The coolest music server you've never heard of...

Or at least I never heard of it.  It's called Pandora.  Maybe you've heard of it, but for me -- who obviously is just 'out of it' -- it's brand new and now my favorite way to listen to a variety of my favorite music & musicians and learn about new artists.

So what is Pandora?  In the words of the Wikipedia article, Pandora 'is an automated music recommendation and Internet radio service created by the Music Genome Project.  Users enter a song or artist that they enjoy, and the service responds by playing selections that are musically similar.'

I really can't believe it's been around since mid-2005 and I'd never heard of it.  But then again, as my younger daughter says, "Dad, you're old."  (Sigh...)

Anyway, pay a visit, sign up for an account and try it out!  I think you'll like it.

Thanks to Alisonwonderland for the heads-up on this!

The Exploding Burger

It's not what you might expect...

This being Memorial Day, we decided to take it easy and just get something drive-thru for dinner.  We settled on Sonic Drive In, one of our faves.  Since I was going to get it, I asked one of my daughters to get everyone's order.  She got it for me and off I went.  It wasn't until I got to Sonic that I noticed she had originally written at the top "Sonic BOOM" then crossed off the BOOM and put in "order".  I had a good laugh at that.

Kids... What a hoot.

Don't read this before dinner!

So I'm on a little diet.  Nothing drastic mind you, but I did manage to reach my ultimate  high weight back in early February.  At that point I decided I needed to do something about my weight since all my clothes were beginning to feel not-so-loose if you know what I mean.

Anyway, so far I've managed to lose about 15 pounds just by being somewhat careful with what and how much I eat.  Then I stumbled across this article about the 20 worst foods in America.  Luckily, although I've had several of them over the years, none is a "staple" item on my diet and I haven't had any in a long time (whew!).  But are any of these your favorites? :)

Another new airport!

And keeping with my untimely posting, I actually flew into this airport in late March.  The new airport?  (drum roll please) Indira Gandhi International in New Delhi, India.  I went over for a business trip from March 24 through April 3.  A co-worker and I flew from Salt Lake City to Chicago where we hopped aboard a flight direct to New Delhi.  The amount of time in the air?  Almost 15 hours!  Now that was a flight.

The stay in India?  Interesting to say the least.  That one deserves its own post (or more) for sure!

Oh, yeah.  Here's the link to my original "Oh the places you'll go" post -- Now 45 airports, 4 countries, and counting!

Funny Headline

Or at least I thought it was funny.  

"Trick-or-Treaters are at Higher Risk on Halloween, Says AAA Michigan" - Insurance Broadcasting*

My question being -- and when else besides Halloween would there be trick-or-treaters?  Of course, this is a serious subject.  The story had some sobering stats.  The headline just struck me as being quite humorous -- and still is many months after first seeing this story...

*Oh, sorry for it not being even close to Halloween, but I cut and sent this to myself in an email so I wouldn't forget, and of course, I forgot (two years ago!).  This is what I get for being way too busy, but I think I need to start taking time for myself and start blogging again.  There's just too much good stuff out there on the interwebs...

You know you need more sleep when...

So I'm trying to recreate a weekly meeting for one of my product teams at work. First of all, our Exchange server is apparently having an identity crisis because it can't expand one of its saved lists so I had to come up with the team members from memory. It shouldn't be hard since there are only about a dozen people, but it definitely was taxing to the brain. Secondly, I sent the meeting request off then realized I didn't make it a recurring meeting! So there would only be one meeting and that would be it. I guess it's good in some ways, but no way to run a project. Finally, after I sent off the second meeting request, I realized the reminder for the meeting was set to 18 hours (!) for some reason. Yet another updated meeting request...

It's 9am. Is it too early to go home?

Hey, I'm feeling better already!

According to this article, studies have found that blogging actually makes you feel better!  Not only that, but are you on a social network like Facebook?  Same thing.

So keep on posting people!  It's good for you and fun to boot!

It's like playing the stock market, except with real money!

This morning I put gas in Alisonwonderland's car.  The price for regular was $3.12/gal.  As much as I like complaining about the price of gas, that's not the point of this post.  Besides, I just saw a story that the folks in San Mateo, CA are paying something like $4.40/gal, so I'm not complaining!  Last night, when I put gas in my car from the same station, the price was $3.19/gal!  Sheesh!  If I would've just waited 12 hours, I could've saved $.07/gal.  It's really turned into a guessing game as to when the best day is to get gas -- kinda like playing the stock market.  Guess I'm going to have to follow gas futures a lot closer now...

100th post snowed under!

Yes, it is my 100th post (believe it or not).

No, the title does not make sense, but bear with me.

This has been a pretty crazy snow year in Utah. Where I work (up at around 6500' in the mountains near Park City) has really been hit hard. As you know, this is mostly good for the ski resorts. Sometimes, though, it's not good for the rest of us. And I don't mean driving issues in the snow and such. I'm talking about losing things in the snow. I'm sure most of us have lost things that fell into the snow and couldn't be found. Heck, a co-worker just lost his cell phone earlier this year.

So here's my second "Question" post in a row! Can you look at this picture and tell what was lost? Only look at the first one before looking at the picture below it. (I won't make you wait for the answer this time. ;) )

So did you find the lost item? Do you need some more time? Look closely. It's a little small, so it might be hard to see. Give up?

There it is in the circle. Still don't know? It's a Volvo! Yes, this picture was taken a few weeks ago, and now that it's finally starting to thaw a little, I can see that it really is a Volvo. Hopefully, whoever parked it there will come back in the Spring and look for his/her lost car...

Questions of the day

Since alisonwonderland likes to throw puzzling questions at you occasionally, I thought I'd do the same.  See if you can answer these... without cheating. :)

1. You measure me but I have no length, width, or thickness.

2. You answer me, although I never ask you questions.

3. You ask me all day long and the answer is always different -- but always correct.