I had discussed this with several friends but I gave the new Van Halen tour with David Lee Roth 2 months before personalities clashed and the tour would end with the band breaking up again.  I gave them too much credit – the damn tour has been postponed indefinitely before it even started!  I’m sure more details will be forthcoming in the next few days but there will never be a way for Diamond Dave to reconcile issues with the Van Halen brothers.  Once Sammy Hagar left the band it became quite obvious that the problem in the band was Eddie Van Halen.  I won’t even bring up the Gary Cherone era of the band, as it was a blip on the radar, thankf ...

While we are in an admitted cold snap across much of the country, I have to take issue with the offhand comments of “Global warming, my ass” flippantly used by a lot of people.  Whether or not they truly mean it or it's simply a conversation starter, let's look at some general facts.  I'm not going to include links here, as you'd spend all your time flipping back and forth between articles.

FACT:  There is overwhelming evidence of global warming such as massive, state-sized chun ...

While in the monthly company meeting where it’s simply an exercise for the Sales team to verbally jack each other off in public, I had a random thought.  During these meetings we have a dial-in conference call number for those of us in the States not in the office that day, in addition to letting our offices in England, Germany, Russia, and Australia listen in.&n ...

Is there a reason people think it’s safe or acceptable to speed in a parking garage?  It’s not just the garage I’m in now at my current work.  It seems to be the norm anywhere there’s a multi-level garage.  People take the corners like they’re running an Indy car and if there aren’t speed bumps in the straightaways, they’ve got the car running at unsafe speeds.  I’m surprised we don’t hear more about fender benders or the accidental running over of pedestrians within these garages.

I’m curious if others are experiencing this as of late.  The rat bastard spammers have now hit the text messaging world.  There’s a hitch though besides simply ignoring the messages.  Most cell phone plans still charge you by the text unless you pay for a set amount of monthly text messages.  For instance, we get charged 10 cents per text message.  I haven’t hit the point where it would be worth it to get the monthly text messaging fee but I do not like the fact that spammers are costing me money and might eventually force me to get T-Mobile’s text messaging package, even th ...

Even though we transplants have taken over metro Atlanta, there are still times that fully remind you that you’re still in the South.  No, I’m not talking about how it’s supposed to be almost frickin’ 80 degrees tomorrow.  I sure am not in the Thanksgiving mood yet with this unseasonably warm weather.

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I’ve got a new elevator behavior that I hadn’t posted previously.  It’s not an annoying habit of others; rather it’s more of a curiosity.  I’ve never understood the guy that stands with his nose a mere inch from either the front wall or door.  If your breath creates fog on the elevator door, you’re too close.  Why be this close to a public area where there have been multiple dirty hands and filthy coughs polluting the surface?  Is it because of shyness that you don’t want to make eye contact?  Is this person simply wanting to get out of the ele ...