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  • O’ Winter Where Art Thou?

    There is nothing like Northeast Ohio in January, even when Winter is 27 days late.
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  • Boss?

    Boss?

    Have you been in a place of business lately and had someone call you “Boss”? That trend is really starting to annoy me.

    I don’t want to be called “Boss” by anyone. The last person to call me that was a waiter at a restaurant. It felt like they wanted me to feel in charge of them, but in a slave/master way that made me uncomfortable. Are they trying to prey on my psyche to get a bigger tip?

    Stop calling me “Boss”, please already.

  • Golden Globes

    I zoomed through the Golden Globes show with my Tivo remote…watched the 3+ hour show in 25 minutes. Is it just me or did many of the stars look noticeably older? Like they suddenly were 10 years older? Maybe I should take a look in the mirror as well. Surely I’m not growing old like everyone else!

    Besides Sasha Baron Cohen’s acceptance speech (where I actually choked on my Pepsi so hard it came out my nose), it seemed like a second rate show to me. The location looked like the ballroom at Holiday Inn and many of the Hollywood elite, with their glazed-over shiny faces, looked like that they had a few too many martinis. I found myself thinking, “Is everyone completely plastered?”

  • Slingin’ Tivo

    Sling
    To my Tivo pals, I knew you’d appreciate the image above. It’s a screen shot from my laptop that features my main Christmas gift this year – a Slingbox Pro. The Slingbox is connected to both my Tivo and my network and streams to the Player which resides on my laptop.

    That top screen actually has a Cavs game on and yes, that is my Tivo remote at bottom. The Tivo remote controls my actual Tivo so I have access to Live TV as well as anything recorded on my Tivo. Since the Tivo is also networked to my home PC where my MP3 library resides, all my MP3s are also accessible.

    Nutshell: Whatever I can watch or listen to at home, I can do the same from my laptop anywhere there’s an Internet connection. When Kim saw this, she knew I had to have it.

  • Mannequin Bras

    Why is it necessary for female mannequins to be so perky? Is that really necessary? Can someone please take them to the underwear department and find them all bras?

  • Beginnings

    First blog post.

    Uh….. (long awkward pause) ……..

    I was thinking about what to call the blog. What’s it going to be about? I have some general thoughts, but really, I’d just like it to evolve. I don’t want it to become about any one thing, at least for now.

    I played around with several names. Life Cycle. Life in the Queue. Oven Fresh Grooviness. It was taking too long so I finally just decided on The Ausbury Blog for now.

    I’m hopeful that this will be a place where my friends and family will share as well. I’m looking forward to some good discussions.

    So on this first post, I’ll leave you with something from my first of many musical mentions and recommendations, a lyric from Edwin’s song Alive from Another Trip Around The Sun:

    It feels so good to breathe the air
    Another spin around the sun
    On this spec of life in the universe
    The gift of love is there for everyone