chamber of flames

As I am currently filing a lawsuit against Abbas Holdings Inc., times are financially tough. Therefore, it is even more important to know how long food is fresh for.

Actually, I just needed an excuse to post that link, and why not bitch about having $15,000 stolen from you?

hell of upset expectations

The new Trop50 blows. Especially compared to expectations of drinking the regular Tropicana pulp free orange juice. I didn't know what I was buying, I saw pulp free and snagged the carton, because it was on sale. I did find it odd that the carton was taller and thinner than usual. To my dismay, this is how Pepsi differentiates between the Trop50 and regular Tropicana.

Why does it blow? It tastes like water downed orange juice, but with a terribly artificial aftertaste (my guess is that this is from the PureVia sweetener, an extract of the stevia plant). The only good news is that it still has 100% vitamin C per serving. So it still serves my intended purpose of hydrating while attacking this lingering cold I've been having.

Verdict: Stick with the golden nectar of regular Tropicana.

chamber of grinding

Being locked in Sturgis, MI 5 days a week since January 5th, I have been able to catch various programs on TV that I normally would not watch. Anyway, I have watched CNBC the last couple of days with morbid curiosity since, like everyone else, my 401k has dropped 50%. During the various interviews/shouting matches they split the screen with windows for each presenter. This week the hit a new high of 9 people in the discussion and on the screen at the same time. There is an 8.1% unemployment rate in this country right now (over 11% here in Michigan), but there is still a growth industry in pundits/opiners/blowholes on TV. This all began with CNN during the presidential election, which showcased two rows of 5 people/pundits, and 2 hosts in studio, but CNBC has upped the ante with 9 people spread out across the country.

Wealthy men who do no good are ground into powder in this chamber.

Chamber of Flames

Today I returned to my own personal hell in Richmond, IN, the Hampton Inn, to find that all my personal effects were missing.  Since I find it hard to believe anyone would want my half used deodorant and electric razor (among other things), I will assume that everything was thrown out.  Thank goodness this is my last week here.  Unfortunately, I will be heading to Sturgis, MI next.  Sturgis is in many ways even bleeker than Richmond.  I can't wait.

Album Review

I wrote a review for Raphael Saadiq's album here.  If you want, let me know what you think.

The hell of the holidays

Thanksgiving is the most enjoyable of the holidays. There is no pressure of gift giving. No hours and hours of untangling skeins of lights. Minimal (none in my family) decorating. No laborious shopping and mall traffic. No over comercialization, in fact most retail stores skip right to the Christmas decorations (thank you Nordstrom's for not having decorations until the day after Thanksgiving). And finally, no multiple family Thanksgivings. You pick your favorite portion of the family, and settle in for the long haul

But there are 2 football games to watch. All the food you can eat. And if you are a male, at least in my family, no cooking or preperation of any kind. Best of all, no one bothers you if you fall asleep on the couch. Instead they will just say "oh, that's the tryptophan".

So I say: "thank you Mayflower", and all the settlers therein. Even though you were a plague to the indians (figuretively and literally), you did give us one hell of a holiday.

Looking sideways & backwards

I would have posted this site earlier if I had begun writing before the election. Although I would say this site has a very liberal slant, the statistics and rationale used are pretty sound. What is remarkable is the accuracy of the final prediction.

One caveat, statistics can help tell a story they are not "the story".