E-mail Subscription

Receive an e-mail notification of new posts on this site:

Ramble On - Or How I Get Through This Life

Recently, I read that Six Flags Over Texas will be able to start beer sales for the 2009 season after a judge issued his ruling the park should be allowed to sell alcohol. This gave me some cause for pause. Having worked at this amusement park industry in the late seventies and early eighties, I was reminded of all the teenaged "hijinks" that ensued and am wondering if adding alcohol is such a good idea....

Here are some random memories of employee or guest shenigans that support my concern

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Comments (1)

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Miswanderlust - Category: Musings

Email this Post to a Friend

20 Things I Learned in 2008

December 31st 2008 04:44

1. There’s no place like home.
2. Especially when I’m surrounded by the love of family and friends.
3. Having principles can be costly

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Comments (6)

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Miswanderlust - Category: New Year's

Email this Post to a Friend

My Day in a Nutshell

October 16th 2008 04:51

Or what I learned at the office......

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Comments (4)

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Miswanderlust - Category: Idiocracy

Email this Post to a Friend

Before I Die I Want To

October 9th 2008 04:13

I am intrigued by the Before I Die I Want To project. The concept is compelling. In the author's words:

The Before I die I want to... project was inspired by a combination of factors: (1) the “death” of the Polaroid, (2) a psychologist’s tool called safety contracts, and (3) a passion to get people to think about (and act upon) what is really important in their lives through this simple, very straight-forward question.

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Comments (10)

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Miswanderlust - Category: Current Events

Email this Post to a Friend

She's No Mary Ann

September 26th 2008 04:55

I, like many Americans, have been fascinated with American muscle cars. I’m not talking about wimpy fuel-efficient, stripped-down cars either. I am talking about my love affair with pony cars that make a lot of noise and generate a tremendous amount of sheer horsepower. Nothing is more beautiful to my ear than the growl of that big block engine at full throttle! They are big, loud, smell funny, and drink gas like a drunk in a vodka factory, but when you put it next to some modern wind up toy, there is no comparison.

From the time I can remember, my father, my uncles, and my granddad were always “Car guys”. Quite simply, they “got” old cars – they weren’t just the people, who bought them, but people who understood them, the people who worked on them, they truly loved cars. Hour after hour were spent working on and discussing old cars and talking about the intricacies of each make or model. We would pour through manuals, books, and magazines about old cars as we could. These guys didn’t get very much time off of work, so when they did we made sure to enjoy it. I didn't care too much about what we did; I just loved hanging out in the garage with the guys . I was hypnotized watching them perform "surgery" as well as resisutate cars that were generally thought to be "goners." The more I learned about old cars, the more I too became fascinated with them

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Comments (8)

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Miswanderlust - Category: Musings

Email this Post to a Friend

Nugget

August 21st 2008 04:39

Today I mediated a settlement meeting between a retired couple. The couple were fighting over a storage shed located in the south end of the 15 acres they own. The husband had tricked it out by adding a toilet/shower combination, new ventilation system, a plasma television, a bed, and a mini fridge filled with beer. The husband explained that he was tired of his wife's nagging and would spend evenings down in the storage shed (after a "long hard day in the field). The wife was upset by how "it looked to the neighbors" especially since some of the neighbor men had "taken" to staying down there too and she was tired of the wives continuous phone calls looking for their husbands. The wife wanted to take the shed off the property.

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Comments (8)

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Miswanderlust - Category: Musings

Email this Post to a Friend

One of These Things is Not Like The Other

August 19th 2008 03:06

My younger sister has been in town for the last week helping me move my parents into their new townhome. We have spent many hours unpacking memories and rearranging my parent's new life.

She was struck with how totally different we are. How we react so differently to the same stimuli. She ventured that may be this a result of good old fashion birth order calculation. No one would dispute that birth order has a significant impact on personality development. Wiki birth order info
[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Comments (2)

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Miswanderlust - Category: Musings

Email this Post to a Friend

So Sue Me

August 18th 2008 04:47

Hey friends thanks for all the PMs wondering where I have been hiding. I have not been ignoring all of you .....just been busy (not that I did not think of each and every one of you every day) so I thought that I would write a proper blog post but got sidetracked by life.

So here is a quick update (yep that's right I have taken to blog slacking

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Comments (4)

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: Miswanderlust - Category: Musings

Email this Post to a Friend