Author Archives: GW

About GW

When I'm not making and serving all manner of coffee goodness, I'm scrapbooking, playing with our pets, gardening, taking photos, or spending way too much time online. I've been happily married more than 17 years now and consider my husband Howie my best friend.

Hate your job? You’ll love it here!

I ran across this while browsing the hysterical Cake Wrecks site today. I’m generally pretty happy, really not a mourning person, so this one isn’t for me. Hate your job? Love to hate your job? Dream of your misspent youth while working? Do you rue the day you were born? You’ll love it here! I [...]

A dog joke (prepare to groan)

Three handsome male dogs are walking down the street when they see a beautiful, enticing, female Poodle. The males are speechless before her beauty, slobbering on themselves and hoping for just a glance from her in return. Aware of her charms and her obvious effect on the three suitors, she decides to be kind and [...]

Coupon for Amazon’s new MYHABIT discount site for fashionistas

Amazon’s ever expanding line of goodies now includes high fashion. They just launched MYHABIT, a site dedicated to high fashion for men, women and kids. They discount up to 60% and offer free shipping, plus free returns. So, basically, no-risk shopping for your habit. Now for the great news: I have an Amazon MYHABIT coupon [...]

Confused crab spider

Spiders are cool. Take the crab spiders of Ohio, for instance (Thomisidae). They’re intriguing little guys. They’re not web weavers, these spiders. They’re passive hunters, masters of disguise. Stealthy little critters, they change color similar to chameleon lizards and blend in with their surroundings, then lie still and wait their prey to scuttle or alight [...]

Kandle LED book light for Amazon Kindle review

Our family pitched in bought my mother-in-law a Kindle 3 with Special Offers for Mother’s Day. This review isn’t about that, though — It’s terrific and deserves its own separate review. I snagged this little Kandle LED Book Light for the Amazon Kindle at the same time as the Kindle 3 since the Kindle uses [...]

Jame Gumb’s fleshly keyboard

Some of the funniest Engrish is that in advertising. I ran across this great bit of ad copy while searching for information about bluetooth keyboards: This takeout Bluetooth wireless Keyboard is amend for those who poverty to ingest a fleshly keyboard with their tablets and smartphones, etc. Just invoke on the Bluetooth, unify your figure [...]

Bacon, Ohio? Awesome!

Until I was looking at the local weather radar just now to glimpse the thunderstorm heading through our area, I never knew there was a Bacon, Ohio. BACON. How awesome is that? With a name like Bacon, it has to be a nice town. It’s a tiny town on 541, in between Coshocton and Plainfield. [...]