The memory is a funny thing . . .

It’s hard to believe that it was 19 years ago the last time an Indiana Jones movie came out. That was the summer of 1989 when Batman (with Michael Keaton), Lethal Weapon 2, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, & Star Trek 5 (ok 3 out of 4 were really good) all came out. Isn’t it odd how a movie or a song can bring back your memories so vividly of where you were and what you were doing? For instance I remember that The Last Crusade premiered on a Wednesday Night and mom let me go see it with Willie even though it was a school night. Willie was either working at Circuit City or was living in Wheeling (can’t quite remember that). We went to the 9:45 show and the Cinema Theatre downtown (before it was split up into 4 different theaters) I even remember that I bought the movie poster in the lobby. That was to be our last Summer with Dad and I was leaving Junior High and going to High School. Just take a moment and think about what was different back then. There was no World Wide Web, PC’s were definitely a luxury item, no DVD players, most phones in your home still had a cord, cellular phones cost a few thousand dollars, you got your news from a newspaper, and there was no Wal-Mart in town. Let’s also not forget the fact that I had more hair, was at least 60 pounds lighter, and my future wife was 11. Think about all the things that you use and have in life today that were not around then. Sometimes we may think that change is slow and time is creeping along but in reality it goes by far too quickly.You may ask Jake what brought all this up? Well I found a trailer for the new Indiana Jones film in my RSS feeds today and it made met think and reminisce a little. The trailer is below may it assist you in your walk down memory lane.Enjoy!

Update 03-24-13:  I am not crazy there used to be a link to a movie down here but its dead now.  That is probably for the best since I try to block this Indiana Jones Adventure out of my mind.


Ok this is has really been bugging me . . .

As some of you may know my allergy medicine Zytec-D went OTC. When I went to purchase it on Sunday I had to fork over my license and be logged into a database. My old prescription called for me to take 2 Zyrtec a day which most of the time I do. So I was informed by the nice lady at the pharmacy that I can by one box a week. The box contains 24 tablets that is a 12 day supply if I take 2 a day. So in theory I will need to by 3 boxes a month. Now according to the link below this can land me in Jail! I know that meth is really big problem but give me a break! There has got to be a better way to handle this instead of making law abiding allergy suffers be logged into a database like a criminal. So if I call you for bail money because of my allergy habit please oblige with a little green to get me out. Thanks

http://www.statejournal.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=34752

Opting Out

Hey did you all know that there is a website where you can opt out of all firm offers of credit for a period of 5 years or life? Well neither did I, but I found out about it last week; when I received an open credit card offer from my bank and called to complain. Now I can look forward to hopefully not having 10 trees of credit card offers every week in my mailbox (it’s really putting a strain on my over sized shredder). If you want to become cool like us the link is below.

https://www.optoutprescreen.com

A New Site Design But You Probably Can’t Tell

Greetings and Salutations faithful Stapleton Blog Readers.

Well you may not be able to notice it but my webpage is now done completely in WordPress. This is the software that I use to run my blog and now it handles my entire website (my old website was a knock off of my WordPress theme created in MS publisher to match my blog). It really is a powerful piece of software as I have come to find out and it is a lot easier to maintain. Not to mention that now I have 10’s of thousands of themes to choose from (saves me a little R&D work). Sure I made a few very minor concessions to do this and I am still working on a few legacy content issues (should be solved by the weekend) but this is really the way to go. It is also my hope that by making the site easier to maintain and update that it will not be so static. Please feel free to leave your comments and thoughts about the site (that is all 6 of you that read it.) 8)

If you are interested in starting your own WordPress blog/website the company will host you for free here.

Oh and by the way if you all are wondering how sick in the head I really am this little project was to relax me during some time off.

Have a good one!

Thank You

Today I had the privilege to spend Christmas day with my family. However this would not have been possible without the sacrifice of the tens of thousands of men and women who did not.

I would like to take this time on my little blog and just say thank you, to all the men and women that currently serve or who have served in the United States armed forces. Without your sacrifices the Christmas day that I enjoyed is this the most exceptional and free country on Earth would not have been possible.

Thank You and God Bless

A little Christmas Political Humor

Hat tip to Nancy for the email.

To All My Democrat Friends:
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.
I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2008, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere . Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.   
To My Republican Friends:

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

New Addition to the Web Site

Greetings and Salutations Faithful Stapleton Blog Readers!

I wanted to take a moment and do some shameless self promotion.  If you get the chance check out my new news and articles page Things I Find Interesting.  You can get to its permanent link from the navigation bar on the right hand side of every page on my website except for this blog page (sorry hosted by third party software).  Drop me some comments and let me know what you think.

Jake

P.S. If you would like a invitation to try Google Reader or Gmail let me know I have plenty.