My in-laws have arrived safe and sound, and will be staying with us for the next 10 days. I know that it’s going to take all my self-control and willpower to get through the visit without blowing up due to stress, so I’m not looking forward to the next week and a half.
I’m going [...]
I just read that Bill Murray’s wife of 11 years, Jennifer Butler Murray, has filed for divorce from the actor. Among her complaints, she alleges that Murray physically abused her, including one occasion where he hit her in the face and then said she was lucky he didn’t kill her. In addition, Jennifer Murray [...]
I just read an article about a 61-year-old woman in Tennessee who died after a power failure caused her iron lung to stop working. The woman’s name was Dianne Odell, and she’d been stuck in the thing ever since she was diagnosed with polio at the age of 3.
Hmm, didn’t anyone think to provide [...]
The 2008 NCAA baseball tournament, which leads up to the College World Series, is slated to begin soon, which is why the brackets were released today. While this doesn’t cause as much of a stir as, say, the release of the March Madness basketball tourney brackets, it’s still a pretty big deal.
As with [...]
I’ve never been much of a car racing fan, but there are a few events that I tune into every year. The Indianapolis 500 is definitely one of them, and even though I wasn’t able to catch the whole race today, I did see some of it.
Fan favorite Danica Patrick was clipped on pit [...]
Several years ago, a friend of mine gave me a coin that was issued in France to commemorate the achievements of linguist Jean-Francois Champollion. Even though it was a silver coin, I don’t think it had much real value, since it wasn’t rare or anything like that. Even so, I loved that coin and carried [...]
My in-laws are coming for a week-long visit next week. They’ll arrive on Saturday and aren’t leaving until June 8, at which point I’m sure I’ll be on the brink of insanity! I get along with my in-laws for the most part, but I hate having house guests for an extended period of time because [...]
It seems that the only thing people are talking about these days is money. Specifically, they’re talking about how much everything costs now, from gas to groceries and all sorts of other products in between. Frankly, I’m getting sick of all the complaining, know what I mean? Sure, my savings account is suffering from the [...]