Welcome to the 100th “issue” of richard’s ramblings…
Despite the best of intentions, we haven’t made it back to Magic Kingdom yet. We had intended to go there first, then we changed our mind and figured we’d do a half day of Epcot followed by a monorail trip to the Magic Kingdom for the remainder of [...]
Dear Sheraton Vistana:
Our stay at the Sheraton Vistana Resort in Orlando has so far been less than satisfactory. In fact, it has been entirely unacceptable. Your employees wear pins that express Sheraton’s goal to have “no unhappy guests”. Well, I am VERY UNHAPPY and no one has lifted a finger to make me any happier. [...]
By all rights, I should have lost the game of StarCraft I played this morning, a replay of which I saved (requires the Brood War extension to view). I started in the southwest corner, and within five minutes had two trenches dug at what I considered to be the most likely points of initial attack. [...]
The weather in Florida has been typical for July; bright, hot, and humid with afternoon/evening thunderstorms. The daytime heat combined with the humidity is almost unbearable, the relief only arriving with the rain. It’s a cooling rain, so if the thunderstorms can be avoided, it is quite pleasurable. However, several thousand Disney World attendees on [...]
A thousand years ago life was not that dissimilar to today.
Oh, sure, technology has made a major impact on society; computers, airplanes, cars, telephones have all made the world smaller. Information is at our fingertips. Answers to almost any of life’s questions can be revealed in seconds by searching the Internet. But the same basic [...]
Dear American Airlines:
This letter is a complaint concerning one of your most recent policies.
Apparently your policymakers have not experienced the difficulties of traveling with small children, as the airline personnel assisting with ticketing and boarding no longer allow those passengers needing extra time to preboard or even those with handicaps and wheelchairs early access to [...]
I was recently asked to provide a brief profile of my work career, something far shy of a full-fledged American resume or a traditional curriculum vitae.
If you look at my resume, you’ll see that my experience and expertise is far too broad to condense down to a single paragraph. So, instead, I’ll highlight only those [...]
I did the Monopoly money conversation with my daughter today. You know the one I mean; gave her a stack of seemingly vast amounts of play money representing the family’s income, deducting for everything from dance lessons to car and house payments to groceries and utilities.
It was an eye-opening experience for her. She was excited [...]
I spent the car ride home last night thinking of ways to tell my wife, some funny, others blatantly to the point. You’d think I’d be used to it by now, since I’ve experienced it four times in the last year and a half.
“I’ve been wanting to spend more time with the kids anyway!”
“Now I [...]
I can’t believe I missed out on the “HAIR GEL as owned by Darth Vader relative” auction. For a single British penny, I could have owned “one almost empty pot of Hair Gel as owned by the son of a friend of David Prowse (aka Darth Vader). Strictly limited edition.”
Apparently someone in Manistique, Michigan, is [...]
