two words. “Hey George, can I borrow your ratchet?” “Okay. By the way, are you through with my 3/8″ socket yet?” Again, no one knows why.

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I had seen this before, I don’t remember where and wish I had quoted it at the time. This time it comes via a posting on Wise Bread.

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that’s what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve.
“Since you are all such good customers”, he said, “I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20″. Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his “fair share?”
They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.

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Last Thursday was Valentine’s Day, and while I had bought a gift for my girlfriend, I think it is obligatory to also get flowers. I heard about proflowers.com on the Glenn Beck radio show, and figured I would give them a shot.

Being a guy, I didn’t do this until Tuesday the 12th, but all the promotional stuff I heard/saw on their site said it was not problem. I decided on a plant, the Azalea Bonzai to be precise. She just started a new job a couple months ago, and I thought this might go good at her desk. During the checkout, I had the option for next-day delivery (the 13th) for a fairly good bump-up in the shipping, or two options for 2nd day (the 14th). I could pay something like $19.99 and have it there by 9am on the 14th, or $9.99 and it would be there by 5pm, though they noted most deliveries arrived by 2pm. I figured she worked till 5, so that would work fine. Continue reading →

Here’s a few reasons why guys like girls… I didn’t write this… just found it years ago and thought it was worth holding on to. Seems a fitting time to re-post it.

1. They will always smell good even if its just shampoo
2. The way their heads always find the right spot on our shoulder
3. How cute they look when they sleep
4. The ease in which they fit into our arms
5. The way they kiss you and all of a sudden everything is right in the world
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I am off this weekend to go play paintball in a game in St. Louis… because of this I decided to post something I wrote for our paintball site a couple years back.

March 11, 2006. Fort Ahlman - Morristown, MN
The weather supposedly was to be rain today. Well, that didn’t happen, but thanks to the mild weather the last couple of weeks, the field was soupy. Wet, muddy, mucky. Soupy.

First game of the day we had a bit of five-on-five going. And while it wasn’t raining, it was windy, so we hit the woods instead of the field around the island. Myself, Snapdragon, Fodder, Dwome, and Lucky going up against Goblin, Buckman, Raptor, Sparky, and Carpenter. The game, Center Flag. Our team starts at the Deer Stand, the other team Pine Stadium. The flag was put at the bottom of the berm in the Archery Range.

It’s fairly close quarters shooting when your in the woods. Sure there are a few spots where you can end up with open lanes and some field area to toss some long balls across, but for the most part your shots are gonna be in the 50-75foot range. So I decided to go in scalled down. I took my usually 50 round hopper and put it on my 98 Custom, then instead of my 14″ barrel I went for the stock barrel. A lil 8 incher that I’ve only used a handful of times before. To top it off, or would that be bottom, I screwed on a four ounce tank. Two pods on my belt and I was good to go.

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Yesterday was Groundhog’s Day. Here in MN, it was overcast… so I am hopeful we get an early spring, but even if we do - that doesn’t mean we can’t still get hit hard. This picture is from on my way home from work, just 11 months ago on March 1, 2007.

We ended up with 6 or more inches that day I think. And we had another March storm that dumped about the same later in the month.

I’ll take an early spring this year please… I want to get the hard top off the Jeep ASAP!