What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[BogusMeatFactory]

Today is my Birthday!

I hopefully will be able to spend it napping during the baby's naps.

Baby is teething so that probably won't happen

That leaves more time to play Mario Maker!

[TEKTORO]

Today is my Birthday!

I hopefully will be able to spend it napping during the baby's naps.

Baby is teething so that probably won't happen

That leaves more time to play Mario Maker!

Happy bday!
Yea level creators are good when you have a lil one, it's about the only thing you can manage since you can stop and go. I did the same with FC2.

[Ack]

Dear Excellent Beef Assemblyline,

Happy birthday.

- Ack

[BoringSupreez]

Yeah, EBay's new policies really seem to be suck ass for sellers.

Which is probably why fewer individual sellers use the place anymore. It seems every time I search for a game, 75% of listings are from mega-sellers that charge slightly above the average and make no promises about the physical condition of the game. They're the ones that can afford the generous return policies and whatnot...

I remember when I used to complain about Amazon not being what it once was, and that nearly all my games came from Ebay. I can't believe the pendulum swung back the other way. Amazon, especially coupled with Prime, is great.

[BogusMeatFactory]

Dear Excellent Beef Assemblyline,

Happy birthday.

- Ack

Why thank you good sir! My time is spent watching my nemesis college football team lose, eating tacos for lunch and barbecue chicken pizza for dinner and playing Mario Maker with the baby! She loves the sounds of Mario and is OBSESSED with the booklet that comes with the game. She just grabs it with both hands, opens it up and just stares. Love that game!

[Luke]

How can your meat factory be bogus when you are making babies?

For all I know you could have a collection of kitten skeletons in your garage, but as an on-line acquaintance (is that term trade marked?) you seem like a guy who knows where his head and heart are.

So go. Go, go go, go shawty.

[Fragems]

Happy B-day Bogus .

: Parents who let their kids ride 4 wheelers and dirt bikes unsupervised on main roads piss me off. Had my second close call with a kid on a motor vehicle while delivering mail. Guy was probably in his early teens going about 35 mph on a gravel road when he saw me parked by a box he jumped over in the grass about lost control and nearly over corrected into my front bumper .

My other close call the other day involved a probably 8 year old with 3-4 buddies using the dirt road they had for a drive way as a ramp. Saw his buddies beside the road as I was leaving but due to tall grass didn't see him till he zipped out in front off me luckily I was taking it slow and was able to brake without getting to close to him but it did scare the shit out of me.

Having to deal with kids is probably the most stressful part of my job. Discussions about child fatalities were a big part of the safety course during our orientation and after being on the road for the last few months I can see how easily it could happen if you weren't paying attention. Kids especially younger ones like to run and grab the mail so they have a tendency to run at mail vehicles the second they see them. Really we are trained to act like assholes to kids in order to make them subconsciously avoid us, but that isn't especially my strong suit .

[Cronozilla]

Dear Excellent Beef Assemblyline,

Happy birthday.

- Ack

Why thank you good sir! My time is spent watching my nemesis college football team lose, eating tacos for lunch and barbecue chicken pizza for dinner and playing Mario Maker with the baby! She loves the sounds of Mario and is OBSESSED with the booklet that comes with the game. She just grabs it with both hands, opens it up and just stares. Love that game!

Happy Birthday, as well.

I was getting a Barbecue Chicken pizza when we were talking, by the way. Spooky (or not).

[Luke]

Happy B-day Bogus .

: Parents who let their kids ride 4 wheelers and dirt bikes unsupervised on main roads piss me off.

Feel ya.

I hate, absolutely HATE those mini-cars for toddlers. The hell happened to a kid riding a big wheel? Speaking of wheels, training wheels are for idiots. Know how to learn a bike? You fall off. Falling off sucks, so if you have a functioning brain, you learn to not fall off very quickly.

No sarcasm in this post either. If you allow your child to ride in those plastic mini-jeeps or to use training wheels, you are a certified weenier. Even worse, other children will think your children are weenies. Although not necessary, sure; give the kid a helmet, elbow and knee pads...dress the kid up like they are searching for Uranium for all I care, just please no training wheels.

And dammit, bring back the big wheel. Not the seventy dollar Spider-Man big wheel, the yellow and black big wheel that costs twenty bucks, probably costs five bucks to make, but is priceless when it comes to having fun.

Anyone else participate in big wheel races? Or big wheel skills competitions including sliding and parallel parking? Fun times for a kid.

[TEKTORO]

I'd didn't have a big wheel growing up but that didn't stop me from finding the biggest toy truck I could fit in. Luckily I discovered skateboarding at 4 years old and started bombing hills on my Joe Cool Sears board, the one with snoopy and Woodstock on the bottom as well as yellow tail, nose and rail guards. Man I miss that!