This past week at work some of the ladies in the office said they thought they’d heard that Commerce Bank had been sold but didn’t know to whom. I don’t bank there anymore as we had problems when we had an account there. I’m with Sovereign bank now for several yeard and love them, But [...]
I was thinking a lot about rice this week and started wondering what the difference between brown and white rice was. I don’t mean the color or the flavor, I mean the how and the why. So I did a little reading. I found that brown rice is actually white rice, before it becomes white [...]
What’s All This Then? is a blog written by fellow postie Ron. Today I took the opportunity to review it.
What’s All This Then? is currently using a two column theme of blues and grays. It takes me a big thirty four clicks to get from the top of the home page to the bottom. Ron [...]
This one is for my oldest son. My eleven year old asked me earlier this week where the term Black Friday came from. Black Friday is the day after Christmas. The phrase is believed to have originated in the Philadelphia area. It is the first day of the Christmas shopping season. The day is famous, [...]
I was tagged by my friend Skeet to join a little picture game called What’s on your desktop. To play all you need to do is post a picture of your computer’s desktop. This is a picture of my desktop. It’s got pictures of me and the boys from the band Hinder. I know, some [...]
Meme is pronounced meem.
According to Dictionary.com, a meme is “a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes”.
When participating in a blog meme, a blogger answers a series of questions on random topics. Memes often offer a chance to leave a link. Some bloggers use memes [...]
For as far back as I can remember everyone always used those white paper coffee filters. Then a number of years back all of a sudden the brown filters started becoming more visible. I recall someone somewhere telling me that if you brewed coffee with the brown filters the coffee would taste better. I think [...]
I see this used by a number of Malaysian bloggers and have been wondering what it meant. I’ve been reading up on this one for two days, and this one had no simple answer. I’ll explain what I found. Lah has no one specific meaning. It means different things according to what it is said [...]
I’ve liked grits for a long time. A couple of days ago, my eleven year old saw them in the cabinet and asked me what they were. I didn’t know the exact answer, so here we are.
Want the short answer? Grits are pieces of corn grain. Need to know more? Read on.
The first step in [...]
In almost any given day there is at least one point where I ask myself a question that I don’t know the answer to. There was a time in the past that I would look up the answers to my question as a way of expanding my knowledge and improving myself. I decided this week [...]