Category Archives: Just for Fun

Fun Gift Ideas

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There used to be a fun store at the mall called Spencers where you could buy fun gifts and silly novelty items. Those stores closed last year and I’ve not found anything to take its place until tonight when I came across an online site called Creative and Unique Gift Ideas.

This is the perfect place to find gag gifts and fun things, like a coffee cup that looks like a stack of three cups but is really only one cup. My favorite item is the Wi-Fi detecor shirt that lights up when you are close to a Wi-Fi source. What a great geek gift!

If you like unique gift ideas or want some cool gadgets for yourself, check out this site!

Red Wings Almost There

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Last night’s Stanly Cup Playoffs game was awesome except that the red Wings won their third in the series and Pittsburg only has 1 win. They play again Monday night – in Detroit – and if the Penguins lose this one it is all over for them. I’m cheering for the underdog and hope the Penguins squeeze out a win at the Joe so that there is at least one more game.

The Red Wings were an easy team to beat for us early in the season. It’s a shame we couldn’t beat them a couple more times and have the Predators in the playoffs this year instead of the Red Wings. But there is some comfort in knowing that the team that beat us out of the Stanley Cup is the team that will most likely win the Stanley Cup.

Paris in the Summer

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My buddy in Dallas was talking about his summer plans. He decided that his daughter was old enough at 13 to appreciate Paris, so he’s taking her, his fiance and her 16 year old daughter this summer. He says that they did a “test run” last December when he took them all to New York for a weekend, and everyone had a great time.

One of the tips I wanted to share with him about travel in Europe is that a very cool company will pick you up at the airport and take you to your hotel, resort, or wherever you need to go in STYLE. You can have your choice of types of vehicles – anything and everything exotic is available to you, with a driver, so you don’t have to worry about reading maps and finding your way.

Good-bye Harvey Korman

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Sorry to learn of the passing of the great comedien, Harvey Korman.

Korman was a regular on the Carol Burnett show – one of my all time favorite variety shows. He and Tim Conway have done stage shows as a comedy team for 8 years, after 10 years on the Carol Burnette show and 2 years on “Mama’s Family” starring Vicki Lawrence.

Over his 45 +/- year career in addition to his TV shows he made more than 30 films, including four comedies directed by Mel Brooks.

He was a great entertainer and the world is just not as funny without Harvey Korman here.

Watercooler Stories

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Today was one of the most unproductive days at work that I can remember. Everyone was so exhausted from a busy Memorial Day weekend, that we went through coffee in the break room like string through a duck. Everyone spent an enormous amount of time walking back and forth from their desks to the coffee machine or hanging around the breakroom chatting. I wonder if anything got worked on other than reading emails and opening mail.

My secretary had one of the most exciting weekend stories to relate. She had met up with some guys that invited her to ride in the Rolling Thunder procession in downtown DC. She said it was thrilling to be a part of thousands of motorcycles thundering down Constitution Avenue Sunday afternoon.

She has been slowly getting over her divorce and back into the dating scene and was telling me about how much she likes online dating versus going out to bars to meet people. She started with a site that has a list of all the top singles and personals sites once she made up her mind to look for a dating service. This site had reviews of each dating site so she could get an idea of the process.

I’m sure by now everyone has seen the TV commercials or heard about the eHarmony site. They are oriented toward long term, serious relationships and marriage. She says that was too deep for what she wants right now.

Fresh coming off a divorce, she was more interested in just meeting people and having fun, so she wanted a more casual site, like Yahoo Personals. She found a lot of guys locally and read through dozens of profiles before setting up her own profile and starting an email relationship with them to get started. she’s traded emails with a few and even met a few, but she says she felt pressured to move too quickly and was uncomfortable with the motives of the guys she met through Yahoo.

But then she tried LavaLife and that site really clicked for her. She’s been on 3 dates with different guys that she met through that site and she says that this is the one site where she is comfortable with the type of guys and the process of sending a smile to each other before getting too deep into each other’s heads. She says it’s more natural and more like real life and that’s where she met the veteran who invited her to the Rolling Thunder ride.