Skepticum

Having some minor hand surgery tomorrow, which will side-line me from blogging for a little while. However, it might be a shorter break than the breaks I’ve taken during my business trips and vacations… but this time I’ll be very tempted and might have to adapt to blackberry thumb blogging.

Outside of that… it snowed in Chicago this morning. The flowers that decided to come in the previous weeks are pretty much destroyed. The Elephant and Castle on Adams in the Loop wrapped their planters in newspaper, which made for an interesting view. I also saw a guy sleeping on the L platform today, so I’m hoping spring is on its way or we’ll have more casualties than just flowers.

And I’ve made my 4th call in to Amazon to get a defective DVD player returned to them (we received it on Friday and it didn’t work out of the box, and we have been trying since to get it returned), and I got to hear a 4th and different story on how I should return it… all but one require that I make the effort to return in (go to post-office, pay and ship), and the one that didn’t proved to not be true (said UPS will come pick up the package–turned out to be a lie…). Which made me decide to never buy electronics from Amazon again. Do you think something happens to companies when they get too big?

I’m reading the first book in the Dresden Files. It’s a sort of a Harry Potter for adults. I’m not sure yet how much I like it. I don’t think it’s got the emotional build up in the plot to get me hooked. It’s no Stephen King, let’s just put it that way. But it has potential and I’ll stick with a couple of the books to see where it goes.

Oh, and I’ve added a few more comedic videos to my Laugh Your Pants Off VodPod. Check it out, especially the neuticals piece (from my ever favorite Pen and Teller: Bullshit!).

Cheers!

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