Sweat the Small Stuff: Ranting about the little peeves in life
Posted in General Rants, Pet Peeves on Feb 20th, 2007
There have been so many jokes about the “one upping” habit that I am surprised that it still happens so much these days. There is no doubt it does. I am sure there could be, and perhaps there are, studies on why people feel the need to outdo you even on the smallest of things. [...]
Posted in General Rants, Pet Peeves, Tech/Net on Feb 18th, 2007
If you have a mail address and have at least one friend in the world, you likely have had some email joke/story/whatever forwarded to you. We all have done it, and we are all more than likely guilty of at some point having forwarded something that ended up not being true. Yep, Urban Legends, fake [...]
Posted in General Rants, Pet Peeves on Feb 16th, 2007
Back in college I had a professor that loved to use statistics to prove his point. I hated that. In today’s world of twisted politics and biased news reporting, who can really believe statistics? I know that statistical information obviously can have merit, but no longer does the phrase “Statistics don’t lie” [...]
Posted in Pet Peeves, Petty on Jan 23rd, 2007
I love gadgets, no two ways about it. Gadgets don’t even have to make my life better to be worth having, but that is a bonus. I’m old enough (not that old, but enough) for my family growing up to actually owned and used a rotary phone in our home. In fact, I remember being [...]
Posted in General Rants, Pet Peeves on Jan 19th, 2007
Is there anyone that really likes going to the post office? I guess we all appreciate the ability to mail things personally, and as businesses we rely on them for most communication. It seems to be more of a can’t live with them, can’t live without them relationship. If there is anyone reading this site [...]
Posted in Driving, Pet Peeves on Jan 12th, 2007
Back to a driving rant today. If it sounds like I have a lot of beefs when it comes to driving habits and related problems, I do. I promise that I am not a candidate for road rage. You won’t see me on the evening news surrounded by cops with their guns [...]
Posted in Driving, Pet Peeves on Jan 4th, 2007
After yesterday’s surprisingly hot topic, I figured I would come back to a more mundane yet equally annoying situation I experience every day. This one may be a little difficult to describe so you can visualize it, unless it is something you notice as well. Each day on my drive to work, at least on [...]
Posted in Habits, Pet Peeves on Jan 3rd, 2007
This could be titled New Year’s Resolutions Part 2 but I figured people might think I am hung up on resolutions. No, this is me hating one of the symptoms of it being a new year. Yes, everyone has their good intentions and at least for a couple of weeks they are doing [...]
Posted in General Rants, Pet Peeves on Jan 2nd, 2007
Yep, its the New Year and you can already tell how much time and effort I spent on my resolutions because I didn’t post on the very first day of the year. Actually, I was busy with plenty of other things, so WGG didn’t get any TLC. I am not a big fan of New [...]
Posted in General Rants, Health, Pet Peeves on Dec 11th, 2006
I have hesitated to write about this one for some time, because in writing it I am essentially admitting I’m an old fart. I can’t stand the “fashion” trend of the super baggy pants. I am usually pretty accepting of passing fashions, and I don’t mind kids expressing their independence in odd ways [...]
