Paul Merrill
For your Friday, I bring you space invaders.
(Some of you may be too old – or too young – to remember the video game of that title.)
As I was picking up a scrap of dirt on the rug in our hallway, I noticed one of these invaders. (I never knew that carpet weavers from the “-istans” were influenced by video games.)
We all have regrets.
The owner of this lovely stainless steel coffee mug regretted that they left their mug on top of their car when they left Starbucks.
I regret that we sold Heather’s grandpa’s shotgun for next to nothing at a garage sale ten years ago.
What do you regret?
Today is my birthday. My friends Alan and Chris took a photo expedition with some of my stickers in downtown Minneapolis. What a great birthday present!
By the way, I’ll be happy to send a few to you to put around your town – if you’ll agree to send me the digital photos. Just request some in a comment and we’ll go from there.
Footnote: the stickers say “shiny bits of life” in the white area. (You can’t really tell that from the photos.)
A few days ago, our family splurged and enjoyed a MacDonalds lunch. As usual, we all got water. For us, the big reason is saving $5 or more.
This was the first time I had seen cups specifically for water. Possible reasons for this are:
Do you have any additional ideas why they may have done this?
Simple shoes are great.
I’m on about year 14 for one pair… it just keeps going on and on. I continue to get the heels replaced, but the most recent time (a few weeks ago) was the last. Next time, it will just be more cost-effective to bite the bullet and get a new pair.
Since my Simple shoe love goes on, I went to their site recently and saw the detail above. What a wash of memories it brought back! Keds must have originated the end-of-shoe branding. But Red Ball Jets were the coolest thing when I was a kid. The pair I wanted were jet black. The heel had a tiny red ball where Keds puts the blue rectangle. Sadly, I could not get a pair, because they had none that fit my skinny feet. I actually cried at the store!
Simple shoes are the next best thing to Red Ball Jets.
I’ve written about Simple shoes before here. And this lady has a blog based around her love for the shoe.
You are invited to visit The International Toothpaste Museum.
Explore the rich depths of toothpastes from all over this wide world.
I monitor a MySpace account as part of my job. (And I think some of you may have read about how I am not fond of MySpace.)
So an email like this came in this morning. I had never seen upside-down type in a subject line that before! And the funny thing is that the sender did not look like someone who would know their way around coding.
My dad loved to take pictures. (The apple didn’t fall far from the tree.) He captured my teen angst pretty well in this shot.
(And a technical note – colors do fade with time.)
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