Welcome to my stuff

You know what this site lacks? A regular feature. All the best bloggers are doing it. You know what I mean, right? I'm talking about those bloggers that have this regular thing they do each week? I enjoy checking out theendisnow.com where once a week the author features the marquis of a nearby church. Blonde Vigilante puts up one of her own fiction pieces and every Wednesday on The Search for a Good Story Mr. Orange writes about his family.The marquis...

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Burger King gets new facelift

Eight months ago I wrote about those creepy Burger King commercials with the guy in the gargantuan plastic head running around taunting people. I haven't seen one of those commercials in a long time which is good because the way the Burger King himself is portrayed is just downright disturbing and sure to evoke nightmares in young children and senior citizens. You can read what I wrote by clicking hereSince posting that image of the creepy plastic...

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Call center etiquette

For my handy dandy All American guide to getting what you want from a call center, click here.Words on any particular topic about which I'd be prepared to write a suitable entry elude me today. I can think of nothing particularly interesting to write on, but since I have been spending the past hour or so enjoying others write about how they spend their eight hours of cubedom, I will share a bit of the tedium that is my work day. Since I work in...

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La Madeleine restaurant is faux-French

Today as a change in lunch venues I ventured into the local La Madeleine café and bakery. Before going any further let me say that in college I was a French major which qualifies me for teaching French, salting the fries, working in a call center or critiquing the many aberrations found on the menus and signage of quasi-French restaurants. When enjoying an overpriced salad, chocolate torte and two double espressos at La Madeleine, it's specifically...

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Babies R Us shopper leaves empty-handed

A most generous real estate client and his family recently sent me a $50 gift card to Babies R Us. Before Meryl was born, Elaine and I looked somewhat dispargingly at this place as the Megolomart of baby products, a corporate monolith to be overlooked and passed over in favor of smaller quainter baby boutiques, and yet once we went in we were enamored with all the wonderful things to be found there. Since my wife delivered almost 11 weeks ago, we...

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Free panties

I love getting stuff for free. I don't mean stealing stuff; I mean rightfully getting things without paying. I don't hesitate to use coupons if I have them or even pass off coupons for items I don't have if I think I can successfully sneak them by the cashier. When the check-out person bags an item she accidentally didn't zap, I keep my mouth shut. If I feel I've been provided inferior service, as has been the case with Charter, my shitty monopolistic...

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How do cyber searchers find enlightenment?

Right up there on my list of employer-time-wasting obssessions along with checking my email and looking to see if there are new comments on my blog is looking at the referral section of my site meter account. This is geek speak for finding out what site people were on before they clicked on to cocktailswithkevin.com. Sometimes people find their way to my collection of opinionated wisdom by clicking on a link from one of the many generous people who link directly to me. A few people come here after finding my biased bitchiness on another blog they've...

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Cha cha cha: less is more

While many spent this weekend flipping burgers on a grill or setting off bottle rockets and roman candles, I enjoyed breathtaking views and the crisp air that only the North Georgia Mountains can offer. My in-laws recently purchased a home in Big Canoe, a private golf community that’s hidden away between Ellijay, Jasper and Dawsonville. The view out their living room is nothing but miles of preserved mountainous green space, and as night falls lightning bugs dot the landscape as far as the eye can see. After only a few days of being here these...

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