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This was one article I wish Snopes had proven false…

Be prepared for gruesome video.

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Over the last few months my text messaging overages on my cell phone bill have risen ever so slightly.

But there is no denying it. It is rising.

I used to hardly ever text because I have email. Plus I was limited to 100 text messages per month. That was a limit that I was grandfathered into, as Verizon no longer offer that package. (New minimum is 250 text messages per month.)

Anyway I finally raised my limit yesterday to 250. It will cost me an extra $2 per month but the overages were consistently higher than that every month.

I was stubborn. I didn’t want to lose my low cost text plan in favor of a higher one if text nessaging was just a fad.

Truth is, texting is far from a fad. I know people that text hundreds, even thousands of text messages per month. I receive ten times the amount of text messages I used to. A lot of my friends don’t use email regularly, but they do text very regularly.

Now the only question is should I bite the bullet and raise it to 500 text messages a month and unlimited “IN” texting? It’s only another 5 bucks a month and now that I’ve raised my limit I see the amount of texting I do multiplying fast…

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A few months ago I played Guitar Hero at a friends house on their XBox 360.

I didn’t expect to be impressed, but I was. It is oddly entertaining.

It might have to do with the fact that I enjoy music and like to entertain the idea that if I could only find the time I would learn how to play guitar well.

At any rate, I just learned that there will be a Guitar Hero game for the Wii.

Sweet.

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Officers in Toledo have started allowing advertising on their cop cars. This decision comes at a time when new cars are needed in an aging fleet and while funding is at a low.

You know what? I completely agree with this.

I don’t think they should limit it to just a 3 foot by 1 foot area on each side though. I say plaster the entire car. As many colors as possible.

How hard can that be to miss while driving down the highway? I mean the lights on top have gotten smaller over the years, some even hidden inside completely. Those coppers are getting harder and harder to spot everyday.

This new advertising method is a win-win for everybody. My tax dollars are not increased to fund new faster cars with fancier equipment that makes it easier to catch me slightly bending the speeding laws. (In optimum road conditions under correct daylight with minimum traffic of course 😉 )

The funny thing though, is that the feedback from residents on the matter has been mostly negative.

What is wrong with you people? Do you like your taxes higher? Do you like cop cars that are harder to spot on the highway? Do you resent the fact that someday a business will sneak a clever advertisement hologram onto the car that when driving down the interstate at 67 mph on a party cloudy day next to a black semi will show the effect of a big floating donut chasing the car instead of vice-versa for once?

I think it is change. Some people just can’t handle it. It cop cars had been decorated with ads since inception and all of a sudden the city wanted to remove them to beautify the cars and increase the taxpayers load to offset the missing revenue, you would have an uproar on your hands. Petitions would be signed. People would picket city hall. Citizens would be on TV with missing teeth describing how the tornado sounded while their underwear blows in the breeze on the clothesline behind them.

Well maybe not the last item. But I’m sure they still have some footage left over from the last tornado the local news crew did interviews on.

Why is it they always pick the guy who has never even been to the supermarket out of his underwear let alone on T.V.? But no, that’s the guy that makes the news. Bib overalls. Missing teeth. Tank top that used to be white but now has barbecue sauce stains down the front mixed with the dirt from the last three summers. Untied shoes. All the while, trying to describe the sound the tornado made while it ripped through his double-wide trailer as his wife picks her nose behind him while holding on to four kids of which three have red hair.

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A huge thanks to Rob who linked my blog over the weekend while I was away on vacation!

So now that your here, I suppose I must entertain you!

I don’t really have anything exceptionally funny or quirky to recount from the weekend, other than the fact that we fell asleep on the 4th!

Actually there is more to the story than that.

What happened, is we got to Driscoll about 9:30 or so in the morning and decided a little after 10 that we should have a few beers while we waited for the parade to start.

Well we did, and we never really stopped. After the parade we played mud volleyball (which is a blast. think mud instead of sand.) in the heat all afternoon, while doing our best to hydrate ourselves from the beer cooler.

Afterwards we showered up in the camper and then waited around at Jesse’s house for some other friends to show up.

Well we were watching a movie, and all of a sudden I woke up in a dark room at 11:45 at night!

Needless to say we missed most of the fireworks display but we did catch the tail end of the street dance…

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I read somewhere a long time ago that dryer sheets are hard for the dryer. You are supposed to use fabric softener built into the detergent or use an additive in the washer.

Then I read the complete opposite of that route, stating the dryer sheets are the way to go.

Yeah, I know, flip-flop, flip-flop. Ten years ago “eggs and bacon cause cancer”. Twenty years ago, they were a “healthy breakfast”. Today everyone is too damn lazy to cook breakfast so they eat at McDonald’s and wonder why their butt is fat but think they are fending off heart disease cause they aren’t eating eggs and bacon. Go figure.

Anyhoo.

I have always been a dryer sheet kind of guy. I grew up in a house that used dryer sheets. In college everyone used dryer sheets, if you could afford them, otherwise you stole them off the girl’s floor… So that has been what I always used.

About a month ago we ran out, and I guess I just got sick of always being the one responsible for buying certain items so I didn’t buy more. On purpose. Just to see if anyone else would.

Well, no one did. Not that I’m that surprised. 🙂

What I am surprised about though is that we never really needed them. I would guess that we have washed about 30-50 loads of laundry since we ran out of dryer sheets, and I can’t tell the difference.

Years ago I could swear that the towels felt itchy and course if you didn’t use them, but apparently the detergent is better now days or something, or the water is different, or I’m just not as picky anymore.

Anyway, one less thing that gets put on the Wal-Mart list from now on… How ’bout you? Are you a dryer sheet kinda person or detergent kinda person or nothing at all?

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As you are reading this, I am enjoying the afternoon in Driscoll playing mud volleyball!

Gotta love post time-stamping!

Anyway have a happy and safe 4th of July!

Here is a quiz to see if you could pass a citizenship test…

Post your scores in the comments

I’ve never even heard of this guy before.

I guess you just can’t stay on top for long…

How come everyone you ask will tell you they are an “above average” driver, yet no one on the road knows how to drive?

Somebody has to be lying…

Most of you have heard of eBayers. They are the people that buy up big  quantities of a heavily demanded product just to resell on eBay for a huge profit.

We saw it with the PS2 and PS3 release. The XBox 360 release. The release of the Wii. Etc, etc, etc.

Well what happens when you take an eBayer and let them buy their way into the front of the line to buy all the iPhones?

Watch and find out. Truly amusing. This has to be the best iPhone story I’ve seen to date.

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