by John Hoskin on Aug 05, 2011
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Every once and a while I like to share a funny (or at least funny to me) personal story, so here goes…
Thanks to a freakish storm this Spring my house has been undergoing some renovations for oh, about six weeks. I’ve been sharing my home with electricians, plumbers, flooring dudes, drywall guys, painters and roofers since early in May. I don’t mind the guys; they have all been very polite and easy going, but I have literally had to move everything in my house from room to room to room like a Chinese fire-drill for six weeks.
If you are anything like me, you flourish in an environment of structure and don’t fare quite so well in chaos. My family has been in chaos for six + weeks, both with the renovation issues and my son with a broken collarbone. Fun times at Casa Hoskin.
So, we’re out of PB, big deal. Why in the name of all that is Kraft do we have all of the empty containers in the food pantry? Nobody seems to know. It never dawned on anyone to throw the damn things out. “Why didn’t you throw them out?” my son asked as my wife and daughter giggled away at the kitchen table. Apparently throwing out PB jars is somewhere on the Dad’s list of things to do. It’s my charitable contribution to the family.
Needless to say, our cupboards are still spilling out the front with empty PB containers. I won’t throw them out on principle now. I’ll be a star in the TV show Hoarders, but I only hoard PB jars.
Blizzard has been hoarding money from the sale of their Cenarion Hatchling vanity pets to send to Japan’s disaster victims. They announced yesterday that their charitable contribution will be $1.9 million USD. That means that they sold 190,000 of those vanity pets between May and July 31st.
In other WoW news, Mione solo’d the freaking Lich King. I’ve seen groups of 85s that couldn’t beat this encounter.
Nice job Mione.
I sat through the Blizzard investors conference call on Wednesday (not sure when you will see this posted), but some interesting news was shared.
Share your peanut butter, charity or even Lich King stories. The phone lines are open. Caller: You’re on the air..
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Until we meet again,
John “Boomjack” Hoskin
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