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Top 10 Observations This Week


Top 10 Observations This Week

  1. The music for the new Frisky’s commercial makes me think they are adding peyote to the mix.
  2. Curling is the Matlock of sports.
  3. Microsoft has a brilliant campaign for their new operating system. If anything’s wrong – it’s the users fault for suggesting it. (“We thought it was stupid, but they were so insistent.)
  4. I’ve been unable to watch any Basketball since that Kobe Bryant thing in Colorado. I keep thinking about my daughters.
  5. I would be more comfortable taxing Cadillac health plans if I thought Congress had not exempted Congress from the tax.
  6. PBS seems to be one long infomercial these days –self help with pledge breaks.
  7. One of my daughters is the subject of a Cosmopolitan article – April, page 160 – and I am not amazed at all by this.
  8. I no longer blame the Navy for the worst 4 years of my life – I realize now that they would have been tough years anyway.
  9. Unemployment reminds me of something I overheard once: “I prayed for patience, what I got was lessons in patience.”
  10. The blog layout has been updated -- Hope you like it.
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