Why does my other half have to put everything I need on the top shelves in the house? I notice that all the items in the house that she uses on a regular basis are on the lower shelves on the kitchen. Isn't that always the way. Last night I went looking for the Pepto after downing some hot wings and of course I have to get a stool out to get at it. The only thing on my mind as of late is where I can buy step stools to make my life easier. I wonder if she would like looking at those all over the kitchen every day. I guess I could just take and idea from these guys and make due with what I have at home but I don't the dog is going to like it much.

I don't know why sales people have to play the old game of "this is the best product out there, I have one at home" when they clearly appear to own nothing at home. My last nightmare purchase was a set of cordless phones that the sales girl ensured me that she owned at home and just loved. I have been putting telephone batteries in them ever since and could never get a decent connection when out in the backyard with them and trust me I don't live on a large ranch. Far from it.

I think that I am going back old school with some of the technology in my life. I remember that last telephone I had that never game me any grief. I wonder if I can find one.

Yesterday I was driving through the nice part of town and was checking out all of the graffiti all over the walls of the broken down buildings and deserted factory buildings. Nothing really nice to even take a photo of. I don't think there are any real artists living in the area from what I could tell. While I am sure that there was so me sort of message or rhyme and reason to it, most of it just looked like scribbling to me. I was looking at one of the old metal buildings and thought there must be some real metal out there. I found a few in google but nothing really. I thought I could have put a good post together. Not.

With the fixing up of my old moldy basement I have been on the hunt for a games table to add to my man cave but I am having a hard time deciding. I have enquired on a classified site about a couple of air hockey tables but to no avail. Nobody seems to be in a hurry to write back and sell me anything.

I have also been considering a shuffle board or table tennis but I am not sure if I have the room. In high school we used to have ping pong tournaments all the time and then later on in college our bar hang out had a shuffleboard table. I wouldn't mind either of these two but they can be a bit of a commitment in household space.

In light of my hunt for a games table I present to you a bizzare table tennis match. 

I have but two real choices when it comes to shopping for electronics and gadgets. You would think between the two stores I would be able to find what I am looking for but you would be sadly mistaken. All I really wanted today was some stereo speaker mounts, some replacement ear buds for my skull candy headphones and some information on tv's. I came home with nothing.

Lets take the big box store which shall remain named as Future Shop. They had to have 100 employees working and I couldn't find anyone to help me for about 15 minutes or more. I literally had to interrupt a guy watching a movie in their speaker stereo room to get some help. Nice start. I bought a pair of speakers from them recently, Bose. They had no matching speaker mounts that would accommodate them. Nothing. I noticed they sold tons of Skull Candy headphones but when I asked about replacement buds I was told they exist but they don't carry them. The college kid working told me they were thinking about it. I guess I will go to eBay and buy them from China for .01 plus free shipping. I didn't even bother asking about tv information. There was one guy in that section and he was talking on the phone. Future Shop isn't bad if want to watch a movie with the staff for the afternoon, get 15 people to help buy a cell phone or watch 6 other people stand around the front check out cash. How do they stay in business?

The locally owned store was a piece of work as well. It didn't matter what product I was interested in the 1970's greasy Herb Tarlek look a like would tell me that I didn't want that one. You see I needed the one that 10X the price because that is what he has at home and it's great. Love the outdated commissioned salesman. After about 10 minutes of that I felt violated and went home and had a shower.

I think I am going to stick to my old way of shopping online and dealing with the consequences. I've made out allright so far doing it that way. I don't know why I thought I needed lazy college kids and greasy used car salesman. Already tonight I have been reading led tv reviews online and have figured out a couple of models I like.

Believe it or not there is a Mrs. Barely Hanging On who has her special day coming up soon and I was thinking of among a few things getting her a fancy gift basket. I was thinking there has to be a number of different kind of gift baskets for her birthday and I wasn't wrong. There is everything out there you can think of from the erotic to the exotic. In the end I am sure something involving chocolate will be the order of the day. Chocolate solves all problems in my household.

Then again if I buy something that gets me on the golf course and out of her hair, she might be as happy.

So I am building an entertainment stand in my basement from steel studs and drywall. You would think that if we are close to a mission to Mars that we could come up with a better process than drywall, mud and the Sahara dust storm that ensues during the process. A small project and my house is covered in dust top to bottom. I should have invented in a Hepa vacuum before I started this project. I think I would have saved myself some grief. I figure by the end of the summer I will have things cleaned up and under control.

How often do you look at what you are doing and where you are in your life and think that you should have stayed in school. I should have stuck things out and looked at getting my bs degree in something I was interested in. Maybe things could have worked out differently, you just never know. Maybe things could have worked out for the worse but you never know. A little more education never really hurt anybody.

In the end, with a bs degree or not you still have to get up and work everyday. I might have been better off investing in lottery tickets.