Doug's Sounding Board

You know those mailers with unsolicited CDs you get if you sign up for a music club? Well I’ve missed the cut-off a few times to tell them not to send it. No problem they allow you to return it within 30 days if you didn’t like it, or you can return it unopened. Di […]

The Double Shot is a new ride at the boardwalk that yanks you up a tower, then yanks you back down, then yanks you back up, then bounces you around for a few seconds and then you’re done. The whole thing takes maybe 20-30 seconds and it’s a lot of fun! Surprisingly I didn’t get […]

A few weeks ago I remembered that I wanted to try to see a live drum corp show this summer. I decided to look up the Santa Clara Vanguards to see when they were next playing or maybe to see a rehearsal. I totally lucked out in finding that there was a competition happening on […]

Drove it over the hill, got there and they said: “We didn’t expect you until 4PM.” “Huh,” I say? “The guy said come over any time.” “He told us 4PM.” “Well he didn’t tell that to me.” They said we migh thave to wait an hour before they looked at it since they weren’t scheduled […]

We were in Marini’s and I saw a bottle of candy bubbles, red (“cherry”) flavored. I had to try them, being a fan of the spray candy. Spray candy is liquid candy in a spray pump. The beauty is that you feel like you just had candy and it’s such a small ammount that it’s […]

It could have been. We primarily needed to return the medicine cabinet that was too big for Dar’s bathroom. We didn’t have the receipt anymore and we bought it at a different Home Depot. They ran the card I put it on and scanned the UPC on the box witht eh nifty wireless remote scanner, […]

We have the most leftovers we’ve ever had. On the bright side We won’t have to buy meat for a long time!

So like 4 or 5 years ago or so at the last rave I went to one room where I really liked the music had what I learned was drum & bass. Like 3 years ago I heard in a Borders some music I really liked. I asked at the desk what was playing and […]

This morning as I was pulling in to the parking garage at work I hit 500km on my electric scooter! Also it’s been over 3 weeks with no flat tire!

I don’t know if anyone reading this cares, but Star Wars tickets are on sale. I have mine for all day on the 19th of May on Screen 4 at the Santa Cruz Cinema 9. Join me! Hold a place in line for me for between shows!