DL » Uncategorized http://www.dave-l.org/blog Taglines are for losers Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:21:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Why Having a Toddler is Like Being at a Frat Party http://www.dave-l.org/blog/2010/06/18/why-having-a-toddler-is-like-being-at-a-frat-party/ http://www.dave-l.org/blog/2010/06/18/why-having-a-toddler-is-like-being-at-a-frat-party/#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:14:23 +0000 Dave http://www.dave-l.org/blog/?p=139 From an email going around

10. There are half-full, brightly-colored plastic cups on the floor in every room. Three are in the bathtub.

9. There’s always that one girl, bawling her eyes out in a corner.

8. It’s best not to assume that the person closest to you has any control over their digestive function.

7. You sneak off to the bathroom knowing that as soon as you sit down, someone’s going to start banging on the door.

6. Probably 80% of the stains on the furniture contain DNA.

5. You’ve got someone in your face at 3 a.m. looking for a drink.

4. There’s definitely going to be a fight.

3. You’re not sure whether anything you’re doing is right, you just hope it won’t get you arrested.

2. There are crumpled-up underpants everywhere.

1. You wake up wondering exactly how and when the person in bed with you got there.

]]> http://www.dave-l.org/blog/2010/06/18/why-having-a-toddler-is-like-being-at-a-frat-party/feed/ 1 My New Favorite Beer http://www.dave-l.org/blog/2010/06/14/my-new-favorite-beer/ http://www.dave-l.org/blog/2010/06/14/my-new-favorite-beer/#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:21:31 +0000 Dave http://www.dave-l.org/blog/?p=133 It took me quite a while to format this post.  Obviously I should post more.

On other matters, this is my new favorite beer.  Apparently only available through July.

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I suppose I should make them good then.

Better than this one anyway.

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]]> http://www.dave-l.org/blog/2009/05/24/i-can-taste-it-now/feed/ 0 Yesterday we tried to make a curry … http://www.dave-l.org/blog/2009/02/15/yesterday-we-tried-to-make-a-curry/ http://www.dave-l.org/blog/2009/02/15/yesterday-we-tried-to-make-a-curry/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:36:15 +0000 Dave http://www.dave-l.org/blog/2009/02/15/yesterday-we-tried-to-make-a-curry/ … The house smelled great. How the food could have come out so bland, I don’t know. Even this morning the place smelled like an excellent Indian restaurant.

What a let down

]]> http://www.dave-l.org/blog/2009/02/15/yesterday-we-tried-to-make-a-curry/feed/ 0 I can’t believe I haven’t posted since Pittsburgh http://www.dave-l.org/blog/2008/12/01/i-cant-believe-i-havent-posted-since-pittsburgh/ http://www.dave-l.org/blog/2008/12/01/i-cant-believe-i-havent-posted-since-pittsburgh/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:17:41 +0000 Dave http://www.dave-l.org/blog/2008/12/01/i-cant-believe-i-havent-posted-since-pittsburgh/ And I’m only posting now to try out this offline blog post editor.

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Much of the housing is row-housing and many of the shops are closed. Walking around the streets at night it looked like many of the houses were empty too. Many, maybe most of the houses had no lights on. Although the neighborhoods were very walkable, and it was a nice night, we saw very few other people walking around.

We went to a delicious Indian restaurant last night called “Taste of India”. Doesn’t every city have an Indian restaurant called that? Then we went to a brew pub built in an old church. Although it was impressive to see. It was large and fairly full, but I didn’t think the beer was all that good. We got a sampler and couldn’t get really excited about any of the beers.

Today we’re planning on seeing the strip district. I’m hoping to try one of those Primanti Brothers sandwiches. And tonight we’re going to see something known as OUTrageous bingo which is some kind of bingo/dragshow hybrid.

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I couldn’t answer all the questions but look at this, can I be this far off?

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They say I will need almost 6 million to retire?  And that I have to increase my savings by 10 to 12K per month – well over my take-home?  I didn’t even specify what I thought I’d need to live on, I let them estimate it for me.

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]]> http://www.dave-l.org/blog/2008/01/21/ice-on-lake-erie/feed/ 0 Princess Cruise Lines Customer Service http://www.dave-l.org/blog/2007/11/27/princess-cruise-lines-customer-service/ http://www.dave-l.org/blog/2007/11/27/princess-cruise-lines-customer-service/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:53:31 +0000 Dave http://www.dave-l.org/blog/2007/11/27/princess-cruise-lines-customer-service/ I know there are worse things happening in the world (the Iraq war for one) but these kinds of stories just make me feel so sorry for people.

This 78 year old woman saved for 10 years to go on an Alaskan cruise through Princes Cruise Lines. She let Princess book the air flights and ended up with this tortuous route through three different flights.

Well, something went wrong and she ended up missing the cruise. It’s Princess Cruise Lines policy to keep all the money. Apparently that’s an industry standard. The airline refunded the money but since PCL booked the flights, they’re keeping that too.

What PCL did might be legal but I don’t know how a corporation, which after all is made up of people, can be so heartless. I can’t imagine the disappointment of saving $250 a year, over 10 years for something that gets snatched away from you, along with the money.

How do corporations become so sociopathic?

Story vie the Consumerist

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