Columbo Works For Select Comfort
They may have found me through a search engine, maybe somebody sent them the link or maybe they hired Lt. Columbo, but whatever way they did it, Select Comfort has responded. You may recall that I posted earlier about my Sleep Number bed. A gentleman by the name of Ian has responded in the comments of that post; check it out. He has →
Big Word Wednesday-Week 4
Momo Fali commented last week that some assistance with pronunciation would be nice, so I wanted to point something out. When you click on the word link, it will take you to the dictionary dot com page for the word(s) of the week. Sitting next to the word should be a symbol that looks like a speaker with sound waves coming out →
Jack Bauer Sells Me Oxi-Clean
I escaped from TiVo hell. It wasn't easy, but I did it. What was at first a cool, easy way to save shows for my later viewing pleasure soon turned out to be more trouble than it was worth. At one time, these were the shows that were set up in the Season Pass Manager: House, Desperate Housewives, Lost, ER, American Idol, The →
Does This Hat Make My Brain Look Big?
I finally saw my first episode of "30 Rock" the other day. It won't be my last. I was especially taken by the character of Frank and his cornucopia of head-wear. I used to be like Frank. I had hundreds of hats. Since this was while I was in High School, the majority of them were either beer hats or State →
Don’t Pull A Muscle
Have you ever wanted to commit murder? I mean, we all know it's a sin and all, but if you could be reasonably sure that you could get away with it; would you? No? OK, how about this scenario then: the local sheriff deputizes you and puts you in charge of ridding the town of all the oxygen thieves that happen →
Big Word Wednesday-Week 3
Being rather pleased with last week's offering of 2 words, we will now be listing 2 words every Wednesday. You can become twice as smart in half the time! Our first word this week is lugubrious; meaning mournful, dismal or gloomy. Not the cheeriest of words, but then, they can't all be, right? This fits in well if you have →
I Thought Melissa Etheridge Was Singing To Me, Not My Wife
I've been thinking about perception lately, because things aren't always what they seem. The title pretty much says it all, and I can distinctly remember being at that Melissa Etheridge concert in 1992 when this realization hit me (and NukeMom). I think NukeMom noticed it first when she said "Wow, there aren't very many guys here." Since this was only our second →
Snood: Harmless Fun, Or Pixel-ized Crack?
I first saw this computer game at the in-laws when we were there for a visit. The kids were having fun with it, and eventually Nukeboy2 convinced me to give it a try. If you've never played, it's kind of like Tetris in reverse; with 8 different "heads" to shoot upwards instead of shapes dropping down on you. To eliminate →
My Sleep Number Is Minus 53
We had a Sleep Number bed up until a couple of weeks ago. While it was nirvana in the beginning, the end was bloody. After 5 years of dutiful service, the box spring, or, what a sleep number bed uses as a box spring, decided it had had enough. Enough of people sleeping on it, of kids jumping on it, →
Big Word Wednesday-Week 2
Do you have keen vision? Not vision like "I see you!", but vision as in "I have a vision of what my future holds?" Do you have keen mental perception and understanding? If so, then you may very well be perspicacious. At first glance you may have thought like I did; that when you read the definition of this word it →
We’d Like To Thank The Academy…
NFW has been listed on Alltop! Wow, this means a lot to our humble little newbie blog. To be listed with some of the best sites out there is incredible. Thanks to Guy Kawasaki, Neenz and the crew over at Alltop. For those who may not know, Alltop is a kind of an Internet sifter. It shakes all of the blogs and →
Restaurant Quality Salsa ‘Cliffipe’
This one calls for a disclaimer. While I usually have fun with the 'Cliffipes', this one will be a little more serious. Namely because salsa just isn't that funny. I have over 20+ years of restaurant experience under my belt. OK, so like 5 of those years are now hanging OVER my belt, but you get the idea. The point →
The Hiney Pad Caper
Strange things have been happening at our house. Things have been disappearing, only to reappear somewhere else hours or even days later. Items that once belonged to one person have now become the property of another. The exchange usually takes place without the original owner even being aware that their property has been pilfered. One example of this phenomenon appeared →
Apparently, Size Really Does Matter
I'll never forget the first time NukeMom caught me loading the washing machine "my way". My thoughts on the subject were; if it fits in there, it oughta come out clean. I mean, if I can cram it in there, then why not? Right? Wrong. Obviously now I know better. In the old days laundry to me was like doing the yard; sometimes you →
Big Word Wednesday
Alright friends and neighbors, this is the official announcement of our newest service to mankind. We would never be so obtuse as to placate your insatiable yearning for verbiage of a sesquipedalian nature; much to your chagrin. We know that people don't really talk like that, but they used to! And you still can, if your desire is to be beaten →
Chicken ala Something ‘Cliffipe’
If chicken isn't thawed, now would be a good time to start Use cold running water to thaw, hot water only gives you funky chicken Plan ahead next time Never mind, if you had planned ahead, you wouldn't be reading this Look in pantry. See anything good? Use it Chicken is like blue jeans-it goes with almost anything Mushrooms, olives, vegetables, mac & cheese-everybody's a candidate Pick →
As A Matter Of Fact, I Do Have All Day
Common courtesy is officially dead. It died, yesterday morning around 10:30am. It was MURDERED by the convenience store clerk and the guy in line in front of me. Common courtesy was born a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away and prospered through much of the early 20th century. Common courtesy fell out of the mainstream in the →
REWARD OFFERED
$1,000,000.00 offered to the person or persons that remove Dora the Explora' from television.* This insanity has gone on long enough. I do my best to keep her out of the house, but like an annoying insect she slips through the door when you're lugging in groceries, or letting the cat out for the morning. Then she attaches herself to your →
The Lost Treasure Of The Incisor Madre
We had finally made it to the clearing. After a grueling trek through the space display, and battling 2 busloads of day campers in the "Make Your Own Kind of Music" exhibit, we found ourselves in Dentopia. Nukeboy2 stood frozen in his tracks, eyes fixated on the wonder of it all. Before him stood the interactive tooth table (with real drill →
Helen’s Here
Helen comes to our house every month. She only stays for a week, or so, but the effects of her visits can usually be felt a few days before she gets here, and for a few days after she leaves. She grates on NukeMom the most. It's no skin off my back, cause I can just leave the room if →
The Hippity-Hop And The Hill Of Regret
The Nuclear Family took on more children around Christmas when we adopted 2 beagle puppies from a local Humane Society. We already had a lab, so putting 2 more dogs in the backyard was, without question, going to increase our volume of "meadow muffins". I knew this going in, yet adopted anyway. I feel now that I don't grocery shop to →
Impending Doom
The Mother-In-Law arrives tomorrow... ...need I say more?
I Am Not Amazed
As one who came of age during the 80's, I am proud that I survived the era without owning parachute pants, or wearing a Member's Only jacket with the sleeves pushed up. I am even more proud of the fact that I avoided the use of the word "awesome" as my main adjective. I thought I was free and clear, until a few months →
We Have Two Sizes: Medium And Large
This happened a while back, so hopefully right-minded companies have corrected their menu script. We were at a concert, a rodeo, WWF On Ice or something along those lines; at a venue that uses Aramark, Sodexo or a company like that to manage their concessions. These are the good people that negotiate contracts with local and state governments to run the →
